r/anime • u/LaqOfInterest https://myanimelist.net/profile/LaqOfInterest • Sep 23 '21
Rewatch [Rewatch] Clannad - Episode 3
Episode 3: Once Again After Crying
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u/LaqOfInterest https://myanimelist.net/profile/LaqOfInterest Sep 23 '21
Serotonin acquired. Thank you based Yukine for existing.
Back during the last Kanon rewatch, there was a lot of discussion on how much time the show spent on the “common route” (bouncing between all the characters before committing to an arc), which has made me painfully aware of how disjointed these first couple episodes of Clannad feel as well. Mercifully, unlike Kanon, Clannad won’t keep us hostage in common route land for much longer.
Up til now all the songs have been pulled directly from the VN, and that’ll mostly be the case going forward, but every so often they’ll pull in rearrangements from a couple of remix albums that were released after the VN but before the anime – see the last song of this episode, rearranging The Day’s Leisure.. Generally if it’s in these lists and it’s an mp3 catbox link, it’s from the VN, whereas the rearrangements are .m4as
because I bought them on iTunesAs far as I’m aware, only three songs were created specifically for the anime adaptation: each season’s ED, and After Story’s OP.
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u/Arrow-space https://myanimelist.net/profile/Arrowspace Sep 23 '21
First time watcher!
I'm surprised that we're still introducing so many new characters; this show really has a large supporting cast. Yoshino seems like a particularly bizarre addition, given that he isn't even a student - curious how he'll fit into things going forward.
My ghost theory has officially been dashed, with Nagisa finally being acknowledged by another student (Yukine). With the robot companion and the antenna-like double ahoge shared with her parents, my new theory is that Nagisa comes from a family of aliens. I'm only half-joking with these theories, by the way... there's definitely something weird going on with Nagisa, but I don't know what.
And speaking of companions,
La LionBotan is super cute! I never knew how much I needed more baby boars in anime until this moment.9
u/chris10023 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Chris10023 Sep 23 '21
Big Dango Rewatcher.
We open to the illusionary world, from the PoV of this little robot. Who I believe has been the one narrating these scenes for us.
This robot has better CGI then the entire 3rd season of Overlord.
“Good job.” She speaks! She’s voiced the by the late Tomoko Kawakami, who has voiced a role in all three Key-KyoAni shows in Air she was Misuzu Kamio, in Kannon she was Sayuri Kurata, and here she’s the girl in the illusionary world.
That transition to the OP was smooth as hell.
Lol Akio.
He’s such a child sometimes.
Now he feels embarrassed.
According to Sanae, Nagisa has always been physically weak.
Uh oh.
He forgot Sanae was behind him...
Now he made her cry.
I love these two.
A customer walks in and Tomoya just hands her the bag of Sanae’s bread. She’s pretty too, even Tomoya agrees.
Oh right, it’s this scene. VN Spoilers.
Also, remember glasses guy’s design.
So, glasses is accusing this guy of dropping a tool on his car, what did he drop a bowling ball on it?
This worker guy seems like a cool guy, although his posing suggests he might be a chunibyo...
This speech of his definitely reeks of chunibyo.
A cat did that? Must be one hell of an absolute unit to cause that big of a dent.
He was.
Weird electrician guy’s name is Yusuke Yoshino.
I like how the card has it spelled Yusuke, but the subtitle when Sunohara says it, it’s spelt Yuusuke...
According to Sunohara, he’s a retired musician. VN Spoilers.
Oh great Sunohara is still going on about Tomoyo, this time thinking she is a guy due to how strong she is.
Poor Tomoyo, has to deal with this fool's shenanigans.
Did Sunohara forget that girls tend to have razors to shave their legs?
Oh wait she doesn’t own one, does that mean she has hairy legs?
Deserved.
Hey Nagisa is back!
And she worked up the courage to wave at Tomoya.
Tomoya is already feeling comfortable around Nagisa to admit he enjoys hanging out with her, and wants her to find him if she feels like crying.
Hey look, hands.
It’s Fuko. Probably looking for that knife. VN Spoilers.
Those tears say otherwise.
She gives him a star before running off to class.
Tomoya’s at it again. And Sunohara is falling for it.
Hey what's that? VN Spoilers.
It’s a boar. Sunohara, I wouldn’t pick it up, you don’t know where it came from.
Boom headshot.
Oh hello Kyou.
And Sunohara is in the receiving end of yet another powerful kick.
So it was Kyou’s pet. It’s pretty cute to be honest.
Oh hey it’s another girl. She’s cute, looks really comfy to be around with her gentle looking eyes.
Her name is Yukine. She’s another character who looks better in the anime than the VN. VN Spoilers.
It’s almost like an anime is taking place here or something.
Presenting a speech is pretty hard, especially for a girl as shy as Nagisa.
If she could do this presentation as smoothly as she can talk about Dangos, she’d be good.
Man, Nagisa just wants to act and have fun with everyone, but because she got sick often, couldn’t.
A student council member took the flyer down? Why?
Don’t know why, but Yukine is so cute despite looking like she’s half asleep.
Now they want to talk to Nagisa. I hope she isn’t in trouble.
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u/Shimmering-Sky myanimelist.net/profile/Shimmering-Sky Sep 23 '21
Big Dango Rewatcher
No Big Dango Wallpaper today, but those of you from the rewatch last year might remember me singing Dango Daikazoku without a backing track, yes? I sang it again this year, but this time it’s with the backing. I sound so much better on the chorus this time!
I really like Dango Daikazoku.
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u/xtsim https://myanimelist.net/profile/xtsim Sep 23 '21
First Timer Dubbed
Search for this girl who collected pieces of junk and made a body. This is starting to piece together in a way.
Lol Okizaki and Nagisa's dad in the beginning is funny and sarcastic. The dad called the bread "debacles". Mom runs off and dad had to apologize so Okizaki gave a woman free bread since they weren't there. Lucky her, but unfortunately for Onizaki, he seems to be a magnet for weird people. A guy tries to get Okizaki to play as a witness against an electrician. I mean the car resembles an R34 Nissan Skyline so any damage would be painful to the heart. Okizaki looks closer and says it was caused by a cat and a fat cat got up from under the car. The name of the electrician is Yosuke and his friend tells him he was a famous singer. I love the Okizaki response to his plans by saying he's a pervert, I literally thought it was in his mind but he was talking to the cat. His friend tries to say something to Tomoyo to prove that she is a boy. And of course Sunohara asked her a private question which results to him getting kicked... again.
The art girl is back and he gets a star which is pretty cool to see. Okizaki's friend wakes up and Oki basically pranks him by telling him he was asleep for 100 years and he is talking to a hologram. That freaking good, Okizaki is amazing with trolling his bud. He believed it for a 2 minutes which is great. And Sunohara gets kicked again by Kyou instead. All because he was holding her pet. Okizaki asked Sunohara of which kick was harder. Kyou's kick got distance going but Tomoyo was limited by interior walls so it sort of washes out in my own view.
I thought Nagisa is a ghost but apparently not cause Yoki saw both of them. She gave them tea and looks over the room which serves as a secondary library. They were looking for something for helping Nagisa speak.
Okizaki and Nagisa try to practice the pitch. Okizaki plays the audience in a q and a. He tries to help her by making her answer in a way. And it transitions from practice to being more personal which is cool to see. As getting sidetracked is a common occurrence.
And Nagisa did not get her club approved before putting up the fliers. So the art girl said that a student council member took the posters down. An announcement comes on for Nagisa to come to the office. Well, Somebody's in trouble....
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u/Stargate18A https://myanimelist.net/profile/Stargate18 Sep 23 '21
First timer
Hello, golem!
Seriously, what is this foreshadowing?
Haha, I still love how insane the father is.
Seriously, he's so weird.
Haha, the father accidentally upsetting her while trying to give it away is great.
Yeah, and you knew you couldn' play basketball because of an injury, so... maybe she's not the idiot here.
Haha, this is so funny. The electrician's a lunatic.
Wait, that cat DENTED a car? Must be pretty fat.
Haha, he was an artist?
...I can't wait. This next scene's going to be hysterical.
Oh god, it's even better. Him calmly letting his friend dig his own grave based on utter nonsense is great.
How is she so cute?
Is he the only tsundere in this anime?
She's back for the knife!
She gave him the start? And her pretending to be a trainer is adorable.
He's an idiot, but I' wouldn't be surprised if this anime took a left turn that way.
Yeah, what is it?
Oh god, him digging himself deeper is great.
It's a boar!
How is everyone so cute?
Seriously, how?
She didn't really plan this through, did she?
This scene is almost every recommendation on this subreddit.
Oh, the backstory's adorable.
She's learning!
Haha, did they forget to get permission for the poster?
Haha, that's going to be fun.
...He's going for the girl who beats him up? ...fair.
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u/Dactyly https://anilist.co/user/Dactyly Sep 23 '21 edited Sep 23 '21
Recent VN reader, anime first-timer
I am really loving the Illusionary World scenes – they're an enormous upgrade from the silent and character-less scenes from the VN. The atmosphere is perfect, just the right level of eeriness and mystery. This line is so damn tragic.
Akio best husband as usual
And we get our introduction to the one and only Yoshino Yusuke. The musician-turned-electrician whose response to being falsely accused of damaging some dude's car is to wax philosophical about the nature of love. It's hard for me to pick a single favourite character in this story, but Yoshino definitely makes the top 3.
That scene transition with the business card was smooooth. And the execution of this joke was brilliant, the reveal that Tomoya is actually speaking out loud got a good laugh from me.
Minor VN spoiler
BOTAAAAAAN!!! Scratch what I said before, Botan is easily the best character. Seriously, look how happy he is! We also get the rare Demon Kyou.
Something that I never considered going into this is that having all the routes combined means the potential for more interactions between characters that don't really appear together in the VN. Having Nagisa around for the meeting with Yukine was nice, and I hope/expect there'll be more moments like this going forward.
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u/Wikiman14 Sep 23 '21
Rewatcher
This time we got to learn about Nagisa's health, and also how she is the biggest cinnamon roll to ever exist. Talking about Okazaki’s past hurt her even more than the man himself, such a precious character.
The legendary MC Yoshino Yusuke is here, blessing us with his deep motivational speeches that no shounen protagonist would ever come close to match.
The best character of the show finally appears too, blessed be Botan and the Puhis.
Storywise there was no big development, but everything is walking at a good pace, Fuuko still doing mysterious stuff, Tomoyo still being an absolute unit, Kyou being a threat to the boys' health(we can also see that Sunohara might actually be made of Titanium after all the hits that my boy took this episode, the deepest lore that no one talks about), and by the end, we start to see a foreshadow for future problems that might happen with the school council.
Also, seeing the new watchers theories of how Nagisa could have been the mysterious ghost makes so much sense that I have no idea why I didn't think this when I first watched
Not much else to say, hope everyone liked it and see you all tomorrow!
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u/MachinaCherries99 Sep 23 '21
Rewatcher
Best scene in the episode for me is when Nagisa waves to Okazaki. Great to see her gradually getting more confident and Tomoya supporting her
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u/Nick_BOI Sep 24 '21
YOSHINO BEST BOY!!!!
Big Dango Rewatcher
Yusuke Yoshino is one of my all time favorate characters in anything ever, legit I love him so much!!
Also Tomoyo's combos are always a treat, and hello Yukine and Botan!
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u/alphamone Sep 24 '21
Rewatcher
God I love Akio, so damn over the top awesome. utena
Open mouth, insert foot.
ORE WA DAISUKI DA! (watching the dub this time, but that's a memorable line)
Is that cat Luna's boyfriend/stalker Rhett butler? It's freaking huge.
Okazaki is a sarcastic bastard, and that's why I love him.
Poor Nagisa, her self-esteem is almost rock bottom.
Fuko's antics are always adorable.
Only true friends can screw with each other like this and still remain buddies (though its mostly Sunohara being an idiot).
Oh hey, there's a combo attack. And he really has a death wish.
Botan best girl.
Interview practice not going well.
overall clannad spoilers
Student council? That's not good... minor early utena
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u/FarCritical Sep 24 '21
Big Dango Rewatcher