It’s CLANNAD: After Story episode 16, and a very pregnant Nagisa has a visit with some old friends before she goes into labor and she and Tomoya are blessed with a healthy baby. However, Tomoya’s bliss soon turns in his worst nightmare.
In the world with no birth and no death, winter has finally come and the girl is now too weak to even move, much less keep working on the flying machine. She begs the robot to stay by her side then and forever, but the robot feels that the only chance he has of actually being with her forever is by completing the flying machine and escaping. However, he soon finds that he is incapable of building things with junk, like the girl is able to.
Meanwhile, back in the other world. Nagisa is now very pregnant, but that doesn’t stop her from celebrating New Years with Sunohara, Kyou, Ryou, and Kotomi. At the party, Kotomi (who has gotten quite stylish now if I may say so myself) explains that she’s been studying the same mysterious parallel world her parents studied, and they’re finding that this world and the parallel world may be tightly bounded at a very deep level – and there may be multiple parallel worlds too.
Finally Nagisa and Okazaki decide to give birth in a hospital, but suddenly the town gets a heavy snow. Nagisa gets sick from the cold and then goes into labor, two weeks early. Yago, Sanae, and Akio arrive and try to help Nagisa through a very long and painful labor until finally Tomoya and Nagisa’s daughter Ushio is born. However, the weather makes it so that no doctor can reach them, and the stress of the birth is too much on Nagisa, and despite Tomoya’s best attempts to keep her awake, she passes away withou even being able to hold her newborn daughter.
This event suddenly throws Tomoya into a deep depression, making him believe that Nagisa’s live would have been better if they had never met each other at all…
One new it had to happen eventually…it was just a matter of the exact circumstances. While we got no confirmation, other than Tomoya’s grief, that Nagisa died, I think it’s a pretty safe assumption to conclude that she has. That, as well as other events, has no brought this series to a full circle in several ways.
First, despite his hatred of his father, Tomoya appears to ever increasingly be heading onto the same path as his father.
Second, we finally see the alternate world again after quite some time, and once again, it appeared that the nearer Nagisa approached death, the weaker the girl in the other world got. I’m curious to find out what is happening with her now. There was also the thing that Okazaki thought of Nagisa’s play when she wondered aloud what the parallel world Kotomi was studying is like (and I’ve already noted that I thought Nagisa’s play is a representation of that world).
Third, speaking of the alternate world, I’ve long kind of thought that Kotomi was going to be a kind of missing piece between the two worlds, based on what we learned about her and what her parents were studying in the first series, and the chances of that just improved dramatically in this episode given Kotomi’s research into a (if not the) alternate world. I’m certain we haven’t seen the last of her.
I was also fully expecting a new ending after Nagisa died, but alas, the creators of the show decided to end this episode with the following sequence: Nagisa dies, Tomoya is crushed….let’s have a happy, cheerful sounding ending song! Talk about blowing up the mood. At the very least they could have brought back Dango Daikazoku or something. At least it’s somewhat mellow sounding.
I’m guessing the next episode will be about Tomoya immediately after the events of this episode, then we might start seeing more time jumps as Ushio grows up.
CLANNAD: After Story – Episode 16
It’s CLANNAD: After Story episode 16, and a very pregnant Nagisa has a visit with some old friends before she goes into labor and she and Tomoya are blessed with a healthy baby. However, Tomoya’s bliss soon turns in his worst nightmare.
In the world with no birth and no death, winter has finally come and the girl is now too weak to even move, much less keep working on the flying machine. She begs the robot to stay by her side then and forever, but the robot feels that the only chance he has of actually being with her forever is by completing the flying machine and escaping. However, he soon finds that he is incapable of building things with junk, like the girl is able to.
Meanwhile, back in the other world. Nagisa is now very pregnant, but that doesn’t stop her from celebrating New Years with Sunohara, Kyou, Ryou, and Kotomi. At the party, Kotomi (who has gotten quite stylish now if I may say so myself) explains that she’s been studying the same mysterious parallel world her parents studied, and they’re finding that this world and the parallel world may be tightly bounded at a very deep level – and there may be multiple parallel worlds too.
Finally Nagisa and Okazaki decide to give birth in a hospital, but suddenly the town gets a heavy snow. Nagisa gets sick from the cold and then goes into labor, two weeks early. Yago, Sanae, and Akio arrive and try to help Nagisa through a very long and painful labor until finally Tomoya and Nagisa’s daughter Ushio is born. However, the weather makes it so that no doctor can reach them, and the stress of the birth is too much on Nagisa, and despite Tomoya’s best attempts to keep her awake, she passes away withou even being able to hold her newborn daughter.
This event suddenly throws Tomoya into a deep depression, making him believe that Nagisa’s live would have been better if they had never met each other at all…
One new it had to happen eventually…it was just a matter of the exact circumstances. While we got no confirmation, other than Tomoya’s grief, that Nagisa died, I think it’s a pretty safe assumption to conclude that she has. That, as well as other events, has no brought this series to a full circle in several ways.
First, despite his hatred of his father, Tomoya appears to ever increasingly be heading onto the same path as his father.
Second, we finally see the alternate world again after quite some time, and once again, it appeared that the nearer Nagisa approached death, the weaker the girl in the other world got. I’m curious to find out what is happening with her now. There was also the thing that Okazaki thought of Nagisa’s play when she wondered aloud what the parallel world Kotomi was studying is like (and I’ve already noted that I thought Nagisa’s play is a representation of that world).
Third, speaking of the alternate world, I’ve long kind of thought that Kotomi was going to be a kind of missing piece between the two worlds, based on what we learned about her and what her parents were studying in the first series, and the chances of that just improved dramatically in this episode given Kotomi’s research into a (if not the) alternate world. I’m certain we haven’t seen the last of her.
I was also fully expecting a new ending after Nagisa died, but alas, the creators of the show decided to end this episode with the following sequence: Nagisa dies, Tomoya is crushed….let’s have a happy, cheerful sounding ending song! Talk about blowing up the mood. At the very least they could have brought back Dango Daikazoku or something. At least it’s somewhat mellow sounding.
I’m guessing the next episode will be about Tomoya immediately after the events of this episode, then we might start seeing more time jumps as Ushio grows up.