This is a work with soul. Bi Feiyu said, "The miracle of literature can never be created by literature, only life can make literature more meaningful", and the same is true in the context of animation - animation that can inspire us only by returning to life is meaningful.
Clannad did it.
Clannad contains a wake-up call to the original intention (Yusuke's story), a meditation on happiness and love (Apricot, Tomoyo, Fuko, and the Furukawa family), and uses tears to evoke our reflection on responsibility and family (Tomoya and Naoyuki, Tomoya and Shio) ). Being able to control so many connotations and express so many things without being superficial is itself the skill of a screenwriter.
I came across this animation at a time when real life was not very pleasant. Look at it with self-defeating and self-narcotic. However, when I read it, it was not the intoxication of free objects, nor the pain of waking up from self-anesthesia, but a serious, face-to-face sense of reality and vague firmness - to live seriously.
Maybe my description is too exaggerated, and this work may not have such a profound skill, but the vague and calming feeling is wonderful and does exist.
Clannad may be a dream outside our reality, experiencing the ups and downs of life, the turbulence of the world, the smoothness of the plains, the silence of the valleys, the steepness of the cliffs, and then woke up in the ending song [TORCH]. Then we found out with joy and calmness that no matter how difficult the reality is, there is no way I can go; no matter how difficult the reality is, I will live seriously.
Works that touch so many emotions and touch every aspect of life look different to everyone. Everyone who watches this work should penetrate the lengthy plot (a long plot is a bad point) to gain their own understanding. I hope everyone can get that kind of quiet power to face life that is not straight.
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