Yeah they basically covered that in a montage right at the end Kyou a teacher, her twin a nurse, the smart one driving with a suitcase presumably in the States. It was a bit vague, especialy for some characters like Tomoyo. Shes just on a beach.
Yes, the end was definitely jarring. KyoAni's decision to downplay the game mechanics at work throughout the story would have been the correct decision if the ending wasn't so totally reliant on them. The idea that this town is a place where one's good deeds build up positive karma in a tangible way is something that the anime only alludes to in the vaguest of terms. The show buries the fact that Tomoya is ticking off quests on his way to a 100% perfect ending, but doesn't replace that mechanical game logic with more organic foreshadowing of what could happen. It also doesn't help that After Story ditches the fantasy elements almost entirely, becoming a straight contemporary drama until the moment its deus ex machina abruptly resets the universe.Clannad (both seasons)
I am not binging a prodigious amount of anime don't worry, I just watch a few things in sequence (normally 3-5 different anime) so I can watch across a few different genres. I started Clannad a few weeks ago I think.
I was going to give this a solid 8.5 overall but, for me at least, I think the ending was slightly spoilt from what I envisioned it was going to be. I still don't think the huge eyes were a good character fit but I was able to overlook them (⓿_⓿)
Spoilers ahead:
The first season I could kind of take it or leave it, it was very moe, and pretty light-hearted especially compared to season 2 (After Story), however I think it was necessary for it to exist to really make AS build on it.
AS was a whole different level for me, without being spoilt somehow I got to like episode 9 or so and I just got this overwhelming sense of sadness as I knew Nagisa was going to die, I didn't know how I knew, but I did.
Of course we hit her death around episode 16, and I think I was just a total mess from then onwards, it's the saddest an anime has made me since Violet Evergarden. I thought the sadness would end with her death in an episode or two, but no, it carried on for the next 8 or 9 episodes in bursts
I actually wanted it to end with a bitter-sweet happy ending, Tomoya raising Ushio with the help of Sanae and Akio, he's lost Nagisa but Ushio becomes the redemption and his reason d'aitre.
Instead we got a slightly cop-out ending in my opinion, with Nagisa coming back to life via multi-verse theory or similar. For this reason I can't give it the 8.5 I wanted to give it overall.
I think a lot of what KyoAni does is a good fit for my tastes and I want to watch some more of their shows, I've not seen them all yet.
8/10
It's not a good anime but is certainly comically entertaining and I think all anime fans should watch it just for the experience. I wondered what all the infamy around the MC was about as he was dull as duck (@ayase I'm going to use your PG swearing techniques to improve my filthy habit in real life heh), only to see everything go spectacularly off the rails later. Didn't make any sense until I read about the VN source material.
I wasn't sold on Clannad's hype watching season 1, though I did think it was still pretty good on its own, but After Story did knock it out of the ball park for me. Slow to start and a bit dull no doubt (isn't adult life sadly just that mostly?) with continuing foreshadowing but yeah just emotionally abusive thereafter heh. Episode 18 and those around it are all pretty heartbreaking and I remember swearing at the TV during episode 21: "ah come on, you are ****ing joking right!?!". It was just so very sad that I honestly, very happily accepted that very flawed ending just to help serve as a panacea. I do wish they had a chance to focus more on the other characters (which still seemed to pointlessly feature heavily in the opening credits...), even if through some OVAs.
).Season 3 has the same director as Season 2 and the same character designer and chief animation directors as past seasons so I'm not sure where you heard that from. Only change in staff I remember is WIT's make-up animators not working on this season.
)I've only seen the first three episodes, and my memory of Gridman is a bit fuzzy at this point, but I reckon they're quite different. I would say that Dynazenon actually dials up the naturalistic dialogue.If DYNAZENON is more of the same then count. me. out!
I've only watched it the once, on Crunchyroll, but I've got it on Blu-ray where it awaits rewatching. I very much enjoyed it, as I almost always do. (The almost is only because of Kiznaiver.
Do u know what I think I’ve done. Looked at the chief director on one season and when I checked the other ive looked at the Director... whoops 
I would agree, dude. But yeah, you can't win 'em all, eh?
That phrase there would make a great bit of clickbait.
That phrase there would make a great bit of clickbait.
I enjoyed Gridman, but I like Ultraman, so that's not surprising. Gridman may have Trigger's usual visual style and quirks, but under that veneer it's very much a tokusatsu show dressed up as an anime. Trigger shows usually target horny 15-year-olds, but tokusatsu skews to a younger audience, and the episode plots tend to be more streamlined as a result. Gridman sits somewhere in the middle.SSSS. Gridman
Time to get real.
I am a bit annoyed with this one. I love a lot of what Trigger/Gainax do, KLK 9/10, GL 8/10, Darling in the FranXX 8/10. I even liked NGE despite it's ramblings towards the end and non-sensical plotlines that made no sense until you read about them based on some game released years later.
Gridman though just felt.. flat _______. The characters were kind of boring, I don't care that much about Kaiju or Mecha to begin with (I like elements of it in things like GL and Darling when done well, but I prefer the focus not to be actual mecha or kaiju).
I actually fell asleep whilst trying to watch this, not once, but twice. That is pretty unusual for me, normally if an anime sends me to sleep it's a bad sign unless it's right before bedtime. I probably would have dropped it a few episode in but I own it, and it's short, so I figured I might as well least try to watch it.
If DYNAZENON is more of the same then count. me. out!
I was very much hoping for more with this anime. Am I missing some nostaglic 80's/90's mecha/kaiju animation viewing here? Darling was significantly better as a more recent adaptation. I have not seen everything Trigger have put out.
Art was only mediocre imo, sound was OK but everyone sounded kind of bored, and music, not even Sawano could have salvaged this for me!
5/10
