Dive!!

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English: DIVE!!

Japanese: DIVE!!

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Type: TV

Episodes: 12

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Jul 7, 2017 to Sep 22, 2017

Premiered: Summer 2017

Broadcast: Fridays at 00:55 (JST)

Producers: Aniplex, Dentsu, Fuji TV, DMM pictures

Licensors: Sentai Filmworks

Studios: Zero-G

Source: Novel

Genres: Comedy, Sports

Duration: 22 min. per ep.

Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

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Score: 6.15¹ (scored by 9,370 users)

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Ranked: #7232²

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Popularity: #2274

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The series revolves around the Mizuki Diving Club (MDC), which is on the verge of closing down after having financial troubles. The club's new coach persuades the club's parent company to stay open on one condition: that the club sends one of its members to next year's Olympics as part of Japan's Olympic team.

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Fujitani, Youichi

Main

Sakurai, Takahiro
Japanese

Sakai, Tomoki

Main

Kaji, Yuki
Japanese

Okitsu, Shibuki

Main

Nakamura, Yuuichi
Japanese

Maruyama, Reiji

Supporting

Uchiyama, Kouki
Japanese

Toshihiko, Tsuji

Supporting

Aoi, Shouta
Japanese

Asaki, Kayoko

Supporting

Nazuka, Kaori
Japanese

American Man

Supporting

Komada, Wataru
Japanese

Sakai, Hiroya

Supporting

Kimura, Ryouhei
Japanese

Okitsu, Minami

Supporting

Ogasawara, Saki
Japanese

Okitsu, Misaki

Supporting

Mikami, Yurie
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Suzuki, Kaoru

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Iwanami, Yoshikazu

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Utsunomiya, Masamitsu

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Qyoto

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"Taiyou mo Hitoribocchi (太陽もひとりぼっち)" by Qyoto

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"NEW WORLD" by Yuuta Hashimoto (橋本裕太)

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Sep 22, 2017

12 of 12 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 4

JoJoberserker (All reviews)

31 people found this review helpful

Ok, this is my first time writing a review so..

Well, where do we start? I guess from the begining. Dive!! is an anime about, you guess it, diving, but it does little to nothing to get you exited for it. As we all know, at least the ones that have already watched an spocon, you don't have to like the sport that the series is about, you don't even have to know about it's very existance to like the anime itself and that is one of the many things this show does wrong. The anime fails in selling you the sport, they barely explain how read more

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Dec 23, 2017

12 of 12 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 4

medge (All reviews)

13 people found this review helpful

Dive.... what can I say about Dive?? I think that the producers looked at Free! and noticed how popular it was and decided to shit something out that was somewhat similar, only to be poorly executed. I don't even feel like writing out the exclamation points for this anime because I don't think it deserves it in my opinion! I am going to use Free! as a comparison to this anime when I write my review because it is EXTREMELY apparent that elements from Free! were manipulated and grabbed by the writers of this thing, with an addition of typical anime tropes that even Free used, to gain attention.

(DISCLAIMER- I know that there was a manga series/novel that was published for this before Free! existed, but the fact that they produced this as an anime adaptation AFTER Free! does not sit right with me.)

For all of the beckoning irritations I have with this anime, one thing I will say is that the art style is pretty nice. Although I'm not the biggest fan of Tomoki's eyes, it is clear that there was a lot of effort put into the production. BUT, an art style should not distract a person from noticing a flawed story line and dull characters.

Can we also talk about the concept of this anime? Diving. It's like they said "hmm, what hasn't already been done for a sports anime? Let's take this old series and do something with it." And the fact that the novelist wrote something like this before Free! is astounding. Competitive swimming was an open field for this series, and they happened to butcher it to make the dullest, most boring thing! Congrats! Your character can jump off a diving board! No offense to divers, though. I think that real life diving IS truly enticing and marvelous. But, when people are trying to animate it, that message does NOT get across. In Dive, the animation for diving was extremely choppy and awkward. There was SO MUCH BUILDUP that got you going like shit!! this is gonna be Intense! But when you finally get to the point where he's gonna jump, it just leaves you with a bad taste in your mouth. Almost like a betrayal. In Free! there was So Much Going On and they really used a lot of elements to express the competitive intensity of each character. But you can't really compare them I guess, since Dive had such a lacking concept from the beginning that would make it challenging to execute.

Queerbaiting. I mean, really! The most typical trope of sports anime. I will say, though, it was pretty interesting to see that whole Miu fiasco, which is something different, I guess. And there was a whole lot of build up that honestly kept me watching (I mean like, did you watch Yuri!! On Ice??), but it was just shut down. There is so much blatant fanservice that a lot of sports anime will use when it comes to queerbaiting, so I was not surprised that this anime would be the same.

Also, the storyline is super choppy. We get it, you want to add some personal elements to the characters to give your series some Angst, some Flavor!! And that's perfectly valid! But in this anime, it got downright confusing. Towards the end, it's like they realized they were going off on a tangent and forgot to assure a stable story line to its audience, so they figured they would cram a whole bunch of shit into the last few episodes! Not only is the storyline super choppy, but the actual production is! Transitioning to each part of the story left me with an unfinished feeling, like they cut parts of the scene to conserve time, and even the music felt off in a few places. This flaw was SO present in the diving scenes that it became a chore to sit through them.

Overall, I just couldn't get into this anime. I tried to hard. I sat through every single episode hoping that it would go somewhere, and I did not know what to expect. A lot of the characters just felt out of place or boring, and the concept of the anime did not help with that at all. There was barely a flow; it was all over the place!! The end left me extremely disappointed, and I will not watch the second season if they decide to shit one out. I can't believe I wasted my time with this, and you shouldn't either!

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Sep 21, 2017

12 of 12 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 6

BlackCicero (All reviews)

4 people found this review helpful

It's pretty hard to imagine that there would be a way to make an anime about competitive diving interesting. Dive!! does nothing to change your mind in that regard. What you end up getting is a very average, typical sports anime.
The story itself is okay but any efforts to add dramatic or comedic elements fail for the most part. The art is good although I do have a little gripe with how the reflection of light off the water's surface looks on the divers bodies. The best chance the anime had of drawing me in I thought would have been the way they chose to read more

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Apr 8, 2018

12 of 12 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 6

xHime-chan (All reviews)

2 people found this review helpful

Well..where do I start? I cannot say I did not enjoy the series, but if I think back to it this feels like the storyline was ripped of from Free!, which holds a similar concept of the storyline. Even the main character looks a bit similar to Haruka, from Free!, and considering that it was aired about 4 years after the release of Free!, it feels like a rip off. Not saying that I did not enjoy the story regardless, but I do feel like the storyline should have been a bit more original. One point though, I did enjoy the soundtrack, as it is read more

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