TV Anime 'Free!: Dive to the Future' Announces Staff Members

by tsubasalover
May 7, 2018 3:15 AM | 22 Comments

The official website for the Free! franchise has been revamped with information for the previously announced 3rd Season that includes an announcement for staff members, which are mostly a mix from the main Free! series and the High☆Speed!: Free! Starting Days prequel, as well as new ones. The cast members that enters university, including Ikuya Kirishima (CV: Kouki Uchiyama) and Asahi Shiina (CV: Toshiyuki Toyonaga) from High☆Speed!: Free! Starting Days, will reprise their roles as this season will feature a University arc. The opening theme song will be "Heading to Over" performed by OLDCODEX. Titled Dive to the Future, the anime is slated for this summer via ABC TV, Tokyo MX, TV Aichi, and BS11.

Staff
Director: Eisaku Kawanami (Musaigen no Phantom World episode director and storyboard)
Series Composition: Masahiro Yokotani (the Free! series)
Character Design, Chief Animation Director: Futoshi Nishiya (High☆Speed!: Free! Starting Days)
Art Director: Shingo Kasai (Violet Evergarden background)
3D Art: Jouji Unoguchi (the Free! series and High☆Speed!: Free! Starting Days)
Color Setting: Yuka Mineda (High☆Speed!: Free! Starting Days)
Small Item Design: Saiichi Akitake (the Tamako series setting)
Director of Photography: Kazuya Takao (the Free! series)
3D Director: Yuuji Shibata (Sakura Quest animation director)
Sound Director: Yuuta Tsuruoka (the Free! series)
Music: Tatsuya Katou (the Free! series)
Music Production: Lantis
Studio: Kyoto Animation / Animation Do
Production Iwatobi-chou Support Association

Cast
Haruka Nanase: Nobunaga Shimazaki (Saredo Tsumibito wa Ryuu to Odoru)
Makoto Tachibana: Tatsuhisa Suzuki (Akkun to Kanojo)
Rin Matsuoka: Mamoru Miyano (Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu: Die Neue These - Kaikou)
Ikuya Kirishima: Kouki Uchiyama (the Nisekoi series)
Asahi Shiina: Toshiyuki Toyonaga (Yuri!!! on Ice)

It has also been announced that the first episode of the new series will be pre-screened along with an episode 0 special screening event on June 23, 2018.

Teaser

Official site: http://df.iwatobi-sc.com/

Source: Moca News

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Gay drama is good.

May 12, 2018 8:14 PM by Claptrap

Hatsuyuki said:

Mayuka said:

kuroko is not as great as a sports anime compared to free so idk what you're talking about lol. haikyuu is overall better in sports but free! has better character development

keep in mind, i'm not a fujoshi nor did i watch any sports anime for the male characters so saying free! is just good for "fujoshi lust" is extremely ignorant.

you dropped eternal summer halfway. it's sad because that one was the best free! season out of the two :o

That's what happens when the main focus of the season is forced homosexual melodrama instead of actual sport.

no, season 2 is focused on haru's growth and makoto's resolve for his ambitions. i don't know how people can interpret it differently unless they're too distracted by the muscles.

you might as well say kuroko was too focused on the yaoi as well if free! was too gay.

May 12, 2018 10:54 AM by Mayuka

Mayuka said:

Hatsuyuki said:
From a sport perspective Free is really a bad anime, just try to compare it with Haikyuu or Kuroko no Basuke, it doesn't hold a candle to them. It does satisfy fujoshi lust I guess so that's why they keep pumping out more of this trash.

That's what happens when the main focus of the season is forced homosexual melodrama instead of actual sport.

May 12, 2018 10:39 AM by Hatsuyuki

May 12, 2018 10:33 AM by Mayuka

From a sport perspective Free is really a bad anime, just try to compare it with Haikyuu or Kuroko no Basuke, it doesn't hold a candle to them. It does satisfy fujoshi lust I guess so that's why they keep pumping out more of this trash.

May 11, 2018 1:07 PM by Hatsuyuki

Claptrap said:
Depressing how much Nagisa has been shoved aside. Eh. Not sure if I'll watch it because I liked Nagisa, Rei and Nitori best and none of them seem to be a feature of the season.

I'm still watching but I'm really disappointed too. :( Rei is my fav though, and I'm just really sad about this.

May 11, 2018 12:19 PM by removed-user

Sousuke Yamazaki cast update in Dive to the Future! https://twitter.com/iwatobi_sc/status/994834500910747649

Voiced by Hosoya Yoshimasa

May 11, 2018 12:20 AM by Iruka

Additional:

May 9, 2018 4:31 AM by tsubasalover

So excited to see what the story will be like, they'll all be in different teams so rather fighting together they'll fighting against each other.

May 8, 2018 9:27 AM by NanDemoNai_

That pic lmao are they walking down a wind tunnel

Also, damn remember when dubstep was like, in all pop music? Man 2015 feels like a while ago

May 7, 2018 3:22 PM by Red_Keys

Claptrap said:
Depressing how much Nagisa has been shoved aside. Eh. Not sure if I'll watch it because I liked Nagisa, Rei and Nitori best and none of them seem to be a feature of the season.

nah :( hopefully we'll get some glimpse!

May 7, 2018 3:06 PM by Mayuka

Depressing how much Nagisa has been shoved aside. Eh. Not sure if I'll watch it because I liked Nagisa, Rei and Nitori best and none of them seem to be a feature of the season.

May 7, 2018 3:02 PM by Claptrap

Well I'm already this deep into the franchise. I'm here for the long haul.

May 7, 2018 2:52 PM by Stripes

at this point its not even pretending to be a swim show anymore

May 7, 2018 1:47 PM by anemonespotte

As a Free! fan, I gotta say that we really don't need any more Free! We got two seasons and all those movies; I'd rather KyoAni put their resources towards something else. *cough*Nichijou S2*cough* I'll still watch it and enjoy it tho, lol.

May 7, 2018 1:42 PM by CureEtude

Swagernator said:
One day i will bring myself to watch the whole series. Just for the sake of luls.

Gonna need to be stoned or stoned drunk to beable to watch it

May 7, 2018 8:34 AM by ecchiharemgeek

Asahi looks awesome as an adult, after watching Take Your Marks I'm even more hyped for S3!! Can't wait!!

May 7, 2018 7:35 AM by Riritsu

looking amazing so far! next season is so close!

the fact that they put asahi on the same level as makoto in the PV makes me think that s3 will have a lot of focus on him as well, bumping him up to be in the main cast ☺️

Swagernator said:
One day i will bring myself to watch the whole series. Just for the sake of luls.

it's not a luls show tho :p you might end up enjoying it

May 7, 2018 6:40 AM by Mayuka

I have waited for a PV for a loooong time now! Excited ^^

Oh my, they are finally uni students.. and it seems to me that they are all on different teams. It's going to be exciting to finally see more of Ikuya and Asahi, and not just from HS and the latest Take Your Marks special movie. Since Ikuya seems to really look up to Haru and his style of swimming it's probably going to get intense, and because Rin doesn't really know them that well.

I want to know why Rin came home from Australia as well hmm

Swagernator said:
One day i will bring myself to watch the whole series. Just for the sake of luls.

honestly just do it, Free! is great

May 7, 2018 6:30 AM by Iruka

I am looking forward to it!

May 7, 2018 3:58 AM by Dessssy

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