| According to Mainichi, Kyoto Animation has announced on Niconico Live that a TV anime "Free!" will be aired from July. It will be about a high school swimming club. The story is based on Kouji Ouji's "High Speed!", an honorable mention recipient in the 2nd Kyoto Animation Awards in 2011. Key Visual of "Free!" Short trailer of "Free!" aired as a TV ad of KyoAni this March Cast Nanase Haruka: Shimazaki Nobunaga Matsuoka Rin: Miyano Mamoru Tachibana Makoto: Suzuki Tatsuhisa Hazuki Nagisa: Yonaga Tsubasa Ryugasaki Rei: Hirakawa Daisuke Story: Haruka, Rin, Makoto, and Nagisa used to be the members of the same swimming club in elementary school. They won a tournament just before their graduation and then they went separate ways. Time passed and now Haruka has been spending his high school days idly. One day, Rin comes to Haruka and challenges him to a swim. Haruka easily gets overwhelmed by Rin's swimming skills. In order to beat Rin, Haruka establishes the "Iwatobi High School Swimming Club" by gathering Makoto and Nagisa again and drafting in Rei. Source: Mainichi Story by omgiloverice Free! on MAL |
NaruleachApr 26, 2013 6:11 PM
| Exited, I can't wait for this to air. |
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| KyoAni going fujoshi all the way now. |
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| Synopsis is heavily underwhelming(read: generic). The details better make up for it. |
 「みんながいるからだ。」 － 棗鈴 |
| I will watch because I'm interested, not excited. BTW, the MAL database of the anime |
I ♥ Two Syaorans from Tsubasa RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE and TRC!!! |
| Not really my thing!! Can't believe this becomes real series, guess will check this out of CURIOSITY only And I don't see guys with the name Haruka or Rin that much |
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| What's this? I want to see girls wearing bikini.. XDDDDDDDDD! |
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| HELL YES! |
הלב שלי כבר מת |
| FUJOSHI STRONG! Still can't believe this is getting an anime. I will watch it nonetheless. And I can't believe the MAL entry already has the characters and the seiyuus listed. A mod is pretty busy right now... |
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| Will this anime be able to compete with Kuroko no Basket in term of popularity? Hmm... |
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| Don't forget us fudanshi as well!~ |
| I can't believe it gets anime I'm fine though, the color palette looks nice + swimming (pretty fresh) |
| The only good thing is OLDCODEX will sing the OP of this series |
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| Thank you kyoani for delivering this blessing upon us. |
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| This will fail. RIP kyoani |
| Hype. But KyoAni has never done a good original show. Let's hope this will be difference. |
I have my own anime blog. It's called Anime Viking. Hope you'll you read it! |
phoenixalia said: ThangLong said: Will this anime be able to compete with Kuroko no Basket in term of popularity? Hmm... if it plays the BL card well like Kuroko did, I think so. I bet 30K in sales. If it's lower than that then KyoAni can't do magic. |
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| I'm so happy right now xD and Mamoru Miyano, yay! I can't wait for this to air :D |
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| Video of the announcement and PV |
| So MAL finally starts locking news threads that are only a few weeks old? I wonder where was the announcement of this change? Or we are seeing yet another case of changes made that impacted users but not communicated to them? I wonder how long people would put up with this. As much as I have a bunch of information to share about anime announced recently I cannot share it in news board, and the anime series is too disorganized and chaotic to share information except with people already interested in the particular series. |
| Wow I didn't expect this to actually get an anime. I thought it was just a commercial. I'm a bit bummed since I was hoping for a Haruhi S3 announcement :( Even though it's KyoAni, not sure if I'll watch. Might give it a try, though what I'm really waiting for is their next show - Kyoukai no Kanata. What I want to know is, why do they have girl names? |
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| KyoAni saved anime again. |
| One thing that particularly caught my eyes is how all the names of the character are neutral in gender. Makoto, Haruka, Rei, Nagisa and Rin all can be both male and female names. Very intriguing. |
| So MAL finally starts locking news threads that are only a few weeks old? I wonder where was the announcement of this change? Or we are seeing yet another case of changes made that impacted users but not communicated to them? I wonder how long people would put up with this. As much as I have a bunch of information to share about anime announced recently I cannot share it in news board, and the anime series is too disorganized and chaotic to share information except with people already interested in the particular series. |
Yvese said: Wow I didn't expect this to actually get an anime. I thought it was just a commercial. I'm a bit bummed since I was hoping for a Haruhi S3 announcement :( Even though it's KyoAni, not sure if I'll watch. Might give it a try, though what I'm really waiting for is their next show - Kyoukai no Kanata. What I want to know is, why do they have girl names? Yeah, I just noticed that. They will probably call each other by their first names at some point *cringe* |
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symbv said: One thing that particularly caught my eyes is how all the names of the character are neutral in gender. Makoto, Haruka, Rei, Nagisa and Rin all can be both male and female names. Very intriguing. We can all see where this is going. |
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Niyawa said: Perhaps an anime with characters of the same name but all girls this time?symbv said: We can all see where this is going.One thing that particularly caught my eyes is how all the names of the character are neutral in gender. Makoto, Haruka, Rei, Nagisa and Rin all can be both male and female names. Very intriguing. |
| So MAL finally starts locking news threads that are only a few weeks old? I wonder where was the announcement of this change? Or we are seeing yet another case of changes made that impacted users but not communicated to them? I wonder how long people would put up with this. As much as I have a bunch of information to share about anime announced recently I cannot share it in news board, and the anime series is too disorganized and chaotic to share information except with people already interested in the particular series. |
phoenixalia said: People's hidden yaoi fear will start rearing its head straight away regardless if any actual gay things are done or not.Dude. We've had just one PV so far. I didn't see any of the characters doing gay things. |
| So MAL finally starts locking news threads that are only a few weeks old? I wonder where was the announcement of this change? Or we are seeing yet another case of changes made that impacted users but not communicated to them? I wonder how long people would put up with this. As much as I have a bunch of information to share about anime announced recently I cannot share it in news board, and the anime series is too disorganized and chaotic to share information except with people already interested in the particular series. |
| RIP KyoAni. |
Mkayyy said: Girly? I guess only gar/macho type of character qualifies as non-gay then.They're acting girly in the video, that's enough for me to call them gay. |
| So MAL finally starts locking news threads that are only a few weeks old? I wonder where was the announcement of this change? Or we are seeing yet another case of changes made that impacted users but not communicated to them? I wonder how long people would put up with this. As much as I have a bunch of information to share about anime announced recently I cannot share it in news board, and the anime series is too disorganized and chaotic to share information except with people already interested in the particular series. |
| Sounds good will check it out. |
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symbv said: Niyawa said: Perhaps an anime with characters of the same name but all girls this time?symbv said: We can all see where this is going.One thing that particularly caught my eyes is how all the names of the character are neutral in gender. Makoto, Haruka, Rei, Nagisa and Rin all can be both male and female names. Very intriguing. That gave me a mindfuck for a minute. |
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MoeWatchinMadman said: Not all female anime fans are fujoshi though.Been getting progressively less interested in Kyoani since Clannad ended. Zero interest in this one. Have fun, fujoshi, should be getting some very nice animation quality, at the least. |
| So MAL finally starts locking news threads that are only a few weeks old? I wonder where was the announcement of this change? Or we are seeing yet another case of changes made that impacted users but not communicated to them? I wonder how long people would put up with this. As much as I have a bunch of information to share about anime announced recently I cannot share it in news board, and the anime series is too disorganized and chaotic to share information except with people already interested in the particular series. |
symbv said: I know that it's not a gay type anime but it seems to be creepy.Mkayyy said: Girly? I guess only gar/macho type of character qualifies as non-gay then.They're acting girly in the video, that's enough for me to call them gay. |
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KuRiZenT said: Creepy?symbv said: I know that it's not a gay type anime but it seems to be creepy.Mkayyy said: Girly? I guess only gar/macho type of character qualifies as non-gay then.They're acting girly in the video, that's enough for me to call them gay. And I'm looking forward to it, it sounds interesting. |
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| LOL I didn't expected this xDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD Get ready for a big surge of yaoi fanarts... |
KuRiZenT said: Creepy in what sense? A character design that is not macho enough? But the thing is real gay stuff often features macho men a lot...symbv said: I know that it's not a gay type anime but it seems to be creepy.Mkayyy said: Girly? I guess only gar/macho type of character qualifies as non-gay then.They're acting girly in the video, that's enough for me to call them gay. |
| So MAL finally starts locking news threads that are only a few weeks old? I wonder where was the announcement of this change? Or we are seeing yet another case of changes made that impacted users but not communicated to them? I wonder how long people would put up with this. As much as I have a bunch of information to share about anime announced recently I cannot share it in news board, and the anime series is too disorganized and chaotic to share information except with people already interested in the particular series. |
symbv said: NO. there plenty of male anime characters that aren't macho but are still not gay. Idm if they'd made 1/2 of the characters seem girly but not all of them damnit.Mkayyy said: Girly? I guess only gar/macho type of character qualifies as non-gay then.They're acting girly in the video, that's enough for me to call them gay. |
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KuRiZenT said: symbv said: I know that it's not a gay type anime but it seems to be creepy.Mkayyy said: Girly? I guess only gar/macho type of character qualifies as non-gay then.They're acting girly in the video, that's enough for me to call them gay. What're you talking about? Look at those boys, look at that moe. |
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| I can already hear the never ending screams of crazy fangirls |
| Not exactly expecting the next kids on the slope here. |
Vindictive said: I cant believe some of you missed the obvious gay themes in the PV. Mkayyy said: Well, the thing is I don't see them acting girly. It is all in how you want to see it.]NO. there plenty of male anime characters that aren't macho but are still not gay. Idm if they'd made 1/2 of the characters seem girly but not all of them damnit. |
| So MAL finally starts locking news threads that are only a few weeks old? I wonder where was the announcement of this change? Or we are seeing yet another case of changes made that impacted users but not communicated to them? I wonder how long people would put up with this. As much as I have a bunch of information to share about anime announced recently I cannot share it in news board, and the anime series is too disorganized and chaotic to share information except with people already interested in the particular series. |
| Wow, all the guys here saying because it's guys hanging out it has to be gay. It doesn't particularly interest me either, but please get your heads out of your asses. |
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Mkayyy said: Didn't need you to tell me that genius. But at first impression if I saw a guy acting all girly and cute then i'd think that they're possibly gay. Lets analyze for a minute. We have a group of energetic and attractive young men who happened to be athletes with healthy bodies+They also happened to be friends+showed no sexual activity whatsoever in the PV=GAY! Are all the boys in your school sports team gay? |
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Niyawa said: draker said: ahahhahahaaha, suck this up, kyoani fags. I'm a KyoAni fag and I like this, I don't see your point. Lord, just looking at this thread, I'm imagining how it would be if KyoAni gave those boys some girlfriends, hahahaha. I don't see any girls in the preview?! |
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