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REVIEW: Clannad Sub.DVD

But wait! I thought all the reviews at ANN had a secret conspiratorial vendetta against moe! Hmm... but when a good series like this gets a good review, maybe they're only "biased" against crappy series.

I sure as hell hope that ADV will also get Clannad: After Story as well, although I could care less about weather or not they also get the movie tho...

spoiler[The last few episodes of After Story are what basically make a masterpiece anime, I found myself crying my eyes out for hours for one episode and then smiling again the next, After Story really is a roller coaster of emotions (in a good way!) and that NOBODY should miss out!]

It's the fact that every single series like this, when reviewed on ANN, is referred to as a "moe" anime with "broken" girls. As if moe was actually a genre instead of a design trend. I find these comments to be severe overreactions, and some sort of private joke that nobody's laughing at. I would never relate a series to terms like that; I'd rather use more telling descriptors like "romantic comedy with minor fantasy elements." The whole "broken" descriptor I'd save for something more out-there like Shuffle or School Days; I think that the girls of Clannad have genuine emotional issues that a viewer will likely empathize with. Instead of being obsessively jealous murderers.

Sometimes I wonder why we see so many complaints about moe on here, when everyone seems to relish labeling so many series' as "moe anime." I'd just as soon suggest to stop bringing it up and let the fans decide who/what they think is moe; if you think the community is shoving it down your throats, I feel that you're now doing the exact same thing to people like me.

As for myself personally, no and no. Because 1)real women do get emotional, but they're much better at handling their own emotions because they're more skilled at empathy than... 2)us men, do to our brain functions and our testosterone, tend to put our emotions and others' at less of a priority and thus, we're the ones that are more prone to emotional issues because when compared to women, we're emotionally more fragile because we're less empathetic than women.

Which is also why when women do get emotional, they would rather talk to one of their own first through socializing, and us men get referrals to see a psychiatrists. And why the moe anime scenarios are so unrealistic and unbelievable, it's negatively portraying women in general. Because real women don't behave like the ones in moe anime like Air, Kanon, and Clannad.

DomFortress wrote:

As for myself personally, no and no. Because 1)real women do get emotional, but they're much better at handling their own emotions because they're more skilled at empathy than... 2)us men, do to our brain functions and our testosterone, tend to put our emotions and others' at less of a priority and thus, we're the ones that are more prone to emotional issues because when compared to women, we're emotionally more fragile because we're less empathetic than women. Which is also why when women do get emotional, they would rather talk to one of their own first through socializing, and us men get referrals to see a psychiatrists. And why the moe anime scenarios are so unrealistic and unbelievable, it's negatively portraying women in general. Because real women don't behave like the ones in moe anime like Air, Kanon, and Clannad.

Yes, please enlighten us some more about how all women behave, O Wise One. Because it's totally rad having entire genders painted with a broad brush.
To say that women don't actually have emotional issues because they never shut up about their feelings is not only insulting, it's just plain wrong. The same goes with saying that men repress, and don't care about other people's feelings.

It's the fact that every single series like this, when reviewed on ANN, is referred to as a "moe" anime with "broken" girls. As if moe was actually a genre instead of a design trend.