While some may dislike the character role changes, given the intended setting and overall plotline I felt it helped keep this release fresh and contributed more to the storyline than if it were focused on the same group of characters. Sunohara, Akio or Sanae Furukawa retain their prominent roles alongside Kouko and Yusuke who were relatively minor characters in the anime series. As this is a storyline about these two, Kotomi’s role has been reduced to non-speaking cameo appearances, Fuko and Ryou does not appear at all and Kyou and Tomoyo take minor and at the beginning slightly antagonistic roles. However while the anime series tries to merge the visual novel arcs of every other character into the release, the Motion Picture sticks with just the core arc of these two main characters and despite long-winded flashbacks takes place during the events of After Story where Nagisa has since passed away and Tomoya has become a recluse and wallowing in depression. The core storyline remains the same about developing the relationship between the male lead character Tomoya Okazaki and female lead character Nagisa Furukawa. Does it work or did the omissions and plot changes alter the enjoyability of this release? Read on for my review! However… what if the storyline which was expanded over two seasons was shortened down to an hour and a half movie, developed by the studio Toei animation and was released before the anime series went to air? This is what is posed with Sentai Filmworks English dubbed release of Clannad: The Motion Picture. These scores indicate that in my opinion, the Clannad visual novel series by KEY and anime series developed by Kyoto Animation were near perfect releases. When I reviewed the anime series last year as it was released by Australian publisher Siren Visual, I ended up giving all two seasons and four DVD releases very high scores… to be more specific A, S, A, A. You should do some research to when the movie was made to the episode that was made near the time the movie was made because even though the movie is not a re-cap and not canon, it could spoil things like deaths that already happened in the anime, transformations, new characters, etc.Note: Due to the nature of this release, I highly advise familiarizing yourself with the anime series or visual novel plotline before reading this review or watching this film due to spoilers. Even non-canons movies that are not re caps like the ones DBZ and Naruto make. Animes like Attack on Titan and Code Geass also had movie recaps and they also spoil the plot of the anime. Sure the movies tend to change stuff up but it always spoils the main plot point of the anime. Like I said before, you should never watch a movie recap of an anime without at least watching the anime first. You are going to know about her death while watching around 10 hours of content before it happens. Other than that you just spoiled basically the main plot point of Clannad with Nagisa's death and her kid which doesn't pop up until around the last 8 episodes of after story. I do remember one thing I liked more about the anime and that is about the father and Tomoya relationship. All the other girls besides of Nagisa don't really get screen time because the movie focuses more on the play and Nagisa's sickness. For one, basically, every character that really matters in the high school group is Tomoya, Nagisa and Sunohara. I watched the movie a long time ago and I remembered that they changed a lot of it. That's over 40 episodes they are putting into a movie thats around 1 hour and a half. And to make it worst for the Clannad movie, it is trying to squeeze in not 12 episodes, not 24 episodes which is all of the first Clannad, but both Clannad AND after story. Most anime movies are less than half that amount at around 2 hours forcing them to really rush things. Movies based off an anime is always very rushed because an anime without the opening and ending is around 20 minutes. At least not before watching the anime because its going to spoiled you in a very rushed way. I know this is does not answer your question but you should never watch a movie based on a 12-episode or more anime.
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