Isshuukan Friends.

Sixteen-year-old Yuuki Hase finally finds the courage to speak to his crush and ask her if she wants to become friends. The object of his affection, Kaori Fujimiya, is a quiet and reserved girl who cuts herself off from everyone and does not spare him the same blunt rejection she gives everybody else.

Some time after, Yuuki finds her eating lunch on the roof where she secludes herself during break. He decides to start meeting with Kaori every day in the hopes of beginning to understand her better. The more time they spend together, the more she begins to open up to him. However, nearing the end of the week, she starts to push him away once more. It is then revealed to him the reason for Kaori's cold front: at the end of the week, her memories of those close to her, excluding her family, are forgotten, as they are reset every Monday. The result of an accident in middle school, the once popular and kind Kaori is now unable to make friends in fear of hurting the people dear to her.

Determined to become more than just one week friends, Yuuki asks her the exact same question each Monday: "Would you like to be friends?" Because he knows that deep down, Kaori wishes for that more than anything.

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Fujimiya, Kaori Main

Amamiya, Sora Japanese

Hase, Yuuki Main

Yamaya, Yoshitaka Japanese

Yamagishi, Saki Supporting

Ookubo, Rumi Japanese

Kiryuu, Shougo Supporting

Hosoya, Yoshimasa Japanese

Fujimiya, Shiho Supporting

Nakahara, Mai Japanese

Kujou, Hajime Supporting

Asanuma, Shintaro Japanese

Inoue, Jun Supporting

Majima, Junji Japanese

Serizawa, Maiko Supporting

Kakumoto, Asuka Japanese

Nishimura, Ai Supporting

Tanabe, Rui Japanese

Kujou, Mother Supporting

Kanda, Mika Japanese

Yoshizawa, Takashi Producer

Shimizu, Mika Producer

Satou, Yumi Producer

Yazaki, Fumi Assistant Producer

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Jan 12, 2025

MrSlamboni

Recommended

One Week Friends is generally a good show. However, it has both normal, preventable issues and issues that are intrinsic to the premise which cannot be fixed. The fact that Fujimiya forgets everything about her friends every week means that you will inevitably have to erase the story's progress. In fact, it makes it so that it would be WORSE if you didn't erase the story's progress. Let me elaborate:

Fujimiya forgetting every week is the interesting thing about the premise. This forgetfulness has many possible consequences that could be explored, which can add some freshness to an otherwise ordinary romance story. One Week Friends explores ... some of these, which I wouldn't explain because I consider them spoilers. However, it is also a double edged sword because it either partially or completely resets the story when it happens. On the other hand, If you shy away from resetting the story, it will be like the established premise does not exist in practice. So the only possible path is to accept the frustration and explore the premise anyways. The show tries to balance both approaches kind of successfully. They do find ways to progress the story, but they can't fully escape the eventuality that they will have to do either a partial or full reset.

One Week Friends has other issues though. Hase is whiny, spineless and twitchy. Yes, he is characterized as such and that's completely fine, but he does get on my nerves from time to time (especially in the beginning). Fujimiya is really the bigger problem here. She is just all around kind and nice, but doesn't really do much, making for a really boring female lead. Hase and Fujimiya sometimes have good interactions but sometimes don't. I enjoyed any meaningful interaction they had, but not when Hase is just awkward. That makes me feel second-hand awkwardness. The other side characters were honestly pretty okay.

My unpopular opinion is that if we ever get a second season, I hope we get to see more resets. I think there are still more possible consequences that haven't been explored yet. But even if that's not the case, I wouldn't mind as long as they produce something entertaining. All around an okay watch. Not great, but I would passively watch this while eating food and wasting time.

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Jul 17, 2019

Demonul123

Mixed Feelings

I think that neither beginning nor the end are important as long as the middle part is good.

Unfortunately it wasn't so good for "One Week Friends"

What really destroyed this anime is pointles amount of filler episodes that bring nothing interesting to the plot, really, episodes are like watching the same tv movie etc. Another downside of OWF is that character development is dead, yes it is, Fujimaya loosess her memory in the end and she remembers nothing, main character is in friendzone (as he was throughout the series)

Damn, I don't want to waste any more time on this crap.

6/10, only because of few ... cute romance settings ( wasted in the end)

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Jun 16, 2016

ndsempai

Not Recommended

It isnt often I look at an anime at 12 episodes long and think that it could have been edited better.

One week friends tells the story of a girl who loses certain memories weekly. Every monday, part of memory resets itself. The nature of memories which are erased are oddly specific to any friends she makes. So if you have seen "50 first dates" the movie, you would know what you are getting into. The first few episodes follow a pattern which each episode spanning a week. Things progress at a snail's pace as we go through the same motions again and again. "I ... see, he is eating egg sandwitch. Sooo good"

This normally wouldn't be a problem if the characters were any fun. Sadly the two main characters Yuuki and Kaori together have the charm of a wet broom. Yuuki is your typical shoujo mangina "Yes! Man" who exists just to make Kaori happy.Kaori, well she resets every episode so its kinda hard to really understand her. She likes Yuuki. Ok, what else. She likes friends. Ok, then what? She like crepes. Hmm.. intersting titbit, what next? Hmm.. yea we are out of things to write, lets just reset and repeat.

The side characters are also bland and boring. We have a mentally challenged girl called Saki bore up the thing in the name of comic relief. Kujou Hajime had one job and that is to drive the series to a conclusion and add some drama and he fails so spectacularly that its not even funny. The only saving grace is Houtarou Oreki- I mean Shougo Kiryuu a guy who is as bored at the proceedings as we the viewers are that you can almost call the anime out for being unintentionally self-aware.

Oh and the best part, the ending. It ends the way it begins. Another week has passed and Kaori's memories has reset again coz the writers cannot be bothered to write more. No conclusion, no closure and no progress of any sort.

4/10 coz the music is not bad.

Reviewer’s Rating: 4

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