Surprisingly enough, this movie came out a month before the anime series was aired on Japanese TV (I’m not sure if Toei wanted to get one up on Kyoto Animation?). There are some subtle differences between the two which has divided opinion amongst fans namely the characterisations of the main players but I’ll go on about that in a bit. Kyoto Animation did the anime series whilst Toei did this movie. Two different companies have made their own version of Clannad. That was a mistake on my behalf as this movie compresses events in both series down to a 90 min movie. I watched the Clannad anime series about 5 or 6 years ago and enjoyed it very much but I passed up on the second series (After Story) due to negative comments about it. Tomoya’s relationship with Nagisa deepens as he is introduced to her eccentric family who run a bakery. Nagisa wants to do a soliloquy at the school festival based on a dream she keeps getting (the same one as Tomoya). However as nobody joins, Tomoya and his friend Yousuke agree to join the club as backstage hands. Even though the school council rejects her application and even defaces her posters that she has placed all around the school, due to intervention by school teacher Ms Ibuki the club is allowed to run. After meeting her again on the school roof, she tells him that she wants to restart the defunct Drama Club and has prepared some posters featuring some old mascots called The Dango Family. He discovers that Nagisa is repeating her third year as she was off the previous year due to illness. He isn’t too bothered about the request and allows her to follow behind him. One morning on the way to school he meets a girl called Nagisa Furukawa who asks if she can accompany him up the hill to school. He keeps getting a strange dream that he is alone in an unknown world. He is moody and sullen and only attends school as he has nothing better to do than hang out with his friend Sunohara. Tomoya Okazaki is a high school student who doesn’t get along with his father since the death of his mother when he was a child and this has affected him.
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