History WMG / Clannad

[[WMG: Clannad broke the forth wall in episode 22 of ''After Story''.]]

Let's recapitulate: Tomoya's mother dies in his early childhood. His dreams of being a basketball player are shattered by his father who accidentally breaks his shoulder. Then, Tomoya's father, full of angst, drinks and wastes his money at gambling. Then Tomoya marries Nagisa, sees her dying by childbirth at home while a snow tempest blows outside. Then he leaves his daughter Ushio to her grandparents until he wakes up five years later and takes her back from them so they can finally cry for their daughter. And finally, Ushio, who was pretty healthy until then, suddenly becomes ill and dies in the street in his father's arms (under the snow, of course). At this rate, a third season of Clannad might feature the Furukawas' bakery burning down to the ground (with them in it), a major earthquake crumbling down the whole city while Tomoya is hunting starfishes at the beach, and end with a homeless and drunk Tomoya dying, eaten alive by boars. And more snow.

While the fact that Ryou's life was in danger is the main reason, but [[spoiler: the buscrash]] makes it even harder for her.

Based on previous WMG. Just listen to them. They sound [[MaiNakahara exactly the same]], and they both love cute things. They're also both in after-school clubs.

* Time for an elaboration. The city gets it's satisfaction when people cross the DespairEventHorizon. When Nagisa was nearly dying, the city knew that her death will only affect her parents and thus will not satisfy it. Around this time, they also noticed Tomoya's depressing relation with his father. It decided to have Tomoya follow in his father's foot steps. So what do they do? Time for a GambitRoulette! First, the city gives Nagisa some of it's life force to keep her going until she meets and eventually falls in love with Tomoya. Soon during After Story, when Nagisa is preggers, the city decides it's time to kill her off. Bonus points if you can consider the city may have the power to control the "[[KamenRiderDouble WEATHER!]]" (sorry, couldn't resist.) After being satisfied with the death and grieving, they decide to bother Tomoya's life when he reunites with his daughter by ''taking her life force away''. This winds up killing Tomoya too. So that reset button ending? It was Fuuko behind it all, and how does Tomoya clearly recall the downer ending? Because it's like being traumatized, you can never block it out of your mind.

[[WMG: Kotomi went to America to work at [[HalfLife Black Mesa]].]]

[[WMG: Misae Sagara is the daughter of [[FullMetalPanic Kaname Chidori and Sousuke Sagara.]]]]

2. Alternatively, neither of their wishes were actually granted. I hate to bring up the image of a parasite, but that might be what it was. Why was Shiima human in the first place? Someone may have wished he was, most likely his former owner before he died. If so, why did Shiima revert back to a cat? It is possible that keeping Shiima a human for the rest of his life would have been too difficult, requiring more magical power than an orb can provide.This also explains why it took more than one to bring Ushio and Nagisa back to life, and why Nagisa was only temporarily saved at the beginning. Eventually the orb became used up, in trying to keep Shiima a human. And when it was gone, there was no more power to keep his humanity.

Finally, when things calm down and Akio is well enough to go run the bakery again, Nagisa and Tomoya feel it's the right time to start their own family. Nagisa, healthy over the sickness caused by the plains being destroyed have passed and Ushio was brought into the world safely.

** Alternately, an [[PuellaMagiMadokaMagica Incubator]] is behind it all, trying to harvest despair without turning people into Magical Girls.

Both towns ARE stated to be somewhat sentient, and have a degree of reality warping ability.

If we are to personify the city and make it seem like a character, then we might as well consider this [[CompleteMonster option as well]].

I mean, just look at her. She has the same blue hair as him! My theory behind this is that Okazaki didn't want his little sister to grow up with the crappy life that he has, so he had Sunohara's family look after her, and Sunahara's parents just told him that she was his sister. And he's stupid enough to believe it.

So... the city has a plan. Time for a XanatosGambit!

## it was a XanatosGambit to get the other gang's leader to back down and ''listen to what she had to say'' for a change. If you watch After Story episodes 7 and 8, you'll notice the members of the other gang dismiss right away, without pausing to consider the situation, what she's trying to tell them (i.e.: "we can avoid this meaningless fight"). How do you get a manly-man to listen to what a "weak girl" has to say? [[{{Moe}} Secret]] [[TheWoobie weapon]]!

* Time for an elaboration. The city gets it's satisfaction when people cross the DespairEventHorizon. When Nagisa was nearly dying, the city knew that her death will only affect her parents and thus will not satisfy it. Around this time, they also noticed Tomoya's depressing relation with his father. It decided to have Tomoya follow in his father's foot steps. So what do they do? Time for a XanatosRoulette! First, the city gives Nagisa some of it's life force to keep her going until she meets and eventually falls in love with Tomoya. Soon during After Story, when Nagisa is preggers, the city decides it's time to kill her off. Bonus points if you can consider the city may have the power to control the "[[KamenRiderDouble WEATHER!]]" (sorry, couldn't resist.) After being satisfied with the death and grieving, they decide to bother Tomoya's life when he reunites with his daughter by ''taking her life force away''. This winds up killing Tomoya too. So that reset button ending? It was Fuuko behind it all, and how does Tomoya clearly recall the downer ending? Because it's like being traumatized, you can never block it out of your mind.

Let's recapitulate : Tomoya's mother dies in his early childhood. His dreams of being a basketball player are shattered by his father who accidentally breaks his shoulder. Then, Tomoya's father, full of angst, drinks and wastes his money at gambling. Then Tomoya marries Nagisa, sees her dying by childbirth at home while a snow tempest blows outside. Then he leaves his daughter Ushio to her grandparents until he wakes up five years later and takes her back from them so they can finally cry for their daughter. And finally, Ushio, who was pretty healthy until then, suddenly becomes ill and dies in the street in his father's arms (under the snow, of course). At this rate, a third season of Clannad might feature the Furukawas' bakery burning down to the ground (with them in it), a major earthquake crumbling down the whole city while Tomoya is hunting starfishes at the beach, and end with a homeless and drunk Tomoya dying, eaten alive by boars. And more snow.

[[WMG:''CLANNAD'' is a corrupted retelling of ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime Ocarina of Time]]'' in a MagicRealism setting (a.k.a. Tomoya is a reincarnation of [[TheLegendOfZelda Link]]).]]

I mean, just look at her. She has the same blue hair as him! My theory behind this is that Okazaki didn't want his little sister to grow up with the crappy life that he has, so he had Sunohara's family look after her, and his parents just told him that she was his sister. And he's stupid enough to believe it.

The first season ends with an alternate-universe story where Tomoyo wins, and tells the story of how Tomoya is made to break up with her so that she can succeed as student council president without his bad influence. At a few points, we cut to a shot of a railway gate raising on a sunny day. At the end of the episode, we see Tomoya waiting behind this gate to encounter Tomoyo on the other side, who has brought a box lunch for him. A happy future in this timeline? No! In this timeline, Tomoya gets a lousy office job at a recycling facility, and wears a suit as he rides the train to work. But in this scene, Tomoya is wearing his power company work clothes, which is the job he gets in After Story ''on the main timeline''. So, it's likely we're meant to read this episode as Tomoya seeing Tomoyo and having a fleeting fancy of "what could have been", seen as the events of the alternate timeline.

Is because while they were sleeping, [[HaruhiSuzumiya a closed space enveloped their school, and the world was reset/recreated/what-have-you.]]

In reference to one of the theories on the ''{{Air}}'' [[WMG/{{Air}} WMG]] page, here's an idea that Yuuichi or Mai obtained a Light Orb from Ushio or Tomoya when the Illusory World collapsed. As a result, Ayu wakes up from her coma after ten years.

[[WMG:''CLANNAD'' is a corrupted retelling of ''{{Ocarina of Time}}'' in a MagicRealism setting (a.k.a. Tomoya is a reincarnation of [[TheLegendOfZelda Link]]).]]

[[WMG: Time is meaningless in the Illusionary World/it has it's own dimension of time]]