Farewell, My Dear Cramer (さよなら私のクラマー, Sayonara Watashi no Kuramā) 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 has been serialized in Kodansha‘s Monthly Shōnen Magazine since May 2016 and has been collected in fourteen tankōbon 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.

Manga

Farewell, My Dear Cramer is written and illustrated by Naoshi Arakawa. It began in the June 2016 issue of Monthly Shōnen Magazine, published on May 6, 2016. The title refers to German footballer and manager Dettmar Cramer. The series ended in the January 2021 issue of Monthly Shōnen Magazine, that shipped on December 4, 2020. Kodansha has compiled its chapters into individual tankōbon. The first volume was published on August 17, 2016. As of April 1, 2021, fourteen volumes have been published.

The manga has been simultaneously released in English on Kindle and Comixology.^[16] 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.

Farewell, My Dear Cramer
Cover of Farewell, My Dear Cramer volume 1 by Kodansha
さよなら私のクラマー (Sayonara Watashi no Kuramā)
Genre	Sports
Manga
Written by	Naoshi Arakawa
Published by	Kodansha
English publisher	NA Kodansha Comics
Magazine	Monthly Shōnen Magazine
Demographic	Shōnen
Original run	May 6, 2016 – December 4, 2020
Volumes	14
Anime television series
Directed by	Seiki Takuno
Written by	Natsuko Takahashi
Music by	Masaru Yokoyama
Studio	Liden Films
Licensed by	Crunchyroll SEA Muse Communication
Original network	Tokyo MX
Original run	April 4, 2021 – June 27, 2021
Episodes	13 (List of episodes)