For starters, most of the characters shown in the movie are wildly different than their counterparts and can be considered as completely different people.

The introduction is the same for all 3 forms of the story, but the movie takes a very different approach to the same setting compared to the anime and VN. The animation isn’t anything to write home about, and the movie tends to use some camera movements twice in a row to emphasize what’s happening, but this tends to end up feeling jarring as it gives a feeling like the film is stuttering or something. Something that the movie has going for it is that the backgrounds can look very pretty, although they tend to pale when compared to the anime aside from one or two scenes. The girl’s name is Furukawa Nagisa, and her meeting with Tomoya that day is the catalyst that sets in motion the events of Clannad.ĭespite being released in 2007, the movie has a very dated feeling which is more reminiscent of an anime that would come during the late 1990s to early 2000s. This girl asks Tomoya if she can walk behind him because she’s unable to climb the hill on her own. The story begins when Tomoya is climbing the hill that leads to his school, at the bottom of the hill he finds a girl that can’t take a step forward to reach the school for some reason. Despite this, he became friends with another troublesome student, Sunohara Youhei, with whom he spent most of his time during high school. Since that incident, Tomoya’s attitude labelled him as a delinquent, and as such he was shunned by most of the other students.

This fight not only ended up dashing Tomoya’s future as a basketball player, but also made his relationship with his father take a turn for the worse. Tomoya used to be a player of the basketball team during junior high but was forced to abandon the sport due to a shoulder injury he got one day during a fight with his father. The movie tells the story of Okazaki Tomoya, a 3rd year high school student who spends his days lazing around and following the motions without putting any effort into anything. The film has a length of 90 minutes, during which it tries to cover the Nagisa route and After Story parts of the Visual Novel which the movie and anime are based on. It was released on theaters on September 15, 2007, a year before the Clannad animated series was made by Kyoto Animation. I’m just some random guy writing my impressions on the Clannad movie, so don’t expect a very in-depth review, good writing or objectivity out of this.Ĭlannad: The Motion Picture is a movie produced by Toei Animation. The movie gives you the gist of the story (in a twisted way), but you’d be missing out on one of the best anime ever, imo. If you just want to know if you should watch the movie or the anime series, then I’d say go watch the anime. There’s also going to be some comparisons to the VN, but I won’t mention anything specific as the anime is really similar. DISCLAIMERS This writing will have untagged spoilers for Clannad and After Story.

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