A Remarkable Journey To . . .Syracuse!
So, my mother, my Grandmother and I drove to Syracuse, NY on Monday in order to pick up my Great Aunt Annis. I read a lot, we talked a lot, I got sick of Garrison Keillor's voice, and I listened to about ten speeches.* Mostly, I'm relieved to not be riding in a car anymore, though I guess it counts as practice since my Dad and I are driving down
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Anyway. The best part about Clannad is its awesome ending, which is almost too dramatic (the part with the play, as awesome as it was) while being mature when it needs to be (Tomoya and his dad). Also, the ending is so cute I think it killed me and then brought me back to life.
That and. . .everything else (baseball game! basketball game! the end of Kotomi's story! Tomoyo's backstory!) with the possible exception of Mei, who is a little too stereotypical a character for me.
The OVA was all right; I found the romance a lot less sweet and I found the Tomoya in it to be a big jerk - and something about the ending sort of annoyed me. But the scene in the snow was really sweet. . .I guess it's just that this Tomoya felt pretty bad for this Tomoyo and I thought she really should just leave him. ^^; It's not because I am especially partial to Nagisa (though I am). A romance between TV-Tomoya and Tomoyo would have been fine with me, but this Tomoya was actually a delinquent and not somebody who kept on missing class because he was helping out all of his platonic female friends with their problems ("who cares about going to school when I can tidy up your garden?").
I am really not looking forward to the Kyou OVA, though, because I do not want to see sisterly feuding. Much as I genuinely like Kyou.
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*goes to watch the After Story OP again*
Clannad's ending really is absolutely perfect. The part with the play was a bit too dramatic, but it basically did not matter because it was excellent. Kotomi's story made me so happy, because there was a particular element of her growth as a person that I did not expect and that I really loved.
I'm pretty much neutral on Mei - she fits in with the show, but she's not much of a character on her own.
. . .okay, honestly the scene in the snow completely overshadowed the rest of the OVA for me. Without it, I would not have dubbed it 'as sweet as the show.' ^^; There was just something about that particular scene that I really loved. Other than that. . .it felt kind of depressing, at least for Tomoya.
. . .yeah. Sisters or friends or brothers or whatever feuding because of romance and then one of them becoming the 'martyr' so the other one can be with the person in question(which is almost what always happens) . .. that's one of my least favorite plotlines in fiction.
I am sad that I have finished Clannad, because now I am once again without my bastion of cuteness. I started something else this morning, but it is not Clannad. Maybe it will turn out to be cute and fill in the hole in my heart.
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