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1st Free! -Timeless Medley- Film Opens in Indonesia on April 25

posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Encore Films Indonesia to also screen 2nd compilation film at a later date

Encore Films Indonesia announced on Thursday that it will open Kyoto Animation and Animation DO's Free! -Timeless Medley- Kizuna (Free! The Movie -Timeless Medley- the Bond) film in Indonesia on April 25.

The company will also open the Free! -Timeless Medley- Yakusoku (Free! The Movie -Timeless Medley- the Promise) film at an as-yet unrevealed date. Encore Films also screened both films in Singapore, with the first film opening in Singapore on February 22, and the second film opening on Thursday.

Free! -Timeless Medley- Kizuna opened in Japan last April, and ranked at #10 in the Japanese box office in its opening weekend. The film is the first of two compilation films for Kyoto Animation and Animation DO's Free! franchise. The second film, Free! -Timeless Medley- Yakusoku (Free! The Movie -Timeless Medley- the Promise), opened in Japan last July and ranked at #10 in the Japanese box office in its opening weekend.

The Timeless Medley compilation films feature returning cast members from the first television anime series, the Free! Eternal Summer sequel television anime series, and the High Speed! -Free! Starting Days- prequel anime film. In particular, the High Speed! film's Asahi Shiina and Ikuya Kirishima are now third-year students in the Kazami and Shionezaki High School Swim Clubs, respectively.

Eisaku Kawanami (episode director on both television anime, unit director on the High Speed! film) of the studio Animation DO directed the films at Kyoto Animation and Animation DO. Scriptwriter Masahiro Yokotani (both television anime and High Speed! film) was credited with composition, and Futoshi Nishiya also returned from the previous Free! projects as the character designer.

The brand-new Free! -Take Your Marks- theatrical anime project is a sequel to Free! -Timeless Medley-, and it screened in theaters in Japan last October. The story takes place in March, with Haruka dealing with graduation from high school. The film depicts four stories set in the days of early spring, before the characters advance to the next starting blocks of their futures, and what lies ahead.

The Free! franchise is inspiring a new television anime series this summer, as well as an "Episode 0" event anime that will screen in Japan on June 23.

[Via Kaori Nusantara]


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