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Isshuukan Friends is one of many anime with slice of life genre. The main characters are Hase Yuuki - cheerful high school student with honest and straightforward character and Fujimiya Kaori - mysterious girl who's never talked to anyone in class and avoids her classmates. The story begins when Hase decided to make Fujimiya her friend. After few failures, Hase finally gained her confidence and our protagonists meet every day on school's roof and have lunch togheter. Things go complicated when Fujimiya revealed her secret to Hase. She loses her memories of moments spent with her friends every Monday, that's why she doesn't want to ... make friends anymore, because she doesn't want to forget about them. Fujimiya's confession doesn't discourage Hase and he decided to help his new friend with her memory problems. He offered her to start write everything she done with her friends in diary.

I like the idea of forgetting memories linked with Fujimiya' friends but personally I think she could think about writing everything she done on her own. It's a bit overrated that only Hase make her realize that she can write about her time spent with friends. It annoyed me a bit, but I don't think it's something value to think about it while reviewing this anime. I must admit that I've enjoyed it very much and it took me only two days to watch these 12 episodes. Excluding very sympathetic main characters, others were very nice and likeable too. There aren't boring episodes, plot reveals slowly showing us the cause of Fujimiya's problem and her childhood friend - Kujou Hajime. Character design are very good in my opinion. These long foreheads and almost unseen noses are kinda cute. Seiyuu cast includes mostly new faces. Honestly I can't write much about music, because soundtrack was so average that I didn't notice anything interesting. This applies to opening and ending too, they're just simple pop songs, nothing in particular. I found Issuukan Friends very enjoyable, because of its uncomplicated plot and friendly characters. I recommend it to anyone who likes slice of life and comedy genre and doesn't require much.