Clannad After Story episode 4 spoilers
Well that was an emotional episode about Tomoya and Sunohara’s friendship.
The part where they were fighting in the rain was intense. But I like how they laughed at each other’s faces covered in bandages just like when they first met and made up...
I liked the montage at the end where it showed their memories together. But the part where it showed them using the urinals next to each other somewhat killed the mood and made me crack up... Seriously KyoAni LMAO...
It made me appreciate Sunohara as a character. He’s really funny except when he’s being a complete dipshit... but even then, it’s what gives him character I guess. Clannad certainly wouldn’t be the same without him.
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Key's 1st Crossover TV Anime KAGINADO Announces Its Premiere Date of October 12
KAGINADO is Key's first crossover anime project featuring the main characters from its popular game/anime series, such as Kanon, AIR, CLANNAD, Little Busters!, and Rewrite. The TV anime's official website has opened to announce its premiere date of October 12, 2021, and main voice cast members.
While most of the voice cast memres will be reprising their characters from the games and anime, Misuzu Kamio from AIR will be newly voiced by Asami Sanada, because the character's original cast Tomoko Kawakami passed away in 2011.
Sanada says, "When I was asked to join an audition, I remembered Kawakami-san from our time together on the radio and in anime. I admired the way she could play any role with ease and cheerfully pull us together! I felt the work and the role were able to reach the hearts of the viewers because she was such a wonderful person. I got goosebumps when I was informed that I had been chosen for the role, and even as I write this comment, I feel again the size of the role and the responsibility. I will once again firmly hold on to what I felt I wanted to cherish, and I will firmly carry on Misuzu that Kawakami-san carefully spun!"
"KAGINADO" story introduction:
The Private Kaginado Academy. This is a demon-infested place where the legendary warriors of the world have gathered..., or rather, an utopia where they have squeezed out more tears than the total amount of water in Lake Biwa (estimated) from Key fans around the world for over 20 years. The goal of the Kirahoshi, who couldn't get enough of the fans' tear glands and have finally broken down the walls of the world and gathered together, is to enjoy a new school life in a new world. Free, joyful, and happy in every way. A dreamlike story begins.
Key visual:
Scene visuals:
Main voice cast:
From "Kanon":
Yuichi Aizawa: Tomokazu Sugita
Ayu Tsukimiya Yui Horie
Nayuki Minase: Mariko Kouda
Mai Kawasumi: Yukari Tamura
Misaka Shiori: Akemi Sato
Sawatari Makoto: Mayumi Iizuka
From "AIR"
Yukito Kunisaki: Daisuke Ono
Mizuzu Kamio: Asami Sanada
Kano Kirishima: Sara Takeda
Minagi Tono: Ryoka Yuzuki
From "CLANNAD"
Tomoya Okazaki: Yuichi Nakamura
Nagisa Furukawa: Mai Nakahara
Kyo Fujibayashi: Ryo Hirohashi
Ryo Fujibayashi: Akemi Kanda
Tomoyo Sakagami: Houko Kuwashima
Fusako Ibuki: Ai Nonaka
Kotomi Ichinose: Mamiko Noto
Yohei Sunohara: Daisuke Sakaguchi
From "Little Busters!"
Riki Naoe: Yui Horie
Rin Natsume: Tomoe Tamiyasu
Kyosuke Natsume: Hikaru Midorikawa
Masato Inohara: Nobutoshi Kanna
Kengo Miyazawa: Yusei Oda
Komari Kamikita: Natsumi Yanase
Haruka Saigusa: Keiko Suzuki
Yuiko Kurugaya: Ryoko Tanaka
Mio Nishizono: Shiho Kawaragi
From "Rewtite"
Kotaro Tennoji: Masakazu Morita
Kotori Kanbe: Chiwa Saito
Chihaya Ohtori: Saya Shinomiya
Akane Senri: Eri Kitamura
Shizuru Nakatsu: Keiko Suzuki
Lucia Konohana: Risa Asaki
Kagari: Kana Hanazawa
Yumemi Hoshino: Keiko Suzuki
Main staff:
Original Story: VISUAL ARTS/Key
Director: Kazuya Sakamoto
Series composition: Takashi Aoshi
Screenplay: Takashi Aoshi, Kai, Touya Okano
Character Design: Eriko Haga
Prop Design Kazunari Araki
Art Director: Yukihiro Shibuya
Color Design: Asami Kitsukawa
Director of photography: Tomoaki Suzuki
Editing: Kazuo Kajiya
Sound director: Akane Maeda
Sound production: Tohokushinsha
Music production: VISUAL ARTS/Key
Animation production: Liden Film Kyoto Studio
Source: Bushiroad press release
©VISUAL ARTS/Key/KAGINADO
By: Mikikazu Komatsu
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Fruits Basket Hiatus - Day 10
Questions by @immaanimationnerd as usual! 😄
Day 10 - What’s your favorite character that was introduced in season 2?
Oh goodness, that’s hard! I think I’ll have to say Kakeru though. His character type is one of my favorite types: the comedic sidekick who thinks he’s so cool. If you’ve ever watched Clannad, he reminds me a lot of Yohei Sunohara.
I just love how Kakeru is someone who, while he has his own goals in mind, will help a friend out however he can. While he may be focused on being the black-colored campus defense force member, he also knows when to step in as a friend. He is the epitome of the Friend vs Best Friend meme. While Yuki is telling his heart out, instead of just saying comforting words, Kakeru is kicking a soccer ball at Yuki’s face telling him not to cry.
Despite that though, Lakeru really cares about his friends, especially Yuki. He’s willing to listen to his troubles because he knows Yuki doesn’t share stuff like that often out loud. That’s why I truly believe Kakeru was Yuki’s real first friend. I love how he’s able to help bring Yuki out of his little hidey-hole. I can’t wait to see their friendship blossom even more.
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Wondering a ton about Denki Kaminari
Now and then I find it bit humorous that Kaminari gets quite, if not most swimmingly along, with Mineta, already cemented as most hated character in the series due his pervertic tendences, some which Denki was also shown to have back in Sports Festival Arc due the Cheerleaders-stunt he and Mineta pulled on the 1-A Girls.
Since then it’s been pretty much a norm to pair Denki with Mineta as a duo of pervertic losers in various fanworks, if not subtly in the series due Denki already being possibly a hopeless womanizer (OVA 2, if non-canon but still accepted as fanon depiction) and bit of a perv, whom most of the class doesn’t take liking off naturally and treat him almost as dismissively as Mineta due how well he and Mineta get along with their negative traits (if not for his loser tendencies).
This of course doesn’t apply as much to when Denki’s being part of Bakusquad, but again, even there he sticks out being the idiotic bum of the group.
At some ways, such a pair-up makes me wonder if it’s intentional in this faux-selfaware way on stabbing at the shallow character archetype that Denki’s represents, being the typical “loser comic relief” that’s been done to death by this point of in whole spectrum of animation medium and not usually done anything new or fresh with, like in case of Sokka from ATLA or Mako Mankanshoku from Kill La Kill - because how just straightforward this archetype is in means of how you have to write it, and exists in this spectrum away from main cast that implies they’re not to be taken seriously compared to the other characters.
Since they’re not treated with much respect or depth as other characters, they come off as highly irritating and shallow over time, and never are treated much well by most, if not everybody. These tend include the authors themselves because how they view this role/archetype the comic relieves are written for, and results in the comic relieves coming off too sympathetic for the audience to find much comedy off over time, as shown in this bit infamous copypasta showcasing Yohei Sunohara’s overall role and involvement in CLANNAD.
Now I get it, I’m sure ton of people don’t mind characters like this since they can bring in good sum of humor to the series they’re in.
But over time I’ve come to notice more and more how these kind of comic relieves just stick out jarringly from others, due just how formulaic and shallow these characters just get as series’ progress.
Mainly this is because they’re not given much depth and chances for character development that allows them to mend up their former tendencies or poor dynamics with rest of the cast, giving us some showcase that they are also believable characters capable of growing.
Even worse is that when they do develop, they’d compensate out their comedic traits in the process to show they are to be taken more seriously among others, kind of enforcing that comic relieves are actually bad/awful kinds of people that none’s gonna like until they become “reformed” completely into less haughty and respecting of others, usually shedding off the “comedy relief” part of themselves as it mainly stems from them being too self-centered and egoistic/haughty of themselves.
Now how this all pertains to Denki, I know he’s had some great moments as of now (especially his big moment in Hero License Exam Arc) but I guess him still being kind of dismissed by some characters (mainly girls) because what he’s like, implies to me that Denki has to still develop bit further to not become actually irritating to them over time, or I can’t really take him as seriously as other characters, due how much more depth other characters are, and will get compared to him.
On that end, when Bakugou was able to tap better on Denki’s comedy relief tendencies better than Denki himself even did, and show it as part of slow character development he’s been having - that’s bit of bumming to Denki’s character he’s meant to represent as a whole, since he wasn’t allowed to take advantage of that for the better mood of the class after rather grave series of events.
I guess I might be saying this too early or taking this too seriously, who knows what’s in store for the Denki as he’s still trying to find his Whey. But if to be really honest with myself, I wanted to vent this out for good after dealing with too many characters resembling what he’s been like, and getting tired off how they don’t feel as believable characters, or are treated as such.
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