Free! Anime Celebrates 10 Years of Swimming With Splashy Visual
April 26 marks ten years since the first Free! – Iwatobi Swim Club TV anime premiered in Japan. The mammoth Kyoto Animation franchise, which first entered public consciousness with the TV spot dubbed “swimming anime” based on the novel High Speed by Koji Oji, released a celebratory visual today showing the entire cast that has been built up over the past ten years.
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TVアニメ「Free!」制作発表会から
本日で10周年！ここまで繋いでくださって、
本当にありがとうございます！#Free_10周年 pic.twitter.com/gOXjTOMG6F— 「Free!」シリーズ公式 (@iwatobi_sc) April 26, 2023
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The first Free! – Iwatobi Swim Club TV anime, animated at Kyoto Animation’s then Osaka studio Animation Do, began on July 4, 2013, spawning two sequel series and six anime films, including the recently released Free! The Final Stroke duology. The entire franchise, including the film two films, is streaming now on Crunchyroll, which describes the franchise as such:
Nanase Haruka loved to be in the water – loved swimming. In elementary school, Nanase Haruka, Tachibana Makoto, Matsuoka Rin, and Hazuki Nagisa attended the same swimming class together. Time passed, and as Haruka was living an uneventful high school life, he suddenly encountered Rin again. Rin challenged Haruka to a race and showed him how much stronger he had become. Soon enough, Makoto and Nagisa also rejoined the group, and along with a new classmate, Ryugazaki Rei, they established the Iwatobi High School Swimming Club.
Source: Free! on Twitter
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Daryl Harding is a Senior Japan Correspondent for Crunchyroll News. He also runs a YouTube channel about Japan stuff called TheDoctorDazza, tweets at @DoctorDazza, and posts photos of his travels on Instagram.
