So today episode of 11 of free! airs then one more ep then it’s over and hopefully a second season… but let’s never forget
Senpai
Shota
Pimp
And Tsundere
Never forget
The best part about this
Is that when the anime was officially announced we were all like “Who the fuck is this megane”
Now we’re like “oh my god, I forgot Rei wasn’t part of the original.”
I wonder, like, what that meeting was like?
When this ad aired and we went nuts, what the studio meeting was like.
Like, “Oh damn, we should make this into a series.”
“Hey there, tumblr already categorized them for us.”
“Let’s throw in a curve ball.”
“What’s the one thing missing from this?”
“Deep seated love/hate relationship between two of the boys?”
“A sad back story?”
“Yes there’s that, and we’ll add that, but we’re missing… megane.”
“Megane?”
“Megane.”
Then Rei is in the longer trailer and we’re like, “Oh so serious megane,” then in the opening you see Nagisa jump on him and we’re like, “Shota + serious megane = OTP!”
Then the megane couldn’t swim. And wore a speedo. And ended up being the best thing ever because he was so derpy, but then also very important, almost drowning and bring up Makoto’s fears then later calling Rin out and just… uunf!
Then remember when we first saw the opening, and Rin wasn’t standing with the boys, and had on a different jacket? And we were like, “Huh… maybe he transfers to the team or something?” But Rin wasn’t on the same team (whut?) and had left a long time ago (whut?) and Haru had quit swimming because of him (whut?!) and then “I’ll never swim with you again (WHUT?!) And suddenly the tsundere had a reason for his tsundere-ness right away in the second episode and just… then Makoto AKA "everyone’s mom” is just so lovely, and Nagisa is a little shit but we love him so much!
Then Rin’s team had a shota of its own and the wonderful Captain Sexy Pants, who turned into serious captain-san even with his adorable crush on Gou. He like made a record time (damn!) and even went uber serious and took Rin off the relay (whoa!). Then there was Captain pizza delivery Macklemore and former model teacher-chan and Gou. Gou Gou Gou. She is tumblr, she is us, because “biceps triceps boys are so pretty my goodness!” But at some point she stops being us and you love her to pieces and want Rin to acknowledge her existence and just… just… suddenly 11 episodes have gone by and we all went from “pretty swimming boyz this series is gonna be full of lulz I’ll watch like one episode and it’ll have no substance” to lots of tears and feelings and begging for a second season because we love all of these characters.
And posts like this remind you that, once upon a time, this was a 31 second video.
Let that sink into your head.
31. Seconds. That. Was. All. It. Was. Now THAT is fucking impressive!
I don’t know if anyone has pointed this out or not, but just in case no one has -
Let’s all take a moment to appreciate the fact that even though Rei says “they all,” the only person in the Iwatobi Swim Club who calls Rin “Rin-chan” is Nagisa.
Let’s all take a moment to appreciate the fact that Nagisa talking about “Rin-chan” a lot drove Rei this crazy.
Thank you and goodnight.
*gasp*
I didn’t realize this at all O.O
And if you think about it…
Makoto doesn’t talk about Rin too much, because it upsets Haruka.
Haruka barely talks about Rin (I mean the only reason he told the story is because Rei asked about it after seeing the picture in Haruka’s house) And you couldn’t help but notice the tension between them after Rin beat him in that race and said the whole “I’ll never swim with you again.”
But Nagisa…
And he does it so nonchalantly too. "We’re going to race against Rin-chan,“ and "Wonder if we’ll see Rin-chan at the tournament” and “if we make it for enough I’m sure we’ll see Rin-chan.”
Wow, anime. I just… wow I didn’t even think about this! I was just so proud of Rei speaking out about everything. Because he’s right, you know. How frustrating must it be that you dropped what you were doing (track, which he was GOOD at and those awards in his house may have been from track meets) to do something you don’t know how to do at all? And for what? To be tossed into this back story that no one really talks about except for Nagisa, but when he talks about it, it’s obvious that these boys were friends “Rin-chan Rin-chan Rin-chan” and suddenly they just… aren’t? Why? Why didn’t Rin call them when he got back to Japan? And doesn’t he realize what he’s done to Haruka? And just… it’s frustrating! I mean I know we’ve been frustrated watching but Rei has been in the middle of it the whole time :(
Watching Free! now because I’m a good wifey who waits for her lady to get home before watching swimming boys I’M READY FOR THIS YO! not really omg!
the captain could care less about the fucked up angst he just wants gou’s number
This is why I love the Free! fandom.
Can we all just take a moment to realize that that’s Rei and not Haru.
It took me about 9 episodes to notice, but—
Look at the hair and the eyes.
I am screaming.
WHAT?! All this time I thought… OMG! Considering the episode this week just… AH! It’s too early to scream this loudly >.<
I see the bathtub, bed, sink, shower, stairs, and treehouse fandoms
AND I FUCKING RAISE YOU THE POOL FANDOM
HEHE GET IT?
POOLS
ARE
OMG COLORS
THIS ONE HAS A FUCKING SLIDE THAT GOES THROUGH A FREAKING AQUARIUM
THIS ONE JUST LOOKS REALLY COOL LIKE OMFG
WATER FALLS!!!!
ANOTHER FUCKING AQUARIUM
A POOL IN A FLIPPIN CAVE
OMG PRETTY LIGHTS
OMG LOOK AT THAT ONE
AND THIS ONE
ALSO THIS ONE
AND THIS ONE
OH SHIT AND THIS ONE
AND HOLY SHIT THEY MADE THIS POOL LIKE IT WAS A FUCKING BEACH
POOLS
ARE
FUCKING
AWESOME
KAY?
BYE
As I scrolled down I quietly thought to myself, there better be a Haru gif at the end of this.
Dreams do come true kids you just gotta believe.
Rambling Free!canon that may be extended later
Thanks to talking with animehead I came up with this thought. NSFW so under the cut.
Oh no. It’s starting. OH GOD NO IT’S STARTING!
