April 1st, 2010 
AstroNerdBoy Thanks For a Stellar Month! (Oh, and some “Clannad” Love too.)
Egad! Last month proved to be an Earth-shattering record breaker for the blog, and surprisingly my controversial anti-government rant wasn’t the chief cause of it. *lol* What makes the numbers for last month even more impressive is the stat server was down for over a day and then it was nearly two days before the DNS servers were updated with the new IP of the stat server, meaning the traffic “seen” to flow in was reduced considerably.
Anyway, I just wanted to express my appreciation for your visits to the blog, your financial support, and your comments. If I missed some comments (and I’m sure I did since I was extremely busy last month and this month looks to be no different) that maybe I should have responded to, I do apologize. ^_^; I’m not purposefully ignoring you. Its just that I get way behind on comments and e-mails when things get busy and though I get alerted when the comments are approved, these busy times mean that I tend to miss stuff. ^_^;;;;
Since I have this boatload of Clannad images I salvaged from a Japanese fan dump on some image board (now gone) some time ago, I figured I’d share more of them for ya. ^_^
![[Clannad] Bread](http://anime.astronerdboy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Clannad-Bread.jpg)
![[Clannad] Bar Girls](http://anime.astronerdboy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Clannad-Bar-Girls.jpg)
![[Clannad After Story] Fun Times](http://anime.astronerdboy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Clannad-After-Story-Fun-Times.jpg)
![[Clannad After Story] Bubbles](http://anime.astronerdboy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Clannad-After-Story-Bubbles.jpg)
The sheer volume of promotional art for both Clannad and Clannad ~After Story~ amazes me. Not that I’m complaining, mind you. Both titles are great. ^_^
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I love the cafe picture with the girls wearing those western themed clothes. So cute! ^.^
I am glad to see you are not going for this April fool’s silliness.
Love the pics, i have yet to see Clannad heard good things about it, and i’ll always be a fan of this place i really enjoy reading your reviews even tho i mostly come for negima ima have to start reading holic after reading a few reviews. Thanks for all the great stuff you give us!
@Anon — Yeah, I like that one too. It is different from the normal images but still very cute.
@Todd — I never do. *lol*
@Nick — Glad to be of help. ^_^ I hope to review the next in the line of anime from Key soon. Not sure I want to be depressed though since they all tend to be tearjerkers at some point.
Awwww… the Ushio pics are too precious for words. (;_;)
I usually can’t stand gratuitous anime kids (probably started with Ten), but she’s one of the few exceptions.
Yeah, Ushio is cute. I did a post last year with a bunch of her pictures. ^_^
keep up the good work ^^
Well, much more than cute… adorable, and real.
Most GAK’s fall into the bratty type that do “funny” things like punching adults in the nuts, the crybaby type who dribbles snot, or china dolls who exist to be cute and perfect. Ushio has a few traits in common with the last group, but her reactions are very believable for a scared little girl who only knows her father by what her grandparents have told her. If it weren’t for how easy it is to love her, the almost-ending of After Story would have been a badly overdone woobification of Tomoya.