[Ascaloth] CLANNAD (TV), Episode 21
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CLANNAD (TV), Episode 21.




A meganekko Tomoyo is fine, too. Although I can’t help wondering, if her eyesight really was as bad as she claimed, how did she manage to fight so well anyway? Come to think of it, who taught her how to fight anyway?
However, it does explain though why Tomoyo just matter-of-factly kicked Sunohara aside while getting into the scrap with the gang back in Episode 17. She doesn’t differentiate between friend or foe because apparently she can’t, not without her glasses anyway.





I really enjoy these scenes of Nagisa looking up Tomoya whenever she has something on her mind. It really drives in the fact that they are the best of friends, able to be most open with each other. Theirs is a romance that is different from the kinds most commonly seen in this genre; it is not the explosive, highly melodramatic kind, but it is the strong, quietly firm kind that leaves no doubt that they are right for each other.
Of course, I’ve heard views of certain people who doesn’t believe that Tomoya and Nagisa does indeed have a relationship going on, mostly because they don’t exhibit a lot of the behaviours that characterise passionate romances in anime and live-action. These arguments are of course rebutted by others, who do indeed see a budding romance between Tomoya and Nagisa. Indeed, a quietly budding romance such as the one Tomoya and Nagisa share do indeed seem to exist; under John Lee’s theory of loving styles, what the two currently have could be described as storgic love, an affectionate form of love that typically develops out of friendship, and where sometimes the involved parties cannot pinpoint the moment when friendship became love. Under Robert Sternberg’s Triangular Theory of Love, what Tomoya and Nagisa share right now is liking, which is intimacy without the factors of passion or commitment having yet been factored in; being only students at this point, it’s a bit too early for them to be talking about passion or commitment…
I just went on a sociological ramblefest again. My bad. Let’s move on.





And with that, both Tomoya and Akio have to cope with the fact that Nagisa had seen Akio’s and Sanae’s past, and the sacrifices that they had to make for her. With the knowledge of their sacrifice haunting her, how is she ever going to deal with them, and how is it going to affect the play she’s been wanting to put up all this time?


To that effect, count me in for the latter camp, although I firmly believe that Kyoto Animation will make good on its promise eventually. The folks at KyoAni have always built their solid reputation on the basis that they always do things properly, and I certainly can’t see them disposing of that reputation so easily. I have great faith that the After Story Second Season is coming, although as to what form it would take, I still have no idea. I’m still fairly certain that it’s coming though, despite there having been no announcements up till now; KyoAni’s marketing department has always had several tricks up its sleeves in recent times, and one would recall that they did not offically announce their decision to do CLANNAD (TV) itself until after the end of Kanon (2006)’s last episode. They can be up to almost anything at this point, and we’ll only know by next week at the earliest.
So let’s wait until then, and see what happens. Ascaloth, out.
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It’s bad to scream bloody murder without first producing a corpse.
Your sociological ramblings are much welcomed by me. Honestly, some people seem to think there’s only one way to illustrate romance or something…
Am I the only one amused by Sanae and Akio’s terrible parenting? This whole thing wouldn’t be an issue at all if they’d just let her know all along that they had to give things up when they had her… They could say “Why yes, we had dreams. We loved those dreams. But we couldn’t have you and those dreams at the same time, and we love you more.”
“Why yes, we had dreams. We loved those dreams. But we couldn’t have you and those dreams at the same time, and we love you more.”
I kind of agree to that. But it’s too late to do so. Just like what Akio and Sunohara said, Nagisa is the type who blames herself with this kind of thing. If only they told her earlier, when Nagisa was in her childhood days..
Hoping for a 2nd season here..
If a 2nd season is indeed in the making, it will probably come out after Haruhi 2..
Ascaloth: Actually I messed up, and read “gensou monogatari” as “gensou sekai”. It should have been “Illusionary Story”. orz
Still though, in the game it’s called “gensou sekai” (Illusionary World) when the chapters actually play back.
I’ll second that about enjoying sociological ramblings - I learn so much stuff from reading anime blogs.
I figure there will be some sort of announcement to the next Kyoto Animation show at the end of Clannad next week. I’m hoping that since Kyoto Animation doesn’t have a show in the spring that we will be getting Haruhi season 2 starting in the summer or at least something in the summer.
For my part, I’m with Asaloth in that I think they will be furthering the story. Given everything I’ve heard about After Story, KyoAni would be foolish not to do it. But to do it, they have to do it right, and given my conversations with velocity7, it can’t be done in just one episode or even a three-episode OVA. It would have to be at a bare minimum of twelve episodes. Why?
–After Story takes up a sizable chunk of the whole of the story, about a third is one figure I’ve been quoted.
–Given everything I’ve heard about it that’s non-spoilerish, and what little spoilerific stuff I’ve read, it’s essentially the “heart and soul” of the whole story. Without it, you cannot properly conclude CLANNAD.
There are other elements that I could talk about, but to be honest, I don’t know enough about said elements, or any elements I do know of, I suspect, will be rather spoilerific in nature, so I’ll save those for a different day.
In the meantime, other comments, the reason they do all those tongue twisters is simple: You’re on stage and you don’t want to flub up a line. I speak from my own theatrical experience. Sometimes, especially if you have some lines that require oral gymnastics at the skill level of, say, Nadia Comenici or Mary Lou Retton (yes, I’m somewhat dating myself here), ya gotta figure out how not to trip up on yourself somehow.
Not to mention, I loved that little moment with Kyou as well. 
–IJ.