Clannad

Okazaki's relationship with his father

the one with fuko, i didnt like the drama club story at the start though, and it looks like it might go back to that after the fuko story is over

basketball

The basketball game ends, the basketball captain is like "you had that look in your eye maybe you can still play after all"
In the dub he taps his shoulder and says "are you kidding me" but in the sub its translated as "dont be ridiculous" and i think the latter fits better there, especially with his expression

I have 2 different theories

1. I think where they are is like a multiverse plane, and each of those lights is a different reality
Idk who the robot is, or the girl, for awhile i thought the girl could be fuko and the robot okazaki, and that fuko was okazakis sister, but i dont think the robo/girl as them fits anymore
Fuko can sortve jump between realities, somehow, idk how, thats why people dont remember her and how she can appear and disappear, back when i thought she was the girl in the multiverse plane it made more sense
The bus accident where no one died seems suspicious to me, i feel like theres a reality where ryuo is dead and that kotomi can see other realities so she broke down because she saw the other reality
This theory is both falling apart and is piecing together at the same time so i came up with a second one as it was falling apart faster than coming together

2. I think fuko is in a comma and this is all in her mind as she tries to regain consciousness
The robot is fuko and the girl is her subconscious, the lights are her memories/fantasies
Everything thats happened are from fukos memories/fantasies, the way everyone forgot about her is her way of dealing with what happened to her that put her in a comma, the fact that she isnt with the others in her memories/fantasies is part of that, she wants to help so she pops into her memories/fantasies occasionally but she knows she cant help since shes in a comma and isnt really there so she cant (this theory will fall apart the moment she pops in and actually helps them out)
The bus accident was a memory where ryuo actually did die (possibly she was even on this bus and couldve caused her to go into the comma, she witnessed ryou die before she lost consciousness during or immediately after the accident), but in her mind she fantasized that no one was hurt and ryou is fine
And when i say memory/fantasy, i mean fantasies based on her memories, like for example the tragic past of kotomi is all real, but fuko fantasized the part about her getting the bear in the case to make it happier, in reality there was no case, no happy ending to that (the paper she burned probably really was her parents research)
She and kotomi were probably best friends in reality, thats why kotomi breaks down like that at the bus accident (going with the part about the real bus accident causing her comma) since there wasnt really a reason for that accident to trigger her response
So most of it more or less really did happen, fuko is just giving it a happier ending in her mind (like they probably lost the basketball game in reality but that game did really happen)


The 2nd theory is what im going with until i see fuko help someone, or until something doesnt have a happy-ish ending

I still think fuko is okazakis sister though, in both theories

Originaly i thought they were brother/sister because fukos interaction with okazaki before she was forgotten felt very brother/sister to me
You could say the same about nagisa/fukos interaction being like sisters but since they are both girls i can justify that as just being good friends where as okazaki/fuko was definitely a brother/sister thing
In theory 1 i thought in this reality, the one we see, okazaki didnt have a sister, but in another 1 he did, and that one ended up in the reality that we see, so it made sense to me that he and the others didnt know he had a sister (because he doesnt in this reality), and fuko didnt remember because of the reality jumping she did, but deep down they know and interacted that way

And now with my 2nd theory okazaki's relationship with his father within fukos memories makes me think fuko has to be his sister because why else would her mind keep going back to that, it only really makes sense if she was living with okazaki
His father doesnt even seem that bad, which to me, in theory 2, says that he might abuse fuko in reality and fuko is just ignoring/repressing that part so that when we see their father he seems alright
It explains why okazaki hates him even though we havent seen him do anything worthy of being hated for

The stuff thats said in the robot/girl parts dont support it, and its clearly related to nagisa and not fuko
Though the thing about fuko being okazakis sister still holds and is supported in ep 20 when okazaki does that charm thing and walks into the hall, fuko is the first girl that tries to talk to him and he says that he gets the feeling their relationship is far from romantic and he stops her from talking to him

Now im thinking nagisa is the 1 in the comma and she has been since she was a kid and nearly died (shes also the robot), and everything weve seen is what she wishes she had, maybe people come visit her and she hears them tell stories about their life and uses that to create the world we see with the drama club and all that, but it doesnt really work and doesnt explain fuko

The only things im somewhat certain of at this point is fuko is okazakis sister and someone is in a comma and what we see is based on that persons memories

I thought there would be some deeper meaning to it all, i was looking for a twist at the end, an explanation to fuko's existence/disappearance, something to tie it all together, but no, its never explained, the girl/robot is just a play, its just a straight forward romance anime that isnt even that sad
The final episode with the alternate reality was really good though, i wish that was the main story, far more interesting and sad then what we got in the main story
Thats not to say the main story was bad, most of the time it was average, with a few stand out moments, but it was still disappointing to me

Nagisa said she wants to properly meet okazakis dad, yet she wouldve already done that in order to invite him to the play, i guess she might not count it as "properly" meeting him for w/e reason, so ok i can overlook that but..
They already played a game of baseball so okazaki should know that he could swing, and tomoyo should know how to swing a bat
Its like certain events in the first season didnt happen here or happened in a different way, i cant tell if thats an important element to the story, poor writing or just the nature of being adapted from a visual novel, like the 2nd season is based on a slightly different path of the visual novel than the first season is so we have events that didnt happen now
Also the girl and robot are still around so they do actually have some deeper meaning, i dont want to speculate/theorize anymore cause i feel like i will just end up disappointed but it looks like i may have been right about the lights being memories, cause he was talking about formless memories and the ball became a light in the girl/robot world so the "someone is in a comma and this is all based on their memories" theory is still possible

Going past the end of highschool i mean, i actually thought i screwed up the episode order and had to double check what episode i was watching when school was ending, thought i skipped to the last ep or something for a minute
5cm per second is the only thing ive seen do something like this before, it kindve reminds me of that with some parts

Also its starting to make me miss the school antics that i would complain about, in a good way
And I hope ryou kyou sunohara and the others come back again