"Sayonara Watashi no Cramer" is a work that focuses on high school girls' soccer. While touching upon the current situation of women's soccer, it is a work that is just as exciting as men's soccer, and will be broadcast as a TV anime and a movie anime from April 2021. I would like to introduce the plot of "Sayonara Watashi no Cramer" with spoilers!
Synopsis 1: Is there a future for women's soccer?
In reality, women's soccer has become well-known all at once due to the success of Nadeshiko Japan, including Homare Sawa, and has made Japan crazy. However, the current situation is tough, and there are quite a few players who work during the day and play soccer at night. In Japan, men's soccer is far more fortunate than women's soccer, but baseball has a much longer player career and lifetime salary, and from a business perspective, the number of games played per year is fewer than baseball, so it cannot be said that men's soccer is in a better position. Even in this situation, there are girls who admire Nadeshiko Japan, both in reality and in the world of this work.
Synopsis 2: Suo Sumire and Soshizaki Midori
Suo Sumire had an overwhelming sprinting ability, but due to team circumstances she was unable to play an active role and ended her junior high school years. However, Soshizaki Midori, who supported the team that came in third in the national junior high school championships and prevented her from winning many times, recognized her talent. Midori fell in love with Sumire's talent and wanted to play with her. However, the high school that Sumire herself chose was Warabi Seinan High School (commonly known as the Wallabies), which is a perennially weak team, so Midori ended up enrolling in Warabi Seinan as well.
A Perpetually Underdog Team
The Wallabies are a perpetually underdog team, and their coach, Fukatsu Goro, has no motivation at all. Meanwhile, in a red-and-white game between first and second-year students, Midori and Sumire immediately show their talents. However, another talented player has enrolled at the Wallabies. Onda Nozomi, the protagonist of Goodbye Football, the prequel to Goodbye My Cramer, who played with the boys in junior high, has also enrolled at the Wallabies.
Synopsis 3: The Battle Between Namahage Nohmi and Kunogi
Furthermore, women's soccer legend Nohmi Naoko is appointed as the coach of the Wallabies. The Wallabies, who started out with a Spartan education that was feared as Namahage Nohmi during her active days, will face Kunogi Gakuen in their first match. Kunogi Gakuen is the number one high school girls' soccer team in Japan. In other words, they are the strongest opponent.
Wallabies Completely Defeated
The match was one-sided from the beginning, and they suffered a humiliating defeat with a score of 0-21. However, Onda Nozomi's play instantly caught everyone's attention, and it was a match that showed potential. However, after this, the Wallabies faced a difficult future, as they were involved in a tragedy caused by Nomi Naoko's fashion sense and a dispute with the men's soccer team coach.
Synopsis 4: The new Wallabies in action
The Wallabies, a weak team that has solved various problems and is starting to move, immediately stand out in the prefectural preliminaries. The Wallabies, who have been in perpetual league matches, always had internal divisions, and have been derogatorily nicknamed the eternal sucker, are now in action with the addition of new players. Although there was about one member who was useless due to a mistake in conditioning, they advanced to second place in the group with two wins and one loss.
Against Urawa Kuninari
However, the next match after winning the preliminaries was against Urawa Kuninari, a strong school that had won the Saitama Prefecture championship eight times in a row. The Wallabies had a hard time fighting against a team with a strong defense that included Chika Kirishima, who had previously teamed up with Soshizaki to come in third in the All Japan Junior High School Championships, and the poor conditions caused by the rain put their experience to the test. Although the first half ended with a score of 0-0, in the second half, Falso Nueve's Adatara Alice filled the gap and scored two goals, resulting in a complete defeat of 0-2.
Synopsis 5: JKFB Interleague Participation
After the defeat, the Wallabies' new goal was to participate in the JKFB Interleague, which was made possible through Naoko Nomi's connections. The Wallabies have grown explosively since the defeat and will defeat the participating strong teams one after another. In addition to the growth of the defense, the presence of Gotsan Goaler Shiratori, who is starting to show his talent as a decoy thanks to his obvious presence, the Wallabies will finally face Eisen Funabashi, who defeated Kunogi Gakuen, who they once lost to by 21 points.
Synopsis ⑥ Battle with Eisenfunabashi High School
Eisenfunabashi High School, which defeated Japan's top women's soccer team, Kunogi Gakuen, was a unique team without a coach. Despite the lack of a coach, it was Urakawa Akane, the captain of Eisenfunabashi, who elevated the team's discipline to an ironclad defensive strength. Urakawa Akane made Eisenfunabashi a strong team through her leadership and communication between team members.
VS Eisen-Funabashi
It was Miyasaka's long foot that broke into the goal of Eisen-Funabashi, who boasts an ironclad defense. It was a fluke that the long foot went through, but that fluke allowed Kikuchi and Tase to take the lead with a shot. After that, the Wallabies took advantage of the gap in the defense, which was unable to respond to Suo's incredible sprint, to earn a free kick, which they scored to score the second goal. The Wallabies had the advantage from the first half.
Eisen-Funabashi's Counterattack
However, that was not the end of Eisen-Funabashi. Eisen-Funabashi's trump card, Kokufu Tae, is a deadly striker who can break through the defense and score by himself, and it was Kokufu Tae that caused Kunogi to lose. Kokufu Tae had such incredible offensive power that the score was tied 10 minutes before the end of the first half, but by scoring two goals early on, they were able to create time at halftime, and the Wallabies brought in Echizen Sawa as a countermeasure. Although they conceded another goal in the second half, they managed to hold them off with one and scored two goals to win. The Wallabies defeated the powerful Eisen Funabashi and advanced to the finals.
Synopsis 7: Battle against the Inter-High champion Korenkan
The Inter-League final was against Korenkan High School, one of the two strongest high school girls' soccer teams that won the Inter-High. It was a new team coached by Takahagi Kazuo, a soccer legend who is also acquainted with the Wallabies' coach, Fukatsu. Although Korenkan did not have a full team, as they had just come back from the Inter-High, Inter-High top scorer Kurusu Mika and several regular players participated.
After a fierce battle
From the beginning of the match, the Wallabies lost points due to the efforts of Kurusu Mika and others, and they were in a desperate situation with Soshizaki being sent off with a red card. That's when the daytime coach Fukatsu took action. With Fukatsu's instructions, Onda Nozomi's efforts, and Shiratori Aya's goal, they regained their momentum. In the end, the Wallabies lost five points, but scored four points to hang on to the champions, Korenkan. The Wallabies' momentum was unstoppable, and they were awarded a penalty kick to tie the game, but Nozomi missed it by a narrow margin and they were defeated. However, this match inspired coach Fukatsu and became a catalyst for the Wallabies to make further progress.
Synopsis 8: Goro Fukatsu and the Wallabies
The coach, Fukatsu, was once a player who was expected to lead the soccer world, so much so that Takahagi Kazuo respected him. However, after his playing career was cut short by an injury, he began to aim to become a coach. As a coach, Fukatsu tries to implement new tactics and reforms within the team, but when he removes the veteran players from the regular lineup, discord arises, and the young players who have become regulars have to play while watching the veteran players' reactions. The team collapses and Fukatsu, who was forced to leave his position as coach, is losing his passion for soccer.
As a coach
Fukatsu's passion has returned as the Wallabies make a breakthrough, and he is now actively coaching them as a coach. He will further improve his level by focusing on Gegenpressing, a new tactic suited to the Wallabies. The Wallabies will be fully prepared for the prefectural preliminaries, having learned the new tactics through training camps.
【Sayonara Watashi no Cramer】Spoiler summary
We have summarized the plot of "Sayonara Watashi no Cramer"! In anime and manga, the main subject is men's soccer, but women's soccer is just as exciting. Soccer is a strategic sport, and in this work, various strategies come out one after another, and each player has their own personality, making it a serious game of soccer. The current situation of women's soccer is also touched upon. I hope that the day will come when women's soccer will once again excite Japan in reality. "Sayonara Watashi no Cramer" will start airing in April 2021!
