Things are heating up quickly. This is a topic I was interested in, but I think it turned out to be a bit more “hardcore” than I expected. Still, I’ll give my thoughts on what @Pepe said.
Since no one commented on your previous post, I wanted to say that I pretty much agree with you in all you said. While KEY Magic allows for resolution / ending of some “complicated” situations, KEY’s usage of this concept was never a Deus Ex Machina for me at any point.
However, if you ask the majority of people will tell you that the true ending is, in fact, true. This means that it was what was supposed to happen. If you ask a random person (who has read the Visual Novel of course) what happened at the end of CLANNAD they’ll tell you that (CLANNAD After Story spoilers) Nagisa died, Ushio died, but then Tomoya revived them with the light orbs. What I mean is that even though everyone has his favorite routes and has his own “this is what happened theory”, true endings have already been stablished as the canon ending.
Still, I keep thinking that some “bad” endings are how the story truly ended (LB! Refrain spoilers) I will always think that only Rin and Riki survived the accident, cause that is the ending that I liked the most.
He stated that he had only watched the anime, so he made no choices to get that ending. I’ll take advantage of the occasion and I instigate you, @Hixel267, to read the VN.
While I’d love this to happen, I’m afraid that it is just a utopia.
