>>118834Well I only said tranny Azu fans are a recent phenomenon, I didn't say Clannad fans are trannies. But Clannad is often called "tranime" or thought of as such essentially, and rightfully so, for good reasons, and mentally classifying it as such is good practice - Clannad first of all simply looks like a typical/textbook generic made-for-girls "tranime" full of sloppily animated moefaces, and a particularly damning thing for Clannad is that it's rooted in a "visual novel" which is a massive red flag: on an anti-tranny radar, that detail - VN - lights up brightly with a huge radar signature; VN-based animes very much, uniformly, equal cancer and trannies; and trannies are very much into VNs.
>but Clannad is around the same ageClannad is MUCH newer than Azumanga. That must be understood. They differ only a few years in how "old" they are, if we count backwards from now. But doing that is meaningless. Meaningless in the same sense as us saying there isn't much difference timewise from 2025 to 1939 and 2025 to 1946. However living in Germany in 1939 was very different from in 1946; a lot changed in those years, and society in 1946 wasn't the same as it was in 1939.
Clannad was made after dramatic negative changes had occurred in Anime itself; in how (production-wise) new anime was made, and also in what new anime was made to be like. Clannad is a much more "modern" anime (and in Anime, modern = coalier, dustier, in all sorts of ways) than Azumanga. The Azumanga anime which began in April 2002 is just an adaption (very close in style) of the manga conceived in 1999. Clannad was invented years later and didn't solidify into anime form until late 2007. There's a huuuuuuuge difference between ~2002 and ~2007 in terms of what happened to Anime during that time. Anime changed dramatically from ~2002 to ~2007. In fact already by 2004/2005, Anime had changed extremely noticeably for the worse. That shouldn't be misunderstood as meaning absolutely zero good new animes existed in 2004 or 2005 nor that everything before 2003 was good. You got for example GITS2 Innocence (2004) and Monster (2004-2005) as rare examples of great animes made in the new "modern" time of anime.
The point of writing this is partly to make you understand that there is a fundamental difference between anime made in ~2007 and ~2002 (especially one conceived in 1999), and also to make you understand that people don't prefer Azumanga (2002) or - lets also use a totally different example here - Cowboy Bebop (1998) because it's "older" than something made in lets say 2008. Anime isn't like wine that ages and gets better with time. The age of an anime doesn't matter in that an anime isn't good because it's old in of itself (nor can a bad anime magically become good through time passing), but because Anime back then was made differently than how it's been made for the last 20 plus years. People prefer Azumanga and Cowboy Bebop to anime made later because they were made (just) prior to those horrible changes to Anime that occurred from ~2003 to ~2006. And therein is your answer. It has strictly to do with when the animes were made, which is a huge factor in why they are so different.