What's your favorite anime ?

[SenriAkane]

Free! = The Troll that ended up not being a troll.
Bring on FMP4 Kyoani

[Checkmate]

Has anyone seen free! by Kyoto animation? 💧💦🏊
It reminds me of a Japanese movie I watched last year about synchro swimmers I can't remember the name tho.

Heck I'm still reeling at the fact that they actually turned that CM into an a full anime.

[Neo]

Asif awful ending =O

I thought ~AS~ ending was perfect.

Sorry to revive an old discussion, but having just watched both Clannad and Clannad AS (and having absolutely loved it), I would like opinions on the ending of Clannad AS.



**SPOILER ALERT**SPOILER ALERT**SPOILER ALERT**


People will often allude to the 'deus ex machina' plot device in reference to the ending and I don't think it is entirely justified. Yes, it is very sudden and even though I had sort of anticipated Nagisa's return, I was still taken aback. HOWEVER, contrary to what many people think, I think the way in which story plays out in episode 22 doesn't break or bend any of the laws set within the anime.

If I am not mistaken, Okazaki's efforts to help out those who are close to him and his actions in general, are what make the return of Nagisa and Ushio possible. It is established, well before Nagisa's death, the wish granting capabilities of the light orbs (which in Okazaki's case, have been obtained by the happiness of others as a result of his actions).

It is great how seemingly unrelated and irrelevant parts of the story, glue the story together in the end. Having said that, exactly how the light orbs work and the link between the Clannad universe and the illusionary world remain a bit of a mystery to me but I hope that by re-watching the series as well as playing the VN I will achieve a clearer understanding. Having read through this thread, I understand that TrueTears has watched these series several times, so I would appreciate your input and opinion and perhaps an explanation of the mechanics and function of the illusionary world and explanations of the other hard to understand aspects of the story.

[SenriAkane]

Sorry to revive an old discussion, but having just watched both Clannad and Clannad AS (and having absolutely loved it), I would like opinions on the ending of Clannad AS.

**SPOILER ALERT**SPOILER ALERT**SPOILER ALERT**

People will often allude to the 'deus ex machina' plot device in reference to the ending and I don't think it is entirely justified. Yes, it is very sudden and even though I had sort of anticipated Nagisa's return, I was still taken aback. HOWEVER, contrary to what many people think, I think the way in which story plays out in episode 22 doesn't break or bend any of the laws set within the anime.

If I am not mistaken, Okazaki's efforts to help out those who are close to him and his actions in general, are what make the return of Nagisa and Ushio possible. It is established, well before Nagisa's death, the wish granting capabilities of the light orbs (which in Okazaki's case, have been obtained by the happiness of others as a result of his actions).

It is great how seemingly unrelated and irrelevant parts of the story, glue the story together in the end. Having said that, exactly how the light orbs work and the link between the Clannad universe and the illusionary world remain a bit of a mystery to me but I hope that by re-watching the series as well as playing the VN I will achieve a clearer understanding. Having read through this thread, I understand that TrueTears has watched these series several times, so I would appreciate your input and opinion and perhaps an explanation of the mechanics and function of the illusionary world and explanations of the other hard to understand aspects of the story.

Use spoiler tags that's avaliable next time.

Spoiler

There has been arguments on whether all the character routes happen in a parallel world (I.e each character route happens in another world)  or it just loops.


The reason why Nagisa life is linked to the town :
When Nagisa was small she did have a cold and nearly died. It's the thoughts of town where that rescued her. From that point on, her life is linked to the town. But as time changes the town changes (The name of the BGM "町、時の流れ,人"(Machi(The town),Toki no Nagare(The flow of time), Hito(People) that played in the very first episode reference to that) , hence Nagisa became weaker. Unfortunately she didn't last during that scene, hence she died and Visual Novel went on to 1st End (Bad End). 

From let's Consider whatever happened before 1st End in World A , the fantastical world as World B, 3rd End (Good End) as World C.
From Bad End where Okazaki falls apart , we go to World B where all the Hikari no Tama stuff happens.
From then on we have a situation where both A and C are parallel world but with different ending. (I really need to dig the visual novel at that part to answer why. )

I didn't do 2nd End when I played it.  It's been too long  since I finished the visual Novel.

[SenriAkane]

Rewrite is probably an excellent choice if you want more Key stuff. (I actually rate it better than Clannad because of the setting, It relates to the world in general rather than more individual focused)

[Manny]

1. DEATH NOTE
2. Death Note
3. Oh and Death Note

 

[Neo]

Use spoiler tags that's avaliable next time.

Spoiler

There has been arguments on whether all the character routes happen in a parallel world (I.e each character route happens in another world)  or it just loops.


The reason why Nagisa life is linked to the town :
When Nagisa was small she did have a cold and nearly died. It's the thoughts of town where that rescued her. From that point on, her life is linked to the town. But as time changes the town changes (The name of the BGM "町、時の流れ,人"(Machi(The town),Toki no Nagare(The flow of time), Hito(People) that played in the very first episode reference to that) , hence Nagisa became weaker. Unfortunately she didn't last during that scene, hence she died and Visual Novel went on to 1st End (Bad End). 

From let's Consider whatever happened before 1st End in World A , the fantastical world as World B, 3rd End (Good End) as World C.
From Bad End where Okazaki falls apart , we go to World B where all the Hikari no Tama stuff happens.
From then on we have a situation where both A and C are parallel world but with different ending. (I really need to dig the visual novel at that part to answer why. )

I didn't do 2nd End when I played it.  It's been too long  since I finished the visual Novel.

Thank you for sharing that. So do you think that playing the visual novel is necessary to have an understanding of some of the more obscure parts, or will re-watching and closely analysing the anime series suffice?

[Checkmate]

Rewrite is probably an excellent choice if you want more Key stuff. (I actually rate it better than Clannad because of the setting, It relates to the world in general rather than more individual focused)

Rewrite was so damn long I was losing bits of the plot everywhere, and one thing that's always bugged me after finishing it is

Spoiler

I have no idea how the Moon Route started. How did Kotarou get up on the moon and he was invincible? Unless that's just Kagari reviving him every time she kills him. That route was like wtf for the first couple hours for me, but the ending was nice, I was just extremely confused during the start.

[Fyrefly]

Rewrite is probably an excellent choice if you want more Key stuff. (I actually rate it better than Clannad because of the setting, It relates to the world in general rather than more individual focused)

I never knew who your username/picture was until I googled Rewrite just then, ha ha.

[SenriAkane]

Rewrite was so damn long I was losing bits of the plot everywhere, and one thing that's always bugged me after finishing it is

Spoiler

I have no idea how the Moon Route started. How did Kotarou get up on the moon and he was invincible? Unless that's just Kagari reviving him every time she kills him. That route was like wtf for the first couple hours for me, but the ending was nice, I was just extremely confused during the start.

Spoiler

Kotarou is initally sent to the moon to kill kagari. (Remember in all the routes kagari ends up being killed)
As time goes he did change his mind and decided to help kagari (moon) to finish her theory, 

But invincible? I am not too sure.

[Kuroyuki]

Has anyone seen hunter x hunter?
Is it worth watching?
What does it remind you of?
Thanks guys

[TrueTears]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RowDJDusvkg

I had to.

[nacho2.0]

my fave anime is code geass
i just love winry!
hahaha i kid.......................buu

dbz + fma gg

[Fyrefly]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RowDJDusvkg

I had to.

THIS IS THE BEST THING EVER AND I WISH I COULD UPVOTE IT.

[Kuroyuki]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RowDJDusvkg

I had to.

LMAO really cool
And I started to watch another anime called Sunday without god
It's pretty interesting.