I mentioned possibly doing a longer post on this subject, and I may yet, once Clannad is finished, but I need to collect my thoughts on the matter first.
You may not think of Clannad as exhibiting the design flair of a late eighties/early nineties Disney film, what with its huge-eyed Key style, willingness to hit where it hurts, bare modicum of interpretive ambiguity and such. But then, perhaps you’ve never seen Disney’s short adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Little Match Girl,” which, strangely, was the first thing that came to mind when I considered the visual flavor of After Story’s twenty-first episode.
