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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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Whilst I have many problems with anime that come from the hands of visual novel writers, my main problem is that they always feel like the writers came up with the set pieces and character types first and then strung a plot around it. And as impressive as those individual elements may be, you can't carry an entire series on them alone for the same reason you can't carry it on just animation. That may work in a video game where the excellent interactivity can carry you through some semi-major plot failings (the Tomb Raider reboot comes to mind), but in an anime, it's fucking jarring and it gets old real fast. Oh, and they're never funny. So if anybody wants to know why I don't like Zvezda, Classroom Crisis, Charlotte, and whatever the fuck that Plastic Memories thing was, that's why.
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WARNING: SPOILERS WITHIN
NOTE: The purpose of this review is to compare the movie to the visual novel and the anime
It pains me to think of what this movie could have been!
I am a huge fan of the novel and anime series, but I always heard the movie was mediocre or worse, so I never took the time to watch it. However, when my wife and I bought the series on DVD, the movie was included, so we thought, "Why not?" I watched it, prepared to strongly dislike it, and I did . . . until the last half hour. I am not going to waste time discussing the individual parts of the score I gave. Instead, I want to share why I was so heartbroken by the end of this movie.
Before you even watch this movie, consider that the movie will attempt to do what took the anime 10+ hours and the visual novel around…
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Let's not mince words here: the first season of Clannad was fair enough but it spent way too much time on trivial bullshit that didn't even matter once After Story came into the picture. As for After Story, I absolutely adore the show but let's be real here: the first eight episodes were HORRIBLE and the way it all ended made it lose a LOT of points in my book and the books of many others. At the behest of one of my friends, I decided to give Clannad: The Motion Picture a try and it managed to do EVERYTHING that the TV series failed to do for me. Is it perfect? Not at all, but you know what? It's a million leagues better than the first season of the TV series and it's certainly something that should be watched by all, especially people who went into the first season and came out completely…
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Clannad fan I watched this version to see what it was worth. I must say that I was disappointed ... The designs are ugly and way below compared to drawings of Kyoto Animation.
The film format is also ill-chosen to fit a VN and there is a lot of change that does not comply with the VN (like Dango music that was where the nightmare of change Tomoya which I think is not present in the VN).
Moreover, the film is sloppy it does not release the emotions we had with Clannad (especially After Story and is increasingly the most part intérresante was the most sloppy part). In short I would not recommend this version.
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Clannad The Movie, when I first found out about the movie my first thought was " I have to watch it!!!!" but after doing it I couldn't help but feel a bit uneasy with it.
"Clannad The Movie" It's like they picked the 2 series (Clannad and Clannad After Story) and mixed them all together to form this, and although some people may disagree at this point but I HATED the movie. `
Clannad After Story to me was the perfect anime, with a wonderful story that made me cry and laugh and after watching the movie my only feeling was of hate!!! how could they do something like this to Clannad?? It's just horrible how they picked an awesome anime and made a movie of it but it ends up one of the worst thing I have ever seen.
While watching the movie my only thoughts were "this is not how it happen", an…
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After watching the whole collection of Clannad (both Clannad and Clannad After Story) I am very disappointed at this movie. This movie is a very big let down from one the best anime I have ever watched (yes, I cried -.-). The voice actors are different, the art is a bit 'off', the characters seem to act slightly different than to their attitude in the actual anime, and overall it just sucks. It is so bad that I had to delete it off my hard drive, which is something I don't like to do to my anime collection, but this movie is THAT HORRIBLE. So if you haven't watched the movie I highly suggest that you DON'T WATCH IT, because you are just wasting your time. It is better off to go to the next anime/manga/visual novel/light novel/hentai planned in your list instead.
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After watching Clannad, and Clannad : after Story, I decided to continue to Clannad movie as well. It thought it would be pretty cool. However, it turns out to be a bit of disappointment.
I though it would focus on a specific point and make me feel something again. But no, it didn't. This movie is like a 90 mins summary of the Clannad series, season 1 and season 2. It follows the similar pattern. But they are not the same. It seems to be a Clannad world upside down. Everything is slightly different. Also the solution is each problem is different .This is like telling Clannad series in a different way. Besides from this, it moves in a very very fast pace. I felt nothing except boredom when I watch this one. Everything is unclear. It lacks of information, and really confusing if I didn't wa…
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I am not surprised that this movie would not do the series justice. It's actually quite nieve to believe it would.
Clannad as a TV series with two seasons over 1000 hours of information, the show lets you grow with the characters, while this movie makes it very difficult to grow that attachment to the characters, which really hinders the emotional effect it has on us viewers.
It very vaguely explains the story although the flow is average, which isn't the best but better then a flow that is terrible.
If you did watch the series watching this movie would be pointless. You'll be left thinking to yourself: "How is it possible for someone to know how powerful this story really is if they just watched the movie?"
I do understand Clannad is from a visual novel, but comparing to the TV ser…
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After reading some of the other reviews, I decided to write my own to express my own views towards Clannad The Motion Picture. Before that, I would like to note that I will be comparing the movie with some outside facts and other points of view to prove my arguments.
Story:
People say I shouldn’t compare to the series because the series was release after the movie. So I didn’t, but instead I compared it with the visual novel. Before that, I think Kyoto Animation did a fantastic job in porting the story from the visual novel to the series with many of the original content still remaining except the story was alter in order to make all the character’s story operate in one single universe instead of the multiple parallel universe that the visual novel runs in. So basically, in some degree co…
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I've seen Clannad 1st season and those two chapters and I can say that I'm not big fan of it. I had a free time so decided to see the movie, don't know why. I don't know why the serie is more popular than the movie and why this movie is so underrated. Personally I think this movie is much better than the anime. The anime is kinda slow and boring with lots of nonsense elements not to mention very childish. The movie on the other hand is more realistic and the story is amazing and emotional. I mean I was crying like nuts the last half hour and even started to like Nagisa. So give this movie a chance, it's not that lame as people say, it's a lot better and deserves a chance.
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*An alternate interpretation of the Clannad story centered around the Nagisa x Tomoya couple.*
Did you get confused with the ending in Clannad After Story? Did you wish for a more realistic ending? Did you know that Clannad The Motion Picture might just be what you are looking for? Or perhaps you have heard of Clannad and Clannad After Story from all your friends, but you have yet to try it out? Clannad The Motion Picture (TMP for short) provides a great summary of all the major events that took place in the ~46 episodes (excluding OVA/recap) series between the two main protagonists. Please be mindful that the movie is retelling a story in ~90 minutes that its TV counterpart took ~1100 minutes to tell! Thus some events may seem to occur at an unreasonable pace. But nonetheless Clannad TMP…
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I realize this came out before the series, but I highly suggest that if you are going to watch the series/are watching the series, DO NOT WATCH THIS MOVIE. The storyline was all over the place and non of the characters are developed well. The animation is mediocre at best and all it really does is spoil the plot of an amazing series.
I highly recommend watching both the Clannad series, and the Clannad After Story series. If you still feel the urge to watch this movie, at least wait until you get to about ep 18 in After Story.
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What the hell guys.
How do you ruin some as awesome as Clannad.
Well, they did. There are so many things wrong with those movie I don't even know where to start, so I'll do each category sequentially.
STORY:
Meandering, directionless, and totally boring until the last half hour or so. Except for the last thirty seconds or so(which were actually pretty heartwarming) the ending was the lamest attempt at a feel-good ending I've ever seen. It's hard to say more without spoiling anything, but let's just say if I were Okazaki I would have been really pissed off at what my friends did to "cheer me up".
ART:
Okay, it's pretty damn hideous.
SOUND:
Didn't even notice it. Voice acting seems okay, but not awesome.
CHARACTER:
Whereas in the show every time Nagisa came on screen I internally screa…
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After playing the Clannad game and watching the anime, I decided to watch the movie and see what they did with it. After about 30 minutes into it, I started to look around the room. The movie gave me plenty of reasons to turn it off.
Story: 8
Even though the movie was not all that good, it still sorta went along with the story of the game and the TV series. I'm well aware that, because it's a movie, it couldn't put the other characters in like they should have been put in, so it's understandable that they only focused on Nagisa's story. The story was done okay, so I'm rating it 8.
Art: 3
I can't say very much about the art besides it was awful. At first all that came to mind was the animations from the AiR movie, which I thought was good. Because of that, I had high hopes for Clannad. Un…
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I just finished this movie, and it was great. If you plan to watch this do not count on that it will resemble the series. It has a small part of the story that is near the serie but when you watch it you will se that they focus more on nagisa and okazaki then the series did.
Story: in short, I loved the story. It was alot better then the one in the serie, why? Because they focus more on the Nagisa & okazaki relationship and they dont focus on the other characters so much like the series did. And because of that the movie surpasses the series with horse lengths. And the movie continues more after were the series stopped and you will get surprised what happens (No spoiler here)
Art: I completley loved the art, the thing with the animetion is that you got that little old school feeling when…
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Before I say anything, I think the Clannad TV series is amazing, I know i'm going to end up comparing parts of this to the TV series on accident, just because a subbed version of the movie didn't show up until the series was in the late 20's.
Instead of the usual format of explaining each of the 5 categories (Story, Art, Sound, Character, Enjoyment), i'm just going to tell you what I was feeling right after I watched it.
The first hour or so of the movie was ok, I found a little boring to be honest. I paused it for a second and ended up watching the Suzumiya Haruhi no Gekisou concert, and completely forgot I was watching this movie for a good 30 min until I remembered I hadn't finished it. The animation quality wasn't really up to par on this one. It wasn't bad, but it wasn't amazing eit…
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I've just finished the movie. In general, it was great.
I don't think that the movie will spoil the series, because its alternative to it, but who knows. By the time I'm writing this review, I've
seen only 20 episodes, so I don't know how the anime ends.
Anyway, I'll start the actual review.
Art / Animation:
to tell the truth, it was horrible. There was time where I wondered if I'm watching a movie from the end of 2007, or a movie
from the early 80`s. Though the backgrounds scenery was pretty good, the characters looked awful, with a lack of proportion and made some weird moves. I just couldn't ignore it, and I think that it was the only thing that spoiled my enjoyment of the movie.
Sound:
Nothing special, really. It was fine, and I haven't noticed it for most of the time. The endin…
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The anticipaded CLANNAD movie turned out a bit less than I thought but I don't regret watching it. It wasn't a waste of time, in my opinion, but it could have been better.
Story
Basically, the story is about the sole relationship of Tomoya and Nagisa. It stars just as in the CLANNAD anime, with them meeting on the hill towards the school. The main thing I liked about the story was that it changed the lines and the events. The secondary characters didn't get too much time to actually have a story but that's normal in a movie (take a look at AIR the movie) and I'm honestly not bothered by it, the story about Nagisa and Tomoya was enough for me. Even though I was expecting a bit more drama and touching moments, I think it was pretty much great, not to mention the last scene was very touching…
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I shouldn't have watched this at all. I've played the game, and I'm currently watching the series of KyoAni. If you played or watched that you will probably dislike the movie.
The only thing I found good was the story and the character development, but then again that was key's work and not TOEI. I didn't give it a better score on story because hilarious parts like most of Sunohara are gone, the movie does not explain any of how the relationship is made between the main characters and the side characters...
About the OST what can I say... I have over 400 songs (all clannad OST), the one used here was just pure deception. Probably the only good part was the festival part. The dubs are horrible as well, I wonder why they couldn't just use the same as the game or the series (maybe budget?,…
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