Free! is a sports activities anime that first began airing through the summer time 2013 season. It was based mostly on the novel Excessive Velocity! by Kouji Ouji and revealed in-house by Kyoto Animation. Free! would go on to be one among Kyoto Animation’s most profitable works, spawning two extra seasons and a grand complete of seven movies — and after 9 years, the two-part movie Closing Stroke is alleged to be the franchise’s grand finale.
Free! follows Haru, a teenage boy with a love for water and a pure aptitude for swimming. Collectively together with his childhood mates, they try and revive the swimming membership at their highschool. On the identical time, one among their estranged mates lastly returns from Australia, however he isn’t the identical vibrant and optimistic boy from their reminiscences.
Two promo photos have been launched on April 2, 2012, on the official homepage of AnimationDo, a subsidiary of Kyoto Animation based mostly in Osaka. One had a picture of a younger man swimming in a pool with the textual content “I am going to present you what makes you and me totally different!” overlaid it. The opposite picture featured 4 engaging boys in swimsuits standing in entrance of a swimming pool. Not a lot else was identified in regards to the franchise on the time, aside from that Kyoto Animation could be concerned and {that a} sport — particularly, swimming — could be the primary focus.
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