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I discovered Clannad this year (2023) and of all the anime and episodes I've seen, this episode 18 is certainly far and away the best in terms of intensity and emotional richness. How can you not cry when you see it? It's as if the whole of season 1 and the first half of season 2 were preparing us for this moment. Pure genius, even if Clannad isn't perfect and has its flaws, it's still a masterpiece in its category.
I rewatched parts maybe a year or three after watching it the first time, and I cried where I cried the first time again. But now, maybe 5 more years later I couldn't bear to rewatch, until Caleb and Jacob gave it a shot and I can watch with them, and it still hurts as much;___;
Same fight I have every time I want to rewatch it. I need the excuse to show it to my friends, it's some sort of moral support to endure all the sadness and pain that awaits me...
"First thing from daddy" "...in daddy's arms" (Ushio cries) (Tomoya reminisces Nagisa & cries) These always trigger the waterworks in me, no matter how many times i relive those scenes.
That sunflower field scene. Everything about that sunflower field scene. From Tomoya finally realizing the pain he's put his only daughter through to officially coming to terms with the fact that Nagisa is gone but still lingers on through Ushio - I don't have enough words to express how much this episode has impacted me on a personal level. Clannad After Story Episode 18 is my favorite episode of all time and watching you guys' raw, visceral reactions to it has been nothing short of emotionally validating. God damn man, the tears just don't stop, do they?
"First thing from daddy." Good god ! Every single fucking time, that line break me ! I can be attached to object, toys or plushes and can be very sad if I lost them. Because of the memories attached to them. So, I can relate to Ushio in a way. I saw this episode multiple time and it still hurt 😭😭😭
Everything about the moment Ushio said that line hits so hard bro. The line itself, what it signifies, the inflection in her voice, freakin' "The Place Where Wishes Come True" playing in the background and trampling on my soul. Man, of the few times I got insanely emotional in my life, there's something special about AS EP16.
the part where he starts talking about Nagisa to Ushio and finally lets himself remember her gets me hard too because you could tell he had been avoiding it for so long, running away to gambling and drinking just so he didn't have to face it head on and when he finally does he finally lets himself move on.
Well, I've intentionally avoided rewatching this episode for over a decade after first watching the show. Many times I've attempted to rewatch this series and I've always stopped here or episodes 15-16. When I first watched this episode I was binging the show and just bawling my eyes out endlessly episode after episode and this was the most brutal. I concluded that this was my favorite episode of any piece of media I'd experienced and I was afraid to ever watch it again and decide differently. All these years later, having just watched this episode just now. I bawled again. Fogged up my glasses. I still can't think of an episode that I find more impactful or hold in higher regard. Some have gotten close but the king still reigns.
Literally me. Watched it a decade ago but never rewatched it again bcs how memorable it was to me when I binged ep16-22 or so while I remember crying one ep after the other none stop finishing a tissue box
It's the same for me. About 10 years or so years later I'm not re-watching this episode for the 2nd time thanks for the Semblence Bros. Now that I'm in my late 20s it hits much different and I can appreciate it much more
My fav scene in this episode is the one where tomoya finally starts talking about nagisa but after a while cant think of anything about her. Because after her death he worked as much as he could without taking a vacation as stated in ep 16 or spend the rest of his time with alcohol or gambling as shown in ep 17 just to avoid thinking about her. So for a moment he couldn't think anything about her because he haven't thought about her for so long but then everything came to him at once and that's when the tears starts falling. Its such a subtle example of 'show don't tell' that I absolutely loved and remain to this day one of my fav scenes in anime
Here it is, the #1 Guaranteed episode to make me cry. Doesnt matter how long its been, or if i just see it out of context of a full rewatch, i WILL bring waterworks T_T Also, I know you guys have a lot on your list of things to watch, but if you want another series by this studio to consider, I would recommend highly violet evergarden. Another beautiful work from Kyoto animation
I really love Sanae and Akio. Nagisa parents saw the Ushio first steps and so many other important first experiences of her, but planned that at least Tomoya would share only with Ushio the Memories of Nagisa for the first time T.T
23:28 Dandelions can represent many things in flower language depending on who you ask, so it's hard to know specifically what they were going for, but three common ones are happiness, emotional healing, and resilience/rebirth from a harsh winter. This is far from the first time they've shown up in Clannad, too - there are frequent shots of lone dandelions in the Fuko arc (including the shot where Kouko "looks" at Fuko); Kotomi's storybook is The Dandelion Girl; and the season 1 ED ends with the dangos watching scattering dandelion seeds. As a side note - you thought it was a field of sunflowers, not dandelions, because there ARE sunflowers, but just on the edge of the field (see 4:44). A lot of Clannad watchers (myself included) trick themselves into misremembering the entire thing being sunflowers.
When people think of "best anime episodes" they think of fights with great animation or stuff like that but as someone who watches anime for the characters, episodes like these are definitely the best for me
These later episodes of Clannad really hit personally for me because I see so much of my childhood in this, and so much of the childhood I wish I could have had. My mom died when I was 12 and while my dad was always a smoker before that, after that he was the exact kind of depressed smoker we see Tomoya's become, and while he didn't leave me behind with my grandparents, I could still feel an absence of him, that or he could be more irritable than usual. The catharsis of Tomoya and Ushio hugging and crying is something of a wish fulfillment for me, wishing me and my dad could have started working towards something better rather than falling apart.
Fav single episode of anything ever 🙏 Time to cry again. The Ushio talking about when she can cry then hug and the Tomoya thinking about Nagisa in the train always destroy me to the soul T_T Ugly cry everytime
I'm not crying! You're crying! I liked the insight about Ushio creating the imaginary world with the robot because she had no one else in the real world.
KyoAni, GOAT number 1 studio ever imo. Their the GOATs when it comes to little details in the characters actions making everything feel the most detailed and alive possible.
Kyoani spoils us. After watching it for the first time when I was newer to anime, I feared that going by going back and rewatching it the animation wouldn't hold up and it wouldn't be as good, but really the number of small details in this show is astounding. Just the fact that every background character has a unique design that is of similar quality to the MC is something I've rarely seen, and that's just one thing the animators did so well
A Yellow Dandelion can mean: Friendship, happiness, growth, good health, optimism, and peace. This episode is a true tear jerker, I cried when I didn't have a kiddo who meant the world to me but I spent this entire episode crying.
I'll just say this: masterpiece of an episode, beautiful, incredible, masterful. I said I wasn't gonna watch it today again, but this episode just deserves, also the 'good' emotional type in my mind (good feelings). And... painful... because... oh well... I forgot about this, but my favorite scene of this when I first watched this was Tomoya crying while telling Ushio about Nagisa. Incredible.
Imagine just finding a kindergartener sobbing silently inside a bathroom. Just how tragically failed you are as a parent, i’ve cried silently in a bathroom from depression, but i was already a middle schooler then. It’s impossibly hard to imagine what the little fella was going through
My god, after all these years, this still makes me cry. This was the first time I had ever cried at an anime (to any kind of entertainment, now that I think about it) and it somehow made me capable of crying at media more afterwards, so it holds a special place in my heart.
I don't think there ever existed anything as wholesome as this. 🥺 And remind me to never make an enemy out of Sanae. Because she is actually unbeatable. She got you exactly where she needed you to be.
Ya, this episode definitely hit me the hardest. The first time I watched it I just sat down in bed for about half an hour, and cried until I fell asleep. This was back in Middle School for me, and I grew up with a father that didn't really spend time with me. Watching this hit me in ways that I can't even describe, such a powerful show.
I watched this episode dozens of times at this point, yet it still manages to make me cry every single time without fail. It's like the entire series has been building up to this payoff. Easily one of my favourite episodes in the history of anime, absolute perfection. That last line is also one of my favourite lines ever, "I finally found it, the precious thing only I can protect. It was right here all along." The irony of Tomoya avoiding Ushio all this time to escape the pain, when in reality she WAS his way out of the pain... This is exactly why Clannad will always hold a very special place in my heart.
To this day I still haven´t watched the alternative stories of Clannad because I didn´t want to cry but here I am crying while watching this reaction TuT
I'll say it before and I'll say it again, have tissues nearby. There are sad moments that.make you cry, happy moments that make you cry, funny moments that can make you cry. Tissues are needed for this series!
You know, I've felt plenty sad at times rewatching Clannad through the bros. Plenty. But this episode, this episode right here where Shino explains Naoyuki's circumstances. I lost it and bawled my eyes out. I grew up being raised solely by my father and there were so many hardships he went through. He struggled so much to raise me by himself. He would take hard physical labor jobs, waking up at the crack of dawn and getting home well into the evening. My days were spent in solitude at home until he got home. He still made time for me even as exhausted as he was every day. He still bought me toys and video games even with what little money we had. Shino asking Tomoya to tell Naoyuki to come home because he's worked hard enough broke me. I wanted to be able to tell my dad that. I really wanted to when I got older. I wanted to be able to take of myself and him eventually. But he passed away before I could do that. His parents passed away before I was born, and he passed away before I was old enough to take care of myself. I relate to this scene too much but also see the hope in it all too well. Tomoya still has his father, he can still reconcile with him. His father still has his parents and they can still take care of each other. He can still set things straight and do right by his daughter by being there for her now. I freaking love Clannad. It changed my life. A lot of who I am today was shaped by my choice to watch Clannad for the first time 10 years ago. I'll never stop telling people to watch Clannad.
This episode always hurts so good. The addition to the comment “I can cry in the bathroom” was… is… always the one that gets me. Ugh, my heart! I’ve waited weeks for you to get to this episode. Now, I await a new for the reaction the finale!
Up to this day, I still break from this episode. Whether I re-watched the show or watching reactions to it, it never fails to completely destroy me. Though at the same time, it heals me too.
God damn this episode. I love it and hate it. That scene in the sunflower field, for whatever reason, just taps into something deep down in my emotions. Without fail, I cry ten times harder in this episode than any other before, including Nagisa's death. Upon thinking about it, maybe it has something to do with the fact that Nagisa's death happens right at the end of episode 16 and then we go straight into a timeskip. It's like your left with all these emotions and then in episode 17 everything is all twisted up and you don't really no how to feel. Then with this episode it's like an emotional catharsis, where it feels like we, along with Tomoya, can finally confront it and grieve properly. I don't know. I'm rambling. Just ignore me. Great reaction guys, I'm loving it.
I’ve repeated this comment various times on different reactions and videos but I’ll still leave it here again: I am generally a relatively emotional person, at least more emotional than your average guy, but despite that I don’t really fully cry that much when watching something, it’s mostly just a few tears running down my face. However, in my years of watching and reading fiction, there have been very few exceptions, only 6 times to be specific, where I started bawling so hard that I actually had to pause what I was watching because I couldn’t make out what’s on screen anymore. The flower field scene in this episode „and in daddy’s arms“ is one of those. It’s not the big death scenes or some highly tragic emotional event, it is scenes like this one that always get me the most. This, right here, is exactly the kind of experience that I am searching for when watching or reading a new story. Incidentally, for all of the 6 instances, I have also never managed to not cry as much as the first time when seeing them again.
You say you're more emotional than your average guy, but what you describe sounds less emotional than the average guy. Do you live in an area that's heavily affected by the idea that men don't show emotions? You may be just like everyone else but it seems that way because that's the pressure or impression put on people in your area
The combination of the sunflower field scene and the train ride home just destroys people emotionally. I've only seen a couple of people survive this episode without ugly crying. One of the best episodes in any anime ever.
I googled Dandelion meaning, just to confirm that I was remembering correctly. They symbolize *"the return of life, the rebirth of growth and green after a harsh winter, and a display of abundant strength and power."* *Return to life*= Tomoya starting to have color return to his life the more time he spends with Ushio. *Return of growth and green after a harsh winter*= Tomoya (finally) allowing himself to be vulnerable and connect with Ushio after the death of Nagisa. As well as Ushio (finally) being able to have the reassurance that despite everything that has happened before/during her birth and whatever may happen in the future, Ushio will have her Dad by her side from now on. Perfect choice for this episode/the characters in my opinion. *A display of abundant strength and power*=Both Tomoya and Ushio can now be vulnerable and draw strength from each other.
A brilliant detail of this episode is, the OST playing at the sunflower scene, we've heard that song before many many times, but never the climax of it. When we hear Ushio's cry and the music swells, that is the first time ever in the show we reached that point. It's the first time the music continues. And yes, even after what, 14 years of seeing this for the very first time - it still breaks me. This episode is a masterpiece.
oh to be a fly on the wall the night sanee and akio came up with this plan all those years resenting his father, yet when you stand where he did, you realize you don't measure up, not an easy thing to admit, but doing so can redeem them both
There is not one thing they could say that would make me believe his father was a good or fine one. Is okazaki a good dad after only seeing his daughter a few times during five years? No, of course not. Is he worse than the person who literally physically hurt him bad enough he can't life his arm over a point? Definitely not. Okazaki hated his dad so much he actually left the house and didn't even want to talk to him for such a long time. I can't put that and him leaving ushio with her very nice grandparents while he was still grieving on the same level. Even if he had the best intentions in the world, it does not change the fact that okazaki's dad was in fact a pretty awful one.
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Guys, could you tell me how much time it took to recover from the episode watch to the discussion start at 14:06?
Bro this is one of the best Anime Episode ever existed 💯🔥😭
I discovered Clannad this year (2023) and of all the anime and episodes I've seen, this episode 18 is certainly far and away the best in terms of intensity and emotional richness. How can you not cry when you see it? It's as if the whole of season 1 and the first half of season 2 were preparing us for this moment. Pure genius, even if Clannad isn't perfect and has its flaws, it's still a masterpiece in its category.
This is the episode we’ve all been waiting 40+ weeks for…
man, afterstory is the only anime that i want to rewatch so bad but also cant because I didnt want to experience this sadness again.
saaaame, it was a mistake to watch this episode in a public place... i got so many tears
Ive get ptsd from dango song... its like instinct. Dango starts playing = become sad, try not to cry
@@kiwigirl2273 I was going to watch it in my college Library and I am so glad I waited until I was home haha
I rewatched parts maybe a year or three after watching it the first time, and I cried where I cried the first time again. But now, maybe 5 more years later I couldn't bear to rewatch, until Caleb and Jacob gave it a shot and I can watch with them, and it still hurts as much;___;
Same fight I have every time I want to rewatch it. I need the excuse to show it to my friends, it's some sort of moral support to endure all the sadness and pain that awaits me...
"First thing from daddy"
"...in daddy's arms"
(Ushio cries)
(Tomoya reminisces Nagisa & cries)
These always trigger the waterworks in me, no matter how many times i relive those scenes.
That sunflower field scene. Everything about that sunflower field scene.
From Tomoya finally realizing the pain he's put his only daughter through to officially coming to terms with the fact that Nagisa is gone but still lingers on through Ushio - I don't have enough words to express how much this episode has impacted me on a personal level.
Clannad After Story Episode 18 is my favorite episode of all time and watching you guys' raw, visceral reactions to it has been nothing short of emotionally validating. God damn man, the tears just don't stop, do they?
They're dandelions, not sunflowers.
@@crimsonxero5924 Bruh. I've been living a lie. This scene in my head has always been labelled "the sunflower field" lmao
"First thing from daddy."
Good god ! Every single fucking time, that line break me ! I can be attached to object, toys or plushes and can be very sad if I lost them. Because of the memories attached to them. So, I can relate to Ushio in a way.
I saw this episode multiple time and it still hurt 😭😭😭
i just read this line and the tears came
@@minecraftreports iknow right i was not even sad but my sub conscious was like "WE CRY NOW"
Everything about the moment Ushio said that line hits so hard bro. The line itself, what it signifies, the inflection in her voice, freakin' "The Place Where Wishes Come True" playing in the background and trampling on my soul. Man, of the few times I got insanely emotional in my life, there's something special about AS EP16.
Add the look Tomoya had after her daughter said those words, he was able to finally reflect on how truly bad his negligence took effect on her.
the part where he starts talking about Nagisa to Ushio and finally lets himself remember her gets me hard too because you could tell he had been avoiding it for so long, running away to gambling and drinking just so he didn't have to face it head on and when he finally does he finally lets himself move on.
Sanae: you can only cry in the bathroom or in daddy’s arms.
Nagisa: *cried literally everywhere*
Sanae can't afford to see Ushio cry or she will break. She was suffering too. She's holding on for so long.
This is the episode that broke me. As a father with a young daughter of my own at the time, I sobbed uncontrollably.
I hope you're doing well. Keep doing your best.
I hope the both of you are doing well now, things get better, they always will, hang in there.
ともやがうしおに話す間、「ママ」から「なぎさ」に不意に呼び方が変わる瞬間が泣けますね。やっと彼はなぎさの死を受け入れることができたのです。
なぎさが妊娠したとき、すのはらは「親になるってどんな感じ？」と彼らに聞きましたが、ともやはその答えを見つけることができたのです。
ともやは“父親”になったのです。
Well, I've intentionally avoided rewatching this episode for over a decade after first watching the show. Many times I've attempted to rewatch this series and I've always stopped here or episodes 15-16. When I first watched this episode I was binging the show and just bawling my eyes out endlessly episode after episode and this was the most brutal. I concluded that this was my favorite episode of any piece of media I'd experienced and I was afraid to ever watch it again and decide differently.
All these years later, having just watched this episode just now. I bawled again. Fogged up my glasses. I still can't think of an episode that I find more impactful or hold in higher regard. Some have gotten close but the king still reigns.
Literally me. Watched it a decade ago but never rewatched it again bcs how memorable it was to me when I binged ep16-22 or so while I remember crying one ep after the other none stop finishing a tissue box
It's the same for me. About 10 years or so years later I'm not re-watching this episode for the 2nd time thanks for the Semblence Bros. Now that I'm in my late 20s it hits much different and I can appreciate it much more
if you want to go from sad tears to happy tears, finish the show!!!
My fav scene in this episode is the one where tomoya finally starts talking about nagisa but after a while cant think of anything about her. Because after her death he worked as much as he could without taking a vacation as stated in ep 16 or spend the rest of his time with alcohol or gambling as shown in ep 17 just to avoid thinking about her. So for a moment he couldn't think anything about her because he haven't thought about her for so long but then everything came to him at once and that's when the tears starts falling. Its such a subtle example of 'show don't tell' that I absolutely loved and remain to this day one of my fav scenes in anime
Here it is, the #1 Guaranteed episode to make me cry. Doesnt matter how long its been, or if i just see it out of context of a full rewatch, i WILL bring waterworks T_T
Also, I know you guys have a lot on your list of things to watch, but if you want another series by this studio to consider, I would recommend highly violet evergarden. Another beautiful work from Kyoto animation
They already watched and reacted to Violet Evergarden
I thought you were gonna recommend Kanon
AIR
Better yet, all of the KEY works
「泣いていいのは、おトイレか、パパの腕の中だけだって」
ここでやられた。いつも笑顔で気丈に振舞っている早苗さんはトイレで泣いてたんだと知って。
I really love Sanae and Akio. Nagisa parents saw the Ushio first steps and so many other important first experiences of her, but planned that at least Tomoya would share only with Ushio the Memories of Nagisa for the first time T.T
23:28
Dandelions can represent many things in flower language depending on who you ask, so it's hard to know specifically what they were going for, but three common ones are happiness, emotional healing, and resilience/rebirth from a harsh winter.
This is far from the first time they've shown up in Clannad, too - there are frequent shots of lone dandelions in the Fuko arc (including the shot where Kouko "looks" at Fuko); Kotomi's storybook is The Dandelion Girl; and the season 1 ED ends with the dangos watching scattering dandelion seeds.
As a side note - you thought it was a field of sunflowers, not dandelions, because there ARE sunflowers, but just on the edge of the field (see 4:44). A lot of Clannad watchers (myself included) trick themselves into misremembering the entire thing being sunflowers.
When people think of "best anime episodes" they think of fights with great animation or stuff like that but as someone who watches anime for the characters, episodes like these are definitely the best for me
These later episodes of Clannad really hit personally for me because I see so much of my childhood in this, and so much of the childhood I wish I could have had. My mom died when I was 12 and while my dad was always a smoker before that, after that he was the exact kind of depressed smoker we see Tomoya's become, and while he didn't leave me behind with my grandparents, I could still feel an absence of him, that or he could be more irritable than usual. The catharsis of Tomoya and Ushio hugging and crying is something of a wish fulfillment for me, wishing me and my dad could have started working towards something better rather than falling apart.
Fav single episode of anything ever 🙏
Time to cry again.
The Ushio talking about when she can cry then hug and the Tomoya thinking about Nagisa in the train always destroy me to the soul T_T Ugly cry everytime
the scene with ushio is rightly praised as one of the goats but god damn the scene before where tomoya remembers his dad is so peak
When the bros decided to react to Clannad, you know this is the episode we're all been waiting for.
I'm not crying! You're crying!
I liked the insight about Ushio creating the imaginary world with the robot because she had no one else in the real world.
KyoAni, GOAT number 1 studio ever imo. Their the GOATs when it comes to little details in the characters actions making everything feel the most detailed and alive possible.
Kyoani spoils us. After watching it for the first time when I was newer to anime, I feared that going by going back and rewatching it the animation wouldn't hold up and it wouldn't be as good, but really the number of small details in this show is astounding. Just the fact that every background character has a unique design that is of similar quality to the MC is something I've rarely seen, and that's just one thing the animators did so well
10:52, 13:04 masterpiece man, just his facial expression is heartbreaking 😭
A Yellow Dandelion can mean: Friendship, happiness, growth, good health, optimism, and peace. This episode is a true tear jerker, I cried when I didn't have a kiddo who meant the world to me but I spent this entire episode crying.
Clannad is life
I have yet to meet someone that didn't cry at this scene, just so powerful and extremely well delivered.
Anime at it's best right here.
"First thing from papa": first hit
"... In papa's arms": second hit
" Mama was.... Nagisa": last hit.
→U have been KO.
The "First thing from daddy" line, always gets me no matter how many times ive watched this episode.
i am so grateful to be alive in the same period as this show
Best scene in anime history
ついに来た18話
お二人の反応をとても楽しみにしてました
やはり物凄く感動しますね...声優、BGM、ストーリー何もかもが素晴らしい回
父親と同じ境遇に立った岡崎が汐の父親として成長する瞬間本当に泣ける
I'll just say this: masterpiece of an episode, beautiful, incredible, masterful. I said I wasn't gonna watch it today again, but this episode just deserves, also the 'good' emotional type in my mind (good feelings). And... painful... because... oh well...
I forgot about this, but my favorite scene of this when I first watched this was Tomoya crying while telling Ushio about Nagisa. Incredible.
We were all simultaneously waiting for and dreading this episode.😭
More than any tragic moment or character's death, this is the episode that makes me cry more than any other episode of any show.
Sunflowers symbolize loyalty, faithfulness, and adoration.
Imagine just finding a kindergartener sobbing silently inside a bathroom. Just how tragically failed you are as a parent, i’ve cried silently in a bathroom from depression, but i was already a middle schooler then. It’s impossibly hard to imagine what the little fella was going through
Many years have passed and this is still the only anime scene capable of making me cry EVERY FUCKING TIME
Nothing to see here, just 3 grown men crying
My god, after all these years, this still makes me cry. This was the first time I had ever cried at an anime (to any kind of entertainment, now that I think about it) and it somehow made me capable of crying at media more afterwards, so it holds a special place in my heart.
I don't think there ever existed anything as wholesome as this. 🥺
And remind me to never make an enemy out of Sanae. Because she is actually unbeatable. She got you exactly where she needed you to be.
本当に、この回は何度見ても泣ける。
何度も号泣する。
なんならBGMが流れ始めただけで条件反射で泣ける。
真の意味の「涙腺崩壊」ってクラナドだけだと思う。
ホントに涙腺が崩壊しちゃってて、ちょっとしたBGMでも泣けてしまうんだ。
だんご大家族でも泣けます。
完全に崩壊してしまってます。
Its enough to make a grown man cry 😢😢
When I started watching this I got so depressed so much but I was so happy with the final episode it’s because he had ushio and Nagisa by his Side
I have only 1 peace of room decoration in my small flat. A painting of both of them looking over the sea of flowers. And its enough.
Ya, this episode definitely hit me the hardest. The first time I watched it I just sat down in bed for about half an hour, and cried until I fell asleep. This was back in Middle School for me, and I grew up with a father that didn't really spend time with me. Watching this hit me in ways that I can't even describe, such a powerful show.
I'm laughing and crying at the same time
I watched this episode dozens of times at this point, yet it still manages to make me cry every single time without fail. It's like the entire series has been building up to this payoff. Easily one of my favourite episodes in the history of anime, absolute perfection.
That last line is also one of my favourite lines ever, "I finally found it, the precious thing only I can protect. It was right here all along."
The irony of Tomoya avoiding Ushio all this time to escape the pain, when in reality she WAS his way out of the pain... This is exactly why Clannad will always hold a very special place in my heart.
I watched whole thing and keep re watching it just always gets to me
"Places I can cry are in the bathroom... and Daddy's arms" ... 😭😭😭😭😭😭
Legit saw this notification when it was posted but couldn’t click on it lmao. Time to watch it now gonna be rough
The Place Where Wishes Come Through is just built different
There´s no episode in anime story that stabs your in the heart so many times like this one.
Just a little icing on the cake: We've never seen Ushio smile, _really smile,_ until now.
Even after all these years, i can't watch this without crying. I don't know, it just hits.
To this day I still haven´t watched the alternative stories of Clannad because I didn´t want to cry but here I am crying while watching this reaction TuT
Masterpiece
I'll say it before and I'll say it again, have tissues nearby. There are sad moments that.make you cry, happy moments that make you cry, funny moments that can make you cry. Tissues are needed for this series!
This was the episode. The episode that gets nearly everyone.
Man, this episode still hits hard after all these years!!!!!
You know, I've felt plenty sad at times rewatching Clannad through the bros. Plenty. But this episode, this episode right here where Shino explains Naoyuki's circumstances. I lost it and bawled my eyes out. I grew up being raised solely by my father and there were so many hardships he went through. He struggled so much to raise me by himself. He would take hard physical labor jobs, waking up at the crack of dawn and getting home well into the evening. My days were spent in solitude at home until he got home. He still made time for me even as exhausted as he was every day. He still bought me toys and video games even with what little money we had.
Shino asking Tomoya to tell Naoyuki to come home because he's worked hard enough broke me. I wanted to be able to tell my dad that. I really wanted to when I got older. I wanted to be able to take of myself and him eventually. But he passed away before I could do that. His parents passed away before I was born, and he passed away before I was old enough to take care of myself. I relate to this scene too much but also see the hope in it all too well. Tomoya still has his father, he can still reconcile with him. His father still has his parents and they can still take care of each other. He can still set things straight and do right by his daughter by being there for her now.
I freaking love Clannad. It changed my life. A lot of who I am today was shaped by my choice to watch Clannad for the first time 10 years ago. I'll never stop telling people to watch Clannad.
this fucked me up. i'm a mess right now. god, this show is so good.
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Sometimes you just need a good cry, especially in such a well written anime based on a sim game.
This episode always hurts so good.
The addition to the comment “I can cry in the bathroom” was… is… always the one that gets me.
Ugh, my heart!
I’ve waited weeks for you to get to this episode. Now, I await a new for the reaction the finale!
Up to this day, I still break from this episode. Whether I re-watched the show or watching reactions to it, it never fails to completely destroy me. Though at the same time, it heals me too.
The extremely subtle detail and visiual storytelling is just Kyoani doing Kyoani things.
They're one of the most revered anime studios for a reason.
Asteroid? Well guys get ready for the Comet yet to come and oh man episode 18 still gets me.
this story changed my life man, period.
God damn this episode. I love it and hate it.
That scene in the sunflower field, for whatever reason, just taps into something deep down in my emotions. Without fail, I cry ten times harder in this episode than any other before, including Nagisa's death.
Upon thinking about it, maybe it has something to do with the fact that Nagisa's death happens right at the end of episode 16 and then we go straight into a timeskip. It's like your left with all these emotions and then in episode 17 everything is all twisted up and you don't really no how to feel. Then with this episode it's like an emotional catharsis, where it feels like we, along with Tomoya, can finally confront it and grieve properly.
I don't know. I'm rambling. Just ignore me. Great reaction guys, I'm loving it.
They're dandelions, not sunflowers.
I’ve repeated this comment various times on different reactions and videos but I’ll still leave it here again:
I am generally a relatively emotional person, at least more emotional than your average guy, but despite that I don’t really fully cry that much when watching something, it’s mostly just a few tears running down my face. However, in my years of watching and reading fiction, there have been very few exceptions, only 6 times to be specific, where I started bawling so hard that I actually had to pause what I was watching because I couldn’t make out what’s on screen anymore.
The flower field scene in this episode „and in daddy’s arms“ is one of those.
It’s not the big death scenes or some highly tragic emotional event, it is scenes like this one that always get me the most. This, right here, is exactly the kind of experience that I am searching for when watching or reading a new story.
Incidentally, for all of the 6 instances, I have also never managed to not cry as much as the first time when seeing them again.
You say you're more emotional than your average guy, but what you describe sounds less emotional than the average guy. Do you live in an area that's heavily affected by the idea that men don't show emotions? You may be just like everyone else but it seems that way because that's the pressure or impression put on people in your area
It’s the middle of school and I’m crying like Nagisa dammit
Ah yes, the emotional tain wreck episode. Even after 16 years, that song with her crying still sends me to the shadow realm.
oh sht, it was tears after tears. My eyes and throat hurts. This episode is too heartbreakingly heartwarming.
The combination of the sunflower field scene and the train ride home just destroys people emotionally. I've only seen a couple of people survive this episode without ugly crying. One of the best episodes in any anime ever.
You are legally required to break at this episode! xD
Gotta be one of my favorite episodes from any piece of media of all time. The emotional payoff is unlike anything I've ever watched.
I googled Dandelion meaning, just to confirm that I was remembering correctly. They symbolize *"the return of life, the rebirth of growth and green after a harsh winter, and a display of abundant strength and power."* *Return to life*= Tomoya starting to have color return to his life the more time he spends with Ushio. *Return of growth and green after a harsh winter*= Tomoya (finally) allowing himself to be vulnerable and connect with Ushio after the death of Nagisa. As well as Ushio (finally) being able to have the reassurance that despite everything that has happened before/during her birth and whatever may happen in the future, Ushio will have her Dad by her side from now on. Perfect choice for this episode/the characters in my opinion. *A display of abundant strength and power*=Both Tomoya and Ushio can now be vulnerable and draw strength from each other.
I watched 5 reactors today to this episode.
I cried with all of them.
A brilliant detail of this episode is, the OST playing at the sunflower scene, we've heard that song before many many times, but never the climax of it.
When we hear Ushio's cry and the music swells, that is the first time ever in the show we reached that point. It's the first time the music continues.
And yes, even after what, 14 years of seeing this for the very first time - it still breaks me.
This episode is a masterpiece.
GOAT episode
1st season : full of comedy, drama, mystery and friendship.
2nd season : Heart broken and Tragedy
It have been a long journey from Season 1 until this full of memories Episode, but finally they get here! This show never disappoint me until now!
To this day, my favorite episode of Clannad. Because it's the one that destroyed me the most. lol
What we've all been waiting for 😭
うしおがロボット無くしてしまうことは、ことみによれば並行世界でも繋がっています。
これらのいくつかの世界は影響しあっているのです。
また、なぎさが幼い頃に冬に死にかけたこと、高校時代、なぎさは冬になると体調を崩し卒業できなかったこと、なぎさは冬に出産するために亡くなったこと、そして並行世界では常に冬であること、これらは今後の伏線です。
10:45 ANNNNNNND there come the waterworks!!!
EMOTIONAL DAMAGE
*** INCOMINGGGG!!!!! ***
ALL HANDS BRACE FOR IMPACT!!!
man I cried so much with this episode 😞😣😭
oh to be a fly on the wall the night sanee and akio came up with this plan
all those years resenting his father, yet when you stand where he did, you realize you don't measure up, not an easy thing to admit, but doing so can redeem them both
It's been more than 10 years since I've seen this episode, but even after all that time it still completely destroyed me.
just pure peek storytelling. thank you kyotoani!
A real bombshell of an episode
I think this is the first and last time i rewatch this show, my heart can't endure it.
one of the greatest pieces of media right here folks
The best anime episode is here
I have been waiting for you to get to this episode. I loved your reaction.
Haven’t even watched the reaction yet, but I know I’m gonna cry 🙃
There is not one thing they could say that would make me believe his father was a good or fine one. Is okazaki a good dad after only seeing his daughter a few times during five years? No, of course not. Is he worse than the person who literally physically hurt him bad enough he can't life his arm over a point? Definitely not. Okazaki hated his dad so much he actually left the house and didn't even want to talk to him for such a long time. I can't put that and him leaving ushio with her very nice grandparents while he was still grieving on the same level. Even if he had the best intentions in the world, it does not change the fact that okazaki's dad was in fact a pretty awful one.
I've been waiting for this episode since you guys started this series
I don't cry often but this episode always destroys me 😭