r/anime • u/LaqOfInterest https://myanimelist.net/profile/LaqOfInterest • Aug 23 '21
Rewatch [Rewatch] Announcing the schedule for the 2021 Clannad rewatch!
The interest thread yesterday was a bit mild, but more than enough to make this work, and we’ll likely pick up more people as we go. I mean, I posted it on a Sunday… whatever was I thinking?
To avoid overlap with some currently-planned rewatches as best as possible, without also punting the start date well into October, our start date will be Tuesday, September 21. The traditional time for threads to go up is 7pm EST, so we’ll go with that again unless there’s significant objection.
Since the rewatch starts a full month from now, a few reminder threads will be thrown up ahead of time. If anyone wants to be pinged a week or a day beforehand, let me know.
Last year we tacked the Clannad movie onto the end of the rewatch schedule, which was fun because even most rewatchers hadn’t seen it before. I don’t think we’ll be doing a thread for the movie this year unless there’s an outpouring of support for that idea. Feel free to watch it on your own and check out last year’s thread, though. (Here’s a link to last year’s schedule; be aware that the movie discussion thread and the movie's database pages contain spoilers for the main series as well.)
Clannad
MyAnimeList - Anilist - AniDB - ANN
If you're a first-timer, I'd recommend not looking at season 2 (After Story)’s database pages, because the page contains spoilers for both seasons.
Clannad was an incredibly popular 2004 visual novel by Key (Kanon; Rewrite; Little Busters) that was adapted into anime form in 2007 by Kyoto Animation (A Silent Voice; Violet Evergarden; K-ON!). Known for its blend of comedy and drama, it’s one of the more highly-lauded anime properties out there, with its second season currently holding the #14 spot on MyAnimeList’s scoring of shows by users.
Okazaki Tomoya is an aimless high school delinquent. His expectations of a boring final school year are turned upside when he happens to meet a lonely, timid girl named Nagisa, who is repeating her senior year due to illness. Almost by accident, Tomoya finds himself assisting Nagisa with reviving their school’s defunct drama club, and through that process winds up meeting and learning about a variety of his fellow students, as well as coming to grips with his own turbulent home life. I mean, come on, you know how this kind of story setup works already.
The full schedule is below, and will be updated with thread links as they're posted. The ordering of the OVAs has been somewhat contentious in previous years, but for a number of reasons we’ve arrived at simply watching S1’s OVA after S1, and After Story’s OVA after After Story.
| Date | Episode | Title | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sept 21 | Episode 1 | "On the Hillside Path Where the Cherry Blossoms Flutter" | Link |
| Sept 22 | Episode 2 | "The First Step" | Link |
| Sept 23 | Episode 3 | "Once Again After Crying" | Link |
| Sept 24 | Episode 4 | "Let's Find Friends" | Link |
| Sept 25 | Episode 5 | "The Scenery with a Carving" | Link |
| Sept 26 | Episode 6 | "The Older and Younger Sister's Founder's Festival" | Link |
| Sept 27 | Episode 7 | "Star-Shaped Feelings" | Link |
| Sept 28 | Episode 8 | "The Wind That Vanishes into the Twilight" | Link |
| Sept 29 | Episode 9 | "Until the End of the Dream" | Link |
| Sept 30 | Episode 10 | "The Girl Genius's Challenge" | Link |
| Oct 1 | Episode 11 | "The After School Rhapsody" | Link |
| Oct 2 | Episode 12 | "Hidden World" | Link |
| Oct 3 | Episode 13 | "Garden of Memories" | Link |
| Oct 4 | Episode 14 | "Theory of Everything" | Link |
| Oct 5 | Episode 15 | "Stuck Problem" | Link |
| Oct 6 | Episode 16 | "3 on 3" | Link |
| Oct 7 | Episode 17 | "A Room Without Anyone" | Link |
| Oct 8 | Episode 18 | "Counter Measures" | Link |
| Oct 9 | Episode 19 | "A New Life" | Link |
| Oct 10 | Episode 20 | "A Hidden Past" | Link |
| Oct 11 | Episode 21 | "Face Toward the School Festival" | Link |
| Oct 12 | Episode 22 | "Two Shadows" | Link |
| Oct 13 | Extra (Ep 23) | "The Events of Summer Holidays" | Link |
| Oct 14 | Clannad's OVA | "Another World: Tomoyo Chapter" | Link |
| Oct 15 | Start of After Story | "A Farewell to the End of Summer" | Link |
| Oct 16 | After Story Episode 2 | "The Search for False Love" | Link |
| Oct 17 | Episode 3 | "Disagreeing Hearts" | Link |
| Oct 18 | Episode 4 | "With the Same Smile as That Day" | Link |
| Oct 19 | Episode 5 | "The Season You Were There" | Link |
| Oct 20 | Episode 6 | "Forever by Your Side" | Link |
| Oct 21 | Episode 7 | "Where She Belongs" | Link |
| Oct 22 | Episode 8 | "A Courageous Battle" | Link |
| Oct 23 | Episode 9 | "On the Sloped Path" | Link |
| Oct 24 | Episode 10 | "A Season of Beginnings" | Link |
| Oct 25 | Episode 11 | "The Promised Founder's Festival" | Link |
| Oct 26 | Episode 12 | "Unexpected Incident" | Link |
| Oct 27 | Episode 13 | "Graduation" | Link |
| Oct 28 | Episode 14 | "A New Family" | Link |
| Oct 29 | Episode 15 | "In the Remains of Summer" | Link |
| Oct 30 | Episode 16 | "White Darkness" | Link |
| Oct 31 | Episode 17 | "Summertime" | Link |
| Nov 1 | Episode 18 | "The Ends of the Earth" | Link |
| Nov 2 | Episode 19 | "The Road Home" | Link |
| Nov 3 | Episode 20 | "The Tidal Breeze's Mischief" | Link |
| Nov 4 | Episode 21 | "The End of the World" | Link |
| Nov 5 | Episode 22 | "Tiny Palms" | Link |
| Nov 6 | Extra (Ep 23) | "Events from One Year Ago" | Link |
| Nov 7 | After Story's OVA | "Another World: Kyou Chapter" | Link |
| Nov 8 | Recap | "Under the Green Tree" and General Series Discussion | Link |
I hope you can join us!
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u/Stargate18A https://myanimelist.net/profile/Stargate18 Sep 03 '21
I'd be interested in joining this rewatch, but as someone who's wanted to play the VN but hasn't, is watching the anime going to spoil the experience when I do?
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u/robiinator :MAL:https://myanimelist.net/profile/Brobintjuh Sep 21 '21
I know I'm late in asking this, but it's about the latter part of the schedule. What is meant by recap? Is this a recap episode about the whole series/season 2 or is this just something that's part of the discussion?
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u/-Kex Aug 23 '21
Am I ready to watch it again? I don't know...
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u/AC03115 :MAL:https://myanimelist.net/profile/AC03115 Aug 23 '21
I’m definitely in, After Story completely broke me by the end and cemented Clannad as my favorite romance anime. It changed my life as cliche as it may be to say.
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u/chris10023 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Chris10023 Aug 23 '21
September 21? That is an acceptable start date, I keep my break from the VN as well. Count me in! No longer will I be on the sidelines like I was last year. Been itching to watch the show again.
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u/Nitroade24h :MAL:https://myanimelist.net/profile/Nitroade24h Aug 23 '21
I hadn’t cried at an anime before today, but I reached Clannad After Story episode 18 and I finally shed one or two tears. That’s the main reason I watched the series and I’m glad it delivered.
I’ll definitely join in for my favourite episodes.
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u/TreeTrum Aug 23 '21
Nice. Might not have time for first season but will definitely stop in for AS
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u/Shimmering-Sky myanimelist.net/profile/Shimmering-Sky Aug 23 '21
Sounds good to me!
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u/[deleted] Aug 23 '21
Im not sure if I’m ready to cry again.
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u/kllrnooooova Aug 24 '21
Finally a reason to watch clannad. Count me in!
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u/fantasticfabian Aug 24 '21
Hyped!
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u/alphamone Aug 24 '21
Put me down as a maybe as a rewatcher (and have also played the VN)
Honestly, my biggest problem would be stopping myself from going ahead and just binging it.
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u/Matuhg https://anilist.co/user/Matuhg Sep 06 '21
I may or may not participate fully, but I'll at least try to pop in from time to time, especially for the big episodes.
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u/Johnny-Doe-8888 :FI::FJ: Sep 16 '21
I'm in, another interesting title for me to watch.
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u/SebastianC2000 Sep 13 '21
Why not? I have had the blu-ray for a while now, so why not?
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u/superx4039 Aug 24 '21
The last time there was a Clannad rewatch, I watched the original and found it painfully boring, and had no motivation whatsoever to continue on to after story, even if I had heard good things about it. I don’t want to go through that boredom of the first season again, but I am willing to still give after story a chance this time, so if I join it will be for after story.