Kaori Fujimiya loses her memory of her friends every week. As a result, she is hesitant to make friends and acts standoffish to her classmates to keep them away. Yuuki Hase notices that she’s always alone, and is interested in getting to know her, but is hesitant to approach her because of her demeanor. However, he gets a glimpse of her true personality one day when she thanks him for helping her with a task. As a result, he works up the courage to ask her to be his friend—-and she turns him down, insisting she can’t have friends. Yuuki thinks this is because of some rule imposed on Kaori from the outside, and keeps trying. Eventually, Kaori opens up to him a little bit and they become a little closer.

At the end of the week (this happens over just one week), Kaori tells Yuuki that they should stop being friends, and tells him about her memory problem. Yuuki doesn’t believe her until the following Monday, when he approaches her and she looks at him with an expression that shows the truth of her words. Even though he’s shaken by this, after some encouragement from his friend Shougo Kiryuu he again works up the courage to approach Kaori and ask to be her friend. The story continues from here...

I really, really like this show. I love the earnestness, genuineness, and sincerity with which it conducts itself. That, combined with the simplicity and straightforwardness of the show, makes it incredibly enjoyable and refreshing. There's not a lot of drama, but when there is, it's not over-the-top melodrama.

As of right now, the most recent episode is episode 9. Given the major event that happened at the end of the episode, I'm really anxious to see where they take it over the next episode or two.

Ahhhhhh! I really really love this series! When I saw it available on Crunchyroll, it looked like it would be another mellow series like Natsume Yuujinchou, which I adore, and I was totally right! It's so cute, and has such an intriguing plot that looks like it's gonna have a lot of depth. All of the characters have interesting personality traits, and I've fallen in love with most of them.

I'm watching it without a Crunchyroll membership so I'm a week behind the supposedly major events in episode 9. When I catch up, I'll be all over this thread though.

In a nutshell, my thoughts thus far have been disappointment but only because the show's synopsis was gripping enough to interest me and I idiotically hyped it up and now feel it hasn't really developed into anything more than static characters and cute artwork, bar a few moments.

just gonna say it though, Shogo is clutch.

what anime show is that please

>>4 Are you fucking kidding me...

>>3 Hmmm...I wouldn't say that the characters are static, just slow-moving.

>>4 dont make me stab you. Ill do it!

Its pretty cute. Last episode(#9) was table flippingly sad though.

One Week Friends is really cute! I really like watching a slow paced anime like this once in a while, it's a bit like Natsume Yujinchou in that aspect. I haven't caught up yet but still wondering how exactly this show will finish

>>6
It may partially be the having to wait a week to watch it that makes it feel this way to me, but I'd argue Hase is a static character up at least until the 8th episode (as I've said, haven't got past that yet). I know some may say he's grown to be more jealous or clingy now, but I wouldn't necessarily say that's true. Hell, he might have been that way the whole time, but the viewer only gets to see it when events onscreen make him act that way, and there weren't any at first. Saki is certainly static thus far, as is Shogo.

of all the characters, Kaori (thankfully) is the one that actually has some development, and I'd agree that it's slow-moving as you said. Not a whole lot of complaints, but a good series that's supposed to be about friendship doesn't really work with only one interesting character, and the rest just aren't doing anything for me. I think they could be doing more with this concept, ya know? Then again, a lot of people find this so cute because of its relative straightforward tenderness. I can see both sides of the argument, I'm just of the opinion that it could and should do more.

inb4 they do more episode 9 and I'm sounding like a dipshit lol

>>9 I do agree with a lot of what you said. I need to remember to separate characterization from development. >.< All four main characters have gotten characterization, Shougo and Saki having just enough to give a basic idea of what they're like, with Yuuki getting a bit more (like what you said about some of his personality traits and tendencies being shown as situations arise that elicit them). I also agree that Kaori has gotten the bulk of the development, in addition to a fair amount of characterization.

Interestingly, I think the fact that the show has more characterization than development makes the characters feel more natural and fleshed out in a broad sense than they would if they had more development than characterization. Through the characterization, you get an idea of their overall personality and demeanor, which you can apply to any of a number of different situations. From what I've seen in this and other things (both anime and non-anime shows and movies), character development usually centers around one or more specific events, and gives the viewer a good idea of what the character is like in relation to that/those particular event(s). This tends to be more thorough than characterization, but can also be more difficult to apply on a broader scale. If done well, either way can feel very natural, but I think it's easier to have characterization that feels natural and human than it is to do the same thing with development.

In short, I think the characterization that particularly Kaori and Yuuki get makes them feel very natural and relatable (to me at least), and I think that has contributed to how endearing I find them.

...damnit anime

well, at least the new guy is gonna throw a wrench into things. At this point I see no reason to stop and he'll be a much-needed new element. Shake things up, bastard. I know you have it in you.

and I still really love Shogo. Keep the apathetic common-sense snark up, you lovable rock.

heart warming anime.
The ending just puts a smile to viewers.