Farewell, My Dear Cramer
Farewell, My Dear Cramer 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;Sawa Echizen
;Sumire Suō
;Midori Soshizaki
;Aya Shiratori
;Eriko Tase
;Makoto Miyasaka
;Rui Kikuchi
;Ayumu Kishi
;Saori Komurasaki
;Noriko Okachimachi
;Karina Kakogawa
;Naoko Nōmi
;Gōro Fukatsu
Boys' Soccer Club
;Tetsuji Yamada;Kaoru Takei
;Yasuaki Tani
;Eiken Asuka
Fuji Daiichi Junior High School
;Junpei Onda;Kōzō Samejima
Kunogi Gakuen High School
;Mizuki Kaji;Haruna Itō
;Mao Tsukuda
;Kenroku Washizu
Urawa Hosei High School
;Chika Kirishima;Yū Tenma
;Alice Adatara
;Kei Hanabusa
;Nanami Zaisen
;Masahiro Gotōda
Korenkan High School
;Rei KutaniMedia
Manga
Written and illustrated by Naoshi Arakawa, Farewell, My Dear Cramer was serialized in Kodansha's manga magazine Monthly Shōnen Magazine from May 6, 2016, to December 4, 2020. The title refers to German footballer and manager Dettmar Cramer. Kodansha has compiled its chapters into fourteen volumes. The first volume was published on August 17, 2016, and the last on April 1, 2021.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, and last on March 28, 2023.