Talk:Ritsuko Sakakibara/@comment-4826513-20120209140404/@comment-97.83.226.169-20140207000453

@MSWTawna

Exactly what I was thinking. But in Clannad After Story, Nagisa died after giving birth, but that was only because she had accumulated an unknown illness. Which makes me even MORE suspicious; could it be that Sakakibara recieved an illness from her mother, which stayed inside him because of her mother birthing him ill? Because when we first see Kouichi (In the anime) he is in the hospital because of a collapsed lung. Collapsed lungs occur for a number of reasons, but one reason is the cause of another illness.

We see later on in Clannad After Story that Ushio becomes ill, with the same disease that nearly killed Nagisa when she was a child.

However when Kouichi is conversating with his father over the phone later on in Episode 1, his father says something about his collapsed lung being genetic.

But it does make you think, could it be?