It’s the CLANNAD: After Story special episode, and it’s a year before Nagisa and Tomoya’s fateful meeting. We finally see some of her old high school friends, as well as the original encounter between Kyou and Tomoya.
We jump back a year before the first episode of the first season of CLANNAD – the first day of Nagisa’s first trip through her senior year (making Tomoya a junior). However, her day starts off bad when she learns that one of her best friends, Kimura, is in a different class from her. However, later, Kimura catches Nagisa after class and convinces her to go out on the town along with another friend from Kimura’s new class, where they have some with with Nagisa’s worrywart personality.
Meanwhile, Okazaki and Sunohara have to build a sign welcoming the new students since they were caught trying to escape from class. Much to her chagrin, their class representative Kyou is forced to supervise the pair. We also get some hot and steamy Tomoya/Kyou action too, including Kyou looking at Tomoya, thinking he looks cool and wondering if he has a girlfriend while he’s asleep, but Sunohara shows up to “save” Tomoya.
Back at home, Ryou tells Kyou that a boy well tell her that he loves her at school the next day. While this fortune ends up being true, it ends up being due to Sunohara tricking Kyou by leaving a love letter in her locker asking her to meet in the reference room, and then leaving a series of notes telling her to go to different places. However, Kyou is ultimately able to go from one location to another faster than Sunohara, with Tomoya in tow, can put up new signs and catches them.
Not satisfied, Sunohara creates a ball of sometime with a pan and a note in it, and leaves it above the entrance, leaving a rope with a note on it saying to pull on it. Of course, no one is foolish enough to pull on the rope except, you guessed it, Nagisa. A girl, who has been pay attention to Nagisa in her class, sees this, and this gives her an opportunity to ask Nagisa if she’ll be friends. Meanwhile, the note in the ball – which was written by Tomoya, says to not lose to the obstacles one faces.
This was a pretty fun one-shot episode, and it shows some of the friends that have “moved on” due to Nagisa being held behind. Actually, some of those friends are cute enough that it’d be cool if they had their own story arcs.
Oh yeah, and we have a Kyou and Ryou bath scene. *nose bleeds uncontrollably* I was always a sucker for Kyou, so I’m glad she got a lot of face time here. And speaking of Kyou, this is a sort of “origin” story for Kyou as we see when she and Tomoya first meet and we find out that she was their class rep in junior year, as opposed to Ryou being his class rep in senior year.
But to think! Kyou had a chance to grab up Tomoya before Nagisa even got into the picture! What the heck was she doing all of junior year! That almost requires a new season to explain in itself lol.
P.S., I’m not doing a thing for episode 24 since it’s just a review episode, so it’s kind of pointless to review a review.
CLANNAD: After Story – Extra
It’s the CLANNAD: After Story special episode, and it’s a year before Nagisa and Tomoya’s fateful meeting. We finally see some of her old high school friends, as well as the original encounter between Kyou and Tomoya.
We jump back a year before the first episode of the first season of CLANNAD – the first day of Nagisa’s first trip through her senior year (making Tomoya a junior). However, her day starts off bad when she learns that one of her best friends, Kimura, is in a different class from her. However, later, Kimura catches Nagisa after class and convinces her to go out on the town along with another friend from Kimura’s new class, where they have some with with Nagisa’s worrywart personality.
Meanwhile, Okazaki and Sunohara have to build a sign welcoming the new students since they were caught trying to escape from class. Much to her chagrin, their class representative Kyou is forced to supervise the pair. We also get some hot and steamy Tomoya/Kyou action too, including Kyou looking at Tomoya, thinking he looks cool and wondering if he has a girlfriend while he’s asleep, but Sunohara shows up to “save” Tomoya.
Back at home, Ryou tells Kyou that a boy well tell her that he loves her at school the next day. While this fortune ends up being true, it ends up being due to Sunohara tricking Kyou by leaving a love letter in her locker asking her to meet in the reference room, and then leaving a series of notes telling her to go to different places. However, Kyou is ultimately able to go from one location to another faster than Sunohara, with Tomoya in tow, can put up new signs and catches them.
Not satisfied, Sunohara creates a ball of sometime with a pan and a note in it, and leaves it above the entrance, leaving a rope with a note on it saying to pull on it. Of course, no one is foolish enough to pull on the rope except, you guessed it, Nagisa. A girl, who has been pay attention to Nagisa in her class, sees this, and this gives her an opportunity to ask Nagisa if she’ll be friends. Meanwhile, the note in the ball – which was written by Tomoya, says to not lose to the obstacles one faces.
This was a pretty fun one-shot episode, and it shows some of the friends that have “moved on” due to Nagisa being held behind. Actually, some of those friends are cute enough that it’d be cool if they had their own story arcs.
Oh yeah, and we have a Kyou and Ryou bath scene. *nose bleeds uncontrollably* I was always a sucker for Kyou, so I’m glad she got a lot of face time here. And speaking of Kyou, this is a sort of “origin” story for Kyou as we see when she and Tomoya first meet and we find out that she was their class rep in junior year, as opposed to Ryou being his class rep in senior year.
But to think! Kyou had a chance to grab up Tomoya before Nagisa even got into the picture! What the heck was she doing all of junior year! That almost requires a new season to explain in itself lol.
P.S., I’m not doing a thing for episode 24 since it’s just a review episode, so it’s kind of pointless to review a review.