Clannad クラナド

Synopsis

Adaption of the renowned visual novel by Visual Art's/Key.

Clannad is set in a high-school located in some Japanese town. Okazaki Tomoya is a third-year student who doesn't take his studies seriously. Always late for class, he's seen as a delinquent by the rest of his classmates who are busy preparing for their entrance examinations. Needless to say, he does not have too many close friends either.

Tomoya seems not to mind too - until one day he meets a girl, Furukawa Nagisa, who is left alone without friends in the school because everybody she knew already graduated. "What a clumsy girl," he thinks at first. But he can't leave her alone and so, while helping her, he meets a few other girls from his school. Although he doesn't care much about them at first, he soon opens his heart to them as they get to know each other better. - taken from http://anidb.net

Clannad's main characters

Reviews
Clannad is the fourth adaptation of a Key game and a collaboration Kyoto Animation and Key. Unlike Key's previous titles which were based on magical realism, Clannad is more like a high school drama. The story begin when Tomoya met Nagisa on his way to school one day, but it is Nagisa's dream to perform on stage during the school festival which become the main plot of the story.

The first few episodes can be a bit complex and hard to understand, but after a few more episodes, the story begin to unfold itself. Like in most anime, the story is somewhat harem but in a good way and not too over. The jokes mostly in a sarcastic manner actually help the series as it goes along. Each of the storyline in the series is very meaningful in its own way and the dramatic scenes are very touching at times.

But as much as I enjoyed watching it, I found the ending is missing some pieces. The first storyline of the series somewhat lost it purpose towards the ending, which is kinda disappointing for me as I actually cried a bit when I watched it *shy* I really want to know what happen to the girl in the end =\ And the 'dream' scenes in the series, doesn't seem to have any meaning even till the end of the series =.= I was hoping that it would unfold itself in the last episode but it didn't. But despite all that, the ending is actually a happy one.

The animation for this anime is actually good. One of the best in all the anime I watched. I especially like the scene where the sakura falls, simply lovely XD

Overall, I would recommend this anime to any anime fans or any high school drama anime fan. Putting the not-so-good-and-disappointing ending aside, Clannad is an enjoyable anime series to watch through.