# Clannad (2007)

> A resentful high school student drifts into a warm friendship with an older classmate who is repeating a year, and slowly learns to face his family and his own life.

Canonical page: https://ember.film/tv/22886

## Facts

- Seasons: 2
- Episodes: 44
- Episode runtime: 24 min
- Status: Ended
- Genres: animation, drama, romance
- Network: TBS
- Cast: Yuichi Nakamura, Mai Nakahara, Daisuke Sakaguchi, Houko Kuwashima, Mamiko Noto, Ai Nonaka, Akemi Kanda, Ryotaro Okiayu
- TMDB rating: 8.2/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1118804/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: measured
- Intensity: strong
- Complexity: accessible
- Violence: none
- Tone: wistful, tender, melancholic, sincere, comforting

## What critics say

Acclaimed by audiences for its emotional depth, especially the heartfelt second season that rewards the slow start of the first.

## Synopsis

Clannad (2007-2009) is a Japanese animated slice of life romance series produced by Kyoto Animation for TBS and based on a visual novel. Third-year high school student Tomoya Okazaki (voiced by Yuichi Nakamura) is a resentful, drifting teen whose mother died in a car accident and whose father has fallen into drinking and smoking, leaving their household strained and silent. On a walk to school he meets Nagisa Furukawa (voiced by Mai Nakahara), a gentle girl a year older who is repeating due to illness and often left alone as her friends have moved on. Their slow friendship anchors the show, and around it orbit classmates such as Youhei Sunohara (Daisuke Sakaguchi) and Tomoyo Sakagami (Houko Kuwashima). The series spans two seasons and forty-four episodes, mixing lighthearted school club antics with long stretches of family drama and grief. Its tone is wistful, tender and sincere, with moments of warmth that sit beside real sorrow. Fans of Your Lie in April and Toradora! will find the same emotional pull, the sense that ordinary school life can carry deep feeling.

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