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'''''Kanon''''' is a well-knownan [[Eroge]] with a [[Bleached Underpants|clean version]], as well as many, many adaptations. Despite its [[Multiple Demographic Appeal]] to girls, it's actually a [[Seinen]] series. Besides the [[Dating Sim]] game, there are two anime adaptations (the original Toei one and the new [[Kyoto Animation]] one), CD dramas, a manga, a series of light novels, an [[Alternate Continuity]] manga called ''Kanon Another Story: Wonder Three'', and a non-canonical gag manga crossing over with ''[[AIR]]''. The original game was [[No Export for You|never released outside of Japan]], but a completed English translation patch presently exists courtesy of [http://radicalr.pestermom.com/vn.html Non-Directional Translations].

Absolutely not to be confused with this ''[[Kanon By Chiho Saito(manga)|Kanon]]'', a shoujo manga by Chiho Saito, or [[K-On!]]. Or the trope [[Canon]].

** Yet strangely averted, as it can't even cut ''a banana''. It doesn't affect how it hurts demons, so Mai doesn't really care, but it seems to contradict how the sword sunk into the floor during one of the earlier battles.

* [[Adaptation Decay]]: In the visual novel, there are five separate girls with five separate storylines, but Yuuichi/the player is only meant to experience one arc. Playing out the other girls' storylines requires playing the game again. The anime adaptation, however, has four of the five arcs happen sequentially. This results in some confusing characterization. For example:

** Yuuichi develops a close bond with Makoto. She dies and he's upset, but by the next episode, he's back to normal. He has another intense experience with Mai, but once her plot from the visual novel is complete, Mai no longer appears in the show, even though she's presumably still alive and in town. Yuuichi neither mentions nor visits her. Shiori receives the same treatment as Mai; after her arc, she is not mentioned and no longer appears, even though Yuuichi has formed a close friendship with her.

{{quote| '''Nayuki''': It's lunchtime, Yuuichi-san!<br />

* [[Boke and Tsukkomi Routine]]: Played with by Sayuri and Mai.

* [[Butt Monkey]]: Kitigawa in the 2006 anime, big time.

** Averted hard with Yuichi. Normally for this genre, he'd be the one to receive [[AbuseDouble IsStandard Okay When ItsAbuse (Female Onon Male)|all kinds of abuse from most of the female cast]]. He isn't. Makoto does try to make his life miserable, but winds up making a fool of herself instead. (He's the only one who calls her out for her misbehavior, but still...)

* [[Cast From Lifespan]]: {{spoiler|Makoto}} is able to become human at the cost of {{spoiler|her memories}} and her life.

* [[Crash Into Hello]]: Uguu~[[mmphff~]]!

* [[Deus Ex Machina]]: The anime's ending is a little ''too'' convenient for some.

{{quote| '''Yuichi''': As I turned around, Kaori Misaka was standing there.<br />

** {{spoiler|Mai, during the "good" ending. It works, but [[Back Fromfrom the Dead|she gets better]].}}

* [[Erotic Eating]]: [http://fabien.li/tvtropes/Kanon_2006_12_18.12.jpg Mai in episode 12]{{Dead link}}.

{{quote| '''Ayu''': Why are you standing there?<br />

'''Yuuichi''': I'm scared of heights.<br />

* [[Freeze-Frame Bonus]]: For just a second in Episode 6, when Yuuichi and Ayu are in the cafe after going to the movies {{spoiler|the adult Makoto can be seen walking by outside the cafe}}.

* [[Gratuitous German]] / [[Foreign Language Title]]: The title of the franchise is taken from [[Pachelbel's Canon]] (''Kanon in D-dur''), which figures periodically in the 2006 [[Anime]]. Alas, the franchise gets the meaning of the word "canon" all wrong. The confusion derives from the fact that Pachelbel's Canon happens to be both a canon and a [[passacaglia]] (or a ground base, which is more or less the same thing). Passacaglia is the forerunner of the [[Theme and Variations]], and that, rather than a canon, is the basic musical form the franchise is loosely organized around. Four of the five paths in the original [[Visual Novel]] have links both to Yuuichi's forgotten past seven years ago and his childhood promises from then, along with supernatural elements, and a girl who needs his help (and love). Each girl, and the path she represents, is a variation on a theme. By contrast, a [[wikipedia:Canon chr(28)musicchr(29music)|canon]] need not have the structure of a theme and variations; it fact, it seldom does. Rather, a canon is a musical form defined by its use of ''exclusively'' strictly imitative counterpoint (in contradistinction to a fugue, which employs both strictly imitative and freely imitative counterpoint) -- although said "strict imitation" can nevertheless run backward or upside-down or any of dozens of other complex tricks, so long as the pattern of intervals remains unchanged.

** [[Yukari Tamura|Mai]] has been in [[AIR|every other]] Key [[Clannad (visual novel)||anime adaption to date.]]

{{quote| {{spoiler|'''Shiori'''}}: {{spoiler|I don't know what exactly she wished for, but maybe, 'I want my dearest person to always be smiling'. Maybe it was a wish like that.}}}}

* [[Kidanova]]: Yuuichi's harem is established when he's ''ten''. Which may be the universe's advance payment {{spoiler|on the future tragedies that befall them}}.

* [[Look Both Ways]]: {{spoiler|Akiko}} is hit by an SUV, {{spoiler|but survives thanks to Ayu's miracle}}.

** Trope relevant to [[Anime]] only: In the [[Visual Novel]], the driver lost control going around a curve, rather than not recognizing a traffic light. {{spoiler|Akiko}} simply had the unfortunate luck to be on the sidewalk at the wrong place and time.

* [[Meet Cute]]: Yuuichi meets almost every available girl in an odd manner. To wit:

** Shiori meets Yuuichi after Ayu faceplants into a tree and said tree drops its snow on her.

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