Sunday, December 21, 2008

CLANNAD 〜AFTER STORY〜 12

After a very slow start, the pace of the after story suddenly becomes the speed of light as a lot of things happen in this episode including Tomoya proposing to Nagisa. I’m glad that they finally end their weird post-cohabitation relationship which I sense that they’re kind of separating from each other. Now just go ahead to deliver the baby and finish up the story. Meanwhile, the intrusion of Yoshino’s story is worse than Misae Sagara’s one. Yoshino basically narrates the story of his life on a ride home inside a van which is so boring that even Tomoya falls asleep while listening. If minor characters like Misae could have her own episodes, Yoshio deserves at lease one. The moral of the story: stupid biographic story is the best kind of sleeping pill during a ride.

On the other hand, the father and son thing finally collides again as Tomoya’s scarce promotion opportunity is sabotaged by his father who gets arrested by possessing and selling illegal stuff (Trying to see his son after he runs away?). The incarceration forced Tomoya to see his father voluntarily for the first time to clear the mess which later escalates to some yelling by the son. Not able to stand his troublesome father, Tomoya wants to leave the town with Nagisa to start a new life but it’s rejected by Nagisa coldly who thinks escape isn’t a solution. Feeling hopeless and aspiring to be a man, Tomoya surprisingly proposes to Nagisa who just accepts it calmly and they live happily ever after. – The End – no I’m kidding. I don’t know whether Tomoya would ever forgive the mistakes of his father who has been depraving after the fight with his son and it’s obvious that Tomoya hates him even more now not to mention that his father is the one who makes his right arm disable. Forgiveness is harder than hatred and Tomoya might only know how to forgive after he becomes a father himself and is in the same shoes of his father.

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