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 emotional stories that brought tears to the eyes of everyone who watched it. In this article, we will introduce the charms of the main character of this work, Okazaki Tomoya!

CLANNAD Contents Introduction

Tomoya and Nagisa on their way home together
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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 otherwise gray life. The school life he spends with Nagisa is completely different from what it used to be, and the two of them overcome various difficulties to get closer and grow together in order to revive the drama club, which is Nagisa's wish.

Introduction to the contents of CLANNAD-AFTER STORY-

The Okazaki family going out together
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This is a story about Okazaki Tomoya and Furukawa Nagisa up until their graduation and 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 began a happy life, thinking that it would continue forever. However, a very sad fate awaits them. What will the future hold for the two of them?

Okazaki Tomoya CV: Nakamura Yuichi

Tomoya with a refreshing smile
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The protagonist of both CLANNAD and AFTER STORY is a high school senior. He lost his mother at a young age and lived with his father, but in his third year of middle school, he got into an argument with his father and injured his shoulder in an accident, which meant he was unable to continue playing basketball, even though he had been accepted as a scholarship student. After that, he and his father fell out of touch and no longer spoke to each other, and he ended up not being able to play basketball at the high school he had entered as a scholarship student, so he had no place to belong and began to behave badly. Then, he met Furukawa Nagisa, standing alone on a hill, and his life changed dramatically.

Okazaki Tomoya's charm number 1: handsome

Tomoya helping out at the bakery
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It's not often mentioned in the story, but Fujibayashi An sometimes remarks that Tomoya has a good-looking face, and his younger sister Fujibayashi Ryo also has feelings for him. Although he tends to be shunned due to his bad behavior, he is very popular. He's obviously a handsome guy. Phew...

Okazaki Tomoya's charm number 2: kindness

Tomoya and Sunohara on the way home from school
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He's called a delinquent, and although he does have a bad attitude sometimes, he's very kind to people he can call his friends. If he had a bad personality in the first place, he wouldn't go out of his way to talk to Nagisa, who was standing alone. He's a kind person who helps his friends as much as he can when they're in trouble. He's handsome and kind.

Okazaki Tomoya's charm number 3: devotion

Tomoya and Nagisa cuddling by the river
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Both Tomoya and Nagisa are very devoted. Tomoya in particular continued to think of Nagisa wholeheartedly, even though he was surrounded by beautiful women. Even in the five years he lost Nagisa, there must have been women who would have approached him, but he stubbornly remained single and continued to think of Nagisa.

The 4th charm of Okazaki Tomoya: His growth in the story

Tomoya hearing about the past from his grandmother
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Firstly, Tomoya had a bad relationship with his father, refused to interact with others, and in the early days, the only person he would talk to properly was Sunohara, but after meeting Nagisa and many other people, his rough heart became brighter and he grew steadily as a person. After AS, there are many more scenes where you feel this way, and this is often conveyed in very important scenes, so it's a must-see.

Okazaki Tomoya's charm number 5: What he says is handsome

Tomoya smiling gently
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"Countless people live in this world. So why is it so hard to make just one person happy?" "If you're crying alone, call me, and then you won't be alone." Do you understand? He can say things like this. It's only because of his face that he can say these things. I'm sure women all over the world were smitten with Tomoya.

Tomoya Okazaki Summary!

Tomoya and the beach under the blue sky
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Although he is called a delinquent, Tomoya Okazaki is a very good-looking young man who is just clumsy in many ways. He is a protagonist with a wonderful charm who can make those around him happy even if he doesn't mean to. Of course, he is always there in the big scenes of the story, and you will definitely be moved by Okazaki's actions, so please check it out.

 

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