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One Week Friends (Japanese: 一週間フレンズ。, Hepburn: Isshūkan Furenzu.) is a manga series by Matcha Hazuki. It was serialized in Square Enix's Gangan Joker magazine between January 21, 2012 and January 22, 2015. It was first published as a one-shot manga in the magazine's September 2011 issue. The series has since been collected in seven tankōbon volumes. An anime television series adaptation by Brain's Base aired between April 6 and June 22, 2014. Sentai Filmworks licensed the rights to the show in North America and by Madman Entertainment in Australia and New Zealand. A live-action film of the same name was released in February 2017.
One Week Friends | |
![]() Cover of Isshūkan Friends volume 1 by Square Enix | |
一週間フレンズ。 (Isshūkan Furenzu.) | |
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Genre | Romance[1] |
Manga | |
Written by | Matcha Hazuki |
Published by | Square Enix |
English publisher | |
Magazine | Gangan Joker |
Demographic | Shōnen |
Original run | January 21, 2012 – January 22, 2015 |
Volumes | 7 |
Anime television series | |
Directed by | Tarou Iwasaki |
Written by | Shōtarō Suga |
Music by | Nobuko Toda |
Studio | Brain's Base |
Licensed by | |
Original network | Tokyo MX, MBS, TVA, BS11, AT-X |
Original run | April 6, 2014 – June 22, 2014 |
Episodes | 12 + 12 specials |
Manga | |
Sono Ato no Isshūkan Friends | |
Written by | Matcha Hazuki |
Published by | Square Enix |
Magazine | Gangan Joker |
Demographic | Shōnen |
Original run | April 22, 2021 – present |
Live-action film | |
High schooler Yūki Hase notices that his beautiful classmate Kaori Fujimiya is always alone and seemingly has no friends. After approaching her and becoming better acquainted, Kaori reveals that every Monday she loses all memory of her friends. Despite learning this, Yūki endeavors to befriend her anew every week.
One Week Friends began as a one-shot manga by Matcha Hazuki and was first published in Gangan Joker's September 2011 issue. A full serialization later followed in Square Enix's Gangan Joker from January 21, 2012.[3] After spanning three years, the series came to an end in the February 2015 issue of Gangan Joker which was published in Japan on January 22, 2015.[4] Despite the end of the serialization, a special chapter will later be included in the magazine's May 2015 issue when it is published on April 22, 2015.[5] The chapters was collected into a total of seven tankōbon volumes, the first of which was released on June 22, 2012.[6] The final volume was released on April 22, 2015.[7][8][9] During their Sakura-Con 2017 panel, Yen Press announced their license to the manga.[10]
On March 22, 2021, the April 2021 issue of Gangan Joker revealed that a sequel manga titled Sono Ato no Isshūkan Friends would begin serialization in the next issue.[11]
No. | Original release date | Original ISBN | English release date | English ISBN |
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1 | June 22, 2012[6] | 978-4-757-53633-3 | December 19, 2017[12] | 978-0-316-41416-6 |
2 | November 22, 2012[13] | 978-4-757-53796-5 | April 10, 2018[14] | 978-0-316-44736-2 |
3 | April 27, 2013[15] | 978-4-757-53953-2 | June 26, 2018[16] | 978-0-316-44739-3 |
4 | November 22, 2013[17] | 978-4-757-54137-5 | September 18, 2018[18] | 978-0-316-44743-0 |
5 | March 22, 2014[19] | 978-4-757-54256-3 | December 11, 2018[20] | 978-0-316-44746-1 |
6 | July 22, 2014[21] | 978-4-757-54361-4 | March 26, 2019[22] | 978-0-316-44749-2 |
7 | April 22, 2015[9][23] | 978-4-7575-4435-2 978-4-757-54434-5 (LE) | June 18, 2019[24] | 978-0-316-44753-9 |
An anime television series adaptation by Brain's Base began airing on April 6, 2014.[25][26][27] The TV anime is produced by Brain's Base and directed by Taro Iwasaki.[28] The opening theme is "Niji no Kakera" (虹のかけら, lit. "Fragments of a Rainbow"), sung by Natsumi Kon, with lyrics and composition by Ai Kawashima.[29] The ending theme is a cover of Sukima Switch's 2004 single "Kanade" (奏(かなで), lit. "Symphony") sung by Sora Amamiya, the voice actress of female protagonist, Kaori Fujimiya. The anime has been licensed by Sentai Filmworks in North America.[30]
A stage play adaptation ran from November 14 to 24, 2014 in Japan. The play stars Tomoki Okayama as Yūki Hase, Maya Okano as Kaori Fujimiya, Kimito Totani as Shōgo Kiryū, and Juria Kawakami as Saki Yamagishi.[31][32]
A live-action film was released in February 2017. The film is directed by Shōsuke Murakami and written by Yōko Izumisawa.[33]
Carl Kimlinger of Anime News Network (ANN) gave One Week Friends an overall B+ rating. He wrote that the premise can push its dramatic moments a little too far and almost nothing happens throughout the first half of the series. Regardless, Kimlinger praised the plot's character development, saying that it saves the first half with its progression through little events; he added that the dramatic scenes are nicely underplayed to help viewers care for the characters. Kimlinger wrote that Brain's Base and director Tarou Iwasaki provide the series with a style that's perfect, calling the minimalist backgrounds evocative with the right mood and the character animations superb, saying "that makes the show what it is: a sleeper delight, plain and simple."[34] Fellow ANN editor Gabriella Ekens praised the show for being "emotionally intelligent" with its showcase of Yūki's character growth and for being "beautifully realized" with its "faux-water color style" illustrating Kaori's progression and recovery from amnesia, concluding that: "One Week Friends is slice of life at its best. Gentle, atmospheric, and emotionally resonant, it's the perfect comfort food for an afternoon in. It might be quiet, but you won't forget about it any time soon."[35] Conversely, Allen Moody from THEM Anime Reviews criticized the "blandness and predictability" of the premise and its characters, singling out Saki for being "annoying on several levels", but commended the show's overall "inoffensiveness" and felt that both Shōgo and Kaori's mom Shiho were the only "genuinely good" people throughout the series.[36]
The manga has had over 1 million copies printed in Japan.[37]
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