CLANNAD movie

[littleharlock]

So Toei did put up a site for their theatrical anime adaption of Key/Visual Art's CLANNAD (http://clannad-movie.jp/) planned for 2007. The site scheduled to open on 8th March.
Osamu Dezaki will return to direct this (after Gekijouban AIR) and Firstron states that Megumi Kadonosono will be responsible for the character designs of the movie.
Moonphase lists Nakamura Makoto (also worked on the scenario for the theatrical adaption of AIR) to return for the scenario of the movie.

Personally I have mixed feelings towards this project. My Key fanboyism makes me anticipating this project, but on the other hand I didn't (and don't plan to do so) give the AIR movie a try yet because I can't stand the IMO horrible character design "adaption" of Hinoue Itaru's wonderful original ones (hopefully with Kadonosono taking charge of the anime designs this will turn out better than Akemi Kobayashi's try).
Aside of my worries regarding the visuals of this project with CLANNAD featuring a huge cast of characters I guess my fears of it being cropped to death to fit movie size are not without any reason as well.
But on the other hand it's an anime adaption of Key's CLANNAD :bigsmile: so let's wait and see what Toei will do with it (and regardless of how it will turn out in the end, Key is going to release Little Busters! this year as well ^_~)

[Ty]

I cannot see Clannad working as a movie. It'd have to be a tv series. Though I can't say I'm surprised to see it coming with the success of the other Key work adaptations. Though I would've thought they'd adapt Planetarian into an anime before Clannad. With Little Busters already serialized in print it probably stands a chance too.

[Jumbo]

(hopefully with Kadonosono taking charge of the anime designs this will turn out better than Akemi Kobayashi's try).

I was interested in seeing that they decided to actually go with another character designer. Granted I still don't see them being very faithful but I'll be willing to at least give them a chance.

If the AIR motion picture was any indication my money is on the director once again simply throwing away all of the other characters (Nice knowing you Tomoyo! At least you got your own spin off game.) like the AIR movie and focusing on Furukawa Nazaki's scenario.

Character designs aside I'm sure it will have plenty of eye candy but here's to hoping that once again Kyoto Animation comes to the rescue later. ^^;

[something]

Rather a shame that we can't get a third Key property in full TV anime series form. I love AIR and Kanon (particularly the new one), and it would be great to see the third "big name" Key property get the same treatment. Then again, at this point I'd never allow anyone other than KyoAni to touch it, and they'll probably be busy for some time to come with other projects. Maybe they can "remake" it in TV series form in a couple years =P

[Fencedude]

Firstron states that Megumi Kadonosono will be responsible for the character designs of the movie.

Whoa. Holy shit.

I'll watch it just for this.

[something]

Firstron states that Megumi Kadonosono will be responsible for the character designs of the movie. Whoa. Holy shit. I'll watch it just for this. Yeah, it would be very interesting to see someone with her sort of style take on something from Key. Her art is always awesome. I'll probably pass on watching it myself though. I'm so apathetic about anime movies.

[The Great Bear]

Happy to hear there's more Key goodness in the making.

Sadly, the chances of it being licensed are porbably as good as any oher Key properties.

[HitokiriShadow]

I've got mixed feelings on this. On the one hand, it will be nice to see it animated since there is no way I'll ever be able to play the game. On the other hand, its Toei and its a movie rather than a TV series.

I'll watch it, but I'm keeping my expectations at medium.

[beatmania]

I cannot see Clannad working as a movie. It'd have to be a tv series. Though I can't say I'm surprised to see it coming with the success of the other Key work adaptations. Though I would've thought they'd adapt Planetarian into an anime before Clannad. With Little Busters already serialized in print it probably stands a chance too.

Focusing on Nagisa herself would an excellent movie I think. No need to focus on the other characters. They can also do the whole Tomoyo story from Tomoyo After and put a little Clannad in it.

[Fencedude]

Though I would've thought they'd adapt Planetarian into an anime before Clannad.

heh...If they animated Planetarian /a/ would collectively shit itself out of excitement.

...and I really need to pick that up and play it one of these days.

[something]

heh...If they animated Planetarian /a/ would collectively shit itself out of excitement.
...and I really need to pick that up and play it one of these days.
Heh well, read, but yeah Planetarian fucking rocks. Not sure what kind of anime you could make out of it though. It doesn't really, uh... cover a lot of time or geographic area.

[Suwako Moriya]

Heh well, read, but yeah Planetarian fucking rocks.

The only thing I know about Planetarian boils down to "Wow the girl in this image on this image board looks nice so I'll save the image" that's about it. Still just like with some other shows I've only seen in image form if a tv series came out I'd be tempted to check it out.

As for CLANNAD I've never been much of a fan of the movie format either, but there is always hope depending on what they decide to cover. Although then again I'd be watching it with little or no idea as to what the original is like. Which has both advantages and disadvantages.

[LimePie]

heh...If they animated Planetarian /a/ would collectively shit itself out of excitement.
...and I really need to pick that up and play it one of these days.
Heh well, read, but yeah Planetarian fucking rocks. Not sure what kind of anime you could make out of it though. It doesn't really, uh... cover a lot of time or geographic area.

A one-shot OAV would do nicely.

[Jumbo]

heh...If they animated Planetarian /a/ would collectively shit itself out of excitement.
...and I really need to pick that up and play it one of these days.
Heh well, read, but yeah Planetarian fucking rocks. Not sure what kind of anime you could make out of it though. It doesn't really, uh... cover a lot of time or geographic area.

A one-shot OAV would do nicely.

I second that, if Planetarian was going to be animated I think that format would work best for it. It would make a nice short animated film.

[Ty]

That's sort of what I was getting at. Planetarian should be the movie and Clannad a tv series.

[DiGiKerot]

heh...If they animated Planetarian /a/ would collectively shit itself out of excitement.
...and I really need to pick that up and play it one of these days.
Heh well, read, but yeah Planetarian fucking rocks. Not sure what kind of anime you could make out of it though. It doesn't really, uh... cover a lot of time or geographic area.

I'm not really sure what kind of anime they could make out of it either. I really, really don't think it'd work.

[Dagger]

Dammit, Firefox just swallowed the long reply I had written to this. :( In summary: what obstacles are there preventing Planetarian from being made into a great anime? The kinetic novel is mainly atmospheric, sure, but plenty of anime rely almost 100% on atmosphere to be effective. I think it would be fantastic as a concise, Shinkai-esque piece.

[beatmania]

Dammit, Firefox just swallowed the long reply I had written to this. :( In summary: what obstacles are there preventing Planetarian from being made into a great anime? The kinetic novel is mainly atmospheric, sure, but plenty of anime rely almost 100% on atmosphere to be effective. I think it would be fantastic as a concise, Shinkai-esque piece.

Planetaraian is just a linear story, with the right director, they can make anything out of it ... book, song, poem, movie, manga, you name it, someone can probably make it.

They somehow made a PS2 game out of that and people actually bought it ... when the PC kinetic novel is only 1000 yen or so. That's just incredible.

[Splitter]

Dammit, Firefox just swallowed the long reply I had written to this. :( In summary: what obstacles are there preventing Planetarian from being made into a great anime? The kinetic novel is mainly atmospheric, sure, but plenty of anime rely almost 100% on atmosphere to be effective. I think it would be fantastic as a concise, Shinkai-esque piece.

Shinkai adapting Key material? Now that's one dream I want to see become reality!

[Jumbo]

The Ofiicial Site (http://clannad-movie.jp/) has been updated again. It is still pretty bare but finally gives us a slight look at the character designs.

Already looking a bit better than the AIR movie character design adaptations IMO...

EDIT: There is also a link to the production diary here (http://fwinc.boxerblog.com/production_diary/2007/03/clannad_9a7c.html) and clicking that link will send you to a (slightly) better image of the hp and also show you what the layout for the movie poster is going to look like.

[littleharlock]

Already looking a bit better than the AIR movie character design adaptations IMO...


I tend to agree with this. They do look *a bit* better than Toei's take on AIR...but still not nearly as good as they could look like. I mean looking at how neatly Kazumi Ikeda did adapt original Itaru designs for Kanon it's sad to see that the same treatment obviously won't be given a theatrical adaption of a work like CLANNAD (and despite loving Itaru's older works as much as her new one I think that the job she's done on CLANNAD is gold).

Anyways...watch the Gekijouban CLANNAD promotion trailer at Akiba Blog's entry about the promotion campaign (http://www.akibablog.net/archives/2007/03/clannad_070311.html).

[Jumbo]

The web site has updated again with a theatrical opening date of 09/15/07.

The trailer that littleharlock linked earlier can now be downloaded over at animate.tv (http://www.animate.tv/pv/detail.php?id=p070315a) (Orange button on the left for narrowband, orange button on the right for broadband) in .asx format.

Looks like at least a couple of the supporting heroines are going to make it in there somehow...