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I want what they have.
— Rin. You’ve always hated losing and were so easily moved to tears. You always hide your passionate heart, and once you decide on something, you always run straight for it. Seriously…when I’m with you, there’s never a dull day.
Free! - Iwatobi Swim Club (2013) Banana Fish (2018) SK8 The Infinity (2021) Bucchigiri?! (2024)
Dir. Utsumi Hiroko
free.
a question I’m always asked,
is why do I choose free?
the answers not that simple,
it’s one you cannot see.
you’d think it’s cause it’s easy,
you’d think it’s cause it’s safe.
you’d think it’s cause it’s calming,
you’d think it’s just my taste.
i’ve never felt completely comfortable,
in my ranking no matter how high.
everyone says I’ve got it good,
even though I don’t try.
what most people don’t know,
is I test even myself.
a lot of those I know,
think it’s bad for my health.
i’d say I agree,
but they don’t know my story.
they don’t know the reason,
i’m in the bath every morning.
“he just loves water”
“a swimmer is all he wants to be”
i know that love it,
but is that how you see me?
i never liked emotions,
so the water drowns them out.
somehow the water understands,
that swimming’s not all I’m about.
that’s why I love racing,
cutting through the tide.
because their’s raw emotion,
in competitors I find.
i feel more like myself,
not putting in a mask.
cause the second I speak out,
all I hear are gasps.
why does it surprise you?
that I have more to say.
do you think I’m that weak?
am I really ok?
when I swim freestyle,
these questions never come.
though with every other stroke,
comes precision, tight lungs.
when I swim free,
i know where I belong.
the water actually listens,
to my dad swan song.
so when I never tell you,
the reason I swim free.
it’s not because there’s no answer,
it’s because you’ll never see.
-NJ
My top 10 gay shipa
10
Goran and shinya- owari no seraph
9
Nice and art- hamatora
8
Chuuya and dazai- bungou stray dogs
7
Rin and sousuke- free!
6
Thalia and reyna- percy jackson
5
Thomas and newt- the maze runner
4
Magnus and alec- TMI
3
Ty and kit- lady midnight
2
Nico and will- percy jackaon
1
Oikawa and iwazuimi- haikyuu
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Free! - Iwatobi Swim Club
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Free! Winged au (PT: 2)
Hey, everyone! This is part 2 of my dumb bird/winged au for Free! This time... Samezuka boys!
First, the most important boy:
Sousuke Yamazaki
Wing type: Bald Eagle
Wingspan: 14 feet. One wing is 7 feet.
His feathers are ruffled and torn
Shoulder injury, yes PLEASE
Has the most endurance out of all the boys
Can't have Sousuke without his best bud:
Rin Matsuoka
Wing type: Gyrfalcon
Wingspan: 9'6 feet. One wing is 4'8.5
His wings are often mistaken for Snowy Owl (he hates that)
The fastest out of all the boys (sorry Haru)
Is a thrill chaser. He loves gaining altitude and diving
Because of the high speeds he usually flies at, Rin is bad at landing.
The idiot:
Momotaru Mikoshiba
Wing type: Cinnamon Ibon
Wingspan: 7 feet. (Lol his entire wingspan is one of Sousuke's wings) One wing is 3'6.
Has the smallest wings out of the Samezuka boys. (Nagisa's are the smallest of all)
*excited fluttering when talking about BEETLES*
Sea otter "Sparrow of the skies!"
The (smarter/smol) idiot
Aiichiro Nitori
Wing type: American Pekin (a.k.a, the white duck. Bruh, what else?)
Wingspan: 7'3 feet (3 more inches than Momo's because of his wing type) One wing is 3'7.5
Like Haru, he doesn't fly much
His wings are the softest. Thus, he often uses them as a blanket.
Yup. Free! fanart.
I’m not a mega fan of this show, but...
The character designs are fun
(Part 2 coming soon!)
Free! Fanart part 2
Sooo... About Free!
I need to talk to other people who don’t necessarily like Free! Like, don’t get me wrong, Free! is good. It’s good. It has really adorable characters, who are sweet, and angsty, and fun, and you can really immerse yourself in the anime and feel connected to the characters when they win their tournament or whatever...
When you watch it as a Slice of Life anime (in my opinion)
But if you watch it expecting a Sports anime, it... It’s not the best. (I’m sorry, but that’s my opinion, if you don’t like it, I understand. Seriously. You’re entitled to your opinion, and your opinion matters!) But, like, I think Free! isn’t a... Incredible Sports anime. Mainly because of the plot. (LEMME EXPLAIN)
So! Free. Free has this pattern of setting up story arcs/character arcs for the characters that seem really serious and Sports anime-y, but then the pay off isn’t as serious/realistic??? FOR EXAMPLE: Makoto’s fear of the ocean. On the Free! Wiki, it says that he has Thalassophobia (a fear/phobia of the ocean and/or deep bodies of water) which sounds serious, and I’d expect, since he and Haru walk home on the beach every day he’d be anxious then. So why didn’t they show that? Like, why did they set up Makoto’s Thalassophobia ONLY during the training camp arc? Wouldn’t there be instances during swim practice, that he felt anxious? I don’t expect he’d be very anxious during high school, but when he swam in elementary, I feel like he’d be nervous to swim. Y’know since the experience is still raw at that time.
And, (spring-boarding off of that query,) How long did it take for him to cope? Did Haru help him overcome his fear in the beginning? Or did they drift apart a little, since Makoto couldn’t swim/be comfortable in the water anymore, and Haru was fine with it?
Then, finally, at the end of the training arc & his arc, Makoto is just... FINE. Like WHAT? Why is he just OKAY with the ocean after it all, just because “he wants to swim with his friends” and “he’s okay if his friends are with him”, like...
What I’m saying is, living with a phobia since childhood and then suddenly being fine, just because your friends swim with you (Not only in high school but also in elementary, probably, because he was swimming with his friends then, no problem) doesn’t sound realistic to me. But I get it. I can understand the counter-argument: “But Makoto is okay with swimming in the ocean with his friends because he feels protected by them/empowered when they’re with him.”
But it doesn’t sound realistic, when you consider the set up.
OR! How quickly the swim club was created. Like... REALISTICALLY it’d take a lot to create a swim club. It’d take more than finding & recruiting all the members, getting a manager, and fixing the pool. (I have no experience, but I feel like it’d take more than that.) And, the characters, despite their built physique, probably would struggle to get back into swimming/start swimming. Realistically speaking. Like, besides HARU (because I’m sure he swam whenever he could) Nagisa and Makoto probably would have struggled to get into swimming again. Because Makoto hasn’t swam in three (school) years because he and Haru quit swimming after their first year in middle school. And Nagisa hasn’t swam since elementary school. And Rei, I think should’ve struggled to learn how to swim butterfly correctly. (Not just swim butterfly, but swim butterfly correctly. Because learning to swim is one thing, but swimming correctly is another. Like, refining your stroke in consideration of drag, and endurance and all that)
So, I say this all to say that Free! is a Sports anime and Slice of Life... that doesn’t juggle the two genres as equally as it could've... I think.
For reference, I'd recommend watching Bamboo Blade: another sports and slice of life anime.
The reason I recommend this anime as a way to see how Sports/Slice of Life anime can be effectively executed is because:
(a): It’s plot doesn’t revolve around a character arc (getting Rin to love swimming again) or nostalgia (building the swim club), but it instead is literally about a coach who gathers together a Kendo team to win in a competition to get free dinner. That’s it. And it’s a simple plot, a simple goal, because its a slice of life anime. And slice of life anime shouldn’t be held to the same emotional/deep plots as sports anime. (not to say that Free!’s plot isn’t good. it is. It just needs to pick a lane: either slice of life with little to no consequences, or sports anime with realistic consequences, struggles, and emotions.)
(FOR EXAMPLE: (sorry, I promise this one will be short,) When the boys break into a swim club, that’s the kind of behavior you’d expect from an emotionally charged sports anime. But when they get their just desserts, when the random teacher scolds them for breaking and entering, they get let off the hook without any disciplinary punishment or a call to their parents or anything. Just like slice of life. And the reason why this doesn’t work, (again, in my opinion) is because breaking and entering is a felony. So it’d hard for me to believe these characters can just be let off the hook for a crime like that. (Sorry again, this rant wasn’t short at all))
and (b): The anime (Bamboo Blade) just isn’t very serious in general. Perhaps I’m only saying this, and am more accepting to the kind of shenanigans that happen in this anime, because it’s all girls instead of all boys, and girls in slice of life anime tend to act silly and childish, which is supposed to be seen as cute. However, that doesn’t really work with boys, especially when, in Free, the plot is so emotionally charged and serious, it makes the silliness out of place?
What I’m saying is that Free should’ve been a sports anime with a serious plot and deep character growth, OR primarily a silly slice of life anime with casual sports to make the plot interesting. I think it’s main issue is that it’s trying to be both.
Just as I anticipated, I'm back with more Free! Content. Oh boy.
I finally got around to drawing a visual representation of the Free! Boys for my Winged! Au. (These are old sketches that I meant to post earlier)
KEEP IN MIND: *wings not proportionate to bodies. Sketch book was of insufficient length*
Later on, I might make a post with the birds that have each character's wing type and label which character has which wings. *Also, forgot to draw Makoto, Rei and Sousuke, so I'll do that in a later post as well* 😅
Alright, here's a post about birds for my Free Winged! Au.
*this post'll be long btw*
Nagisa Hazuki: Ruby throated hummingbird
Rei Ryugazaki: Peacock
Haruka Nanase: Great blue Heron
Kisumi Shigino: Flamingo
Makoto Tachibana: Dove
Sousuke Yamasaki: Bald Eagle
Rin Matsuoka: Gyrfalcon
Momotaru Mikoshiba: Cinnamon Ibon
Nitori aiichirou: American Peckin duck
I might add to this if I include additional characters...
(3/26/21) EDIT:
Ikuya Kirishima: Seagull
Because he’s a thief. Just like how he stole 8 EPISODES of Season 3 away.
But anyway, in all seriousness he’s an albatross. Because they’re cool.
Ikuya Kirishima: Northern Royal Albatross
I know I said I'd post some Sousuke, Makoto and Rei art but I just love Rin's design so much! His wings are SO COOL.
*reference image*
Had to draw everyone’s favorite shark-toothed cry-baby, b/c I missed drawing him last year and I regretted it for some reason.
HEY, FUTURE FISH!
Couldn't decide between high and low saturation, so have both! :)
I think i’m starting to a colouring style down which i really like. This is pretty much a seqeul to my sasabe and previous Makoto pic
