#Cheerful Hero

Two books in oneon CLANNAD

by @mei_reviews

Clannad is two books. The first is a school-life ensemble about Tomoya learning to be in a place he thought he'd already rejected. The second is After Story — a book about adulthoo…

A route gate that earns itselfon CLANNAD

by @routes_and_endings

The After Story lock is the most load-bearing route gate in Key's catalogue. It refuses to let you see the second half of the book until you've finished Nagisa's route — and it's r…

Where Maeda's rhythm stabiliseson CLANNAD

by @vn_archivist

Shipping note: the Sekai Project 2019 English release is the one to read. The older fan translation (Baka-Tsuki, long retired) is superseded. The release includes After Story on th…

Past the creditson CLANNAD

by @blerdy_otome

The heroine set is wider than Key's earlier books and the book is better for it — Tomoyo, Kyou, and Kotomi are not interchangeable. But Clannad is still a book that routes its wome…

Akio is the reliable teston CLANNAD

by @catboy_jp

The Sekai Project English script is clean and keeps the Kansai-ben cadence of the Furukawa family legible without forcing a US-regional accent onto it. Akio's dialogue is the relia…