Audience reviews
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AntonyAV
A semi-decent standalone movie with ok animation (for its time) and a cohesive story, that's all the good things that come to mind for this movie. It takes season 1 and 2 of the anime and makes a horribly paced mishmash that only serves to spoil the story if you watch it before finishing the series. This was made before season 2 so for its time I guess it was better than nothing, but with the addition of a newer season this movie should definitely be skipped.
The characters aren't properly developed, so their actions don't make sense a lot of the time, and some important characters are just deleted from the story. Additionally so much content is cut that nothing is conveyed properly, emotional parts are bland, twists feel forced... So if this story was a soup, then it lacks veggies (flesh…
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tl;dr: If you came here after finishing Clannad: After Story, dont bother watching this movie. If you came here not having watched Clannad yet at all: Don't even think about watching this yet. This movie differs hugely from it's in 2 season divided counterpart and not in any good way.
Though I said this I know I probably can't stop a Clannad fan from watching this movie. I read multiple reviews of this movie saying the same as me but oh well, here I am. I want to keep this review short really and give you a little list with what I think this movie does better and (even more important) worse than the show:
1. (-) Some characters are completely different to a point where you can't even recognise them anymore from the show; for example Nagisa is WAY too confident in her theatre skit.
2. (-)…
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Remember Clannad? Ever thought the drama was too forced and the ending was too lame? Well this might be for you...
Animation: 7
I honestly can't tell if this movie was made in 2007 or 1977 at times, the directing is so old-school that it harkens back to the days of Tohoscope flicks such as Mystery of Mamo and Golgo 13. Not that I'm complaining.
Story: 6/10
Delinquent duo Tomoya Okazaki and Youhei Sunohara are two down on their luck poor sods dealt a bad hand at high school until they meet the main heroine of the VN, Nagisa Furukawa. From there we get a sweet movie about these two helping her perform a solo play at the school festival. What I like most about this movie is Sunohara's character. Somehow he has more depth than in the TV anime and feels like an actual real person.
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Well, hello there! It's your favorite Reviewer ready to review the Clannad movie.
Let's start with the story. Clannad is a touching, heart-warming tale of love and loss that will have you reaching for the tissues. It's the kind of story that hits you right in the feels and makes you appreciate the people in your life. And while it may not be the most original story out there, it's executed with such skill and care that it's hard not to be swept up in its emotional currents. So for story, I'm giving Clannad a solid 8/10.
Now, onto the art style. Wow, this anime is beautiful! The colors are vibrant, the animation is smooth, and the character designs are charming and distinct in thats year. It's the kind of art…
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God forbid, this is exactly what I imagine a Netflix film adaptation of Clannad to be like. The story is watered down into a cheap soap opera.
Such a nuanced and complex drama like Clannad does not work as a movie at all. Please play the VN or watch the KyoAni TV anime adaptation. It completely misses all the important nuances of such a beautiful, spiritual, and magical story. The themes of identity, growing up, and family are mostly bungled up (although, to be absolutely fair, it is probably the best they can do as a movie).
The characters are shells of their former selves. All the banter and wit which made the original work so special has been completely watered down. They don’t seem to have any character flaws whatsoever - Tomoya and Sunohara (who are boring students now - not the fl…
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Yes, yes I'd heard all the bad things about this movie before watching it. It's an 80+ hour visual novel crunched down to 90 minutes, what did you expect? I'm going to play devil's advocate best I can because I've never played the visual novel or watched any of the other Clannad anime so I have no biases about what a "good version" of the story should look like.
I thought that given the scope of the narrative they were working with they did a fairly good job of including all the details necessary to tell a complete story. There was no unnecessary fat, it got the information it needed to the audience efficiently and succinctly. This of course means that there is little time for an audience to process the emotional weight of what our characters might be feeling at any given time because it'…
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Clannad is one of those anime that just hit at the right place at the right time. Not only was it adapted from a famous, beloved visual novel, a fairly new production company at the time, Kyoto Animation, really made an effort to do it justice by adapting it into an anime series that bordered on having 50 episodes. Then again, by that time, KyoAni already had experience adapting the works of Visual Arts/Key into animation previously, though they actually weren't the only ones doing so. For some reason, Toei got in on it as well, though their direction was to adapt them into movies (In the case of Kanon, they made that into a 13-episode series). KyoAni stopped adapting Key's visual novels into animation after Clannad, something that didn't sit well with their fans at the time (Man, remember…
Read at the sourceOneFaintingRobin
Honestly, I'm not a 100% sure how I feel about this one.
I definitely did enjoy it, at least for the most part. The main bulk of the story is fun, balances the lighter parts with the more serious root of the story nicely, and keeps the focus nicely on the two protagonists. It's funny, properly funny, and the romance aspect works really nicely for the most part, pacing itself decently.
At least... until it gets to the end of the main story. I was wondering why, as it came along, the romantic end felt weirdly rushed, almost brushed over. I was concerned about how they'd ended the film. And then it carries on for another half an hour. At which point the pacing sort of falls of a cliff. The rest of the film, adapting roughly half of the notorious 'after story' I've heard so much about, has…
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I love Clannad more than life itself, but this movie is a horrendous abomination that throws the entire plot out the window.
The first 10 minutes you might think it'll be alright...and then the train flies off the tracks.
Severe lack of music also really hurts it. Not that it matters since you'll just hear the sound of your teeth grinding the entire time you watch.
Destroyed the story and most of the characters. A good portion don't even appear, or appear poorly.
MAL requires far too many words for a review. This movie only needs two words.
It's garbage.
Read at the sourceKumigura
As I read most of the reviews people were trying to keep their opinions or the series and visual novel separate from the movie which I kind of understand but at the same time don't agree with. The reason that I understand is that they were made by completely different producers and you can get art differences and the story takes differently when produced by different people. The biggest reason I don't agree is due to the fact that the series had the same material that the movie had but the movie took the material and changed it so much that you can't even tell who some characters are with how much they changed their personalities. I understand the series had time to flesh out characters and do character arcs but as a movie, they should have considered that the people watching it have at so…
Read at the sourceGuilhermeSKRJ
Clannad Movie
It's a pre-anime work, so try to assemble in 1:30 of 47 eps film from the two seasons, the construction of the film is better than the first season that I found dragged at first, but I understood why it was that way, but after seeing two seasons in the overall set left a lot to be desired, it ended up looking like a great summary of the summary, it's good,
but it is still not the final conclusion. It is worth seeing to appreciate the work as a whole and see one of its endings.
Clannad game
Anime based on a Visual Novel of the same name, where you have the option to choose which path you will follow and which girl you will try your luck and conquer, each with a personality as in a typical Slice of Life, as you cover the story of the person who tries to conquer you advances…
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I´ve just watched the Clannad movie, after watching the series, as i was curious to see it. Ii later realized it was made before the actual series, which would mean that the movie is a first gathering up of ideas for the series.
When i compare both, of course there is lots of different things like the songs or the animation itself, as it was created by another Studios (Toei Animation instead of Kyoto Animation), but the main story and the characters are the same.
Only when i stop comparing, i can truly enjoy the wonderful experience that is seeing this movie.
Although it was created before, i suggest seeing the series first and the film afterwards, as i believe the series is much richer and has, of course, more time for character and story development. Seeing the movie afterwards makes m…
Read at the sourceMrShaltis
It my opinion, the series where much better than the movie, i watched the most movie skipping it in early states so dont really want to give point to it that might not feel fair, but as i have to, i found one strong side in the movie, so giving it a nice score.
The only part of the movie i liked was close to ending, the part, where Tomoya was depressed after Nagisa death, and the part where his friends were coming to him to try helping him. This is the part that i kinda missed in the Series and i think they could have putted like one episode to it, how his friends would try to help him to recover. Cuz if u think about, thats what friends do, they try to support u on bad days, not leave you for full 5 years.
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I just watched the Clannad animated series, and I was really curious about the movie after reading some good things about it. I had to see how it compares to the series.
Sadly, this project is the worst possible adaptation of this story. That was obvious: when you know the original story is 70 hours long, of course it would be impossible to sum it up in less than 2 hours! There was no point in even trying... But I tried it anyway.
STORY
Clannad Movie follows Tomoya and Nagisa's relationship as they fall in love and grow up. Just like the anime and the main route of the original VN.
While the original story (and the anime version) is a pearl, this version is pure crap. Not only does it focus much more on the School part instead of After Story, they also changed the dialogues way too much,…
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[Spoilers for the movie and anime series(pls go watch the series it's really good unlike this movie)]
Ill start of by saying I haven't played the visual novel,
But you don't need to have played the VN to see what the problem is with this movie, It's a recap. And there is simply too much to put into a relative small time frame for a movie.
Characters are being shown like cameos in their own story, characters have no motivations, nothing lead up to the ending, for what reason is Tomoya emotional at the ending? etc. etc.
"For what reason is Tomoya emotional at the ending?" is a good question especially because, remember how long it took Tomoya and Ushio to accept and understand each other in the anime?. The two seconds it took for Ushio to see Tomoya as her father is baffling. And in my o…
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To start it off, I'm gonna say that I have watched the anime series (it was a long time ago though, like four years ago? But I digress) and am currently playing the VN recently which pulled me to watch this. I know that I'm almost 12 years late into the party but I'm going to give my thoughts on this one anyway. Just a discretion though, I may be making comparisons so please bear with me.
First off, the story. I know that his father cleared up that he neglected Tomoya as a child but for him to treat his father like trash just because he's having nightmares? I don't know man, quite an asshole move, it is also the one that lead to the fight that broke his shoulder anyway so I think he only has himself to blame for that one. Not that his father is blameless in this situation.
I also find th…
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As you know, this movie is technically a shrunken version of the approximatively 47 episodes that Clannad has. Well… it is too short. There is NO WAY in which a two-hour movie can express the same emotion as 47 episodes worth of story, in my opinion. I didn't quite enjoy it, since most of the dramatic tension is elliminated, but it was well-done for what it is, except for the fact that it fells a bit rushed.
Another thing that I do not agree with would be that of removing and/or changing the main symbol of the story, which was used to tell an important lesson. Through the lost girl, there was a lesson taught, that of being able to find your own happiness in a world that makes you feel dead and meaningless. By replacing it and cutting the part of the TV show which showed the two main routes…
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People often say not to review this movie based on its comparison to the series because this was made before the series, but considering the series is out, I think it's totally okay to review the movie in such a way, because it's obvious which of the adaptations is superior.
I gave the movie an overall 6: Story 6, Art 7, Sound 6, Character 6, Enjoyment 6. Allow me to explain why I gave these ratings. For the most important aspect, story, I feel that it is justified because even though a lot of the heart-breaking events occur in the movie, the build-up is either paced way too quickly or is not there at all. I understand that for a movie, things have to move quickly, but the director did not use his time to establish a connection to the characters, which is very important for the emotional…
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Clannad: The Movie is a film I can watch any time, any place and still feel enthralled as if it were the first time.
As the precursor to the popular 2007 Clannad anime, the movie depicts moments and a perspective uniquely different from the anime. It's a fresh and original take on the story and covers the most important events well in a 90 minute runtime.
To someone who has only seen the 2007 anime, this movie will be jarring to you. The tone is very dramatic in contrast to the anime and a lot of the characters you may have loved in Clannad take a back seat in the movie. Some characters don't make an appearance at all which may or may not displease you based on how you felt about them before.
To someone who's seen neither Clannad 2007 or this movie, the story may confuse you because o…
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"Сlannad" begins from the visual novel released by Key studio in the 2004th year. After, based on the story, was published 4 manga series, animated film and two anime series.
So, if you're wondering whether to watch a movie after watching the 2-seasons of the series, this review will be helpful to you.
The story begins as the original, Tomoya Okazaki studying in senior year of high school. As he been a child, his mother died, because of this, his father had started drinking. Later, in a fight with a drunken father Okazaki injured his shoulder and was forced to give up basketball, relations between the two soured. In school, he meets a strange Nagisa, who wants to restore the drama club.
Of course the first thing that catches the eye is Art, he is different from the TV series, as the in…
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