So I finished watching Kanon yesterday, and I must say, this was the first time I'm been surprised in a VERY long time.

First of all, I never expected the series to take a turn to stuff like that which happend with Mai. They had at least a good solid 4 or 5 serious down to earth episodes before then.

Then the show started to get pretty sad. I had to put up with 3 characters dying or almost dying or already being dead or whatever -- it was very stressful. By episode 12 I was convinced it was the worst series ever (I like happy endings thank you very much) and that was even before Nayuki's mother got hit by a car ("yes, this will be a good way to make everyone even more depressed," I'll bet the producer's were thinking).

But wow, what a curve they threw. I just checked out the beginning of the first episode (I needed to see how to spell Nayuki's name), and Ayu is there, in a hospital bed. You don't see her face, but being as that was the first ep I didn't even think about that stuff at the beginning.

Anyways, it was a nice ending and I liked it. I wasn't suspecting a thing -- I mean how often is the message that the dead can't come back fed to us? I get it now though, it was a dream. Oh well, that's all I have to say on the topic.

Well, the thing is, they took the series Kanon from the game of the same name that never made it to the States. However, unlike the anime, everyone died in the game (except Yuuichi of course). I thought Kanon was a little non-sensical in how the resolved it. Like the girl who recovered from the terminal disease just because she hung around with Yuuichi. And that whole ghost girl thing (I can't believe I forgot her name, although I can believe I am too lazy to look it up) where she fades away and tells him to forget, and yet she is actually not a ghost, but in fact still alive. Bleh. So basically you have two kind of people when it comes to Kanon. The people who have not seen the game who believe its sad, and the people that have played the game who believe its not sad enough.

I guess I enjoyed Kanon...its one anime that (in a long time) has caused some significant emotional response in me, the likes of which I haven't seen since I was small and fragile back in early High School when I was playing FF7 and Aeris died. *shrug*

Well, I've never really played one of those date-sims nor did I knw that's where the show came from. So I was just watching it for what it is.

Also, we don't really know how much better Shiori is getting, just that she exceeded expectations. I honestly thought she was as good as dead, but I guess they wanted to say something aobut miricles.

Ah Kanon was good, one of my favorites in fact.
I liked how they changed the mood actually, it made it different than all the other "usual/normal" anime.
I also did think that whole ghost thingy with ayu is kinda weird... i didnt like that at all... but the other characters went well...
I personally think the saddest/best part was with Nayuki (she's my favorite ). I liked her the most and she seemed so sad to let Yuuichi go...
Although i know they're like cousins and all but i'd have loved to see them two get together instead of ayu
(that is if they werent cousins)
but overall its a great anime

-Xepheus

Hrm, I didn't like Nayuki at all. And I think it mst of been mostly becauce they were cousins too. When to it become socially acceptable to fall in love with your reletives? I noticed a bit of that happening in Love Hina and then there was that whole thing in Xenogears. Blood reletives or not, it's just too weird for me, and I automatically see all chemistry erased.

Oh, and Ayu wasn't a ghost ;P She was...uhhh..I guess she was the manifestation of her dream. Like an out of body expirence. Our maybe that was just her sould wandering around...so that would make her a ghost...whatever.

I liked the ending and that's alll there is to it.

Now what is AIR? Does it have anything to do with Kanon, or is it just another game made by the same company?

I liked Ayu the best, she was great. It touched me. She being cute and all that. The fact that Yuuichi and Nayuki were cousins was a wee bit disturbing I think. And the fact that she was still hitting on him. Bleh. Those inter-family things just don't go over well with me.