ANIME/ Korean Dramas

Clanned

(LOL it made me cry, I'm very emotional)

This was originally a novel. It revolves around Tomoya Okazaki, a third year high school student who dislikes his life. Tomoya's mother died when Tomoya was young, leaving his father to raise him.  But after the accident of Tomoya's mother, hisfather turned to alcohol and gambling, and had fights with his son. One day, Naoyuki, while arguing with his son, slammed Tomoya against the window, dislocating Tomoya's shoulder. But this injury caused Tomoya from playing on the basketball team, and causes him to distance himself from others. Since then, his father treated his son as if Tomoya and he were strangers rather than a family. This hurts Tomoya more than his previous relationship with his father, and the awkwardness of returning home leads Tomoya constantly to stay out all night. Thus his delinquent life begins. Tomoya's good friend Youhei Sunohara, who was thrown out of the soccer club over a dispute with his seniors, is also a delinquent and often hangs out in his dorm room with Tomoya doing nothing much.

Tomoya meets Nagisa Furukawa, a soft, cute, and pure girl who is one year older than he is but is repeating her last year in high school due to being sick much of the previous year. Her goal is to join the drama club which she was unable to do due to her sickness, but they find that the drama club was disbanded after the few remaining members graduated. Since Tomoya has a lot of time to kill, he helps Nagisa in reforming the drama club. During this period, Tomoya meets and hangs out with several other girls whom he gets to know well and help with their individual problems.

In the second part of the story, which starts immediately after the end of the first part but extends into the next seven years, Tomoya and Nagisa start living together, and eventually get married. Tomoya has to endure several hardships that the family has been suffering from, especially Nagisa's illness. Just after Nagisa gives birth to their daughter Ushio, Nagisa died, which causes Tomoya to become severely depressed. He is barely able to feel any emotions, let alone look after an infant. And so as a result, Nagisa's parents, Akio and Sanae, take care of their granddaughter. Five years later, Tomoya meets with Shino Okazaki, his paternal grandmother. Shino tells Tomoya of his father's traumatic past, which is eerily similar to Tomoya's current situation. Afterwards, Tomoya resolves to raise Ushio and acknowledges Naoyuki as his father. After Tomoya overcomes his depression, Ushio is resulted to have the same disease that Nagisa had. Tomoya, Sanae and Akio struggle to save her, Tomoya even quits his job but all of their efforts turn out to be in vain. In the coming winter, wanting to do anything for his daughter, Tomoya takes her on a trip,to a field of flowers, but she dies shortly after. (That's why I cried when I watched this)