[SageGaiGar]

Kyoani's pretty anal about sticking to 'script' with Clannad. Yes they missed a few things and embellished a few things but what you saw is from the source material. Don't like it? Play the game or write your own ending in your head. Maybe share it as doujin or fan fiction.

I was a little "wait.. what? huh!?" watching this series but the ending is what it is. (And a chance to see an older Mei-chan? Woohoo!)

So they went through their world of excrement.

Given a chance to restart, knowing what may happen. Would you make similiar choices? I think this is the point of the end. This is one thing that can happen, and *this* is what 'could' happen otherwise.

Kind of helps that the series was magical realism, I would've liked a more 'realistic' sort of end but that is not this series.

Enjoy the journey and don't put all your effort and worries into the destination. Now I'll have to see about getting hunting down a copy of the game itself.

*edit*Whops I forgot that it's usually Key's adaptions that stick so close to 'script'. XD