[Beatrice]

-I was so tempted to title this post “CLANNAD PARALLEL WORKS.” It is of course an alternate world to the main storyline, though I think I prefer this one more. For whatever reason, TomoyaXTomoyo feels much more natural to me than TomoyaXNagisa. Maybe it’s the fact that the two are already so far in their relationship here whereas Nagisa and Tomoya just don’t feel like they’re there yet. After Story may change my mind about that, but I’m sure it could change right back if they ever animate Tomoyo After.
-Overall, I found this episode good, if a tiny bit predictable (i.e. you knew the two weren’t going to stay separated by the end). I attribute that less to bad writing and more to just the constraints of trying to fit everything into a single episode, and I definitely still enjoyed watching it. In short, it would have been nice for this to be stretched out over two or three episodes, but beggars can’t be choosers. I might even go as far as to say that this makes up for how abbreviated Tomoyo’s part ended up being in the main story (though not Kyou and Ryou’s). And this also gets me interested again in CLANNAD with only a few months until After Story airs (this Fall according to MOON PHASE’s list).
つづく

[Riyin]

Where did you get/watch this? Link if you could O_O

I wished the original storyline for Clannad would have ended with this pairing.