This review focuses on Clannad BUT also includes Clannad: After Story the second season. Parts where I talk about Clannad: After Story have been hidden with a spoiler tag. This review also includes minor spoilers. You have been warned. If you want to listen to the review check out my video below. https://www..com/watch?v=G2lTJNwknNQ Clannad Review: The Complete Set Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life. Omar Khayyam There are many reasons why I picked this quote but put simply its because it just fits Clannad well. Clannad isnt your run of the mill slice of life drama anime. Its much more than that Ill be going more into detail about it later. Episode 1: General Information Lets start with some general information. Clannad is a Slice of Life comedy and romantic anime. It was first aired on Oct 5 2007 and last aired on Mar 28 2008. There are 4 producers Pony Canyon TBS Movic Animation Do 1 licensor Sentai Filmworks and one studio Kyoto Animation. More importantly the original creator was Visual Arts/Key. Key was the original creator of around 7 different series including manga. Clannad had a total of 23 episodes 2 of which were OVAs. Each episode is 24 minutes long meaning it would take around 9 hours to complete the anime. Clannad: After Story was first aired on Oct 3 2008 and last aired on Mar 27 2009. It has a total of 25 episodes and 24 minutes long. There wasnt much change to the staff but there were slight additions/removals. Episode 2: Story The story is good. Clannad revolves around Tomoya Okazaki a high school student in Hikarizaka Private High School. He isnt the best of students as he is always late and sleeps in class. He also hates the town hes in. Hes friends with Youhei Sunohara a delinquent very similar to himself. One day while walking to school he sees another student from his school that captures his attention. He later finds out that her name is Nagisa Furukawa and she is repeating her last year because of her many absences. She also wants to be a part of the Drama Club Along the way they meet many other characters that help and contribute to the overall season. Clannads story isnt an original one. There are millions of high school anime everywhere. Romance is also overused in the anime scene. However there are some inclusions that this anime has that many others dont. Episode 3: Characters Like I previously mentioned Tomoya Okazaki is a student at Hikarizaka Private High School. He hated his school and town and would slack off a lot. Then he met Nagisa Furukawa which changed his life for the better as seen throughout the anime. He slightly changes from Clannad into After Story as seen from his attitude. He became a lot more serious which restricted the number of jokes made in Clannad: After Story. Nagisa Furukawa is also a student at Hikarizaka Private High School. She is a shy girl and is also the main female protagonist. She is also selfdeprecating she doesnt care for herself and only for others. She has a great personality for an anime like Clannad as she helps Tomoya in the anime.Youhei Sunohara is a Hikarizaka Private High School student and is friends with Tomoya. He is similar to Tomoya with his school habits but he is very clumsy. After Tomoya met Nagisa Tomoya rarely hung out with Sunohara. He was serious in some episodes but overall he was clumsy and was the character that gave the jokes/punchlines. This anime really unpacked the characters well. Each character was apart of their own sideplot/arks even if they werent important. It gave the audience more of an understanding of the characters within it. Episode 4: Humor The humor is decent. Like I said before there isnt any humor in After Story so I cant give a rating for it. However Clannad has plenty of them. Are they good? Eh. In my Overlord II review I mentioned that you should never repeat the same joke over and over again. This includes Clannad as well. A supporting character in the anime Tomoyo Sakagami is apart of a running gag in the anime with Sunohara. In one episode Tomoya and many other students see that there are some bullies with motorcycles outside. Tomoyo makes them leave by fighting them and Sunohara believes that she faked it. So in almost every episode he challenges her to a fight and obviously he always loses. Episode 5: Romance OVA: Clannad OVA Review Episode 6: Audio The audio in the anime is great. There are no audio errors or any obvious ones. The voice actors do their job really well of conveying the character. Onto the opening theme and ending theme they are also great. The opening theme of both seasons is your runonthemill dramafilled and romantic Japanese opening. The ending theme for Clannad is one of the best ending themes Ive probably ever seen. Its cute its relevant to the anime and it really is good overall. Dango Daikazoku Great Dango Family is a song about Dangos a food/character in the anime. Something awesome about the song is that dango is real food which is dumplings. The song is very upbeat and happy as well as relate to the anime. Unfortunately the entire ending theme changed to your runonthemill dramafilled and romantic Japanese ending in S2. Episode 7: Animation The animation is great. Since this anime started in 2007 this anime has the same art style an old anime would like DBZ. The art style also looks like a drama/romance type anime so it doesnt have its own unique art style. In fact Kyoto Animation is the mastermind behind the animation production. Shows like Air Kanon and Clannad All Visual Arts/Key anime have similar a similar art style as Kyoto Animation is the animation production. However Kyoto doesnt only have this art style. They were also apart of many other animes like Lucky Star Miss Kobayashis Dragon Maid A Silent Voice KOn and a few others. If you compare these animes animations to an anime like Clannad its pretty evident that they are different. I think that its pretty cool that they have different types of animation. Episode 8: Manga I know that for myself whenever I finish an anime I would want to read the manga to see if it has anything that wasnt shown in the anime. Most animes use the manga itself to guide itself all the way to the end however. This anime does that mainly because they were both created by Visual Arts/Key. The anime doesnt use the order that the manga uses for the side plots and its confusing. Also the manga hasnt finished the translation so you just halt entirely and it doesnt look like any of the other volumes will be translated soon. Episode 9: Merchandising Before giving my final review I want to talk about the merchandising. As I mentioned before you shouldnt buy the manga unless you want to experience the show again and you know Japanese. On iTunes The OST of Clannad is 16 0.99 per song and you get 56 songs. Is it worth it? Yeah the songs are sentimental and overall are pretty good. Now the star of this section the visual novel. Clannad is on Steam PS4 and a few others. This is basically DDLC but unironically. Its 50 so its almost full price. I personally wouldnt buy it as it doesnt look very good from the pictures. If you are a diehard fan of the series and want more however you could get this. It might not meet your expectations. Summary: Final Thoughts Clannad was the first anime I fully watched after my long anime hiatus and it was a good anime to start off with. Yes it did end 9 years ago but with a large amount of anime there are many that are just looked over and forgotten about. This anime is a pretty good one as well as one that I would recommend. To end off this review I would like to give this anime my rating. Even though there are some things that arent good about the anime it still is good and deserves an 8/10. Clannad: After Story is a very sentimental anime that teaches the theme of life which is why it gets an 8.63/10. Overall the series gets an 8.31/10. Here is a table of my review. Thanks for reading my review on Clannad + Clannad: After Story I hope you enjoyed. Sources: https://myanimelist.net/anime/2167/Clannad General Information https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=7809 General Information https://myanimelist.net/anime/4181/ClannadAfterStory General Information https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=9701 General Information https://myanimelist.net/anime/15379/Kotourasan Humor http://clannad.wikia.com/wiki/CharactersofClannad Characters Romance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ListofClannadepisodes Romance https://myanimelist.net/anime/producer/2/KyotoAnimation Animation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ClannadvisualnovelAdaptations Merchandise