[Kotohono]

Rating wise I decided to do weirdly cause I feel like it :

Spoiler for Animation:

9.5, the animation is excellent, but I don't think it's quite worth being called perfect in this regard.

Spoiler for Voice Acting:

10, Honestly all the characters did the roles amazing well, especially Matako, Yuuichi, Mai, Sayuri, and Ayu's VA.

Spoiler for Music:

9, I bias/spoiled by other key series, while all the music was pretty good to amazing, it wasn't quite as good as Angel Beats, or Clannad was here, though I love the OP theme, and ED wasn't bad; though was little jarring in some episodes, not as bad as torch was at though >.>.

Script/Story: Giving separate rating below.

Editing: 10, I can't say I ever noticed anything wrong with it editing wise, so nothing off here.

Enjoyment: 10, I really enjoyed the series for the most part.

Spoiler for Emotional Involvement:

14, Mai, Sayuri, and Shiori's parts were excellently done in emotional level, and Makoto was pretty good too, so it's only second to Clannad, and tied with Angel Beats in Emotional level I've felt in a series.

Normal total: 62.5/60
Now for the weird part rating each portion of story separately:

Spoiler for Begining:

3/5, the start while had some humor in with introduction of most of the character, it wasn't really outstanding, and was by far the weakest part of the series.

Spoiler for Makoto:

4/5, A very good part of the story, it was here where I really started to enjoy Kanon in the same way that I had for Clannad, and Angel Beats.

Spoiler for Mai/Sayuri:

5/5, I feel the middle is definitely the strongest part of Kanon and started with this portion of the story; both Sayuri and Mai's past were excellently done, and touching, not to mention the amazing quote by Sayuri that has been mentioned here before, or the demon fighting that was done in dramatic way that I didn't expect before starting the series it was nice surprise, and ended in a way I never would have guessed.

Spoiler for Shiori:

5/5, Shiori's portion was probably the most moving thing I've watched since Angel Beats[you know which part ], and I felt was comparable in how it made me feel to some of the moments in Clannad, I really loved her arc, and spirit to live despite having Key-itis, she was a bit inspiring with it really. Plus it was very heartwarming to see when Kaori had made up with her.

Spoiler for Ayu/Nayuki:

3.5/5, I really felt this was bit rushed with a bit too much drama going on at once during this point, especially Akiko being ran over out of no where like that ; Honestly Yuuichi making up some with Nayuki, end of episode 23, and the real Makato's appearance only reasons my rating for this part isn't lower , as I thought Ayu romance might happen after the talk with Nayuki, it still seemed well bit forced, and weird to me, though her school being nothing didn't surprise me really , and her disappearance was far too sudden for me to really feel much from it unlike Makato's.

Spoiler for Ending:

4/5, the final episode was pretty good, though I was honestly shocked that Shiori lived I thought key-itis spared no1 under any condition xD, so which is a good thing, or was it bad? xD Her last talk and moments with Yuuichi in this were great. Also dear god Sayuri and Mai looked soo dam cute in the outfit that they had on for their graduation . Scenes of them all taking care of Ayu were well done too. I think would have given this a 5/5 as well if they had just somehow the awaken scene between Ayu and Yuuichi even with the bit of extreme miracles in this part.

Arcs Total: 31.5/35

Attack Chance: +4/5 , generated from the laughs had in the series xD.

Overall: 98/100, so I'll round a 9.8 to a 10 for Kanon 2006 as it sits as my 9th ranked series atm.

Also I can't help but compare to other key series I've seen, so on that I still feel Clannad is a much better series in personally preference, since I felt it did a better job in terms of making a choice romance wise.

Originally Posted by Archon_Wing

Yea, I'd say the first half dozen episodes are not very good and seemed to have wasted a bit of time, and that hurt the rest of the anime a bit.

Ya, I agree with is in part why I also felt Angel Beats[7th to me] was only little bit better than it cause I felt it used most of it's time better comparatively, and it had a baseball episode, I mean what kind of key series doesn't have a random baseball episode?
Edit: Also I should mention I felt the middle of the series Mai/Sayuri/Shiori portion was better than good deal of Angel Beats, but a whole level I felt Angel Beats did better to make that clearer.

Originally Posted by Triple_R

I just finished watching Kanon 2006.

I made a long review of it over here on my blog.

Spoiler for Slightly off topic comment to Triple_R/Archon Wing:

If Clannad was to make up/alternative for Shiori and Yuichi's romantic ending not being address, then does that mean Angel Beats was to make up for Mai and Yuuichi's, I mean Kanade was an odd quiet girl with a blade, has a bizzare power, is very mysterious, and has a vague relationship with a girl with 'yuri' in her name .
Edit Here too: She also waited a really long time for Otanashi, and Otanashi had even lost his memory like Yuuichi.

Man, it's been a while since I wrote a post this long, hopefully I didn't make any silly mistake and cause some ridiculous pairing to be thought of like I did with Clannad .