He is also brutally honest with his opinion and never sugar coats anything or flatters people. He is a slacker in school, and ever since the death of his mother when he was a child, he has had a troubled relationship with his father. Tomoya Okazaki: Tomoya is the main character of Clannad. Now for an in-depth look into each of the main characters. One important thing to know in advance is that in Japan, unless you are family or very close friends, you typically do not refer to someone by their first name, which is an important point in the story. While there are ecchi undertones, with most of the female cast has a crush on Tomoya, it is far from the ecchi genre in terms of execution. Each character has his or her own problem that he or she must overcome. Also, the high school settings for any kind of fiction is not my preferred setting since I usually cannot relate, in anime however I actually enjoy it quite a bit if executed well.Ĭharacterization: 10/10- Clannad's cast of characters is incredibly lovable! Sure, a few of the characters follow anime archetypes, but the story uses those archetypes to its advantage to progress each character's story. Clannad is the first true slice-of-life anime that I had watched, although I have seen many since, and Clannad essentially perfected the genre. Clannad was my first fully moe series with The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya being the only other one with moe elements before hand, and while it was somewhat odd at first, I become rather fond of the style in Clannad. To some, the moe design can be off putting due to the unnatural nature of the eyes and other features. The word is generally associated with big eyes and generally cute character designs, as well as the often high pitch and cutesy sounding voices of a character. Clannad is contains heavy elements "moe." Moe, pronounced "mo-A," does not have a concrete definition. ![]() As he attempts to help each girl overcome her respective obstacle, he begins to realize life isn't as dull as he once thought.To fully understand the series, allow me to provide the non-Otaku audience a crash-course in anime lingo. Claiming he has nothing better to do, he decides to help her achieve this goal along with the help of four other girls.Īs Tomoya spends more time with the girls, he learns more about them and their problems. Tomoya learns Nagisa has been held back a year due to a severe illness and that her dream is to revive the school's drama club. Eventually he concedes and befriends her. However, Tomoya finds he is noticing Nagisa more and more around school. Nagisa claims they are now friends, but Tomoya walks away passing the encounter off as nothing. ![]() He soon discovers the girl's name is Nagisa Furukawa and that she exclaims things she likes in order to motivate herself. Without warning she exclaims "Anpan!" (a popular Japanese food) which catches Tomoya's attention. One day while walking to school, Tomoya passes a young girl muttering quietly to herself. Along with his friend Youhei Sunohara, he skips school and plans to waste his high school days away. Tomoya Okazaki is a delinquent who finds life dull and believes he'll never amount to anything.
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