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“Yuuki persistently befriends Kaori, whose weekly memory loss erases all happy memories, hoping she'll one day remember him.”
One Week Friends
一週間フレンズ。
7.5
3,262 rank · 20,730 readers · 316 favorites
Shounen
School
Comedy
Slice of Life
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Synopsis
Yuuki persistently befriends Kaori, whose weekly memory loss erases all happy memories, hoping she'll one day remember him.
Kaori Fujimiya is always alone because all of her happy memories, including time spent with her friends, disappear every Monday. Deciding that he wants to be friends with her anyway, Yuuki Hase tries to get close to Kaori each week, wishing that she would one day call him "a friend."
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 6 sampled reviews
6.5
/10
What 6 readers settled on.
100%
recommend
Score distribution
median 6
mode 6
σ 1.12
Agreement
Mostly aligned
σ 1.12 · some divergence
The polarity gap
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Not enough recommend signal yet
Score over time
↓ 1.50
Running avg · Feb 2014 → Mar 2021
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 8 “Having read 11 chapters, I have given this manga an overall rating of 8. I have greatly enjoyed reading it and wish a lot more chapters had been released. PROS: I like the fluffy art-style, I enjoy...”
- 8 “Yay, my first review ^.^ This manga honestly took me by surprise. I'm not normally a fan of manga or anime like this, but I was surprised to find myself captivated by One Week Friends. In a...”
- 6 “This manga just seemed incredibly boring to me. I think the biggest issue I had with it was character development, specifically Yuuki. Getting to the second volume, I realized I seriously had no...”
Verbosity
Short · 67%
Medium · 33%
Long · 0%
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A Manga Publication
- Format 41 × 7 ch × vol
- Total read 5h 28m approx
- Published Aug 2011 – Jan 2015
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M20438 catalog