Honestly, I gotta say for the dudes out there.

The fan-service isn't really as noticeable unless you want to notice it. Free seems to be like any other sports series, with an large amount of slice of life added to it.

First episode was mainly slice of life, like Kana said there was "fan-service" but really, it was about as much "fan-service" as you'd see watching olympic swimming, or dragon ball (the one "skinny dipping" scene where you see a butt for like 3 seconds.) which for straight dudes isn't really fan-service at all.

I enjoyed it. I'm hoping fore more technical swimming information. I love how sports series can present real information on the sport even if it turns into insane unrealistic god level techniques in the end like Prince of Tennis, though I don't think that'll happen here.)

((As you can see from my AvaSig set I'm still waiting for an epic level hockey anime. (Curling would also be awesome.)))

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