Clannad (visual novel)/Characters: Difference between revisions

* [[Stepford Smiler]]: The casual behavior might fool the watcher/reader for awhile, but it becomes clear over time that he's basically starting the story in despair.

* [[Team Dad]]: Has his moments, which isn't surprising, considering his status as a sane man in a flock of [[Cloudcuckoolander|CloudCuckoolanders]].

* [[Tragic Dream]]: Was a star of the Basketball team until a shoulder injury resulted in him losing the ability to play, which is what resulted in him becoming a [[Delinquent]].

* [[Trickster Archetype]]

 

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== Nagisa Furukawa ==

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* [[Official Couple]]: The hill she and Tomoya climb on the way to school in the first episode is an allegory to their growing relationship. They met amid [[Cherry Blossoms]] blowing in [[Dramatic Wind]] as her hair rippled out behind her. And just in case that's too subtle, the anime abruptly shifts from [[Deliberately Monochrome]] to brilliant colors [[Love At First Sight|when their gazes meet]]. [[What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic]]?

* [[Older Than They Look]]: Mild example... for now. Her look and childish demeanor makes her seem like the youngest of the group, when in fact she is the oldest, having had to repeat her senior year. {{spoiler|Twice.}} She is one year older than Tomoya, Kyou, Ryou, Kotomi and Sunohara, two years older than Tomoyo and Yukine. Of course, considering who her parents are, there's a very good chance she'll fully belong in this trope when she gets older. Any bets on whether she gets mistaken for {{spoiler|Ushio}}'s older sister?

* [[Running Gag]]: Many. For starters, her obsession with food -- especially odango. And that odango song, which is so [[Tear Jerker|poignant]] in the [[Crowning Music of Awesome|soundtrack]] and yet so hilarious [[Theme Tune Cameo|whenever she sings it]].

* [[Shrinking Violet]]: The [[Kyoto Animation]] version definitely is, though over the course of the series, she becomes less of one.

== Fuko Ibuki ==

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A rather strange, short girl, who never seems to take classes and is often to be found sitting somewhere quiet carving wooden star shapes. A rumor about her being a ghost is floating about the school, and she has a tendency to force her carvings on any student she meets, requesting that in return they attend her elder sister's wedding and congratulate her.

* [[Expy]]: Plot-wise, she is an [[Expy]] of [[Kanon|Ayu Tsukimiya]].

* [[Eyes of Gold]]

* [[Ill Girl]]: {{spoiler|She's actually ''comatose'', and the Fuko we meet is a sort-of astral projection}}.

* [[I'm Taking Her Home with Me]]: Fuko says she wants to do this to {{spoiler|little Ushio-chan, Tomoya's daughter}}, to be her little sister. (Not only ''says'' this, but keeps trying to kidnap her.)

 

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== Ryou Fujibayashi ==

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* [[She's All Grown Up]]: {{spoiler|In the [[Grand Finale]]. Blink and you might miss it. ([[Perverse Sexual Lust|Trust us -- you won't want to miss it.]])}}

* [[Sibling Yin-Yang]]: With Youhei.

* [[Wise Beyond Their Years]]: Although also [[Children Are Innocent]].

 

 

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{{quote|Voiced by: [[Ryotaro Okiayu]] (JP), Andrew Love (EN)}}

 

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== Minor Characters ==

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{{quote|Voiced by: [[Yuko Minaguchi]] (JP), Stephanie Wittels (EN)}}

 

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* [[Chekhov's Gunman]]: Her first appearance, when she walks into the bakery, has a generic character feel. It isn't until two episodes later, when Toyoma runs into her again, where we realize that brief scene introduced an important character.

* [[Hey, It's That Voice!|Hey, It's That Voice]]: In addition to being a retired art teacher, she is [[Hayate the Combat Butler|Yukariko Sanzenin]] and [[Kanon|Akiko Minase]].

** Yawara from [[Yawara]], a show not very well known in the West but very very popular in Japan, and not just among otakus.

* [[Informed Attractiveness]]: She's very pretty, but since she's in a series utterly ''flooded'' with exceptionally [[Moe]] characters, it seems odd when Tomoya (in his guise as the show's [[Narrator]]) tells us how beautiful she is.

* [[Power Hair]]

 

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{{quote|Voiced by: [[Satsuki Yukino]] (JP), Elizabeth Bunch (EN)}}

 

* [[Cool Big Sis]]: She's awesome, especially when dealing with the troublemakers under her supervision in the boys' dorm, including not only the [[Jerk Jock|Rugby Club]] and but also [[Delinquents|Sunohara]].

* [[Cute Little Fangs]]: Sometimes when she's angry, but also sometimes when playing happily with her cat.

* [[Expy]]: Of Kaname Chidori from ''[[Full Metal Panic!]]''. (Her last name is also a [[Shout-Out]] to the same series: Sagara is Chidori's [[Love Interest]].) She also looks and acts a LOT like Kaname, and they share a [[Seiyuu]] ([[Satsuki Yukino]]).

** Thought it would be worth mentioning this. In [[Full Metal Panic!]] Fumoffu, Chidori does a Japanese Ocean Cyclone Suplex Hold(and it's wonderful in this tropers opinion) on Sousuke {{spoiler|in episode two}}. Misae does a toned-down version(I think, depends on how you look at it) in {{spoiler|in episode 5}} of Clannad After Story.

* [[Wrestler in All of Us]]: Tomoya advises her to use wrestling moves to punish the boys she oversees in the dorm, and she often demonstrates them on the [[Butt Monkey|unfortunate]] Sunohara. Eventually, a [[Flash Back]] reveals that she's been using these moves since her high school days.

* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]]

 

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{{quote|Voiced by: [[Atsuko Enomoto]] (JP), Maggie Flecknoe (EN)}}

 

* [[Just Friends]]: In the Yukine route in the VN, Tomoya worries that he might have friendzoned himself {{spoiler|by becoming Yukine's brother surrogate.}}

* [[The Messiah]]

* [[Team Mom]]: To both of the city's rival gangs.

* [[Teen Genius]]: We don't know much about her academic abilities, but she's a [[Bookworm]]; she's entrusted with the maintainance of the school's second library (the main library being the provinence of indisputable [[Teen Genius]] Kotomi); she's skilled enough at healing to be to the go-to-"doctor" for both the rival gangs in town; she's able to broker truces between said groups without outside assistance (most of the time); and she's in some ways the wisest character in the whole series, especially when it comes to relationships. All at age sixteen.

* [[Wise Beyond Their Years]]: Too old to really fit the trope. But still. Yeah. Waaay beyond her years. Especially noticeable in a series full of [[Cloudcuckoolander|cloudcuckoolanders]].

* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]]: Gray-yellow, depending on the light. Presumably intended to be blonde, but it's definitely not [[Hair of Gold]], at least not compared with Youhei. (Then again, he admits his hair is dyed.)

 

{{quote|Voiced by: [[Takeshi Aono]] (JP), Todd Waite (EN)}}

 

* [[Smarter Than You Look]]

 

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{{quote|Voiced by: [[Hikaru Midorikawa]] (JP), [[Illich Guardiola]] (EN)}}

 

* [[Nice Guy]]

* [[Sex, Drugs and Rock and Roll]]: Developed a heroin habit during his [[Creator Breakdown]].

 

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{{quote|Voiced by: [[Ryoko Shiraishi]] (game only)}}

 

* [[Tragic Dream]]: Wanted to become a track athlete {{spoiler|but has leg cancer. He refuses to let go of his dream, even when the disease becomes life-threatening and there are no options other than amputation of his leg.}}

* [[Unsettling Gender Reveal]]

 

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{{quote|Voiced by: [[Hiroshi Naka]] (JP), Chris Hutchison (EN)}}

 

* [[Perpetual Smiler]]

** [[Stepford Smiler]]

 

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{{quote|Voiced by: [[Satomi Koorogi]] (JP), [[Luci Christian]] (EN)}}

 

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* [[Cheerful Child]]: Which doesn't, of course, preclude her from being a [[Woobie]] -- not in this series.

* [[Free-Range Children]]

* [[Generation Xerox]]: Physically, she's exactly like her mother, except she has no Furukawa‎-clan [[Hair Antennae]] -- after all, technically she's an Okazaki. She is also unusually well-mannered, loves the Big Dango Family and also loves playing with the dango plushies. She is also an...

* [[Ill Girl]]: She takes after her mother in this regard. {{spoiler|At least in the reality where both she and Nagisa die. In the reality where everyone lives, Tomoya outright states that Ushio is quite healthy}}.

* [[Raised by Grandparents]]: {{spoiler|Until Tomoya takes her in.}}

* [[Theme Naming]]: {{spoiler|"Ushio" means "tide." "Nagisa," her mother's name, mean "shore."}} An [[Invoked Trope]].

* {{spoiler|[[Too Good for This Sinful Earth]]}}: Well, {{spoiler|in at least one universe}}, anyway.

 

{{quote|Voiced by: [[Miyoko Aso]] (JP), Stephanie Wittels (EN)}}

 

* [[Mr. Exposition|Mrs. Exposition]]: She tells Tomoya about his father's true intentions, about how he {{spoiler|sacrificed his chances at a good life so he could properly raise Tomoya}}.

 

== The Illusionary World ==

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{{quote|Voiced by: [[Tomoko Kawakami]] (JP), Melissa Davis (EN)}}

 

* [[Identity Amnesia]]

* [[Woman in White]]

 

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{{quote|Voiced by: [[Akiko Yajima]] (JP), Shannon Emerick (EN)}}

 

* [[Identity Amnesia]]

* [[Tin Can Robot]]

 

Tropes associated with other characters:

 

* [[Wholesome Crossdresser]]: Katsuki Shima.

 

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