I watched Clannad and it gave me intense depression and loneliness

[ZoomerAmerican]

I watched the anime Clannad. It gave me intense depression. Not just from seeing the main characters wife and daughter die, but it gave me an intense feeling of loneliness. The main character got to have a friend group and a family.

I barely have friends and no girls are interested in me. In a way I'm jealous of the main character. Even though he went thru insane grief he has a family, wife, daughter, friends, and I have nothing

 

[duke]

It was too try hard

 

[incelkingkong]

nice spoilers in the first sentence nigger without warning
good thing i probably never wanted to watch it anyways cause i would get too sad and ill probly forget this spoiler anyways

 

[Spoon]

Safe ending ruined it

 

[Original]

Safe ending ruined it

yeah doesn’t the whole thing end with some stupid magical revival orbs saving the wife and kid or something? jfl absolute fucking cringe. writers had to back down from their own plot like pussies instead of forcing the main character to become a stone cold streetnigga like guts from berserk which they should’ve done. would’ve been realer. but noooo of course they had to save him from his own character development. what’s the actual point of any of that horseshit if his wife just comes back to life? that’s not how anything works. shit story.

 

[ZoomerAmerican]

yeah doesn’t the whole thing end with some stupid magical revival orbs saving the wife and kid or something? jfl absolute fucking cringe. writers had to back down from their own plot like pussies instead of forcing the main character to become a stone cold streetnigga like guts from berserk which they should’ve done. would’ve been realer. but noooo of course they had to save him from his own character development. what’s the actual point of any of that horseshit if his wife just comes back to life? that’s not how anything works. shit story.

After Ushio died, you would've written Tomoya to become a criminal serial killer?

That would've been funny in a horrifying way

 

[Original]

After Ushio died, you would've written Tomoya to become a criminal serial killer?

That would've been funny in a horrifying way

he doesn’t even necessarily have to be a criminal just an ice cold guy that can’t be hurt anymore by anything because he’s struggled so much. it could’ve been real af but they backed off like cowards.

 

[Deleted member 1758]

Clannad was my favorite anime for a while and also my favorite visual novel after I finally read it. Here's my favorite soundtrack:

Like @Original said, it is pretty shitty that they backed down. Life doesn't back down on you, it hits you even harder while you're down, everything bad comes in a nice big package all together, and they beat the crap out of you all at once. After having his wife die in childbirth, spending years depressed, and then finally reconnecting with his daughter, it would have been the perfect ending to just gut punch him once more by permanently killing his daughter too. That's what would actually happen irl. But oh well, I still enjoyed the story.

Btw in the visual novel, events happen parallel to each other and not sequentially. In the anime, Tomoya meets new characters and helps them in some way which grants him the light orb which after collecting enough light orbs he gets to make a wish and bring his wife and children back. In the anime he collects the light orb in parallel universes essentially, which you can access my choosing different options and then restarting the game again to meet a new character this time around. Of these alternative universes, my favorite one (other than the true ending Nagisa one) was probably kotomi ichinose's.

Honestly, the whole plot about her parents dying was just too sad for me, a poor girls having to grow up without parents, truly lonely. I mean I am lonely myself, but like at least I have parents who love me, but imagine not even having that... At the climax of her story, the big revelation happening, they play this soundtrack: .

How can you not cry listening to that? I cried so much. I am every teary eyed right now writing this. "The day before yesterday I saw a Rabbit, yesterday I saw a deer, and today I saw you" I really want to say that to a girl so badly... But they probably won't get the reference.

Anyways, I bought the visual novel on Steam but deleted that account so I lost it forever. I'll buy it again in a few years or months and read everything again. I wouldn't call it my favorite one anymore, mostly because I really like others, but maybe it will become my favorite again on replay.

 

[The Doctor]

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