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“Iwatobi swim club faces closure; seniors ponder futures while Rin's rival Sousuke arrives, straining friendships.”
Free! Eternal Summer
Free!-Eternal Summer-
7.61
1,663 rank · 439,584 viewers · 2,556 favorites
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Synopsis
Iwatobi swim club faces closure; seniors ponder futures while Rin's rival Sousuke arrives, straining friendships.
Even though it has been a year since the Iwatobi High School Swim Club has been created, new members have yet to join the club. Now that Haruka Nanase and Makoto Tachibana are senior students, along with their younger friends Nagisa Hazuki and Rei Ryuugazaki, they have to find a way to attract new members. If not, the club will be forced to close the following year due to a lack of membership. Meanwhile, with impending graduation, it is also time for the seniors to decide their plans for the future. Unlike their friend Rin Matsuoka, the new captain of Samezuka Academy Swim Club who is determined to fulfill his dream of being a professional swimmer, Haruka and Makoto are unsure about what career path they want to take. Further problems arise when an old friend of Rin's, Sousuke Yamazaki, comes to the city to study at Samezuka Academy; the recently scouted swimmer's arrival causes tension in the relationship among him, Rin, and Haruka.
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 47 sampled reviews
7.7
/10
What 47 viewers settled on.
91%
recommend
Score distribution
median 8
mode 8
σ 1.81
Agreement
Polarized
σ 1.81 · split reception
The polarity gap
5.1 pts
Recommenders 8.4 · others 3.3
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No
Score over time
↑ 0.72
Running avg · Sep 2014 → Mar 2024
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 9 “STORY: 9 I liked it even more than the first one. Swimming and sweating and more RIN, oh thanks God about that character. ART: 8 Still very good but nothing special. SOUND: 9I LOVED EVERYTHING AND...”
- 8 “A Quick Review My biggest Take-away : I watched it as the squeal to the first season expecting it to be similar but it focused a good amount on finding your dream and questioning what you want to...”
- 8 “I don't normally write reviews but the reason why I'm writing a review for this series is because of the last two episodes. At first, I wasn't really into the series but when I saw those two...”
Verbosity
Short · 26%
Medium · 38%
Long · 36%
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A Tv Production · Summer 2014
Kyoto Animation.
in association with
Lantis · Iwatobi High School Swimming Club
- Format 13 × 23′ eps × min
- Total runtime 4h 59m all episodes
- Aired Jul 2014 – Sep 2014 Summer 2014
- Source Tv media type
- Rated PG 13 - Teens 13 or older
- Ref. BS-8604 catalog
Produced by
- Lantis Producer
- Iwatobi High School Swimming Club Producer
- Asahi Broadcasting Producer
- Pony Canyon Producer
Licensed by
- Funimation Licensor