ＣＬＡＮＮＡＤ ~After Story~ もうひとつの世界杏編

CLANNAD: AFTER STORY - MOU HITOTSU NO SEKAI, KYOU-HEN

OVA

STATUS
COMPLETE
EPISODES
1
RELEASE
July 1, 2009
LENGTH
24 min

DESCRIPTION

Included in the 8th and final DVD of Clannad ~After Story~ is an extra episode set in an alternate universe. Here, Fujibayashi Kyou is the main heroine in place of Furukawa Nagisa.

Love can be wonderfully exciting, but also extremely painful. Fujibayashi Ryou, Kyou's sister, is in love with Okazaki Tomoya, the male protagonist. With the help of Kyou, Ryou manages to sum up the courage to ask him out and now Tomoya and Ryou are a couple. However, as things progress, Kyou begins to acknowledge her feelings for Tomoya, and a love-triangle is formed.

As everything is revealed, the sisters learn the pains of love and try to decide between the two loves of their life: Tomoya, or each other.

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CAST

Tomoya Okazaki
Yuuichi Nakamura
Kyou Fujibayashi
Ryou Hirohashi
Ryou Fujibayashi
Akemi Kanda
Youhei Sunohara
Daisuke Sakaguchi

EPISODES

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REVIEWS

Ampere
50/100
"The person that I love... is your sister!"
Spoiler warning!
What an absolute soap opera. _Clannad_ sets up all these delicate themes of change and what significant meaning it can have, then we have Kyou in this bonus episode cutting her hair in the most obvious, literal representation of change imaginable. She might as well be screaming, "Okazaki, I will change for you!" First of all, it's crazy to think that an episode called _Kyou Chapter_ would give more screentime to her sister Ryou. I imagined while watching _Clannad_ that, if Okazaki went with Kyou in the end, he would have this acceptance of his bad-boy delinquent personality and become the dashing sidekick to her plucky heroine. But nope, turns out she was just using her sister to get closer to Okazaki and vicariously live out her dreams of being a... I don't know, a harem girlfriend with zero personality? It almost seems like the direction here is deliberately contrasting that set by the main series. Okazaki has a dramatic exchange with Kyou in the pouring rain, now he's a silhouette backlit against the rain as he tears Ryou's heart out by telling her he was just using her, she kissed him to increase the jealousy factor, now he's breaking up with her again, except now she's actually Kyou who cut her hair... there's no delicate sense of tact here, just pure soapy drama. There's not much else to say considering that this is only a single TV-length episode. I think this is fun and interesting as a bonus episode, I love the idea of seeing a different side of Okazaki and seeing the girl that he ends up with changing him in different ways. Except this doesn't deliver on that promise and instead we get 20 minutes worth of scenes at and around the school of, "Oh, he loves Kyou, oh, never mind, he loves Ryou." Kyou and Okazaki have a great dynamic in the main show and she feels like the member of the main cast who is most similar to him. Tomoyo is too caught up in social norms and Nagisa, while obviously the most qualified to be his partner, she is more of a case of opposites attracting. It would have been nice to see the more playful and assertive side of Kyou in this episode, since that is what differentiates her from the other potential date options. But no, in this episode she turns into a blubbering mess anytime she makes eye contact with Okazaki and he turns into a playboy pitting twin sisters against each other to compete for his affection. Both of them are deeper characters than that and deserve a more fitting ending than this. I'm glad that this episode exists and I did enjoy watching it, if only for the pure entertainment value (and the fantastic-as-usual soundtrack and visuals). But, the Okazaki I know is more tactful than the one that says, "I'm in love with your sister!"
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