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Available on win, ios, and, psp, ps2, ps3, and others. Released in en, es, fr, it, ja, ko and others. Developed by Key.

friendship ending · friendship route · drama club

CLANNAD

Just 200 meters from the school gate, I find myself standing still, sighing as I gaze up at the sky. Read more →

Just 200 meters from the school gate, I find myself standing still, sighing as I gaze up at the sky.

Beyond lies the school gate, and I can't help but wonder who in their right mind would choose to place it in such a location. The slope in front of it stretches out like an unending ordeal.

Another sigh, quieter and shorter than mine, pulls me from my thoughts. I glance over and see a girl standing just as motionless. She's in her third year too, but I don't recognize her. Her short hair catches the breeze, fluttering just above her shoulders.

"Do you like this school?" she suddenly asks, not really to me, more like to herself. "I really, really like it. But nothing can stay the same forever. Everything has to change," she murmurs, her voice trailing off. "Can you still like this place, even then?"

"You just need to find what you love about it, right?" I chime in, catching her off guard. "You haven't really thought about what makes you happy here, have you?"

Back when we were younger, everything seemed simpler—everyone felt that way at some point.

"Come on, let's go," I say.

And together, we begin to climb the long, winding slope.

[Based on the official site]

Developer: Key
Publisher: Sekai Project
Length: 70-85 hrs
Rating: 13+

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04Tags · ordered by curator score

friendship ending friendship route drama club boke heroine delinquent protagonist twin sister support character family life comedy middle school student heroine dormitory manager heroine airhead hero adult hero fortune-teller heroine no "keep voice on click" option cheerful hero

Consensus

10.0

1 rating

Time to finish

70-85hrs

catalog estimate

Platforms

win · ios · and

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03The book

The text.

15Quick facts

Developer: Key
Publisher: Sekai Project
Original JP: Apr 28, 2004
English release: Nov 23, 2015
Length: 70-85 hrs
Rating: 13+
Also known as: クラナド · 团子大家族

13Synopsis

Just 200 meters from the school gate, I find myself standing still, sighing as I gaze up at the sky.

Beyond lies the school gate, and I can't help but wonder who in their right mind would choose to place it in such a location. The slope in front of it stretches out like an unending ordeal.

"You just need to find what you love about it, right?" I chime in, catching her off guard. "You haven't really thought about what makes you happy here, have you?"

Back when we were younger, everything seemed simpler—everyone felt that way at some point.

"Come on, let's go," I say.

And together, we begin to climb the long, winding slope.

[Based on the official site]

14Cultural moment · release cadence

2004
Japanese release
Original edition, shipped by the developer.
2015
English release
English localization · 11 years after original.

17Cast · 8 billed

Tomoya Okazaki

protagonist

Third-year delinquent coasting to graduation on spite and a basketball-season injury. Estranged from his father, bored with every adult around him, unexpectedly patient with the strays the school keeps handing him.

Nagisa Furukawa

heroine

Repeating her senior year after a long hospitalisation. Wants to re-start a theatre club she can't quite remember leaving. Calm, halting, genuinely formidable once she decides.

Kyou Fujibayashi

heroine

Class vice-rep, sharper-tongued than her twin, and the student body's self-appointed matchmaker. Smuggles a small dog through school that the administration is not officially aware of.

Ryou Fujibayashi

heroine

Kyou's gentler twin, nurse-in-training, infamously bad at the fortune-telling she nevertheless refuses to stop doing. Keeps hoping it'll come out right.

Kotomi Ichinose

heroine

Library regular, probable school genius (she won't confirm), uneasy in any room louder than a whisper. Plays violin at volumes the school's noise policy was not written for.

Tomoyo Sakagami

heroine

Transfer student who singlehandedly ended the gang problem at two previous schools. Running for student council on a flagship promise about the cherry-tree avenue nobody else takes seriously.

Fuuko Ibuki

heroine

Small, wood-carving, intensely focused on starfish. Lives in the school in a way that takes longer to make sense than anyone expects.

Akio Furukawa

support

Nagisa's baker father. Former player of several sports more seriously than he admits. Uses a bokken to make domestic points. The reason the bakery smells the way it does.

Descriptors stay spoiler-safe (surface traits only).

18Content advisory

Sexual content
On-screen adult content flagged at the catalog level.
none
Violence
On-screen violence flagged at the catalog level.
none
Age rating
Rated 13+.
present

19Route map · 6 routes

Common routeBranches into 6 routes

Nagisa Route~18h · 18 decisions

Kyou Route~8h · 8 decisions

Kotomi Route~10h · 9 decisions

Tomoyo Route~10h · 9 decisions

Fuuko Route~9h · 10 decisions

After StoryRequired first

Nagisa End

Kyou End

Kotomi End

Tomoyo End

Fuuko End

After Story · True End

Nagisa Route: The throughline. Every other heroine branch threads back into this one in some way, and After Story requires it closed first. If you read one route in Clannad, this is the one.
Kyou Route: Short, brisk, and sharper-edged than its reputation suggests. Does the most interesting thing a heroine route can do with the word “twin.”
Kotomi Route: The route that locates Clannad squarely in the Key canon — the one most willing to sit with grief as a genre. Slower, gentler, more patient than the school-comedy frame suggests.
Tomoyo Route: The route that takes the high-school frame seriously as high-school — jobs, parents, timetables. Ends with Clannad's most grounded set of decisions.
Fuuko Route: The route that set the tone for what Clannad was willing to do. Read it before After Story — the ground it lays matters.
After StoryUnlocks only after clearing Nagisa Route — this is the second half of the novel, not a side branch: A second novel stitched onto the end of the first. More than a route: Clannad's actual subject. Run the school-life heroines first, then read this as the book the rest has been leading to.

20Memorable · 4 spoiler-safe pulls

“I hate this town. It's full of things that don't change.”

- Tomoya · Prologue · the slope

“I hate this town. It's full of things that don't change.”

- Tomoya · Prologue · the slope

“Even if nothing here is the same as it was, if everyone gathers here again, that's enough.”

- Nagisa · Act 1 · theatre-club speech

“Anpan!”

- Akio · Act 1 · Furukawa Bakery

“Dango, dango, dango — dango, big dango family.”

- Nagisa · Prologue · the walk to school

17Route map

Curator-authored structural map of 6 routes and 6 endings. Sign in to overlay your progress.

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