Write at the top:
- This article is written for those who are confused after seeing CLANNAD without resonance, and those potential viewers who have been pushed.
- This answer is my own subjective feeling, and I may criticize the "magical work" in your heart. Please go out and turn left for cl fanatics.
- If you have to watch it, then please ensure the basic quality. Don't take hats and personal attacks, it will only bring down the average quality of the CL audience.
- If discussing, please don't double standard. Since five-star praise is allowed, I must allow such moderate or even negative reviews that I think CLANNAD belongs to three-star works. Since CL is praised by fanatical fans as a masterpiece and a life, it must stand up to comparison and analysis of logic and details, which is in line with basic practical common sense. It may be that the expressions of literary and artistic works are different, but the basic script structure is similar, which is obviously inappropriate. The actual place shouldn't be put off by a simple sentence, don't look for reality in animation.
- I am talking about animation. If all adaptations need to find answers and rationality in the original work or comments, then this adaptation will undoubtedly fail.
- You can criticize my unprofessionalism, but I think there is a reason why CLANNAD failed to win any kind of professional awards. You can criticize me, and you can express your own arguments, but if there is a tendency to personal attack or abuse, I will delete the comment and block it as soon as possible.
The TV animation "CLANNAD" is a TV version of the animation work adapted by Kyoto Animation based on the game of the same name from the Key company. It is a fairly well-known work in the domestic and even world animation circles with relatively small themes. Countless fans have dubbed it "God's Work", "World's No. 1" and even scary-sounding:
"this is life"
I watched the two seasons of clannad a long time ago and tried the original game, but the experience it gave me was not as high as the fans touted. I have revisited what many people call "life", and I have made some extreme complaints, but this time I have also combined some opinions on the Internet to briefly talk about what problems exist in clannad in my eyes. This article will try to minimize it. It involves spoilers, but some content does need to be briefly mentioned, please read it as appropriate for friends who are watching this anime.
Of course, the author agrees with CL's status as a well-known work in the two-dimensional cultural circle, and also agrees with the evaluation on the Internet that CL is "a work of choice", but in the author's opinion, nothing should be placed on the altar , even if it is on the altar, it is by no means without flaws, sacred and inviolable, this article only represents my personal opinion as a person who does not match CLANNAD radio waves, but I believe that there will be many people who have the same opinion as me. In my opinion, since a cartoon is produced, broadcast on TV stations and the Internet, and has a large number of strong fans, then its audience and evaluation objects should not only be people who resonate with this work. If this is the case, Then all the film and television works on the Internet should also have full marks.
The total score is three stars, and the author's scoring standard is briefly described:
The first part belongs to the common problem of gal's modified works, and only half a star is deducted;
The second part is also a common problem for many animation works, and there are not many requirements; (can be skipped)
The third and fourth parts are the main problems of CLANNAD's work, deducting one and a half stars.
1. Congenital deficiency
Clannad can be said to be a success as a gal remodeling film, but it is also difficult to escape some of the problems common to gal male remodeling works.
1. The creation of female characters
As a man changing animation to galgame, naturally there are common problems of this type of game. In order to cater to the male audience, let the male protagonist become the center of the world, and the female characters are like "harem"-like stars and hold the moon around the male protagonist. This is in the overall structure. It will degrade the atmosphere of the whole work, which is why clannad, which is a tear-jerking work, does not attract female audiences.
The Nagisa line is a typical example. On the surface, a strong man takes the initiative, but in fact it is a model of a weak woman posting backwards. After the combination of the two, in the eyes of many viewers, Nagisa Furukawa has almost lost his independent personality, and he has become centered on the male protagonist in everything. For the male protagonist and the screenwriter's tool, although Nagisa and Tomo also belong to mutual redemption, this will also make many viewers feel uncomfortable.
In addition, most of CLANNAD's character designs are too flat, and the character characteristics of this kind of character design are relatively simple. When the audience further deeply feels and explores the depths of the character's soul, they will feel that such a character's spiritual characteristics can be seen at a glance, not to say such a character. The shape is not good, but the animation that focuses on emotions and life uses flat characters on such a large scale, but it cannot be recognized by all audiences.
2. Overall structure and narrative rhythm
It is still a matter of changing animation as a gal, cl chose to implement the concept of "a small town is a family" when adapting, merged most of the story of the game and transformed it into an animation, but it also brought a lot of branch lines and plots. The arrangement is slightly confusing, the development of the main line is affected, the rhythm of the early and late stages is not properly arranged, the early stage is too slow, the later stage is insufficient, etc. daily persuasion.
2. Logic and common sense
From the perspective of the whole play, it may also be due to the need to take care of the length of the animation, there are many logical problems, and of course there are many common sense unreasonable. Logically, many things in the more supernatural lines such as Fuzi and Shima thread are not clearly explained, and the emotional contrast also seems sudden and deliberate; the contradictions in the animation of Chunyuan and the football club are not explained clearly, etc.; the father sells "prohibited items" The plot, in addition to the unreasonable settings of the birthday bear and other details, will affect the viewing experience. (In terms of common sense, the most uncomfortable thing for the author is Nagisa's dystocia, which is really incomprehensible and unacceptable. In the plot, I know Nagisa has a physical problem, and I have made a lot of preparations before going to the hospital to give birth, and the coincidence encounters extremes. The weather eventually led to a dystocia and death.)
As far as the plot is concerned, the quality of each piece can be said to be mixed. There are father lines, Shio lines, Chunyuan lines that I prefer, and Fengzi lines and Shima lines that I hate very much, but here I still want to focus on it. Nagisa, I personally think that the most famous, most representative, and most uncomfortable chapter in CL's plot, of course, this may just be my perception of pursuing a strong plot rationality:
From the point of view of fate, a person who does not work hard and does not study well falls in love with a simple girl, does not seek to make progress and does not allow others to continue to develop, has no economic strength, knows that the girl is weak, but treats her who has just become an adult. The belly was enlarged, causing the girl to die in childbirth, and then cutting off the relationship with her father-in-law and mother-in-law. Everything made people full of "???" black question mark expressions. If it happens now, isn't this what we often call scumbag behavior? Including the sudden addition of Nagisa's illness, the audience fully felt the scripter's intentions. After killing Nagisa and resurrecting her with Guangyu, it shattered one of the few uncomfortable points in the whole play. It's like when you're hungry for a long time and finally ready to eat, the chef suddenly brings you a plate of mice*, looks at you with an affectionate face, and asks you not to be too moved and eat more.
When the same problem occurs many times in the whole play, it can only be explained that this is a typical screenwriter's lack of skill and control, and it is also an innate limitation of the work's carrier. Conceptually, it is walking with a limp. Leaving aside other elements, if the same plot pattern is placed in other movies and TV dramas of the same type, everyone will say that this is a proper bad movie. And do we really only need to feel the atmosphere rendering when watching animation without considering what the script is like? All I can say is that I hope that the Korean drama routines of the last century will appear less and less before our eyes.
This kind of plot development clannad's fanatics call it "life", but is this true life? Will the real world look like this?
3. Worldview
Immediately following the worldview question raised above, CLANNAD's most criticized failure is the setting of 'Guangyu' and another fantasy world. First of all, it did not clarify these settings, nor did it clarify the logical relationship.
In the face of some doubts about CLANNAD, some fans will use the female main body, fantasy world, and Guangyu to explain the rationality of the plot, and even bring out "magic realism" to bluff people, but it is these two elements that destroy the whole. The tone of the CLANNAD animation.
If there is no magic element, it is "magic realism". Magic realism should be built on the basis of fitting the real world and add magic elements to reflect the absurdity of reality. It is not enough to have magic elements, otherwise all fantasy novels are magic realities. doctrine. The element of light jade is completely out of reality. It is in the game to encourage Avinai. Because the game requires you to clear the level many times, the whole animation is neither magical nor realistic. This is a failure, not what can be done. Take out the advantages of blowing.
In the unclear explanation of these settings, many viewers expressed doubts, borrowing the continuous question of a friend on Zhihu,
People who have watched CLANNAD animations can try to answer the following questions: What is a fantasy world? Who is the girl? Who is the robot? What is Guangyu? What happened to Nagisa and Shio's mother and daughter's illness? What happened when Furukawa Akisheng brought the sick young Furukawa Nagisa to the woods in the town and was saved? How did the miracle of Nagisa's resurrection come about? Why is Ifuko so close to Shio Okazaki? AS What does the passage where Ifuko finds Shio Okazaki under the tree at the end mean?
Aside from these things that are not clear, let’s talk about Guangyu, the fantasy setting of Guangyu itself does not match the tone of the entire work’s tear-jerking. The screenwriter kills everyone and then uses the setting of Guangyu to resurrect them all. Makes all stories meaningless and tears-jerking deaths into cheap farce. You see that Dragon Ball will be sad because of the first death of Kelin and Turtle Immortal, but knowing that they can be resurrected and reincarnated in the dirt, then the dedication, sacrifice, and death of the people in these plays will no longer impress the audience.
"This tragedy is a success only if the character's efforts make the audience feel real."
4. Author's Intention and Tragedy Core
First, let's think about a small problem
Why don't people like the Korean dramas of the past few years or the domestic romance dramas of the past few years?
In my other drama review with more personal emotions, many friends questioned me "people like you are not suitable for watching a tragedy like CLANNAD" and "tragedy is like this". But what I want to say is that if you really understand tragedy and watch a lot of tragedy, it won't be much touched by CLANNAD's expression method, because it is not good in terms of conception, plot or expression.
There are many types of tragedies, such as heroic struggle (Igleton: knowing it cannot be done), defying fate, petty person tragedies, etc. Aristotle said, "All tragedies are nothing more than The tragedies caused by the mockery of fate or the oppression of the social order, or the weaknesses and mistakes of human nature. However, modern drama thinks that excellent tragedies are often "non-coincidental", "irresponsible" and "realistic" to induce reflection and self-deconstruction with the shell of tragedy. The "tragic" of the tragedy that the audience thinks is not what the tragedy intends to show, or the starting point of the tragedy, "tragic" is just an experience of the audience. And if the creator of the tragedy turns the table inside out, he will fall into another kind of kitsch trap of "deceiving" the audience (reader). In a nutshell:
Moved for the sake of being moved, sold miserable for the sake of misery, and used clichéd serial tragedies to defraud cheap tears.
Speaking of bad vulgar dramas, except for the so-called bad vulgar plot reasons, most of them are unrealistic, stressing responsibility, accidental, plus the kind of car accident, amnesia, sudden terminal illness, and the death of both parents. Such irresistible and accidental external factors to cover up the original contradictions between the characters further eliminate the original ingenuity and authenticity of the works, which is also the reason why works of natural and man-made disasters are not favored by others. And the same creative concept, I also saw a similar shadow in CLANNAD, using the death of a simple character to give the audience a "miserable" intuitive feeling, using responsible wrong actions to lead to a tragic ending, a typical cliché performance method. Of course I am sure that CLANNAD has a very good atmosphere rendering ability, but there are also many times it also gives me the illusion of watching an old Korean drama. (If you call me unreasonable, you can take a break. Can't the masterpiece of the cartoon be compared with the plot of the third-rate TV series?)
Let’s talk about the author’s intentions, or the great God Mazi in your mouth, what did he think? Maybe he still wanted to tell the story well in the early stage, but later the whole story of CLANNAD gradually went to the extreme, and became a selling for the purpose of cheating tears. awful. Use all kinds of death and extreme plots to push the whole story forward, which may deceive children and give them a feeling of "Ah, so dark, so real, is CLANNAD from the DC universe?" People with experience and critical spirit will clearly feel the purpose of the screenwriter and the production team—“to make you cry”.
It can't be said that it's all bad. He really touched people in the environment and atmosphere. Even people like me who didn't resonate with him were moved a few times. But in essence, in terms of creation, they will fall into a strange circle, which makes the whole plot full of unnatural feeling, obliterating the "subtle" feeling that people have about the structure of the story. , as expected.” The contrived craftsmanship.
For the same type of work, we can take a look at "Warm Spring", the standard "make you cry" style of creation. Don't talk to me about the practical significance, in-depth analysis, all excessive interpretations are real hooligans. I really want to use the fan filter to see the warm spring. It can also be said that "Warm Spring" profoundly reflects the social reality, the poverty in the mountains, and the protagonist's efforts to change his destiny, etc. But no matter how much analysis is done, they are essentially the same. The tragic encounters of the characters are not about how to promote the plot or improve the theme, but are just to help shape the atmosphere and make the audience shed a few more tears. This is also such a work. The key reason why it is difficult to climb the hall of elegance.
5. About painting, text literary and other aspects
This is really not my expertise, so I won't comment on it.
sp: Audience and fan behavior (not included in the score, just complaining)
The author has always been thinking about CL's fan audience. I can only roughly confirm that any college graduate who likes CL will probably not call him a "magical work" and then call it "life". Yesterday I stumbled across another UP's analysis and immediately felt stunned:
I think that the brainless blow of this film is mostly teenagers. To be precise, it should be a student between the ages of 13 and 22. The reasons are as follows: 1. The film is full of a lot of sensational clips, and some clips have a certain tear-jerking effect. It is difficult for people to make rational judgments when their emotions are fluctuating. The 13 to 22-year-old stage is in the age group with less contact with society and objective reality, and the inner energy has not yet reached the ceiling of its own potential. A tearjerker can easily be carried away by a point of view. These views seem to be very reasonable (it is indeed very reasonable), coupled with the praise of a group of anime bosses, the strange seeds of 'this is life' have been planted invisibly, and the audience immersed in this emotion has become unable to analyze rationally. eventually sink in. 2. For the father line, the 13-year-old is at the beginning of the rebellious period, and many of these children have a slightly rigid relationship with their father. In episode 41, the dialogue between Pengya and his father is very emotional, and it will have a tear-jerking effect, which makes such audiences seem to understand their father (the barrage can reveal his age in this place. Crazy 'Father, I'm wrong' is the best The great father' does not conduct character analysis at all. In fact, even after watching this, the rebellious person is still rebellious, because the father's role in reality is a million times more complicated than in the story, and he is not as simple as straight luck.). Then decide that this is life and blow it wildly. If a story can take a person from immaturity to maturity, what are those educators doing? Learning is a process of constant reflection, not something that can be solved by immersing in one emotion.
The author thinks that coupled with the fact that boys who like the second dimension naturally have some kind of contempt for domestic dramas and Korean dramas, they don’t know enough about the subject matter, and this large number of survivor deviations, it appears that CLANNAD is a masterpiece and a fool of life. A big conclusion.
When it comes to the behavior of fans, we must consider the atmosphere of the entire Internet, or the atmosphere of the rating area of station B, especially the group of CLANNAD, through the Internet to form a kind of identity through the collective emotional experience ceremony, the favorite fan drama. Ascended as a relic, and formed a moral sentiment that upholds a common symbol. Further use the means of fan circles to worship the sacred objects on the altar and make a list of votes; one-star evaluation of the "sullied" sacred objects is partisan and personal attack. This kind of atmosphere will increase the cost of the audience's low score. After all, if you don't give five stars, there will be a bunch of fans attacking you and labeling you "malicious", so who would dare to give a low score? The comment section of this article is a living example.
I have said a lot of what I want to say. At this moment, there must be friends who have not read it and have not read it will jump out and say:
"Why do you rate the world's No. 1 drama CLANAD, do you deserve it? Do you know how high CL's rating is?"
"You are malicious bad reviews, bad reviews for bad reviews"
"Even if you say that Po Datian is still at the top of the world, it is a masterpiece."
"He's just an anime, why do you demand him with these standards of movies, TV dramas and literature?"
etc.
Regarding these, I will give a concentrated reply in advance, and I will delete the repeated and unread messages that come to the line if they are not written on the front:
- First of all, whether it is ratings, popularity, or value, CL is far from the so-called world number one. No matter how high the score on the rating website is, it can only prove that he has a good popularity in the small circle. If CLANNAD is really of excellent quality and has the artistic value of "life", not to mention international awards, why did not one of the three Japanese animation entertainment awards were awarded to him, and he was not even nominated for the Agency for Cultural Affairs Award? The answer is very simple: the award for animation depends on the excellent animation language and the recognition of the industry, not on the use of vulgar bridges to deceive the tears of the late-night animation audience. If you don’t have excellent production techniques, profound artistic value, and you can’t reflect the creativity of the creator, of course you won’t get anything. But you don't have to worry about "why", you can think about whether he is worthy of the key?
- Please don't give anyone a malicious hat. You can upvote it just because you like it, and of course I'll give it a moderate one because it doesn't resonate well. Don't double-standard, negative reviews are inherently negative. Do you still expect me to give a positive negative review or a well-meaning negative review?
- I can't help you if you are willing to lie to yourself, but someone has to tell everyone what the correct aesthetic looks like. What is truly valuable. Letting a bunch of 13- or 14-year-olds hold cartoons every day and say "This is life" is not beautiful.
- The fanatical fans push around and promote it as "life". I just use the standard of ordinary TV literature to ask this "magical work" to simply point out the various problems in it and the possible quality of it. At a real level, please don't double-standard, not to say "magical work", at least look at CLannaD with the standard of a good work.
That's it, although I have said a lot of bad things, but the atmosphere of CL itself has a lot of merit, and there are still many merits in characterization. It's just like the title of my title says "good works may be good, but divine works may not be". Clearly an overrated work.
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