Just finished binging Clannad and Clannad: After Story and it’s far and away the best anime, and high up there for media, I’ve ever seen.

In terms of romance anime, there’s heaps and heaps of slop and then some better ones (Rascal Does Not Dream, Kaguya-Sama), but Clannad makes them all look like loads of shit in comparison.

I had tried to watch it once before but forgot about it cause the beginning was slow, but after pushing through with some free time over the holidays I powered through and reached the end and it literally shook me.

I cried like 3 times in the 2nd half of After Story, and I never cried before watching anime (and I’ve seen my fair share). Legitimately I’m not an emotional person except for this show apparently.

If you haven’t seen this show drop whatever you’re watching right now till you finish Clannad and After Story. I know you fuckers sit through hundred of episodes of one piece so you have the time.

Now excuse me as I go sit with the emptiness this show left me with.

Think about it for a second.

A character who keeps getting stronger at an absurd rate.
Survives things no normal human should.
Leaves destruction everywhere they go.
And everyone around them either follows them… or disappears

If the story was told from the villain’s perspective, a lot of anime protagonists would feel like horror characters.

Which MC do you think would be the scariest if the anime wasn’t from their point of view??

Welcome to the weekly Anime of the Week Discussion Thread! Each week, we're here to discuss various older anime series. Today we are discussing…

Deaimon: Recipe for Happiness

Ten years have passed since Nagomu Irino left his home to pursue his dream that ultimately failed. He finally decides to return after hearing that his father—owner of the Kyoto sweets store Ryokushou—has been hospitalized. Worrying that no one would inherit the shop if his father passes away, Nagomu prepares himself to embrace his family's legacy and the art of making sweets⁠.

Unsurprisingly, Nagomu discovers that his father has already chosen a different successor—a 10-year-old girl named Itsuka Yukihira, who was abandoned at Ryokushou by her father for reasons unknown. While she has since become a part of the family and is now the shop's poster girl, Itsuka still longs to see her father and follows all possible clues that may lead her to him. Sympathizing with Itsuka's situation, Nagomu's mother asks Nagomu to act as Itsuka's father, hoping that Itsuka will open up to him and relieve her pain, even if just a little.

Starting on bad terms, Itsuka and Nagomu gradually learn more about each other, realizing that they are more similar than they had thought. Connected by their mutual love for both Ryokushou and its confections, their relationship as child and father figure begins to make lives around them a little bit sweeter.

(Source: MyAnimeList)

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