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[Ascaloth] CLANNAD ~After Story~, Episode 20

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Popularity: 8% [?] Published by Ascaloth February 28th, 2009 in Ascaloth, Anime

She was the much-beloved whom her man was ultimately too powerless to save from the cruel vagaries of Fate, and whose passing sapped the colour out of his very existence. Yet, she was able to partake of the Miracle of Life just before her doom, and the legacy she left behind through this Miracle is what allows her to live on in her progeny, and bring back the colour into the life of the man she loved in life. Now, she watches over her man and her daughter unseen, ever smiling as they go about their new life together. But though she is now their Guardian Angel, has she the power to protect them from Fate’s eternal cruelty?

CLANNAD ~After Story~, Episode 20.

Tonkatsu~!

My Tsundere Sensei Hinano-sama, doujin to be available at C76 this Summer.

"It’s so mean of you to forget all the times we spent in that gym storage shed together…."

It’s good to see Kyou back once again, and indeed, it comes as no surprise that she just so happens to be Ushio’s teacher in charge. Of course, she also gives the perfectly reasonable explanation why none of them have been around when Tomoya was in a funk for the last five years. Apart from having their own lives to worry about as well, what can you do for someone in such a situation, as good a friend as he or she might be? There’s only so much one can do.

I’m wondering though, it’s one thing for Kyou to be carrying around a doll-sized Botan, but it’s not legal to keep a wild boar even in Japan, right? How does she keep Big Botan a secret from the authorities, setting aside the fact that she’s letting it run around quite brazenly in the kindergarten yard? Are there no complaints from the parents, or are said parents the same neighbours who think of the Furukawas running across half the town crying and yelling as an "interesting" event?

I wonder what an older Ushio in the future would think if she learnt that her Papa once had a very good chance to hit her Fujibayashi-sensei’s ass, and basically blew that chance. :p

I’m probably one of the few who didn’t think anything about Ushio being left on her own in the afternoon while Papa is working, but even I have to wonder at the wisdom of leaving the little girl to wander around the town unsupervised. Did the Furukawas also let her wander around on her own when she was in their custody? And yes, Tomoya may have to work, but I’d have thought the guy would be smart enough to at least leave her at the Furukawas for the afternoon. Considering what we’ve seen of their schedules in the afternoon, it wouldn’t be much of an imposition. Besides, there would be plenty of activities there for her; she can learn how to help out at the bakery, play baseball with Akki, hell, she could even get a headstart on her studies by attending the Furukawa-juku. Or maybe even that is just not polite enough for Japanese society, I guess.

Dango Attack!

…dango, daikazoku.

T_T

….oh, goddammit Key/KyoAni. Twist the knife in further, why don’t you? T_T

Wait, hold on just a moment there. Which Furukawa-san are you talking about?! If it’s Sanae-san….run, Ushio!!!

Hmmm, okay, I guess it’s Akki’s bread. That said, I wonder what it tastes like….

Introducing CLANNAD 00’s Twin Moé-Drive System. Trans-~~Grah~~Am!!!

Invasion of the Dango!!!

Though neither of them might have remembered anything about their common past, it’s awesome seeing Tomoya and Fuuko picking up their smack talk from where they left off like nothing ever happened. ^_^

And while it may have disappeared for the past five years, it seems that Tomoya’s wild imagination has survived the ordeal intact. OKAZAKI SAIKOU~!!!

….Oh, goddammit, Key/KyoAni. T_T

Memories of Okazaki Nagisa, the Beloved. Never forget.

Okay, is it just me, or does the entire scene just look so wrong here? Maybe it’s just me,after all….

Incredibly, history seems to be repeating itself yet again; poor Ushio is left alone and bored at home while Papa is at work, exactly like how Papa himself used to be when he was growing up. It didn’t exactly end very well that time, and while things seem to be somewhat better in this generation, one has to wonder how long it’ll last. Maybe there’s some merit in the suggestion of Kyou’s shippers that she become Ushio’s stepmother after all, since it’s true that it’ll be hard for a single father to raise his child, even if the financial situation isn’t quite as dire.

The place where her mother was saved so long ago, but only for her eventual fate to be postponed. I wonder if Akio told her about what happened here long ago? Probably not, given how Ushio was all "I’m attracted to this place because", but it’s a possibility.

It’s also a particularly nice touch that Tomoya is once again working so hard to beat Akio at his own game, this time for the sake of Ushio. I’d dearly love to see Tomoya tell Ushio the story of how he won Nagisa’s hand from Akio back then. ^_^

But……

Oh, no. No no no no……OMG. T_T

A horrible omen of things to come, a sign that the newfound happiness could just be as easily lost as it was so hard to find. It was a return to the CLANNAD of Season 1 for just a short while, but idyllic times don’t last very long, and once again, history with all of its tragedies seem poised to repeat itself. It’s an awful feeling, but we’ll have to face it. Is this happiness about to come to an end, even before it truly began?

Next Episode Preview

Unfortunately, the title of the next episode isn’t particularly optimistic, to say the least. The first great tragedy to befall our ill-fated hero almost knocked him down, and it was only with Nagisa’s legacy that he could stand up again. Should another tragedy before him, will it be for him quite literally The End of the World? Such a fate is too horrible to contemplate….and once again, as After Story has been for the past few weeks, the next episode both could not come too soon, and could not come soon enough, for all of us.

Ascaloth, out.

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1 FlameStrike 52 comments Feb 28th, 2009 at 1:39 am

I don’t mind that Tomoya leaves Ushio alone, but what really worries me is her wandering x.x. While she might have a really good sense of direction, getting lost isn’t the only thing to worry about. Well Tomoya doesn’t really know Ushio is wandering around, and she gets home before he comes back, so I guess I can’t blame Tomoya too much.

On another note, I noticed that the preview has a lot of foreshadowing about certaint things that non game players would miss.
2 Joseph 1 comment Feb 28th, 2009 at 2:40 am

if something happens to ushio … oh god .. not sure if i can take any more T__T
3 Fhal 16 comments Feb 28th, 2009 at 5:42 am

There’s something wrong with the scenes where Ushio wanders the town. Call me crazy, but I’m sure Tomoya locked the door the first time. And both times was already nighttime when she reached the hospital, wich Tomoya would already be back at home.

The only similarity I picked up in both scenes was that she was looking up in both situations, and next thing we see is she outside. Why do I feel like there’s some kind of connection there. Maybe wasn’t her, but some sort of spirit/aparition related to the orbs of light? I can’t make it out quite clearly, but… I felt weird.

Seeing Fuuko with her antiques and odd thought process was amusing in itself.

I too thought that Kyou would be a great stepmother for Ushio, but I feel like Tomoya will end up alone (or dead… if they make the end with Ushio older looking at her parents grave.
4 ithekro 4 comments Feb 28th, 2009 at 9:37 am

I’ve seen fanart of a grown up Ushio as a high school student (yelling at someone who I assume is Tomoya) wearing a dango apron and holding a ladle. While I serious doubt that there is anything like that in the atory..I’d really like to see teenaged Ushio animated. She seems to have picked up some traits from her kindergarten teacher, ehough that might be the part of Tomoya’s personality coming though the Nagisa exterior.
5 OnyxSyaoran 19 comments Feb 28th, 2009 at 11:49 am

U can delete that right? This thing didnt liad that small text 4 some reason xS well hope they make Ushio’s scene as less painful as it can be buu well nice summary hope Kotomi’s weird idea of different worlds comes to the rescue
6 Sorrow-kun 26 comments Mar 1st, 2009 at 11:17 am

“Maybe there’s some merit in the suggestion of Kyou’s shippers that she become Ushio’s stepmother after all, since it’s true that it’ll be hard for a single father to raise his child, even if the financial situation isn’t quite as dire.”

As I posted on the ASuki forums, I think there are pros and cons for Tomoya remarrying Kyou and I even think that the pros outweigh the cons, if slightly. But this isn’t really something one can decide based purely on pros and cons, and the simple fact of the matter is that Tomoya doesn’t love Kyou. So I doubt it’ll happen.
7 tj_han 1440 comments Mar 1st, 2009 at 2:29 pm

I odn’t get why Okazaki can’t just leave Ushio at the grandparents’ house in the afternoon, considering the latter work from home.

Also, Kyou is hot.
8 Chris 4 comments Mar 2nd, 2009 at 11:18 pm

My, hope has always been that Nagisa would be saved at the end of the series, but I also could be happy if she could save Ushio from the fate that had befallen her. After all, Nagisa always said that the life she carried inside of her was more important than her own life.

So, if they chose not to save Nagisa, I could be happy watching Nagisa coming to Tomoya in a dream or in a vision to tell Tomoya that it’s alright to love and be loved again, be happy. I don’t think that if Nagisa stayed dead she would want Tomoya to never know the loving touch of a woman again, and if the roles were reversed I don’t that that Tomoya would want Nagisa to go through life alone.

When it comes to Tomoya’s second choice after Nagisa, I would chose Kyou for him, not Tomoya. It’s all about what they can offer each other as a couple, and I feel that the mature, tempered by age Kyou would be a perfect fit for Tomoya, and Ushio.
9 Shinkai 1 comment Mar 4th, 2009 at 9:38 am

hmm .. but i wonder if tomoya will remarrying kyou ??, i am sure tomoya doens’t want it too. because he already love nagisa to much.
10 Fhal 16 comments Mar 6th, 2009 at 3:08 pm

About the Kyou part again…

I’m going nuts because of so much rewatching this episodes because I’m coming with one lunatic theory after another. Here’s the last one.

On the episode that Nagisa dies, while in the new years part, when Kyou, Ryou, Kotomi and Sunohara visit the couple, Sunohara made a remark that maybe in some of the other worlds that Kotomi was talking about, he’d be possible dating one of the girls in the room, to what Kyou kicked back saying that with her
definitely wasn’t. About this time she still called him ‘Sunohara’. In the last episode, while talking with Tomoya about the visit that they all would done in the new years, she called him ‘Youhei’.

I know is farfetched and really isn’t much, but calling someone by the first name, generally indicates some level of intimacy, especially if you already call that same person in another way, change out of blue the way you call someone, who you supposedly hadn’t much contact latelly is rather strange.

In this little theory of mine, Kyou and Sunohara are/were dating, or something close to it, wich would be an interesting way of killing the somewhat growing population of ‘Tomoya X Kyou’ people.

What you guys think.

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