It’s CLANNAD: After Story episode 7, and it’s the start of Yukine’s arc, where we learn that, as soft spoken and kind as she is, she sometimes hangs out with some pretty rough friends. Unfortunately for Sunohara, he isn’t as tough as most of those friends.

The trash doll in the world with no birth and no death senses that, as the winter approaches, things aren’t quite right with the girl, and decides that he must decide now what to do. He asks the girl to go away with him to a world which is “warm and filled with fun.”

Meanwhile, Nagisa, Okazaki, and Sunohara are hanging out with Yukine when a big burly guy comes in beat up and dejected. Yukine cheers up him up until another guy comes in challenging him to a fight and they leave. Yukine then explains that her brother is the leader of a gang and she helps out it’s members in times of need (as well as members of the opposing gang occasionally as well).

While out walking, Yuu, a young boy, shows up demanding to “get his sister back” as she’s joined Yukine’s brother’s gang. Trying to act cool, Sunohara claims to be her brother and leader of the game and hands out wise (and not so wise) wisdom out to the kid. Unfortunately, members of the rival gang spy on him claiming to be the gang leader.

The group eventually goes to the gang hideout, where Yuu meets up his sister and everyone has a generally good time. Afterward, members of the rival gang challenge Sunohara, thinking that he’s Yukine’s sister, but the group run until Sakagami shows up and bets them up. Explaining that she’s out on patrol to make sure that school members aren’t getting into trouble, she asks the foursome what they’re doing out…

Yukine, as expected, shows herself to be perhaps the most caring, tolerant, wise, and understanding person on the show, taking care of her brother’s gang, which is essentially a group of runaways who have nowhere else to go. I’m just wondering what Sakagami has to do with all of this, as I’m sure she wasn’t just hanging out there for no good reason. Also, you’d think that Sunohara would have learned his lesson about pretending to be something he wasn’t, but that’s Sunohara for you.

Also, I noted that the trash doll in the barren world wanting to go to a “warmer and funner place” is somewhat parallel to the play that Nagisa performed at the end of the first season.