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Free! (2013-2018)

Premiere:
July 4, 2013

# of Seasons: 3

# of Episodes: 37

Finale:
September 27, 2018

Original Title:
Free!

Alternate Titles:
Free!
Free! - Iwatobi Swim Club
Free! -Dive to the Future-
Free! Eternal Summer
Free! 男子游泳部
Free！-Eternal Summer-
Free！ーEternal Summerー
フリー!
フリー!-Dive to the Future-
热血自由式
男子游泳部

Genres:
Animation | Comedy

Production Companies:
ABC Animation
Animation DO
Asahi Broadcasting Corporation
Bandai Namco Arts
Heart Company
Kyoto Animation
Lantis
Pony Canyon

Countries:
JP

Overview from TheMovieDB

The story revolves around Haruka Nanase, a boy who has always loved to be immersed in water, and to swim in it. Before graduating from elementary school, he participated in a swimming tournament along with his fellow swimming club members, Makoto Tachibana, Nagisa Hazuki, and Rin Matsuoka. After achieving victory, each of the boys went their separate ways. Time passed, and in the middle of their uneventful high school lives Rin appears and challenges Haruka to a match, showing Haruka his overwhelming power. Not wanting it to end like this, Haruka, gathers together Makoto and Nagisa once again and brings a new member named Rei Ryugazaki to create the Iwatobi High School Swimming Club in order to defeat Rin.

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Production

3D Artist:
Joji Unoguchi

3D Director:
Yuji Shibata

Art Direction:
Shingo Kasai

Character Designer:
Futoshi Nishiya

Color Designer:
Yuka Yoneda

Director of Photography:
Kazuya Takao

Editor:
Kengo Shigemura

Executive Producer:
Masayuki Nishide
Yoko Kogawa
Shunji Inoue
Yoko Hatta

Music Producer:
Shigeru Saito

Online Editor:
Gen Itakura

Opening/Ending Animation:
Yoshiji Kigami
Sae Sawada
Kayo Hikiyama
Ryosuke Shirakawa
Sana Suzuki
Eisaku Kawanami
Miku Kadowaki
Seiya Kumano
Yuko Myouken
Takuya Yamamura
Minoru Ota
Maiko Hado
Shinpei Sawa
Ryouhei Muta
Tatsuya Satou
Hiroyuki Takahashi
Chiyoko Ueno
Nami Iwasaki
Kunihiro Hane

Original Music Composer:
Tatsuya Kato

Original Story:
Koji Oji

Producer:
Megumi Suzuki
Shinichi Nakamura
Masayuki Nishide
Shinichiro Hatta
Shigeru Saito

Prop Designer:
Seiichi Akitake

Series Composition:
Masahiro Yokotani

Series Director:
Eisaku Kawanami

Sound Director:
Yota Tsuruoka

Sound Effects:
Eiko Morikawa

Sound Recordist:
Satoshi Yano

Special Effects:
Sachie Tsuda

Supervising Animation Director:
Futoshi Nishiya

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