Free!

Also known as Free! - Iwatobi Swim Club, Free! - Eternal Summer, Free! - Dive to the Future

Free! is a Japanese anime television series produced by Kyoto Animation and Animation Do. The series is loosely based on the light novel, , written by Kōji Ōji, which received an honorable mention in the second Kyoto Animation Award contest in 2011 and was published in July 2013. The first season titled, Free! - Iwatobi Swim Club for international distribution, aired in Japan in 2013; and the second season titled, Free! - Eternal Summer, aired in 2014. A third season of the anime series titled, Free! - Dive to the Future, aired in 2018. Hiroko Utsumi directed the first two seasons, while seaso

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Animanga/Header.name: Free!
Animanga/Header.image: Free! promotional image 1.jpg
Animanga/Header.caption: Promotional poster of the Free! anime series
Animanga/Header.genre: Sports (Swimming)
Animanga/Video.type: tv series
Animanga/Video.title: Free! - Dive to the Future
Animanga/Video.director: Eisaku Kawanami
Animanga/Video.writer: Masahiro Yokotani
Animanga/Video.music: Tatsuya Kato
Animanga/Video.network: ABC, Tokyo MX, TVA, BS11, AT-X
Animanga/Video.first: July 11, 2018
Animanga/Video.last: September 26, 2018
Animanga/Video.episodes: 12
Animanga/Video.episode_list: List of Free! episodes#Dive to the Future (2018)
Animanga/Print.type: light novel
Animanga/Print.title: High Speed!
Animanga/Print.author: Kōji Ōji
Animanga/Print.illustrator: Futoshi Nishiya

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Official website: iwatobi-sc.com

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social media followers: 431321
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start time: 2013-07-03
title: Free!
number of episodes: 37
number of seasons: 3

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Plot
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Iwatobi High School
Samezuka Academy
Iwatobi Junior High School/Tokyo
Others
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Prior to season three, several films depict events preceding, including and following the events of seasons one and two. The first feature film, High Speed! Free! Starting Days, was released in December 2015 and depicts events from volume two of the series' prequel light novel, High Speed! A film trilogy was released in 2017 with the first two films being compilations of seasons one and two of the anime series titled, Free! Timeless Medley - the Bond and Free! Timeless Medley - the Promise. The third film in the trilogy titled, Free! Take Your Marks, features four new vignettes. A compilation film encompassing the third season titled, Free! Road to the World - the Dream, debuted in July 2019.