FUNimation is proud to announce the acquisition of Free! -Eternal Summer-, the continuation of the hit swimming anime that made waves across the Internet! Not only will we be simulcasting the series as part of our summer season, we’ve also acquired home video rights! Yes, you read that right— Free! -Eternal Summer- will be coming to home video in North America.
Episode one will premiere this coming Wednesday, July 2, at 11:30 AM Eastern Time (that’s 10:30 CDT and 8:30 PDT), with new episodes every Wednesday following at the same time.
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synopsis:
The boys of summer are back! Haru, Makoto, Nagisa, Rei, and Rin are reunited for a second season in Free! -Eternal Summer-. After the last swim meet, the bonds of friendship have only gotten stronger, and with each passing day these boys continue to grow. This season brings new rivals and new challenges. So get ready, the competition is about to get fierce!
Free! –Eternal Summer- reunites the boys of the Iwatobi and Samezuka Swim Clubs, along with newcomer Sosuke Yamazaki, Rin’s childhood friend! The season features the voice talents of:
Character Voice Actor
Haruka Nanase Nobunaga Shimazaki (Kuroko’s Basketball, Say I Love You)
Makoto Tachibana Tatsuhisa Suzuki (Uta no Prince-sama, Beyond the Boundary, Say I Love You)
Nagisa Hazuki Tsubasa Yonaga (Big Windup, Yowamushi Pedal)
Rei Ryugazaki Daisuke Hirakawa (Brothers Conflict, Diabolik Lovers)
Rin Matsuoka Mamoru Miyano (Ouran High School Host Club, Uta no Prince-sama)
Sosuke Yamazaki Yoshimasa Hosoya (Brothers Conflict, Robotics;Notes, Haikyu!!)
We know plenty of you are just as excited as we are about this new series— and we want to hear about it! We’re hoping to compile a ton of comments about what you, the fans, are most excited about for Free! -Eternal Summer-, from all across the internet. Reply on our Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr or blog with why YOU love Free! and what you’re looking forward to in this season. We’ll share your answers across our social media and spread the love!
What about the first season? Please tell me you have that too!
Good point.
Yeah. Some type of first season confirmation to Free! will be great. This is still really good news with rights gained for Free! Eternal Summer.
BEST ANNOUNCEMENT EVER! FUNIMATION YOU ARE TOO amazing.
Please give it a lovely collectors edition and everything like Attack on Titan. This is the best pickup ever!!!!!!! I love you so much.
This is super exciting! I know I’m going to buy the heck outta this! I hope it has a dub!
So excited! I can’t say Free! is my top sports/game/team themed anime (that honor goes to Hikaru no Go and Chihayafuru since I just can’t decide), but it is a good one. I can’t wait to get more of the water obsessed Haru. I mean, he sits in his bathtub at home he’s so obsessed with it. XD
I’m also excited to see FUNimation taking more chances on the sport/game genre. Even if this comes out sub-only I’ll be in line to buy a copy.
This is ideal news for fans of the show now for the rest of us we will be swiftly moving forward with our day the dub will no doubt have Michael Tatum & Josh Grelle somewhere in the cast that’s inevitable.
Hahahaha!!! I had a feeling this had to be dubbed sooner or later. And I kinda imagined a FUNimation dub for this one. Like Thegateoftruth said, there will most likely be a Tatum or a Grelle in this dub. My money is on Josh Grelle to voice Nagisa.
:DDD YASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSs
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE GET SEASON ONE AS WELL AND PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE DUB IT!!! I AM SECRETLY HOPING THAT JOHNNY YONG BOSCH PLAYS RIN MATSUOKA MY LIFE WOULD BE MADE IF THAT HAPPENED!!!!!
That would be something though, but I doubt that Johnny would be in this dub. Don’t get me wrong I think he would make an excellent Rin, but because he is an LA based Voice Actor, he would only appear in shows if he had to reprise them (example. Renton in Eureka 7:AO, or Vash the Stampede). Even though he did feature in certain FUni shows like FMA and BECK.
JOHNNY YONG BOSCH <3 I WANT HIM TO BE IN IT.
I love Free! For Rin and Haruka’s everlasting friendship through hard and tough times! They are the best friends ever.
Hope we get tons more time together in this season with them.
i ship them 🙂 RINHARU!!!!
OMG…that’s all I’ve got
Just let me know when you get the new Fairytail easons in dub and we’ll be cool.
Free! is love, Free! is life.
Ok, now that I’ve digested that news, OMG thank you soooooo much! I want to cry out of happiness.
I have no words to express how excited I am!!! I loved season 1 last year and I’m happy that season 2 is coming up!
Now………. About season 1………. Is that announcement being saved for Anime Expo next weekend or something else? Cause it doesn’t make much sense to just license season 2……
SEASON 2 OF FREE I AM SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO EXCITED but i hope they dub this and dub season 1 of free :333 my happyiness
Let’s see ,well, I am looking forward to believe it or not some of the music of Free! Eternal Summer. Splash Free by the main leads in Free! Iwatobi Swim Club was pretty wonderful. I mean the fact that all the voice actors can voice act and then sing beyond just good is a plus.
The story also is something really interested in seeing where it goes next. Really like the heavy slice of life touch to Free!
Still can’t believe this is happening. Very happy about the news.
omfg yes i found out they sang the opening and ending ( I THINK ) let me tell you i loved it i loved the singing voice acting lets hope that the dub of Free! iwatobi swim club and Free! eternal summer will be good looking forward to it O:
I know, right. I love the singing since they all compliment well of each other.
I do hope FUNimation has gotten the rights for Season 1. With information so far only for Free! Eternal Summer rights confirmed I’m sure the dub should be fine. Most of the time FUNimation nails dubs down well enough. There is also the sub so there is that.
I am so excited for this!!!! Thank you so much Funimation! And I am for sure getting this when it releases. Count on me. ;D And does this mean you could also get the first season? 😀
They dont have the first season sorry guys
When’d they say that?
I’m not part of the target audience but I still think it’s great Funimation is finally catering some fan service anime for women.
I still like my boobie shows and hope those acquisitions don’t disappear for a long time but some variety to make everybody happy is only fair. 🙂
Since home video release confirmation has been announced from the start (and season 1’s license will probably be announced in the near future) I’m guessing this franchise will get a dub.
Suggestions:
ADR Director: Colleen Clinkenbeard (I just think having a woman’s opinion is better suited for this type of show)
As much as I love hearing Jamie Marchi in the majority of dubs for ecchi anime (nobody does it better), I think it would be a nice change of pace if she had a role in a reverse harem.
GL to the male voice actors cast in this show. If they don’t sound pleasing, hardcore fan girls will rip them apart…
You all need to get Hyouka and Nichijou too, rescue those amazing KyoAni titles forgotten by licensors…
I’m so happy but you MUST get the first season too!!!
Oh my GOODNESS. I now have a place to watch the episodes as soon as they come out! I don’t have to use Crunchyroll for this one! You just keep getting better FUNimation! I hope you bring season 1 on here too!
YES!!!! I think I’m still trying to comprehend how awesome this announcement is! I thought the possibility of this getting a stateside release was slim and now that it’s actually going to happen and potentially get a dub as well is mind blowing! I really hope the first season’s already in the bag and this is a tease till AX. Even if it’s not, I’m still buying two copies!
I think its odd Funimation is licensing an anime from Kyoto Animation, to bad the anime is all about guys.
I’m so excited for this! I do really hope to get the 1st season as well, but I’ll certainly be pre-ordering this when it becomes available.
I might watch this cause of the guys in it and to more about the plot,Finally something for us ladies! cause most fan service anime is gear towards men only, so why can’t us women get our jollies off the some as men do I mean it only fair, Women can be just as perverted as Men are 😉
will it only be available to paying members??
omg i can’t wait 😀
Omg cant
wait