High☆Speed! Movie: Free! Starting Days


Free! Starting Days

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Synonyms: Free! Movie, High☆Speed!: Free! Starting Days
Japanese: 映画 ハイ☆スピード! -Free! Starting Days-
English: Free! Starting Days
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Type: Movie
Episodes: 1
Status: Finished Airing
Aired: Dec 5, 2015
Licensors: Funimation
Studios: Kyoto Animation
Source: Light novel
Genres: DramaDrama, SportsSports
Theme: SchoolSchool
Duration: 1 hr. 50 min.
Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

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Score: 7.861 (scored by 4263742,637 users)
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Ranked: #8752
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Popularity: #2177
Members: 93,034
Favorites: 276

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Haruka Nanase and Makoto Tachibana have started middle school and must adjust to the changes that come along with growing up. While Makoto fits in with his classmates and remains positive about swimming, Haruka struggles to befriend others or join his school's swim club, as his previous issues with swimming trouble him. Distancing himself from his lively classmates and the swimming club, he has difficulty deciding which club to join instead. The rest of his classmates, including Makoto, are also hesitant as to which clubs to participate in. After an argument leads them to join the swimming club anyway, the boys strive to hone their skills, harmonize their swimming styles, and refine their conflicting feelings toward swimming and each other.

As determination and talent run high, Haruka and Makoto—along with their classmates—discover themselves and improve their talents during their starting days.

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Reviews

May 13, 2022
Emotionally, I’d rate this movie either a 9 to even a 10.
The movie is a large insight on the lives of Haruka and Makoto, after Rin left for Australia, and the “best” swimming team they could have, had to seperate. How do you move forward when you’ve already experienced the best?

[Slight spoilers ahead!]
Haruka and Makoto are first-years in middleschool. Even though the pair’s unsure at first, through some tricks and troubles, they end up joining the school’s swimming club together with Haruka’s new classmates: Asahi Shiina and Ikuya Kirishima.

But a team requires teamwork, and friendship isn’t something you can create just like that. ...
Mar 3, 2022
Being a basic fan of the Free! series, I of course had to watch the movies which followed alongside it!

Free! Starting Days is a wonderful remembrance of the original youth relay which Haru and Makoto were a part of in their first year of middle school, although the story was a tad choppy and misplaced in segments, the overall high quality of all art, sound, and character is what makes the movie superb in my eyes.

There were humorous moments, such as the group camping around Haru`s home, the lunchtime conversations which were lighthearted, but the film was met with an equally heavy presence of ...
Dec 20, 2019
Mixed Feelings
High☆Speed!: Free! Starting Days is a prequel to Free!. Prequels are usually made to give more context to the characters and explain why they were the way they were at the beginning of the main show. This movie does not add anything to the first season at all and was made to give context to the third season of the show, which is the worst season. If you ignore the third season, this movie is not worth watching. The colour palette isn't as bright and cheerful as the show and has more calm and subdued colours to fit the tone of the movie. The animation ...

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