Free! (TV) Reviews
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Title(s): |
Free!
フリー! |
Creator: |
Kōji Ōji
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Genres: |
Drama,
Slice of Life,
Tournament
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Age Group: |
Older Children (May contain mild bad language, bloodless violence) |
Vintage: |
July 3, 2013 |
Status: |
Still Airing |
Summary: |
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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a good one
Written by jueina on January 18, 2014 at 5:02 AM
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Overall Rating
Good
Story: 4
Dialogue: 4
Animation: 5
Entertainment: 4
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Only giving it a try due to the cute anime design and beautiful animation, but it turn out to have a good storyline. Besides, it is hilarious too. so what if it is female fanservice, as long as it got a good story with it, i don't mind at all. The execution of the story is beautiful. it is not an anime where you know everything since the beginning. The revelation of the background story along the episodes make me stick with it to the end. conclusion: enjoyable. recommended to everyone.
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.
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Free!
Written by yamamori on December 6, 2013 at 9:16 PM
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Overall Rating
Excellent
Story: 5
Dialogue: 5
Animation: 5
Entertainment: 5
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Exellent !!!
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0 out of 1 people found this review helpful.
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Must WATCH
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Overall Rating
Excellent
Story: 5
Dialogue: 5
Animation: 5
Entertainment: 5
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Free also called HighSpeed(in Japanese) is based on the light novel. this anime brings you to your Seishun(youth).
I have been watching many Animes like-One Piece, Naruto, Bleach, Fairy Tail, Dragon Ball, SAO, Beelzebub, etc which are all based on special power. so i liked Free a lot because of its realistic nature.
You MUST WATCH !!!
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0 out of 2 people found this review helpful.
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one oiece
Written by achenlol on September 17, 2013 at 6:23 PM
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Overall Rating
Excellent
Story: 5
Dialogue: 5
Animation: 4
Entertainment: 5
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good job...
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0 out of 3 people found this review helpful.
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Pure Fanservice
Written by sanyumi on September 1, 2013 at 1:32 PM
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Overall Rating
Good
Story: 2
Dialogue: 5
Animation: 5
Entertainment: 5
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I don't watch anime anymore... so why am I suddenly hooked on "Free!"? I'll tell you why: because it's hilarious. And it's meant to be.
I'm past that age where I get crushes on anime boys, so I don't watch for the fanservice (shocking, I know, seeing as how this entire anime is pure fangirl fodder). I watch for the characters and dialogue, which is done fabulously.
The script is smart and funny and modern. The sound effects add well to everything, and the show isn't afraid to poke fun at itself.
The art is flawless; beautiful animation. When ( read more)
I don't watch anime anymore... so why am I suddenly hooked on "Free!"? I'll tell you why: because it's hilarious. And it's meant to be.
I'm past that age where I get crushes on anime boys, so I don't watch for the fanservice (shocking, I know, seeing as how this entire anime is pure fangirl fodder). I watch for the characters and dialogue, which is done fabulously.
The script is smart and funny and modern. The sound effects add well to everything, and the show isn't afraid to poke fun at itself.
The art is flawless; beautiful animation. When you download this, I recommend DeadFish's subbed episodes because they manage to keep the stunning quality (although on some episodes the translation is a little lost. I couldn't tell you about the other links though, I'm DeadFish's number one fan).
The story is lacking though... a main plot of the high school swim team trying to make it to their first tournament, with the underlying story of Rin and Haru's intense rivalry, not to mention Rin's character development (aka, why the heck is he so moody broody? Stay tuned to find out!). Typical slice of life sports anime... meant for girls. Oh yes (look at dat booty).
Conclusion? Gay. This anime is super gay. And I love it. It's totally my guilty pleasure and I will recommend it shamelessly 8D ( show less)
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3 out of 3 people found this review helpful.
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Excellent
Written by Meekaeel on July 31, 2013 at 4:08 PM
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Overall Rating
Good
Story: 4
Dialogue: 4
Animation: 5
Entertainment: 3
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I dunno why but I just all of a sudden download this and told myself why not give a chance even though I have three animes I still need to complete I decided to give it a chance and firstly its like so boring though at the same time it just gives you that feeling of pure excitement and the best part? There ain't even super powers involved its just pure excitement and its extremely intruiging and interesting and the art is out of this world ofcourse its not final fantasy but I can almost put the two on equal footing its no wonder rins sister is continuoslly ( read more)
I dunno why but I just all of a sudden download this and told myself why not give a chance even though I have three animes I still need to complete I decided to give it a chance and firstly its like so boring though at the same time it just gives you that feeling of pure excitement and the best part? There ain't even super powers involved its just pure excitement and its extremely intruiging and interesting and the art is out of this world ofcourse its not final fantasy but I can almost put the two on equal footing its no wonder rins sister is continuoslly falling over her own feet and the whole thing about being free its just so deep and at the same time easy to understand there's always new phillosiphy's to learn I love it and only because its still new I'd give it a solid 8 and a half out of 10 ( show less)
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5 out of 5 people found this review helpful.
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The best summer anime
Written by heru21 on July 25, 2013 at 8:46 AM
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Overall Rating
Excellent
Story: 5
Dialogue: 5
Animation: 5
Entertainment: 5
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The story was good with some comedy and the animation was excellent especially the characters and the opening song.But this anime is not a yaoi anime like the others said it's a sport genre anime.
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6 out of 6 people found this review helpful.
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Stripping down to swim in the fish tank...?
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Overall Rating
Excellent
Story: 5
Dialogue: 5
Animation: 5
Entertainment: 5
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For the fact that, as the title of this review suggests, there's a lot of comedy involved in this, the story is pretty well-done actually. Comedies have rarely run on story, but apparently this one does... it's not supposed to be all comedy and silliness after all. ;) Where the superficial plot is kind of simple and the episodes tend not to end on cliffhanger notes exactly, the pacing is quick, and the development of both the superficial and the sub-plot (character development, conflicts, rivalry) has been decent for only four episodes. The characters ( read more)
For the fact that, as the title of this review suggests, there's a lot of comedy involved in this, the story is pretty well-done actually. Comedies have rarely run on story, but apparently this one does... it's not supposed to be all comedy and silliness after all. ;) Where the superficial plot is kind of simple and the episodes tend not to end on cliffhanger notes exactly, the pacing is quick, and the development of both the superficial and the sub-plot (character development, conflicts, rivalry) has been decent for only four episodes. The characters aren't exactly fresh, however not short on personality, and they tie together nicely. Character interaction can be both silly and serious, providing humor and drama respectively, and all of it gets across quite well via dialogue script and voice acting. Still better than that though is the sheer entertainment factor. Between drama and scenes of school slice of life, Free! can get rather silly. It's not lacking brains, it just tends not to take itself seriously, and it does that well, going as far as to venture into parody-reminiscent at times. There were moments that made me roll my eyes, but most was designed just to make people laugh; and with me at least, it hit.
Speaking of parody, also the art can be quite over-the-top. It gives off the feeling of an incredibly detailed shoujo, with a cast that's more handsome/beautiful than you'd find them at any high school, and entirely complete with fanservice for the female audience (^__^ go figure). The animation is pretty much flawless, especially where it comes to water effects and swimming action, however the background music can be distracting as it doesn't ever seem to stop/take a break.
At the beginning, I watched Free! mostly for the sheer amount of LOL WTF moments. Those haven't decreased, yet now that the actual conflict's beginning to be unveiled (and, hopefully, progressing), the storyline as well has gotten interesting, and both characters and story show great potential IMO. Free! won't be for everyone (shoujo style ;)), however I'm definitely enjoying it so far.
9/10 from me, not my favourite this season, yet it's become a close tier. ( show less)
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6 out of 6 people found this review helpful.
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Free! (TV)
Written by galaxy200 on July 24, 2013 at 2:07 AM
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Overall Rating
Excellent
Story: 5
Dialogue: 5
Animation: 5
Entertainment: 5
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Like this
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1 out of 10 people found this review helpful.
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TRY OUT THE FREE ANIME!!!! :D
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Overall Rating
Excellent
Story: 5
Dialogue: 5
Animation: 5
Entertainment: 5
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The anime is pretty cool ^^ the sport, the action and the characters r all rlly good and are MAJOR hotties xDDD I had a nosebleed the last time I saw my fav chara showing off his muscles xDDDD anyway, overall, it's an anime worth watching and you'll end up regretting it if u don't watch this anime :3 Also, the opening song is good but the ending one is just the BEST. It suits the anime alot :D I guarantee it, it's really, really, really, really, REALLY, REALLY, REALLY, REALLY, REALLY, REALLY, REALLY AWESOME XDDD
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3 out of 5 people found this review helpful.
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