Over the years, the reputation of women's soccer in Japan has been gradually waning. Despite this rather bleak scenario, there are still some schools with teams trying to keep the sport alive. With that, glimmers of hope are starting to appear.
Having played for the boys' soccer club when she was in middle school, Nozomi Onda's skills are nothing less than prodigious. Because of this, she thinks that playing soccer with fellow girls would only drag her down. She is only motivated to play her best when facing those she deems worthy opponents. Meanwhile, Sumire Suou is a promising rookie with exceptional talent—a talent hindered by a team that cannot keep up with her abilities.
Onda, convinced by her former coach to join a girls' soccer club, and Suou, accompanied by her close friend and rival Midori Soshizaki, cross paths as members of the Warabi Seinan High School's girls' soccer team. In this new field, both girls begin to display their full potential and skills. Along with their teammates, each of their steps, kicks, and goals will grant them victory—and perhaps also ensure that the sport begins its journey back into the spotlight.
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OneFaintingRobin
A frustrating show in a lot of ways, "Farewell, My Dear Cramer" should have a lot of potential, with a lot going in its favour. The show adapts the manga by Naoshi Arakawa, author of "Your Lie in April", a beautiful, emotionally-resonant story. And, to be fair, this source material, in its story and characterisation, is where this show does shine. Watching the characters come together as a real team over the course of the season is really satisfying, and even if things don't always go fantastically for them, you can see how they make clear progress as the series goes on. It's these characters,this story, that did keep me onboard with this show, and will likely make sure I come back for a second season, should that come in the future.
Unfortunately, the production often lets this source material down. I've enjoyed an awful lot of Liden Films works; from absurd comedies like "Sekkou Boys" to the slightly more intense "Hanebado" (ironically, a show which suffers from the opposite issue, exceptional production values with a story that slips up a lot at the end, despite some interesting ideas), I had a great time with "Otherside Picnic", and I even got some enjoyment out of "Love and Lies" and "Magical Girl Spec-Ops Asuka", even if the latter is still trashy as all hell and the former frustrated me just as much as it entertained me. I like this company's works more often than I don't. And I did like this too, for the most part.
But the animation is pretty sloppy at times, especially in the character animation. During more important football matches, it definitely improves a bit, you can tell that's where the budget went, but it comes at the expense of fairly stiff, dull-looking character animation, which is a real shame given the unique character designs they're working with. And, more crucially for me, the pacing is all pretty all over the place; the first half of the season speeds past, with surprisingly little time spent on the sport itself, only for the latter third to almost entirely show one single match (albeit with plenty of flashbacks and context trickled throughout). I've said this with a few shows before, but I think this would really have benefitted from a longer season, to give the plot space to spread out.
It's a shame that these details bring the show down, because I think with a bit more money and effort, there's no reason this show couldn't have been excellent. Again, this is the studio that made "Hanebado", and that looks phenomenal, especially during its matches. There is a fun story in here, and I did have a good time more often than I didn't. But I can't pretend that the production doesn't let the source material down.
theneilesh
Looking at the reviews on here I feel serve this anime a real injustice. Your Lie in April fans are expecting it to be Your Lie in April v2 and getting disappointed because its based around a Soccer and not Drama are unfairly reviewing Sayonara Watashi no Cramer. For what it is and it main portrayal, it has done a very good job. It tackles real life issue in Soccer. It translates how soccer players are and react to situations very nicely. This is one of the better Soccer anime I have watched because it real and captures everything around soccer perfectly. So if you like YourLie in April and don't understand anything about soccer you will be left disappointed. However if you are a Soccer fan you will enjoy this anime a lot and will love all the name drops too
KANLen09
More than vindicating that this is "Your Lie in April" author Naoshi Arakawa's departure of the themes that he's worked so well, to the two series of his very first manga works that would debut alongside each other. The prequel Sayonara Football (which had a movie released recently as First Touch), and the main series which is this show...suffered an abrupt turn, tantamount to the skillful likes of Ronaldo or even Messi in conflict. If I could compare the movie and anime in the Manchester United goalkeeper fashion: the movie is the former David de Gea; the latter is the infamous comedic Massimo Taibi. With thewhole quad-yearly Tokyo Olympics season of an affair coming up, it's yet another adaptation at a time when the world is slowly beginning to rile up from being hard hit by the pandemic (at least for Japan anyways), and more sports shows are being made to pronounce the diversity of the games featured in the Olympics. What "Sayonara Watashi no Cramer' brought to the Olympics table is women's soccer, a sport that's generally been long held by men for decades, and now slowly expanding this to the female side since it has garnered its own popularity in the modern age.
I've already watched the First Touch movie that was supposed to be released alongside the anime (that got delayed because of COVID), so I'll keep spoilers to a minimum. The gist of "enjoying" this show is that you NEED to have watched the movie first, because a key character in this show (Nozomi Onda) does the exact same soccer-trick styles here. Alas, keep your expectations super low, because the hell that Liden Films did of an astounding lackluster of a job, the animation sure don't hold up as what you'd expect of a sports show that DEMANDS animation, because that is how you excel in producing such shows. I say "enjoying", because by taking the animation away, even with good visuals, characters (and an insane multitude of them, because it's a full-fledged team), it's bound to fail anyways and look much of less unappealing.
Otherwise, the anime series is a super lackluster version of the manga, and let me show you why. First and foremost, getting the easy culprit out of the way, is Liden Films' jarring animation choices. Fun fact, the production staff for the TV series did the movie as well, and somehow by hook or by crook, the movie ended up being the superior version of the series overall. But once again as a reminder, keep your expectations low because it's subpar at best.
Secondly, I don't mind if there's a buttload of characters, especially for a sports show like soccer, where teamwork is essential. But as much as I like the presentaton in the movie, the anime drops that ball hard with characters that seem too full of themselves while looking very stagnant and un-striking like the manga. Whoever tried to give both the movie and anime a young kind of look, your expectations are stooply low to the point of bare air-kicking. For reference, take the 3 central Warabi Seinan girls: Nozomi Onda, Sumire Suo and Midori Soshizaki. These 3 girls mainly have a lot of screentime, so I could understand their friendship-cum-rivalry status from the get-go. But it always seems to me that Naoshi Arakawa tries to input too much of the influence from "Your Lie in April", so much so that I can distinctively remember the comedic moments mirroring that of the former. These girls have dreams and aspirations, and I completely understand their action line of moods. But at the same time, the supporting characters like the "princess-mannered" Aya Shiratori, they're not characters that you can reference them on the soccer field, but more like narcisstic ones that only provide comedic banter. If I were the coach of the girls' team, I wouldn't even have butt my eye on them being cardboards for a fitting story, unless they got real talent to show.
The third and last pointer of why the show failed, is that the pacing is fricking sloth levels of slow. I read the manga alongside the anime, and it seems that the production staff tried to "make it good" by including not more than 25% of all of its 13-episode length on anime-original padding, and every episode spared like 5-6 minutes of that. Granted, with all the action, the anime doesn't miss a beat, and the episodes fly by so fast that I'm always reaching for the next episode. But to see it veer back-and-forth towards the straightforward manga is asinine, and can feel like a chore to watch the show from start to finish. For that I really have to recommend reading the manga over the anime, because it gets the most important things done and grows its story so that it doesn't feel cumbersome. It's character development that the anime chose to do that's more important than the pacing, and I legitimately understand the reasons behind the directorial choice to do so. But as someone who used to watch soccer with friends, the sport is supposed to be as frenetic as possible, and sadly this show lost all of that mojo. Heck, a counterattack is easier done than said.
At least the OST was decent though. Aika Kobayashi's OP "AMBITIOUS GOAL" suits the show's themes to score the brillant goal, and is a nice song to listen to on its own. I could not say the same for the ED, which sounds very generic even with its upbeat sounds. A goal and own goal (of the metaphoric hit-and-miss) result here, I'd say that the OP is the only thing that I really liked about the show.
If you can take this with a light heart, then I suppose that this will suit to your tingling senses of playing a harmless friendly game of soccer. Otherwise, it's a snoozefest of a show, stick to the movie and the 2 manga works if you can.
Flubberdoodles
I feel the need to step in here and actually give Cramer credit where credit is due. First of all, though, Cramer is definitely not making any lists or anything, but there are special places where it truly shines when you really think about the story happening in the background here. The label may say shounen, but this is not a regular ol' "underdog wins because op MC" shounen. This is a story about feelings and dealing with hopelessness. It's something completely different than what everyone expected and probably wanted, honestly. Also, before advancing further: Yes yes, you can go all day about Your Lie inApril blah blah blah, but we're all tired of it at this point. Different stories should stay separate end of story. Stop comparing them just cuz they are connected by a name.
Cramer has its weak points, mainly in pacing and how it presents character backstories, which, sure are a bit annoying, but they don't lessen the point of the story drastically. Animation struggles in places and scene cuts can feel awkward. There are ultimately polishing issues that have to do with the animation studio more than anything.
HOWEVER, if you take a step back and think for a second about what the team represents, then you get a completely different story. This is a realistic team. This is a team that is supposed to be you. It is not a story about soccer. It's a story about you, and everyone else. When you walk away from this anime, you do not take the delight of a power fantasy. You take the suffering of reality. Not every story is about how if you're cool and op enough, you'll get anything you want, and this is an example of that. This story is about the beginning of you. That's why you'll feel so empty and bitter throughout and at the end of this anime. It did its job, and that's why I love it
Honestly, in many ways, it does resemble Your Lie in April, just in a new perspective.
All in all, if you just want a funny little shounen soccer anime to feel good about yourself, don't watch Cramer. You won't enjoy it. This story is meant to be layered behind its hard exterior, and it's up to you, the viewer, if you wish to see the ugliness of sports and life.
ren0080
What a surprise. I thought I'd have to rate this anime lower, but I'm really surprise here. I don't really think that this anime deserves a rating of 4 and it should be lower. But never mind that, my initial problem with this anime is simply because of how short it is and because of the low-budget animation. Although, even with that out of the way, this anime still has some major problems. First off, let's talk about the story. This anime is essentially a sequel season for a prequel anime that doesn't exist until the halfway through the season. And don't get me wrong, sequel anime being made beforethe prequel is never unheard of. Examples of which is Fate series. But that's because Fate Stay Night is already a self contained series, and all the prequel does for it is to extend the lore and story of Fate.
But here, well... it does kinda work too, but because the prequel movie starts with the protagonist's backstory, all you got in this season is just glimpse of what happened to her.
And tbh, that's kinda s*cks because it shows how it needs to be reliant it has to be in order to make a coherent story. The season just starts with the show needing you to already be knowledgeable with the backstory for episode 1.
Not saying that it's bad, but it kinda miss out a potential great storytelling about how they can left out the MC's backstory as mystery so that we can get it later in the series as sprinkled by the other characters. By doing so, we could've get connected storylines without needing the viewers to watch the prequel movie (and by doing so, they could've use the movie budget for the anime season so that it won't actually hurt the viewers' eyes while watching this sh*tshow).
Not just that, but there are a lot of unnecessary scenes in this anime, most likely to "develop" the "relationship" of the characters which didn't even accomplished because all of those so-called "develop" was developed in the last episode. Classic cliche that I hate so much.
The characters are pretty bad. Most of them are archetypes of characters that is so one-dimensional that I can't see them as characters at all.
They are all pretty inconsistent because they need to be so because otherwise, the "jokes" won't happen. Like, I could tolerate it with newbies but none of the characters here are newbies. And the f*cking MC had soccer with boys. You know, with physically stronger boys. So, it doesn't really make sense when she was keeping up with the boys yet get completely overshadowed when she played with the girls. Like whut.
Idk, I just don't like the cast because of how underdeveloped they are.
The animation is bad. That's all you need to know.
The music is pretty good. Like, banger worthy. This is this anime's only saving grace. I love the op and ed because of how catchy they are. The ost is also not bad.
Overall, just a pretty bad soccer anime. If you want to try watching this, I suggest just watching the prequel movie. And if you liked that, then you can watch this mediocre anime.
Grimbago
You know, sport anime series are usually terrible. Not because they are terrible as stories but because they don't actually show sport. "2.43" from last season was a pleasant exception but usually spokon is a story of a teenager where sport is just a background. I am a football fan and an anime fan. And, believe me on that, there were 0 good football spokons. Giant Killing was closest to what can be called "good" it was an overall average TV series. Sayonara Watashi no Cramer tells us about real struggles of women's football and it is written with love. Tactics from real world, clever namedropping, eventechnical things - all of that makes you think that an author loves football.
Characters are not that great but by the end of the series I started to like them, even Non-chan (I was genuinely infuriated with her at first).
If you like sport (especially football) and you always feel betrayed while watching spokons this series will please you.
P.S. Probably the most important think: after watching Cramer i really want to play football. That's it, after I finish this sentence, I will take my football shoes on!
Sacerdotisa
I have been a great soccer fan for more than 9 years, I am from a soccer country called Argentina and I can tell you that you do not have to pay much attention to the MAL score, it is something misleading and underrated. Here the complaints are more about the animation, comedy or some characters but based on the history of what football is about, it is 100% realistic about this sport currently, I know it well because a player always wants to stand out for doing things for if alone in individualism knowing that this is teamwork and that is the message that Animegives you.
Based on strategies, leadership, formations, technical directors, playability, this is more than perfect and it is not always the typical cliche where it comes out gaining prominence, that you never have to lower your head to surrender and fulfill your dreams.
In conclusion, if you are not really a true soccer fan, this Anime is not for you.
Those of us who are football fans like in South America or Europe, will understand perfectly what this football is about and if you are a football player, this will give you a lesson in life to enjoy and move forward in this beautiful sport.
dylelouch
It's a pity LIDENFILMS took this anime. And this is not the only one which was ruined by them this year. "Sayonara Watashi no Cramer" it's a good football story overall. But the anime lack of the emotion that a spokon needs to shine at its best. And football is a very very passional sport so if you leave that crucial thing on the other side, this is the unfortunate final product. And besides of that, you will enjoy this anime more if you watch the prequel movie, which has a better production, a better story and a better development of the main character, Nozomi Onda. Unfortunately,it was delayed so the movie came out this month when the series was finishing.
I love football. I'm argentinian, that says a lot. And I'm also a sport journalist who worked covering women's football teams in my country. So, this was a series I was hoping to watch since a lot of months. It didn't live up to my expectations but I will talk about the good things.
I have to say this anime deals with the problems of women's football in a good way.
Nozomi, an incredible player, was just capable of showing her skills in a men's team, which is something that happens very often with girls in football around the world. This is better explained in the movie. So, for her, a "women's football" is not a real football until she met her now teammates, Sumire and Midori.
This story revolves around Nozomi and what happens when she discovers a lot of girls like her, who love football and play for the love of the sport. For a woman who had grown up playing just with men, being in disadvantage due to her body, this is a door to paradise, because she realized she could play the football she loves with girls like her.
That's what I really like about this series. Especially for the last episode when the trainer tells Onda how necessary is to women's football to gain audience's interest, which is always in a constant scale and never fully asserts itself. It's not bad to talk about the difficulties for women to play football professionally, because it's a reality. But, unfortunately, this is the only thing I can fully rescue from all the anime along with some of the characters' personality (not all of them, because I don't stand that blonde girl, the striker).
As I said in the first paragraphs, this is good overall football story, nothing brilliant nor atrocius. I enjoyed it 'cause there is no representation of women's football in the anime. But I was left with the bittersweet taste of knowing it could be better with a good production behind it, and of course, better animation (as it happens in some moments of the movie).
I don't recommend the anime to enjoy this story. I didn't read the entire manga but with just few chapters, I enjoyed it more than when I was watching the anime.
We will have to wait to have a good football anime and not just live always nostalgic for Captain Tsubasa, because this is a sport who really deserves a great anime as volleyball with Haikyuu or boxing with Ashita no Joe and Hajime no Ippo. Hope the day where it happens will come soon.
algoPotaku
It is an anime written by the creator of Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso, I am quite disappointed. If you watch only the anime it takes a long time to start, I recommend watching the movie that is a prequel first. So more or less you enter the protagonist, I really thought it was going to be a mountain of emotions, it is but instead of being an attraction for adults I feel that it is for children and well that takes a lot away from the anime, I feel that it you could see made more like Days (tv) that focuses more on theprotagonist and has 24 chapters. That they do something by halves which is what they did leave only 13 chapters where we see practically nothing, a shit but hey. Taking that out, it becomes bearable, I would have liked him to focus more on the sport and not so much on the rivals of the protagonists, that is, I care about the life of the girl I want you to beat, the truth is there to develop more the main characters and not so much the secondary ones. Inside everything is an anime ok happens. But if you can see something better, look at something else because the truth does not bring you anything new.
En español:
Es un anime escrito por el creador de Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso, me decepciono bastante. Si ves solo el anime tarda un montón en arrancar, recomiendo ver antes la película que es una precuela . Así mas o menos entandes a la protagonista, yo la verdad pensaba que iba a ser una montaña de emociones, lo es pero en vez de ser una atracción para adultos siento que es para niños y bueno eso le resta mucho al anime, siento que lo podrías a ver hecho mas como Days (tv) que se centra mas en el protagonista y tiene 24 capítulos. Que hacer algo a medias que es lo que hicieron dejan solo 13 capítulos donde no vemos nada prácticamente, un mierda pero bueno. Sacando eso se hace llevadero me hubiera gustado que se centre mas en el deporte y no tanto en las rivales de las protagonistas, o sea que me importa la vida de la chica a la que quiero que le ganes, la verdad por ahí desarrollar mas a los personajes principales y no tanto a las secundarios. Dentro de todo es un anime ok pasa. Pero si podes ver algo mejor mira otra cosa porque la verdad no te aporta nada nuevo.
johnbradshaw
Firstly, it's "football" not soccer. The World is not America you know? Secondly, I love football, I'm watching the Euro right now. Therefore, I tend to love anime about football. So when I heard Sayonara Watashi no Cramer, another work by the author of "Your Lie In April", got an anime adaptation - I was excited to say the least. And it did get my blood pumping from the start, but in the end, what a disappointment Sayonara Watashi no Cramer was. Don't get me wrong. I love this show. They have everything, introduction was well-done, characters are colorful, many of them have intense rivalfrom the past along with strengths and weaknesses of their own. But when it counts the most, when we needs exciting matches that bring out character's potentials, the show's robbing everything away from the viewers. Instead, what we got is constant flashback and monologues of characters that ain't on the pitch. No nice play or combinations, all we got are cuts and time jumps after the matches are already over. That's so frustrating to watch.
The animations is bang average, looks stiff at times that require complex movements. The op and ed are quite nice.
Since I got words that the source material is quite good, I must assume this is a case of incompetent directing. I notices a lot of wasted-potential anime coming out of this studio. Perhap they should reconsider making one. For this show, if any good studio picking it up and make another season, I'd be down to watch it. As I said, I found the characters very charismatic and interesting. And thing's gonna get more heated from where it left off.
animeshitha
FINALLY, A WOMEN'S SPORTS ANIME WHERE THE PLAYERS ACTUALLY TIE UP THEIR HAIR!!!!! I cannot tell you how sick I am of female characters playing sports with their hair all over the place!!! This point alone is enough to make me give this anime a chance. As a sports anime, I felt that it was a bit all over the place. When they focused on the sport, they did it well. I like how nicely they put out the point that exceptional players do not necessarily make an exceptional team. Unfortunately, the few places where they lost that focus, were painful to watch. I almost dropped the animebecause of that.
But in the end, they gave us a good match. I mean, the plot is pretty standard - extremely talented girl, had no teammates before, now finally gets to be in a proper team, some awesome moves, team building, etc. However, they do show realistic team-building, in the fact that it takes time. You can't REALLY become a good team overnight, and that is well displayed.
As a sports anime, it's pretty average. It's average in the beginning, gets downright unbearable in the middle, and actually gets somewhat good in the end. If you're a hardcore sports anime fan, give it a shot, otherwise, there really are better sports anime out there.
EDOSHINRATENSEI
Time to play some soccer. When I first watched this anime, I expected fun and energetic soccer. However, setting my expectation this way backfired. The show focused more on developing the characters and setting up rivalries. Of course, it still fell into the typical underdog storyline, so there were not a lot of surprises. The animation was similar to Your Lie in April, and that made sense because both shows came from the same author. There were not a lot of soccer, and the animation was kept to a minimum, and sometimes pretty bad. As a soccer fan, naturally I wanted to see more soccer, soI was disappointed.
The character development were pretty boring at first. I didn’t feel like understanding the main girl Nozomi enough (the movie did help me to see where she came from and make me like her more). However, towards the end, the stories became better, especially one with the coach, and I started to find more enjoyment.
Overall, a decent first season that mainly set up the characters. I believe that I will enjoy it more when the next season comes out. 6/10
