For such a humble little show, I’ve been surprised at how One Week Friends has kept me at baited breath all season long.  I’ve been anticipating that the bottom would fall out, that we would have some [...]
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Summary: Winter comes and as diaries pile up, Kaori’s memories begin piling up once again. At the same time and by herself, Saki is fighting her own kind of battle. She is worried that...
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Following that rough time thanks to the loss of some of Kaori's memories again since Kujo's appearance, things have settled down and returned to their normal routine for Kaori and Hase, even if Saki [...]
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We’ve known for a while now that Kaori’s memory loss dates back to when she suffered an accident, even if the injuries she sustained weren’t necessarily the cause of it, but rather something [...]
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It’s almost over. This episode was a very mediocre attempt to set up a finale in which Hase can confess his very real feelings to anyone besides his best friend Shogo. However, the episode does set up [...]
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Summary: Hase begins his week by asking Kaori to become his friend once again. Things may have reset for them, but they still have the diary so things aren’t really that bad; at least...
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At first glance, One Week Friends looks and feels like a cute show.  The animation is gentle, the frequently flushed cheeks are awww-worthy, and the storyline about friendship is the stuff of kid [...]
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Get your drama glasses on. Episode 10 of One Week Friends is exactly like The Empire Strikes Back. Nothing works out for the protagonists, it’s revealed that Hase is Fujimiya’s brother, Darth Hajime [...]
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I went there recently in Nisekoi, and Golden Time before it…down to rock bottom: the lowest possible point for our protagonist in dealings with his love interest. The question going into this week [...]
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After a period of everything going so well between Kaori, Hase and their wider circle of friends, it feels like everything has been shattered and destroyed by the appearance of transfer student Hajime [...]
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Summary: On their final day of summer break, our characters decide to get together and finish up what was left of their summer homework. Saki keeps being as forgetful and carefree as always to...
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The summer of fun continues for Kaori and company in this week's One Week Friends, as somehow the group even manages to make the last minute rush to finish their summer homework enjoyable. Still, I [...]
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There were a lot of dangers for One Week Friends coming into this episode, and, sadly, it seems the show just couldn’t avoid all of them. As I go on here, keep in mind that One Week Friends has been [...]
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Fujimiya deals with a blast from the past at the end of episode 9. Hase also loses control and forces himself on Kaori, and Yamagishi remembers something. One Week Friends begins to stir up the drama [...]
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Following this show’s convention of naming episodes, I thought “Last Day” this episode’s title referred to was the last day of summer vacation, a day I remember always feeling longer than the ones [...]
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In short, episodes five through seven introduce the audience to a new core friend named Saki Yamagishi, to Fujimiya’s mother (and the story behind Fujimiya’s memory problem), and finally to Hase [...]
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It's the summer holiday, and although Kaori and Hase are having a good time - much of which they're spending in one another's company - there's one staple of the season that they're yet to embark [...]
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This week the still newly-forged quartet of friends go on their first summer trip to the beach together. Kaori first suggests it, but things don’t bode well for Yuuki when she indicates it would be [...]
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Summary: Kaori and Hase are spending their summer vacation together and having a good time in general. She mentions that she would like to go to the beach and after failing at trying set up a date [...]
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