At 7/21/12 12:55 PM, Sheizenhammer wrote: Welp, can't think of a better place to ask this, so:
M'kay go ahead.
Anyway, back to the actual question here:
Can someone explain what the hell the last few episodes were about? First they're dead, then they aren't and it was... what, all a dream? An alternate world? A preclusion? How does that "other world" explain the apparent ability to re-write 5 years of history in what, as far as I can see, is supposed to be a relatively realistic anime setting? Most of the animes that have time travel or alternate realities in them are deliberately futuristic / fantastical, which this one doesn't fit into at all.
Apparently each route in the game after finishing it gives you a fragment of light. Once you collect all the lights(One for each heroine) The Afterstory comes in. The lights are suppose to be relevant to the story. Like "Oh since you gave happiness to each route you get to have a wish"
Basically, It's an alternative world since Tomoya got a wish which he made.
Were the writers just pulling a Dallas on us, or does this crap actually fit together somehow? I can't shake the feeling that, in the original visual novel Clannad was based on, the After Story part could go either way with regards to their fates, and the anime writers couldn't decide which one to use in the series, so they invented a completely nebulous plot device (read: the other world) to use as a way of having both endings in the series. Of course, if anyone knows or has seen said visual novel all the way through, please feel free to clarify this, as I'm having no luck at all tracking down the details of that particular part of it.
Sadly, I can't remember much. Watched and played it a couple years ago....along with Fate/Stay Night(amazing game by the way)
I do Remember the Tea girl you have tea with in the small library room( She had long brown hair) talked about a myth the town has. Mentioning the lights are a happy end and it being a good thing whatnot.
Any takers?
Attempted
*I am well aware that K-ON came out after Clannad. I watched the former first, so in my case Clannad reminded me of K-ON, not the other way around.
Currently reading K-ON but never watched it....how is the anime?
happy, sad....!?
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