CLANNAD the Movie
The official site for the theatrical adaptation of CLANNAD, a 2004 bishojo game released by softhouse VisualArt's/Key after their success with Kanon and AIR, featuring one of the longest and most complex story in the industry, has opened.
http://www.clannad-movie.jp/ The official opening will be on March 8th. |
I've wrote the date down on my calender - very much looking forward to this. Shall be interesting to see what Toei can do with it.
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Toei did a decent job with the AIR movie. It complemented the AIR series nicely.
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Yeah, but that's the point, it complemented an already existing series, so it didn't need to do so much legwork in building things up, since most people were already familiar with the series and characters.
In this case though, unless you've played the game, you're not going to know any of the characters, and this is a long game as has already been stated, so I don't really see how they will be able to fit it into a film length feature without butchering a lot of it. Guess it's possible they'll just pick one section and focus on it, much like short OAV's converted from huge games (like Tales of Phantasia.) We'll see. |
Oh cool! I gotta see this! Nagisa looks cute! Oh! When's the movie gonna come out?
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Yeah, but what I mean is that a Toei movie doesn't preclude the possibility of a TV series by another company.
It's too bad that no one's made Planetarian into a movie yet. |
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& thats true, we shouldn't exclude the possibility of a CLANNAD TV series happening in the future.. hopefully by you know who. |
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Still, that doesn't mean the CLANNAD movie will be a flop. That would be giving Toei too little credit. I'm still very much looking forward to the movie, although I fear it would be nothing but a barebone version of Nagisa's story, simply because of CLANNAD's sheer size and length. CLANNAD is longer than both Kanon and AIR combined for a reason, after all. |
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I wonder how the movie foucus will be, and which bits they will change. I can't wait to see Nagisa animated ^-^
For planetarian if it were to be animated, I wonder if they would animate bits from the novel. Looking way ahead I hope for a Little Busters anime too XD |
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By barebones I meant the movie having so little room to wiggle, they wouldn't have time to portray anything from Nagisa's story except the bare minimum that's required for the story to make sense. We're talking about a story that progresses through several eras in the characters' lives, after all. Another concern I have, though less important, is the atmosphere the movie will end up providing. Anyone who played CLANNAD (or any Key game, for that matter) will tell you that it is a game that's as funny as it is touching (I think game fans will agree that CLANNAD wouldn't be CLANNAD without Sunohara or Akio's gut-bustingly funny antics). If possible, I want to see a movie that can maintain the "serious but gut-wrenching funny at times" atmosphere that the game managed to achieve. Then again, maybe I'm just worrying too much. Dezaki-san is one of the most experienced anime directors out there, and I'm sure his experience with AIR movie will help with CLANNAD as well. (then again, the guy is like 54 years old... ^^; ) |
Sign me up as another person who doesn't see this working. There have just been too many examples in anime history of lengthy complex stories losing all that makes them meaningful and interesting when they're squeezed into a two hour movie. Sure, the AIR movie was acceptable, since it was more an adaptation than a direct retelling, but it was nothing compared with the TV series. Without knowing much about the CLANNAD story, I'd guess they'd do a similar thing with that, but my early guess is that it's going to be underwhelming compared with the source material.
And it seems I'm not the only one who would love to see KyoAni do a full length TV series with the CLANNAD story. They've shown already that they have a massive respect for Key's stories and the way they handle them is outstanding. We may dream, I guess. Hopefully Kanon 2006 will be a massive financial success to the point that KyoAni would see the benefit of bowing the any public requests for them to animate a CLANNAD TV series. |
Looking forward to the movie, for two reasons:
1. Nagisa animated! :heh: 2. Good way to attract attention to my translation project! ;) TOEI can either do this two ways; they can either, as Sushi-Y said, have a barebones version of Nagisa's route (would that cover both School and After stories?). Or, they could do a completely original scenario that only involves Nagisa and ties the 幻想世界 a lot more than it should be. Maybe to the point where it's more like the AIR movie was. Not saying it's bad, I haven't seen it myself, but you never know when you only have 90 minutes. |
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Yeah, Clannad movie, I can't hide that I'm little displeased that it's not KyoAni doing this. Moreover I played the game and it's long and I just wonder: How the hell they want to make a movie out of this? There were already mentioned a few possibilities, but it's still hard to imagine for me. Ah, as for little Busters, the game release date is the 27th July, so better keep back with anime and stuff, that's how rumors get started! But throwing away all questions and doubts, a KEY visual novels is getting animated, that's already a good reason for a party!^-^ |
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Natch. |
Hey, I don't mind this type of a conspiracy from Key. If they get an R1 distributor on board too, that would be great. :D
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So does anyone know how long this movie is going to be? An hour? 1.5?
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