Okazaki Tomoya is a student who goes to school only as a force of habit. He continues to be plagued by nightmares of a world with nothing left, where his existence is a mere conciousness. On the way to school one day, he meets a girl called Furukawa Nagisa, who from then on follows him to school every day, unable to climb the stairs by herself. While helping Nagisa to organize the Drama Club, Tomoya slowly starts to open up and actually enjoy his life again. But the dreams he has might be something more than just dreams..
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Plot:
We all know about the Clannad visual novel, TV series, and the sequel After Story, but did you know that a movie came out a few months before the TV debuted. Turns out it is not so bad of a film overall. The biggest difference between the TV series and the movie is how the cast of characters interact with each other. The story shifts the focus from Tomoya, Nagisa, and the other girls to mainly Tomoya and Nagisa. Fans of those side female characters will be disappointed to find out that most of the other females present in the visual novel and TV series are removed from the movie version. The few girls who do remain are changed from the visual novel and even changed from the KyoAni version of Clannad.
Of course, not all changes are bad. One of the better things the movie does it explains some of the backstory as to what happen with Tomoya, and what happened with Youhei and the soccer team. Because of the removal of some of the girls and the smaller focus the story becomes streamlined a lot more and removes some of the aspects from the TV series that bog the story down or the supernatural first arc that occurs in the TV series.
