Free! Dive to the Future - Soushun no Build-up!

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Synonyms: Free! Dive to the Future Special

Japanese: Free!-Dive to the Future- 早春のビルドアップ

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Type: Special

Episodes: 1

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Jun 23, 2018

Producers: None found, add some

Licensors: None found, add some

Studios: Kyoto Animation, Animation Do

Source: Original

Genre: Comedy

Theme: School

Duration: 23 min.

Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

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Score: 7.56¹ (scored by 9,305 users)

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Ranked: #1635²

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Popularity: #4531

Members: 23,405

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As they adjust to life in Tokyo, Haruka Nanase and Makoto Tachibana prepare for their university's opening ceremony. However, while running some errands, they find themselves representing Iwatobi in a regional mascot wrestling tournament. Unbeknownst to them, the rest of the Iwatobi and Samezuka swim club members are watching the event's live broadcast at a local festival.

While also adapting to the quick change of pace, Ikuya Kirishima and Hiyori Toono discuss what moving from the countryside to the city was like.

Crossing paths with old friends on the bustling streets of Tokyo, the curtain rises on a new chapter in the boys' lives.

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Background

Free!: Dive to the Future - Soushun no Build-up! premiered at a special Free! screening event on June 23, 2018. The special was later included with the Blu-ray and DVD release of Free! Dive to the Future on September 26, 2018.

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Characters & Voice Actors

Tachibana, Makoto

Main

Suzuki, Tatsuhisa
Japanese

Nanase, Haruka

Main

Shimazaki, Nobunaga
Japanese

Matsuoka, Rin

Supporting

Miyano, Mamoru
Japanese

Hazuki, Nagisa

Supporting

Yonaga, Tsubasa
Japanese

Ryuugazaki, Rei

Supporting

Hirakawa, Daisuke
Japanese

Yamazaki, Sousuke

Supporting

Hosoya, Yoshimasa
Japanese

Kirishima, Ikuya

Supporting

Uchiyama, Kouki
Japanese

Matsuoka, Gou

Supporting

Watanabe, Akeno
Japanese

Shigino, Kisumi

Supporting

Suzuki, Chihiro
Japanese

Mikoshiba, Momotarou

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Suzumura, Kenichi
Japanese

Staff

Kitanohara, Noriyuki

Episode Director, Storyboard

Katou, Tatsuya

Music

Ooji, Kouji

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Opening Theme

"Heading to Over" by OLDCODEX

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Ending Theme

"Gold Evolution" by STYLE FIVE

Reviews

Feb 3, 2019

Ant161718

Recommended

It was an more hilarious episode than usually, and you can feel the emotions of everyone about the new start that they all are living , it brings you the sensation that something big its coming. In this special like in the previous movie "Take your marks" the element of funny confussions and coincidence again as ingredient,was perfect!
It really deserves your chance, the ED was the best of all! Hope to see more sexy's dance of the boys like this!

MUSIC: Like I said, the ending was the best of the OST that they used it here to me. As well, the sounds ...

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Oct 18, 2018

BabyGirl06301

Recommended

So, this episode was... weird. I still liked it a lot, but it felt different from the normal Free! It was closer to something from a comedy than from a drama. It isn't anything like the last special of Free! that we got for Eternal Summer.

This episode takes place between Take Your Marks and the main Dive to the Future storyline. So, it's before everything in Dive to the Future happened. Ikuya isn't yet a part of the friend group again, Asahi hasn't reunited with everyone, and Rin has just gotten to Australia. You're not really gonna get any Rin in this episode, which ...

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Jun 8, 2021

Stormy_77

Recommended

This takes place after Free: Take your marks and is the prequel episode to Season 3 of Free: Dive to the Future.

Story, sound, enjoyment - 8/10

Summer is over and everyone is now transitioning to the new season of their lives. 2 characters from Free Starting Days (when Haru was in the middle school swimming club) show up. This is great for the story, but not for the character because there is no pay off, a reason why I rated character 7/10. To be honest, the best part of this might have been Haru and Mako in suits (yummy fan service for ladies), looking all handsome ...

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