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Garden of Memories

Rating: 6/10

Kotomi can really keep secrets and act all innocent. I didn’t expect Kotomi to have remembered about Tomoya from the very beginning but apparently she did.

The details behind Kotomi’s pasts were finally unveiled and Tomoya began to recalled everything that had happened in the past before. But at least now we finally got some clues on Kotomi’s obsession with the violin and Tomoyo’s bear costume. It must have been really harsh to lose both parents in a single day, on your own birthday no less.

But what surprised me was how Tomoya never turned up for her birthday. It seemed unlikely that he just forgot about it. Hopefully he’ll tell his side of the story in the next episode (which is already out by now).

It’s also rather amazing if you think about it. Kotomi had been all alone, seemingly refusing any outside help and had stayed in her empty house all these years. I’m guessing that her parents probably left her quite a sum of money for her to actually come this far without any outside aid. While it won’t help with the story’s progress, one does have to wonder about it. Did she really became independent almost overnight or has the old man been watching and protecting her from a distance?

The next episode would be the final one in Kotomi’s arc and I’ll be watching it right after posting this, so hopefully I can put up a review for it by tomorrow.

Tomoya, just simply wandering into someone’s garden…

Been slacking off a lot lately (partly due to those damn sharks) so I really need to get the momentum going again.

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Hidden World

Rating: 7/10

The episode started off decently enough, but it’s too bad Kotomi had to return the violin so fast. I would have loved to see more mass destruction from Kotomi’s melody of death. And I think I’m liking Kyou more and more XD

Fuko making a cameo appearance was not only funny and unexpected, it also immediately gave hope that she will awaken before Clannad ends and everyone would be together with their starfish loving loli once again. I do have to admit that the scene felt really weird since it came out of nowhere but I don’t think it caused any real problems. The good outweighed the bad and that’s all that matters, isn’t it?

Kotomi’s problem finally surfaced as she went all emo at the scene of a road accident even though there were no casualties. After a little nosing around, Tomoya realized that he knew Kotomi back when they were kids and its dejavu all over again. This is getting to be an overused plot IMO. Even though I never did complete the series, it does feel like Kanon all over again.

The talk about the “hidden world” made me wonder. Could it be the world with the tin can robot and the mysterious girl that sometimes appear at the start of the episode before the focus shifts to main story? If so, then are any of them anyhow related to Tomoya? Makes me kinda wish I have the game right now.

Kyou enjoyed sexually harassing Kotomi so much, she decided to try it on Ryou…

“Nuuu!! Kyou, don’t leave me!”

This is one of Clannad’s weaker episode if you asked me, but the next episode promises to be a very good one and from what I know, it would also end Kotomi’s rather short arc.

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An After School Rhapsody

Rating: 7/10

Someone please explain to me the meaning of the “<insertnamehere> ja arimasen ka” joke because I seriously did not get it no matter how hard I tried. Did I mistook the meaning and completely missed the point?

Look’s like we now have a true weapon of mass destruction in Clannad. While Tomoyo’s Chun Li kicks and Kyou’s kicks+bike are merely weapons of distraction destruction, both of them could potentially only hit a single target at one time. Tomoyo’s high speed might come close to becoming “mass”, but it’s nowhere near the scale of Kotomi’s violin and her melody of death, capable of affecting hundreds if not thousands of poor souls at the same time.

I think I’m beginning to like Kyou more and more, especially when she’s all tsun-tsun. And especially during Tomoya’s fantasy of Kyou as a mahou shoujo!

Almost every time I see Kyou and Ryou together, I’m reminded of Kagami and Tsukasa, although they aren’t really all that alike except we have one reliable older sister and a younger, much more gullible looking younger sister.

Kotomi actually looks like she has something on Tomoya. But since we are talking about a girl genius whose reaction and logic is very different from your average high school girl, it may be too soon to say that she likes Tomoya on a more romantic level. More likely than not, Tomoya was her first true friend, and she’s just treasuring him as that. Tomoya isn’t that dense (luckily!) so he should have figured it out as well if that’s really the case.

I’ve been laughing like this a lot recently…

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The Girl Genius’ Challenge

Rating: 7/10

Have you ever wondered if Kyou really have a license to ride a bike around or does she just love to run over poor Tomoya? Now I do wonder which is deadlier, Kyou’s riding skills and deadly kicks combined or Tomoyo’s “Chun Li” combo kicks. Ahh… how I missed that.

It’s good that memories of Fuko still lingers around in their minds which is quite obvious from Tomoya calling Nagisa by name. Maybe there’s still hope for her before the series comes to an end.

Nagisa and Kotomi makes the perfect comedy pair ROFL They even have the same affection for dango daikazouku. They seemed to actually understand each other’s one word lines that just drives Tomoya nuts.

I wonder which is more amazing, the fact that Nagisa (not so smart) and Kotomi (genius) could communicate so well or the fact that Tomoya is actually putting up with all of it. If I were Tomoya, I probably would have jumped off the roof by the time Kotomi did her 3rd “introduce yourself” gag on me.

I don’t know about bullying, but this sure looks like sexual harassment to me…

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Until the Very End of the Dream

Rating: 9.5/10

When I said before that the scene near the end of Clannad episode 7 was the most emotional scene ever in the series, I was wrong. This entire episode could easily beat the crap out of that one scene.

Tomoya and Nagisa instantly forgot all about Fuko overnight even though their feelings were still strong just the night before. My initial thought was that Fuko had disappeared, but it turned out that they had forgotten about her instead. Kinda had a stabbed feeling when Tomoya made it clear that he had completely forgotten about Fuko.

While they didn’t show much feelings when they first woke up, it bugged them enough that they kept looking for clues. But honestly, I’ve forgotten all about the theater club until they mentioned it again when they woke up.

Koumura sensei might actually know something since he managed to give a clue big enough for them to recall Fuko, who suddenly reappeared in between them. From despair I felt some hope with this, that maybe, just maybe Fuko’s arc would end in a positive way (i.e. her waking up).

But she didn’t and everyone completely forgot about her again. It’s not so bad, though, since it was rather open ended. There might still be hope for her yet

I want a starfish too…

I actually disliked this arc at the beginning, but without realizing it, Fuko had been the one that truly pulled me into the series and I’m glad to have watched it.

This episode gets the highest rating I’ve ever given so far. At least… I think it is…

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