I love Taiyaki, but Anpan is awesome too.

TV series: CLANNAD
Episodes: 1~4

Of course, as an eternal fan of Air and Kanon 2006, I just couldn’t miss this show. But with an interesting mix of comedy, romance, sadness and dango, CLANNAD should be a must-see for everyone, even if you aren’t familiar with Key or KyoAni works.

Before anything else, I must say I love both the OP & ED sequences, especially the dango song. XD At first, when I saw the ED I was like “WTF IS THIS” but then it quickly grew on me and now I’m addicted, as you can see at my failed attempt for a header image.

The first few episodes, even if they served as character introductions, were made of pure awesomeness. First of all, the animation quality was excellent, just like previous KyoAni series (OLD’d). Second, the amusing moments were… well, pretty amusing. Third… all of the characters we have seen so far are great! Let’s review them separately.

• Tomoya Okazaki. So far, I like him more than previous Key protagonists. But I must see the way he performs during the oh-so-tragic moments before I can hand down a final verdict.
• Nagisa Furukawa.

Nagisa FTW

It happened with Ayu Tsukimiya and Misuzu Kamio, so it was pretty obvious that it would be happening with Furukawa too. That’s right, Nagisa has become my favorite heroine from this series. Everything about her, from her personality to her BGM theme, is so godly that makes me wonder why a lot of people prefer other female characters over main heroines like her (different opinions, PROBLEM SOLVED lol). And something tells me that her main story (beacause we haven’t really entered Nagisa’s arc yet) will make us cry like baby kittens more than once. ;_;

• Kyou Fujibayashi.

Tsundere attack!

Not much to say, other than she is bi rides a bike to school. Her interactions with Tomoya & Co. are pretty funny. And I love Botan/Button/whatever.

• Kotomi Ichinose.

Zzzz…

Up to now, she’s my least favorite girl… but that’s because, aside from her obento taberu and her being the “smartest” girl of the bunch, we haven’t really seen much about her.

• Fuuko Ibuki.

ROFL WRONG MEDIA

This girl is all about the moe~ moe~ starfish mode, becoming the Fuuko Master and “dribble shu-to”s. Well, not really, since she actually has a story just like everybody else (actually, she’ll be the first one to suffer plot-center-before-you-get-killed-off treatment).

• Tomoyo Sakagami.

Legendary kicku girl Tomoyo.

The girl whose milkshake brings all the boys to the yard is here (Mia <3). She’s so popular that she got her own wonderful-eroge-life game. She even has potential to become my second favorite heroine, just some light years behind Nagisa.

• Sunohara-guy.
  

lawl

Honorable mention to the guy who, with total pwnage from the CLANNAD girls and cyborg jokes, has been responsible for the series high fun factor. Give this man an important role in some of the story arcs and he might become the best sidekick character ever.

• Others. (lol lazy) Akio, Sanae, Misae, Ryou, Yukine, Kouku, Yusuke, Naoyuki… most of them parents/siblings/other relatives of members from the main cast, which is a good thing since it means we’ll be getting a deeper plot by adding their mini stories to the essential ones.

At episode 5 we finally enter the first story arc. I’ll be probably writing another post about it when it ends (which I think is next week), so until then…

WTF