Clannad (visual novel)/Trivia
- Hey, It's That Voice: This could get a bit long.
- Nagisa's voice, tweaked just a teeny bit, sounds exactly like Rena Ryuugu when she isn't shouting "USO DA!".
- Also quite a few traces of Mai Tokiha.
- Mei's normal speaking voice is almost identical to Rika Furude's cutesy voice and to Sakura Yoshino. In a twist of fate, Rika's adult voice sounds like Mai Kawasumi, who is from another Key game (Kanon).
- And lest we forget, Nanoha Takamachi.
- Tomoyo sounds exactly like Kagura from Azumanga Daioh.
- Of course, Sanae's voice has been all over the anime industry in the form of Kikuko Inoue.
- Misae shouting "Shima-kun" at the festival sounded exactly like Shion shouting for "Satoshi-kun."
- Ushio sounds just like Chi only without the speech impediment. Just as adorable though.
- Kotomi's voice is a dead ringer for Aisa Himegami.
- Yukine Miyazawa sounds a lot like, and has the same voice actress as, Yukino Miyazawa.
- Hey, what's Lelouch doing as a member of the Student Council?
- Quite a few former Gundam pilots, protagonists, and antagonists show up here.
- Tomoya is Graham Acre
- Sunohara is Usso Evin
- Akio is Treize Khushrenada
- Yoshino is Heero Yuy
- The Garbage doll is Relena Darlian/Peacecraft
- Tomoyo used to fill the love interests for two Gundam pilots!
- The dub has a few too -- Luci Christian (Nagisa and Ushio), David Matranga (Tomoya), Greg Ayres (Sunohara), Brittney Karbowski (Ryou), and Hilary Haag (Fuko).
- I keep expecting Yoshino to whip out a black overcoat and red metal sword or shouting Mission Start!
- Sunohara is also Shinpachi, another Butt Monkey sidekick to a lazy protagonist.
- Nagisa's voice, tweaked just a teeny bit, sounds exactly like Rena Ryuugu when she isn't shouting "USO DA!".
- Shout-Out: In addition to the standard Kyo Ani cross-referencing, Kotomi quotes a line from the short story The Dandelion Girl: "Day before yesterday I saw a rabbit, and yesterday a deer, and today, you." (See also By the Power of Greyskull, RPG Elements.)
- The summer uniforms from Tomoyo After.
- Episode 20 also has a brief shout-out to the famous music video for Thriller.
- Specific examples of the Kyo Ani crossreferencing: Mai's sword and Sayuri's magical staff, along with their ribbons make an appearance in the Drama Club's prop box, and in episode 1, the desaturated opening is similar to the first chronological episode of Suzumiya Haruhi. In episode 17 of After Story a giant stuffed anteater much like the one from Kanon is visible in the Furukawa house
- The Visual Novel has Shout Outs to Doraemon.
- During Kotomi's path in the Visual Novel, Kyou attempts to get a doll from a game at the arcade that is described surprisingly similar in appearance to Snoopy.
- After Story, episode 8 has a shout out to Akiko from Kanon and her special home made jam (in a deadly combination with Sanae's bread).
- It even has a shout out to the visual novel. Tomoya imagined that life is an RPG. Sunohara wants to join the party. They can use "smoke", "attack" or "magic on him. There is no option to let Sunohara join.
- A shoutout to Ace Attorney appears in the visual novel when Tomoya imagines Fuko as his lawyer against the Absurdly Powerful Student Council. Fuko shouts "Igi ari!" ("I disagree!", the equivalent of the localization's "Objection!") before making a statement. She does this four times.
- Sanae is wearing Misuzu's apron.
- When Nagisa finds a videotape of her dad's high school acting days, he's playing the lead in Oedipus the King, another family-themed tragedy.
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