CLANNAD Anime

CLANNAD is a japanese anime, created by Key who also produced Kanon and Air. It is released by Kyoto Animation. This is a drama, comedy, romance and supernatural. CLANNAD Aftertory is the continuation of the first series. The anime has touched the hearts of many and I am one of them.

The male lead role, Tomoya Okazaki is the one narrating in the story. Tomoya grew up with his father, his mother died in an accident while he was a small boy. He has a poor relationship with his father resulting him to skip classes and became an outcast of the school. One day on his way to school, he met a girl, Nagisa Furukawa. Nagisa is a year older but keeps repeating school due to an unknown illness. From then on, they hangout most of the time and helped Nagisa to re-establish the drama club. Along the way, Tomoya and Nagisa found new friends and together they walked through their journey of life.

This is actually one of my favorite anime of all time, well aside from Gundam series of course. The anime evolves in the importance of family. It will make you cry mostly on the sequel, Afterstory. The first season of Clannad is really funny especially with Sunohora scenes and Fuko-chan. However, I found it irrelevant whenever Fuko appears on the later part of the first season... well that is just my opinion. It also has a great musical scores and beautiful opening and ending themes. Everytime I hear To The Same Heights and Roaring Tides, it feels like I'm going to cry again, it brings back the scenes in my mind.

Last March, Sentai Filmworks announced that the hit series will receive an English Dub and it premiered in Anime Network VOD, America's #1 anime channel, on full English dub started on March 25, 2010.