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Lo and behold, only a few short months later, Kyoto Animation releases a full-length series featuring those same swimmers titled Free! As a teenager, I was enamored with these beautiful boys and the melodrama surrounding them. It became my comfort anime, as I found it to be a fun and relaxing watch during those bad days.

Re-watching the anime as an adult, however, made me realize that the show that brought me such comfort over the years has quite a few things amiss. After falling out with his friend and rival Matsuoka Rin in middle school, Haruka quit competitive swimming while Rin left to study abroad in Australia. As Haru and his best friend Tachibana Makoto enter their second year of high school, they encounter a familiar face: Hazuki Nagisa, a teammate from their elementary school swim team.

After learning that Rin is back in Japan, the two meet again and renew their rivalry. One of the biggest gripes I have now with Free! The plethora of muscles and the way they are framed has been a turn off for many free audience members. The camera practically drools as it pans across the butts and abs of the swims as they emerge from the pool, accentuated by beads of club and sparkles.

In the last few years, character design in club anime have been moving toward the high school characters that look like actual high schoolers, complete with the awkwardness of adolescence and growth spurts, rather than Olympic-level athletes. For example, Tsurunea more recent anime also from Kyoto Gay focusing on Japanese archery, has character designs that are much more youthful and accurate to the average teenage body.

On multiple occasions, Free! One by one, the show works its way through classic romantic moments: sparkly-eyed kabedonpromises made under a cherry blossom tree, a hotel room with just one bed, so on and so forth. All of these have falsely pandered to the audience for three seasons and counting. In one episode, the rest of the team assumes Rei must have a girlfriend occupying his time, but when they see him talking with a boy, wonder if he has a boyfriend instead.

In another instance, Rin visits his homestay parents in Australia, and they ask whether he has a girlfriend yet. Despite its flaws, Free! The characters grow and develop to the point that I ended up changing my mind from my gay impressions of them, such as Rin. That attitude of his riled me up whenever I saw him on screen.

However, free I saw that Rin had a tough time adjusting to his new life in Australia, my feelings about him shifted. Most of all, he missed his friends. Despite this, he stayed passionate about swimming and determined to reach his goal to compete in the Olympics. I believe that everyone can find a bit of themselves in this show.

For example, many viewers could likely relate to the storyline where Nagisa runs away from home because his parents want him to quit swimming and focus on his swim grades.

My Fave is Problematic: Free!

As a result, the children give up their passions in order to follow what their parents believe to be a more lucrative career path, such as a doctor or engineer, and end up drowning themselves in their studies. Through the Iwatobi swim team, audience members experience the thrill of following their passion, the importance of self-care, and the camaraderie of team sports.

As an ongoing series, Free!