Series synopsis
Clannad is a Japanese animation comedy drama sci-fi & fantasy television series that premiered on TBS on October 5, 2007. It ended on March 13, 2009. It stars Yuichi Nakamura, Mai Nakahara, Daisuke Sakaguchi and Houko Kuwashima.
Tomoya Okazaki is a third year high school student resentful of his life. His mother passed away from a car accident when he was younger, causing his father to resort to alcohol and cigarettes. This results in fights between the two until Tomoya's shoulder is injured in a fight. Since then, Tomoya has had distant relationships with his father, causing him to become a delinquent over time. While on a walk to school, he meets a strange girl named Nagisa Furukawa who is a year older, but is repeati ...
Premise
Tomoya Okazaki is a third year high school student resentful of his life. His mother passed away from a car accident when he was younger, causing his father to resort to alcohol and cigarettes. This results in fights between the two until Tomoya's shoulder is injured in a fight. Since then, Tomoya has had distant relationships with his father, causing him to become a delinquent over time. While on a walk to school, he meets a strange girl named Nagisa Furukawa who is a year older, but is repeating due to illness. Due to this, she is often alone as most of her friends have moved on. The two begin hanging out and slowly, as time goes by, Tomoya finds his life shifting in a new direction.
Cast and characters
Leading cast
- Yuichi Nakamura as Tomoya Okazaki (voice)
- Mai Nakahara as Nagisa Furukawa (voice)
- Daisuke Sakaguchi as Youhei Sunohara (voice)
- Houko Kuwashima as Tomoyo Sakagami (voice)
- Mamiko Noto as Kotomi Ichinose (voice)
- Ai Nonaka as Fuuko Ibuki (voice)
- Akemi Kanda as Ryou Fujibayashi (voice)
- Ryotaro Okiayu as Akio Furukawa (voice)
Supporting cast
- Kikuko Inoue as Sanae Furukawa (voice)
Guest cast
- Ryo Hirohashi as Kyou Fujibayashi (voice)
- Tomoko Kawakami as Girl (voice)
- Yukari Tamura as Mei Sunohara (voice)
- Hiroshi Naka as Naoyuki Okazaki (voice)
- Fuyuka Ono as Child Tomoya (voice)
- Romi Park as Shima Katsuki (voice)
- Mai Aizawa as Rie Nishina (voice)
- Takeshi Aono as Toshio Yukimura (voice)
- Hikaru Midorikawa as Yusuke Yoshino (voice)
- Toshiko Sawada as Principal Teacher (voice)
- Makoto Ishii as Male Student (voice)
- Ayumi Fujimura as Female Student (voice)
Episodes
This series spans 3 seasons with 49 episodes.
| Season | Episodes | First aired | Last aired |
|---|---|---|---|
| Season 0 | 5 | March 28, 2008 | July 1, 2009 |
| Season 1 | 22 | October 5, 2007 | March 21, 2008 |
| Season 2 | 22 | October 3, 2008 | March 26, 2009 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
The Events of Summer Holidays It is now during summer vacation, but despite now having been going out for weeks, both Tomoya and Nagisa are still very nervous about it and have not done much to progress their relationship which comes as a shock to their friends. Mei comes back for another visit and after learning of Tomoya's and Nagisa's current stagnant relationship, decides to be their personal cupid of love in order to advance things along. Mei thinks up a whole plan which Nagisa attempts to follow despite it being very embarrassing for her at times. After Tomoya calls Mei out, she runs away, though Nagisa stops Tomoya from chasing after her. With some time left in the day, Tomoya and Nagisa take a walk together. |
March 28, 2008 |
| 2 |
Another World: Tomoyo Chapter In an alternative timeline where Tomoya and Tomoyo are dating, Tomoyo becomes student council president, but bad rumors start around the school due to Tomoya's bad reputation. Tomoyo becomes busy during the school festival, and continues to be so while she attempts to save the sakura trees in town. Tomoya realizes that he is holding Tomoyo back from greater things, and despite both sides being reluctant, they break up. Time passes as Tomoyo's reputation builds and Tomoya and Youhei watch on the side through her many accomplishments, one of them being ultimately saving the sakura trees by the winter. At that time, Tomoya and Tomoyo meet and talk for the first time in months and they decide to become a couple again. |
July 16, 2008 |
| 3 |
The Event from One Year Before Unaired 23rd canon episode of Clannad After Story. One year before the events of the beginning of the story, Tomoya is beginning his second year, and Nagisa her first time as a third-year student. Nagisa is having trouble making friends as usual, while Tomoya and Youhei are busy being delinquents and carrying out pranks at Kyou's, and inadvertently Nagisa's, expense. After Nagisa is knocked out by a falling metal pan that Tomoya and Youhei had set up as a prank for first-year students, a classmate of Nagisa's finally finds the chance to talk with her and they become friends. Nagisa keeps the banner from the prank (with a message to instill confidence written by Tomoya), because she feels it attributed her to making a new friend. |
March 19, 2009 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
On the Hillside Path Where the Cherry Blossoms Flutter On the way to school one day, Tomoya Okazaki meets a strange girl talking to herself named Nagisa Furukawa. Later in the day, Tomoya has a conversation with Nagisa during lunch and learns that she is repeating her last year of high school, and wants to join the now-disbanded drama club. After school, Tomoya goes to Nagisa's family bakery and meets her parents; he is invited to have dinner with them. |
October 5, 2007 |
| 2 |
The First Step Nagisa admits to wanting to restart the drama club, and Tomoya helps Nagisa to create advertisement posters which they place around school. At school that day, Tomoya meets two other girls: a strange genius named Kotomi Ichinose, and a first-year named Fuko Ibuki. Later that day, Nagisa finds out Tomoya used to play basketball, and invites him to play a game the next day. However, it is later revealed that his father injured Tomoya's arm in a fight; as a result, he is unable to play basketball anymore. |
October 12, 2007 |
| 3 |
Once Again After Crying After the previous night's events, Tomoya goes to see if Nagisa is okay, and finds out that she has been physically weak all her life. While walking back from the bakery, Tomoya helps get a strange electrician out of a jam and he gives Tomoya his card, finding his name to be Yusuke Yoshino; Youhei later reveals that Yusuke is a retired professional musician. After school the next day, Tomoya helps Nagisa get more self-confidence for the drama club by acting as a new member of the club asking questions. |
October 19, 2007 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
A Farewell to the End of Summer Summer vacation is now over and the second semester has started at Tomoya's school. Nagisa's father Akio asks Tomoya to form a baseball team for a local game against the neighboring shopping district team. Tomoya is able to recruit Kyou and Kotomi from the drama club, Youhei and his younger sister Mei, Tomoyo, Misae, and Yusuke. Tomoya's team manages to get an early lead, but Akio's leg gets injured by a flying bat, and Nagisa fills in for her father as the pitcher. The other team catches up near the end, and it comes down to the final inning when Tomoya scores an RBI, winning the game. |
October 3, 2008 |
| 2 |
In Search of False Love Mei has become worried about her older brother since he still does not have a plan after high school, and comes to stay at Nagisa's for the time being. Based on a fleeting comment by Youhei, Tomoya gets the idea to ask a girl to pose as his girlfriend so Mei will stop worrying about him. Youhei goes around with Tomoya and Nagisa asking Ryou, Tomoyo, Kotomi, and Yukine, but no one can help him. Sanae overhears Youhei's trouble and decides to be his fake girlfriend if it will help push him in the right direction in life. Youhei, however, still believes her to be Nagisa's older sister. When Mei meets her brother's "girlfriend", Sanae is posing as a student from Tomoya's high school. |
October 10, 2008 |
| 3 |
Hearts Out of Synch Yohei and Sanae go out on a date, accompanied by Mei, Tomoya and Nagisa. During the date the group witnesses a young girl being bullied by some slightly older boys. The scene is resolved by the girls older brother rushing in to help his sister. Mei remembers how Yohei used to be like that, but once he joined the football club he didn't seem to care about her any more. The group then tries to provoke a brotherly response from Yohei, to get him to stand up for his sister; Tomoya pretends to be romantically interested in Mei, but despite being shocked, Yohei doesn't say anything to oppose them. Mei decides to stay a little while longer, as she can't leave things the way that they are. |
October 17, 2008 |
Production
Release
| Original network/platform | TBS |
|---|---|
| First aired | October 5, 2007 |
| Last aired | March 13, 2009 |
| Runtime | 24 minutes |
| Status | Ended |