One Week Friends | |
Cover of Isshūkan Friends volume 1 by Square Enix
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一週間フレンズ。 (Isshūkan Furenzu.) |
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Genre | Romance, Comedy-drama |
Manga | |
Written by | Matcha Hazuki |
Published by | Square Enix |
Demographic | Shōnen |
Magazine | Gangan Joker |
Original run | January 21, 2012 – January 22, 2015 |
Volumes | 7 |
Anime television series | |
Directed by | Tarou Iwasaki |
Written by | Shôtarô 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 |
Live-action film | |
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 will be released in February 2017.
High schooler Yūki Hase notices that his 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. 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. 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. The chapters was collected into a total of seven tankōbon volumes, the first of which was released on June 22, 2012. The final volume was released on April 22, 2015.