
With the halfway point of the 2014 anime summer season fans have adjusted their watchlists, showing in the latest ranking that the top shows of the season continue to maintain their strong viewer strength thanks to their numerous fans – and in several cases equally numerous detractors…
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Latest broadcast of summer swimmer blockbuster Free! has replaced its usual light atmosphere for one of a more brooding and somber nature, due to appearance of a hitherto well disguised plot – potentially offering something more than just young men in trunks for viewers to get their teeth in to.
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Top show of the season (to some at least) Free! has aired its 4th episode in true rotten style and to the usual tsundere howls from the undecayed crowd, raising the spectre of what would have happened had KyoAni made every episode of K-ON! a swimwear special…
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Sodden shonen swimmer anime Free! has aired its 3rd episode, pandering to the usual rotten crowd with more shirtless males cavorting together, but this time also managing some fresh new sports and some screen time for the show’s token female.
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Youthful swim-fest anime Free! continues its highly anticipated second season to great approval, by the looks of it having secured both the rotten crowd and all those who are forced to keep watching out of sheer morbid addiction.
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KyoAni’s blockbuster magnum opus Free! is finally back with its new season, and viewers rotten or otherwise are predictably delighted – not least with the latest addition to the lithe young crew.
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A new season of anime beckons, and poses the crucial question of which anime of the summer season fans are most anticipating – with the likes of KyoAni’s magnum opus anime Free! besting a majority of the sequels topping the list, though even lithe young men must give way to SAO’s imminent return…
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Legions of fujoshi have lent their aid in determining the best BL anime of the year, although their obsession with Free! and Shingeki no Kyojin may owe as much to the volume of rotten doujin content spawned as it does actual BL action.
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The trailer for the second season of KyoAni’s blockbuster swimming anime Free! has finally arrived, delivering the well-built young men and breast-stroking action that made the first season so successful and delighting fujoshi and their more open-minded otaku fans in the process.
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Obsessive fujoshi have been performing what seems like worship in honour of the 2/2 birthday of Rin Matsuoka, the shark-toothed character of KyoAni’s controversially popular swimming anime Free! – and as to be expected, they have been freely showing off their rites of celebration with an abundance of Rin associated goods, with cake being a common feature of course…
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The finale of Free! has been greeted warmly even by the unrotten contingent, the show by all accounts having proven a huge hit and having sold well – and fans will be overjoyed to learn that it will be returning next year, stealing another KyoAni production slot and giving them the twin delights of more Tamako Market and Free! to look forward to in 2014…
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Sep 15, 2013 01:58 JST
- Tags: Chuunibyou, Clannad, Free!, Hyouka, K-ON!, Kyoto Animation, Moe, Nichijou, Rankings

After the disaster of Tamako Market and the controversial success of Free! Kyoto Animation’s roster of undisputed classics seems to have regressed back to that “other” blockbuster anime, with fans giving short shrift to their more recent efforts…
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