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Free! Swim Club Story Gets New Screen Project
posted on by Egan Loo
The event commemorating the Blu-ray and DVD release of the High Speed! -Free! Starting Days- film announced a "new screen project" is in the works for the Free! franchise. The announcement did not indicate the new project's medium or format.
「映画 ハイ☆スピード!-Free! Starting Days-」BD&DVD発売記念舞台挨拶、本会場&LV会場にお越し頂きました皆様、ありがとうございました!Free!シリーズ映像企画進行中です! #ハイスピ #ハイスピLV pic.twitter.com/DZlxFfypCf
— ハイ☆スピード!&Free!公式 (@iwatobi_sc) August 14, 2016
Kyoto Animation's first Free! anime about the Iwatobi High School Swim Club premiered in July 2013, and Crunchyroll streamed the anime as it aired in Japan. Discotek released the first season on DVD in North America. Free! Eternal Summer, the second television anime season, premiered in July 2014, and Funimation released the second season for streaming and home video in North America with an English dub. Crunchyroll streamed the English dub of the first season last December, and it plans to release the season on both Blu-ray Disc and DVD.
The High Speed! -Free! Starting Days- film is directly inspired by the High Speed! novel that was loosely adapted into the original Free! television anime. Whereas the Free! anime centers on Haruka and the other swimmers during high school, High Speed! followed them during middle school. The second volume of the novel series shipped in July 2014. The film opened on last December on 120 screens, selling 67,829 tickets for 95,546,400 yen (about US$774,000), and ranking #5 in attendance during its opening weekend.
[Via Otakomu]
