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So guys, what the fuck? It's Sunday and I get on here and there's no posts about the new Geass episode.

Hell, thinking about it, there aren't even any raws up on TT.

4chan's not talking about it either, in fact they're saying it's over... BUT THAT'S A LIE RIGHT? THEY'RE JUST TROLLING RIGHT? THE STORIES AND INFORMATION POSTED THERE ARE ARTISTIC WORKS OF FICTION AND FALSEHOOD ONLY A FOOL WOULD TAKE ANYTHING POSTED THERE AS FACT, RIGHT?

WHY ARE YOU GUYS LOOKING AT ME LIKE THAT?

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Very serious. Though it won't be until towards the end.

(This is the part where I put in the obligatory YOU SHOULD PLAY THE VN BECAUSE IT'S BETTER.)

Sounds awesome X3

...what's VN? :'D

VN. Visual Novel. Game that's basically a computerized heavily-illustrated choose your own adventure book. A large number of games of this sort tend to be pornographic, but Clannad isn't (though its predecessors Kanon and Air were.) Clannad was originally one of these, there's a story path for pretty much every female character, though the 'canon' end is with Nagisa- After Story is basically an extended epilogue of Nagisa's route that unlocks after completing all of the other girls' routes. Air, Kanon, Fate/Stay Night, Shuffle, School Days, and Tsukihime are also adaptations of visual novels (though Tsukihime's anime fucks the original over so badly that fans of the VN disavow the anime's existence.)

The first season of the anime basically started with the first part of Nagisa's route (throwing the introductions of some of the characters who don't usually become a part of her route along the way) then launches into 90% faithful adaptations of Fuuko and Kotomi's routes, extracting the romantic relationships between said females and Tomoya (which is actually entirely *optional* in Fuuko's case, and not the most major part of Kotomi's storyline.) The second half is the rest of Nagisa's route (except putting off the part where they start going out until the end) with part of Tomoyo's route and random bits of Kyou/Ryou (that's the route that *really* couldn't coexist with Nagisa's since the whole story is that Kyou gets Tomoya to start going out with Ryou and then Tomoya winds up falling for Kyou and has to deal with all the OMG ANGST that comes out of it. I'd love to see them do it as an AU OVA thing like they did with Tomoyo's, though.)

After Story seems like it's going to fill the first half with some of the other minor routes (baseball, Yukine, hopefully Kappei, maybe Sunohara) and then go into the actual After Story route (where Nagisa and Tomoya move into an apartment together, Tomoya gets a job working with Yoshino Yuusuke, etc etc.)

After Story was what turned Clannad from "HOLY SHIT THIS IS FUCKING AWESOME" to "FUCK YES YOU ARE THE BEST VN EVER" in most fans' eyes.

Ohhh right, like Higurashi no Naku Koro ni and its sequel (though I've only seen the first one). I considered watching Kanon and Air (because of Clannad) and I've watched School Days (would kill to know other endings for that one). I've heard of Visual Novels a number of times before, I just didn't know the abbreviation ^_^;;

I would play it, but isn't it only in Japanese? I wouldn't be able to understand what was going on, unfortunately. Otherwise, I probably would have tried one out already, haha.

I loved Tomoyo's AU OVA so much that I prefer Tomoya with Tomoyo than Nagisa, so another AU OVA with Tomoya ending up with a different girl is definitely something I'm hoping for.

Wow, now I'm really looking forward to After Story. Though I feel bad watching it and wishing Tomoya x Tomoyo were 'canon' XD Thanks for telling me all this!

School Days had a few bloody bad ends (that's what made people give two shits about it in the first place,) but Nice Boat actually wound up topping them.

There's an unofficial translation project for Clannad going, I don't think they've released a patch yet but since the script they're using was translated on a public wiki people basically just compiled all that and made their own patch, so there's a complete (unpolished, but still readable) patch out there. There's a patch for Kanon too actually, but I haven't gotten around to playing that one.

Ever17, Tsukihime, Yume Miru Kusuri, and Fate/Stay Night are other quality VNs that have translations out (well, F/SN's isn't quite finished yet.)

Nice Boat made the anime all worth watching. Even though I knew what was coming I still enjoyed it!

Ooh, that would be amazing. My sister might be interested in trying out F/SN, since she watched the anime and really enjoyed it. Where do you find information about VNs? Like announcements and whatnot.

Mirrormoon does the translations for F/SN and Tsukihime. Clannad is some other group. You'll have to grab the games and translation patches for those separately.

Oh okay. Thanks for the info! ^_^

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