Set for release in April 2015, Kazé Deutschland has picked up the anime home video rights for One Week Friends. The German distributor will be bringing the show out on both DVD and Blu-ray with two releases, splitting the show in half, where it’ll contain German subtitles for the presentation while spoken languages will be in Japanese and German.
The series has seen a North American pickup earlier this year by Sentai Filmworks, though they haven’t determined whether the release will get a dub or not yet. Madman Entertainment picked it up for the Australian/New Zealand region as well.
One Week Friends is based on the work by original creator Matcha Hazuki and is directed by Tarou Iwasaki (Sunday Without God, Another), with series composition by Shotaro Suga (My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU, The Eccentric Family), art direction by Akira Ito (Bodacious Space Pirates, AKB0048), and animation production by Brains Base (Penguindrum, Amnesia).
Plot Concept: It is said that one of the qualities of a true friendship is to understand and be understood. Unfortunately, this can be easier said than done, particularly when it comes to being friends with someone that has no recollection of being your friend the week after befriending them. To become friends over and over, again and again… that is the goal of Yuki Hase when approaching schoolmate Kaori Fujimaya. You see, things aren’t so simple when your memory disappears. And that’s exactly what happens with Kaori – she’s always alone because she can’t commit anything to memory, even if that commitment is as special as a memory of one of her friends. No matter how cherished her memories are, they vanish by the time Monday rolls around. But Yuki won’t give up in the fight for friendship as he embarks on a new mission every week to befriend a person he already knows. In this friendship, everything that’s old is new again in ONE WEEK FRIENDS!
[Source: One Week Friends]