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High Speed! Free! Starting Days Film's 10th Special Video Streamed

film on Wednesday. Like the previous special promo video, this latest video highlights the entire cast, and has the text "A separate story that serves as the border line between the past and the future."

The previous special videos featured: streamed a trailer for the film last month.

The website also revealed one more special illustration on Friday.

The film stars:

Haruka Nanase. A first-year at the Iwatobi Middle School who holds special feelings for water. His forte in swimming is freestyle (crawl). He has a strong preference for swimming in freestyle. He has a curt personality and doesn't like dealing with other people, but his skilled swimming dazzles others.

Tatsuhisa Suzuki as Makoto Tachibana. Haruka's childhood friend and best friend. A first-year at Iwatobi Middle School. His forte in swimming is the backstroke. He has a kind and considerate personality, and he often dotes on Haruka and those around him. He has a very good build, and his swimming style is so hearty that it seems to not match his personality at all.

Toshiyuki Toyonaga as Asahi Shiina. A first-year at Iwatobi Middle School. His forte in swimming is the butterfly. He is the mood-maker of the team with his bright and energetic personality. He also is a bit full of himself. He has a positive outlook on life that allows him to look forward in any situation, and he has the innocence and ion to face swimming head on.

Kōki Uchiyama as Ikuya Kirishima. A first-year at Iwatobi Middle School. His forte in swimming is the breaststroke. Although he is delicate and sensitive, he is bad at showing his true emotions, and sometimes says nasty things on impulse. He has been attending Hanto SC since he was in elementary school. It appears that he has a bit of a rough relationship with his elder brother Natsuya.

Kenji Nojima as Natsuya Kirishima. The third-year student captain of the Iwatobi Middle School swim club and Ikuya's elder brother. A person who is acknowledged by everyone around him.

Satoshi Hino as Nao Serizawa. The third-year student manager of the Iwatobi Middle School swim club who serves as Haruka and the others' instructor. Natsuya trusts him.

Chihiro Suzuki as Kisumi Shigino. A first-year student at Iwatobi Middle School. He has a refreshing, bright, and sociable personality. His strong point is basketball, and he keeps inviting Haruka and others to the basketball club at every chance he gets.

Aoi Yūki voices the character's elementary school version). A first-year student at Sano Middle School. During elementary school, he became aware of Haruka and his friends through a swim club tournament. He is an understanding person who is close friends with Rin.

Akeno Watanabe voices the character's elementary school version). He swam with Haruka in a relay team together at the Swim Club when he was a six-year elementary school student. He is currently studying swimming abroad in Australia.

Satomi Satou as Nagisa Hazuki (elementary school). A six-year elementary school student who attends he Iwatobi Swim Club. He met Haruka and his friends through the Swim Club and he enjoys himself while also being very zealous about swimming.

Yōko Hikasa as Rei Ryugazaki (elementary school). A six-year elementary school student. He loves reading and goes to the library often.

The film opened on December 5 on 120 screens, selling 67,829 tickets for 95,546,400 yen ($774,000), and ranking #5 in attendance during its opening weekend.

The website describes the film's story:

Haruka Nanase feels something special when he touches water. The medley relay was the last competition he was able to participate in during elementary school. Haruka, along with Makoto Tachibana, Nagisa Hazuki, and Rin Matsuoka, saw something they'd never seen before.

In spring, with the cherry blossoms in full bloom. Haruka moves on to Iwatobi Middle School with Makoto and starts a new life. Both enter the swim team, and plan to compete in the medley relay together with Asahi Shiina and Ikuya Kirishima.

All four students have different objectives and ways of thinking, and different baggage they're carrying, and so their practice for the relay hasn't been going well.

What is required to make a team? What does Haruka, whose heart is trapped in the medley relay of the past, think during this new event?

High Speed! -Free! Starting Days- depicts these boys trying to find the answer, and discovering new ideas about swimming.

The boys' sparkling youth, and the future they've bet on swimming, begins.

Futoshi Nishiya returned to design the characters from the television series and serve as chief animation director. Nishiya was already credited for original character design.

Tatsuya Katou.

song "Aching Horns." The CD single will ship on December 16.

The film is directly inspired by the High Speed! novel that was loosely adapted into the original shipped last July.

The first Free! anime from Kyoto Animation premiered in July 2013, and dub.

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