old joke is old...

>VARY

well shit

It can't really be explained without detracting from it.
It is about a highschool (almost) dropout from a bad home and a shy sickly baker's daughter who has been held behind a year because of her frequent sickness. These two start a drama club and eventually fall in love and decide to get married after they graduate. In the after-story it is all about the birth of the child and the father's struggle after his wife dies.

That is a very vague and general overview, there are other thing such as the ghost of Fuko Ibuki who was a student at the school but got involved in an accident and is now in a coma. She sits in a classroom on her own a lot of the time carving stars that are invitations to her sister's wedding. Her sister was a former teacher at the school.

Other times it is general school life where Tomoya Okazaki (Main guy) And Nagisa Furukawa (Main girl) build relationships with a variety of characters; including a teenage genius, who spends a lot of her time in the library, a student council president who can beat the crap out of anyone, and a pair of twins who are almost polar opposites. There is tension later in the series as it is revealed that a few of the girls like Tomoya.

Then there's Youhei Sunohara..... He's Tomoya's best, and equally delinquent, friend. He gets his ass beat a lot. It's quite funny. (Pic related)

I doubt I've put it in a good way, but I do recommend that you check it out. It is humorous at times, then there are the heartfelt moments. It is one of my favourite Animes.

I can't even begin to describe how entirely relevant that roll is.