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Synopsis

The story revolves around Haruka Nanase, a boy who has always loved to be immersed in water, and to swim in it. Before graduating from elementary school, he participated in a swimming tournament along with his fellow swimming club members, Makoto Tachibana, Nagisa Hazuki, and Rin Matsuoka. After achieving victory, each of the boys went their separate ways. Time passed, and in the middle of their uneventful high school lives Rin appears and challenges Haruka to a match, showing Haruka his overwhelming power. Not wanting it to end like this, Haruka, gathers together Makoto and Nagisa once again and brings a new member named Rei Ryugazaki to create the Iwatobi High School Swimming Club in order to defeat Rin.

Main Cast

Nobunaga Shimazaki

Haruka Nanase (voice)

Age : 35 | Popularity : 16%

Daisuke Hirakawa

Rei Ryugazaki (voice)

Age : 50 | Popularity : 14%

Akeno Watanabe

Gou Matsuoka (voice)

Age : 41 | Popularity : 7%

Kenjiro Tsuda

Seijuro Mikoshiba (voice)

Age : 52 | Popularity : 27%

Mamoru Miyano

Rin Matsuoka (voice)

Age : 40 | Popularity : 31%

Hiroshi Yanaka

Gorou Sasabe (voice)

Age : 66 | Popularity : 4%

Tatsuhisa Suzuki

Makoto Tachibana (voice)

Age : 40 | Popularity : 16%

Satsuki Yukino

Miho Amakata (voice)

Age : 53 | Popularity : 11%

Seasons

Season 1

2013 | 12 episodes

Four boys named Haruka, Makoto, Nagisa and Rin all participated in a swimming tournament shortly before graduating elementary school and later parted ways. Years later, they reunite when Rin challenges Haruka to a race and wins. Not wanting to be defeated so easily, Haruka gathers Makoto and Nagisa and a new recruit named Rei to form the Iwatobi High School Swimming Club.

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Season 2

2014 | 13 episodes

The Iwatobi Swimming Club is back and struggles with the recruitment of new members. At the same time, senior members Haru and Makoto have to figure out what to do after high school, challenging their love for swimming. Meanwhile an old childhood friend of Rin returns and stirs up some trouble - especially with Haru. How is the Iwatobi gang going to respond?!

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Season 3

2018 | 12 episodes

Haruka, who is attending college in Tokyo, meets Asahi again and reawakens his memories from his middle school years, including those of Ikuya. Makoto is working toward a new dream while he is in Tokyo together with Haruka. Rin has an unexpected meeting in Sydney.

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Crew

Department	Role	Name
Directing	Series Director	Eisaku Kawanami
Production	Executive Producer	Masayuki Nishide Yoko Kogawa Yoko Hatta Shunji Inoue
	Producer	Megumi Suzuki Shinichi Nakamura Shinichiro Hatta Shigeru Saito Masayuki Nishide
Art	Art Direction	Shingo Kasai
	Prop Designer	Seiichi Akitake
Visual Effects	3D Artist	Joji Unoguchi
	3D Director	Yuji Shibata
	Opening/Ending Animation	Eisaku Kawanami Seiya Kumano Miku Kadowaki Kayo Hikiyama Yoshiji Kigami Sana Suzuki Ryosuke Shirakawa Sae Sawada Takuya Yamamura Minoru Ota Yuko Myouken Maiko Hado Hiroyuki Takahashi Shinpei Sawa Kunihiro Hane Ryouhei Muta Tatsuya Satou Chiyoko Ueno Nami Iwasaki
	Character Designer	Futoshi Nishiya
	Supervising Animation Director	Futoshi Nishiya
	Color Designer	Yuka Yoneda
Crew	Special Effects	Sachie Tsuda
Sound	Sound Director	Yōta Tsuruoka
	Music Producer	Shigeru Saito
	Original Music Composer	Tatsuya Kato
	Sound Effects	Eiko Morikawa
	Sound Recordist	Satoshi Yano
Writing	Series Composition	Masahiro Yokotani
	Original Story	Koji Oji
Camera	Director of Photography	Kazuya Takao
Editing	Editor	Kengo Shigemura
	Online Editor	Gen Itakura
Department	Role	Name

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