Fan Messages

I just want to say thank you KyoAni for creating this wonderful show! I can't even put my feelings into words, and I will forever remember the characters and the amazing story of Free! And I especially love the unbreakable bond between Rin and Haru. Those two boys are so special and their relationship is just...I'm so speechless. ^^ Once again, thanks for creating this show!!

I discovered Free! during a very difficult time in my life. Free! became very special to me because it always made me happy when I was sad. I related to Haruka and Rin the most. They taught me to cherish my wonderful friends and never give up on my bright future. I am a much happier person today! I owe part of that to KyoAni for creating such an uplifting, inspiring show! どうもありがとうございます! とても感謝しています!

京アニ、本当にありがとうございます。Free!、特に遙と凛の話を見て感動しました。凛と遙はお互いの最大の可能性を引き出すので、二人の関係が素敵だと思います。お互いの力になって、凛と遙も夢を見つけることができました。それを見て、私も頑張ったら、自分の夢をきっと見つけると思うようになりました。素晴らしいストーリーとキャラクター、ありがとうございます。感謝しています！ THANK YOU KYOANI, LOVE FROM AUSTRALIA

KyoAni, thank you. Thank you so much for creating such a beautiful show with such beautiful characters like Rin and Haru and sharing it with all of us. Just, thank you, from the bottom of my heart, for all the wonderful memories, for everything you've all done, thank you ♥

Thank you Kyoani for creating something so wonderful and moving for us. I am eternally grateful that Free! came to be, and showing us how beautiful the relationship between Haruka and Rin are, as well as their friends. Thanks

KyoAni: No matter what I say, it wouldn't be enough to express what I really feel. At first I was a little reluctant to watch a swimmers' anime, but eventually you captivated me and right now I'm very happy for it. I totally fell in love with Rin and the strength he had to overcome his obstacles. And the bond he and Haru share is just perfect to me. Thank you so much for Free!, its story and all the great characters that made my heart flutter. ¡Gracias por mostrarnos una vista que nunca habíamos contemplado!♥ どうもありがとうございます 凛と遙が大好き!♥ これからもよろしくお願いします！

Dear KyoAni, words could never explain how grateful I am for the heartwarming and life changing experiences I could make because of free!, especially Rin and Haru. Their bond truly is more beautiful than anything else. And what they did (and still do) for each other, is what they did for me too – they made me grow together with them and now I can be proud of who I am today. Thank you for making me love and enjoy my life as much as I do now. My world keeps expanding. Vielen Dank, KyoAni.

Thank you so much for Free! and especially Haruka and Rin. It's thanks to them that I was able to find strength to keep going forward. I was able to see new sights and expand my world because of their influence in the way I see things, and I will be forever grateful to KyoAni and Oji Koji for giving life to such amazing characters! どうもありがとうございました京アニとおおじこうじ！大好き！(˶σﾉ､σ)八(ㅎ｡ ㅎ˶) ¡Muchas gracias por darle color a mi vida con estos idiotas! ❤

Rin and Haru mean so much to me... They brought so much light and happiness to my life! Thank you from the bottom of my heart for creating Free! and these two characters I love so much.

I could say thank you a thousand times and I still don't think it'd be enough... Rin and Haruka and Free! have really helped change my life for the better and I am eternally grateful. Their story deeply moved me. Their love and friendship and reconciliation and...everything, agh!! It'll be imprinted in my heart forever. It's hard to put my feelings into words that will properly convey them, but I'm trying...I just really want to say "thank you" over and over ahahah (´ㅂ｀●)♡ thank you so much for the duet CD, for the character songs, for the mook, for both episode 12s, for all the official art, for the beautiful story and music and memories. Thank you for everything ♡♡♡ 恐れ入ります

言葉が足りないぐらい遙と凛とFree!の事が大好きです。凛が遙をオーストラリアへ連れて行った時、「私にもいつかきっと夢ができる！」と信じるようになりました。遙と凛の事を思うと、何でも一生懸命頑張れるようになります。京アニ、本当にどうもありがとうございます！心から感謝しています！

This anime has made a huge impact on my life. Мy friends and I made great memories while watching it. Rin and Haruka taught me a lot – they taught me to look forward to a better FUTURE and they motivated me to NEVER GIVE UP looking for my own dream too. I know I’ll always come back to this show, to love it and cherish it even more. Хвала Вам најлепше на свему Kōji Ōji и KYOANI! すべてのためにありがとうございました！ これからもよろしくお願いします！

Thank you so MUCH KyoAni for Free! and for Rin and Haru. I love them so much. I resemble Rin a lot, so he helped me to grow even more! I love how both help each other and light the way of one another. Their friendship and personalities are unique! They helped me to keep moving to the future. I find both so inspiring!! I really hope I can see them at the olympics together, both in single and relay events!! I enjoyed every single thing that helped all the characters grow up and evolve to follow their dreams. I'll follow mine too! THANK YOU FOR FREE! FOR HARU AND RIN!! ☆LET'S DIVE INTO THE FUTURE!! TOGETHER, FOR THE TEAM...FOR THE FUTURE~ ♥とても感謝しています ♥凛と遙が大好き! ♥これからもよろしくお願いします！ (?˶σﾉ､σ) ❤ (ㅎ｡ ㅎ˶) See you next olympics time!

What I love about the relationship between Haruka and Rin is that they've always pushed each other to evolve, and what's more amazing than meeting a person that opens your eyes to a life of new colours and wonders you never knew you could enjoy? Sometimes you need to step outside of your comfort zone to move forward and truly discover yourself, and Rin and Haru have done that for each other and for all the characters in Free! I want to move forward for my future too, so thank you KyoAni for bringing this beautiful series to life and for inspiring so many fans with Haruka and his friends' heartwarming story! I will never forget it!! 本当にありがとうございます。Free! を絶対に忘れません。

Dear Kyoani: Thank you so much for creating such a great anime like Free! I enjoyed it a lot and I've moved a lot when it ended. Rin and Haru are my favorite, I really feel there is something special about them, I really hope we will see them in the Olympics, seriously, it would be the best ending for Free! (´▽`)ﾉ ✿ For all that you did it in this anime, THANK YOU KyoAni (✿σﾉ▽σ)ﾉ ☆♥ ~(ㅎoㅎ˶)

Thank you, KyoAni, for the beautiful show is Free! and all his characters, their friedship, the messages... Rin and Haru are my favorite, and their relationship is so wonderful, so real. It helped me when I was having some problems with a very loved person, and I'll never forget that. The end of the second season left me incomplete, I really love this show and we need more of it. My parents and my sister were curious about the show because of my obsession, and now they can't have enough of Free! neither. I really hope we will see Rin and Haru in the Olympics someday. THAT would be the perfect ending for this beautiful adventure we shared. Oh, and thank you for the RinHaru Mook too! (And sorry for my english, is really hard trying to put so much in a non-native language iwi) Thank you so much! ^O^

In all honesty, I never really thought I'd be so in love with Free! as I've been for 2 whole years now. I started watching the anime as a joke but then especially the story of Rin and Haru and their relationship got me hooked. I love the theme of friendship the anime has and I want to thank you for everything: For all of the great characters, who seem so simple at the first glance but have so much depth and development during the series. For such relatable stories. For all the tears I've cried, may it be because I laughed too hard or it just got too emotional to handle. THANK YOU FOR FREE! ♥ これからもよろしくお願いします！

I want to say thank you so much to Kyoani *.⋆( ˘̴͈́ ꒵ ˘̴͈̀ )⋆.* for creating this wonderful animation that I'm so obsessed with. The show, the characters ♡, the admirable artwork that feels like you are right there living every moment of the show. Especially the pool scenes, watching the show when it was aired on a hot summer breeze, that feeling after watching the episode I just wanted to jump into a pool so badly, because it was a big crave of how tempting it was while watching the show. This show has created a special place in my heart, I've never been pulled into a series in such a way that it would eventually lead to open such a wonderful fandom, but I'm grateful that has taken a part in my heart. Everything is just so wonderful but the merch is just breathtaking (ˊo̴̶̷̤ ᴗ o̴̶̷̤ˋ) I just want to own everything of how beautiful it is to have it displayed in my room (´ ˘ `๑)♡. Yes I'm starting/have my own collection *✧₊ू(”✪͡◡✪͡”). Also I wish the best for team Haru and team Rin to reach their medal. There's so much more I want to keep thanking for but let's leave it like this ( ´ ▽ ` )ﾉ ✿ "Thank you for showing me this sight I had never seen before!" ✿. どうもありがとうございます! (｡’▽’｡)♡

I've loved free! ever since the beginning. I saw the commercial for it back in march 2013, and I was immediately hooked by Rin and Haru's character designs. I found them really beautiful, and with the gorgerous water animation and animation in general I decided that I would follow the anime too when it came out later in july after having it confirmed that Free! actually would become an anime. When I saw the first episode I was stunned because of how amazing it was. I found it just fitting every slot of what I desire in an anime, and when the first episode ended I whined a small "nooo" to myself because I wanted more, haha. From then on, the waiting between every wednesday felt like eternity. When the first season ended I felt incredibly sad, but I was positive that a continuation would come, which it did with the confirmation of Eternal Summer. I was overjoyed, and even now I still find every announcement as something to really celebrate. Celebrating was something I definitely did when the Haruka & Rin mook was announced back in march this year. It was one of the happiest days in my life, the entire fandom were screaming and laughing together, and I just felt my passion for free! fly skyhigh again. Not only the mook, but also a movie! I'm so glad that High Speed! 2 got the chance to get animated because while reading the light novel I ended up adoring the new characters in it just as much as I love all the other free! characters. Free! is part of the best things to ever happen to me, and I'm forever incredibly grateful to get this possibility to experience something as great as this series. Rin and Haruka will always stay as characters incredibly close to my heart, and I genuinely love them as I love the anime as a whole. Thank you.

Dear Kyoani, I had to rewrite this message over and over again because their just aren't any words to describe how grateful I am to free! I have a disability known as 22Q and because of that, I've always had a really hard time finding a place where I could fit in. That's why Haruka and Rin's relationship means the world to me. It's because of them that I along with many other wonderful people have met amazing friends and it's such a wonderful feeling! Their bond and friendship is something I've always dreamed of having. But, Haruka and Rin have helped me obtain those friendships and I could never be more grateful. Thank you so much Kyoto animation, for all the hard work you put into free!

Honestly, Free! was such a quality series, I can't express how much it means to me. I'm going through many of the same things as Haruka in Season 2, having a fear for my future, and can also understand Rin from Season 1, it felt personal. The animation, the storytelling, everything. Thank you so much

Ever since I discovered the world of Free!, I've found Haruka and Rin's journey together to be immensely inspiring in my own life—I even started to swim in school because of them! Along with making new friends through this great series, I've deeply connected with Free!'s touching characters and their stories, and especially Haruka and Rin's. Thinking about Free! brings fond memories, and always puts a smile on my face. And it's all thanks to you, Kyoani, for creating such an uplifting series that I can connect to. Thank you so much! どうもありがとう！これからもよろしくお願いします！

Thank you so much for your hard work! I wish the team, Haru, and Rin all the best. ありがとございます!

Thank you so much for such a touching anime, KyoAni. When I first started watching Free! I was not prepared to be as invested as I was, but the characters were so wonderfully drawn and developed that I was captivated. I can't even listen to the soundtrack without crying, and I'm not even an emotional person usually! The relationship between Rin and Haru is especially beautiful and I was hooked on the show since their first interaction. I cannot thank you enough for all of your hard work and the RinHaru Mook was utterly perfect. どうもありがとうございます!!

I'm really enchanted by Haruka and Rin's story. I've meet a lot of great people through it and for me, became an important message of never giving up in your dreams. I'm really grateful you created such great story for such great strong characters and their great friends who helped them a lot. これからもよろしくお願いします. どうもありがとうございます!!/GRACIAS!!❤