This is evident when Fuko speaks the line "I have committed Ushio's scent to memory!" And then in the last episode, is drawn to where Ushio is sleeping under the tree by her scent, despite technically not having met her in the present timeline.While on the trip, Tomoya buys a toy robot he picks out for Ushio to play with after they arrive in the countryside. The entirety of events that happen in After story before Tomoya makes his wish still happens however, in an alternate timeline. The ending where Nagisa doesn't die fit much better in the context of the visual novel where you're playing the game over and over making different choices, but is much more confusing in the context of the anime. He decides that matter how painful it was, he'd rather have spent that time with Nagisa than to have never met her at all.Īt the end of the series when he "wakes up" and finds that Nagisa is alive, it's because he was seeing visions of her death from before he used the lights. The use of those 13 lights destroys the other world (and all of the lights in the other world overflow into their present world, which is why they see them outside the window) because the possibility of Tomoya and Ushio being together in the future were destroyed as well.īUT he has an epiphany and a change of heart at the last second. When you do, all 13 lights are used up in Tomoya's wish to go back in time to when he and Nagisa met. Upon getting all 13 lights and playing After Story AGAIN to the end, when Ushio dies you're given the choice to call out for help. And also because the movie was made by an entirely different company and began production before the TV anime. This is because she DOESNT in the first play through of After Story. You'll also realize that the Clannad movie has an ending where Nagisa doesn't come back. The lights are referred to by the girl in the other world as the wishes and dreams of people. The first time you play the After Story part, Nagisa dies after giving birth and doesn't come back, because in the visual novel you need to collect all 13 lights from playing the routes relating to other characters. That is a reference to the title screen of the Clannad visual novel where every time you clear a route and gain a light, it is shown at the title screen. If you're sharp, you'll also notice the ever-growing number of lights gathering on the left side on the tree. You may have noticed that at the start of each episode it shows a picture of a tree surrounded by grass, with the title of the episode overlapping. The lights also appeared when Nagisa gave birth the second time around and the lights were outside. You might remember one of those lights was in the anime when Yukine was at her brother's funeral, and again when Tomoya reconciled with his father Naoyuki. In the visual novel, you have to play through the whole game several times and go around collecting "lights" from each character by resolving their problems which usually results in you falling in love with them. At the very beginning of the first season when the robot says "I feel like I know her from the past, or perhaps the distant future" it's referring to the "future" where Ushio is his daughter. The reason Tomoya is represented by a robot is because of the toy robot that he bought her on their first time spent together. Ok well the girl is Ushio and the robot is Tomoya, or at least their "other world" (Mou Hitotsu Sekai) forms. It may be obvious for those who have played the visual novel, but for the people who only watched the anime, it's a little harder to grasp. Some people seem to be royally confused as to what the whole "girl and robot" thing meant.
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