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Farewell, My Dear Cramer

Farewell, My Dear Cramer (さよなら私のクラマー) 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 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.

Plot

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.

Characters

Warabi Seinan High School

Girls' Soccer Club

Nozomi Onda (恩田希)
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 (越前佐和)
The manager of the Warabi girls' team who tries to support them from the sidelines with everything from video analysis to nutrition.
Sumire Suō (周防すみれ)
[2]
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 (曽志崎緑)
[2]
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 (白鳥綾)
[2]
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 (田勢恵梨子)
[3]
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 (宮坂真琴)
[3]
Rui Kikuchi (菊池類)
[3]
Ayumu Kishi (岸歩)
[3]
Saori Komurasaki (小紫沙織)
[3]
Noriko Okachimachi (御徒町紀子)
[3]
Karina Kakogawa (加古川香梨奈)
[3]
Naoko Nōmi (能見奈緒子)
[3]
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 (深津吾朗)
[3]
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.

Boys' Soccer Club

Tetsuji Yamada (山田鉄二)
Kaoru Takei (竹井薫)
Yasuaki Tani (谷安昭)
Eiken Asuka (飛鳥永建)
[4]

Girls' Soccer Club

Nozomi Onda (恩田希)
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 (越前佐和)
The manager of the Warabi girls' team who tries to support them from the sidelines with everything from video analysis to nutrition.
Sumire Suō (周防すみれ)
[2]
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 (曽志崎緑)
[2]
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 (白鳥綾)
[2]
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 (田勢恵梨子)
[3]
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 (宮坂真琴)
[3]
Rui Kikuchi (菊池類)
[3]
Ayumu Kishi (岸歩)
[3]
Saori Komurasaki (小紫沙織)
[3]
Noriko Okachimachi (御徒町紀子)
[3]
Karina Kakogawa (加古川香梨奈)
[3]
Naoko Nōmi (能見奈緒子)
[3]
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 (深津吾朗)
[3]
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.