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== Anime & Manga ==
* In ''[[City Hunter]]'', Ryo Saeba accepts assignments almost exclusively from beautiful young women, most of whom are never seen again in further episodes. During the rare instances when Ryo accepts a job from a man, it would usually involve protecting a young woman.▼
* Subverted and gender-swapped in ''[[Dirty Pair]]'' - the guy of the week rarely sticks around once he learns who Kei and Yuri are.
* In ''[[Dragon Ball]]'', there are quite a few Girls of the Week during the [[Walking the Earth]] segments. Even more are added during the filler episodes. Strangely enough, Goku's wife Chi-Chi is originally introduced as a Girl of the Week and when she makes her second appearance in the manga over a hundred chapters later, there's a [[Lampshade Hanging]] where no one can remember her <ref>except Oolong</ref>.▼
* The manga ''[[Eat Man]]'' also featured many of these, most of them kinda underaged.▼
* ''[[Galaxy Angel (anime)|Galaxy Angel]]'' parodies this; in each of Ranpha's episodes, she falls over a new hot guy, but [[Inexplicably Identical Individuals|they all look and sound the same]].
* This theme is basically the premise of ''[[Golden Boy]]''.▼
* The anime series ''[[King of Bandit Jing]]'' offered this as a ''feature'', with a different pretty girl in each of the [[Adventure Towns]] the titular hero journeyed to.▼
* More of a ''Girl Of The Year'' than a [[Girl of the Week]]: In any of the [[Lupin III]] TV specials, at least one of the newly-introduced characters (whether good, evil or neutral) is female, starts building a relationship with one of the main characters and won't be mentioned in another special ever again.▼
* Not so much [[Girl of the Week]] as Girl of the ''Movie'' but the ''[[Naruto]]'' movies seem to love this trope. Naruto's had at least one older woman giving him a kiss, a [[
** Some of the more cohesive filler arcs during the gap between the end of Part 1 and beginning of Shippuden also brought this into play. This adds two female daimyos, a handful of kunoichi, and one girl with [[Fish People|a bad skin condition]] to Naruto's roster. Of these, exactly one has appeared as a background character since then and she was rooting for [[Hero of Another Story|Gaara]].▼
* ''[[Pokémon (anime)|Pokémon]],'' subverted (Brock never has even a slim chance of actually getting the girl).
** Well, almost never. There have been some ''very'' rare instances of girls actually being interested in Brock, but they always go their separate ways by the end of the episode anyway.
** Also subverted in that half the girls are either Nurse Joy or Officer Jenny, who all look/sound/act the same.
** ''Girls of the Season'' of this series range from Misty, May, Dawn, etc. and [[Put
▲* The anime series ''[[King of Bandit Jing]]'' offered this as a ''feature'', with a different pretty girl in each of the [[Adventure Towns]] the titular hero journeyed to.
▲* The manga ''[[Eat Man]]'' also featured many of these, most of them kinda underaged.
* In ''[[Princess Tutu]]'s'' second season, this trope is combined with [[Victim of the Week]] to give {{spoiler|Mytho}} a new conquest in many episodes.▼
* Amelia in the ''[[Trigun]]'' [[The Movie|movie]] ''Badlands Rumble''.▼
* Makoto of ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' usually fell for each minor male character shortly after their introduction.
** And they all remind her of an ex-friend, even {{spoiler|Haruka.}}
▲* In ''[[Princess Tutu]]'s'' second season, this trope is combined with [[Victim of the Week]] to give {{spoiler|Mytho}} a new conquest in many episodes.
▲* Not so much [[Girl of the Week]] as Girl of the ''Movie'' but the ''[[Naruto]]'' movies seem to love this trope. Naruto's had at least one older woman giving him a kiss, a [[Distressed Damsel]] literally offering to have his babies (which, due to the way she phrased it, Naruto unwittingly accepts), and in the second Shipuuden movie he ends up with the current [[Girl of the Week]] clutching him to her chest (it would be [[Marshmallow Hell]] if she had bigger... tracts of land) while tearfully claiming that she'd never leave him... Being non-canonical of course, not one of them ever shows up again.
▲** Some of the more cohesive filler arcs during the gap between the end of Part 1 and beginning of Shippuden also brought this into play. This adds two female daimyos, a handful of kunoichi, and one girl with [[Fish People|a bad skin condition]] to Naruto's roster. Of these, exactly one has appeared as a background character since then and she was rooting for [[Hero of Another Story|Gaara]].
▲* This theme is basically the premise of [[Golden Boy]].
* The ACTUAL PLOT of [[The World God Only Knows]], where the main character's ''job'' is to make the Girl of the Week fall in love with him, so he may extract the spirit possessing them from their soul. With his gaming skills.▼
** Increasingly subverted as the story progresses, as he finds himself involved with some of the girls again.▼
▲* In ''[[City Hunter]]'', Ryo Saeba accepts assignments almost exclusively from beautiful young women, most of whom are never seen again in further episodes. During the rare instances when Ryo accepts a job from a man, it would usually involve protecting a young woman.
▲* More of a ''Girl Of The Year'' than a [[Girl of the Week]]: In any of the [[Lupin III]] TV specials, at least one of the newly-introduced characters (whether good, evil or neutral) is female, starts building a relationship with one of the main characters and won't be mentioned in another special ever again.
* Cobra from ''[[Space Adventure Cobra]]'' often gets a new female sidekick/LoveInterest in each of the one-shot stories.
▲* Amelia in the ''[[Trigun]]'' [[The Movie|movie]] ''Badlands Rumble''.
▲* In [[Dragon Ball]], there are quite a few Girls of the Week during the [[Walking the Earth]] segments. Even more are added during the filler episodes. Strangely enough, Goku's wife Chi-Chi is originally introduced as a Girl of the Week and when she makes her second appearance in the manga over a hundred chapters later, there's a [[Lampshade Hanging]] where no one can remember her <ref>except Oolong</ref>.
▲* The ACTUAL PLOT of ''[[The World God Only Knows]]'', where the main character's ''job'' is to make the Girl of the Week fall in love with him, so he may extract the spirit possessing them from their soul. With his gaming skills.
▲** Increasingly subverted as the story progresses, as he finds himself involved with some of the girls again.
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