Line #6 Manga/SayonaraFootball


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2	[[caption-width-right:350:''She is a cute footballer!'']]
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4	Nozomi Onda is in her second year on the middle school soccer team but has yet to play a single game because she is a girl. Growing up playing soccer, she has the technical skills, endurance and the elegance. However, as a girl, she can't overcome the physical difference between them and she can see all her teammates who she grew up playing soccer with getting further and further away from her. Even her younger brother, Junpei, who is also on the team, is starting to rise above her. Her sensei knows that Nozomi is an amazing player but since soccer is such a physical sport for boys, he can't let her play. Nozomi isn't the kind of girl that gives up so instead she practices harder than anyone in the hopes of one day playing in an official game.
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6	''Sayonara Football'' is a manga by Naoshi Arakawa (''Manga/YourLieInApril'' fame), and his first published work. The manga ran in Kondansha's {{shounen}} ''Magazine E-no'' for 8 chapters throughout 2009 and 2010, eventually collected into 2 volumes. Arakawa would go on to [[SpinOff continue]] Nozomi Onda's story in ''Manga/FarewellMyDearCramer'', though with Nozomi no longer as the primary focal character.
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8	The manga is published digitally in English by Kodansha Comics USA. It's also currently available for digital purchase via [[https://www.comixology.com/Sayonara-Football/comics-series/77953 Comixology]] and [[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01IAGMERC?ref_=dbs_pwh_calw_0&storeType=ebooks Kindle]].
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10	In September of 2020, a theatrical anime was [[https://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2020/09/03-1/your-lie-in-april-manga-creators-womens-soccer-manga-farewell-my-dear-cramer-gets-tv-anime-and-anime-film-in-april-2021?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+crunchyroll%2Fanimenews+%28Latest+in+Anime+News+by+Crunchyroll%21%29 announced]] for ''Sayonara'' set to premiere in April of 2021, animated by Creator/LidenFilms, with ''Farewell'' receiving a TV adaptation from the same creative team. The movie was later delayed to June 11, 2021.
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12	!! ''Sayonara Football'' contains
13	* AdaptationTitleChange: The film was titled ''Farewell, My Dear Cramer The Movie: First Touch'', because it was meant to be released alongside the ''Farewell, My Dear Cramer'' TV series. Unfortunately it got delayed by 2 months, and was released when the TV series was already near its end.
14	* AsleepInClass: Who else? Onda
15	* {{Determinator}}: She plays soccer even if she'll never actually play in an official match.
16	* DrivingQuestion: Like its successor series, ''Sayonara Football'' asks if there is any merit to women's soccer; although with ''Sayonara's'' short length, it doesn't dive into it as hard.
17	* JapaneseSchoolClub: Being a sports series, the club in question is for soccer.
18	* JuniorHigh: They are in their second year of school
19	* MeaningfulName: Nozomi means 'rare or seldom' in Japanese.
20	* {{Retronym}}: The film adaptation is titled ''Farewell, My Dear Cramer: First Touch'', as it was made in conjunction with the anime for ''Farewell, My Dear Cramer''.
21	* PassionateSportsGirl: This defines Onda, she lives to play soccer.
22	%%* SweetPollyOliver: [[spoiler:She tied up her brother and cut her hair to take his place.]]
23	* TrainingMontage: There's a page where Onda trains because she thinks it'll convince her coach to let her play
24	* UnwantedHarem: Not that she knows it of course, but her childhood friends all have a crush on her. [[spoiler: Namekku confesses in the last chapter after her school lost.]]

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