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Farewell, My Dear Cramer

A group of young school-children wearing school uniforms, doing poses and smiling,with Nozomi Onda standing atop a soccer ball and with adult faculty in the background.

## Anime Information

### Episodes

13

**Farewell, My Dear Cramer** is an anime television series adaptation of *Sayonara Cramer* written and illustrated by the mangaka Naoshi Arakawa about girls' soccer.

## Plot

Over the years, the reputation of women's soccer in Japan has decreased. Despite this, there is hope in several schools.

The story focuses on Nozomi Onda, Sumire Suou, and Midori Soshizaki. Nozomi Onda is a prodigy who played for the boys' soccer team when she was in middle school. She is only motivated to play her best when facing worthy opponents. Meanwhile, Sumire Suou is a player with exceptional talent however it was hindered by her middle school team that could not keep up with her abilities. Lastly, Midori Soshizaki is a talented player who led her middle school to third place in the nation.

The three girls cross paths as members of the Warabi Seinan High School's girls' soccer team. In this new field, the girls begin to display their full potential and skills. Along with their teammates, they will ensure that the sport begins its journey back into the spotlight.

## Episodes

*Main article: Episode Guide*

The anime has thirteen episodes.

## Characters

*Main article: Characters*

View the characters article for the list of characters in the series.

## Production

The anime series is animated by Liden Films. It is directed by Seiki Takuno. The script is written by Natsuko Takahashi. The music is composed by Masaru Yokohama.

## Music

Opening theme

* ''Ambitious Goal'' is performed by by Aika Kobayashi.

Ending theme

* ''Kuyashii koto wa Kettobase''(''Kicking Frustrating Things'') is performed by Mikako Komatsu.

## Trivia

The Cramer in the title refers to Dettmar Cramer  who was a German football player and coach. Cramer is considered to be the father of modern football in Japan. He died a few days before the manga's first chapter so Naoshi Arakawa named the series "Farewell My Dear Cramer" as a tribute to continue growing Japanese football.

## Gallery

Farewell, My Dear Cramer Official Trailer -Sayonara Watashi no Cramer PV- Movie & TVOfficial Trailer
Mirei Hiraga

Mirei Hiraga is a supporting character of Sayonara Cramer. She is a 1st-year student attending Warabi Seinan High School.

## Appearance

Hiraga has her short brown hair into a pigtail. Her eyes are brown.

## Personality

Hiraga is serious about the game. She is also very supportive of the team.

## Plot

Hiraga is a first year of the newly formed Warabis'. She participates in the practice intra-squad match.

As a substitution player, she sits on the bench while waiting her turn to play in a match. She attends the team meetings and soccer practice.

She gets called in to substitute for Onda during the match against Asaka Trade in the Saitama Preliminaries.
Warabi Girls Soccer Team

The **Warabi Girls Soccer Team** is the main soccer team of Warabi Seinan High School.

## Team Information

* Compared to the other teams in the series, the Warabis have known each other for a few months so they have to build up their teamwork.

* Before Suou, Soshizaki, and Onda joined, Warabi was known as a weak team.

* They use counter-attack soccer. Later on in the manga, they use gegenpressing.
* They switch between the 4-1-4-1 formation and the 4-1-3-2 formation.

## Known Members

* Sumire Suou (*周防 すみれ ,* *Suo Sumire*)
	+ Previously the captain of her junior high school girls soccer team. She plays attacking midfielder position and left winger position. Wears the number 10 jersey.
* Midori Soshizaki (*曽志崎 緑 , Soshizaki Midori*)
	+ A highly skilled and talented soccer player, having ranked third in Japan for the junior high league and former rival of Sumire. She plays the defensive midfielder position and wears the number 4 jersey.
* Nozomi Onda (*恩田 希 , Onda Nozomi*)
	+ The protagonist of Sayonara Football, where she joined the boys soccer team in middle school, due to her school not having a girls soccer team. She plays the central midfielder position and wears the number 8 jersey.
* Sawa Echizen (*越前 佐和 , Echizen Sawa*)
	+ Manager of the girls soccer team and close friend of Nozomi Onda. The two of them attended junior high together. She appears to have an interest in the splatter and slasher film genre of horror movies, with a particular affinity for Jason Voorhees from the Friday the 13th franchise.
* Aya Shiratori (*白鳥 綾 , Shiratori Aya*)
	+ A high-flying and lady-like girl who calls herself the *"Prima donna of the soccer world"*. She plays the forward striker position and wears the number 9 jersey. She is also shown to have some skills in softball as well.
* Eriko Tase (*田勢 恵梨子 , Tase Eriko*)
	+ Second year high schooler and captain of the Warabis. At the beginning of the series, most of the team quit after a humiliating defeat, including all of the second years, leaving the team with no third years. Plays the right winger position and wears the number 7 jersey.

## Gallery

Team Formation 4-1-4-1Team Formation 4-1-3-2Team Formation against Eisen FunabashiThe team in a circle
Sawa Echizen

Golgo by Tae Kokubu

**Sawa Echizen** (Japanese: 越前 佐和, *Echizen Sawa*) is a main character of *Sayonara Cramer and Sayonara, Football.* She is a first-year student attending Warabi Seinan High School.

## Appearance

Sawa has lanky, grey-brown hair with deep brown eyes.

## Personality

Sawa is a kind girl who supports her friends.

In the manga, Sawa has an interest in splatter and slasher films, with a particular affinity for Jason Voorhees from the *Friday the 13th* franchise.

## Background

Sawa is childhood friends with Onda and has watched Onda play football from when she was little to the present time. She has always supported Onda's efforts to improve herself.

## Plot

### Sayonara Football

Sawa is seen in the audience cheering Onda and the team on. She supported Onda's efforts to get accepted into the newcomer's tourney. She went to a temple to wish for Onda to get a kit. She comforted Onda in the rain when she didn't get in the official roster. When she realizes that Onda is in the game, she cheers for her.

### Sayonara Cramer

Sawa serves as the manager for the Warabi Girls Soccer Team and the narrator of the series. She saw the team's match against Kunogi. In the anime, she decides to hold a cooking class. She explains that the team needs to keep up with Kunogi in stamina.

She observes the futsal tournament where Midori, Nozomi, and Sumire participate to earn money for new team kits. She also observes the Saitama preliminaries. After she meets Kazuo Takahagi, she is seen participating in soccer practice to prepare for the JKFB Interleague.

## Relationships

### Warabi Girls Soccer Team

As the manager, Echizen supported the team from a distance. Later on, she became a substitute player.

* Nozomi Onda: Sawa and Nozomi are childhood friends. Sawa was happy for Nozomi when she found fun in girls' soccer. Even though they are friends, she was mad at Nozomi when she didn't participate during soccer practice which led to Naoko Nomi assigning the team push-ups for punishment. She was happy that she finally got to play with Onda in an official match.
* Midori Soshizaki: Echizen thinks Soshizaki is a dependable player.
* Sumire Suou: Echizen warmed up to Suou, calling her Su-chan. She depends on Suou to make the run.

### Tae Kokubu

Echizen thought of Tae as a strong opponent. She admired how talented Tae was.

## Quotes

* *"I'm sure the soccer career of your dreams awaits you. You've got Son-chan, Su-chan, and the rest of the team. You're not alone anymore. I'm excited for you."* (To Nozomi Onda, Episode 2)

## Gallery

### Anime

Echizen in middle school uniformEchizen wearing glassesEchizen records a practice match

### Manga

Echizen in Volume 2 (JPN)Echizen in Volume 4 (English)Echizen's horror shirt 1Echizen's horror shirt 2
Lovesickness

"Lovesickness" (Japanese: 恋わずらい) is the fifth episode of Farewell, My Dear Cramer, written and illustrated by Naoshi Arakawa.The series is published in Kodansha's *Monthly Shōnen Magazine* since May 2016. The episode premiered on May 2, 2021 on Tokyo MX.

## Overview

After Coach Asuka refuses the girls' request to train with the boys, Eriko Tase and three teammates start the operation to get dirt on him.

Meanwhile, the rest of the Warabis doesn't like the look of Naoko's custom uniform so they plan on earning money to buy new ones. Soshizaki proposes that they participate in the futsal tournament hosted by the Sugiyama soccer shop. Soshizaki, Onda, Echizen, and Suo run into Tsukuda and Ito from Kunogi Academy. The two teams reach an agreement to team up temporarily for the tournament.

## Plot

The Warabi Principal is persuaded by the boys' soccer coach into giving them the girls' practice field, though he does give the girls team an alternate site farther away from the school. At the boys' team practice field, Eriko tries to convince Coach Asuka but is rejected again. Asuka explains that he believes that the boys will hold back their skills subconsciously if they were to play with the girls and tells her to give up. In the girls meeting room, most of the girls' team agree that Naoko's uniform design is hideous, but they don't have the money to buy new ones. Midori comes up with the idea to participate in a futsal tournament to earn money.

The girls' soccer team splits into two groups: Eriko and three of her teammates stalk the boys' coach to gain leverage on him. The rest of the team follows Soshizaki to Tobitakyū Station for the futsal tournament happening near a soccer shop called Sugiyama. A problem emerges when Aya accidentally guides the senior teammates onto a wrong train.

With time running out, Onda, Echizen, Suo, and Soshizaki decide to register without the rest of the team. On the way, they encounter Tsukuda and Ito from Kunogi Academy. Tsukuda recites poetry while watching her crush Ōshio Kohei play soccer and Ito watches in disgust. Onda, Echizen, and Soshizaki beg the two girls to join their team for the tournament because it requires five players to participate. Tsukuda would accept their request under one condition: she wants Suo to get on her knees and beg. In response, Suo plays a recording of Tsukuda reciting poetry. To avoid any further embarrassment, Tsukuda begs her to let her join. Ito agrees to join if the girls buy her a swiss roll. With the five-player requirement met, the girls go prepare for the tournament. Watching from afar, a girl notices Tsukuda from the temporarily-formed team.

## Trivia

* Tsukuda calls Ōshio Kohei "Heihachirō" which refers to the Neo-Confucianist scholar Ōshio Heihachirō.
* When Tsukuda calls herself "Gudjohnsen" it refers to the Icelandic professional football coach and former player Eidur Gudjohnsen.
* Onda's nickname "the Eric Cantona of Fujiichi" refers to Eric Cantona, a football player who was known for his kung-fu kick.
* Eriko has a soccer magazine that contains references to football players such as Gareth Bale, Lionel Messi, and Virgil Van Dijk.
Sayonara Cramer Volume 10

This is the tenth volume of Sayonara Cramer.

## Synopsis

The Warabis kick off their battle with Korenkan High School, and under Korenkan's forceful attack, the Warabis lose a quick two points. The girls still have the fire of competition within them, but the danger of Korenkan is closing in.

## Chapters

Chapter 36: The Two Midfielders

Chapter 37: Strong Point

Chapter 38: Sacrifice

Chapter 39: Proud Queens
Sayonara Cramer Volume 2

This is the second volume of Sayonara Cramer.

## Synopsis

The scene is Warabi Seinan, a high school in the Tokyo-adjacent prefecture of Saitama. And possibly because it is considered to be weak at women’s soccer, the team is “blessed” with an abundance of first-year students with strong, individualistic personalities, including Sumire Suou, Midori Soshizaki, Nozomi Onda, etc. But it’s with the addition of a new coach, the legend of Japanese women’s soccer, Naoko Nomi, that the Warabis are reborn. Still, in their first match, they are faced with the best high-school team in Japan, Kunogi Academy. The first-half score shows Kunogi’s overwhelming dominance, but can the Warabis turn it around in the second half?

## Chapters

Chapter 4: Gates of Hell

Chapter 5: Trio of Warabi Schemers

Chapter 6: Frontier

Chapter 7: Lovesickness
Sayonara Cramer Volume 12

This is the twelveth volume of Sayonara Cramer.

## Synopsis

Only a few minutes remain in the second half of the final game in the JKFB Interleague Tournament against Korenkan! With a player ejected and almost out of time, the Warabis managed to bring themselves one goal closer. Is it possible for the Warabis to pull off a come-from-behind win?!

## Chapters

Chapter 44: A Captain's Dream

Chapter 45: Just Like You

Chapter 46: The Back I Follow

Chapter 47: Emotional
Kunogi Girls Soccer Team

The **Kunogi Girls Soccer Team** is the main soccer team from Kunogi Academy.

## Team Information

* They won the Girls' soccer Spring and Summer championships.
* They are known for using possession soccer.
* They use the 4-1-2-3 formation.

## Known Members

* Haruna Ito (*井藤 春名 Ito Haruna*)
	+ The Kunogi soccer team's ace player and first year student. She plays the attacking midfielder position and wears the number 10 jersey. She enjoys eating pastries and is seldom seen without eating one.
* Mao Tsukuda (*佃 真央 Tsukuda Mao*)
	+ A freckled faced girl and Haruna's close friend.She plays the left fullback position and wears the number 3 jersey.
* Mizuki Kaji (*梶 みずき Kaji Mizuki*)
	+ The captain of the team. She plays the left midfielder position and wears the number 11 jersey.
Nanami Zaizen

Nanami Zaizen (Japanese: 財前 奈々美) is a supporting character of Sayonara Cramer. She is a third-year attending Urawa Hosei High School.

## Appearance

Nanami has her layered black hair in a ponytail. She has brown eyes.

## Personality

Nanami is a serious girl. She crosses her arms and has a stern face when holding team meetings.

## Plot

Nanami is the captain of Urawa Hosei. She is the one who leads the team meetings.
Natsume Endo

Natsume Endo is a supporting character of *Sayonara Cramer*. She is a second-year student attending Korenkan High School.

## Appearance

Natsume has short blonde hair and brown eyes. She has whisker marks on her face.

## Personality

Natsume is brash. She is not afraid to call Mika out on her fake act.

## Plot

Natsume first appears in volume 8. She is a midfielder for Korenkan.
Sayonara Cramer Volume 5

This is the fifth volume of Sayonara Cramer.

## Synopsis

In the first round of the Saitama Prefecture Interhigh tournament, Nozomi Onda is finally demonstrating her talent and closing in on the opponents' goal! But moments later, the ball is stolen by Urawa's Alice Adatara only to have Adatara score a goal. Down by a goal with very little time left, can the Warabis find someone with the consistent skills to tie the game back up?!

## Chapters

Chapter 16: Girl with a Dream

Chapter 17: Choices and Ambitions

Chapter 18: Kindred Spirits

Chapter 19: They Who Make the Core
Urawa Hosei Girls Soccer Team

The **Urawa Hosei Girls Soccer team** is the main soccer team from Urawa Hosei High School.

## Team Information

* They are the winner of the Saitama Preliminaries for eight years.
* They use the 3-4-3 team formation and the catenaccio system.
* The system allows the wing-backs to be free and they can switch between offense and defense as needed.
* They have a tactic where Adatara and Tenma switch places on the field.

## Known Members

* Chika Kirishima (桐島 千花, Kirishima Chika *)*
	+ Wears the number 26 jersey. Second-year.

* Alice Adatara (安達太良 アリス, *Adatara Arisu*)
	+ Wears the number 11 jersey. Second-year.

* Yū Tenma (天馬 夕, *Tenma Yū)*
	+ Wears the number 12 jersey. Second-year.
* Kei Hanabusa (花房 圭, *Hanabusa Kei*)
	+ Strategist, she scouts other teams to analyze their movements and abilities. Second-Year.
* Nanami Zaizen (財前 奈々美, *Zaizen Nanami)*
	+ The captain of the team. Third-year.
* Ayame Ebina

## Gallery

Team information3-4-3 FormationFormation with focus on number 3 and 15 movement
Tae Kokubu

Tae Kokubu is a secondary character in *Sayonara Cramer*. She is a second-year student attending Eisen Funabashi High School.

## Personality

At first glance, Tae is a clumsy girl who trips a lot. She tends to bonk herself on the head for being clumsy.

Underneath her clumsy act, Tae is actually arrogant and cocky. Due to her talent in offensive soccer, she believes that she was blessed by the soccer gods.

Tae has a soft side but she only shows it around her teammates.

## Background

Tae was kicked from her youth soccer team due to her arrogance. She was recruited by Sachi Ukai to join Eisen Funabashi. She became convinced to join once she realized Akane's determination to make Eisen to be the best team in Japan.

## Plot

Tae first appears in volume 6. She serves as Eisen Funabashi's ace and midfielder.

She stayed in the background during the Warabi vs. Eisen until she decided it was time to show her skills.

## Skills

Tae has the ability to dribble past multiple opponents and score a goal by herself. This is demonstrated in the match against Warabi.

## Relationships

### Eisen Girls Soccer Team

* Akane Urakawa: Tae respects Akane as a captain. She is grateful to Akane for putting her on the team.
* Sachi Ukai: Sachi was the one who recruited Tae to the team. The two girls are friends.
* Yuriko Tsuruoka: As a second-year, she will see Yuriko around in school.

### Warabi Seinan High School

* Sawa Echizen: At first, Tae thought of Echizen as an opponent to crush. Now, she recognizes Echizen as a rival.
* Nozomi Onda: Tae realizes that the "Non-chan" that Echizen mentioned was Onda. She sees Onda as a rival.

## Trivia

* Tae's playstyle and victory sign is inspired by the Brazilian football player Ronaldinho.
Tama Asahina

**Tama Asahina** is a supporting character of Sayonara Cramer.

She is a 1st-year student attending Warabi Seinan High School.

## Appearance

Asahina has her brown hair into long pigtails. Her eyes are brown.

## Personality

Asahina is enthusiastic about the team as she cheers for the team during matches.

## Plot

Asahina is a first year of the newly formed Warabis'. She participates in the practice intra-squad match.

As a substitution player, she sits on the bench while waiting her turn to play in a match. While on the bench, she cheers the members of the Warabis on. She attends the team meetings and soccer practice.
Karina Kakogawa

**Karina Kakogawa** (Japanese: 加古川 香梨奈, *Kakogawa Karina*) is a supporting character of Sayonara Cramer.

She is a second-year student attending Warabi Seinan High School and the goalkeeper of the team.

## Appearance

Kakogawa has green hair and green eyes.

During the games, she wears an orange and black goalkeeper uniform. She wears a headband to keep her hair out of her eyes.

## Personality

Kakogawa is an kind girl. She is always focused during the games.

## Plot

As the goalkeeper of the team, she has participated in every match.

She was supposed to follow Aya to the futsal tournament but went on the wrong train. She performs well during the three matches of the Saitama preliminaries.

## Etymology

* The name **Karina** means "fragrance, fragrant" (香) (**ka**), "pear" (梨) (**ri**) and "apple tree" (奈) (**na**).

* Karina's surname **Kakogawa** means "add, increase" (加) (**ka**), "old, antiquity, ancient time" (古) (**ko**) and "river, stream" (川) (**kawa**/**gawa**).
Tetsuji Yamada

**Tetsuji Yamada** (Japanese: 山田 鉄二, *Yamada Tetsuji*) is a supporting character of *Sayonara Cramer and Sayonara, Football*. He is a male soccer player and high school student.

## Appearance

Tetsuji has close-cropped, shaggy black hair, dark-colored eyes and an angular face.

## Personality

When Tetsuji was the captain of his middle school soccer team, he took his role as a captain seriously. He has a soft side for Nozomi Onda that he doesn't show often.

## Background

Tetsuji and Kaoru Takei are childhood friends who play football together. They met Nozomi Onda in elementary and asked her to join them in a junior football league. The three friends went on to attend Fuji Daiichi Middle School together. Tetsuji became the captain of the boys' soccer team.

## Plot

### **Sayonara Football**

Tetsuji is the captain of the Fuji Daiichi Boys' Soccer team. He refuses Nozomi Onda's request to put her in the newcomers' tourney. When he realizes that Nozomi took Junpei Onda's place in the newcomers' tourney, he becomes worried for her because she can get hurt.

### **Sayonara Cramer**

Tetsuji goes to the same high school as Yasuaki Tani, Kaoru Takei,Nozomi Onda and Sawa Echizen.

In the anime, he watched the Warabi vs. Kunogi practice match. After the Warabis faced Kunogi, he makes a comment on how the girls did, unaware of how they really feel. At the stadium that held the Saitama Preliminaries, he was in the audience along with Yasuaki Tani, Kaoru Takei and Junpei Onda.

## Relationships

### Warabi Boys Soccer Team

Tetsuji is teammates with Yasuaki Tani and Kaoru Takei. They played soccer when they were kids.

### Nozomi Onda

They were teammates in Fuji Boys Soccer Team. They also played soccer when they were kids. He has an unrequited crush on her. He eventually accepts that Onda should play against Yasuaki Tani because he doesn't want her to think of him anymore.

### Kouzou Samejima

Kouzou was Tetsuji's coach in the Fuji Boys Soccer Team.

## Etymology

* The name **Tetsuji** means "iron" (鉄) (**tetsu**) and "two" (二) (**ji**).
* Tetsuji's surname **Yamada** means "mountain, hill" (山) (**yama**) and "field, rice paddy" (田) (**ta**/**da**).

## Trivia

* Tetsuji shares the same voice actor with Tomura Shigaraki from My Hero Academia and Kei Tsukishima from Haikyuu!!

## Gallery

### Anime

Tetsu scolding Onda
Ayame Ebina

**Ayame Ebina** (海老名 あやめ, *Ebina Ayame*) is a supporting character of Sayonara Cramer. She is a second-year attending Urawa Hosei High School.

## Appearance

Ayame has purple short hair and her eyes are purple as well.

## Personality

Ayame seems to have a soft spot for sad stories such as when she shed a tear when she realizes that Midori Soshizaki and Chika Kirishima will face each other in the Saitama preliminaries because they used to be teammates.

## Plot

As an active member of the soccer team, Ayame attends to every meeting.

## Etymology

* The name **Ayame** means "iris" (あやめ).
* Ayame's surname **Ebina** means "shrimp, prawn" (海老) (**ebi**) and "name, noted, distinguished, reputation" (名) (**na**).
Impact

''Impact'' (Japanese: インパクト) is the second episode of Farewell, My Dear Cramer, written and illustrated by Naoshi Arakawa.The series is published in Kodansha's *Monthly Shōnen Magazine* since May 2016. The episode premiered on April 11, 2021 on Tokyo MX.

## Plot

After introducing herself to the team, Naoko announces that she set up a match against the powerful Kunogi Academy High School and begins training the girls. She starts punishing the girls with push-ups when she sees Nozomi slacking off during practice. After practice, Naoko treats the team to her family's okonomiyaki. When the day arrives, Kunogi plays a possession soccer style and neutralizes Sumire on the field. Kunogi's coach Kenroku Washizu notes that Warabi is "parking the bus" against them, but it doesn't matter as Kunogi still scores several goals while barely letting Warabi out of their half of the field. Goro, the previous Warabi coach, asks Naoko what the point is of putting Warabi up against such powerful competition. Naoko responds that this match is a test of character, to see how the team will respond to adversity in the future.

When the first half of the match ends, Nozomi is impressed by Kunogi's skills and talked to Sawa Echizen about their skills. Sawa is glad that Nozomi found the soccer life that she has dreamed of.

## Character Debut

**Kunogi Girls Soccer Team**

* Kenroku Washizu
* Mizuki Kaji
* Mao Tsukuda
* Haruna Ito

## Trivia

* Naoko Nomi won the Bundesliga which is a professional association football league in Germany.
* When Nozomi gets chewed out by the Warabi Girls Soccer Team for slacking off during practice, the Argentinean professional footballer Lionel Messi is mentioned. Messi is known for walking around during the first five minutes of a match instead of running after the ball.
* When Mao Tsukuda scores a goal, Nozomi compares her to the Brazilian professional footballer Roberto Carlos.
* Mao Tsukuda's run to kick the ball is inspired by Roberto Carlos' famous free kick against France.
* Naoko believes that Aya has a bad sense of direction.
Everyone

''Everyone'' (Japanese: みんな) is the first episode of Farewell, My Dear Cramer, written and illustrated by Naoshi Arakawa.The series is published in Kodansha's *Monthly Shōnen Magazine* since May 2016. The episode premiered on April 4, 2021 on Tokyo MX.

The opening theme song "Ambitious Goal" is performed by Aika Kobayashi and the ending theme song ''Kuyashii koto wa Kettobase''(''Kicking Frustrating Things'') is performed by Mikako Komatsu.

## Plot

After spending her middle school days playing with the boys' soccer team, Nozomi Onda's coach Kouzou Samejima convinces her to try playing on a girls' soccer team. Meanwhile, Sumire Suou sees her own middle school career coming to an end, and her rival Midori Soshizaki declares that she'll join whatever school Sumire picks. Sumire and Midori go to watch a practice match with Warabi Seinan. Even though Warabi lost to Urawa Hosei High School, Sumire finds herself drawn to Eriko Tase, and decides to play on the same team as her at Warabi.

Later, the girls all play an intra-squad match against each other. Sumire, Midori, and Eriko all end up on the same team, and manage to win the match, with the winning goal scored by a girl named Aya Shiratori. Afterwards, the former Japan women's national football team player Naoko Nomi returns to Warabi to coach the Warabi Girls Soccer Team.

## Character Debut

**Fuji Junior High**

* Kouzou Samejima

**Warabi Seinan High School**

* Nozomi Onda
* Sawa Echizen
* Sumire Suou
* Midori Soshizaki
* Aya Shiratori
* Eriko Tase
* Makoto Miyasaka
* Ayumu Kishi
* Saori Komurasaki
* Noriko Okachimachi
* Rui Kikuchi
* Karina Kakogawa
* Naoko Nomi

* Goro Fukatsu

**Warabi Boys Soccer Team**

* Tetsuji Yamada
* Kaoru Takei
* Yasuaki Tani

**Urawa Hosei High School**

* Chika Kirishima
* Yū Tenma
* Alice Adatara

## Trivia

* Sumire Suou went to Kawaguchi Ikari Junior High.
* Midori Soshizaki and Chika Kirishima went to Todakita Middle School.
* Midori's line "Didn't you know? the ball is round.'' is a reference to the German football coach Sepp Herberger's famous quote “The ball is round, the game lasts 90 minutes. Everything else is pure theory."
* Aya Shiratori's line "Why always me?" is a reference to an image of the Italian professional footballer Mario Balotelli wearing a shirt with that line.
Masahiro Gotoda

**Masahiro Gotoda** ( Japanese: 後藤田 正弘, *Gotōda Masahiro*) is a supporting character of Sayonara Cramer. He is Urawa Hosei's coach.

## Appearance

Gotoda has short gray hair that has bangs hanging on the left side and brown eyes.

He wears a dark blue trench coat.

## Personality

Gotoda is flirty towards women like Naoko Nomi. However, he will back off if students like Yū Tenma tells him off.

## Plot

As the coach of Urawa Hosei, Gotoda greets Naoko Nomi in the hallway near the stadium. He watches the Warabi vs. Urawa match.

He was the one to scold Chika Kirishima for losing the match against Kunogi in the past.

## Relationships

### **Urawa Hosei Girls Soccer Team**

Naoko believes that the girls have great potential and he's glad to have Chika Kirishima in his team for two more years.

### **Naoko Nomi**

Naoko likes Naoko. On his first time meeting her, he calls her beautiful and invites her to dinner.

## Etymology

* The name **Masahiro** means "right, proper" (正) (**masa**) and "vast, broad, wide" (弘) (**hiro**).
* Masahiro's surname **Gotoda** means "rear, remainder" (後) (**go**), "wisteria" (藤) (**to**) and "field, rice paddy" (田) (**ta**/**da**).

## Trivia

* Gotoda shares the same voice actor with Sosuke Aizen from Bleach.
Sayonara Cramer Volume 11

This is the eleventh volume of Sayonara Cramer.

## Synopsis

With their ace striker, Kurusu, leading the way, the Korenkan momentum seems unstoppable! But the girls of the Warabis stand up to them using their own tactics and techniques. What is the Warabis' new plan to pierce through the Korenkan line...?!

## Chapters

Chapter 40: A Flower Laying Down Roots

Chapter 41: Single-Handed Revivification

Chapter 42: Dancing Swan

Chapter 43: The Plan Is Proceeding
Kouzou Samejima

**Kouzou Samejima** (Japanese: 鮫島 幸造, *Samejima Kōzō*) is a supporting character of *Sayonara Cramer and Sayonara, Football*. He is a coach.

## Appearance

Kouzou is an older man with neck-length dark-brown hair that has bangs swept on either side, dark-colored eyes, a scraggly mustache and stubbled chin.

## Personality

Kouzou is a serious and strict man, but he can be caring when it comes to Nozomi Onda and his views on physicality can be considered sexist (characterized by or showing prejudice, stereotyping, or discrimination, typically against women, on the basis of sex).

## Plot

### **Sayonara Football**

Kouzou is the coach of the Fuji Daiichi Boys football team. As coach, he makes the calls. He banned Nozomi Onda from playing in official matches after she got injured in an official match. Once he realized that Onda was in the newcomer's tourney, he allowed her to stay he could see what she can do. Kouzou admits that he was wrong about Nozomi and thinks that she can do great in girls' football.

### **Sayonara Cramer**

Kouzou appears in a flashback talking to Nozomi Onda about girls soccer and he convinces her to go find a girls' soccer team.

## Relationships

### Nozomi Onda

Kouzou saw talent in Nozomi and he didn't let her play with the Fuji Boys Soccer Team because he was worried about the physical differences between her and the boys.

### Fuji Boys Football Team

Kouzou was a caring coach to Junpei Onda, Tetsuji Yamada and Kaoru Takei.

## Quotes

* *"I want you... to make girls' soccer the best in the world again." (To Nozomi Onda in Episode 1)*
* *"Why do people all over the world go crazy for this sport? This restrictive sport that won't let players use their hands. Go out there, and give us the answer." (To Nozomi Onda in Episode 1)*

## Etymology

* The name **Kouzou** means "happiness, good luck" (幸) (**kou**) and "construction, create, make, structure, physique" (造) (**zou**).
* Kouzou's surname **Samejima** means "shark" (鮫) (**same**) and "island" (島) (**shima**/**jima**).

## Trivia

* Kouzou shares the same voice actor with Tatara from Tokyo Ghoul.
Korenkan Girls Soccer Team

Korenkan Girls Soccer Team is the main team from Korenkan High School.

## Team Information

* Korenkan has the current title of the best girls' soccer team in Japan.
* They were unknown until Kazuo Takahagi became their coach.
* Korenkan uses possession soccer and counterattack soccer.
* They also use positional play to give themselves an advantage.
* They use different team formations for when they are attacking and when they are defending (See Gallery).

## Known Members

* Mika Kurusu
	+ Mika is the captain of the team. She is known as the scoring queen because she scores the most goals for Korenkan.
* Natsume Endo
* Sanae Oyamada
* Rei Kutani
* Umi Fujie
	+ Umi is the strategist for Korenkan.
* Ume Fujie
	+ Ume is a prodigy and the secret weapon of Korenkan.

## Gallery

3-4-3 Offense Formation4-3-3 Defense Formation
Rui Kikuchi

**Rui Kikuchi** (Japanese: 菊池 類, *Kikuchi Rui*) is a supporting character of Sayonara Cramer, voiced by Rena Maeda.

She is a second-year student attending Warabi Seinan High School.

## Appearance

Kikuchi has brown short hair and green eyes.

## Personality

She is enthusiastic when it comes to soccer.

## Plot

Rui met the new members of the team. She participated in the match against Kunogi. When she saw Naoko's new uniforms, she didn't like the design. She was supposed to participate in the futsal tournament but became lost after Aya led her to the wrong train. Once the girls had enough money to buy new uniforms, Rui volunteered to design it. When the Saitama preliminaries began, she participated in the match against Asaka Trade.

During club practice she asked Naoko for advice for being a defender. She performs well during the three matches of the Saitama preliminaries.
Kuyashii Koto wa Kettobase

Kuyashii Koto wa Kettobase (悔しいことは蹴っ飛ばせ, lit. "Kicking Frustrating Things'') is the ending theme of the Farewell, My Dear Cramer anime performed by Mikako Komatsu.

The single "Kuyashii Koto wa Kettobase" will be released on May 26, 2021.

## Appearances

* Nozomi Onda
* Midori Soshizaki

* Sumire Suou
* Sawa Echizen
* Eriko Tase
* Makoto Miyasaka
* Mao Tsukuda
* Haruna Ito
* Chika Kirishima
* Alice Adatara
* Yū Tenma

## Lyrics

* Romaji
* Kanji
* English

Nanika nanika Tsukamesou da to

Mune no naka ni Umareta omoi

Moeagaru no wa Itsu da

Hashiridashita karada wa

Itsumo kokoro yori mo

Shitteru hazu sa

Dakara kono mama

Susume

Sorezore no yume

Sorezore no GOORU e

Ima mukau nda yo

Here we go!

Kyou wo minna Genki ni

Koe wo dashite Waratte

Kuyashii koto wa

Kettobase

Akai yuuyake ga

Senaka wo

Ganbare tte

Terasu yo

Sokka motto

Ganbareru yo

Ashita wa

何か何か掴めそうだと

胸の中に生まれた想い

燃え上がるのはいつだ

走り出した身体は

いつも心よりも

知ってるはずさ

だからこのまま

進め

それぞれの夢

それぞれのゴールへ

今向かうんだよ

Here we go!

今日をみんな

元気に

声を出して

笑って

悔しいことは

蹴っ飛ばせ

赤い夕焼けが

背中を

頑張れって

照らすよ

そっか　もっと

頑張れるよ

明日は

I almost seized something

I don't know since when

a feeling that was born in my heart is getting flared up

The body that starts running

must always understand better than the heart

So, just keep going like this

Now we'll go

Towards each other's dreams

Towards each other's goals

Here we go!

Dear all my friends

just talk and laugh with full of spirit today

Kick hard all the annoying feelings

The red evening sun shines on me

as giving encouragement to my back

That's right, tomorrow I feel

I can do my best even more

## Trivia

* Different Women's sports are shown such as Basketball, Baseball, Track and Field, and Swimming.

## References

1. ↑ Mikako Komatsu's single Kuyashii Koto wa Kettobase information. [1]
Mika Kurusu

Mika Kurusu is a secondary character of *Sayonara Cramer*. She is a second-year student attending Korenkan High School and the captain of the Korenkan team.

## Appearance

Mika has long black hair and grey eyes. She puts her hair in a ponytail when she plays in a match.

## Personality

At first glance, Mika is mature and elegant. She puts on this act because she looks like a Yamato Nadeshiko and it's a factor to her growing popularity as a football player. Mika is actually arrogant and competitive. She calls herself the scoring queen because she scores the most goals for Korenkan.

## Background

When Mika was little, she saw Naoko Nomi's interview on television. She became a fan of Naoko afterwards. Mika became interested in football because it looked exciting on television.

## Plot

Mika first appears in volume 8 of the manga.

## Relationships

### Korenkan Girls Soccer Team

* Umi Fujie: Mika respects Umi as a person. After Umi's injury, Mika swore to make Korenkan the best team in Japan.
* Ume Fujie: Mika sees Ume as an important player of Korenkan.
* Sanae Oyamada: Mika is classmates with Sanae.
* Natsume Endo: Mika is classmates with Natsume.

### Kunogi Girls Soccer Team

Mizuki Kaji: Mika sees Kaji as a rival because she wants to knock her off from the throne of best girls' team in Japan.

### Warabi Girls Soccer Team

Mika recognizes the Warabis as a team with potential.

* Nozomi Onda: Mika was impressed with Onda with how she played during the match.

* Eriko Tase: Mika respects Tase as a captain and tells her that they should play each other again.

## Trivia

* Mika's playing style is inspired by the former football player Takayuki Suzuki.
Kenroku Washizu

**Kenroku Washizu** (Japanese: 鷲巣 兼六, *Washizu Kenroku*) is a supporting character of *Sayonara Cramer*. He is the Kunogi Girls Soccer Team's coach.

## Appearance

Kenroku is an middle-age man with grey hair and he wears square-rimmed glasses.

## Plot

Kenroku accepts Naoko Nomi's request to set up a practice match.

## Relationships

### Kunogi Girls Soccer Team

Kenroku is a strict coach who makes big demands of the team such as making sure that they score at least ten goals and win a game with a clean sheet.

### Naoko Nomi

Kenroku has known Naoko since her national team days. When Naoko shared her fear of being a bad coach, Kenroku assured her that she needs to communicate with them and learn from them.

## Quotes

* *"As coaches, it's our job to nuture talent. But it's also coaches that make talent rot. Cast aside your pride. Give them everything you cultivated. Talk to them. Learn from them. That's how we become coaches. Will they become brilliant diamonds or pebbles on the side of the road?"* (To Naoko Nomi, Episode 4)

## Etymology

* The name **Kenroku** means "concurrently, and, in addition" (兼) (**ken**) and "six" (六) (**roku**).
* Kenroku's surname **Washizu** means "eagle" (鷲) (**washi**) and "nest, rookery, hive, cobweb, den" (巣) (**su**/**zu**).
A King Full of Scars

"A King Full of Scars" (Japanese: 傷だらけの王者) is the tenth episode of Farewell, My Dear Cramer, written and illustrated by Naoshi Arakawa. The series is published in Kodansha's *Monthly Shōnen Magazine* since May 2016. The episode premiered on June 6, 2021 on Tokyo MX.

Note: "Wounded Champions" is the official translated name.

## Overview

The first half of the match begins. Keeping Hanabusa's advice about Suou and Soshizaki in mind, the Urawa Hosei girls target Soshizaki first. The Warabis attempt to pull off a counterattack against Urawa's high press, but Chika Kirishima stands in the way.

## Plot

The first half of the match begins on a rainy day. The Urawa Hosei girls pass the ball around, only to be cut out by Miyasaka. Keeping Hanabusa's advice about Suou and Soshizaki in mind, they target Soshizaki because she is important to the Warabis' ability to score. However, before the match the Warabis had the idea for Soshizaki to pass backwards until the team finds an opening. Before Suou can get the ball that Soshizaki kicked to her, Chika manages to kick the ball back to her own side of the field.

While looking at Urawa Hosei's previous scores on a clipboard, Echizen realizes that they finished last year's Saitama preliminaries with a clean sheet, meaning that they won every single time. In the match, the Urawa girls are passing the ball around then Chika gets the ball. When she kicks the ball at the goal, Kakogawa manages to block it, preventing a score.

Goro points out that Urawa's coach Gotoda is trying to copy Antonio Conte's tactics, by having the team use the Catenaccio system.This system allows the wing-backs to be free and they can switch between offense and defense as needed.

When Onda goes to score, Chika is there to crash into her and get the ball away from the goal. Chika becomes an intimidating opponent as she can pass, shoot, and has the mobility to cover the whole field. Goro notes that she is making up for anything Urawa lacks to make Conte's strategy work.

Chika offers a hand to pick Onda up from the floor. Onda gets up by herself and says that there's impressive players outside of Kunogi. Chika gets angry and declares that Urawa will beat Kunogi and that the Warabis will regret it if they get in the way. Onda replies that she will defeat Kunogi. Suou, Soshizaki, and Shiratori chimes in to say that they will defeat Kunogi. The referee comes over to break up the argument.

The first half ends with 0-0 which is thanks to Soshizaki who blocks the ball with a diving header. In the meeting room, Goro tells Onda that in order to beat Urawa, she needs to take down Chika.

## Trivia

* Chika is compared to the Dutch-Surinamese former professional footballer Edgar Davids.
Kunogi Academy High School

Kunogi Academy High School is home to the Kunogi Girls Soccer Team which is considered to be the best high school team in Japan.

## Uniform

Students of Kunogi Academy wear the black, purple, and white sailor uniform.

Kunogi's kit is orange, red, and white.

## Plot

Naoko Nomi arranged a practice match with Kunogi so that the Warabis can compare their abilities.
Kunogi emerges as the winner of the match. Kunogi participated in the Kanto Qualifiers.

## Relationships

### Warabi Seinan High School

As the stronger team, Kunogi won the practice match. Some members and Coach Washizu noted that Onda was impressive with her Marseille turn. Later on, some members of the Warabis (Onda, Soshizaki, Suo, and Echizen) encountered Kunogi (Tsukuda and Ito) at a futsal tournament and teamed up temporarily. After the tournament they promised each other that they will meet in the nationals, establishing a friendly rivalry.

### Eisen Funabashi

Kunogi has a one-sided rivalry with Eisen. Kaji from Kunogi declared that they will come after Eisen for revenge next time.

## Practice Matches

* Kunogi Academy High School vs. Warabi Seinan High School [Score: 21-0]

## Kanto Preliminaries

* Kunogi Academy vs. Urawa Hosei (past) [Score: 3-1]

## Kanto Qualifiers

* Kunogi Academy vs. Eisen Funabashi [Score: 2-3]
Sayonara Cramer Volume 6

This is the sixth volume of Sayonara Cramer.

## Synopsis

The spirits of the Warabis are far from broken, even after the loss against Urawa Hosei. They've even begun practice again. As a team, the Warabis make an earnest effort to construct new offenses and defenses, but has any of the practice payed off? They'll find out as they take on the champion teams of the greater Tokyo area in an Interleague tournament!

## Chapters

Chapter 20: Offensive Force

Chapter 21: The Way to Catch Up

Chapter 22: The Misfit

Chapter 23: Winning What One is Meant to Win

## Character Debut

* Kazuo Takahagi

**Eisen Funabashi High School**

* Akane Urakawa
* Tsugumi Morino
* Tae Kokubu
* Yuriko Tsuruoka
Sayonara Cramer

* Manga
* Anime

**Sayonara Cramer** (さよなら私のクラマー *Good-bye, Cramer*) is a manga series, the sequel to *Sayonara, Football*. It is written and illustrated by the mangaka Naoshi Arakawa, who previously authored *Your Lie in April*. The manga focuses on girls' soccer in Japan.

## Plot

The series begins with a middle school girl’s soccer match, where short-haired fifteen year old Sumire Suou 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.

With their middle school soccer careers over, these two rivals, Sumire and Midori, rather than going to a powerhouse school with a well-known girls soccer team, choose to attend Warabi Seinan High School, whose 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.

## Publication

*Sayonara Cramer* began in the June 2016 issue of *Monthly Shōnen Magazine*, published on May 6, 2016. The series ended with 14 volumes in the January 2021 issue of *Monthly Shōnen Magazine*, that shipped on December 4, 2020.

Farewell, My Dear Cramer is the offical English Translation.

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.

The digital version of the manga has released 13 volumes while the physical version has released 4 volumes.

## Volumes

*Main Article:* *Sayonara Cramer Volumes*

## Trivia

* The Cramer in the title refers to Dettmar Cramer  who was a German football player and coach. He is considered to be the father of modern football in Japan. He died a few days before the manga's first chapter so Naoshi Arakawa named the series "Sayonara Watashi no Cramer" as a tribute to continue growing Japanese football.

* Since Farewell My Dear Cramer is the sequel to Sayonara, Football, the physical version of the manga was renamed to Sayonara Football: Farewell My Dear Cramer.

* Therefore, Sayonara,Football: Farewell My Dear Cramer is the name the physical version of volume 3 and so on.

## Gallery

Volume 1 Digital VersionVolume 3 Physical version

## Reference

1. ↑ [1]
2. ↑  Dettmar Cramer[2]
Yasuaki Tani

**Yasuaki Tani** (Japanese: 谷 安昭, *Tani Yasuaki*) is a supporting character of *Sayonara Cramer and Sayonara, Football*. He is first-year student attending Warabi Seinan High School.

## Appearance

Yasuaki has sandy-brown hair and sandy-brown eyes. He was short and had somewhat curled sandy-brown hair when he was younger but throughout the years, he gained a lot of height.

## Personality

Yasuaki is a confident young man who can be competitive when it comes to football. He is a defender who puts his body on the line. He has an inferiority complex towards Onda. When he was little, he was clumsy and a crybaby.

## Background

It is revealed in Sayonara, Football that Yasuaki first met Nozomi Onda when he was little. He was being bullied by a group of boys in a temple. He was a transfer student to the same elementary school that Nozomi was attending so she declared that she will train him. Yasuaki proceeds to go through football training sessions that Nozomi created for him such as having him go on runs, eat boiled eggs, and kick balls. In fourth grade of elementary school, Yasuaki had to move away.

## Plot

### **Sayonara Football**

Yasuaki goes to Egami West Middle School. He hasn't seen Nozomi Onda in five years. He meets her in the streets and has a conversation with her. When Nozomi doubts his abilities, he argued that he did improve and that his physical body is a major factor to his improvement. He arrogantly asks Nozomi what could she do to him because he claims that being a boy puts himself a level above her. At the newcomers' tourney, he is surprised to see her participating in the game. After the match, Yasuaki and Nozomi re-establish their friendship after Nozomi acknowledges that Yasuaki improved and is now a strong football player.

### **Sayonara Cramer**

Yasuaki goes to the same high school as Tetsuji Yamada, Kaoru Takei and Nozomi Onda.

In the anime, he watched the Warabi vs. Kunogi practice match. At the stadium that held the Saitama Preliminaries, he was in the audience along with Yamada, Kaoru and Junpei Onda.

## Relationships

### Warabi Boys Soccer Team

Yasuaki is teammates with Tetsuji Yamada and Kaoru Takei.

### Nozomi Onda

They were childhood friends who played football together. She called him Namek and he fondly labelled her as "boss" (Oya-Bun). Yasuaki respects and admires her. He also has an unrequited crush on her. He was determined to prove to Nozomi that he improved in the years he was away.

## Etymology

* The name **Yasuaki** means "peace, quiet" (安) (**yasu**) and "bright" (昭) (**aki**).
* Yasuaki's surname **Tani** means "valley" (谷).

## Trivia

* Yasuaki shares the same voice actor with Shotaro Futaba from Backflip!! and Tatara Fujita from Welcome to the Ballroom.

## Gallery

### Anime

Namek vows not to give up yetNamek hugging OndaLittle Tani "Namek"
Ume Fujie

Ume Fujie is a secondary character of Sayonara Cramer. She is a 1st-year student attending Korenkan High School.

## Appearance

Ume has short black hair. She has bushy eyebrows and a wears a permanent blush on her face.

## Personality

Ume is a big football fan. She likes to commentate during matches.

## Background

Ume started playing football when she was little. She turned out to be a prodigy. She was devastated when she saw Umi collapsed on the street. She felt guilty for taking Umi's spot on the team. Later on, she is determined to make Korenkan the best team in Japan for her sister and the team.

## Plot

Ume first appears in volume 8. Ume serves as the left-wing player when the team is in offense mode and the left-back when the team is in defensive mode.

## Relationships

### Korenkan Girls Soccer Team

Umi Fujie: Umi is Ume's big sister. They have a close relationship.