Sad story: Im not getting any presents this year for Christmas, because I told my mom that I think she got everything i didnt want then she got mad and said fine then I will give your presents to Evelins kid!(my moms bestfriends kid)But she really means it, because like she took the presents and drove off to her friends house to give the presents to her so I guess there is no presents for me this year :,(

This is a true story what happend to me this Christmas…

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Today Im so sad! 6 days until Christmas…but NO SNOW! Christmas is full of snow in movies and in anime all the time! This is the first time ever I have seen it so close to Christmas with no snow! Its suppose to be a winter wonderland! I guess I just need to sit and wait for it to snow… I hope it does soon. Im getting very impaction! Well I hope you get snow! <3

Hello all! And Finally I cans start uploading stuff on my youtube account! Its a LONG story… I tried a MILLION things to try to get stuff uploaded but it didnt work so I asked the staff and they gave me a trick, so thats solved and also Im looking for songs to fandub, any ideas, requests? If u do comment me please. Heres my youtube channal account [www.youtube.com/sweet123321lover] Subscribe <3

The player assumes the role of Tomoya Okazaki, the protagonist of Clannad. Tomoya has been labeled a delinquent, or a young person who defies authority due to his non-committal attitude towards school and general apathy towards living life; at the beginning of the story, he even hates the city he has lived in all his life where Clannad is set. He is very straightforward in his comments to others and will not hesitate to speak his mind, even if he comes off as rude during such times. Despite this, Tomoya is very loyal to his friends, and has been known to dedicate himself for those around him in need of help or support. He generally has a selfless personality and does not ask much from others in return for what he does for them. Tomoya meets Nagisa Furukawa, the main heroine of Clannad, at the onset of the story. Nagisa is a soft-spoken girl who has very low self-esteem and self-confidence which causes her to rely on those around her for support; she developed the strange habit of muttering the names of food that she plans to eat as a way to motivate herself, such as anpan. Kyou Fujibayashi, another of Clannad’s heroines, is a bad-mouthed and aggressive girl well known as a good cook among her friends and family. When angry she does not hesitate to throw a dictionary at people that she often carries around for such purposes. Despite this attitude, she also has a more subdued side, especially towards her younger fraternal twin sister Ryou Fujibayashi.

Tomoya meets a genius girl named Kotomi Ichinose, also a heroine, one day at school. She is ranked in the top ten throughout the whole country in standardized exam results of every subject—she always goes to library to read extra materials, especially books in foreign languages. Kotomi is a very quiet girl with poor social skills and it is quite difficult to communicate with her; Kotomi has even been known to completely ignore someone when reading, even if they make loud disturbances around her. Clannad’s fourth heroine is a second-year student named Tomoyo Sakagami who transfers into Tomoya’s school. Tomoyo, like Kyou, can be extremely aggressive, and Tomoyo is a very strong fighter, preferring to use kicking over punching, and has shown herself to be athletic. Although Tomoya is older than her, Tomoyo does not show him his due respect as a senior student. Tomoyo appears in Key’s fifth game, Tomoyo After: It’s a Wonderful Life, as the main heroine. The last main heroine in Clannad is a first-year student named Fuko Ibuki who has a distant attitude towards others and, before she met Tomoya, was generally seen alone by herself making wood carvings of starfish with a small knife to give to others as presents. Fuko is extremely enthralled by starfish, or things that are star-shaped, and will often go into short euphoric bouts where her awareness of her surroundings is completely overtaken.

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Clannad’s story revolves around a group of five girls whose lives are connected to the same boy. Tomoya Okazaki is a third year high school student who dislikes his life. Tomoya’s mother (Atsuko) died when Tomoya was young, leaving his father (Naoyuki) to raise him. After the accident, Tomoya’s father turned to alcohol and gambling, and held frequent fights with his son. One day, Naoyuki, again arguing with his son, slammed Tomoya against the wall, dislocating Tomoya’s shoulder. Ever since then, his father has treated Tomoya nicely, but distantly, as if Tomoya and he were strangers rather than a family. This hurts Tomoya more than his previous relationship with his father, and the awkwardness of returning home leads Tomoya constantly to stay out all night. Additionally, the injury disables Tomoya from participating in his basketball club, and pushes him to distance himself from his school and other activities. Thus his delinquent life begins. Tomoya’s good friend Youhei Sunohara, who got thrown out of the soccer club for a dispute, is also a delinquent and often hangs out in his dorm room with Tomoya doing nothing much.

The story opens on Monday April 14, 2003 at the beginning of the school year, when Tomoya finds that his life is about to change when he chances upon Nagisa Furukawa, a soft-spoken girl one year older than him who is repeating her last year in high school due to being sick much of the previous year. Her goal is to join the drama club which she was unable to do due to her sickness, but they find that the drama club was disbanded after all the members graduated. Since Tomoya has a lot of time to kill, he starts to help Nagisa in reforming the drama club. During this period, Tomoya meets and hangs out with several other girls who he gets to know well and help with their individual problems.

In the second part of the story, which starts immediately after the end of the first part, but extends into the next ten years, Tomoya and Nagisa live together as a family. Tomoya has to endure several hardships that the family has been suffering from, mainly involving Nagisa’s illness. However, just after Nagisa gave birth to their first child, Ushio, she dies, leaving Tomoya to fall into a state of depression which causes Nagisa’s parents, Akio and Sanae to look after Ushio. Five years later, Tomoya meets Shino Okazaki, his grandmother on his father’s side. Shino explains to Tomoya about his father’s past and tragedy, similar to Tomoya’s current situation after Nagisa’s death. After hearing that, he decides to raise Ushio and acknowledge Naoyuki as his father. Shortly after Tomoya regaining his purpose of living, Ushio is struck with the same disease as Nagisa. Tomoya, Sanae and Akio struggle to save Ushio, with Tomoya retiring from his job, but all efforts are futile. In the coming winter, wanting to do anything for Ushio, Tomoya brings Ushio for a trip, but Ushio fell unconscious and dies shortly after.

Tomoya’s psychology is further developed in his dreams of a bleak world where small orbs of light float around called the Illusionary World (幻想世界, Gensō Sekai^?). In the first few dreams of that kind, he sees a world which is devoid of all people except for one girl, whom is never shown in the original game but is spoken of (she is shown in the anime version). Each time he dreams, he finds out more about the world. Later on, Tomoya finds out that the girl has a special ability to fuse junk together to create new things, with which she creates a body for him. Thus he is reborn in this world, and fills time following the girl around. Tomoya conceives that only the two of them are “alive”. To pass time, Tomoya and the girl try to build another doll with more junk they find, but as it has no soul, it fails to come to life. Eventually, winter sets in, and the girl becomes cold to the point where she cannot move any more. Remembering a distant world where he came from, Tomoya convinces the girl to build a ship so that the two can escape the winter and continue a happy life. However, their flight is doomed to meet tragedy. Upon meeting this tragedy, the girl tells Tomoya that he has another chance to go back and make things right. To do so, he must collect certain “lights” (symbols of happiness) similar to those floating around in the Illusionary World. If all the “lights” are collected throughout both story parts, a chance to save Nagisa from dying in childbirth will become available, and the true ending where Nagisa survives and lives with Tomoya and their daughter Ushio will also become available.

The first half of the story takes place at a high school in Japan, which is the best school in the city. This high school is largely modeled after the University of Tsukuba-affiliated junior-high and high school Komaba in Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan.^[8] Throughout the story, glimpses into an Illusionary World are shown. This world is devoid of all life except for a young girl, though she later makes a body out of junk pieces through which the player can interact with her. The remaining half of the story takes place in the same city, after the conclusion of the first half.

There are recurring themes that appear throughout the story. The main theme is the value of having a family, as the title of the series implies since according to Jun Maeda, Clannad means “family” or “clan” in Irish.^[2] Of the six main characters, Tomoya, Nagisa, and Kotomi have no siblings, though their parents factor in majorly in their stories. Fuko’s and Kyou’s stories have their sisters playing an integral part, and Tomoyo’s story is influenced by her entire family. In Nagisa’s story, there is a recurring appearance of the “large family of dango” (だんご大家族, dango daikazoku^?) (a fictional group mascot for children) that Nagisa is fond of. The minor motif of Irish words continues with the opening theme of the game, “Mag Mell“, which means roughly “plain of joy” and is connected with Irish mythology. The arrange album, a short music CD that contained remixed versions of songs in the game, that was released with the original game release was entitled Mabinogi which was a collection of prose stories from medieval Welsh manuscripts; Welsh is a branch of Celtic, as is Irish.

The Clannad visual novel is divided into two segments, or story arcs—School Life and After Story—which serve as different phases in the overall story. At the beginning of the game, only the School Life arc is available to play, but once the player has completed the scenarios available in School Life, After Story is made accessible. This is through the collection of eight lights, or orbs, which can be obtained after a characters’ scenario is completed;^[5] one of the lights will disappear while still in School Life, but will reappear in After Story. School Life contains the main protagonist’s final year of high school, in which he meets all of the characters in the game, though the focus is kept on the five heroines in the story. After Story is mainly a continuation of Nagisa’s story, and is set immediately after School Life when Nagisa and Tomoya are now living their lives as a couple, and extends into the next ten years. Characters from School Life do appear, but play minor roles compared to their roles in that arc. In order to view the true ending of Clannad, all thirteen lights must be obtained. Originally, the lights were meant to be items that players could utilize in the game, but since this increased the game’s difficulty, and detracted from the storyline, the function of the lights was changed to be simpler and less intrusive.^[6]

Clannad’s gameplay requires little interaction from the player as most of the duration of the game is spent simply reading the text that appears on the game screen which represents either dialogue between the various characters or the inner thoughts of the protagonist. An important aspect of Clannad (as in nearly every visual novel) are the “decision points” which appear every so often which give the player the chance to choose from a limited number of options. The time between these decision points is variable and can occur anywhere from a minute to much longer. The game pauses at such moments and depending on which choice the player makes, the plot will progress in a specific direction. There are five main plot lines that the player will have the chance to experience, one for each of the heroines in the story, and there are a total of thirteen possible endings. Each plot line can be achieved through multiple replays.

Clannad is Key’s second longest work, as reported by Yūto Tonokawa where he stated that Clannad is about 4000 words less than Key’s 2008 game Little Busters! Ecstasy.^[7] While both of Key’s first two previous works, Kanon and Air, had been released first as adult games and then censored for the younger market like most bishōjo games, Key’s third work Clannad was released for all-ages and does not contain risqué situations or even any fan service.