What anime series should I watch next?

[Karifean]

Clannad has so far been excruciatingly boring but I'm told it picks up, so here's to the future episodes (I think I'm on episode 4 or 5 and falling asleep often).

I dislike super timid characters which is probably my main gripe with Clannad up to the point I've watched so far. You know... characters that are always apologising and always getting upset and always sad anda;siodgh;aietgh urgh I just find it unenjoyable to watch characters like that.

If you can't make it through episode 7 or 8 (the end of the first arc), then you should drop it then and there. Like I said before, it's formulaic, but if you don't like the formula, don't bother. The show's claim to fame doesn't happen until well into the second season.

The apologizing is based on Japanese culture. Normally it's played for laughs, but Western culture considers it offensive/passive-aggressive. If you don't like timid characters, you won't like the next arc, you won't like the end of the first season, and you won't like the beginning of the second season.

As much as I love CLANNAD, I have to agree. While I also didn't start caring much for CLANNAD until mid second season I never found the first season boring and I quite liked all the characters and the cast is one of CLANNAD's high points so if you don't like them it's not going to go too well.

It does keep getting better but there's no major shift from the formula it establishes early on.

Fate/Zero is definitely worth watching but I'd wait on that because I technically find Fate/Stay Night to be the better entry point into the Fate/ series.

You could also try some other major classics like Death Note or Code Geass.