History Manga / FarewellMyDearCramer

In September of 2020, a TV anime was [[https://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2020/09/03-1/your-lie-in-april-manga-creators-womens-soccer-manga-farewell-my-dear-cramer-gets-tv-anime-and-anime-film-in-april-2021?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+crunchyroll%2Fanimenews+%28Latest+in+Anime+News+by+Crunchyroll%21%29 announced]] for Farewell My Dear Cramer. It premiered in April of 2021 and it's animated by Creator/{{Liden Films}}, with ''Sayonara'' receiving a film adaptation from the same creative team in June of 2021.

* {{Loads and Loads of Characters}}: While previous Arakawa works had roughly a dozen or so important characters in their casts, ''Farewell My Dear Cramer'' has at least three times that number.

With their middle school soccer careers over, these two rivals, Sumire and Midori, rather then going to a powerhouse school with a well-known girls soccer team, choose to attend Warabi high school, who's struggling girls soccer team has never made it out of the qualifiers. There they meet the odd, if not overconfident, Nozomi Onda. Going on to play in a scrimmage game, they all must now work together on the same team if they are to succeed.

* {{Apathetic Teacher}}: Couch Fukatsu is very much this. In chapter 21, his background is explored, which gives reasons for his apathy towards couching soccer.

* {{Brilliant But Lazy}}: Couch Fukatsu is also this, where despite not really caring about couching the girls, he is shown to be brilliant when it comes to soccer tactician and countering rival team's strategies.

* {{Career Ending Injury}}: While it's hinted at early on in the series, it's eventually revealed that [[spoiler: Couch Fukatsu was on track to become a major star in the world of soccer, but had his career cut short due to a leg injury, which led him to start coaching.]]

* {{Curb Stomp Battle}}: One of the first things Noako Nomi does when she is hired as the assistant couch for the Warabi girls soccer team is to set up a scrimmage game against Kunogi high school, who happens to be one of the best girls soccer teams in Tokyo. They proceed to lose the game 16-0.

* {{Jerk With a Heart of Gold}}: Couch Fukatsu always has a bored and uncaring look on his face and even admits he doesn't want to be the girls soccer couch, but he does go out of his way to advise the team and lead them to victory, even going so far as to help each of them improve their individual skills.

* {{The One Guy}}: Couch Fukatsu is the only male character who regularly appears in the series.

* {{Recognition Failure}}: When Noako Nomi is introduced as the assistant couch to the Warabi girls soccer team, she is shown to be a famous Japanese soccer player who played in the professional leagues when she was only 17 years old. While many of the other team members are well aware of who she is, Nozomi claims to have never heard of her. Nozomi is also unaware of who the Korenkan soccer team is, despite the fact that they won second-place in both the Inter-High and the National Championship.

** Couch Fukatsu also counts as this.

In September of 2020, a TV anime was [[https://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2020/09/03-1/your-lie-in-april-manga-creators-womens-soccer-manga-farewell-my-dear-cramer-gets-tv-anime-and-anime-film-in-april-2021?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+crunchyroll%2Fanimenews+%28Latest+in+Anime+News+by+Crunchyroll%21%29 announced]] for Farewell My Dear Cramer set to premiere in April of 2021 and animated by Creator/{{Liden Films}}, with ''Sayonara'' receiving a film adaptation from the same creative team.

* {{Loads and Loads of Characters}}: While ''Manga/{{Your Lie in April}}'' has roughly a dozen or so important characters in its cast, ''Farewell My Dear Cramer'' has at least three times that number.

* {{Reused Character Design}}: Some of the character designs in ''Farewell, My Dear Cramer'' look strikingly similar to characters from the authors previous work ''Manga/{{Your Lie in April}}''.

* SequelSeries: To ''Manga/{{Sayonara Football}}''

* {{Shoutout}} The title itself is a rather obscure reference (at least to non-Japanese/German people) which refers to German footballer and manager [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dettmar_Cramer Dettmar Cramer]], who's considered the father of Japanese soccer.
* {{Shown Their Work}}: Similarly to both the attention to detail for the classical music performances and referencing real classical musicians in ''Manga/{{Your Lie in April}}'', Naoshi Arakawa really puts in a lot of effort to show not only proper and correct soccer tactics, but also displaying its history as well, making many references to specific players and events within the history of the sport.

!! Farewell My Dear Cramer contains

Acts as both a {{spinoff}} and {{sequel}} to ''Manga/SayonaraFootball'', with the protagonist Nozomi Onda being part of the main cast of ''Farewell, My Dear Cramer'' and taking place approximately a year and a half after the series ended. The title itself refers to German footballer and manager [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dettmar_Cramer Dettmar Cramer]], who's considered the father of Japanese soccer.

Acts as both a {{spinoff}} and {{sequel}} to ''Manga/{{Sayonara Football}}'', with the protagonist Nozomi Onda being part of the main cast of ''Farewell, My Dear Cramer'' and taking place approximately a year and a half after the series ended. The title itself refers to German footballer and manager [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dettmar_Cramer Dettmar Cramer]], who's considered the father of Japanese soccer.

In September of 2020, a TV anime was [[https://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2020/09/03-1/your-lie-in-april-manga-creators-womens-soccer-manga-farewell-my-dear-cramer-gets-tv-anime-and-anime-film-in-april-2021?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+crunchyroll%2Fanimenews+%28Latest+in+Anime+News+by+Crunchyroll%21%29 announced]] for Farewell My Dear Cramer set to premiere in April of 2021 and animated by Creator/{{Liden Films}}, with ''Manga/{{Sayonara Football}}'' receiving a film adaptation from the same creative team.

* {{Callback}}: Being a sequel, the series has a few call backs to ''Manga/{{Sayonara Football}}''.

* {{Improbably Female Cast}}: Soccer (or even '' sports manga'' in general) tends to be very male dominated. However, ''Farewell, My Dear Cramer'' focuses almost exclusively on girls soccer.

** While the tite remained th e same in the digital editions, the physical US releases were given the FranchiseDrivenRetitling ''Sayonara Football: Farewell, My Dear Cramer''.

* {{No Hugging No Kissing}}: Despite ''Manga/{{Your Lie in April}}'' focusing heavily on the characters and their romantic feelings towards one another, ''Farewell My Dear Cramer'' has virtually no romance in it, with the exception of some small hints with a few of the characters.

* {{Passionate Sports Girl}}: Most of the main cast.

* {{Sequel Series}}: To ''Manga/{{Sayonara Football}}''

* {{Time Skip}}: Takes place a year and a half after ''Manga/{{Sayonara Football}}''.

Acts as both a [[SpinOff spin-off]] and {{sequel}} to ''Manga/{{Sayonara Football}}'', with the protagonist Nozomi Onda being part of the main cast of ''Farewell, My Dear Cramer'' and taking place approximately a year and a half after the series ended. The title itself refers to German footballer and manager [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dettmar_Cramer Dettmar Cramer]], who's considered the father of Japanese soccer.

* {{Market Based Title}}: The Japanese manga covers clearly show the English title as being ''Good-bye Cramer''. However, Kodansha chose to release the series in English under the title ''Farewell, My Dear Cramer''.
** The US release of the physical manga volumes will be called "Sayonara Football: Farewell, My Dear Cramer", only adding to the confusion.

** Additionally, the title of the ''Manga/{{Sayonara Football}}'' film will be "Eiga Sayonara Watashi no Cramer First Touch", with the 'Football' part of the name dropped completely.

In September of 2020, a TV anime was [[https://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2020/09/03-1/your-lie-in-april-manga-creators-womens-soccer-manga-farewell-my-dear-cramer-gets-tv-anime-and-anime-film-in-april-2021?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+crunchyroll%2Fanimenews+%28Latest+in+Anime+News+by+Crunchyroll%21%29 announced]] for Farewell My Dear Cramer set to premiere in April of 2021 and animated by ''Creator/{{Liden Films}}'', with ''Manga/{{Sayonara Football}}'' receiving a film adaptation from the same creative team.

''Farewell, My Dear Cramer'' (さよなら私のクラマー, Sayonara Watashi no Cramer) is a {{shonen}} {{sports|Story}} manga by Naoshi Arakawa, creator of ''Manga/{{Your Lie in April}}'', and published in English by Kodansha Comics USA. It originally ran in ''Magazine/ShonenMagazine'' from 2016 to 2020.

''Farewell, My Dear Cramer'' (さよなら私のクラマー, Sayonara Watashi no Cramer) is a shonen sports manga by Naoshi Arakawa, creator of ''Manga/{{Your Lie in April}}'', and published in English by Kodansha Comics USA. It originally ran in ''Magazine/ShonenMagazine'' from 2016 to 2020.

Farewell, My Dear Cramer (さよなら私のクラマー, Sayonara Watashi no Cramer) is a shonen sports manga by Naoshi Arakawa, creator of ''Manga/{{Your Lie in April}}'', and published in English by Kodansha Comics USA.

Acts as both a [[SpinOff spin-off]] and {{sequel}} to ''Manga/{{Sayonara Football}}'', with the protagonist Nozomi Onda being part of the main cast of ''Farewell, My Dear Cramer'' and taking place approximately a year and a half after the series ended.

* {{Took a Level in Badass}}: Echizen goes from being the girls soccer teams manager who never played in games, to being able to hinder a rival teams ace shooter from being able to score.

* {{Word Salad Title}}: As of this writing, it's unknown what the title ''Good-bye Cramer/Farewell, My Dear Cramer'' is referring to, or who/what ''Cramer'' even is.
** It's been theorized by readers that the series will likely follow in the same footsteps as the author's previous work ''Manga/{{Your Lie in April}}'' did, in that it will reveal the true meaning behind the title at the end of the series.

In September of 2020, a TV anime was [[https://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2020/09/03-1/your-lie-in-april-manga-creators-womens-soccer-manga-farewell-my-dear-cramer-gets-tv-anime-and-anime-film-in-april-2021?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+crunchyroll%2Fanimenews+%28Latest+in+Anime+News+by+Crunchyroll%21%29 announced]] for Farewell My Dear Cramer animated by ''Creator/{{Liden Films}}'', with ''Manga/{{Sayonara Football}}'' receiving a film adaptation from the same creative team.

Farewell, My Dear Cramer (さよなら私のクラマー, Sayonara Watashi no Cramer) is a shonen sports manga by Naoshi Arakawa, creator of ''Manga/{{Your Lie in April}}'', and published digitally in English by Kodansha Comics USA.

Currently available for purchase digitally via Comixology and Kindle, or via a subscription to [[https://www.crunchyroll.com/comics/manga/farewell-my-dear-cramer/volumes Crunchyroll]].

* {{Freudian Threat}}: Midori jokingly threatens to castrate one of the more perverted members of the boys soccer team after her team lost an important match.

* {{Geeky Analogy}}: In chapter 18, when Midori is talking with some of the girls from Urawa Hosei, she quotes the ''Heartthrob Kaikoku'' anime saying ''"The fires of revolution always ignite in the provinces"'', to which Alice immediately knows who quoted it and that it's from episode 3.

* {{Callback}}: In the first chapter, Midori quotes Sepp Herberger's famous soccer phrase to Sumire ''"Der Ball ist rund/The Ball is Round"'', which is a callback to ''Manga/{{Sayonara Football}}'' where Nozomi also quotes the same phrase.

** Discussions of ''"Defensive"'' vs ''"Possession"'' soccer are had several times throughout the series, in addition to mentioning Spain's popularization of possession soccer with their victory at the 2010 World Cup.

* {{Apathetic Teacher}}: Couch Fukatsu is very much this. In a later chapter, his background is explored, which gives reasons for his apathy towards couching soccer.

It begins with a middle school girl’s soccer match, where short-haired fifteen year old Sumire Suo shows off her overwhelming talent, but during a counterattack, her beautiful dribble to her shot at the goal gets blocked by a twin-tailed girl named Midori Soshizaki, ending the game.

Instead of going to a powerhouse school with a well-known girls soccer team, these two rivals, Sumire and Midori enter the same high school, one whos team is struggling. There they meet the odd, if not overconfident, Nozomi Onda. Going on to play in a scrimmage game, they all must now work together on the same team if they are to succeed.

* {{Shown Their Work}}: Similarly to the attention to detail for the classical music performances in ''Manga/{{Your Lie in April}}'', Naoshi Arakawa really puts in a lot of effort to show not only proper and correct soccer tactics, but also displaying its history as well, making many references to specific players and events within the history of the sport.

* {{Geeky Analogy}}: In chapter 18, when Midori is talking with some of the girls from Urawa Hosei, she quotes the ''"Heartthrob Kaikoku"'' anime saying ''"The fires of revolution always ignite in the provinces"'', to which Alice immediately knows who quoted it and that it's from episode 3.

* {{Rock Paper Scissors}}: In chapter 20, when a man appears to be creepily stalking Midori, Sumire, Sawa and Nozomi as they're walking down the street, the group (''sans Sawa'') play a quick game of rock-paper-scissors to determine who is going to be the bait and who will wait in ambush to subdue him, thinking they're going to be given a reward for catching a "pervert".

* {{Flirtatious Smack on the Ass}}: Tase smacks Nozomi in the butt in a non-flirtatious way to get her to calm down after she accidentally scored a shot into their own teams goal during an official game.

* {{Improbable Weapon User}}: When Nozomi and Sumire are waiting in the bushes to ambush a man who appears to be stalking them, Sumire uses a bolas to tie-up and subdue the man. When Midori asks her about it, she responds by saying she uses it for ''"self-defense"'' and ''"for fun"''.

* {{Real Place Background}}: In one chapter, Midori accidentally runs into some members of the Urawa Hosei girls soccer team at the ''Animate'' store in Ikebukuro and later are seen near the owl statue in Naka Ikebukuro Park. Both of which are real life locations.

* {{Rock Paper Scissors}}: When a man appears to be creepily stalking Midori, Sumire, Sawa and Nozomi as they're walking down the street, the group (''sans Sawa'') play a quick game of rock-paper-scissors to determine who is going to be the bait and who will wait in ambush to subdue him, thinking they're going to be given a reward for catching a "pervert".

* {{Recognition Failure}}: When Noako Nomi is introduced as the assistant couch to the Warabi girls soccer team, she is shown to be a famous Japanese soccer player who played in the professional leagues when she was only 17 years old. While many of the other team members are well aware of who she is, Nozomi claims to have never heard of her.