Clannad ~After Story~ - Extra Episode (Last year incident) Discussion / Poll

[Sidestep]

Comes with being a Key protagonist, I suppose.

[Leo_Otaku]

So true look at Yuichi from Kanon XD

I was really hoping for Kyou's story as an extra route maybe they can give a bonus on DVD >.>

[VRMN]

To be quite fair to him, they never introduced each other and this was a year from the beginning of the series. It's not unreasonable that he'd forget about the victim of one of many pranks he played (whose victim he never met), nor that she would remember the pranker (who she never met).

They never directly interacted with each other beyond the bumping into each other in the first minutes of the episode.

[bladeofdarkness]

is it just me
or is the animation in this ep considerably inferior to the norm

[hero147]

Wasn't Tomoya's name on the piece of paper that Nagisa kept though?

[Ithekro]

I believe he signed it with the name Sunohara kept using: "Yoro Shiku"

[panzerfan]

I have noticed that KyoAni doesn't have the kind of budget/episode that it had with AIR. It's a little bit of a shame... I hope that the magics of DVD might actually resolve it. Even if quality isn't that consistent, it's still not to the point that I will scream 7Arc animation QUALITY or... remember the cabbage?

[VRMN]

Originally Posted by Ithekro

I believe he signed it with the name Sunohara kept using: "Yoro Shiku"

Quite

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[Tyabann]

Originally Posted by panzerfan

I have noticed that KyoAni doesn't have the kind of budget/episode that it had with AIR. It's a little bit of a shame... I hope that the magics of DVD might actually resolve it. Even if quality isn't that consistent, it's still not to the point that I will scream 7Arc animation QUALITY or... remember the cabbage?

KyoAni is still higher quality than almost any other studio.

I think it's because they're working on Munto, K-On! and this all at the same time.

(And Haruhi-chan, but I barely count that even if it is fairly high-quality for a web short.)

[Ithekro]

Hmmm, that's different. Or prehaps Nagisa just has diffuculty reading his writing.
"I'd have to apologize to Really-Complex-Kanji-Name-Person that gave me this valuable opportunity"

As for quality. Most serious scenes have their standard high quality production value. The comic scene get lower quality...sometimes to make it funnier. (Sunohara's ultra wide smile is not good quality...but its funny...as is Akio's more cartoon-ish looks in a few scenes.)

[VRMN]

It's not exactly a common way to write yoroshiku. In fact, I actually couldn't get my program to bring up that kanji combination for that word. It's not really surprising that Nagisa wouldn't be able to make sense of the kanji being presented as a name but really aren't. It also functions as something of a joke, but the larger point of the episode is that Tomoya helped her out even before they properly met.

[4get]

Originally Posted by VRMN

couldn't get my program to bring up that kanji combination for that word

"yoroshiku", first result in EDICT => 夜露死苦 (but marked as ateji, so this is expected to look like a riddle)

[Ryuou]

Not a very eventful episode, but it was enjoyable. I'm going to watch the next ep but I'm not really expecting much. Is there really any reason to show it? But who knows, maybe we'll get something new.

Originally Posted by Ithekro

AIR has probably the only OP song I've heard that made me want to cry when I first heard it

It doesn't make me cry at all, but Air's OP is a beautiful song. I liked it so much it caused me to inflate my impression of the series a bit.

[TODAY-G]

Originally Posted by 4get

"yoroshiku", first resulit in EDICT => 夜露死苦 (but marked as ateji, so this is expected to look like a riddle)

Since 夜露死苦 is mainly used by gangsters. Maybe it's hard for innocent Nagisa to understand the exact meaning.

BTW, do you ever imagine that if one day Okazaki Nagisa shows the words to her husband, and says how she was moved with a smile, what kind of facial expression can we expect on Tomoya??

[Ithekro]

First one would wonder if he'd remember that prank...then the expression of seeing his own name....

[Ryuou]

Originally Posted by Ithekro

First one would wonder if he'd remember that prank...then the expression of seeing his own name....

It's not his name though.

[typhonsentra]

Holy crap, I... I laughed at a joke in Clannad!?

Aside from Fuuko I barely ever even crack a smile at all the repetitive "Watashi no pan...." jokes and most of Akio's antics but damn, that fantasy sequence of Nagisa's got me good.

[Ithekro]

It's not his name though.

Confused now. Maybe it is because I don't read Japanese, or the post showing the scroll earlier suggested to me that he put his name on it when I had though he hadn't.

Lost now.....

[OceanBlue]

I think the picture showed Tomoya's name so you could compare it to the scroll. It doesn't look like it's there.

I love the Kyou scenes.

[Ithekro]

It is almost like KyoAni is saying "We are sorry, we can't give you a Fujibayashi Route in this series...but we'll give you some extra shots of Kyou and Ryou, plus give them a bathing scene (and the storage shed scene from last season) to make up for it."