CLANNAD Is a Warm Blanket…
…like, on a chilly late-Autumn evening, cuddling to a cup of hot chocolate listening to the November rain beating down on your windows. There’s just a blanket separating you and the freezing path to a lower energy bill. You know better to doodle in front of the seemingly-warm glow of the TV for too long, and morning is just a long blink of an eye later. All the more you appreciate that artificial warmness, that pocket in time and the pocket of warmness where you seemed to finally positioned yourself in that comfortable pose on the couch. Edging your toes outside the blanket is forbidden by your fleshly instinct.
But you don’t remember that blanket once you go back to work the next day, don’t you? That’s the magic of CLANNAD. From the opening notes in the OP to Nagisa’s high stepping, rhythmic beat in the ED, it’s like a magical pocket of time and perception. Suddenly life is better than it seems, and just like a blinking moment later it vanishes out of sight, out of mind. At least that is how I felt After Story is like.
The feeling I get is that the Kara no Kyoukai approach–a series of movies–will do the After Stories…stories a lot more justice than this episodic thing we have here. Ah well, it seems everyone hates the Toei renditions of Key’s properties except a few people like myself.
For some reason I have yet to skip the CLANNAD AF OP sequence >_> It’s magical! Onaji Takami e is makes me fuzzy inside
omo no nom nom ~
The Clannad movie was beautiful as far as I’m concerned; looks like I’m not the only one after all ;P
Also, for what it’s worth, I think that it’s the slice-of-life aspects of AS that make it so refreshing, and yet so forgettable. There isn’t much tear-jerking or drama, so it’s easy for the “magic” to disappear, but it’s more than enough fun to watch while you’re watching it. Or at least that’s my take on the matter.
I think that’s definitely part of it, too. But I think we should be done with those slice-of-life stuff and get a move on to the more potent part of the story.
Toei’s Clannad movie was pretty decent IMO, but that could be because most of the more annoying of the girls were cut out or reduced to cameo roles only.
I really liked Kanon 2002, and they did the AIR Movie rather well.
True, their art firection is pretty wonky at times, but hey, it’s still good.
/r/ highres fuuko image
Not sure if it exists because it is a chop.
http://danbooru.donmai.us/post/show/322895/bow-brown_eyes-brown_hair-clannad-clouds-hair_bow-
thx anyway