![]() When we begin After Story, he is almost an entirely different character and he envisions life in a different way. But as we progress, we see him slowly mature as he helps several people out with their problems and tragedies. When we start the game, he is yet another high-school delinquent who is frustrated with the day to day monotonous life. We see his character grow as a friend, employee, a father, a husband, and a son over the course of the game. Tomoya Okazaki’s life takes almost a dramatic turn as we progress through the story. We get to see the significance of the nomenclature of the game more and more as we finish more character routes or come across important plot points. The theme of the game does heavily revolve around the concept of family and friends from the start to finish. The name Clannad is the same as an Irish Band which he mistakenly thought meant ‘Clan’ or ‘Family’. Jun Maeda, one of the lead writers of KEY VNs often gets inspired by songs and bands while naming his games. However, Clannad chooses something completely different - it chooses to explore life through its continuity. Most regular romantic anime end with the main characters finally going out together or having a kiss. But Clannad is a story which took the risk and ended up creating one of the most emotionally enriching final arcs in any story ever written. A continuity that ranges over a time period of several years is not a very common thing in anime and Visual Novels. The prequels weren’t great films by any means, but the way Revenge of The Sith and the New Hope were tied together as one saga gave an entirely new perspective. But the thing that I loved the most about the saga was the continuity. The lightsaber battles and space sequences were incredible. When I had finished watching Star Wars for the first time as a kid, I was nothing short of being flabbergasted. ![]()
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