After Story is a brilliant piece of work. Continue reading →
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Animation is crystal clear and has aged well considering the anime’s original release date. Continue reading →
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Available from Amazon Available from Right Stuf Clannad Set 1 Released By: Sentai Filmworks Released: 3/3/09 Reviewed: 9/10/09 Rated: 13+ The Story Based on the visual novel from Key, Clannad follows a jaded and cynical high school student named Tomoya. After a life filled with tragedy (mother died, father became a drunk gambler, I’m sure he had a dog run away at some [...]
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I just got this and it brings back memories… Good memories… Well, I was going to write about Denpa Teki na Kanojo (Electromagnetic Girl) but I’m still going over my latest bounty… Several hundred pages of Azumanga Diaoh and 2 volumes of Last Exile left to go… Kotomi~ I could die happy now. [...]
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Nagisa’s father asks for Tomoya to put together a baseball team so his neighborhood team can win an upcoming game.
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Yep.  Figured I’d have to throw this out eventually this season.. didn’t think so soon though.. In the NFL, outside of the final two minutes of the first and second halves, coaches have the option to challenge a play, to have a certain play reviewed by the officials because they believe the boys in the zebra [...]
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        This episode picks up with Tomoya and Nagisa watching her father playing baseball, and later Akio tells Tomoya to help get a team together to help him in next weekends game. Tomoya asks Akio why should he help and Akio tells him that if he’s Nagisa’s boyfriend he’d better be nice to her father. So, [...]
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クラナド アフターストーリー Episode 01 SPOILER Summary/Synopsis: With Tomoya officially a couple with Nagisa, Akio-san decides that the boy dating his daughter needs to do him a favor and that involves getting a baseball team together for the sake of their town to take out a rival shopping district's team. Nagisa and Tomoya recruit Youhei, Kotomi (who's very excited to play after having watched the previous
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Note:  Yamcha wrote about the same episode a few days back - I’m just here to offer a second opinion.  (That, and a different gallery of screencaps.) This one has “required viewing” written all over it, so let’s embrace the inevitable and jump right into KyoAni’s entry for the 2008 fall anime season. Whether we actually [...]
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This one has “required viewing” written all over it, so let’s embrace the inevitable and jump right into KyoAni’s entry for the 2008 fall anime season. Whether we actually want to matters not a whit. Slapdash Synopsis The summer holidays are over and the Dangoland crew are about to embark on the second semester of their [...]
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