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Then one day, while walking to school, he bumps into Nagisa Furukawa, a [[Shrinking Violet|shy girl]] whose only friends at the school have already graduated. Whenever Tomoya sees her around school, she's alone; her classmates scarcely notice she exists, and no one has any interest in befriending her.
No one, that is, except Tomoya, who without even realizing it finds himself taking her under his wing. As he sets out to help her reestablish the school's drama club, he finds himself connecting (or, as it often turns out, reconnecting) with several other girls from the school. Although he doesn't care much about them at
The title, according to the author, comes from the Irish word for "family",<ref>More accurately, "Clannad" is the name of an Irish band, an abbreviation of "Clann as Dobhar" or "the family from Dore." A slightly unfortunate bit of [[Gratuitous Foreign Language|Gratuitous Irish]].</ref>
The original [[Visual Novel]] ''CLANNAD'' was made by [[Key Visual Arts]] and released in 2004. The [[Manga]] adaptation, illustrated by Juri Misaki, was published by Jive between November 2005 and March 2009; Drama CDs were released in 2007. In September 2007, [[Toei Animation]] released [[The Movie]], directed by Osamu Dezaki. The television series, by [[Kyoto Animation]], aired between October 2007 and March 2008. The [[Visual Novel]] and the [[Anime]] television series are each divided into two parts, the high school portion, which takes place during the first few weeks of Tomoya's senior year, and the ''After Story'', which takes place later. Two special OVA episodes were made for this series by [[Kyoto Animation]]. The first is the [[Omake|bonus episode]] 24 in the first season, [[Alternate Universe|''Another World: Tomoyo Arc'']], and the second the [[Omake|bonus episode]] on the final Clannad DVD, [[Alternate Universe|''Another World: Kyou Arc'']].
([[Nerds|For those who care about such things]]: over at the Anime News Network, ''CLANNAD [[After Story]]'' (i.e. season two of the [[Anime]] series) [http://www.animenewsnetwork.
Both seasons and the movie are licensed by Sentai Filmworks, the employees of the once-prosperous [[ADV Films]]. The first two episodes are available online for free.
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* [[Adult Fear]]: This show takes a shot at fathers. {{spoiler|Imagine if your wife died giving birth, and you'd raised your child for years, only to have her die in your arms, her last words were that she loved you and didn't know why it was getting so dark. Tomoya broke down and cried, dying and crying out for someone to help him save his daughter.}}
* [[After the End]]: Tomoya envisions a future with all the trappings of such series, with Fūko as the hero's sealed superweapon ("Starfish Manipulator!").
** In addition, the Illusionary World seems to be some sort of extreme [[Cozy Catastrophe]]
* [[All There in the Manual]]: Fūko's reappearances in the anime are based on a mode in the [[Visual Novel]] where, if you obtain the ''Fūko Master'' and ''Fūko Ninja'' statuses, when replaying Tomoyo's route, Fūko will pop up at random times.
* [[Alternate Universe]]: The first season's [[Omake]] episode 24, in which Tomoyo wins (and the her potential romantic rivals don't even make an appearance onscreen), and the DVD-only episode for ''[[After Story]]'', in which Kyou wins. All the routes in the game are a bunch of [[Alternate Universe
** Also, within the [[Anime]]'s canon storyline, an [[Alternate Universe]] is the result of the Ichinoses' research, as continued by Kotomi after she graduates. Becomes a focal plot point for the [[Grand Finale]].
** May be the way how the miracle at the end happens. {{spoiler|The miracle did not turn back time and save Nagisa, it simply created an [[Alternate Universe]] where Nagisa survives, meaning that Nagisa, Tomoya, and Ushio are still dead in the universe where they died. Interestingly, the miracle requires you to replay or reload to the point where Nagisa dies, the same way you do when you're going for another route and another continuity.}}
* [[Anachronic Order]]: Not so much in the [[Visual Novel]] or the [[Anime]] series, but definitely in the 2006 [[Toei Animation]] movie. Generally, the action therein skips back and forth between two timelines: Tomoya's senior year in high school, when he's falling in love with Nagisa, and {{spoiler|the weeks, months, and then years after Nagisa's death, when Tomoya is going through (and eventually recovers from) his [[Heroic BSOD]].}} So instead of season one followed by ''[[After Story]]''
* [[Arc Words]]: "Day before yesterday I saw a rabbit, and yesterday a deer, and today, you." Said several times by Kotomi to Tomoya. Also [[Arc Words]] (appearing essentially unchanged six times) [[Shout-Out|in its source]], Robert F. Young's [[Time Travel]] love story, ''[[The Dandelion Girl]]''.
** Many of Nagisa's quotes are good examples, especially "Would you like me to take you... to a place in this city where wishes come true?" as well as her very first lines, quoted at the top.
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* [[Art Shift]] - Of a more subtle sort, at least: the "Illusionary World" scenes are animated at a sharply higher quality than the main series, with no duplicate frames and consequently very fluid movement.
* [[Aside Glance]]: Kyou and Tomoyo each tend to give the audience an [[Aside Glance]] whenever they tease resident [[Butt Monkey]] Sunohara into another of his stupid outbursts.
** A more poignant example, from near the end of season one: in front of the whole drama club, Tomoyo tells Nagisa, [[Graceful Loser|"I'm so glad he chose you."]] The slighted
** In ''[[After Story]]'', [[Aside Glance|aside glances]] are common ways to punctuate a joke, especially (but not always) at Youhei's expense.
* [[Author Appeal]]: Everything [[Key Visual Arts]] usually likes to put in their games comes in here.
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** Not surprising since Kyou is the first girl besides [[Forgotten Childhood Friend|Kotomi]] to fall for Tomoya.
* [[Belligerent Sexual Tension]]: Between Kyou and Tomoya, both in Kyou's route in the [[Visual Novel]] and in the [[Alternate Universe]] OVA ''Another World: Kyou Arc''.
* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]: In the [[Visual Novel]],
* [[Big Damn Heroes]]: {{spoiler|Sunohara, of all people}}, in Episode 4 of the second season.
* [[Big Sleep]]: {{spoiler|Both Nagisa and Ushio}}.
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** Tomoya's dad in his younger days, before hardships took its toll on one's body. Who did you think Tomoya got his drop dead gorgeous looks from?
* [[Bishoujo]]: Design aesthetic used for just about every female character in the cast.
* [[Black Comedy Rape]] - In the [[Visual Novel]], Tomoya uses an expression involving Kotomi (who has a fear of being bullied) having a tail. Kyou launches a thorough investigation and checks breast size while she's at it. Kyou later uses threats of "massages" to coerce Kotomi. This is
* [[Blue with Shock]]: Kotomi and Tomoya after receiving a bad fortune. Nagisa and her mother also do this separately in dramatic fashion, with identical lightning strikes in the background.
* [[Blunt Metaphors Trauma]]: Ah, Kotomi and your continued abuse of Japanese wordplay. Half the time she doesn't get the joke being made and the other half she's made a [[Incredibly Lame Pun|horribly obvious one]], often leading into a...
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* [[Break the Cutie]]: Tomoya is a male example.
** {{spoiler|Poor Kyou and Ryou.}}
* [[Breather Episode]]: In ''[[After Story]]'', episodes 19 and 20 have elements of this. Not that they're light and
** The first half of ''[[After Story]]'' episode 16 serves as a breather '''half'''-episode. {{spoiler|Because of the episode's [[Downer Ending|second]] [[Death by Childbirth|half]], it's easy to forget how cheerful and optimistic the reunion scene is, and what a relief after all the tension of episode 15. This is the last time we see Tomoya, Nagisa, Kyou, Ryou, Kotomi, and Youhei together; leaving aside the [[Where Are They Now]] montage in the [[Grand Finale]], this is the last we see of Ryou, Kotomi, or Youhei.}}
** It's odd to consider the first episode of a season as a breather episode, but episode 1 of ''[[After Story]]'' certainly qualifies. After the power of the end of the first season, and before all of the nuclear powered emotional scenes later in ''[[After Story]]'', it starts with the cast... playing baseball?
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* [[Brother Chuck]]: Kappei, from the [[Visual Novel]], doesn't make an appearance in any of the [[Anime]] adaptations.
* [[Brother-Sister Incest]]: Tomoya [[Imagine Spot|imagines]] this when Mei talks to him about setting up a relationship.
* [[Butt Monkey]]: Sunohara, who is routinely brutally beaten, thrown out windows, and skipped across
** Sunohara "enjoys" an unusual niche among [[Butt Monkey|buttmonkies]]: just about everything bad that happens to him is his own fault.
*** Except when it involves Tomoya's pranks. Even though you can tell that Tomoya is true friend when push comes to shove, he's also a jerkass of a friend too. Though, I guess abuse is okay when its anyone on Sunohara.
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* [[Genius Loci]] - The entire city, in certain characters' opinion.
* [[Genre Busting]] - It's like a slice-of-life romance drama with a side-order of the supernatural.
* [[The Glomp]] - The one performed by [[media:
* [[Glowing Eyes of Doom]]: Kyou.
* [[Go Into the Light]] - Parodied on more than one occasion by Nagisa's very theatrical parents.
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** In Tomoyo's extra episode, she present a speech broadcast on television in very broken English, that makes little sense if you actually speak the language (Her speech in the dub is completely different, thankfully). Naturally, when watching it, Sunohara asks what language she's speaking.
** There's a lot of [[Gratuitous English]] in the series. Also in the songs, especially "[[Crowning Music of Awesome|Ana]]", the lyrics of which are almost entirely awkwardly translated English.
* [[Hair Antennae]]: The entire Furukawa family. Except
* [[Hair Colors]]: Hair colors run the usual rainbow gambit, but it is Sunohara's blond hair that Fūko [[Lampshade Hanging|calls out as unnatural]]. In this instance, she's correct (albeit rude): his hair is naturally dark, like his sister Mei's, and he dyes it blond. We see his naturally hair color in some of the [[
* [[Happily Married]]: Akio and Sanae. Later, {{spoiler|Tomoya and Nagisa}}. Possibly Yuusuke and Kouko, although we don't see them together that much. And, leaving aside very minor characters and [[Flash Back|flashbacks]], that's [[All Love Is Unrequited|pretty much it for the requited relationships]] in the [[Anime]] series.
** There is a very good reason why we don't get to see Yuusuke and Kouko together much. In the game, ''After Story'' strictly follows Nagisa's route and Nagisa's route only, meaning that there was no Fuuko story and Yuusuke and Kouko never got married. In the anime, Nagisa's route incorporated everyone's else route but since the original source material never had those two married in ''After Story'', anything deeply related to their marriage just kinda got pushed aside.
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** A [[Subverted Trope]] after Kotomi's arc, when the girls switch to the summer uniforms from ''[[Continuity Nod|Tomoyo After]]''.
* [[I Want My Beloved to Be Happy]]: A variant whereby Kyou supports her sister Ryou's attempts to get with Tomoya, despite liking him herself. More thoroughly explored in the Kyou Another World OVA.
* [[Jerkass]] / [[Jerk Jock]]: The soccer club is seriously filled with [[Jerkass
* [[Kikuko Inoue]] - Sanae-san. [[Pigeonholed Voice Actor|Appropriately]].
* [[Large Ham]] - Yoshino Yuusuke, who after hitting a ball in a baseball match, proceeds to give out a hammy speech about "Intangible Memories"... and gets balled out. (He remembers to call for a time-out the second time he tries it.)
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* [[Leaning on the Fourth Wall]]: Frequent, usually combined with with [[Self-Deprecation]] both toward the character in question and the show itself. Near the beginning of the first season, Tomoya chides Nagisa for being unable to decide if her play is intended to make viewers laugh or cry. Her flustered answers to his questions might almost be a CLANNAD fan flailing in an attempt to explain to a skeptic the appeal of the franchise. In another conversation between Tomoya and Nagisa, this time near the end of the first season, he tells her that her beloved odango song was a bathetic (if not outright pathetic) ending for the emotionally wrenching play she performed. Yes, that's the same song used as the Ending Theme throughout the first season.
* [[Leitmotif]]:
** One for each member of Tomoya's
** The "arc-happy-ending" leitmotif in the first season is rearranged into the second season's opening theme.
* [[Let Her Grow Up, Dear]] - Upon finding out that his daughter Nagisa is pregnant, Akio is torn between denial ("A stork brought it, right?"), happiness at becoming a grandfather, and wanting to strangle Tomoya for sleeping with her. ("Congratulations ... you bastard!!") Nagisa's reaction is classic.
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** For the audience, that is. Sunohara gets a glance of Kyou's light-blue ''pantsu''. Kyou is not amused.
** Another case: Tomoya. Whenever he and Sunohara meet with Tomoyo and Tomoyo proceeds with the ass-kicking, Tomoya will be in front of Tomoyo while she's giving Sunohara air time. And her kicking leg is raised in a very meaningful angle.
* [[Male Gaze]]: Of course. For example, in ''[[After Story]]'' 20, when Kyou greets one of her students with his mother, [[media:
** There is also the interesting camera angles used when Ryou and Kotomi are stretching together in one scene, that constantly features one of the pairs' [[Incredibly Lame Pun|pair.]]
* [[Matchmaker Crush]]: Kyou tries to push Tomoya to be with her sister Ryou at every opportunity ... though she has a crush on him, too. Sometimes she'll make a flirtatious play for Tomoya in the middle of working out a plan to get Ryou and Tomoya together, as if she's forgetting that if Ryou is dating Tomoya, she isn't, and if she's dating Tomoya, Ryou isn't. (This sort of emotional confusion / conflation can be [[Truth in Television]], even for adults, much less hormonal high school students.)
* [[Meaningful Echo]]: A lot of them. On the joyous end of the emotional spectrum, near the end of season one of the [[Anime]], an otherwise minor echo accidentally gets Nagisa [[Did I Just Say That Out Loud?|to confess her love for Tomoya out loud]] for the first time. At the very opposite end of the emotional spectrum, in episode sixteen of ''[[Clannad After Story]]'', {{spoiler|at the end of Nagisa's [[Really Dead Montage]]}}, there's the [[Flash Back]] to when Tomoya and Nagisa first met. Again Nagisa says, "Everything changes, eventually. ... Fun things, happy things, they'll all ... They'll all eventually change. But can you still love this place?"
** One particularly powerful one from ''[[After Story]]'':
{{quote|'''Ushio:''' "Sanae-san told me...where it was okay to cry...was in the bathroom...{{spoiler|[[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|and in daddy's arms.]]}}"}}
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* [[Men Can't Keep House]]: Mei visits Sunohara's dorm room to find it's like this. Nagisa notes that it's [[Damned By Faint Praise|'a very boyish room']].
* [[Mind Screw]] - See [[Gainax Ending]] above.
* [[Mistaken for Gay]]: "''Fujibayashi Kyou is bi!''" Just another of [[Trickster Archetype|Tomoya]]'s
** Tomoya also tricks Nagisa into believing that Sunohara is gay.
** After misunderstanding something Mei says about playing Cupid, Tomoya has an [[Imagine Spot]] in which he and Youhei are lovers.
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* [[Name's the Same]] - May not ''completely'' fit the trope, it's a bit startling that in [[Fall In Love Like A Comic]]!, male-lead Tomoya has a close friend named Sunohara.
** Not exact, but Yukine Miyazawa is way too close to [[Kare Kano|Yukino Miyazawa]] for comfort, even more so when you realize both are voiced by the same actress.
* [[My Name Is Not Durwood]] - When Tomoya first meets Nagisa's parents Akio and Sanae, they keep inventing bizarre names for him (e.g., "Cosmic-san"). They're not being mean, they're just rather [[
* [[Never Got to Say Goodbye]] - Kotomi. {{spoiler|Her last words to her parents were how she hated them, because they were going to miss her birthday to go to a conference. Their plane crashed}}.
* [[Nonstandard Game Over]] - The so called "Ryou's ending" and the ending to Fuko's route should you had already chosen to be with Nagisa earlier in the game. They are in most ways ''Good Ends'' but are technically ''Bad Ends,'' especially the one in Fuko's route since the events of the normal end still takes place in-universe, you just don't get to see it.
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* [[Official Couple]] - Nagisa and Tomoya. After all, Nagisa is the "[[First Girl Wins|First Girl]]," Tomoya spends the majority of the show with her, and her theme song (also the season one ending theme) refers to a "mischievous" blue dango and a "kind" pink dango as a couple. The opening scene, where Tomoya describes their long path up to school, could be considered a description of their developing relationship.
* [[Older Than They Look]]: Sanae and Akio, who look to be in their early to mid twenties yet have a daughter (Nagisa) who is presumably eighteen or nineteen in season one. In addition, Fūko, who looks (and [[Bratty Half-Pint|acts]]) about ten, is the same age as Tomoya, Kotomi, Ryou, and Kyou.
* [[One Head Taller]]: Tomoya is almost exactly one head taller than Nagisa. (For that matter, most of Tomoya's potential [[Love Interest
* [[One Steve Limit]]: [[Averted Trope|Averted]] both with Ryou and Kyou (who are twins) and with Tomoya and Tomoyo.
** A more extreme version: in the [[Alternate Universe]] depicted in ''Tomoyo After: It's a Wonderful Life'', Tomoya and Tomoyo move in together with Tomoyo's long-lost younger half-
* [[The Only One Allowed to Defeat You]] - A [[Subverted Trope]]. [[The Ditz|For some reason,]] Sunohara adamantly believes that he and Tomoyo share this dynamic, but he's quickly proven wrong with a kick into the sky and nothing else, not even a passing glance from her. Ouch. Also a [[Crowning Moment of Funny]].
** He's "quickly proven wrong" to the viewer, but he clings to this notion for about a dozen more episodes and perhaps twice that many thorough and humiliating thrashings.
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* [[Recap Episode]] - In one extra episode of the anime, Tomoya talks about what happened in the events of the first season and ''After Story''.
* [[Red Eyes, Take Warning]] - Kyou has a couple of these.
* [[Relationship Upgrade]]: Many, between Tomoya and Nagisa. That each one is hard-
* [[Relationship Voice Actor]] - Quite a few:
** [[Mai Nakahara]] (Nagisa) and [[Yukari Tamura]] (Mei) in four other shows: ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS]]'' as Teana Lanster and Nanoha Takamachi respectively, Rena Ryuugu and Rika Furude in ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro ni]]'' respectively and Mai Tokiha and Midori in both ''[[My-HiME]]'' and ''[[Mai-Otome]]''.
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** [[Mai Nakahara]] and [[Ryoko Shiraishi]] (Kappei) also play roles in ''[[Saki (manga)|Saki]]''.
** Recently there is an upgrade, where [[Yuuichi Nakamura]] (Tomoya) and [[Houko Kuwashima]] (Tomoyo) will be voicing both the previously unvoiced [[Super Robot Wars Destiny|Joshua Radcliff and Cliana Rimskaya]] in their appearance in [[Super Robot Wars Original Generation|2nd Super Robot Wars Original Generations]].
* [[Reset Button Ending]] - [[Inverted Trope|Inverted]] in this series, as compared to other [[Reset Button Ending
* [[Ridiculously Cute Critter]]
** Botan, Kyou's pet piglet, who seems to be following in the spiritual footsteps of [[AIR|Potato]] and [[Kanon|Piro]].
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* [[Sure, Let's Go with That]] - Tomoya's modus operandi as a trickster mostly consists of simply not correcting the misunderstandings of others, but going along with their incorrect suspicions, ("Yeah, this is ''exactly'' what it looks like!"), and watching as [[Hilarity Ensues]].
* [[Team Mom]]: Yukine is the [[Team Mom]] for both the city's rival gangs. (This includes acting as the resident "nurse" and provider of sanctuary.)
** Misae is a more official [[Team Mom]] to the residents of the boys' dorm over which she
* [[Tempting Fate]]: In the first episode of the first season, Tomoya hopes that Nagisa's father is sane. {{spoiler|It took years after Nagisa's [[Death by Childbirth]] to find out the complete reason on his actions.}}
* [[The Day the Music Lied]]: The VN several times starts playing emotional music during scenes that are set up to be misleading either to the audience or characters. Such as Tomoya starting to tell Tomoyo that Sunohara loves her, or when Kyou pulls Tomoya aside to show him a love letter, the assumption being that it's from her to him. The music starts in both cases only to get cut short by Sunohara butting in to say he wants to fight Tomoyo or an irritated Kyou explaining it was from some boy to Ryou.
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