Now everywhere I look I see a bunch of these cute little things.

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A few notes:

• While the series started out in late 2006, I’m going to consider this a 2007 anime series since, well, it ended this year.
• Like the majority of these posts, it contains lots of spoilers for this series. You’ve been warned.
• In two months, this is only Kanon post I’ve written on my blog. As a taiyaki fanboy of this show, I should be ashamed.

Back when I started watching Air TV, I knew nothing about Key/KyoAni. I wanted to see a sad anime show, so someone recommended that series to me. In the end, I had enjoyed it so much that I began looking for something similar… and that’s when I found out about Kanon 2006.

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Farewell parties are so sad.

TV series: CLANNAD
Episode: 09

Yeah, Fuuko’s arc has ended. At first, I’m sure most viewers felt that this arc was kinda dull because basically it was just “Fuuko gives a starfish to some students, then she gets forgotten by someone.” every week. But the ending must have totally made up for it.

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Fuuko slowly loses her “family”.

TV series: CLANNAD
Episode: 08

Indeed, now the only ones who still remember Fuu-chan are Nagisa and Tomoya. This episode consisted mainly of the reactions shown by those who once cared about Fuuko but now have forgotten about her existence. I particularly liked seeing Sunohara trying to regain his memories of that important person, but Sanae breaking into tears after realizing that she can’t see Fuuko anymore takes the cake as this week’s most emotional moment. Next week marks the end of this arc, so I guess I should prepare myself with a new box of tissues.

It’s been a while since the CLANNAD movie got released, but the original soundtrack just came out today so I decided to check it out… even if I haven’t seen the film yet (I plan to watch it after CLANNAD TV ends, duh).

This OST contains a total of 27 tracks, 6 being vocal songs and the rest BGMs. I was going to post the track listing but it seems that some of the song titles contain spoilers o_o *gulp*. Instead, let’s talk a bit about my favorite tunes from it. ^^

Obviously, I was very pleased to find yet another version of Chiisana Tenohira. Yay, I simply don’t get tired of this song. You can listen to it here:

[audio http://www.fileden.com/files/2007/11/13/1582794/26%20-%20Chiisana%20Tenohira%20%7Eeufonius%20ver.%7E.mp3]

My biggest surprise would be finding… a new dango song! @_@ It’s called Dango Dango Dango and it’s pretty different to the Dango Daikazoku ED song. Here it is:

[audio http://www.fileden.com/files/2007/11/13/1582794/01%20-%20Dango%20Dango%20Dango.mp3]

Something that got me very excited was seeing a track titled Nagisa. I was expecting it to be a new version of “our beloved main heroine”’s theme, but it ended being a completely different BGM. Too bad… it’s still a good song, I guess.

[audio http://www.fileden.com/files/2007/11/13/1582794/06%20-%20Nagisa.mp3]

Lastly, there was a MagMell version in there called Megumeru ~frequency =>e Ver. but to me it sounded identical to the Cuckool Mix 2007 so I didn’t feel like posting it. <_<

… And here’s a random pick!

[audio http://www.fileden.com/files/2007/11/13/1582794/04%20-%20Pan%20Kai%20Kyousou.mp3]

Dango Craze vs. Hitode Love.

TV series: CLANNAD
Episode: 07

It seems we’re still on Fuuko’s Arc (I’m not sure why I thought it would end this week -_-). It doesn’t feel like it’s dragging out too much, but I wonder if 15 episodes (considering Fuu-chan’s story does end in two weeks) will be enough for the other girls.

Oh, it’s the FFF, or “Fun Fun Fuu-chan” club, AM I RITE.

Anyways, it was another good episode. The humour is still there (and, unlike Fuuko, it doesn’t seem like it’s going to fade away anytime soon), but this week was mostly about the sad things. Aside from the dramatic scene of Nagisa and Tomoya crying in the park, the thought of Fuuko being slowly and painfully forgotten by everybody is simply… depressing. If she is going to disappear (just like KEY girls love to do so), I hope at least her older sister gets married.

;_;