Origin of Clannad's name

[Bredan]

Wondered several times what this name ('Clannad') meant or where it came from, without ever this being important enough for me to search for an answer... and I came across the answer by accident lol : From Wikipedia (last paragraph of 'Musical style and legacy')

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A Japanese visual novel released in 2004, which spawned a 2007 film and a 2007–08 television series based on it, was named after the band because screenwriter Jun Maeda mistakenly believed it to mean 'family' in Irish.

I do not intend to fact check this and will take Wikipedia at its words and live a slightly better life now.

[pkd2]

Now where does the name Kanon come from

[littleshogun]

Interesting seeing that Maeda chose Clannad based on his misunderstanding there, and by the way the Irish word for family is just 'Clann'.

As for Kanon, it's the musical term with what I can pick from the Wiki is 'contrapuntal (counterpoint-based) compositional technique that employs a melody with one or more imitations of the melody played after a given duration', although Sayuri did explain it in 2006 anime episode 14 as 'it repeats the same melody and crescendos gradually, peacefully, and beautifully' while Pachelbel's Canon playing in the background. As for why Maeda chose Kanon as the title, well I don't know.

Edited 8 hours ago by littleshogun