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** I'm surprised no one considers a cesarean section, which would be much easier on Nagisa's frail body. Granted, the early birth would have rendered this idea moot, but it should have come up at some point.
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** The impression I got was drug possession or trading. Never stated outright, but it makes sense given the state of his life.
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* Maybe I just missed it somehow (not knowing Japanese and all that), but is it ever explained WHY Tomoya's dad got arrested? Almost every time we see him, he's knocked out drunk and sitting in front of the TV at home. Doesn't sound like much of a criminal to me. I realize they probably just needed an excuse for Tomoya to (a) not get promoted, and (b) hate his father even more, but yeah. Just Bugs Me.
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** Just read this part in the VN, and Yoshino specifically says that his job doesn't even check for a high school education. [[FlatWhat What.]] I'm guessing the writers simply DidNotDoTheResearch.
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** The anime adaptation mentions it too (in After Story). But in response to the original question, the lack of H-scenes is actually something quite a few people ''like'' about Clannad. It's a refreshing change for a romance VN to not have such things. In other words: it's sort of a stylistic choice.
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** The way I see it, Tomoya's father probably deeply regrets what happened in that fight, and wants to patch things up with Tomoya. But he doesn't know how to approach him anymore, and everytime he tries, Tomoya refuses to forgive him and brushes him off. So he's lost hope of ever reconciling, though he'll make a token effort every now and again (such as with the dango snacks). But of course, his giving up hope leads to the whole "treating your son like a stranger" thing mentioned above, and Tomoya in turn thinks his father is deliberately avoiding him. It's a vicious cycle.
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*** Sweet!
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**The problem is that after his dad broke his shoulder, his father was being nicer to him, but he was treating him like a stranger than an actual son. Imagine you had a son and he had a friend over, you might offer to get them drinks or snacks but you wouldn't get to personal with your son's friend. That is how Tomoya's dad treats him, and that causes him to get very angry at his father.


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**A light novel series came out from 9/2004-10/2005 and was published by ASCII Media Works if that helps.
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* Why is there no LightNovel adaptation?
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** The dub shoehorns in a mention of Nagisa having a cell phone.
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**** No, I meant having mostly Nagisa-focused scenes, don't misunderstand me... Sorry if I made it sound like they were making up stuff. And just to make myself clear, I don't dislike KyoAni (Hey, my favorite anime is ''{{Kanon}} 2006'') nor Clannad, case I was misunderstood. Just that, from my PoV, they went kind of overboard on how much Nagisa appeared, even taking into account she's the main heroine with a longer plot and all that. It's not the plot's fault, is they way they played it out.
***** Well, neither Tomoyo nor Yukine were members. Yukine was just someone they talked to from time to time, and Tomoyo was student council president. And besides, ThisTroper liked the extra focus on Nagisa, and the highlight of how she and Tomoya need each other. I could write a corresponding JustBugsMe about how Yuuichi seemed to deal with the Kanon girls like an assembly line process and forget them instantly after he's done, even when they are briefly apparently the most important people in his life. Made the whole freak out over Ayu unconvincing, since he seemed pretty darn able to move on to the next girl before. It's better for the plotline and characterisation to just pretend some arcs didn't exist - they had to rush in places anyways.

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**** No, I meant having mostly Nagisa-focused scenes, don't misunderstand me... Sorry if I made it sound like they were making up stuff. And just to make myself clear, I don't dislike KyoAni (Hey, my favorite anime is ''{{Kanon}} 2006'') nor Clannad, case I was misunderstood. Just that, from my PoV, [=PoV=], they went kind of overboard on how much Nagisa appeared, even taking into account she's the main heroine with a longer plot and all that. It's not the plot's fault, is they way they played it out.
***** Well, neither Tomoyo nor Yukine were members. Yukine was just someone they talked to from time to time, and Tomoyo was student council president. And besides, ThisTroper this troper liked the extra focus on Nagisa, and the highlight of how she and Tomoya need each other. I could write a corresponding JustBugsMe about how Yuuichi seemed to deal with the Kanon girls like an assembly line process and forget them instantly after he's done, even when they are briefly apparently the most important people in his life. Made the whole freak out over Ayu unconvincing, since he seemed pretty darn able to move on to the next girl before. It's better for the plotline and characterisation to just pretend some arcs didn't exist - they had to rush in places anyways.
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* How Tomoya treats his father bugs me a bit. Sure, he severely damaged his arm (seriously, not cool), unabling him from playing basketball. But if you ask me, he's at least trying to be nice to him, even though there's a matter of negligence at all. The most baffling moment was when Tomoya was making that dango thing, his dad just looked at it, and made some reminiscing comment, and Tomoya was like "F*** you!" and ran away? What was the deal with that scene? Maybe I'm rambling too much...
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** I didn’t see anything at all indicating that this hill scene was all just going on in Tomoya’s head. Where do you see it?
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* I am very, very much bothered by exactly why so many people think that the scene in the last episode that was at the hill actually took place or something. It's almost painfully clear to me that it (as well as the similar scene in Episode 16, for that matter) was simply a symbolization of Tomoya's thought process, and has absolute no power on its own (it simply triggered the light orbs). So... yeah.
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** It's definitely ButtMonkey status. In the VisualNovel, Tomoyo eventually got baited into giving the other team a triple play, and nobody talked down on her (then again, she did manage that home run. Sunohara's only proper achievement at that point was tagging someone out after receiving a very nicely done pass by Mei.)
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** Since we're talking about the games, it did lightly mention the deed. The anime adaptation simply cut it out.
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** There is a special affinity between the two of them: Tomoya's the only one the cat manages to "talk" to in After Story episode 6.
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** [[OrSoIHeard From what this troper has heard]], the whole "sleeping in separate futons"-thing is apparently quite common in Japan, as they simply don't have futons big enough for two people to sleep on.

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** [[OrSoIHeard From what this troper has heard]], heard, the whole "sleeping in separate futons"-thing is apparently quite common in Japan, as they simply don't have futons big enough for two people to sleep on.
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* How come we never see Nagisa and Tomoya [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean doing the deed]]. I know it's it's at the G rating, [[BleachedUnderpants but this is Key we are talking about]], the other Seasonverse games have H-scenes, so why not Clannad? They even had both a clean and unclean version of both {{Air}} and {{Kanon}}. I know this is a stupid question and the obvious anwsers are either "[[GettingCrapPastTheRadar They can't get away with sex]]" and "[[Rule34 Let the fans draw it then]]", but it must be said.

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* How come we never see Nagisa and Tomoya [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean doing the deed]]. I know it's it's at the G rating, [[BleachedUnderpants but this is Key we are talking about]], the other Seasonverse games have H-scenes, so why not Clannad? They even had both a clean and unclean version of both {{Air}} and {{Kanon}}. I know this is a stupid question and the obvious anwsers are either "[[GettingCrapPastTheRadar They can't get away with sex]]" and "[[Rule34 "[[{{Rule34}} Let the fans draw it then]]", but it must be said.
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* How come we never see Nagisa and Tomoya [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean doing the deed]]. I know it's it's at the G rating, [[BleachedUnderpants but this is Key we are talking about]], the other Seasonverse games have H-scenes, so why not Clannad? They even had both a clean and unclean version of both {{Air}} and {{Kanon}}. I know this is a stupid question and the obvious anwsers are either "[[GettingCrapPastTheRadar They can't get away with sex]]" and "[[Rule34 Let the fans draw it then]]", but it must be said.
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* At the end of episode 16, Tomoya wishes he never met Nagisa and gets his wish, finding himself back at the hill and not saying a word to her, and so reality shifts so that he never met her. How, then, does he end up her widower and the father of her child at the start of episode 17?

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* At the end of episode 16, Tomoya wishes [[spoiler:wishes he never met Nagisa and gets his wish, finding himself back at the hill and not saying a word to her, and so reality shifts so that he never met her. How, then, does he end up her widower and the father of her child at the start of episode 17?17?]]
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* At the end of episode 16, Tomoya wishes he never met Nagisa and gets his wish, finding himself back at the hill and not saying a word to her, and so reality shifts so that he never met her. How, then, does he end up her widower and the mother of his child at the start of episode 17?

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* At the end of episode 16, Tomoya wishes he never met Nagisa and gets his wish, finding himself back at the hill and not saying a word to her, and so reality shifts so that he never met her. How, then, does he end up her widower and the mother father of his her child at the start of episode 17?
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* At the end of episode 16, Tomoya wishes he never met Nagisa and gets his wish, finding himself back at the hill and not saying a word to her, and so reality shifts so that he never met her. How, then, does he end up her widower and the mother of his child at the start of episode 17?
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** Blond is also typically the "bad boy/girl" hair color in Japan, since with their hair, it's usually only achieved by heavy bleaching. (Some kind of a rebel thing-- either way, it's still the bad boy image.) It may have made customers feel uncomfortable, so it had to go.
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**** Akio's strategy here is TruthInTelevision, especially in slow-pitch softball games. If you're in a game like this where you expect the balls to be regularly hit, you want 1) a pitcher who puts a lot of arch on it to keep the hitters from putting them out of play too regularly, and 2) you want your best athletes at key defensive positions.
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* Misae's cat. Whenever Tomoya hangs out in Sunohara's room, or is alone, or even if Misae is in the same room, that cat is always near him or in Tomoya's lap. Is he, just as Misae said, wearing clothes made of catnip?
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** In the game, Tomoya and Nagisa do actually share the same futon on occasion both before and after they get married.
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** His hair is also the most obviously bright one. Blue is practically used as a lighter shade of black in cartoons, and even the green hair was pretty dark. Also ButtMonkey
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* And back to Sunohara getting unfairly treated: Episode 16 of After Story. Sunohara and the others ([[BrotherChuck except Tomoyo]]) go visit Tomoya and Nagisa to celebrate New Year. Sunohara calls Tomoya "Okazaki", as he's ''always'' done. Both Tomoya and Nagisa reply, even though he always calls Nagisa for her ''first'' name (And with honorific, something Tomoya doesn't gets). Thusly Kyou chastises... Sunohara, since both are "Okazaki" now. Even though he did his normal thing and Nagisa was the dumb one for replying when he's never called her for her last name. It's even worse when you consider Tomoya calls Kyou for her first name and Ryou for her last name, yet Kyou ''never'' gets confused, even though it's the same thing. So, basically, Kyou is a hypocrite, Sunohara [[CosmicPlaything gets punished for doing things right]] and Nagisa ''never'' makes mistakes, even when she does (Then again, two episodes before she couldn't see through her dad's PaperThinDisguise... And in the previous one she couldn't think of names based on hers except "Nagisako" and "Nagisami"... The brightest crayon in the box she ain't.), SoYeah. And yes, I [[MST3KMantra shouldn't think this THAT much]], but still...

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* And back to Sunohara getting unfairly treated: Episode 16 of After Story. Sunohara and the others ([[BrotherChuck except Tomoyo]]) go visit Tomoya and Nagisa to celebrate New Year. Sunohara calls Tomoya "Okazaki", as he's ''always'' done. Both Tomoya and Nagisa reply, even though he always calls Nagisa for her ''first'' name (And with honorific, something Tomoya doesn't gets). Thusly Kyou chastises... Sunohara, since both are "Okazaki" now. Even though he did his normal thing and Nagisa was the dumb one for replying when he's never called her for her last name. It's even worse when you consider Tomoya calls Kyou for her first name and Ryou for her last name, yet Kyou ''never'' gets confused, even though it's the same thing. So, basically, Kyou is a hypocrite, Sunohara [[CosmicPlaything gets punished for doing things right]] and Nagisa ''never'' makes mistakes, even when she does (Then again, two episodes before she couldn't see through her dad's PaperThinDisguise... And in the previous one she couldn't think of names based on hers except "Nagisako" and "Nagisami"... The brightest crayon in the box she ain't.), SoYeah.). And yes, I [[MST3KMantra shouldn't think this THAT much]], but still...

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***OTOH, if the action takes place anywhere after 2000, the lack of mobile phones is just implausible.



** ...You remember why Nagisa was in that predicament in the first place, right? Because they were snowed in? Add that onto the fact that the birth occurred a fortnihgt earlier than expected, and you'd have to wonder how could any of them have known that this was going on.

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** ...You remember why Nagisa was in that predicament in the first place, right? Because they were snowed in? Add that onto the fact that the birth occurred a fortnihgt fortnight earlier than expected, and you'd have to wonder how could any of them have known that this was going on.

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