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Free! Eternal Summer Anime's Short Promo Streamed
posted on by Egan Loo
North American anime distributor Funimation began streaming an English-subtitled promotional video for Free! Eternal Summer, the second season of Kyoto Animation's Free! - Iwatobi Swim Club anime, on Tuesday.
The first weekly episode will premiere on Funimation's streaming service on Wednesday, July 2 at 11:30 a.m. ET. Crunchyroll will also stream the series as it airs in Japan. Funimation licensed the home video rights as well.
The season will feature the new character Sōsuke Yamazaki, one of Rin's best friends from elementary school who understands him well. Yoshimasa Hosoya plays Sōsuke.
Free! Eternal Summer will also premiere in Japan on July 2. The group OLDCODEX returns to perform the opening theme song "Dried Up Youthful Fame" after performing the first season's opening theme. Similarly, the five main leads — Nobunaga Shimazaki as Haruka Nanase, Tatsuhisa Suzuki as Makoto Tachibana, Mamoru Miyano as Rin Matsuoka, Tsubasa Yonaga as Nagisa Hazuki, and Daisuke Hirakawa as Rei Ryugazaki — are singing the ending theme song "Future Fish."
Images © Kōji Ōji, Kyoto Animation/Iwasobi High School Swimming Club
