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CLANNAD Movie
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Animation - 6.5 |
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Sound - 7.3 |
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Story - 7.0 |
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Character - 7.5 |
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Value - 6.8 |
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Enjoyment - 6.5 |
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Average - 6.9 |
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| Average |
6.5 |
| Animation |
5 |
| Sound |
7 |
| Story |
7 |
| Character |
8 |
| Value |
6 |
| Enjoyment |
6 |
| Coming into the CLANNAD movie, one can't help but compare this to the (superior) TV broadcast, along with the AIR movie as it is another KEY product as well as having the same animation company producing it. The CLANNAD movie basically focuses on the Nagisa path only and condenses both the main story and part of the after story into a 90 minute emotional coaster. Having already finished the main TV series, I knew most of the story already, but the movie does exceed in areas where the TV version doesn't, and vice-versa.
First off, like the AIR movie, Toei animation once again handles the animation and production. As expected, the quality is only average, with several frames leaving you with a "WTF" impression. Also like the movie, there are some strange imagery inserted into the "dream sequences", and thankfully they don't take up as much screen time as AIR's no-face-drum-men. Fortunately for the side characters, Tomoyo, Kyou, and to a lesser extent Kotomi do not get left out of the movie unlike the other side characters did in the AIR movie; also fortunately is the lack of Fuko, only whose mother makes a big presence in the movie.
I am not big on the sound score in the movie, especially with an alternate version of Dango Daikazoku. Speaking of dangos, the TV version had much cuter dangos. Oh that ED is a killer.
Onto the story: the focus makes the plot progression great, but the beginning can be a little boring, especially with the animation quality tampering with Sunohara's only funny scenes. Tomoya's character background is much more fleshed out here than the TV series, whereas the TV only gave hints here and there and never closes it, the movie both tells and closes this story well. The movie does not end at the play, though - if you plan on watching the After Story after the TV series, you will be spoiled for the last 25 minutes covers a very big spoiler.
In aftertaste, the movie version proves to tell the story better, but sacrifices a lot of things that made the TV series more enjoyable (namely, Tomoyo, Kyou, and Kotomi :D). Watch the movie if you find the TV series lacking in Nagisa's arc.
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| Average |
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| "CLANNAD the movie" is one of my favorite Anime movie. For all who are not familiar with this series: The idea of this is comming from a video game or visual novel (it is hard for me to tell if it is a game or a novel, well there are selection that allow the player to choose the main plot) named - CLANNAD itself. The story is focused on the main character - Okazaki Tomoya.
As you may have already notised this is a harem school-live movie - so he is a student. His live is a little complicated. Relationship with father is bad - well they treat themselves as strangers living in the same house. His mother died, and becouse of his contusion he is not able to play his passion - Bascetball. He is in his last school semester and all he is doing is looking for a way to non-attend his lectures. His also known as a schemer, felon.
One of the main things concerning Okazaki are his dreams, but it is one of the critical parts so I will save it for you while you watch.
Along him there is his frend Sunohara Youhei - a person close to Okazaki and one delinquent as him.
As you may have realised by now the movie is a romans, but it is not a harem movie. In the game and in the CLANNAD TV all oher girls play a vital role - but not in the movie.
So Fujibayashi Kyou, Ichinose Kotomi, Sakagami Tomoyo and Ibuki Fuko (I don't recall seing her in the movie) play only background play.
The main maiden and the girl close to Okazaki is Nagisa Furukawa. She is a student as well, but becose of her helth problems she was forced to take a one year absence in the school. While she is one year older than Okazaki - all her friend graduated and she is all alone in the school. By the way she loves to play in plays.
I'm writing too much... Well to the center point in the review.
As you can see I give high grades why you asc? Well this is one of the movies I love, and adore. Animation is good, very good, as for a movie it is rare to see such light action and precision in details. The sound is good I like the music but in this matter is is avarege. Plus the voices are done and picked well Story is taken from the game, so it is hard to predict what will happen, specialy after the time scip. Characters are well designned, well build and are realy emotional. It makes point in the leter part. I value this animation for the way it is unconventional. In the end I enjoyed it. It was one and a half an h I really like.
The only element I had higher hopes was the ending, well I was white hopeed for a critical moment - but the way it ends is well anyway.
This movie is able to grasp your heart for long after You watch it. It happened for me as for other people around me.
Wish you a happy and emotionaly affecting time watching "CLANNAD" the movie.
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| Average |
5.2 |
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| There's something to be said about anime films being able to capture the imagination and heart of those who watch, even in its brevity. Some are able to paint emotional conflictions using its overall imagery symbolizing the characters and the struggles within them. In many veins, this is what CLANNAD the movie attempts to do with the characters of Okazaki Tomoyo and Furukawa Nagisa, the two main characters, focusing primarily on developing how the two meet and telling their story in a series of abstract imagers mixed within flashbacks/memories and spot interactions.
Unfortunately, for me, it was not as much of an enjoyable experience, I had much higher expectations for the movie overall. I looked into the movie because I already had an idea of where the storyline would go, and I wanted to see how the movie took on the characters after highly enjoying the progression of the TV series. I would not recommend watching the movie before watching the TV series, should you choose to do so, because it does spoil some key events. The point of this review isn't to compare it to the TV series, but moreso to see how it develops on its own, although a few comparisons are worth mention.
If you were to watch this movie with knowledge of the anime series, I would say the movie leaves exceedingly much to be desired. I felt that I didn't really know any of the characters here and the movie jumped from one revelation to the next without much connectivity. It does not do a good job of making you connect with the characters-I could sense that there were some key scenes intended to be funny but some of them were overdramatized (often in part due to the animation) and done in a fashion which struck more as awkward versus humorous or sentimental.
The movie actually does a decent job in terms of getting into Okazaki's head and telling the story from his perspective. It takes the story in a bit of a different direction than the TV series, focusing on his character in his struggles with loneliness, depression, and coming to realize ironies about himself in the wake of events and revelations he encounters around him. I would argue that the movie does not do much, however, to make these sentiments as vivid and real as it could have been; matter of fact, I think the problem is that it's overdramatized/overemphasized, more than it has to be. The story itself had promise, but the way it was sequenced seemed to throw much of the emotion off-base and in excess, and while it wasn't overtly rushed in the beginning, towards the end, one could say there were definitely revelations that came from left field and without much sequence-it made me want to say "where did this come from and when/where did it happen?"
Most also following the series/overall world of CLANNAD will note there are a number of characters omitted and a few new ones that weren't featured, but it's not so much the omission/addition of those characters that bothered me as it was the lack of expansion regarding those that were. Nagisa and Okazaki had the most development in this movie, as they were the primary characters, but the rest of the potentially charming cast (to name a few: Nagisa's parents, Sunohara-the latter being the highlight of the movie for me in terms of comic relief) had little to no screentime or proper development. And the voice acting was quite bland for most of the characters. One can tell it even in Okazaki's VA, whom is notably moody, but has some spark that's not fully explored and not as empathetically established, even in the scheme of what happens to him over the course of the movie. As for Nagisa, she's not inherently likable, somewhat thin in her personality and lacks a certain factor that could draw you into her. She's mysterious, even abstractly symbolic (particularly in the scene where she's performing the play) but it's not illustrated, not even in the time that the movie progresses.
Animation is not quite on the level of a contemporary standard movie. The animation cels seemed fine, but the design of the characters and the sequence animation weren't as impressive. Coupled with the timing of dramatic events, it felt almost like I was back with the animation standards of the 80s/early 90s with the freeze frame tactic used in dramatic scenes (look to Brother Dear Brother as an example), one that's seems cheesy and notably outdated for usage as a dramatic effect.
The music for CLANNAD movie was suited well for the most part, decent but not quite handled as well as it seemed to be drowned out in the backdrop in a few cases for the BGM. Stating that, it didn't really draw me into the movie any more than standard. I did find the "Dango" song humorous when performed in places of the movie, but I wasn't taken with it in retrospect overall.
That stated, I found the CLANNAD movie to be a let down, some charms and sweet moments to boot, but I would highly recommend that most see the series to really gain the full effect of what CLANNAD has to offer in the charm of its characters, story, and overall symbolic setting, because on the basis of this movie alone, it does not touch truly the charm of what this series has to offer.
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| Average |
7.8 |
| Animation |
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| Sound |
8 |
| Story |
8 |
| Character |
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| Value |
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| Enjoyment |
8 |
| As compared to most other anime series that has been made into movies, Clannad is one of the first to make a movie before the start of their anime series. With high expectations after watching several episodes from the anime proper, you can see a significant difference in animation quality. Nonetheless, it still retains the storyline and after watching the whole movie, you'll want to know more about the characters themselves.
Despite coming from a dating sim, this movie has little harem elements in it. The storyline revolves about the relationship between the female lead Nagisa Furukawa, and the male lead Tomoya Okazaki. The characters are pretty believable, although at some points you might question where certain people came out from, and what was their influence towards the story itself. Certain characters from the original story were omitted, which I felt could've exerted a bigger influence on the movie itself. However, with the current characters, the interaction between them was pretty warm and you could feel that they might really have a bond with each other. In a sense, this story, together with its cast of characters, make this movie seem believable. It hits you, "hey, this could actually happen in reality!" and i guess that was one of the main attractions of this movie itself.
Animation wise, it was pretty evident that two different animation companies produced the movie and the anime itself. It wasn't as smooth, and some drawings were exaggerated. It felt rather unnatural as compared with the anime, which was animated by Kyoto Animation (Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuutsu, Kanon, Air etc.). Also, as compared to recent movies (5 centimetres per second, Shakugan no Shana the Movie), I had higher expectations of it.
The flow of the story was quite captivating, where flashbacks of the story occur and it was quite smooth. Everything had its place, which I think is really important in any story itself. The ending was somewhat bittersweet, but it had proper closure to the series itself. Overall, having shed a few tears, this movie is recommended to people who liked Kanon and Air, but if you're watching Clannad (anime), I strongly suggest you steer clear of it until the anime ends. It's something that is worth rewatching for its storyline, but not something for its effects and animation.
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