The Clannad Thread

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Calling all Clannad fans! Hopefully there will be a few besides me.
So, favourite episodes, favourite characters, favourite music, favourite funny moments, Japanese or English audio?

Also, I'm not sure if this is relevant, but I've noticed that there are a lot of anime out there now in which the main heroine dies from some unspecified illness. Was Clannad the first to do this or is it just following that particular cliche?

Air and Kanon both had the mysterious illness thing for heroines, and they came before. I am pretty sure there is a trope.

If you are interested in Key, the writers of Clannad and the others, this season we have ReWrite which is based on a later visual novel, and there is Planetarian which I think is based on an older novel from around the same time as Clannad. A bit hard to get a read as there are only one episode of either so far, but Planetarian seems to be going a bit of the kind of sadder side, it will be only 5 episodes long, and I feel ReWrite is going to be a bit meta, although its double length first episode did not reveal too much.

I wonder if Nagisa didn't just have an unspecified illness but actually had a weak immune system that caused her to be sick so much? Of course, Akio's smoking didn't help matters, either. My theory mainly comes from the fact that she gets sick at school, where there's loads of germs and people all over the place, or out in the rain, which can make anyone sick.

I thought that the series convention seemed to put a mystical element to the sickness in that that the land had saved Nagisa from dying when she was little, and that she grew sick in winter because that was when the land was the weakest. She also grew progressively weaker as the town was further developed, that whatever natural entity that was keeping her alive could not manage it. When she gave birth to Ushio Nagisa gave up her protection instead to her daughter, who could not have been born otherwise, but the power continued to decline so she could not live a long life.

In the end Tomoya was able to use all the good will he had found (light orbs), a wish to bring his family together, and still a belief that he would do it all over again if given the choice to choose to choose something else, he removed the dependence on the protection.

Vague supernatural elements are kind of a favoured element of the creators.

^That's actually a brilliant theory! Awesome!