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Both of them are rare works in this medium by emphasising the lives, daily rhythms and experiences of twenty-somethings' lives. Both are uniquely mature romances, revolving around believable portrayals of adults in relationships. Both are centred around work, going into (and deep struggles adjusting to) the world of work. Both are about finding purpose in life, and both find their answers in work, love and family. Both are in part driven by an emotional core of grief, serving as two of the most powerful explorations of mortality in the medium. Both take place in a world speeding through our protagonist's fingers, with both Rikuo and Tomoya, to varying degrees and in varying means, struggling to process deep change in their life and the world around them, redefining their place in it, and sinking into memories of 'yesterday'. Likewise, both protagonists are similarly flawed people with baggage from their past - their actions aren't perfect, they make sometimes awful mistakes which the storyline forces them to regret deeply. At times both portray uncomfortably intimate struggles with mental health. Despite Clannad After Story's more fantastical setting/magical storytelling, its visual novel origins and its more lighthearted sections, tonally, thematically and in the thoughts and situations they like to present Yesterday and Clannad After Story are remarkably similar.