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While everyone went “OMG MEI IS SO MOE I’M BORKED ONIII~CHAAAAAAAA~N”, I watched the episode and thought everyone over-reacted. I only fapped three times! She’s not that moe.

I thought more note-worthy was how much parts of this episode looked like Lucky Star.

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Where the hell have I been? Stuck in a hotel with no internet for over a week! No excuses, I know, so I’ll get right to it. I did some thinking while away, and I have decided to give something a try. Rather than keep on with the episodic style I have been employing for my coverage of Clannad, I think that my writing style would be better served by focusing on the arcs as a whole; I often find myself wondering how to analyze the middle of a story beyond simple predictions. Though those can be fun, I much prefer looking at how the characters change over a little bit of time, even if it’s only 3 episodes.

I kind of started this with my last post, where I talked more about Youhei’s attitude in general than about the episode specifically. So, starting now, let’s talk about the last arc!

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Another week, another Sunohara-centric episode. I know that Mei has been on a lot of people’s minds, but I’m going to go ahead and skip that discussion, as it kind of weirded me out. I’d rather focus on Sanae’s insistence that, at heart, Youhei is a good person. I know that last week I was feeling sorry for Youhei, but the events this week have changed my opinion of him. I haven’t really seen this supposed good side, and though the flashbacks show a boy doing “what he should” for his little sister, everything we’ve seen of Youhei so far in the series suggests that he is a different person now - one who has grown up, essentially, into a bad person.

Can people, once down such a path, change drastically and instantly? That is apparently what Mei wants, though Tomoya seems willing to trick Mei into thinking everything is alright - kind of a shitty friend if you ask me. The choices made by Sunohara, his reputation, and his own acceptance that he will not further his education but rather assimilate into the workforce paint a bleak future for him, but with only a few months of school left, can we really hope that he will make a life-altering change, and that this change will have an effect on his prospects?

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Wear your hair like this all the time, please. I will love you forever.

After last week’s one-off baseball episode, it looks like the show is settling into a new arc focusing on Sunohara. It’s about time! He spent last season as the butt of every joke, and deservedly so most of the time, but with Tomoya’s attitude change towards the end of last year I was hoping for just a tiny bit more respect for his friend. Plus, with graduation just around the corner, I am curious to see what Sunohara does with his life. As anxious as I am to get to the after story portion, I would still have been upset if they had jumped right in and left the fate of all the rest of the cast in question. Thus we arrive at this week’s episode: Clannad ~School Comedy~

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Another season of Clannad is what kept me going through the mostly lackluster summer shows, and I spent a good part of the summer trying to work my way through the Clannad Visual Novel. I didn’t quite make it to the after story, though, so if you want someone to predict the next episode for you you are going to have to consult another blog. I enjoy that love/hate relationship with weekly episodes, and I want to preserve that wide-eyed astonishment that comes from being truly surprised by the outcome of a cliffhanger. That being said, let’s talk about this first episode!

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