CLANNAD is a hugely popular romance adventure game that was released by Visual Arts/Key as a PC game in 2004 and has been ported to various platforms, including the PS2. The game was adapted into an anime in 2007, and the second season, the After Story, was also made into an anime the following year in 2008. It is still hugely popular 15 years after the game was released and over 10 years after the anime. It became a hot topic with its heartwarming stories and moving stories that brought tears to the eyes of everyone who watched them. This time we will introduce the unique and memorable Ichinose Kotomi!
Introduction to the contents of CLANNAD
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The protagonist, Okazaki Tomoya, had given up sports due to an injury and was living as a delinquent, but one day he met Furukawa Nagisa, who was standing alone on the slope leading to school. This encounter would greatly add color to Okazaki Tomoya's gray life. Their school life together is completely different from what they had been used to, and the story follows Nagisa's wish to revive the drama club as the two of them overcome various obstacles, growing closer together and growing together.
Introduction to the contents of CLANNAD-AFTER STORY-
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This is a story about Tomoya Okazaki and Nagisa Furukawa up until their graduation and what happens after. Nagisa graduated a year late due to illness, and Okazaki works as an electrician where an acquaintance of his works. The two of them started living together and spent happy days together, thinking that they would continue like this forever. However, a very sad fate awaited them. What will the future hold for them?
Ichinose Kotomi CV: Noto Mamiko
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"Kotomi. Kotomi in three hiragana letters, Kotomi when you call her."
A third-year high school student the same age as Tomoya and the others, she is always reading in the library. The reason for this is that he has always had the highest level of academic ability in the country, and he received special permission from his school. He always has scissors on him and will cut things out of books without permission, and his words and actions are extremely childish, but because he is such a genius, he has a unique way of thinking and aura that is different from others. His parents are famous scholars, but by the time he appears, both of them have already passed away.
Ichinose Kotomi's charm #1: The fluffy type
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There are other characters who feel fluffy, such as Nagisa and Kaze, but Kotomi is different from them. She's not just fluffy sometimes, but always, at all times, is she really a genius? That's what you'd think at first glance, and it would fit into the so-called mysterious category. It's exactly the Kotomi world.
Ichinose Kotomi's charm part 2: She's cute as a child
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She's very cute, and the atmosphere she exudes is also very cute. She doesn't look particularly childish, but maybe she looks her age? , but when you combine them in various ways, they become cute with a childish feel. Well, it's CLANNAD, so everyone is basically cute, but it's not a normal cuteness, but a crazy cuteness, so I highly recommend it to those who are no longer satisfied with normal beauty or cuteness.
Ichinose Kotomi's charm part 3: genius
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She may seem like that, but she's really smart, and when asked something, she answers with a string of words that people don't understand, which makes everyone around her freeze up. Her parents are scholars, and she takes over what they were researching, so her research is really about "another world" that normal people can't understand. It's parallel research. If you've seen all the episodes, you'll know that it's the world where everyone was alive at the end of CLANNAD. There is a world like that, and there's also a world where Nagisa died, and Kotomi becomes a scholar to prove its existence. It's so deep, I can't keep up (lol)
Ichinose Kotomi's charm #4: The day before yesterday was a rabbit
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"The day before yesterday I saw a rabbit. Yesterday it was a deer. Today it's you." This is Kotomi's famous line, and it's an important keyword in the Kotomi scenario. When I didn't know anything about it, I thought it was a famous line from Denpa Kotomi. But it turns out it's actually a line from Dandelion Girl, a famous science fiction novel, and the Kotomi scenario is full of homages to Dandelion Girl, which I remember thinking, "Wow!" But I'd like to introduce this line as a part of Kotomi's charm.
Ichinose Kotomi's charm #5: Why?
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When you think of Kotomi, you think of genius, and when you think of genius, you think of sensibility that is different from other people, and when you think of sensibility, you think of comedy. So, Kotomi's sensibility is somehow different. When Kotomi was performing a joke that she thought was funny, she would show everyone, "It turns here," "Why not?", and "Isn't it Tomoya-kun?" Of course, no one laughed and the atmosphere was a complete mess, but her friends watching on TV were no doubt laughing out loud.
Ichinose Kotomi's charm number 6: How she speaks
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She speaks in a relaxed manner, very slowly. And she usually ends her sentences with "~nano". Conversations often don't make sense, and she gives answers that are off the mark or that are more unexpected than expected. When expressing emotions, he uses very plain words such as happy and sad.
Ichinose Kotomi's charm #7: Growth
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Kotomi appeared as a genius who is a radio personality, but after meeting many people, including Tomoya and Nagisa, she succeeds in getting out of her own world of the library, and overcomes the various difficulties that arise afterwards, and truly grows. This is definitely something you should see, so be sure to check out Kotomi's story with your own eyes.
Summary of Kotomi Ichinose's charms
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When she first appeared, she seemed like a really fluffy, airheaded girl, and I thought she was a bit of a nuisance, but after watching the Kotomi episode, I no longer thought that way. To be honest, the story of Kotomi is very deep and difficult, with many hints scattered throughout, making it very difficult to understand on the first viewing, but the grandeur of the story when everything is revealed is unmatched by any other route. CLANNAD itself is a grand story, but the Kotomi scenario really feels like a different worldview, and I think the sense of loss after watching it is considerable, in a good way. Please check out Kotomi and the Kotomi scenario with your own eyes. Thank you for reading to the end.
