First Date: Clannad
- Title: Clannad
- Studio: Kyoto Animation
- Genre: Romance
Ratings (out of 5):
- Story: ♥♥
- Animation: ♥♥♥♥
- Character Design: ♥♥
- OP/ED Themes: ♥♥♥
- Overall: ♥♥♥ (I feel like I’ve been on this date before…)
Thoughts:
No year would be complete without another Kyoto Animation adaptation of a game by Key, it seems. Of course the animation is fantastic, and there are a lot of fun comedy and action bits that I may continue watching the show for.
But I might actually *really* like the show if:
a) They ditched the heroine. Nagisa is boring. Her family is boring. I don’t care about her. I like the ass-kicking chicks better. Or even the wussy class president who is the twin sister of one of the ass-kicking chicks. But Nagisa? Meh.
b) They would do a better job of matching the seiyuu to the way the characters look. Even as an anime fan, there are only so many times I can deal with anime females looking like buxom 12-year-olds and sounding like 16- (or 30-)year-olds.
c) The male lead was a little less emo. I like his no-bullshit sardonic attitude, but I could do with less whining about how boring life is.
I think it’s likely that I’ll wind up dropping Clannad unless a lot of shows this fall wind up being duds, but we’ll see.
Tags: clannad, fall-2007, first-dates
October 7th, 2007 at 3:52 pm
If this series follows the game well, it will be a pretty intense and emotional series. I agree, the lead female is kinda, I dunno, weak I guess. No really endearing qualities as of yet that makes you want to get to know the character better. The male lead kinda got on my nerves as “Wah wah I’m such a little bitch. I hate this place.” But yet gives Nagisa advice and tries to perk her up. Bah. Two faced so-and-so. I will keep watching this one, seeing if it will follow the game. If it does though, prepare for a real tear jerker…