Buta Yarou - After Story?

RandomGuyScott said:
Good question. The comparisons are a little off though.
I thought the VN were made by Key Studios. I didn’t know that it belong to Kyoto Animation.
Kanon and Air didn’t finish with those events. Only the plot associated to the girl that was chosen in the Anime. Both stories continue. A lot. Just not adapted.
You mentioned the Maeda Jun Trilogy (Technically is a quartet, you forgot Little Busters in the mix), but no, you don’t know who the MC loves from the beginning, because the MC loves anyone. They are VN after all and there are multiple heroines as well. There’s an ending for every girl but you get the point.
Regarding Ao Buta:
They share similarities in premise, not so much as in execution though. And given that the aforementioned series are among the “creators” of such similarities in concept (Drama within relationships) pretty much everything is a copy from them.
That only applies at first glance.
Then we have the comparison to Monogatari.
That one seems fair, or at least more accurate and fitting. Except that one uses supernatural at it’s core while Buta Yarou uses science to justify the phenomenon. Sort of.
Just as much as Araragi, Sakuta deals with a different girl’s issue in every Arc.
Hence it takes the “Episodic within the bigger overarching plot” kind of approach.
It does follow a linear plot line but the events are not intertwined between each other.
Sakuta shares similarities with 8man (Dead-pan face, desensitized, de attached, collected, level-headed, intuitive, etc), it might be on purpose, since the author stated being a fan of both series (Who isn’t a fan of Monigatari or Oregairu?) and most likely to their creators so it could be a homage of sorts.
Regarding the story being completed? Not quite but close.
The movie covers the events from Shouko in Volumes 6-7.
The LN are currently in Volume 12. So Anime wise there’s enough content (If they wanted to, most likely we will get it eventually) to adapt another season or go the movie route.
The events from Volumes 10-11 are also the same Arc. This could be the second movie in the future for example.
Does the story continues after High School? Yes, Sakuta goes to the same college as Mai.
Are they still together? Like After Story?
By that you mean Clannad again? Like Tomoya and Nagisa?
Well, Mai is the main heroine and only love interest so they are never breaking up. Besides the story never ponders in the romantic aspect that much.
Mai and Sakuta have a very healthy relationship and the series focuses more in how Sakuta deals with the task at hand. We know that Mai is there and she participates in almost every event although most of the times she takes a supporting role.
Regarding Buta Yarou will copy Clannad and give a wedding and marriage life, well they have being dating for a couple years now and based on the movie events Mai is only happy with Sakuta and considers him pretty much her soulmate so yes eventually it will happen.
Don’t know if the author will show it though but is heavily implied that they will have an everlasting love.
Is the new current arc downgrading the series?
No? I mean, the series has always been consistently great and all arcs are very well written and developed so the story is never boring.
The author can continue writing it for many years. Don’t know if he wants to. But there hasn’t been a decreased in quality so I don’t think this as a downgrade.