List of characters from Clannad
This is a list of the characters from the computer game Clannad and its adaptations. It should give a rough overview of the important figures. At the center of all the events in Clannad is the protagonist Tomoya Okazaki, in whose environment he often meets the people named here as the main characters and, as a result, they most often influence the events. The people listed here as minor characters mostly have a supporting role or contribute to decisive events with their actions.
main characters
Tomoya Okazaki
- 岡 崎 朋 也 , Okazaki Tomoya , spoken in Japanese by Kentaro Itō (DVD of the PS2 game), Kenji Nojima (radio play series and film), Yūichi Nakamura (anime television series), in German by Amadeus Strobl
Tomoya is the main male character of Clannad . Due to the fact that he is always late for school, skips lessons and does not come home all night, he is seen as a criminal youth or as defiant. Nevertheless, he has an open-minded character and quickly manages to find friends, whom he is helpful at the side and thereby solidifies his friendship with them. However, he is always in the mood for little jokes, with which he brings his close friends into embarrassing situations for them, which his best friend Yōhei Sunohara in particular gets to feel on his own body. While in Clannad , the first part of the game, he enters into a deeper relationship with various female characters, depending on the course of the game, the plot in After Story is limited to his relationship with Nagisa Furukawa, whom he later marries. Tomoya goes through all the important steps of growing up. So he moves into his own apartment with her and the birth of the first child is imminent. The fact that Nagisa does not survive the birth and later his daughter Ushio dies are hard strokes of fate for him, which let his world collapse. Situations from which he can only free himself with the support of his friendships made earlier.
Nagisa Furukawa
- 古河 渚 , Furukawa Nagisa , spoken in Japanese by Mai Nakahara , in German by Shanti Chakraborty
Nagisa is, like Tomoya, in the third grade of high school. However, Nagisa is already a year older than her classmates, as she has to repeat the third year due to an illness that has lasted for nine months. She is very shy and has a strange habit of talking to herself with her food (e.g. with her Anpan ), which she mostly does to motivate herself. Although she lacks self-confidence, she tries to rebuild the school's theater club. But she is dependent on the help of Tomoya, who animates her again and again.
Ushio Okazaki
- 岡 崎 汐 , Okazaki Ushio , spoken in Japanese by Satomi Kōrogi , in German by Anna Gamburg
Ushio is Nagisa and Tomoya's child, who is born in the second part of the After Story storyline . Since Tomoya cannot cope with Nagisa's death, Ushio is raised not by him, but by Nagisa's parents. As she progresses, she becomes more and more similar to her mother and suffers from the same physical weakness as her mother. She too dies in Tomoya's arms after he was able to bring himself to accept Ushio as his daughter some time later.
Kyō Fujibayashi
- 藤 林 杏 , Fujibayashi Kyō , spoken in Japanese by Ryō Hirohashi , in German by Tanya Kahana and Marie-Luise Schramm
Kyō is known for her good cooking skills as well as her aggressiveness. She is the twin sister of Ryō Fujibayashi and went to a class with Tomoya during her sophomore year. She has been friends with him since then, even if she doesn't hide her rabid manner from him. Kyō has a distinctive "little sister complex" and often reacts overstimulated as soon as anyone could hurt Ryo's feelings . Nevertheless, she tries again and again to pair Ryō with Tomoya in the course of the plot, which mostly fails because of her sister's reluctance.
Kotomi Ichinose
- 一 ノ 瀬 こ と み , Ichinose Kotomi , spoken in Japanese by Mamiko Noto , in German by Inken Baxmeier
Kotomi is also a classmate of Tomoya who, like Kyō, goes to a different class. She is very intelligent and inquisitive, and is one of the ten best students on the entrance exam. She spends a lot of time in the library, preferring to read books in foreign languages. Kotomi is a very calm, self-contained girl, so that communication with her is quite difficult. In her free time, she plays the violin , the crooked tones of which can crack a disk. Additionally, Kotomi is a forgotten childhood friend of Tomoya.
Tomoyo Sakagami
- 坂 上 智 代 , Sakagami Tomoyo , spoken in Japanese by Hōko Kuwashima , in German by Luisa Wietzorek
Tomoyo has only been at the school since sophomore year and it is rumored that she is supposed to be violent. She was forced to change schools because she received an entry for illegal fighting. Those rumors are confirmed later in the storyline when she beats up several students from her previous school while in school. She does not earn her fighting power from talent or pure force, but from intensive training. Although she is a year younger than Tomoya, she shows him little respect and has often got into trouble with Yōhei Sunohara , which is not her fault.
Fūko Ibuki
- 伊 吹 風 子 , Ibuki Fūko , spoken by Ai Nonaka in Japanese, by Kathrin Neusser and Daniela Reidies in German
Fūko Ibuki is a first year student and is always busy carving starfish with a small wooden knife. She gives the finished starfish to other students to invite them to her sister's wedding. When thinking about these stars, she very often falls into a "dream state" that completely surrounds her and in which she does not notice anything until she wakes up again after a while or is awakened. She is also extremely naive. She is actually a ghost because she was run over on the way to school. So it disappears every now and then and is forgotten by the other characters, who they can only see if they remember them. As a kind of ghost, she appears in various places to help, but in her naive way she mostly fails.
Minor characters
Ryō Fujibayashi
- 藤 林 椋 , Fujibayashi Ryō , spoken in Japanese by Akemi Kanda , in German by Melinda Rachfahl
She is the younger twin sister of Kyō Fujibayashi and extremely reserved. Nevertheless, she is the class representative of class D, which Tomoya also visits. She represents a counterpoint to her sister, because she is neither aggressive nor can she cook well. One of her hobbies is predicting the future, the predictions of which are very precisely formulated, but only rarely come true. However, this does not apply to their interpretations of the future for Tomoya, which occur here with great accuracy.
Yukine Miyazawa
- 宮 沢 有 紀 寧 , Miyazawa Yukine , spoken in Japanese by Atsuko Enomoto , in German by Anna Gamburg
Yukine is a second year student who usually spends time in the school library study during break times. There she offers her support to all possible delinquents, also from other schools. She built a close relationship with them because of her brother Kazuto, the now deceased leader of a gang. In Tomoya she sees a replacement for her brother, as he is said to have a personality comparable to him. Yukine is also particularly interested in magic and so it is she who enlightens Tomoya more about the light phenomena that she sees as a symbol of joy.
According to the authors, Yukine was originally supposed to play one of the main roles in the game, but her story arc should not have fulfilled the promised expectations, which ultimately led to a demotion . Nevertheless, it adorned the cover of the PC and PlayStation 2 releases.
Yōhei Sunohara
- 春 原 陽平 , Sunohara Yōhei , spoken in Japanese by Daisuke Sakaguchi , in German by Dirk Petrick
Yōhei is Tomoya's school friend and is also considered a delinquent. He attended school based on a recommendation for his footballing talent. However, he was soon thrown from the team when his impulsive nature got into conflict with the other players and it ended in a brawl. No longer playing football, he let the school drag and is absent even more often than Tomoya. It was precisely this similarity that ultimately brought the two together. Within the franchise, he repeatedly takes on the part of the sidekick , which is often punished or even beaten up by the other characters because of their behavior, which even Tomoya includes. He has a younger sister named Mei, who is always worried about her brother, who refuses to acknowledge her help.
Mei Sunohara
- 春 原 芽 衣 , Sunohara Mei , spoken in Japanese by Yukari Tamura , in German by Victoria Frenz
Mei is the younger sister of Yōhei, but she lives outside the city in a rural area. As an intelligent girl she loves to discover new things and is a fan of Yusuke Yoshino, Tomoya's future colleague. Despite her childlike nature, she is very worried about her negligent brother and, like the two Fujibayashi siblings, can be understood as the complete opposite of him.
Akio Furukawa
- 古河 秋生 , Furukawa Akio , spoken in Japanese by Ryōtarō Okiayu , in German by Jan-David Rönfeldt
Akio is Nagisa's father, who repeatedly slips into the role of a man with a rough tone. Behind this facade he is a very nice and likeable person whose childlike side comes to the fore again and again. Together with his wife Sanae, he runs the Furukawa bakery and spends most of his free time playing baseball with children in a small neighboring park. Again and again he is confronted with trying out his wife's new and crazy bread creations. Although most of the time she doesn't think it's successful, he keeps pretending that he would love her. In conversation with Tomoya, however, it happens again and again that he makes a derogatory remark about the bread and Sanae stands behind him unnoticed. This usually ends in a situation where Sanae runs out of business crying, stuffing bread into his mouth and chasing after asking for forgiveness. This acting event has its roots in Nagisa's childhood, because Akio was originally an actor who, like Sanae, gave up his job out of concern for Nagisa. Both parents therefore took every opportunity to please the sick Nagisa.
Sanae Furukawa
- 古河 早苗 , Furukawa Sanae , spoken in Japanese by Kikuko Inoue , in German by Tina Haseney
As the mother of Nagisa, she usually shows a very childlike and easy-to-cry side. However, she can also be very composed and responsible when the situation demands it. Despite the fact that her bread creations never sell because they are anything but edible, she is constantly creating new varieties. In the prehistory it is revealed that she was once a school teacher and how Akio gave up her profession in favor of Nagisa. She is mainly present in the second part of the story, where she is very concerned and anxious about her pregnant daughter. At the same time, she and Akio take on the task of raising Ushio and later bringing Tomoya and his daughter together.
Offered
ボ タ ン, Botan, spoken by Machiko Kawana in Japanese
Botan is Kyo's pet, a female piglet . She hates Ryō, her owner's twin sister, because she wanted to bathe her hot and Botan interpreted this as if Ryō wanted to cook her. It has seven special abilities, including behaving like a stuffed animal, vibrating and being thrown like a rugby ball. In the after story, the now fully grown Botan is the pet in Kyō's kindergarten.
Individual evidence
- ^ Clannad Visual Fan Book . Enterbrain, 2004, ISBN 978-4-7577-2025-1 .
