Ah…ah…ah~
What…to do…I think just taking a happy tone would be a spoiler when it’s me. But screw it. Most likely you’ve either watched the episode or you want to be spoiled anyway. My happy tone isn’t that big of a deal. (Plus the image kind of helps to spoil it, but I’ve been holding back too long.) As for anyone else, I’m sorry, but…well I’m selfish today so there!
Also, we will ignore the gap in blogging. Even though I wrote stuff about every episode up to 18, I just didn’t get around to posting it. Maybe when I do my full wrap-up post.
Oh yeah and spoilers beyond a happy tone past this point.
Nagisa is alive again. Screw you emo fanboys who are complaining about reset endings. I got my wish, so I could care less about all of your pititful complaints~
The wish? Silly people forget so easily.
I want Nagisa back.
Times a hundred back in my episode 16 post. And for the record I always knew there was like a 90% chance I’d get my wish. I’ve been laughing since people said they knew what was going to happen after watching the movie. No you don’t, losers. It’s KyoAni, they’ll go for the True End…and True End is what we get.
True End is the best end.
I had to wait to be in the perfect mood to watch all of the episodes that I was letting pile up (there was no reason to force myself to watch them
And like I said. You losers who are throwing a fit because a reset ending means all of the development is useless need to stop romanticizing dead girls. It’s worse than having a thing for sick girls. Tragedy is bad, okay? If there’s ball of light flying around that grant wishes, that wish has to be granted (of course, that’s not exactly the way it happened).
Oh yeah, also…on a less antagonistic tone, to me the story feels empty without Nagisa in it. I think anytime a family member goes missing from a family it feels empty and…that’s a good thing to explore, but…
You shouldn’t stay there. This might sound odd, but to me an incomplete family is…”wrong” so it’s also unforgivable for that not to be corrected when it is possible.
And the big complaint about reset endings is that it makes your feelings a…waste. Which really isn’t true in this case I’d say. Just because something is forgotten didn’t mean it didn’t happen. You had to see it to be able to really fully appreciate what a happy family is too I think. It’s not a waste if it makes you appreciate the “real thing” even more. Wouldn’t you agree?
Well no I guess no if you’re being the aforementioned emo fanboy.
Anyway~ It’s not a total reset ending because a reset ending implies that the events had no impact on the plot. Tomoya saw what life was like without Nagisa, he went through a lot of crap, went to a magic world with his daughter, and because of that he did things properly. He revoked the stupid choice of not wanting to meet Nagisa. Also he went to the other world that made everything possible anyway.
Or was he in the other world the whole time too? It’s kind of unclear, they make it so that you can think he was there all along at the same time or that he only went there after Ushio died…and oh god that was sad.
I can’t even say how many times I cried during the series. I cried at least once in every episode since Nagisa died. Every time she was brought up I had to cry, because they made it so…well, Clannad is really good at emotions. We can put it simple in that way.
Then we get our happy ending (and Nagisa with a ponytail~).
Best ending to any Key KyoAni anime. Because Kanon kind of deflated in the last episode and Air makes everyone go “WTF is that even supposed to mean?” on the first watch through. This one makes you all smiley instead~
I’d complain a little bit that the part with Fuuko kind of deflated things though. The shot of Ushio being the girl from the illusionary world at the end of that was nice, but to me the ending is just Tomoya, Nagisa, and Ushio all together as a family. As it should be.
Without Nagisa there, it felt empty somehow I think.
So to wrap things up…this episode was wonderful, I love how it was presented (except the Fuuko bit, which like I said kind of deflated the family mood).
Especially this scene (hug spam~):
That’s what you should have done all along Tomoya! You should know Nagisa better! No more saying selfish things! And you make it up to Nagisa for the rest of your lives by making sure she always stays happy! (I’m sure that no one has a problem with this)
But really, I cried so much while watching this scene, because…because that’s what should have happened all along!
I think when it comes to love, you can’t think in a logical, selfless way. Obviously, you should want what would be better for the one you love, but more than that you have to want what would make both of you happiest right? Because that’s what counts most. In life that’s what’s most important! Finding happiness and keeping that happiness with the one you love!
And that scene alone would have to rank Nagisa and Tomoya among my favorite couples of all time! (If they weren’t already…which they are)
And a two other random things:
zOMG! Ushio is petting my dog Miko! (I love seeing shibas so much in anime~ Cutest dogs ever.)
And Ushio has her mama’s adorable lack of skills in baseball. But it’s okay, because she’s cute when she fails! Once again, like her mama!
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I’ll do real coherent thoughts after next week’s episode. I’ll be blogging that as well of course. Finding out that it would be an episode through Nagisa’s point of view just about gave me a heart-attack of happiness~
Of course, nothing makes me as happy as getting to see Nagisa raise her child with Tomoya. Oh~
*goes off to do a little dance*
So yeah, coherent thoughts later because I’ll be in a fantastic mood all week. Listening to Chiisana te no Hira~ and various other songs to make me so happy that I’ll cry.
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Finally Fuyu blogs Clannad again, thus I can comment to you (after your fangirling made me watch the series^^)
I guess I cried through almost this whole last episode, except the Fuko part. Which is a little long but good (it’s cute that she has the last words and I like how the things from the first op take place). Like you, I cried in every episode since ep 16…always sad and/or beautiful Q_Q
I have to admit I had doubts about the “reset and resurrecting thing” but KyoAni resolves it really good. I can have my own analysis to make the episode most enjoyable to me and to be goddamn sappy. Though I still see a little lack of logic there. Ushio’s death and the other incidents gaining lights makes it possible for Ushio to get into the other world gathering the lights to change the fate of her mother. To cure the illness and to redeem the city to Tomoya. To grant the wishes like Nagisa mentioned in the very first episode of Clannad. That’s okay, understandable to me and a nice idea.
But I have a problem about where the happy ending takes place – time journey or another dimension? I would prefer another dimension so I can regard the two endings we see in ~After Story~ as the two sides of the medal. Life can be like this or like that and refering to this wonderful, tearjerking but also encouraging song “Chiisana te no hira”, “even if our hands are small (…), we’ll go down this road”, I think this is the message from the True End. In the series, a miracle, a supernatural thing happens but in real life, we should try to find happiness even if things go wrong. That’s what happened to Tomoya the whole time.
I guess the part with Nagisa and Tomoya back on the hill is fully of metaphoric meaning since both know of each other but that’s what makes the scene so wonderful
. I guess this would have been THE chance for a kiss but hand kissing is cute as well and we know KyoAni by now…Nevertheless, the two them are very high on my “greatest pairings ever”-list now^^
Too bad nothing of Ushio’s adorable voice this time…it’s the best children’s voice I heard for a long long time^^
And I liked the kimono scene very much^^
Lovely greets, Mina
March 15th, 2009
I really loved this episode,especially the Fuuko part.I don’t know why but I find her very cute.A few weeks ago I searched for Clannad OST(now I found it!) and found The girl’s Fantasy and Memory of a distant journey.I was really happy that it got played in this ep.The only thing that’s bothering me is that I’m watching NANA now and it’s…strange.
Fuyu-sama,did you ever watch Nana?And if you did,did you like it?
(Thanks for reading)
March 15th, 2009
Ok, so I cried so much during the episode, I couldn’t see half of it. Especially from 12:30-16:25, those damn happy moments made me cry so much. Also when Tomoya shouted Nagisa’s name my heart almost shattered. The happy ending could not be better.
Lol’ed a bit at Fuuko, but still crying, all I could do was smile. olololol
Everything is lewd to her. Really unbelievable she’s almost the same age as Tomoya. “THERE’S SOMEONE THERE” “WATWATWATAWAT” “god, this doesn’t make sense at all”. INORITE? But it’s Fuuko we’re talking about. NOoooooothing makes sense.
Gotta love Ushio running in the field of flowers. Gotta love this ending.
<3 Clannad.
March 15th, 2009
Hello from a french guy! I’m new here, but I read your blog sometimes because I think that it’s a really nice one (the first time was about Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu) and your posts are interesting.
Well let’s get started then: I’m the spoilsport who voted “did not liked it” in the poll about the 22th episode of Clannad After Story.
Do not get me wrong, I’m not an emo fanboy, and I really like Nagisa (my favourite female anime character). I’m 25 years old boy, but I cried at the end of the 16th and 18th episode (and almost everytime when Tomoya cried when thinking about Nagisa) so I’m really glad that Nagisa is now alive and able to live with her daughter and tomoya for ever. But…don’t you think that it’s a bit too easy?
Well I mean, reset ending are not so bad, but don’t you think that it was a bit unclear? We all know that it’s a kind of magical link and miracle stuff about the empty world, yes, but I did not understand all the explanation.
What’s happenned to Tomoya after the end of the 21th episode?
When the event of the empty world takes place ? In the same time of the anime? In the future? What’s happenned after the end of the empty world and the Tomoya/robo’s destruction?
How Tomoya can start back his life and save Nagisa? I know that he had to collect all the small light in the game, but what he had to do in the anime?
And about the final scene, with Ushio asleep: what is she doing here? Why is she here? Shouldn’t she be with her parent?
Do you have any hypothesis or answers to my questions?
Well, I’m glad about the happy end and all the joyful stuff, but not about the explanation, then I wasn’t able to like this episode as much as almost everyone.
But anyway, that surely was one of the best anime ever made! Congrats to Kyo Anim!
Thanks you for reading me, and please forgive me if my english wasn’t perfect!
Hope to read you soon again!
Adol
March 15th, 2009
the people complaining at the reset ending are probably the same ones complaining that Lelouch being alive at the end of Code Geass would ruin the entire series. because apparently he has to be DEAD for his sacrifice to mean anything, not just separated from everyone he has ever known FOREVER! so apparently Tomoya has to suffer and not get his happy ending for everything to be meaningful.
it’s almost like they are missing the point of the happiness orbs and that Tomoya EARNED the happy ending. x_X to me, if one of the girls wasn’t brought back to life the anime WOULD be useless! what was the point then?! silly people.
i really didn’t like Fuko’s part. i wish it was shorten and given more time to their OTHER friends. x_X seriously, 3 seconds for each character?!
and i said the same thing about Ushio’s last scene in my own post. i think it’s odd that Fuko had to find a sleeping Ushio at the end of the series. it would have made more sense had they tied in one of the main theme’s of the story, you know….the song or the plushies? XD perhaps even Ushio picking out a new plushie to signify a new sibling?
Christina’s last post…Clannad After Story Episode 22: More Tears for Everyone!
March 15th, 2009
Ill admit the ending was a nice, cus everyone missed nagisa (and if you didnt youre crazy) but i was bothered by the presentation and lack of explanation, they attempted the semi cliff-hanger-ending with a sort of mystery behind it and failed…. instead leaving the viewer going uhhhh what just happened….
oh well, I still love clannad, not the best ending but happy nonetheless 
March 15th, 2009
MinaMurray: Aw, I’m glad someone missed Clannad then. I think it was a little odd tying to blog it though. (It’s too empty without Nagisa)
Yeah, I like the stuff from the first op, but it still felt out of place somehow.
…I like your analysis best! Your view of the ending is now my view! I like the idea that it can either be sad or happy and that…happiness is still possible after the tragedy. And well yeah you already said stuff and your view is the best view no I think.
Aww yeah…Ushio’s voice is incredibly adorable. I want the last episode on DVD to be one with the Okazaki family~ (Too bad there’s talk of it being a “Tomoyo After” episode…I really wish they’d stop doing that. It messes with the happy end.)
Safiria: Well people’s view of Fuuko is always different. I’m fine with her, but felt it was weird to end with her since it’s not her story. It’s Tomoya’s and Nagisa’s. In the game that scene took place after the credit so it was kind of like a bonus scene and I think that would have been better.
I kind of watched Nana, but I dropped it. It ended up reminding me too much of a soap opera.
Meball: It was a great episode. And TOmoya shouting Nagisa’s name made me…well yeah I cried. I cried so much.
Yeah, nothing makes sense if it’s Fuuko. I was kind of glad to see her interacting with her sister for once. Good to know she’s just as o_O about Fuuko as the rest of us. (Still, it should have taken place after the credits)
Adol Christin: Well disliking the end for that reason is okay I think. They did present it in a weird way. People who played the game said that it was presented in a better way in the game. That more things were explained.
However it’s Key, so some things are supposed to be open for interpretation.
And the final scene…that’s sort of from the game where Ushio as the girl from the other world is supposed to appear by the tree in the menu from now on.
So yeah, I’ll agree that the explanation was off. But I don’t care how it happened all that matters is that it happened!!!
I thought your English was just fine. I understood everything.
Christina: Oh god yes. Though on Code Geass I think it’s a little different for some people (in that case since it’s Sunrise they might just be wishing that at least one person stays dead).
Exactly! Without a happy ending it all would have been pointless. Then in Tomoya’s view the “curse” would have won. What really bothers me is that lots of fanboys were saying they wanted Ushio brought back to life, but if Nagisa was brought back it would put all of their feelings to waste. WTF! This story’s not about you guys. Go sit in the corner and stop being emo-loving idiots!
Oh! The best end I think would have been one where Tomoya, Nagisa, and Ushio all got sing the Dango Daikazoku together and then kind of into the old credits. That would have been a great way to end the series I think. But too bad. They had to include the Fuuko scene from the game (But why not after the credits?).
random: Well, that kind of bothered everyone, so I think that’s fine. But the people who didn’t want Nagisa back are…stupid! It’s that simple.
But yeah. The presentation and explanation was off. It’s supposed to be left open, but it was left a little too open…and maybe a little lazy.
March 16th, 2009
@ Fuyu:
God, I feel so amazed that you like my theory *___*
Thank you very much ^^°
Yep, I would like another OAD theme as wel. I just watched the Tomoyo special and I still can’t get used to it, seeing Tomoya dating another girl and Nagisa is nowhere. He simply belongs to Nagisa and another girl is just odd there, even if some people like her better. I mean, if you like a character why has she/he to become the partner of the main couple? That’s not the point of liking a character.
And especially about Tomoyo, her “love interest” in Tomoya is very little in the anime…
I have to admit I’m very envious of the Americans here. You can buy the first half of the series yet! I could order it, it won’t cost too much money but the f***king region codes make it nearly impossible to watch it in a convenient way. So buying it would be a waste…but even the cover is simply too cute to ignore it!
Lovely greets, Mina
March 16th, 2009
I tried to stay spoiler free before watching the last episode but I really missed your Clannad posts so I couldn’t help but read this before watching. I figured if it was going to be a sad ending, I wanted some forewarning and if it was a good ending, it wouldn’t matter.
I loved this episode and how they ended the show. I don’t see how this could be considered a reset ending when they’ve been dropping hints since the first season. Heck, I rewatched the first season’s OP just now and they stuck the final scene of this episode with Fuko finding Ushio in it along with a shot of Ushio running in the field and one of her standing next to that field. And as the third Key-KyoAni anime, shouldn’t these people have a grasp of how Key operates by now.
My only beef was that we didn’t get to hear Ushio again. I think they should have included a scene where the three of them was doing something family-esque together. They could have shown the family day competition between Tomoya and Akio with Nagisa and Ushio cheering for Tomoya.
steelbound’s last post…First Flowers of Spring
March 16th, 2009
I actually… didn’t miss Nagisa so much after the first two episodes. I’m not really sure why.
It was probably because I was so blinded by Ushio that I looked forward to every single week, thinking “YESYESYESYES USHIOOOO.” I think the daughter surpassed the mother in terms of cuteness.
It could’ve also just been because when Tomoya/Ushio cried it out after the 18th episode, and Tomoya kind of accepted it and his daughter, I sort of did too.
I’m thinking it was a combo of both.
But I also cried every episode single Nagisa’s death. God, this turned into such a tear-jerker after such a failed first season.
This finale made me excessively happy though. It was such a great end to the week, especially combined with SC’s episode.
March 16th, 2009
Just a disclaimer: I’m one of the aforementioned “losers” (er.. disclaimer of a disclaimer: I don’t mean to imply that that comment hurt me), and I disliked the ending.
kso, I agree with much of your post and ideas, but I think that the predictability was what made this ending bad for me.
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It was pretty much set in stone that a miracle would happen and Tomoya would live happily ever after with Nagisa and Ushio.
Yet like all of the other episodes in this series, I had expected something extraordinarily grand (for example, I already knew Nagisa was going to die before I hit episode 16, but I was still blown away by the sheer awesomeness of it all
Maybe it was these heightened expectations of an ultimately epic episode in 22, or it could’ve been the impossibility of this kind of deus ex machina happy happy “good ending” to produce the intense drama that I witnessed in the past five or six episodes, but I couldn’t stand this prdictable, drawn-out episode.
Even more pathos by way of more shots of Tomoya, Nagisa, and Ushio could’ve made for more of the tear-jerking, relief-inducing moments that Clannad is so famous for.
Oh, and Fuko-ending n’est pas very good.
so tl;dr:
I don’t dislike the episode for the reset miracle ending so much as for other reasons.
Yup.
fangzhao’s last post…Clannad ~After Story~ 22: A look at an extraordinary anime’s not-so-extraordinary ending
March 16th, 2009
-sniffs- you never realize how Sad Dango Daikazoku is until you see this episode.
Ushio~ Nagisa! Kyyyaaa~ too cute!
Cure Peach’s last post…Shugo Chara DOKI! Ep. 23
March 17th, 2009
And Clannad ends…
Ok, now when’s Little Busters, Kyo-Ani? XDDD~~
kanzeon’s last post…How many models does it take to screw in a light bulb?
March 18th, 2009
Great pictures! I love this episode, it make me cry a lot.
Oh I want a gif of that hug!
May 15th, 2009
I wasnt that sad at nagisa’s death cause somone spoiled the ending for me already but still call em emo but i didnt like the ending , i liked that nagisa didnt die but lots of questions left unsolved like what happened with the tomoya holding ushio that died and stuff like that
Last scene with fuko ruined it all if i didnt see that scene i wouldve enjoyed it much more
My rating:
Clannad 9.7/10
Clannad ~after story~ 9.5/10
All in all 1 of the best….no maybe the best high skool romance anime ever the guy who made kanon …but hey can u expect anything less?
I finished canon in less than half a day and clannad in a day
Air it took me 5 hours and i coudnt stop crying for about 3 days
Thank u
June 15th, 2009
A very sorround sound blog here… aaah what I meant there was you keep a good balance..
.. I for one had a small dog.. Not of a particular breed just a street dog who I used to feed ocassionally…Turned out she would go nuts on anybody who tried to approach me.. Geesh!
July 10th, 2009
i don’t know what i would’ve done if i had to wait for two months before actually seeing this episode. im lucky enough to see the whole series in just a couple of days. after seeing ep 16, i felt so miserable the next day. stoopid me had to stop at 18 and go to bed with puffy eyes. lol.
im happy to know that there are people out there who was affected the same way as i was by the series. http://simplicity.kokidokom.net/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_lol.gif
November 10th, 2009