Farewell, My Dear Cramer

• Ja Kanji — さよなら私のクラマー • Ja Romaji — Sayonara Watashi no Kuramā • Genre — Sports

• Type — manga • Author — Naoshi Arakawa • Publisher — Kodansha • Magazine — Monthly Shōnen Magazine • First — May 6, 2016 • Last — December 4, 2020 • Volumes — 14

• Type — tv series • Director — Seiki Takuno • Writer — Natsuko Takahashi • Music — Masaru Yokoyama • Studio — Liden Films • Licensee — Crunchyroll • Network — Tokyo MX, BS NTV, AT-X, KBC • First — April 4, 2021 • Last — June 27, 2021 • Episodes — 13

• Title — Preceded by • Content — * Sayonara, Football (2009–2010)

• Portal — yes Farewell, My Dear Cramer is a Japanese manga series by Naoshi Arakawa about women's association football. The manga serves as a sequel to Arakawa's 2009 work, Sayonara, Football. The series was serialized in Kodansha's Monthly Shōnen Magazine from May 2016 to December 2020, with the individual chapters were collected in fourteen tankōbon volumes. The series is published in print and in digital in North America by Kodansha Comics. An anime television series adaptation of the series by Liden Films aired from April to June 2021.

Sumire Suō and Midori Soshizaki are the stars of their respective middle school girls' soccer teams. As they graduate to high school, they end up joining an eclectic cast of other new girls at Warabi Seinan High School, with hopes of taking the school's normally poor-performing team to the top. With the help of former Nadeshiko Japan player Naoko Nōmi as their new coach, they must find a way to defeat powerful new enemies ranging from other nationally ranked school soccer teams, to their own school's administration.

• Nozomi Onda • Miyuri Shimabukuro • A skilled girl who played on boys' soccer teams for several years (as the main protagonist of Sayonara, Football), thinking the overall level of competition of girls' soccer teams was beneath her, until her middle-school coach convinced her to join a women's team in high school. Despite putting in little effort in practice, Nozomi is an incredibly skilled attacker who tries to stay motivated no matter the opponent. • Sawa Echizen • Shion Wakayama • The manager of the Warabi girls' team who tries to support them from the sidelines with everything from video analysis to nutrition. • Sumire Suō • Tomoyo Kurosawa • The captain of her middle school team despite said team winning very few matches. An incredibly fast player with little patience for the eccentricities of her teammates. She decided to join Warabi after seeing Eriko's effort during a losing match and finding a kindred spirit with her. • Midori Soshizaki: • Sumire's friend and rival throughout middle school who played on a different team, Midori decided to follow Sumire to Warabi so she would not play alone. A newspaper article calls her the #3 defensive midfielder in the nation. • Aya Shiratori • Shiho Kokido • An arrogant prima donna who seems to model herself after Mario Balotelli, a striker who plays incredibly close to the offside line to get scoring chances but makes multiple mistakes that frustrate her teammates. • Eriko Tase • Yū Shimamura • The Captain of the Warabi Seinan girls' soccer team who struggles to keep the team together when several players leave after the team's poor performance last year. A second-year student who plays on the right wing. • Makoto Miyasaka • Marina Yamada • Rui Kikuchi • Rena Maeda • Ayumu Kishi • Azumi Waki • Saori Komurasaki • Misano Sakai • Noriko Okachimachi • Anzu Haruno • Karina Kakogawa • Rena Hasegawa • Naoko Nōmi • Yūko Kaida • The former Nadeshiko Japan player and World Cup champion who was distraught at the decline of women's soccer throughout the nation. Naoko returns to her alma mater at Warabi to act as the new coach of the women's soccer team. • Gōro Fukatsu • Junichi Suwabe • The incumbent coach of the Warabi women's soccer team who seems apathetic to their performance, spending more time burying his head in a horse racing magazine than paying attention to the team.

• Tetsuji Yamada • Koki Uchiyama • Kaoru Takei • Ryōta Ōsaka • Yasuaki Tani • Shimba Tsuchiya • Eiken Asuka • Takaya Kuroda

Written and illustrated by Naoshi Arakawa, Farewell, My Dear Cramer was serialized in Kodansha's manga magazine Monthly Shōnen Magazine from May 6, 2016, to December 4, 2020. The title refers to German footballer and manager Dettmar Cramer. Kodansha has compiled its chapters into fourteen tankōbon volumes. The first volume was published on August 17, 2016, and the last on April 1, 2021. The manga has been simultaneously released in English on Kindle and Comixology. Crunchyroll published the manga starting in 2018. In July 2019, Kodansha Comics announced the print release of the manga. The first volume was released on January 26, 2021, and last on March 28, 2023.

An anime television series adaptation was announced in the October issue of Monthly Shōnen Magazine on September 4, 2020. The series is animated by Liden Films and directed by Seiki Takuno, with Natsuko Takahashi handling series composition, and Masaru Yokoyama composing the music. It aired from April 4 to June 27, 2021, on Tokyo MX. Aika Kobayashi performed the series' opening theme song "Ambitious Goal", while Mikako Komatsu performed the series' ending theme song "Kuyashii koto wa Kettobase". Crunchyroll streamed the series worldwide outside of Asia. In Southeast Asia, Muse Communication licensed the series.

• Junpei Onda • Ryoko Shiraishi • Kōzō Samejima • Kōji Yusa

• Mizuki Kaji • Saori Hayami • Captain of the Kunogi girls' team who normally plays at center-forward, she has a short temper and shows little tolerance for slackers on her team. However, when her crush Ōshio Kohei is nearby, her personality flips, which Sumire used as leverage to make her join their team for the futsal tournament. • Haruna Itō • Yui Ishikawa • An attacking midfielder and gifted technical player for the Kunogi girls' team. After a practice match against Warabi, she became infatuated with Nozomi's playstyle and quickly agreed to team up with her during the futsal tournament. • Mao Tsukuda • Makoto Koichi • Kenroku Washizu • Kazuhiro Yamaji

• Chika Kirishima • Yui Makino • The ace of Urawa Hosei playing in the role of midfielder, key to the catenaccio tactic played by her team. During middle school was in the same team of Soshizaki and resent her for joining a rival team in high school. • Yū Tenma • Aika Kobayashi • Alice Adatara • Hiroko Kiso • Kei Hanabusa • Nichika Ōmori • Nanami Zaisen • Mikako Komatsu • Masahiro Gotōda • Show Hayami

• Rei Kutani • Yumi Uchiyama • A physical defender who was jealous of Haruna's talent while being her teammate in middle school, Rei decided to focus on using her body instead of technical skill.