Free!
Free! Episode Ratings Heatmap
| Avg | E1 | E2 | E3 | E4 | E5 | E6 | E7 | E8 | E9 | E10 | E11 | E12 | E13 | E14 | ||
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| S1 | 7.7 | 7.0 | 7.7 | 7.8 | 7.8 | 7.7 | 7.9 | 7.7 | 8.1 | 7.7 | 7.5 | 7.5 | 8.6 | |||
| S2 | 7.8 | 7.6 | 7.4 | 7.5 | 7.6 | 7.4 | 7.8 | 7.7 | 7.8 | 7.9 | 8.2 | 7.9 | 8.2 | 8.4 | 8.2 | |
| S3 | 7.8 | 7.4 | 7.5 | 7.9 | 7.6 | 7.5 | 7.6 | 7.8 | 8.0 | 7.7 | 7.9 | 8.0 | 8.6 |
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"Friendship and rivalry rendered in liquid motion"
Free! follows a group of childhood friends in a small Japanese town who reunite in high school and rediscover their shared love of competitive swimming. What starts as a nostalgic reunion becomes a slow-building sports drama about rivalry, ambition, and the ache of growing apart from people you once swam beside every day. The pace is gentle and character-driven rather than plot-heavy, leaning on mood, friendship dynamics, and gorgeously fluid animation of both races and quiet everyday moments. It's less about who wins and more about why they're swimming at all.
the strikingly fluid swim animation paired with genuinely tender friendship dynamics.
you want fast-paced plotting rather than slow, feelings-driven character work.
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