Anime Review: Clannad

September 8, 2011

This was a very entertaining show to watch. It is full of one-liners and ongoing comedy as the various characters inter-act through-out the story line. The basic plot revolves around Tomoya, a high-school student who cares nothing for himself or his future but cares greatly for those around him. Tomoya consistently goes out of his way to help the people around him. When the show starts he really has only one friend, a delinquent like him. As he meets new people and tries to help them make friends and accomplish the things they are wanting to do he beings to discover that he has more friends than he thought.

The content of the show is about as clean as it gets for anime. That is not to say that it still has adult content and just “isn’t that bad”, it is to say that it is clean. Anime generally revolves around high-school aged kids which means a bunch of girls in short uniform-skirts. I haven’t been to any Japanese schools so who knows if that is reality or fantasy. But because of that many anime shows use it as an excuse to flash undergarments or go strait to flashing some flesh because it is “just natural” for a skirt to flip up or something when girls are running around. This show stays far away from that. It is just good clean comedy.

Number of seasons: 2
Episodes per season: 24
Content: Clean