![]() When the flashback to the event and the immediate aftermath finally comes, it's too late to save the movie.Ĭompeting with KyoAni again affects Toei here, though admittedly, they justify their decision to make this into a cinematic release sufficiently. In itself, the scenes are acted out well, but the odd severance of tone from the first section of the movie is a difficult stepping stone for the viewers - especially when the second half takes place five years after the important life-changing event. Without giving too much away, an event that happens offscreen changes the disposition of the main characters altogether and the depression that descends is reminiscent of Kimi ga Nozomu Eien. The first half follows Okazaki's integration into a society that has abandoned him, using his growing relationship with Nagisa as the driving point - but after an amazing plot twist, the tone suddenly gets a lot darker. However, the most unerring aspect of the Clannad Movie is that it seems to be split into two completely separate halves. The dream sequences, while being artistically realised in themselves, build up to a somewhat disappointing conclusion, bordering on deus ex machina. One scene in particular jumps into the future without any warning and because of this, makes absolutely no sense with the other scenes before and after it. The first thing you notice is how disjointed the movie seems. Though, despite that, it's clear that Toei's version has major flaws in its storytelling. As it is, I'm acutely aware that even my own experience of this movie is tainted by KyoAni's superior interpretation. If this had aired a year or two before KyoAni decided to release its own version in 23-episode series form, then this would have undoubtedly had more interest than it received. Save yourself an hour and thirty minutes.The timing of the Clannad series is a bane for Toei's movie version of the popular Key game. It's inconceivably bad, and I am flabbergasted they thought it would be a good idea to make it. To top it all off, the animation budget was so low you will feel dirty if you ever watch it as it will constantly make you feel like you are watching a 2000's hentaï, and I wish I was joking.As far as I watched the movie, there are no orbs of light anymore (that alone should convince you NOT to watch it) and they are instead replaced with a generic and overdone "Tree of Life/Wishes". It becomes meaningless and all poetry and subtility it had has been cut off with a meat cleaver. Everything feels rushed (of course), the Imaginary World is a fucking joke.Nothing is what you remember it to be: Kyou and Tomoyo are friends (what?), Tomoya already knows Yoshino(apparently) and it's Sunohara that takes on the job as an electrician(let's not even talk about the fact that this job comes into the story during the AFTER ACHOOL ARC OH MY GOD I HATE THIS MOVIE SO MUCH) ![]() all relationships between characters are shuffled around to make up for the gaping plot presented to you in the movie as such, you won't recognise characters you learnt to know and appreciate, because the only thing the characters in the anime/VN and the movie have in common is their physical appearances.How do you think they can force 50 hours into a 1h30 long movie ? They can't! It's impossible, no matter how you try, and they did it anyway ! So what is the CLANNAD movie? Let's break it down to facts: Nagisa's arc is 50 hours long during school alone, and the anime did an excellent job at including almost everything the VN had in only 20-ish episodes.
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