He is also brutally honest with his opinion and never sugar coats anything or flatters people. He is a slacker in school, and ever since the death of his mother when he was a child, he has had a troubled relationship with his father. Tomoya Okazaki: Tomoya is the main character of Clannad. Now for an in-depth look into each of the main characters. One important thing to know in advance is that in Japan, unless you are family or very close friends, you typically do not refer to someone by their first name, which is an important point in the story. While there are ecchi undertones, with most of the female cast has a crush on Tomoya, it is far from the ecchi genre in terms of execution. Each character has his or her own problem that he or she must overcome. Also, the high school settings for any kind of fiction is not my preferred setting since I usually cannot relate, in anime however I actually enjoy it quite a bit if executed well.Ĭharacterization: 10/10- Clannad's cast of characters is incredibly lovable! Sure, a few of the characters follow anime archetypes, but the story uses those archetypes to its advantage to progress each character's story. Clannad is the first true slice-of-life anime that I had watched, although I have seen many since, and Clannad essentially perfected the genre.
Clannad was my first fully moe series with The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya being the only other one with moe elements before hand, and while it was somewhat odd at first, I become rather fond of the style in Clannad. To some, the moe design can be off putting due to the unnatural nature of the eyes and other features. The word is generally associated with big eyes and generally cute character designs, as well as the often high pitch and cutesy sounding voices of a character.
Clannad is contains heavy elements "moe." Moe, pronounced "mo-A," does not have a concrete definition. To fully understand the series, allow me to provide the non-Otaku audience a crash-course in anime lingo.