zoom_in Click to enlarge

Free! Take Your Marks

▲ ▼

language

description Free! Take Your Marks Overview

Taking place between the events of Free!: Eternal Summer and Free!: Dive to the Future, Free!: Take Your Marks plays out the graduated seniors' last summer through four different stories before they set sail for the future. Unmei no Choice! (Destined Choice!) follows Haruka Nanase and Makoto Tachibana searching for a new apartment for Haruka as he settles into Tokyo. Hitou no Cooling Down!

(Cooling Down at the Secret Hot Spring!) sees Aiichiro Nitori choose a graduation gift for Rin Matsuoka and Sousuke Yamazaki, while Momotaro Mikoshiba wins tickets to the Anago Hot Springs. Hoping for a trip together, Aiichiro and Momotaro invite Rin and Sousuke. Kessoku no Batafurai! (United Butterfly!

help Free! Take Your Marks FAQ

Where does Free! Take Your Marks fit in the series timeline?

It takes place after Free!: Eternal Summer and before Free!: Dive to the Future. Its stories cover the transition period as Haruka, Makoto and the other graduating swimmers prepare for life after high school.

Is Take Your Marks one continuous Free! movie?

The film is divided into four linked episodic stories rather than a single tournament narrative. They include apartment hunting in Tokyo, graduation plans and comic misunderstandings involving the Iwatobi and Samezuka teams.

Does Free! Take Your Marks contain a major swimming competition?

No, it focuses more on the characters' final summer, friendships and plans for university. Viewers looking for race-heavy drama will find more of that in Eternal Summer and Dive to the Future.

Which studio made Free! Take Your Marks?

Kyoto Animation and Animation Do produced the 2017 film. It retains the polished water animation and ensemble cast associated with the Free! television series.

swap_horiz

Looking for Free! Take Your Marks alternatives? Compare top competitors ranked & scored

arrow_forward