List of Clannad Characters - Main Characters

Main Characters

Tomoya Okazaki (岡崎 朋也, Okazaki Tomoya?)

Voiced by: Kentaro Ito (DVD bundled with PS2 game), Yūichi Nitta (Tomoyo After: It's a Wonderful Life, RPG mode only), Kenji Nojima (drama CD, movie), Yūichi Nakamura (anime), David Matranga (English)

Tomoya is the male protagonist of Clannad. Due to his habit of always arriving late to Hikarizaka high school, skipping classes during the day, and staying out all night, he has been labeled as a delinquent, or a young person who defies authority. Ever since his mother, Atsuko, died in a car accident when he was young, Tomoya has been living with his father, Naoyuki, with whom he argues constantly. Tomoya was injured during a fight with his father three years ago, leaving him unable to lift his right arm higher than his shoulder and unable to play basketball, which he had loved and excelled in. This incident was the start of Tomoya's delinquency. Since that day, their relationship has been very distant. He also childhood friends with Kotomi Ichinose. While walking to school, Tomoya met Nagisa Furukawa; since then, his life changed. Nagisa describes him as someone who is seemingly mean and bad-mouthed, but actually kind-hearted.

In the After story arc, Tomoya's love for Nagisa grows stronger until he eventually marries her after both of them graduate and he gets a job as an electrician, thanks to Yusuke. Afterwards Nagisa becomes pregnant with Ushio. During those months, Tomoya takes care of Nagisa as she grows ill, and once Ushio is born, Nagisa passes away. Afterwards Tomoya goes into a five-year depression, and barely interacts with his daughter, who is left in the care of Akio and Sanae. Later he takes her on a trip to a flower field, where they meet Tomoya's grandmother, who tells Tomoya about his father's struggles after his wife died. Tomoya realizes that he's putting Ushio through the same kind of relationship he and his father had, and soon becomes a better father. When Ushio is struck with the same devastating sickness that took the life of her mother, Nagisa, and Tomoya takes it upon himself to remain with her until the sickness subsides. It begins to snow when they take another trip in the winter, Ushio collapses, and Tomoya catches her. He holds Ushio, her last breath being, "Daddy I love you", Tomoya's daughter dies in his arms, and as he succumbs to the pain and grief of losing both Nagisa and Ushio, he falls into the snow. After the event that Ushio is revealed to be the Girl in the Illusionary World, Tomoya, Nagisa, and Ushio are able to be sent back in time, Tomoya returns to the day that Ushio is born, but this time, Nagisa survives, as does Ushio, who never suffers the sickness her mother had. Tomoya lives his life happily with his daughter and wife.

The major story in Clannad is about Tomoya learning about the point of having family, friends and reaching for more in life. Throughout the game, he interacts with other people and going through with their problems. After solving their problem and making them happy, Tomoya will be granted a light orb, the symbol of happiness of the city. As Tomoya collects light orbs, they appear in the Main Menu of the game.

Nagisa Furukawa (古河 渚, Furukawa Nagisa?)

Voiced by: Mai Nakahara (Japanese), Luci Christian (English)

Nagisa is the main heroine of Clannad. Although she is in her third-year in high school, as is Tomoya, Nagisa is actually one year older since she had to repeat her third-year after an illness that lasted for nine months. Her birthday on December 24. On the first day of school, she meets Tomoya on a long hill path in front of the school. She's a crybaby, has a strange habit of muttering the names of food that she plans to eat as a way to motivate herself, such as anpan and also has a liking of a group mascot known as "Dango Daikazoku" (だんご大家族?, lit. Big Dango Family). Nagisa is a former student of Kouko Ibuki; she had a classmate named Kimura, who played pranks on her because she found Nagisa interesting at the time when she had trouble making friends until Nagisa fell into trap that set by the "Dirty Pair" (Tomoya and Youhei) last year before she met Tomoya. She even kept a banner written by Tomoya, “Don’t lose to the obstacles you’ll face”. She wants to re-establish the once-disbanded drama club, but does not have much self-confidence so she often needs help in order to motivate herself through the day.

The major arc of the story revolves around Nagisa. After Tomoya befriends Nagisa, she tells him of her dream of joining the drama club. They soon discover that the club was disbanded. While attempting to recreate the club, Nagisa and Tomoya discover that they cannot advertise for new members, having missed the deadline to do so. In order to create an officially recognized club, they find they need at least three members and a sponsor teacher for the club, and the only one left is Koumura, who asks them to discuss with the chorus club members. After listening to Rie's story, Nagisa gives up reestablishing drama club. Youhei is furious about the story, and decides to have a 3-on-3 basketball match with the basketball team to prove that the chorus club members cannot hide behind their handicap. This happens to be a success, since the chorus club members decide to share Koumura with the drama club.

After Tomoya had a falling out with his father, Nagisa offers to have Tomoya move into her house until things settle down, to which Tomoya agrees. Curious about Nagisa's play which is the same as the Illusionary World he dreamt, Tomoya tries to find about the story, which leads him to learn about the secrets behind Nagisa's sickness. Nagisa accidentally learns of the secret and becomes guilty about forcing her parents to give up their dreams. However, this changes once she falsely believes, that they had given up their dreams for her. During her performance, Nagisa starts crying instead of saying her lines. After crying for a few minutes, Akio comes in and yells to Nagisa that it's not her fault. Soon after, Sanae stands out from the crowd and agrees with Akio. After Sanae, Tomoya also assures Nagisa. Nagisa starts to feel better and starts the play. The day after, Tomoya confesses his love to Nagisa. Nagisa later succumbs to her sickness again, and is forced to repeat her third-year again in the After Story arc.

The After Story arc is a continuation of Nagisa's story, where Tomoya works as an electrician after graduation, and Nagisa marries Tomoya. After the marriage, she is known as Nagisa Okazaki. In this story, Nagisa faces a tragedy and continues to battle with her sickness. She becomes pregnant, and despite the fatal warnings of giving birth due to her illness, successfully gives birth to their daughter, Ushio. Yagi, a midwife, helped with the delivery. After getting to see her daughter, Nagisa dies shortly afterwards. If Tomoya manages to collect the needed amount of light orbs, a miracle will happen using all the light orbs, and Nagisa safely delivers Ushio without dying, thus ending Tomoya's "journey with the light". Nagisa, Tomoya, and Ushio are able to live together as a family without having a doomed fate and enjoy their time as a peaceful family.

Kyou Fujibayashi (藤林 杏, Fujibayashi Kyō?)

Voiced by: Ryō Hirohashi (Japanese), Shelley Calene-Black (English)

Kyou is a bad-mouthed and aggressive girl who is also well known as a good cook. She is the older of the Fujibayashi sisters. She was in Tomoya's class in their second year, and has maintained a steady friendship with Tomoya even though they are put in different classes on their third year. She is currently the class representative of class 3-E. She has a pet baby boar named Botan, who frequently visits the school without permission. She owns a scooter, which is known only to Tomoya, Nagisa, and her sister. She throws various types of dictionaries towards anyone she gets furious with, especially Youhei.

In Kyou's story path, she tries to make Tomoya get intimately close with Ryou. However, when a rumor about Tomoya being two timer with Ryou and Kyou spread around the school, Kyou starts avoiding Tomoya, and Ryou becomes more bold. Youhei finds out that Kyou has a crush on Tomoya too, and advises Tomoya to settle things out before more misunderstanding happens. After much conflict of playing boyfriend and girlfriend with Ryou, Tomoya breaks up with Ryou and confesses his love to Kyou, who in return confesses her love to him and they become a couple.

Kyou works as a kindergarten teacher in the After Story portion, and coincidentally is also Ushio's teacher. According to Tomoya, her personality is still the same even after reunion, but Ushio says that Kyou is a good teacher.

In the movie, Kyou does not talk to Tomoya much, but her relationship with Tomoyo is better and she along with the rest of the cast tries to help Tomoya get out of his depression from Nagisa's death.

Kotomi Ichinose (一ノ瀬 ことみ, Ichinose Kotomi?)

Voiced by: Mamiko Noto (Japanese), Emily Neves (English)

Kotomi is another schoolmate of Tomoya's in the same year, but, like Kyou, is in a separate class from Tomoya. She is in the top ten for every subject throughout the whole country in standardized exam results—she always goes to the library to read extra materials, especially books in foreign languages. Kotomi is a very quiet girl and it is quite difficult to communicate with her. In her spare time, she plays the violin, although she is very poor at it to the point of causing pain to those who hear her play as a comedic effect.

Tomoya meets her, but does not remember that they were once good friends, when he enters the library and finds Kotomi sitting on the floor barefoot, reading books with scissors in her hand, and acts oddly with Tomoya. After several meetings with Kotomi, Tomoya starts skipping the fourth period to spend time with Kotomi in the library. Kotomi soon decides to join the drama club.

Just when Kotomi starts to open up to everyone, a bus accident causes her to break down in front of everyone and returns home. Tomoya visits her in her house and learns that he and Kotomi were childhood friends, but lost contact with each other after Kotomi's parents died in a plane crash. Not wanting to feel the pain of losing someone important anymore, she asks Tomoya to leave her alone. Wanting to bring Kotomi away from her past, Tomoya decides to renovate her garden, while the drama club members decide to gift her a violin, but was unfortunately destroyed. After renovating Kotomi's garden, Kotomi appears to Tomoya, and after some poignant conversation, Tomoya brings Kotomi out of her house to see the outside world inside her heart. Along the conversations, she confesses to Tomoya that she had been in love with him every since he has entered her life. The next day, her guardian presents Kotomi her parent's briefcase that has traveled all the way to Japan, and inside is a teddy bear and a testimony, asking Kotomi to live the way she wants and grow up to be an adult. Kotomi realizes she is still being loved by her parents even after their death and cries. After this, Kotomi becomes more mature, and the drama club members finally give Kotomi a violin for her birthday.

In the anime adaptation Clannad After Story, Kotomi moves to America to further her studies about the illusionary world. She, however, occasionally visits Tomoya and the others. Kotomi also appeared in the movie adaptation, only being a background character as she is only seen conducting a song for the members of the Choir Club.

Tomoyo Sakagami (坂上 智代, Sakagami Tomoyo?)

Voiced by: Houko Kuwashima (Japanese), Kaytha Coker (English), Ryōko Tanaka (Tomoyo After)

Tomoyo transferred to Hikarizaka high school as a second year student during spring. Although Tomoya is older than she is, Tomoyo does not show him his due respect as a senior student. She has a younger brother named Takafumi (鷹文?).

She is rumored to be violent and to have a misconduct record for fighting. These rumors are later confirmed, when she beats up several delinquents from her previous school at a day during school hours. Youhei challenges Tomoyo, unable to believe what he saw. After several meetings with Tomoyo, Tomoya learns from Tomoyo that she wants to be a student council president, and later, her reason for wanting to do so. Her reason is that she wants to get enough influence to start a movement to prevent a row of cherry trees from being cut down by development plans, as the cherry trees have a special meaning to her since they helped mend her broken family and turn her away from delinquency.

In Tomoyo's path, she ends up secretly going out with Tomoya. News of her relationship with him spreads fast in school, and the school bodies try to separate the two in hopes that Tomoyo will concentrate more on her position as student council president. Tomoya, worrying about his delinquent status, reluctantly breaks up with her out of fear that his delinquent status will hold her back. After several months, Tomoyo meets up with Tomoya once again, telling him that she successfully saved the cherry blossom trees from being cut down but she lost something in return: her time with him. She then confesses to him that she wants only him and will follow him to the odd ends. Tomoya is touched by her words and they both decide to resume being lovers. After Tomoya graduates in spring, he sees both Takafumi and Tomoyo off to school, with both of them admiring the beauty of the cherry blossom. Tomoyo's story continues in Tomoyo After: It's a Wonderful Life, Key's fifth game and spin-off sequel to Clannad, with her as the main heroine.

In the movie, Tomoyo is also running for student council president, but apparently gets the position much faster and she doesn't interact with Tomoya very much, though she is shown to become close with him and his friends and her relationships with Kyou and Youhei are better compared to the game and anime. She and Youhei show up at Tomoya's apartment during his bout of depression after Nagisa's death in an attempt to try cheer him up.

Fuko Ibuki (伊吹 風子, Ibuki Fūko?)

Voiced by: Ai Nonaka (Japanese), Hilary Haag (English)

Fuko is a first year student at Hikarizaka high school. Her birthday is in July. She is always alone, making wood carvings of starfish with a small knife to give to others as presents. This hobby completely drains her concentration and awareness of her surroundings. Tomoya meets Fuko in an empty classroom, carving a block of wood with a knife. Tomoya confiscates the knife after noticing she is hurting herself, but eventually returns the knife the next day. Some days later, Tomoya learns from Fuko that she is carving 700 starfish to be distributed to all the students in the school, wanting them to attend her sister Kouko's wedding. The main problem is that no one in the school knows about Kouko, who had stopped teaching at the school three years ago, except Nagisa.

After learning about Fuko's accident and her unknown existence as an ikiryō, or astral projection, both Nagisa and Tomoya decide to assist Fuko to accomplish her dreams by giving all the students a craved starfish; including Fuko's friend Mitsui before she had the accident. Just when they thought everything goes well, Fuko starts to disappear from everyone's heart, due to her waning spiritual powers, as the real Fuko had stopped breathing in the hospital. Wanting Kouko's wedding to happen, Tomoya asks Koumura to organize the wedding ceremony at May 18. Through many struggles and hardships, Kouko's wedding turns into a success and everyone that was given a starfish carving came to the wedding. After the wedding, Fuko thanks Tomoya for everything he did, and congratulates her sister before disappearing. After the wedding, Kouko and Yusuke decide to thank Fuko in her hospital room.

Fuko's personality is childish and naïve, causing most people who don't know her misunderstand that she is a grade student. She acts like a tsundere when she is around Tomoya; often calling him a weird guy but is secretly dependent on him. Due to her dependency on Tomoya, she has grown to love him and finally proves her feelings to Tomoya by kissing him on the cheek.

Through a miracle from one of Tomoya's light orbs, Fuko recovers from her coma in After Story arc. She becomes incredibly fond of Ushio, claiming that she'll kidnap Ushio from Tomoya in order to make her her little sister. In Clannad's epilogue, she is seen coming across the Girl in the Illusionary World in the clearing where Nagisa had been saved from death so many years ago, asking her to play with her.

In the anime, Fuko appears occasionally in various unexpected situations; this is actually a nod to the Fuko Ninja event in the game that happens in Tomoyo's path, after completing the entire game.

Ushio Okazaki (岡崎 汐, Okazaki Ushio?)

Voiced by: Satomi Koorogi (Japanese), Luci Christian (English)

Ushio is Tomoya and Nagisa's daughter. She appears prominently in the After Story of the game and anime TV series, and in the film. Ushio resembles her mother a lot, and seems to like the Great Dango Family as well. After giving birth to her, Nagisa dies. This deeply saddens Tomoya to the point he gave up raising Ushio and left her to the care of Akio and Sanae. Tomoya resorts to alcohol and cigarettes to ease depression.

Five years later, Sanae arranges a trip at a flower field for Tomoya and Ushio in hopes that they will be together again. During the trip, Tomoya meets his grandmother, Shino, and learns about his father's past and the sacrifices he made for Tomoya, which leads him to regret his actions, and decides to raise Ushio and acknowledge Naoyuki as his father. Ushio reconcile with her father, Tomoya, when she lost a toy robot the first thing her father ever brought for her. Ushio is revealed to be a student at Kyou's kindergarten school. Shortly after Tomoya sets things right, Ushio is stricken with the same disease as Nagisa. Despite the efforts and sacrifices of Tomoya, Akio, and Sanae, Ushio's fever never subsides but worsens. In the coming winter, being filled with desperation of wanting to do anything for Ushio, Tomoya brings her for a trip, but she falls unconscious and dies shortly thereafter along with her father who succumbed to his grief. Ushio is then revealed to be the Girl in the Illusionary world of her parents dreams. If enough light orbs are gathered, Ushio instead lives a happy life with her parents, and as far as is known, does not suffer from her mother's sickness. In the epilogue, Ushio is shown sleeping under the same tree where Akio begged for Nagisa's life to be saved.

In the movie, after seeing Tomoya so depressed, his father asks his friends to take him to a train station where he meets with Ushio. It's hinted that he will stay with her and not end up like his father.