Free! Eternal Summer

Free!-Eternal Summer- / Free! - Iwatobi Swim Club 2 / Free! 2nd Season

Genres: School, Sports
Themes: School
Studios: Animation Do, Kyoto Animation
Producers: Asahi Broadcasting, Iwatobi High School Swimming Club, Lantis
Licensors: Funimation
Rating: 7.61 / 10
Rank: #1586
Popularity: #580
Users Listed: 433,830
Users Scored: 237,815
NSFW: No
Last Updated: 05/10/2024
Aired: July 3, 2014 – September 25, 2014 (Summer)
Type: tv
Source: original
Age Rating: PG 13
Episodes: 13
Broadcast: Thursday at 00:00 (JST)

Synopsis:

The Iwatobi High School Swim Club faces a critical juncture. With graduation looming and membership stagnant, the senior members – Haruka Nanase, Makoto Tachibana, Nagisa Hazuki, and Rei Ryuugazaki – must rally to preserve their club's future. As they navigate final year preparations, questions of personal aspirations and career paths weigh heavily on the group.

The impending departure of close friend Rin Matsuoka for professional swimming adds another layer of complexity, stirring subtle rivalries and challenging long-standing friendships. Adding further disruption is the arrival of Sousuke Yamazaki, a promising new student whose presence creates unforeseen tensions within the existing dynamics of the swim team. The series explores themes of ambition, uncertainty, and the evolving bonds of friendship against the backdrop of competitive swimming and impending adulthood.

Trailer:

Streaming Platforms:

Crunchyroll

Episodes:

Episode 1: Stormy Dive-Dash! (Aired: 07/03/2014)
Episode 2: Stroke of an Unexpected Meeting! (Aired: 07/10/2014)
Episode 3: The Butterfly of Farewell! (Aired: 07/17/2014)
Episode 4: The Promise's Somersault Turn! (Aired: 07/24/2014)
Episode 5: A Resolution's Heads-Up! (Aired: 07/31/2014)
... and 8 more episodes

Characters:

Hazuki, Nagisa (Main) - Voice Actors: Ayres, Greg, Yonaga, Tsubasa, Satou, Satomi, Zeiger, Christian
Matsuoka, Rin (Main) - Voice Actors: Mignogna, Vic, Miyano, Mamoru, Watanabe, Akeno, Knauer, Tim, Whitehead, Maxey
Nanase, Haruka (Main) - Voice Actors: Haberkorn, Todd, Shimazaki, Nobunaga, Baumgardt, Birte, Woodhull, Lara, Matsumoto, Megumi, Shim, Gyu-hyeok
Ryuugazaki, Rei (Main) - Voice Actors: Hirakawa, Daisuke, Tatum, J. Michael, Makino, Jan
Tachibana, Makoto (Main) - Voice Actors: Bosch, Johnny Yong, Suzuki, Tatsuhisa, Schwarz-Msesilamba, Asad, Uhlig, Charlotte, Clinkenbeard, Colleen, Yukino, Satsuki
Yamazaki, Sousuke (Main) - Voice Actors: Hosoya, Yoshimasa, Yuuki, Aoi, Sinclair, Ian, Reynolds, Ryan, Gavrilis, Marios
Amakata, Miho (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Yukino, Satsuki, Glass, Caitlin, Schmitz, Tanja, Jara, Betzabé
Hanamura, Chigusa (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Satou, Satomi, Ballard, Tia
Hotel Front (Supporting)
Iwashimizu, Tooru (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Nishiyama, Koutarou, Gross, Alexander, Nöhren, Henning
Lori (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Robinson, Rachel, Lee, Tellina
Matsuoka, Gou (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Watanabe, Akeno, Marchi, Jamie, Fölster, Julia
Mikoshiba, Seijuurou (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Tsuda, Kenjirou, McCollum, Robert, Forsberg, Nick
Mikoshiba, Momotarou (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Suzumura, Kenichi, Jewell, Jerry, Petrick, Dirk
Minami, Kazuki (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Solusod, Micah, Sugawara, Masayoshi, Wipprecht, Jeffrey
Nakagawa, Shouta (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Yokoyama, Jun, Jones, Brett, Kohn, Christopher
Nitori, Aiichirou (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Miyata, Kouki, Grelle, Jessie James, Borko, Vincent, Kim, Min-Ju
Russell (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Bevins, Christopher, Bongiorno, Andrew
Sasabe, Gorou (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Sabat, Christopher, Yanaka, Hiroshi, Rott, Fritz
Sera, Tadanori (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Yoshino, Hiroyuki, Trosko, Dave, Stephan, Arne
Shigino, Kisumi (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Suzuki, Chihiro, Satou, Rina, Vale, Eric, Ballard, Tia, Bösherz, Konrad
Shigino, Hayato (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Fujimura, Ayumi, Tipton, Alexis, Ballhaus, Anne
Sugimoto (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Horikawa, Jin, Brannan, Duncan
Tachibana, Ran (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Kobori, Miyuki, Wiedenheft, Sarah
Tachibana, Ren (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Maruyama, Yuka, Vander Pluym, Megan, Uhlig, Charlotte
Tamura (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Chijimatsu, Sachiko, Sutton, Kristin
Toudou (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Williams, Kent
Uozumi, Takuya (Supporting) - Voice Actors: Chapin, Clifford, Sagara, Nobuyori, Endemann, Jannik

Staff:

Cook, Justin (Producer)
Utsumi, Hiroko (Director)
Tsuruoka, Youta (Sound Director)
Fujita, Haruka (Episode Director, Key Animation)
Kawanami, Eisaku (Episode Director, Storyboard, Key Animation)
Kitanohara, Noriyuki (Episode Director, Storyboard, Key Animation)
Ogawa, Taichi (Episode Director, Storyboard)
Yamada, Naoko (Episode Director, Storyboard, Assistant Director, Animation Director)
Yamamura, Takuya (Episode Director, Storyboard)
Nishioka, Maiko (Script)
Tatum, J. Michael (Script)
Yokotani, Masahiro (Script, Series Composition)
Ishihara, Tatsuya (Storyboard)
Codama, Saori (Theme Song Lyrics)
Hirakawa, Daisuke (Theme Song Performance)
Hosoya, Yoshimasa (Theme Song Performance)
Katou, Tatsuya (Theme Song Composition, Theme Song Arrangement, Music)
Miyano, Mamoru (Theme Song Performance)
Miyata, Kouki (Theme Song Performance)
OLDCODEX (Theme Song Performance)
Shimazaki, Nobunaga (Theme Song Performance)
Suzuki, Tatsuhisa (Theme Song Performance)
Suzumura, Kenichi (Theme Song Performance)
Takarot (Theme Song Arrangement)
Yonaga, Tsubasa (Theme Song Performance)
eba (Theme Song Arrangement)
Fukunaga, Gen (Executive Producer)
Hatta, Hideaki (Planning Producer)
Hikiyama, Kayo (Animation Director)
Hosokawa, Naoki (Background Art)
Ikeda, Shouko (Assistant Animation Director, Animation Director)
Ikeda, Kazumi (Animation Director, Assistant Animation Director, Key Animation)
Ishidate, Taichi (Key Animation)
Jewell, Jerry (ADR Director)
Kadowaki, Miku (Assistant Animation Director, Animation Director)
Kigami, Yoshiji (Key Animation)
Nishiya, Futoshi (Character Design)
Ochiai, Shouko (Background Art)
Ooji, Kouji (Original Creator)
Sawa, Shinpei (Key Animation)
Sezaki, Rie (Animation Director, Assistant Animation Director)
Takao, Kazuya (Director of Photography)
Takase, Akiko (Key Animation)
Uda, Junichi (In-Between Animation)
Ueno, Chiyoko (Animation Director)
Unoguchi, Jouji (Art Director)
Yamaguchi, Manami (Publicity)
Yokota, Keisuke (Production Manager)

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