Episode 6 – The Older and Younger Sister’s Plot Contrivance It’s morning, and Tomoya has been introduced to the sight of Mrs. Furukawa’s star bread. Lined up on all the rows of the bakery, Nagisa’s mom takes an abnormal pride in how she “designed every single one of them, from cream-filled to jam-filled.” After Tomoya bemoans her for concocting such a horrid idea, she falls into a Degrassi moment and complains that her husband said the same thing. Unlike the…

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Episode 5: The Scenery With No One to Care About Last time on Clannad, it was revealed that Fuko’s the centerpiece for the show’s first arc. More specifically, she’s the comatose little sister to a character we only saw once so far. Now put that fistful of sleeping pills away, for the worst has yet to some. After putting two and two together, Tomoya starts playing Scully and remarks on how mental it is for a ghost to be living…

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Episode 4: Let’s Find a Better Show. After getting called in by the announcer, Nagisa is told that since drama club is on hiatus, all activities involving it are forbidden, and that includes the simple act of putting up posters. Tomoya attacks an inanimate object with his fist again and asks her why she was such a doormat, with which she says, “Rules are rules, and they can’t be bent.” After a few seconds of angst, the two decide to…

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Episode 3: Once Again After Self-Medicating “I was born into this world in my search for this girl. Sacrificing life, a new world, and everything I could’ve had. The girl collected pieces of junk from somewhere. And made a body for me. My memories were murky. I couldn’t remember without effort. Where have I been? Where have I been trying to get to? I couldn’t speak to the girl, but she was the one warm spot in this world that…

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…come on. Why isn’t there a car hitting one of them? It happened on Kanon. Why can’t it happen here? Oh yeah, I’m supposed to be doing this. *shoves Brandy and Fluoxetine into mouth* Let’s ride. Episode 2: The First Step To Walking Away From This Mess Following on from the last episode, Tomoya is walking around town after acting like a spastic sissy at the mere appearance of his dad. By contrived coincidence, Nagisa is right by, practicing out…

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Episode 1 We pan out to a bleak town, where we hear someone bitch about the monotony of it all. Not even a minute passes by, and it already gets tiring, with such crisp dialogue as, “There’s no place I’d rather not go ever again.” As we get more scenery of the setting, our lead, Tomoya, walks into the path of a red haired girl who inexplicably mutters “Pan-pan,” the Japanese word that children use to say bread. Why a…

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Evening, all! Now we at AR realize that some of you don’t know what exactly the Ludovico Trials are and what led to its creation. And because of these issues, here are some basic answers for those wondering what the hell is going on. What does “Ludovico” mean? It comes from the Ludivico Technique, a fictional drug-assisted therapy featured in Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange, in which the main character Alex DeLarge was subjected to utterly horrific footage of rape…

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