TV series
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Overview
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.
Details
- First air date
- 2013-07-04
- Status
- Ended
- Seasons
- 3 seasons
- Episodes
- 37 episodes
- Genres
- Animation, Comedy, Drama
- Network
- Tokyo MX
- Production
- Kyoto Animation, Animation DO, Pony Canyon, Lantis, Asahi Broadcasting Corporation, ABC Animation, Bandai Namco Arts
- Country
- JP
- Original language
- JA
Cast
- Nobunaga Shimazaki as Haruka Nanase (voice)
- Daisuke Hirakawa as Rei Ryugazaki (voice)
- Akeno Watanabe as Gou Matsuoka (voice)
- Kenjiro Tsuda as Seijuro Mikoshiba (voice)
- Mamoru Miyano as Rin Matsuoka (voice)
- Hiroshi Yanaka as Gorou Sasabe (voice)
- Tatsuhisa Suzuki as Makoto Tachibana (voice)
- Satsuki Yukino as Miho Amakata (voice)
- Kouki Miyata as Aiichiro Nitori (voice)
- Yoshimasa Hosoya as Sosuke Yamazaki (voice)
- Kenichi Suzumura as Momotaro Mikoshiba (voice)
- Tsubasa Yonaga as Nagisa Hazuki (voice)
Creators and crew
- Masayuki Nishide - Executive Producer
- Yoko Hatta - Executive Producer
- Shunji Inoue - Executive Producer
- Yoko Kogawa - Executive Producer
- Susumu Okinaka - Executive Producer
- Atsushi Isoyama - Executive Producer
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