I watched this since it was so highly rated, I figured the series would be absolutely amazing by the end perhaps. But I truly don’t know. I’m watching Clannad After-Story at this point, and the show is quite boring.
The best part about the show to me is how un-addicting it is. It takes little will-power to close the tab and go back to work, which is see as a huge win. But it would be awesome if the series was fun as well.
You can truly see that animating things back then was far more difficult. The series is very slow, not that it wastes time, but animation was simply harder to do back then.
I saw reviews mentioning how the anime completely broke people and left them sobbing. And here I am watching it at an increased speed and skipping through emotional bits. I know what they’re going to say, it’s incredibly predictable, I don’t need to see it.
Wasted time:
The show does waste time though, there are ghosts and spirits, who we spend hours and hours with, after which they seem to have no relevance what-so-ever. Why did we invest so much time into this ghost if nothing important was to happen concerning the ghost?
Outside of Clannad having an after-story which shows difficult parts of a relationship, I can’t really see what’s special about this show.
The show is as interesting or often times less interesting than your own life. Mostly nothing happens.
I’ve heard it was the bees knees back in the day, it doesn’t seem that way to me now.