How does clannad anime end

LMAO, yeah, i think the ending was a little bit forced too. Zazie Offline Joined: May Posts: Ryuzar Offline Joined: Nov Posts: Talim Offline Joined: Jul Posts: I get that at 50ish episodes it's an investment, and people don't want to waste their time on something that they're not going to be satisfied with, but I think the point of watching things is to discover that on your own and determine your own satisfaction, rather than basing it off what others say.

If that makes sense. Brandon Offline Joined: Oct Posts: Does OPM have a sadder ending than Clannad? Kuma Offline Joined: Mar Posts: Dimethylanime Offline Joined: Jul Posts: Honestly couldn't tell ya bc I was too incompetent to process the ending lol BBCode.

Paul Offline Joined: Jan Posts: BBCode Be thankful for the wisdom granted to you. PS don't get attached to anyone, and fuko becomes a comic relief, so don't cry for her kk BBCode. Irrelative Offline Joined: Nov Posts: Praland Offline Joined: Jul Posts: Maisyyy Offline Joined: May Posts: 5.

Kenzolo-folk Offline Joined: Apr Posts: BBCode berserk new chapter soon berserk new chapter soon. In my opinion it will depend on how closely you pay attention to bits of information provided along the way, and especially as you near the end. Without catching some of the details along the way, the ending won't make as much sense.

If you miss some of the detail near the end, it could feel forced, or simply a WTF just happened moment for you.

In my book it's a happy ending, but I can also see how some might not reach the same conclusion. Depending on how empathetic you are you'll likely experience the full range of emotions from Clannad and After Story. Nobody will be able to tell you how you will react to the parts designed to elicit emotions, or how you'll feel once completed, and don't let anybody tell you how you SHOULD react. BBCode You're never too old to watch anime.

BBCode My subjective reviews: katsureview. Mention Offline Joined: Mar Posts: BBCode I'm level on mal-badges. Catalano Online Joined: Oct Posts: And that just shows how little you know about story telling. Stories are never about what happens but about how and why, it's about the journey, not the destination and knowing the destination shouldn't matter to the story. And knowing if it's a sad or a happy ending doesn't even tell you what happenes.

Why not give it the Amagami SS treatment then? This creates a huge problem for continuity because you have events that happen at the same time and place but with different characters, in a different setting. What are the light orbs? Orbs are interdimensional, translucent entities that materialize from moments of true happiness. In this situation, a visible yet intangible projection of feelings something immaterial by definition.

Said orb is capable of fulfilling a dream -which may or may not be also a miracle- and for it to do so, its bearer need only to wish it. This means Nagisa and Ushio came back to life because…? Basically because Tomoya made a wish with light orbs. A larger amount of orbs would be necessary, 13 to be exact.

This is where things get a bit confusing. Do note that the IW was not created for Ushio, it already existed for thousands of years. Initially with no idea why or how, she would eventually meet with a special light and make a robotic body for it Tomoya. However, she builds a robot. Keep reading. Parallel universes with Time Loops?

To do so, he is sent back to the point where he first met Nagisa and set the wheel of fate spinning: the bottom of the hill. This is where the significance of the supportive characters is put into discussion.

These universes were created the moment original-Tomoya made his wish. With the purest, finest feelings as possible. This way, every route becomes meaningful, with honest interactions and alternative-Tomoyas living happily ever after. This time, all the romantic relationships with the obvious exception of Nagisa are suppressed, and hence the orbs which would come from them also are.

All characters are merged into a single storyline and are introduced at different points of plot development, with Tomoya collecting orbs continuously as he meets and helps them. This will be better explained further bellow. Town, Nagisa, Ushio and the Illusionary World?

Just like other Key works Air, Rewrite, Planetarian you need to understand that the town where Clannad takes place is a living organism. This town, whose life-force comes from both the nature and the people living within it , has a will of its own.

The town answered his prayer and lent a bit of its life-force to her. On that moment a connection was created between Nagisa, the town and the IW. Things start to get worse when the very place where Akio wished for Nagisa to survive starts to be modified and its vegetation removed to make room for a new modern hospital building oh the irony. She then sends him over and over again into a multiverse or time loops for him to obtain the required orbs. Each and every time starting at the bottom of the hill where Tomoya first met Nagisa, and always presenting him the choice of continue trying or giving up.

Tomoya then lives everything again from that moment to the day Ushio dies on his arms. It's also not clear how the chronologies of the two worlds works, but it's very likely that they are on completely different timelines. Judging by the fact that all of the illusionary world segments occur between days, he may be seeing it as a dream, but the research of the Ichinoses Kotomi's parents, both of whom are theoretical physicists indicates that the illusionary world is very much real and is connected to our world in many ways.

In order to save Nagisa and Ushio, Tomoya needs to do 3 things. First, he needs to gather a lot of happiness in the form of orbs of light, enough to make such a big wish.

Second, he needs to clearly tell Ushio who is holding the orbs via her alter-ego in the illusionary world that he doesn't want her or Nagisa to die and that he wants them to live together as a family.

And third, he needs to really mean what he is saying, as the orbs won't grant wishes that aren't what one truly desires. If all of those are completed, the orbs of light will grant his wish, returning time to the point when Ushio was born and saving both Nagisa and Ushio.

It should be mentioned that in order to collect these orbs, Ushio sends Tomoya to many different timelines, each time returning him to around the same point when the anime begins and resetting his memories. This is touched upon briefly in the special episodes revolving around Kyou and Tomoyo in which we see orbs of light at the end, meaning it's likely they're canon and actually happened during one of the timelines Tomoya was sent to.

Note also that this isn't the only time that the orbs of light grant wishes that would otherwise be impossible, although it's definitely the most powerful instance. When Nagisa is dying for the first time and Akio wishes to the tree that she doesn't die, that wish was also granted via the orbs. Also, when Misae declares her wish to Shima that she wants him to always be with her and love her, this is also granted, although unbeknownst to Misae, Shima was actually a cat and he returns to that form.

In addition, depending on the order of routes that you choose in the VN, Tomoya may use an orb to pray for Fuko to get better, though if he does he'll be able to get it back in After Story. So this isn't as much of a deus ex machina as it might seem, but a legitimate plot point that mostly got swept under the rug in the anime. Do you remember when Kotomi was talking about her parent's research, and how there were alternate universes where things were different from the one that they lived in?

Do you also remember how they talked about the orbs of glowing light being a representation of happiness and can grant wishes? Well, the ending basically brings those two concepts together.

The other universe has the robot and the girl: the robot is Tomoya and the girl is Ushio. They are on the side where all the orbs of happiness come from the world that people live in.

At the end, after Ushio died and Tomoya collapsed into the snow, they show the beginning of the series again with Nagisa sitting under the tree and Tomoya saying to himself that he wished he'd never met her, because he regretted all the things they had gone through, and because she would still be alive otherwise.

While he was fighting with his regrets, Nagisa started to leave and walked up the hill. Seeing Nagisa leaving, Tomoya chased after her and hugged her, where she responded with something like "What took you so long?

This is where he decided that he should have never regretted meeting her, as he realized that he loved the time he spent with her because he loved her so much. At that moment, the orbs of happiness essentially granted his wish and put him back into his normal universe with the alternate ending. I know I'm a bit late to the party but I'd like to give my take on this considering my understanding of the show is a bit less literal than the rest.

So throughout the two seasons we get to see the life story of Tomoya as well as other characters. The story is composed of many fun and happy moments but also some very sad and painful ones. At the end of the show Tomoya goes through very rough times and just when he's about to break he is given a choice:. After that we get to see a much happier version of the world were everything went well and none of the bad things happened.

So basically to me Clannad can be summed up like this: Life can be very beautiful or very sad but either way don't ever let those terrible things stop you from living life at its fullest. If we understand the show as an abstract metaphor designed to first reach your heart and then transmit that single very powerful message then every imperfection can be excused because everything in the plot is just an abstract illustration, only there to reach it's higher goal. And that goal is successfully attained when its all said and done.

Clannad touches your very soul and teaches you how to live life. That is its only objective and it's perfectly achieved. Ultimately anything concrete that happens in the show isn't important at all. That's why it's perfect and it's the best anime to have ever been created. In Clannad, there are alternate timelines where, obviously, things are different.

These events take place in the alternate timeline. Kotomi's parents were performing a research on the alternate world. In theory, the Illusionary World is the afterlife; when a person dies they are still connected to the real world, yet they are free to create their own world.

The Illusionary World in Clannad was created by Ushio. In the Illusionary World the girl is Ushio and the doll is Tomoya. Tomoya also mentions in an episode that he somehow knows the end of the story that Nagisa told him. The story was about the Illusionary World. We see that Tomoya had a miserable life. Nagisa and Ushio die, and it wasn't going his way. Later on, Tomoya goes back to the point where he first met Nagisa, and then he marries her and they have a kid.

But this time Nagisa survived. Tomoya was just dreaming of the worst that could happen. But in the end nothing bad happens and everything is okay. But if this would've happened, then the orbs of light have no role. And the scene where he goes back to the past wouldn't have made sense. The scene where he goes back wouldn't make sense either because in that scene Tomoya and Nagisa remember each other And it wouldn't have been possible even if they were in the alternate timeline. This is probably what had happened.

So in the illusionary world we see the orbs of light every now and then. These were collected by Ushio the girl and Tomoya the doll. Tomoya first wished that he shouldn't have met Nagisa. But it wasn't what he really wanted and thus it wasn't granted by the orbs light. What he really wished for was for Nagisa to be alive. The orbs of light that Ushio collected in the Illusionary World granted this big wish and thus Tomoya is taken back to the past.

He didn't say anything to Nagisa. He was in a dilemma here. Nagisa started walking away and at that moment Tomoya made his mind and ran to Nagisa and hugged her. They still remembered each other.

Then he is taken to the point where Nagisa gives birth.