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Clannad: Episode 18

Strategy For Comeback That’s more like it, people. Not only does this train get back on the fucking tracks, it’s mowing down bodies! I may have said it before, if not I was thinking it: I don’t care about the visual novel, I really don’t think it matters that much if you can’t sufficiently cover [...]

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Clannad: Episode 17

A Room Without Anyone, aka Trapped In The Closet part 29 They say these “slice of life” shows aren’t really about anything. Sweet animated Christ, if only that were true. In the case of these Key shows, they’re about the inherent pain that is life. And about foisting that pain upon hapless viewers. Sometimes it’s [...]

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Clannad: Episode 15 & 16

A Problematic Matter / 3 on 3 Like I said, I’m really pretty glad the Kotomi storyline has drawn to a close. I’m also glad they did it with a minimum of teary-eyed horror, though the resolution still seemed somewhat less than satisfying to me. Now Kotomi is a regular blue-haired companion to the Fujibayashi [...]

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Clannad: Episode 14

Theory of Everything Well. Let me just start this off by saying that I’m fairly glad the Kotomi storyline is now over. I just don’t care. Fuko’s arc was rife with emotional dirty tricks, but they worked and the wedding episode was both cute and teary. The Kotomi story has reminded me of every reason [...]

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Clannad: Episode 13

Garden of Memories For the lowdown on Clannad and my masochistic following of it, I provide this overview link. We’re currently wallowing in the late-middle of Kotomi the teenage genius’s storyline. Her birthday is coming, and while Fuku the coma child mysteriously appeared at an action claw machine, she failed to win Kotomi the giant [...]

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My Clannad blogging project begins

[Clannad has a landing page now] As much as I make fun, I should clarify that I do indeed enjoy the cavalcade-of-tragedy series that come from Key/Visual Art’s and Kyoto Animation. Air especially was great, and if you can stomach all that syrupy sadness, Kanon isn’t bad either. But as much as it’s fascinating to [...]

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