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老外们看完18话也泪奔了
Why, Clannad? Why? Why must you make me cry like some kid not once, but two or three times in this episode alone? My eyes are getting watery just remembering the scenes (damn you, summary writing!). Yeesh, I even had to increase the score I have been giving this show up until now.
Obviously, family has always been the central theme in Clannad. It doesn’t take a genius to figure that out after 42 episodes, but this put everything else to absolute shame. Tomoya’s seeing visions of himself and his father while watching Ushio, his realization that his father had fallen because of him, and his finally seeing the need to protect Ushio were all themes that would make any person with a heart spread their eyes wide open. Ushio’s simple statement about the toy robot being her first gift from her father would have been enough to start a baw-fest on its own. Don’t even get me started on the imagery, which was most all of cinematic quality.
Ushio’s not initially revealing the full story about places where she could cry made for even better direction and writing, creating a climax upon climaxes that I don’t see how anyone would be able to resist. I could go on and on by spouting out more spoilers/restatements about the themes of loneliness, forgetting once important things, or simply the visions this episode presented. It’s like everything we’ve been waiting for in Clannad has finally started taking place. We all know that this isn’t the end though. Next week looks just as awesome, and I can only hope from here on that we’ll be getting a happy finale to top off what has mostly been a buildup of bittersweet endings.
Be right back. Re-watching the episode. Oh man… I need some tissues.