Clannad (Film)

Clannad (Japaneseクラナド, Kuranado ) is a building on the same Ren'ai Adventure Clannad anime film, which was directed by Osamu Dezaki and thus one of several adaptations of the game. For the first time on the Tōkyō Kokusai Anime Fair announced on 23 March 2006, the film was produced by Toei Animation in Japanese theaters on September 15, 2007. Content in the film is a new interpretation of the plot of the game, which focuses almost exclusively on the relationship between Tomoya and Nagisa.

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The plot increasingly focused on the female main character Nagisa Furukawa who in the act with Tomoya run builds a love relationship and manages to make her debut with her play. Both pull out of school in an apartment together and have a happy life. When the couple but their first child gets Nagisa succumbs to the rigors of birth, what Tomoya, as once his father falls into a deep depression. Retired, he lives alone in his apartment and would even prefer to throw out of the apartment his closest friends, who visit him regularly. His daughter, meanwhile, grows to at Nagisa parents because he was not able to see his child looks into your eyes. His father takes a few years later a final attempt to change the situation for the better. So he brings his friends to force him to take a trip. In a station on which they change, he meets Nagisa parents and his daughter, who has strong resemblance to Nagisa. As the little girl running towards him and threatens to fall, he catches her and includes her in his arms.

Differences between film, series and game

The game has also been adapted not only as a film, but by Kyoto Animation as an anime television series. In this case, both works show due to completely different contributors, apart from most speakers, various differences. While the series much more time offered to play much of the game, the film was limited to only a few of the originally present characters and goes no deeper on this one. Thus, the former main characters Kyo and Tomoyo have only minor roles, while Kotomi only briefly showed up in the background and Fuko was not to be seen. More serious are the differences in time and again by looking parallel world, which manifest themselves here as dreams. Here, the lonely girl was replaced by Nagisa, while the unknown protagonist in the body of a robot making company in the game the girl was replaced by Tomoya in the body of a puppet. Contrary to the original action taught Koko, the sister of Fuko, still at the school and it takes a much more important role than originally planned. But the characters and their relationships are represented slightly changed. For example, Tomoyas father in the film much enterprising and Yohei is represented much more seriously.

Formation and Publications

With the studio Toei Animation, the same team that already produced the anime canon and the movie Air worked, even at this adaptation of a game of Key. The character design was essentially undertaken here by the drawings Itaru Hinoues that took over the artistic direction of the game. This took Megumi Kadonosono as a model for the characters of the movie design. Previously Megumi working on the film Oshare Majo Love and Berry: Shiawase no Maho as a director and a building on Kiddy Grade film series, where she was also responsible for the character design. The screenplay was written by Makoto Nakamura, who took over this function already in the previous two films. Directed by the veteran Osamu Dezaki, who has worked at Astro Boy since 1963 and also for the implementation of Air this post held.

On 23 March 2006, the production on the Tōkyō Kokusai Anime Fair was announced. Even before the release start on 10 March 2007, an advertising campaign on the streets of Akihabara. A group of young women dressed in school uniforms like the main characters ( cosplay ) were thereby handed flyers and Thunder Sticks (a type of noisemakers ) from the windows to attract attention.

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Reception

The film adaptation of the game was regarded with very mixed feelings. However, one point on which most critics agreed: The animation produced by Toei Animation is strongly behind the quality of goods sold by Kyoto Animation TV series back, what are all the other character design. The special effects, however, were quite successful and could keep up 5 Centimeter almost with the quality of Byōsoku. However, the film also came in for frequent criticism that many of the female characters only had supporting roles or were even completely omitted. The action, however, shared the opinions. While some critics the entire film described as boring, others feel that the film's first two thirds were, however, need to be able to do its job with the dramatic end. By focusing on the few main characters this left but often a very sophisticated or even a sweet impression.