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.
