Forum - View topicClannad After Story (TV).
|
|
| Author | Message | ||
|---|---|---|---|
|
sargos7
Posts: 5 |
|
||
|
Am I seriously missing something here? Why does everyone think this series is so great? I did like it. I just am not seeing the masterpiece that everyone else is, and that doesn't ever happen to me. I only watch animes that I am actually interested in, so it's not that it's just not my kind of thing, otherwise I wouldn't have even watched it. And so far, other than this one, I have had pretty similar opinions to the majority as to what everything should be rated.
Which leads me to believe that I must be missing something, and which is why I'm making this topic. This is not me trying to convince everyone else that it isn't great, this is me trying to understand what it is that everyone else sees in it. |
|||
|
|||
|
dtm42
Posts: 14084 Location: currently stalking my waifu |
|
||
|
For one, it actually does something unusual and show what happens after the guy gets the girl, after the initial romance is over. This is where the title comes from, and I have to say it is interesting. The best part of Clannad: After Story is when Tomoya (sp?) and Nagisa have to act like adults and he needs to find work and support his young family and she needs to fit into the role of supportive housewife despite her own issues. It points out that even once the initial love story is over there isn't a happily ever after, that a relationship is more than just a courtship. And you know, in that respect the show works very well.
Of course, what really gets the attention is the stuff that comes later in the series (though there were definite hints beforehand). Extreme emotional manipulation, melodrama on an almost pornographic scale, and some of the most contrived writing this side of Scientology. Events are unrealistic to the point of being laughably ludicrous, undermine - if not outright ruin - everything that has gone before, and just plain leave an aftertaste of being unsatisfied (to put it mildly). But you've got to hand it to Key and Kyoto Animation, they both really know how to twist the emotional screws and leave the audience bawling like babies. Stirring music, fish-eyed character designs, the subtle body language, and then there's the twists that are bold and oh so blatantly manipulative. They sell a fantasy that even a cursory examination would tell you that is completely empty and supported on hollow foundations, so you think that manipulation aside no-one would like it much. But Key and Kyoto Animation's greatest trick is to get fans to not just suspend their disbelief but to set fire to it and then throw the ashes off a cliff. It's amazing what you can get away with if fans don't care what they watch so long as they can have a good sob. I don't think you'll ever "get" Clannad: After Story unless you understand what it was trying to do, how it was trying to appeal to fans. And I don't think you'll ever like it unless you approach it with a certain mindset. |
|||
|
|||
Spastic Minnow
 Bargain HunterExempt from Grammar Rules  Posts: 4632 Location: Gainesville, FL |
|
||
|
sargos,
remember to check the stickied thread ANN Series Discussion Index. when you want to comment on a specific series. Chances are there's already an "official" thread about it. Those threads can be revived at any time with almost no claims of necro-posting coming your way. This thread will probably be merged with the larger Clannad/AS thread soon and you can see there's tons of discussion about it already. |
|||
|
|||
 |
All times are GMT - 5 Hours |
|
|
|
Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2005 phpBB Group