(L) CLANNAD the Movie

[FireChick]

I FINALLY watched the whole movie! I loved it!!

[Vegard Aune]

Originally Posted by therationalpi

However, the movie wasn't that bad. It was as good as can be expected from an impossible project, distilling Clannad to 90 minutes. But don't see it unless you've already read the entire visual novel, lest you spoil yourself.

I agree. I didn't dislike the movie or anything, but having already seen the TV-series, I can easily say that the movie is inferior in every possible way. It DID, however, increase my anticipation for After Story, as I did find the last 30 minutes of the movie pretty touching, and I can only assume that the TV-series will do an even better job with it.

[Ryu-kun]

I just seen the movie well it could have been done better but this is alright enough for me since it gives some insights that the anime doesn't have.

[Littm]

Just wait for the AS and you will see the real mindblowing story.

[Ryu-kun]

Originally Posted by Littm

Just wait for the AS and you will see the real mindblowing story.

I seen it before in the game.

[Eddward]

I saw the movie yesterday, Prolly what I shouldn't have done. I feel like I've been totaly f*cked of spoiling.

Spoiler for Don't wanna say to much in general!:

For some reason I have my doubt that they will do the same ending as it was in the movie. As it will be in the "After Story". but who knows, we that watch the After Story at the moment are at Episode 12 so we'll all see. .

Spoiler for WARNING UBER SPOILER:

Tho I really, really hope that Nagisa wont die in the end.

Spoiler for Don't wanna say to much in general!:

Also thinking back on Kanon they made the first serie which was bad (as I've heard) Haven't seen it myself but I'm going to watch it asap. They made a re-newed version of it and that one was great. They might change some stuffs in Clannad aswell due tho people disliked the end of the movie. (who knows).

[Beo]

Think of the movie as sort of a preview. A lot of it came from pieces from the series but there were certain alteration to the story line to make the movie fit together.

Spoiler for About the other world:

That had to be changed from the imaginary world to a common dream between the two. The imaginary world would not make sense unless it had the whole series wrapped around it leading to real ending.

But now you will have to figure out what pieces were used from the series and which are the unique ones for the movie only. Surprises are still to be had.

[-Sho-]

So in the end of the movie Nagisa die ? and do she give birth a baby ? what Tomoya do ?

[Ithekro]

If you are watching he episodic Clannad After Story...The movie ends about at the same place as AS episode 18. It is in no way the same...but the resolution aspect of the story from the film ends at that point.

It isn't a bad movie. The elder Ibuki is rather bad ass in the movie.
It just isn't as good as the full length version currently on the air...because it is rather hard to condense a 90 hour VN into 90 minutes. KyoAni has managed so far to do a fair job with the 18 hours or so they have to present all of Clannad.

[Aqualung]

Is it better to watch the end of Clannad After Story first? Episode 21 was another heart breaker.

[Jimmy C]

If you've waited this long, you can wait another 7 days

[Ithekro]

As noted slightly earlier, the movies ending ends earlier in the story than the current After Story. If you have seen up to After Story episode 21 you have seen more story than what is in the Movie.

[Aqualung]

Thanks, I'll go ahead and finish the movie. I watched up to where Nagisa first brings Tomoya to her home, to discuss the drama club. The art and animation are excellent, but I prefer the seiyu they had for Tomoya in Clannad and After Story. It's funny how they had all of the other voices, except for his.

[Aqualung]

I just watched the movie. Very nice, but I still don't like the seiyu they used for Tomoya in the movie.

[therationalpi]

Originally Posted by Aqualung

Thanks, I'll go ahead and finish the movie. I watched up to where Nagisa first brings Tomoya to her home, to discuss the drama club. The art and animation are excellent, but I prefer the seiyu they had for Tomoya in Clannad and After Story. It's funny how they had all of the other voices, except for his.

The Visual Novel had a voiced version with all of the characters except for the male lead (Who you play as) speaking their parts. This is a fairly common convention. The movie and the television series were both adapted from the VN by separate studios, starting at around the same time. Naturally, they had different views on the character and who should be voicing him.

I, too, prefer the Okazaki Tomoya from Clannad TV.

[DeX-kun]

Yuuichi Nakamura is amazing and his voice acting was superb in my opinion. The VA from the movie felt too bland. To be honest, I didn't really like the movie especially because of how different Youhei (Sunohara) is. The movie itself felt too dark and the art work wasn't all that great, the VA's for Nagisa and all the side characters have improved substantially compared to their voice acting in the movie. The TV series really did an amazing job with the plot and I can proudly say that this is one of my favorite anime I've seen thus far. The movie was mediocre at best, but that's from my perspective

[Tak]

Originally Posted by DeX-kun

Yuuichi Nakamura is amazing and his voice acting was superb in my opinion. The VA from the movie felt too bland.

Interestingly enough, most of the VAs for the movie returned to VA for the TV series.

Nakamura was one of the biggest change, though, and I felt it was a good choice. Although we cannot discredit his predecessor, for he not only VAed the movie, but also the drama CDs, which are very good.

- Tak

[Proto]

Hmm... well, in fact the cast, sans Tomoya was the one they had already selected for the voice game version, and considering what Toei/KyoAni has done with their previous parallel adaptations, I guess it was to be expected....

[Tak]

Originally Posted by Proto

Hmm... well, in fact the cast, sans Tomoya was the one they had already selected for the voice game version, and considering what Toei/KyoAni has done with their previous parallel adaptations, I guess it was to be expected....

One of the biggest surprise to me from the VAs was actually Mai Nakahara. Thing is, she was Mai Hime, and Nagisa is just a totally opposite character, totally timid.

- Tak (Then again, my favorite VA, Naomi Shindou, can also do wonders with her voice, but we will leave that for another time)

[DeX-kun]

Originally Posted by Tak

One of the biggest surprise to me from the VAs was actually Mai Nakahara. Thing is, she was Mai Hime, and Nagisa is just a totally opposite character, totally timid.

- Tak (Then again, my favorite VA, Naomi Shindou, can also do wonders with her voice, but we will leave that for another time)

Oh I know you had a sudden urge to go into one of those praising rants XD It happens when one mentions their favorite anything Nagisa's VA did a good job though, she expressed Nagisa's character very well. I was actually surprised how much she had improved since the movie but then again, I shouldn't be right? Considering it's been what? 2 or 3 years since the movie?