Review Iwatobi swim club

Little know fact, Rei's hand smells awesome

Haruka Nanase is a young man who loves water and swimming but only swims freestyle. One day Rin, an old friend of his moves back to Japan and challenges him to a swimming match and beats him easily. This motivates Haruka to start a new swim club with his old friends. But do Haruka and his friends have enough talent and skill to become great swimmers?

Sometimes those fanfics practically write themselves

Free is a sports anime show and one that is somewhat infamous for having some controversy about it. In my opinion I found it completely unnecessary as animation studios are mercenary entities that will please any demographic that could be profitable. On top of this I found Free to be a decent show regardless of any pandering to a female fan base that that this show has.

But would a good girl be snooping on other's conversations?

I found this show to be a decent enough sports show with decent enough characters and a plot to be considered a good (although not great) show simply by narrative merit. There is equal parts character drama and some light comedy to keep the show from being too dark or heavy. There is of course fujoshi based fan service but at least it isn't something used to distract from the show's failings.

Overall Free Iwatobi Swim Club is a great show for fans looking for hot guys in their anime and it should be tolerable for most everyone else.

Rating the bronze Suzaku (Fushigi Yuugi) for be a decent show regardless of being full of bishonen.