Clannad / Clannad After Story: Complete Collection

I love Clannad. The Blu-Ray is what you'd expect. As such, it received 5 stars.

As the headline already says, and hopefully not just for me that's a very important and helpful information, this wonderful Complete Collection, containing both Clannad and Clannad: After Story and the OVAs(!), runs perfectly fine on Blu Ray players with the Region Code B/2 setting, i.e. Europe, Australia, etc -- for further details, see Amazon's own listing of countries for each Region Code.Compared to the available offers in Germany, this Complete Collection not only is the most sensible choice as it is one item containing all episodes, including the OVAs, instead of the horrendous german sub seasons for both Clannad and Clannad After Story, which would leave you with easily 8 separate boxes each containing just a handful of episodes and, depending on the actual version, sometimes not even containing the OVAs.But not just that, the german sub season-malarky means that if you want to have the complete Clannad experience that you get with this Complete Collection, you will likely have to pay substantially more, easily 20 to 30 bucks more, and even worse than that, you will neither have the english dub, nor, and this is most annoying, would you get the japanese high quality audio track with english subtitles; the german versions, all of them, exclusively contain german subtitles, and a german dub, both of which are far inferior to the english ones where the level of quality of the translation is concerned -- the german subtitles more often than not completely fail to convey the meaning of the japanese original dialogue, whereas the english subtitles, while still not as good as some of the amazing fan subbing, are much more true to the original.Another great feature of the Blu Ray set is that you will not get a better visual quality than this anywhere else -- Clannad in 1080p High Definition and **true** 16:9 aspect ratio, i.e. 1.78:1, actual fullscreen on 16:9 TV sets!In short:This is currently **the** best version of Clannad & Clannad After Story on Blu Ray, and not just for american customers (or anyone with Region Code A/1 players), but even also for german customers and anyone else with a Region Code B/2 player at home.Delivery-wise, I picked the Global Priority shipping option and my package was delivered from the USA to Germany within only two working days via UPS Worldwide Express, customs was handled by UPS in-house, Amazon actually levied the 19% import tax together with the item & shipping price right at checkout, so there was zero hassle with customs either, and zero delay.48 hours to get something shipped from the U.S. to Germany is well worth the asking price for this shipping option, especially since you get a guaranteed delivery date.I don't think I have to say anything about the anime itself, those of you pondering the purchase of this edition likely already know that this is easily one of the best anime of all time, if not actually **the** best.Oh, one more thing I should probably add:If you are even remotely capable of empathy, this anime *will* make you cry. More than once. Yes, fully grown men as well. And that's a good thing. Clannad is *that* brilliant, *that* emotionally gripping!

Watched it in High School before and decided to relive the experience years after. 11/10 story. Season 1 may be slow but the build up to season 2 is worth it. Watching the anime encouraged me to play the original Visual Novel. The only issue is that it starts raining over my eyes around the end of the series.

If that headline didn't already pull at your heartstrings and leave you with an odd feeling of happiness and sadness at the same time then you are not human, please go back to your alien emotionless world!I doubt anyone is here actually looking for a review of this so that they can decide if they are going to purchase it or not. If you are here you've already watched Clannad, you love Clannad, you want to watch it again and again and MUST own your very own copy of it.If you're here through some weird twist of fate know this, there has never been a more perfect, beautiful story ever written and put into Anime form. The original visual novel is wonderful and also lots of fun to play, consider getting yourself a copy of that as well if you love the Anime adaptation.I love Clannad, you love Clannad, we all love Clannad. Buy this, buy a copy of the visual novel, buy yourself a giant stuffed Dango, or a Nagisa figure, this is a fandom that if you're not already obsessed with you will be if you watch this Blu-ray combo.I hope someone watches this for the fist time because of mine or someone else's reviews here, you will not be disappointed.

A must have collection for any fan of the series.Watched the whole series back when I was a kid, glad that I did because I just don't have enough words to explain how much this anime hit me, and changed the course of my life in the process.Was gonna buy A Silent Voice (which is another masterpiece btw, be sure to check that out too) to show a little financial support to Kyoto Animation fire incident on top of what I already donated through the gofundme campaign, but saw this before checking out, and so I immediately changed my mind to order this instead.Never thought that one day I'll be able to get my hands on this gem... legit had teary eyes just from physically holding this on my hands.If you're always feeling worthless or not knowing what to do with your miserable life, please give this anime a go. I'm certain by the end of Nagisa's and Tomoya's journey, some part of you shall be different.Um, ops, did NOT plan to write this much.At last, a huge thank you to Amazon for selling and delivering this fantastic stuff to my country.- Just another anime fan from Malaysia

Heart wrenching! Saw the first series on Netflix and was hooked! Of course, that's all they had so I had to get the blu-ray to find out the ending. Grown man crying, all I can say. They used that "blank template" protagonist to a tee. Anyone can relate, and thus you not only see but feel the story. I had to binge the set once it arrived. Great new condition, no loose discs in the case (which is super compact). In the event of a meteor strike destroying my place and belongings, I would buy it again!

(This rating is for Clannad and Clannad: After Story. Which is different from the movie.) It’s Clannad.....Saw this beautiful and touching anime Masterpiece on HULU early this year due to it about to be expired. (Licensing) I cannot stress enough about this wonderful anime besides the fact that it goes beyond the usual high-school slice of life genre, i won’t spoil it for others who hasn’t seen it yet, but this was one anime that moved me to tears and has skyrocketed to #1 on my personal favorites, and that’s not easy believe me. This is a classic, a gem, a masterpiece. If you watched Angel Beats! like i have, then you’ll like this too as well.