History VisualNovel / Clannad

** [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] by ''~After Story~'' 18, where Tomoya's grandmother explains to him that his father [[spoiler:threw away all his chances to have a good life just so he could raise Tomoya as best as he could.]] To be fair, Naoyuki did have breakdowns in the later years, but when Tomoya realizes that he's been doing a GenerationXerox ever since [[spoiler:Nagisa died]], he wholeheartedly forgives his father, and reconciles with Ushio.

* FelonyMisdemeanor: Tomoya and Youhei are considered delinquents, though all they do is skip class and show up late when they do bother to attend.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Kotomi, Tomoya, and the Fujibayashi sisters.

* AdultFear:
** This show takes a shot at fathers. [[spoiler:Imagine if your wife died giving birth, and you'd raised your child for years, only to have her die in your arms, her last words were that she loved you and didn't know why it was getting so dark. Tomoya broke down and cried, dying and crying out for someone to help him save his daughter.]]
** Akio and Sanae as well. [[spoiler:Imagine if your daughter died giving birth and you were forced to raise her child for five years due to your son-in-law's HeroicBSOD. Then he gets over it and takes her back only for her to become terribly ill and die from the same illness that killed your daughter, leaving your son-in-law to die of despair, clutching the corpse of your five-year-old granddaughter.]] Yikes.

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[[caption-width-right:331: [-[[Characters/{{Clannad}} A few]] of your [[LoveInterest heroines]] in ''CLANNAD'', clockwise from midnight: [[NiceGirl Yukine Miyazawa]], [[{{Tsundere}} Kyou]] [[ClassRepresentative Fujibayashi]], [[BrattyHalfpint Fuko]] [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Ibuki]], [[IllGirl Nagisa]] [[ShrinkingViolet Furukawa]], [[BookWorm Kotomi]] [[TeenGenius Ichinose]], [[ActionGirl Tomoyo]] [[StudentCouncilPresident Sakagami]].-] ]]

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[[caption-width-right:332: [-[[Characters/{{Clannad}} A few]] of your [[LoveInterest heroines]] in ''CLANNAD'', clockwise from midnight: [[NiceGirl Yukine Miyazawa]], [[{{Tsundere}} Kyou]] [[ClassRepresentative Fujibayashi]], [[BrattyHalfpint Fuko]] [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Ibuki]], [[IllGirl Nagisa]] [[ShrinkingViolet Furukawa]], [[BookWorm Kotomi]] [[TeenGenius Ichinose]], [[ActionGirl Tomoyo]] [[StudentCouncilPresident Sakagami]].-] ]]

* FakedRipVanWinkle: Tomoya pulls this off against a half-asleep Sunohara -- twice, in one minute. Sunohara really is [[WhatAnIdiot that stupid]].

* HairColors: Hair colors run the usual rainbow gambit, but it is Sunohara's blond hair that Fūko [[LampshadeHanging calls out as unnatural]]. In this instance, she's correct (albeit rude): his hair is naturally dark, like his sister Mei's, and he dyes it blond. We see his natural hair color in some of the {{omake}}s and toward the end of ''~After Story~''.

* SiblingYinYang: Kyou and Ryou.
* SiblingTriangle: Kyou and Ryou, with Tomoya.

The original VisualNovel was made by Creator/KeyVisualArts and released on 28 April 2004. A sequel to one route ''Tomoyo After'', was released on 25 November 2005. The {{manga}} adaptation, illustrated by Juri Misaki, was published by Jive between November 2005 and March 2009; Drama [=CDs=] were released in 2007. In September 2007, Creator/ToeiAnimation released TheMovie, directed by Creator/OsamuDezaki – his final project, it turned out. The television series, produced by Creator/KyotoAnimation, aired from 4 October 2007 to 27 March 2008. The series was directed by Tatsuya Ishihara, and written by Fumihiko Shimo, with Kazumi Ikeda serving as character designer and chief animation director. The VisualNovel and the {{anime}} television series are each divided into two parts, the high school portion, which takes place during the first few weeks of Tomoya's senior year, and the ''After Story'', which takes place later. Two special OVA episodes were made for this series. The first is the [[{{omake}} bonus episode]] 24 in the first season, [[AlternateUniverse "Another World: Tomoyo Arc"]], and the second the [[{{omake}} bonus episode]] on the final Clannad DVD, [[AlternateUniverse "Another World: Kyou Arc"]].

The original VisualNovel was made by Creator/KeyVisualArts and released on 28 April 2004. The {{manga}} adaptation, illustrated by Juri Misaki, was published by Jive between November 2005 and March 2009; Drama [=CDs=] were released in 2007. In September 2007, Creator/ToeiAnimation released TheMovie, directed by Creator/OsamuDezaki – his final project, it turned out. The television series, produced by Creator/KyotoAnimation, aired from 4 October 2007 to 27 March 2008. The series was directed by Tatsuya Ishihara, and written by Fumihiko Shimo, with Kazumi Ikeda serving as character designer and chief animation director. The VisualNovel and the {{anime}} television series are each divided into two parts, the high school portion, which takes place during the first few weeks of Tomoya's senior year, and the ''After Story'', which takes place later. Two special OVA episodes were made for this series. The first is the [[{{omake}} bonus episode]] 24 in the first season, [[AlternateUniverse "Another World: Tomoyo Arc"]], and the second the [[{{omake}} bonus episode]] on the final Clannad DVD, [[AlternateUniverse "Another World: Kyou Arc"]].

([[{{Nerd}} For those who care about such things]]: over at the Anime News Network, ''CLANNAD ~After Story~'' (i.e. season two of the {{anime}} series) [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/ratings-anime.php is currently ranked #3]] among the almost 6000 {{anime}} series and movies listed there -- [[ViewersAreGeniuses at least if you go by]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayes_estimator Bayesian estimator.]] And for several years, it also previously held the #1 spot in a similar listing at [[http://myanimelist.net/topanime.php MyAnimeList.]] Not that online polls are worth the paper they're (not) written on. Still. Interesting.)

* DevelopersDesiredDate: While possibly unintentional, the fact is that Nagisa Furukawa's route is partially mandatory in a handful of the other character routes. Without a significant portion of her character route, you cannot complete the routes for Kotomi, Tomoyo and Fuko. If you do Nagisa's route last, you'll still have seen a large chunk of her route by default, and the future Tomoya has with Nagisa is the entire premise of the After Story. It also helps she's the only character on the English poster on Steam for both this game and "CLANNAD Side Stories" and ultimately her route ends up being the focus of the anime with the other character routes mentioned but tweaked so that Tomoya ends up with Nagisa by the end.

* TwoDecadesBehind: According to Wiki/{{Wikipedia}}, the events of the series take place starting in 2003, but there are no cellphones or computers seen ''anywhere'', save for the electric company office. Even then, the computer is still running Windows XP, which was a version out of date when the series aired, though XP was still in wide use at the time. Possibly justified in that the main characters are dirt poor. The series could have easily taken place in TheNineties or even TheEighties. We do see that the Furukawas have upgraded to a flat-screen TV later in ''~After Story~''.

* BreakTheCutie: Tomoya is a male example.
** [[spoiler:Poor Kyou and Ryou.]]

* [[ObstructiveBureaucrat Obstructive Bureaucracy]]: The student council is ridiculously obstructive to Nagisa's attempts to reestablish the theater club. Until Tomoyo gets elected president, that is.

Not to be confused with the Irish band [[Music/{{Clannad}} Clannad]] (although they are the origin of the name).

* FamousLastWords:
** "[[{{Understatement}} But I'm a little tired now. May I rest for a while?]]" [[spoiler: Nagisa, dying minutes after giving birth to Ushio.]] While a blizzard clogs the whole city up with [[SnowMeansDeath snow]].
** "[[spoiler: Papa?]] I love you." [[spoiler: Ushio, dying in Tomoya's arms.]] In the snow.
** "Someone! Someone save [[spoiler: Ushio! Nagisa!" Tomoya, before he follows Ushio in death.]] In the very same snow.

* HateSink: This is a NoAntagonist series, it's something of an 'everyday life'. Some of the biggest misery bringers like Okazaki's father even have sympathetic qualities and tragic backstories. But... the soccer team? The audience is probably cheering at Sunohara for beating them up after bullying Mei. To wit: They are such extreme JerkJock that no other clubs are like that (Basketball club is decent hearted, Rugby club is easily 'cowed' by Misae and they only react when Sunohara went over the top in annoying them), and even ''the biker gang'' has better moral standards than them. Probably intentional, since this series is chock full of sympathetic characters, they just need ''someone'' to full on hate.
•The Student who harrasses Tomoya so that he breaks up with Tomoyo can also count since he is a one-dimensional loser who only exists to meddle in other's business that doesn't concern them.

-->'''Kouko:''': [[spoiler: The other day, she (Fuko)...stopped breathing.]]