From the overall impression, CLANNAD still belongs to the category of "surreal harem-oriented" animation. As an animation adapted from the game, it cannot get rid of the cute business skills and the too long and complicated story line. According to the theory of pure literature, all these non-literary contents are thrown away, and what remains is its unique moving.
The work has always been in a state of quiet telling, showing the hero's gains and losses during the six years from the third year of high school to the age of 26, conveying a complex experience of personnel changes. The theme of each little story is different, but behind those scattered stories, the same simplicity and simplicity remain the same. The most impressive thing about this work is its simple, moving and deeply emotional use. The protagonists in the works all face life seriously, persistently, and diligently; as if the beginning and end of those seemingly subtle things contain extremely important meanings. The meaning of life is inherently inconclusive; a more popular argument is the realization of people's self-worth. But the term self-worth always feels biased towards a great career and achievement. Personally, I value the most simple meaning of people's most obscure emotions. Therefore, this definition did not cause more touching. In this work, there is not much about the social meaning of people, and more about the meaning of family, friendship and love to life. Sometimes I think that it doesn't take too many skills to be moved. If you can reveal all of your heart without reservation, you will find that every sincere talk is a naked warmth, and life is like white. The paper, shredded into small pieces, is an opportunity to fill your eyes again and again.
When the protagonists in the story show their powerlessness and strength in those traumatic years again and again, these long-accumulated emotions indiscriminately break into the end of our beliefs, and we are unprepared and can only be indifferent and silent. Accept the hits again and again. We would cry without warning, as if all the grief had been brewing in us for a long time. Why do people cry like a fool again and again when they are alive; how much sadness can a salty tear hold? Few people do not feel powerless when confronted with their own emotions. But this feeling can so easily shake the values and ideals that I hold tightly. We always walk with a lot of beliefs that we have no name for, but after hitting something, beliefs are scattered all over the place. The ground has to be picked up again; day by day, this is always repeated.
The hero of the story, Tomoya, is set from the very beginning as a high school senior who has long been indifferent to life and study. It is not so much that he has no dreams, it is better that he does not understand the meaning of pursuing dreams in life. The loneliness and indifference to the unknowable future in him are almost the epitome of each of us. We walk with our own values every day, but we forget our original intentions again and again, and let life pass without any pity. Out of conceit, he pushed the heroine Nagisa, who was feeling lonely and struggling on the uphill slope of life, "If the happiness in the past is not there, why not look for new happiness." Straightforward and strong, he left footnotes for the rest of his life. Zai Tomoya helped Nagisa rebuild the drama club, and met many members with her. After several setbacks, he finally successfully completed the story of "The Girl Who Ended the World" at the campus festival. At this point, the story of the college chapter has come to an end. Looking back on the stories in these 23 episodes, there are beautiful encounters, relaxed and funny campus life, complex and difficult emotional entanglements, and sincere friendships that last forever. . . . . . . Generally speaking, although the first part of the story is not lacking in delicate touches, it is more of a lighthearted and cheerful one, which is a series of heavy foreshadowings for the after story.
CLannad's theme is family. There are all kinds of relatives in this world. There are parents like Nagisa's parents who are warm, relaxed, and always full of energy. There are also Tomoya who lost his mother when he was a child, and a father who is drunk all day and doesn't care about his son and family. Although the relatives have different forms, they have given love without reservation, and they have also been hurt because of too much love. Two hearts that can't understand each other, but always love each other deeply - there is always a simple formula for home. Perhaps it is not based on so-called ethics that families gather together. I believe that because we still have that sincere love, we will keep looking forward to each other again and again. One day, our expectations will be answered - just believing it is that simple. Family love is always a long chase and a long wait; no matter who is chasing who is waiting in his heart, what remains the same is the endless accumulation of years.
However, in this long wait, sometimes we also lose the courage to persevere. In the story, Tomoya-kun has been unable to find any hopeful light in his father, just when his father was detained for selling illegal goods, which indirectly caused him to lose a better job; the dissatisfaction and complaints he had accumulated over the years were momentary. After all his reason was washed away, it might not be his father who failed at this moment. Otherwise, how could he feel an unprecedented setback and depression; at this moment, he was defeated by himself who was toyed with by this tragic fate. In the after, in addition to interspersed with two dungeon stories, all the focus is on the pursuit of the true meaning of life with Tomoya-kun about home, about relatives, and about the true meaning of life. After graduating from high school, he had to try to enter the adult world. He lived in a dilapidated low-rent housing and found a hard job of leaving early and returning late. The only gratification was the little happiness with Nagisa. As the years go by, we unconsciously and silently change. We gave up the frivolity and fantasy we once had, and worked hard in the drive to make a living. At the same time, we were numb in the so-called hard work, forgetting what hard work is. In fact, everyone has different views on survival, and there are many people who insist on their own beliefs and live under their own will forever. But sometimes, being alive is not everyone's right. For those who are weak and powerless in the face of complex fate, how should we face life in life? Even though there is still no way out in the labyrinth of life, Tomoya and Nagisa still come together, vowing to support each other for the rest of their lives. In the days that followed, although it was still as hard as before, he felt more fulfilled than ever, because he had a lifelong partner, a child who was about to be born, and everything he wanted to protect. Everything seems so unpredictable, but it is vivid and delicate and extremely real. Tomoya seems to be about to find the exit, but life will never be just a simple repair; out of a maze, waiting for the next maze; one is connected to the other, repeatedly, year after year, life and death. Due to an inexplicable illness, Nagisa finally left Tomoya after having a difficult child. For the next five years, Tomoya left Xi to Nagisa's parents. He didn't think about anything and didn't have any expectations. He tried his best to avoid those cracked scars, and repeated the next in a mess of gray. Every day, life seems to complete an emotionless form. People always think that something is wrong after setbacks, and even everything should never have started. Knowing that everything is irreversible, they always grab those meaningless answers. "If I hadn't met Nagisa on that cherry blossom ramp, I wouldn't have walked into her life, all the tragedies. Origin will not occur. What if..." He was puzzled, and in his hunger for meaning in life, he was like a cold beast seeking answers that were as cruel as possible to make him forget the pain.
Five years later, Nagisa's mother arranged a chance for Tomoya and Xi to be alone. The next part is the most touching part of the whole show. The once frivolous teenager has now become a father smoking a cigarette butt; facing this little girl with doubts in her eyes, it is doubt, surprise, or an inexplicable sense of incongruity; not only male The protagonist is also the doubt in our hearts. I don't know when we should forget our vulnerability and protect those who are more vulnerable than us. Tomoya didn't understand how to solve this complex change with his single mode of thinking at first. He subconsciously cooked food for Xi, and he did his best to show disdain for Xi who was independent at the age of five, but he understood. Why can't I face Shio completely like a stranger? There is probably a rope between relatives that cannot be released from the beginning, and they are firmly tied to each other; it is also destined that every deviation will eventually be captured. Tomoya seemed to be destined not to give up all of this easily from the moment he first caught sight of those young eyes; this would be a contract that never ends. As a result, his passion, which seemed to have dried up long ago, inadvertently showed concern for Shio time and time again. In the end, he took Shio on the train to travel as Sanae had envisioned.
The time on the train seems to be easily swallowed by the irresistible shock. Outside the car window is the fast speeding scenery and the world abandoned by the speed. The train dragged along the mountain tunnel without a trace, letting the light and shadow of the world rub against each other in front of us. Driven by the icy gears, everyone was accompanied by a loud roar, and it was too late to say goodbye to those who had never been. Concerned thoughts. "Just keep walking like this, can you reach the end of the world?" And at the end hidden behind the setting sun, how will it explain the meaning of life? Tomoya's indifference seems to easily make Shio cry. During the trip, the two of them were mostly speechless, and he didn't understand whether this trip was really happy for Shio. At the station, Tomo also bought a robot for Xi, and Xi seemed to be very happy, and Tomo also felt that it would be better to buy a girl's toy at that time. When they arrived at their destination, Tomoya and Xi came to a sea of flowers; where Tomoya met his grandmother, talked about his father, and gradually recalled the little bits and pieces of his childhood...... In my childhood impression, my father didn't seem to be so indifferent. Although he endured the pain of losing his wife, he still held Tomoya's hand and vowed to live for Tomoya. Although he lives in poverty, his career is not going well, and he has to take care of his wayward Pengya, his father occasionally drinks alcohol to relieve his worries, and even makes a big deal with Peng, but he usually uses his meager savings to buy toys for Pengya. Parents are always fools in front of their children. Like children, they express their joys, sorrows and sorrows without reservation; it seems difficult for us to respond to their deep expectations when we are young. Anticipation expressed boredom and disgust, desperately trying to break free from contact with the two people in front of her. We naively thought that only by getting rid of this shackles, both parties would be able to relax and be happy; our foolish expectations made us more and more unable to see the shadow of our parents. In the story, the male protagonist really experienced the concern of his father when he became a father himself; looking at Xi, who was as happy as he was playing as a child, he seemed to understand his father's mood at that time. A solid hand always holds your own hand tightly. This is a contract and a lifetime commitment.
I don't think much about my fragility, because there are people who are worth protecting forever; I give up everything I have, and put my dreams on my children without reservation; even if life is difficult, I have to keep that moment to face Desperately strong - that's called parenting. Under the call of family love, Tomoya finally got out of the desperate situation of life; in a sea of flowers, from the crying Xi who fell in his arms without reservation, he realized the loneliness that lacked family love in the young Xi, and he faced Nagisa. I swore that for those who are worthy of my protection, I will never perish here in the future. At the end of the trip, the father and daughter hugged and cried.
I don't know when, we have to let go of our past self and stand on a brand new day. All things that are attached to reality are easily dissolved in time; however, we have been chasing a pure and eternal emotion. Can we really be strong enough to face the great changes in life? Do we have enough courage to bear the loss when everything we cherish has left you? The stars change, the four seasons alternate, and no life is static; even so, do we still have this belief in loving life? Casting all our expectations in the whirlpool of years, will it really reach the dream state one day? Will there be a day when all kinds of doubts will be relieved? It seems that we all have our own answers to life, but sometimes we still have doubts and feel overwhelmed; in the face of the impact of new values and new ideas, where will we find that share of past and present? moved?
CLannad is a touching animation about family love, growth, and the value of life. Different from those works that feel the impact of profound concepts and thus bring people to reflect, what it brings to people is a kind of meticulous understanding of the depths of the details. As the protagonist walks through those twelve years of life, not only the characters in the story have changed, but also our original intentions. What reverberates in my memory are those scattered cherry blossoms in spring, the green town, the scenery passing by the car window, and the tender feelings that were gently crushed. I don't know when, tears will fall quietly, the ice in your heart will be thawed, you will care about every friend and relative around you, you will care about those boring studies and work, and you will take it seriously like never before. Life.
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