List of Clannad Characters - Secondary Characters

Secondary Characters

Naoyuki Okazaki (岡崎 直幸, Okazaki Naoyuki?)

Voiced by: Hiroshi Naka (Japanese), Chris Hutchison (English)

Naoyuki is Tomoya's father. Tomoya's mother, Atsuko Okazaki, died when Tomoya was young, thus leaving only himself to raise Tomoya. After the accident, Naoyuki turned to alcohol and smoking, and had frequent fights with his son. One day while arguing with his son on trivial things, he slammed Tomoya against the wall, dislocating Tomoya's right shoulder. Immediately after that, Tomoya refused to come out of his room, and by the time he finally went to the hospital, it was declared to be untreatable. Ever since then, his father has treated Tomoya more kindly, but like a stranger rather than family. This only hurt Tomoya even more, so he becomes a delinquent, as he is unable to participate in basketball activities any longer, and he avoided returning to his home early enough to be confronted with his father. Tomoya has the intention of running away from his home, as revealed from Kotomi's path.

As revealed from Shino's story about Naoyuki, even though his wife died and he had become depressed, Naoyuki sacrificed everything in his life just for Tomoya's sake, hoping Tomoya to grow up to be a proper man unlike him. After Tomoya comes to terms with his father, Naoyuki decides to return to his hometown to stay with his mother, claiming his role as a father has finally come to an end.

In the movie, Naoyuki is shown to work a graveyard shift with hardly any time to come home, instead of staying home and becoming a drunk and gambling addict (though it's clear that he did still have a tendency to copiously drink while Tomoya was growing up, hence leading into their estranged relationship). He's also depicted as being more consciously aware of his actions and more actively trying to repair his relationship with Tomoya, going out of his way to have a talk with Tomoya and even contacting Tomoya's friends and family to orchestrate a trip for Tomoya so he can spend time with his daughter Ushio, in order prevent his son from becoming like him.

Shino Okazaki (岡崎 史乃, Okazaki Shino?)

Voiced by: Miyoko Asō (Japanese), Stephanie Wittels (English)

Shino is Tomoya's grandmother on his father's side. She only appears in the After Story portion of the plot. During Ushio's path, when Ushio is finding her toy robot she lost in the flower field, Tomoya meets Shino at the edge of the cape, who introduces herself to him and their meeting is planned by Sanae. Shino tells the story about Naoyuki's past and tragedy after Atsuko's death, which is similar to what Tomoya is facing after Nagisa's death, along with his sacrifices made for Tomoya just to see him grow up to be a proper man. After listening to Shino's recounting of his father's story, Tomoya feels deep remorse for having neglected his daughter, and for how he'd treated his father who he now realizes had loved him all along, and decides to mend his relationship between himself, Ushio and his father. Shino tells Tomoya to relay a message to Naoyuki that she wants him to return home so she can be with him, which Naoyuki agrees to after finally making amends with Tomoya.

Akio Furukawa (古河 秋生, Furukawa Akio?)

Voiced by: Ryotaro Okiayu (Japanese), Andrew Love (English)

Akio is Nagisa's father and the husband of Sanae Furukawa. He looks deceptively young, and is shown to be an avid smoker. Although he often talks and plays rough (in addition to having a reckless personality) he is kind and sympathetic. His child-like side makes it easy for kids and adults alike to befriend him. He runs the Furukawa Bakery with his wife Sanae. Akio shows how much he is in love with his wife, and how much he cares for her too. In his spare time, Akio plays baseball with children in the small park next to the bakery, and indulges in the Gundam and Star Wars fandoms. He is often the victim of Sanae's bread, frequently insulting her bread while unaware she is actually in the room, and consequently having to eat the bread in front of her while claiming that he loves it in order to pacify her hurt feelings.

During the School Life arc, It's revealed Akio had been a talented aspiring actor in a theatrical company, but had to quit his job due to Nagisa's health. Akio replaces Youhei's role as the comic relief during the After Story arc, however, he can be serious when needed, as he often gives advice to Tomoya on what it is like to be an adult and a father. He tells Tomoya the story about how Nagisa almost died due to his and Sanae's unintended negligence. Nagisa had been sick with a fever, but because Akio and Sanae were unable to get time off from work, they left her home alone. When Akio came back to check on her, he'd found her collapsed outside in the snow, as she had attempted to go outside to wait for her parents to come home. Desperate, he ran through the town while holding Nagisa and crying, praying that she wouldn't die. When he came upon a clearing, a light shone and seemingly miraculously, Nagisa woke up. Akio expresses a belief that after she was saved, Nagisa's health became connected to the town.

Sanae Furukawa (古河 早苗, Furukawa Sanae?)

Voiced by: Kikuko Inoue (Japanese), Kara Greenberg (English)

Sanae is Nagisa's mother. Normally she's very childish and a cry-baby, but when needed she can be very strong-willed and dependable. She runs the Furukawa Bakery with her husband Akio. She often tries out strange concepts to make breads that are anything but edible, and almost never get sold. Outside of the bakery, she tutors children. She looks extremely young compared to her actual age, frequently being mistaken for being Nagisa's older sister instead of her mother, and even being able to pass as a high school student if she dresses a certain way.

Sanae plays a larger role in After Story, often comes to Tomoya's aid when Nagisa is sick and needs to be accompanied, especially during Nagisa's pregnancy. Before being a baker at the Furukawa Bakery, she was a junior-high teacher, and had to quit her job due to Nagisa's health. Sanae is the mastermind behind Tomoya and Ushio's trip to the flower cape, in hope for them to reconcile. She knows Shino, Tomoya's grandmother in his father's side, although it is never revealed how they met.

In the movie, instead of being a teacher, it is said that she was also an actor and was in the same acting troupe as Akio, before having to quit in order to take care of Nagisa.

Youhei Sunohara (春原 陽平, Sunohara Yōhei?)

Voiced by: Daisuke Sakaguchi (Japanese), Greg Ayres (English)

Youhei is Tomoya's friend and also a delinquent. He entered the school on an athletic recommendation in soccer, but was kicked out of the soccer club after being involved in a fight with other members who had a tendency of harassing the younger players. After this incident, he became lazy, becoming the only student with a higher absence rate than Tomoya. He is left handed when it comes to sports and fighting (this is only mentioned in the anime), but he writes with his right hand, hinting that he is ambidextrous. He and Tomoya are known as the "Dirty Pair" in school. His hair is naturally black but he bleaches it blond, and he is baby-faced. He has a sister named Mei who he was highly protective of when they were younger, but to her dismay this aspect of him became repressed after he stopped playing soccer. One of the story paths involves him repairing his relationship with his sister. Youhei is a comic relief character; as a recurring gag, he often gets punished or beaten up by various characters due to his behavior, most notably by Kyou and Tomoyo.

Youhei plays a major role in some character paths, most notably the one revolving around him and his sister. In After Story arc, he is said to have gotten a job in another city, and by the request of Tomoya, attends Nagisa's fake graduating ceremony. He also visits Nagisa when she is pregnant. According to the scriptwriters, he has the most appearance in the School Life arc. In the visual novel, there is a possible gag ending in which Tomoya reveals to Youhei that he loves him, and, by threatening Youhei, the two start a relationship.

In the movie, while Youhei remains the central comic relief character, he is also depicted as being somewhat more serious about life, such as when he gets a part-time job due to help his family through their tough financial situation. He also gets along much better with Tomoyo, and actively tries along with her to get Tomoya out of the deep depression he'd gone into after losing Nagisa.

Mei Sunohara (春原 芽衣, Sunohara Mei?)

Voiced by: Yukari Tamura (Japanese), Serena Varghese (English)

Mei is Youhei's younger sister who loves Youhei as a brother and lives in the countryside. Mei is a smart girl and likes to see new things. She is a fan of Yusuke Yoshino, an older male graduate from Tomoya's school, who is a member of a band. Worried about her brother's situation, she calls Youhei, but instead of her brother, Tomoya disguised as Youhei tells her to come.

Mei's personality is a direct opposite of that of her brother, Youhei. She can be very nosy about things, like trying to further Tomoya's relationship with Nagisa by becoming their cupid angel or learning Youhei's current situation. Although Youhei tries to avoid Mei, he still cares for her, as seen when he stands up for her when she gets bullied by the soccer club in Sunohara sibling's path. The two siblings eventually grow closer as a result.

Yukine Miyazawa (宮沢 有紀寧, Miyazawa Yukine?)

Voiced by: Atsuko Enomoto (Japanese), Maggie Flecknoe (English)

Yukine is a second year student who hangs around in the library's reference room during lunchtime. Tomoya first met her in the library's reference room while trying to find a "how to" book about speeches. He is immediately greeted by her hospitality, and returns the next day with Youhei due to Youhei's insistence. Ever since, Tomoya, Nagisa, and Youhei start to enter the library reference room routinely. She later avails Tomoya and Youhei an instruction book for magical spells for them to try. Most of them are in the favor of Tomoya, involving the girls they met.

She has friends outside of her school, which turns out to be delinquents from other schools. She made friends with the delinquents through her brother, Kazuto, who is also a delinquent, after his death trying to save a friend from an accident. Tomoya learns briefly about the light orbs through Yukine, which are called the symbol of happiness. The light orbs are actually the girl's wishes in the Illusionary world.

According to the script writers, Yukine was originally intended to be one of the main heroines of Clannad, but as her story did not reach their expectations, she was made into a secondary character. However, she was still depicted on the regular edition cover of the PC release, and on the PlayStation 2 release which used the same art as the regular PC release.

Ryou Fujibayashi (藤林 椋, Fujibayashi Ryō?)

Voiced by: Akemi Kanda (Japanese), Brittney Karbowski (English)

Ryou is Tomoya's classmate and class representative. She is Kyou's younger twin sister. Unlike her older sister, Ryou is timid and does not cook well (but is otherwise good at chores). Ryou is very keen about fortune telling, but her predictions, while incredibly specific, always manage to be either somewhat skewed or extremely wrong. Ryou plays as a major supporting character in both Kyou's path and Kappei's path.

Ryou has a crush on Tomoya, as shown in Kyou's arc, and needs Kyou's help on pursuing Tomoya. In Kappei's arc, she pursues Kappei instead, which worries Kyou. Ryou has her own optional path, where Tomoya pursues Ryou and become boyfriend and girlfriend, however it is considered as Kyou's bad end. Ryou takes nursing course and as a nurse in After Story portion. Her job as a nurse is further proven as seen in Kappei's path five years later, where she works as a nurse, along with the anime adaption Clannad After Story, where she is seen working as a nurse at the end of the story.

Misae Sagara (相楽 美佐枝, Sagara Misae?)

Voiced by: Satsuki Yukino (Japanese), Elizabeth Bunch (English)

Misae Sagara is the resident manager at Youhei's dorm. Misae is 23 years old at the time the story takes place; this is only mentioned in the visual novel. She was Hikarizaka's first female student council president when she was in high school. She achieved a full week of perfect attendance for the whole student body and she was loved by the students. Misae is friendly with the dorm students but strict when it comes to the dorm rules. She is also well liked by the rugby members. Depending on decisions, Tomoya can change her to a violent dorm lady through his lecture, which is her original personality, who uses brute force to convince the dorm students to do their cleaning duty.

When Misae was young, she fell in love with a boy, and hopes that one day she'll see him again. It's later revealed though that the stray cat she takes care of is actually the true form of the boy she is waiting for. When Tomoya tries to pursue Misae, the cat gives Tomoya a dream about Misae's past. When Misae was still in high school, she had two friends Saki and Yuki, and a guy named Igarashi that she like but finds out he already has a girlfriend. Then Misae met a boy who introduced himself as "Katsuki Shima", and insisted on granting her wish as a payment for encouraging him to recover. Misae's reluctance on giving him a wish to be granted and the boy's persistence cause them to spend time together, eventually leading into the development of mutual romantic feelings. However, the boy realizes that his true identity is not Katsuki, but Katsuki's cat: before dying, Katsuki gave the cat the duty of granting Misae a wish. To satisfy Katsuki's continual attempts to grant her a wish, Misae asks for him to love her forever and ever. Having succeeded in his quest, the cat is returned to his original form without Misae's knowledge, leading her to believe Katsuki has disappeared. Meanwhile, she adopts what appears to her to be nothing more than a stray cat. At the town's festival, Tomoya tells Misae about her cat's true identity.

Yusuke Yoshino (芳野 祐介, Yoshino Yūsuke?)

Voiced by: Hikaru Midorikawa (Japanese), Illich Guardiola (English)

Yusuke is an electrician who once attended Hikarizaka high school and lived as a rock musician. He is admired by Mei for his infrequent rock play. Tomoya first met Yusuke during a street light accident involving a person's car, and assists Yusuke in his work. Yusuke is engaged to Kouko, and is also one of the reasons why Fuko exists in the school. He marries Kouko in the middle of the School Life arc and first season of the anime.

He plays a more prominent role in After Story, giving Tomoya a job as an assistant electrician at the Hikarizaka Electrical Company he works at, and on occasion, words of advice. He has an odd quirk of sometimes randomly saying dramatic and often strange or incoherent phrases. Due to Tomoya's interest in him, Yusuke tells him of his past - how he became a rock musician, rose in fame, and then subsequently broke down after receiving news that one of his fans committed a crime. He became overcome with stress and despair, which affected his music and eventually caused him to turn to drugs. After being rehabilitated, no one wanted him anymore except for Kouko, who had encouraged him to become a rock musician during his high school days. Throwing away his past, he now works as an electrician. Realizing that there are people who still love his music through Tomoya, Yusuke decides to create another music CD that sings his love for the city in which he resides.

In the movie, he is Tomoya and Youhei's employer. It's implied that, unlike in the anime, Tomoya had already worked a part-time job with the electric company prior to the start of the story but had stopped working after the accident that ruined his shoulder. Yusuke is introduced in the movie trying to encourage Tomoya to come back to work, and he gives Youhei a part time job. He also plays a major part in facilitating Tomoya's reunion with his daughter in order to snap him out of his depression.

Kouko Ibuki (伊吹 公子, Ibuki Kōko?)

Voiced by: Yūko Minaguchi (Japanese), Stephanie Wittels (English)

Kouko is Fuko's older sister. She used to be an art teacher at Hikarizaka high school, and she treats everyone kindly. Kouko is one of the familiar faces in the Furukawa Bakery, and Nagisa admires her very much, being her former art teacher. Currently she is engaged with Yusuke Yoshino, and is the major reason why Fuko still exists in the school, despite the fact she's still in a coma at the hospital. Thanks to Fuko's efforts she does eventually get married to Yusuke. After the marriage, she is now known as Kouko Yoshino. In the After story arc, she reappears when Fuko is finally release from the hospital.

In the movie, Kouko is one of the teachers for second year students instead of an art teacher, and is depicted as still working for the school, eventually becoming the supervisor for the drama club. She, along with Youhei and Tomoya helps revive the drama club for Nagisa.

Toshio Koumura (幸村 俊夫, Kōmura Toshio?)

Voiced by: Takeshi Aono (Japanese), Todd Waite (English)

Toshio Koumura is a language teacher at Hikarizaka high school and Tomoya's home room teacher during his first year. His age conceals his once vigorous past marked by his enthusiasm in teaching. He was friends with Kouko Ibuki three years ago.

Five years ago, he was a strict teacher in an engineering school, well known for changing a lot of delinquents in the school for the better, but at Tomoya's school, his skill is not needed due to the prestigious image of the school. It was because of him that Tomoya and Youhei ran into each other in the first place, and it's heavily implied that he deliberately arranged them to do so, knowing that if they had at least one good friend, they'd have a reason to keep going to school and not drop out. He retires one year later, prior to the end of the school segment of the story. In After Story, he returns and organizes the fake graduating ceremony intended for Nagisa, arranged by Tomoya.

Kappei Hiiragi (柊 勝平, Hiiragi Kappei?)

Voiced by: Ryōko Shiraishi

Kappei is a mysterious nineteen-year-old young man who is traveling around. His goal in life is "to live like a man". Tomoya will meet Kappei if he chooses to avoid Kyou's scooter on the right side. Kyou intends to hit Tomoya as a revenge for Botan running back home wet, but hits Kappei instead.

Kappei's goal is to find a job and a kind person who he met with. The kind person turns out to be Ryou, and through her he finds a job at the hospital. Both of them start to become intimate ever since. However, it was revealed that he had osteosarcoma, a cancer which he carried since he was young, causing him to be hospitalized and is also revealed to have once been a prodigious runner for his country.

Kappei refuses to have his legs amputated even though it would cause him to die because he could not bear not being able to run, but is convinced out of it by (mainly) Ryou and Tomoya, who were encouraged after having received advice from Yusuke. Ryou also informs him that a new technique of treatment using liquid nitrogen would not require an amputation. This encouraged him and he finally decided to take the operation. 5 years later, Tomoya visits the hospital again to visit Kappei and Ryou, working as a nurse in the hospital, guides him to Kappei's room where he greets him with a nostalgic line. Kappei eventually marries Ryou Fujibayashi.

Kappei is the only character in the visual novel who does not appear in any of the animated versions of Clannad.

Girl in the Illusionary World

Voiced by: Tomoko Kawakami (Japanese), Melissa Davis (English)

The only human in the illusionary world, a world that both Nagisa and Tomoya have dreams of, and is the basis for the play Nagisa puts on after successfully reinstating the drama club. The girl creates a body out of junk for an unnamed entity only referred to as "I", so that she will not be alone anymore. At the edge of death after failing to get away from the world, it is revealed that she is actually Ushio who had lost her memory after dying in the real world, regaining it back just long enough to inform the junk robot that they have an linked past and that he is actually her father, Tomoya. She created the Illusionary World in order to collect enough lights to make a miracle possible and save her family from their tragic fate, although she holds no recollection of this. In Clannad's epilogue, she is shown sleeping under the tree where Akio had once begged for Nagisa's life long ago, and is apparently seen for a brief instant by Fuko, though it turns out to be the real Ushio.

Junk Robot

Voiced by: Akiko Yajima (Japanese), Shannon Emerick (English)

He has no name, but narrates the situation in the Illusionary world seen through Tomoya's dream while referring to himself only as "I". His body was created by the girl in the illusionary world out of junk so that she wouldn't be alone. The body is about half the girl's height. He can't talk, as he had been created without a mouth, so relies on body language to communicate with the girl. When on the edge of death in the illusion, the girl is revealed to be Ushio, and she informs the robot that he is her father, Tomoya, and tells him to collect light orbs to create a miracle that will save their family from the tragedy that had befallen them. He later succeeds in doing this.

In the anime, he is sent back into the past, where his past self (with memories of the bad future) reasons that if he had never met Nagisa, neither of them would have suffered, and seems about to change history so that they never stopped to talk to each other. But then he and his 'other self' (the junk robot) become one mentally, and ultimately they decide to meet Nagisa, who also remembers the future, and had hoped that he wouldn't regret meeting her. After this, they wake up in a world where Nagisa survives.