Clannad ~After Story~ - Episode 02 Discussion / Poll

[Klashikari]

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[Anime Daisuki]

I wouldn't mind seeing another light hearted episode before we get into serious things. Since it's about Sunohara, I suppose I'll get it.

[Utau]

argh-- missed the couple few seconds >__>

Spoiler for ep.2:

- i won't be surprised if that 'girl' is who i think she is..
- Mei learns to bake (breads?) Akio style?
- Tomoya&Nagisa tries to hook Sunohara
(something to do with Mei worrying about her single brother)
- R1: Ryou = Fail + Kyou wrath.
- R2: Tomoyo = complete FAIL + I'm so going to kill him.
- R3: Kotomi = somehow.. a success.
first bond; Violin of death
- R4: Yukine = fail.
- R5: stranger.
- R6: Sanae?!!
still makes me laugh how he still thinks she is Nagisa's 'onee-san'. Apparently, she finds it wonderful that he thinks of her that way.
- Mei confirms.
- Sanae COSPLAY!!!!!!

*drools* *nosebleed*

-Nagisa thinks even Tomoya fell for her mom.
- the rest was dead hillarious XD
spine chilling.. Sanae!! <33

poor Sunohara, if only he knew xD


preview seems to be about Mei and Sunohara. I sense an incest between the two in this episode, my 2cents, Mei also gets a boyfriend as a revenge.

episode was totally awesome!

Spoiler for SANAE:

[Usami Haru]

I only have three thing to say about the episode:
I love Sunohara
I love Sanae
I loved this episode.

10/10.

Clannad After Story doesn't fail to deliver....yet.

[Klashikari]

Bullet summary (sound was kinda mediocre, so it didn't really help to understand what was happening)

Episode 2 (revised summary)

Not as entertaining as the baseball match, but it was quite fun nonetheless. I was actually expecting some twist due the fact Mei knew about Sanae's identity from the beginning (where in the game, she never met Nagisa and Sanae before in the sunohara route), but they really did a nice change (extremely unexpected )
Good stuff for several route (big flag for yukine), and we will get some serious stuff with the sunohara sibling next week.

EDIT: summary reworked, thoughts and caps

[Mecha_Trueno]

dammit, i spent too long at gym and didnt make it back to watch clannad live... now i have to wait for zero-raws to take their time

[Nightengale]

A decent set-up episode for Sunohara. But because it's typically Sunohara, that the enjoyment factor is down a little for me, but most people would definitely like it.

Spoiler:

Crap. I knew it. I've been getting that feeling all throughout ~Before Story~, but now I'm starting to really not enjoy watching Sunohara getting tortured, even for comical purposes. (; -_-)

<- avant supporter of Sunohara's rag-bag comic relief role being toned down/made more believable for the sake of a more rational BBF role.

Liked the part with Nidaime Yukine though.

And frankly, I'm not so sure what to bite about the disguise route, but I'll digress, it's a nice approach story-wise without risking marginal deviation.

And braided twin-tails cockroach ahoge megane seifuku wearing milf Sanae? Fetish implosion right there. Nagisa's jealous look was all kinds of win. Akio won't know what he's missing.

[FCS-31]

This episode is crazy.........

Sanayi is godness..........

[Kaioshin Sama]

Well shucks, if we're actually heading into a Sunohara based or centric story arc then I'm probably out for a while. I know a lot of people love this character and his scenes, but I just do not find this guy's formulaic antics of general loudness followed by getting pummeled funny at all. It's of the trying to hard to illicit laughs brand of comedy that just plain doesn't work on me.

Anyway, I'm 100% with Nightengale on how I'd prefer to see Sunohara handled if he's going to be prominent in future episodes.

[Proto]

If you want that kind of Sunohara, then by all means I'd encourage you to hold your frustration a little and give these episodes a chance. I don't assure you that you will like Sunohara by the end, but the Sunohara sibblings arc in the game isn't considered one of the best for nothing.

[Kaioshin Sama]

Originally Posted by Proto

If you want that kind of Sunohara, then by all means I'd encourage you to hold your frustration a little and give these episodes a chance. I don't assure you that you will like Sunohara by the end, but the Sunohara sibblings arc in the game isn't considered one of the best for nothing.

Well considering that since everyone has their favourite game arcs to whose superiority they will attest (the same goes for any game really), I've pretty much heard by this point that every arc is "one of the best". So really I'd prefer to just wait and see so that I can make up my own mind. I think that's the best approach, don't you? Especially since more often then not I'm indifferent to most aspects of a show that people seem to approve of and vice versa.

[Proto]

Well... at least I can assure you there are 1 or 2 that can are universally considered one of the worst. From a less biased POV though, the route is well told. My main point wasn't that by the end of the route you will fall in love with Sunohara, but at the very least you will find it solid. Whether you like it or not is up to personal taste, as you mention, however if what you want to see is a different perspective on his character then this is a good chance.

[Kaioshin Sama]

Originally Posted by Proto

Well... at least I can assure you there are 1 or 2 that can are universally considered one of the worst. From a less biased POV though, the route is well told. My main point wasn't that by the end of the route you will fall in love with Sunohara, but at the very least you will find it solid. Whether you like it or not is up to personal taste, as you mention, however if what you want to see is a different perspective on his character then this is a good chance.

So I can hear his story, but I don't have to like him ala Jean-Baptiste Clemence from The Fall.....okay, sounds like a fair deal.

[Rice_slayer]

I see the raw is up... I always wait for subs sadly. Well, they should be up tomorrow morning like last time, I give mad props to the subbing groups for their speed!

[Nightengale]

Well, the eventual Sunohara development in his story aside, my criticism of Sunohara's generalized role of rag-bag doesn't restrict itself merely to any form of Sunohara centralized material anyway. I don't don't quite enjoy seeing him being treated as 99% gag be it his route or whoever's, especially since it's not like he has no subtle elements to his character, as evident from the Nagisa episodes in S1 and Tomoyo episode. His abuse, to me... It got old the 7th time, even though I'll give the writers credit for making the jokes fresh constantly.

My opinion on his route's finality is a different thing, (( played it on the PS2 )), but I'll keep that to myself until the time comes.

[Leo_Otaku]

Yeah Yukine flag ^-^ that was great XD Sanae twist suprised me didn't expect them to do that either! Yeah since he is fused into everyone's route, Sunohara gets his share of ass kicking. Can we hope for 64 hit??? I hope so >.< Can't wait to see how they will handle sunohara route next.

[Mecha_Trueno]

yes! finally watched ep2 (missed it on live streaming)... hell i ended up watching the second half twice lol

Spoiler for episode 2:

episode summary in one sentence: SANAE-SAN FTW!!!!!
hell, i'd love to be sunohara for this episode, even if the girlfriend part is "pretending", he gets to hold her hand
the part where he kept reporting back to tomoya had me cracking up big time

loved how nagisa was getting jealous/worried with the "is tomoya-kun falling for okaa-san" look...

[Joachim]

so it is the sibling arc.. gotta love-hate sunohara in the future eps then

[octoberasian]

This was a pretty fun episode to watch.

Spoiler:

- Sunohara abuse was constant... I'm surprised he's still alive by the end of the episode. O.o

- So much laughter from beginning to end. Still not into the main plot, however, but enjoyable nonetheless.

- But, the biggest surprise has got to be Sanae.
She was absolutely adorable in this episode. She practically passed off as one of Nagisa's classmates by the end. It's hard to tell she's some 30-something or late 20s woman. o_o; The cosplay scenes were awesome.



<3 <3

[panzerfan]

Somehow, there exists an urge to do bodily harm to Sunohara Youhei in me after this episode was done... but anyways.

KyoAni pretty much spent this episode setting flags and then grabbing peoples' attention onto Sanae. I find it interesting how Nagisa had a slight change in hairstyle just for the cosplay part of the story.