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Free! - Iwatobi Swim Club Anime's New 2nd Season Promo Video Debuts

posted on by Egan Loo
"The seasons change. I just...want to swim. Summer is coming. Our summer. The first & last eternal summer."

The latest promotional video for the second season of Kyoto Animation's Free! (Free! - Iwatobi Swim Club) anime debuted on the Akihabara UDX Vision screen in Tokyo's Akihabara district on Saturday.

Narration: The seasons change.
Narration: The days are calm… but, they can't keep going on like this.
Narration: I just...
Text: …want to swim
Narration & Text: Summer is coming.
Narration & Text: Our summer
Text: See that scenic view just one more time
Narration & Text: The first and last eternal summer

The video lists the second season as Free! Eternal Summer, and it confirms that the season will premiere this July on Japan's ABC, Tokyo MX TV, TV Aichi, and BS11 stations. However, the video shows some of the characters wearing winter clothes, as well as an apparently previously unseen character.

Kyoto Animation announced that a second season was in production at a Free! talk event in January. The first season ended with a “see you next summer” message in the final episode.

The previous promotional video for the second season has Haruka (voiced by Nobunaga Shimazaki) saying, “As promised, I've arrived”:

The first anime premiered last July, and Crunchyroll streamed the anime as it aired in Japan.

Thanks to Nemui_Nezumi for the news tip

Images © Kōji Ōji, Kyoto Animation/Iwasobi High School Swimming Club


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