Producers: Kyoto Animation, Lantis, Animation Do, Iwatobi High School Swimming Club
Synopsis: Anime is centers on Haruka Nanase who loves to be around and in water. After joining a swimming club in elementary and winning a competition the team splits up and goes their own ways till high school when Hanuka meets up with Rei Ryugazaki, a former member of the club who beats him with overwhelming power in the water. Haruka then gathers the other members of the club to try to beat Rei Ryugazaki.
Genres: Comedy, School, Sports, Slice of Life
Related manga or light novels:
High Speed! (Novel)
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Air Dates: Jul 4, 2013 to Sep 25, 2013
Link to anime’s Site:
Number of episodes:
Episode 1 – Reunion at the Starting Block!
Episode 2 – Memories in the Distance!
Episode 3 – Theoretical Dolphin Kick!
Episode 4 – Captive Butterfly
Episode 5 – Trial in Open Water
Episode 6 – Shocking No Breathing
Episode 7 – One Style Final
Episode 8 – Revenge in the Medley!
Episode 9 – Hesitant Loosen Up
Episode 10 – Irritated Heart Rate
Episode 11 – Furious All-out
Episode 12 – Distant Free
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Voice Actors who worked on the Anime:
Characters and their CVs:
Daisuke Hirakawa as Rei Ryugazaki
Mamoru Miyano as Rin Matsuoka
Nobunaga Shimazaki as Haruka Nanase
Tatsuhisa Suzuki as Makoto Tachibana
Tsubasa Yonaga as Nagisa Hazuki
Akeno Watanabe as Gō Matsuoka
Hiroshi Yanaka as Gorō Sasabe
Satsuki Yukino as Miho Amakata
Akeno Watanabe as Rin Matsuoka (Young)
Hironori Kondou as Makoto’s Father (ep 2)
Jun Yokoyama as Student (ep 1)
Kenjiro Tsuda as Seijuurou Mikoshiba
Kouki Miyata as Aiichiro Nitori
Megumi Matsumoto as Haruka Nanase (Young)
Misa Katō as Makoto’s Mother (ep 2)
Miyuki Kobori as Ran Tachibana (eps 2, 5)
Sachiko Chijimatsu as Old Woman (ep 1)
Satomi Satou as Chigusa Hanamura, Nagisa Hazuki (Young)
Satsuki Yukino as Makoto Tachibana (Young)
Takashi Nagasako as Male Teacher (ep 1)
Yuka Maruyama as Ren Tachibana (eps 2, 5)
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Staff who worked on the anime:
Director: Hiroko Utsumi
Series Composition: Masahiro Yokotani
Script:
Masahiro Yokotani (9 episodes)
Reiko Yoshida (eps 6, 9)
Storyboard: Eisaku Kawanami (eps 2, 5), Hiroko Utsumi (OP; ED; eps 1, 4), Naoko Yamada (ep 7), Noriyuki Kitanohara (ep 10), Rika Ōta (eps 6, 11), Taiichi Ogawa (eps 3, 9), Yasuhiro Takemoto (eps 5, 8)
Episode Director: Eisaku Kawanami (eps 2, 5), Hiroko Utsumi (ep 1), Ichirou Miyoshi (ep 4), Naoko Yamada (ep 7), Noriyuki Kitanohara (ep 10), Rika Ōta (eps 6, 11), Taiichi Ogawa (eps 3, 9), Yasuhiro Takemoto (ep 8)
Unit Director: Hiroko Utsumi (OP; ED)
Music: Tatsuya Katou
Original Concept: Kōji Ōji
Character Design: Futoshi Nishiya
Art Director: Joji Unoguchi
Chief Animation Director: Futoshi Nishiya
Animation Director: Chiyoko Ueno (ep 8), Futoshi Nishiya (OP; ED; ep 1), Hiroyuki Takahashi (ep 6), Kayo Hikiyama (eps 2, 5, 11), Nao Naitō (ep 7), Nobuaki Maruki (eps 3, 9), Shoko Ikeda (ep 10), Yukiko Horiguchi (ep 4)
Sound Director: Yota Tsuruoka
Director of Photography: Kazuya Takao
Executive producer: Atsushi Isoyama, Shinya Yamamoto, Shunji Inoue, Yoko Hatta
Producer: Masayuki Nishide (ABC Asahi), Shigeru Saitō (Lantis), Shin’ichirou Hatta (Kyoto Animation), Shinichi Nakamura (Pony Canyon)
3D Animation: Norihiro Tomiita, Rin Yamamoto, Ryuuta Nakagami, Tetsuro Umezu, Yuji Shibata
Assistant Animation Director: Hiroyuki Takahashi (ep 5), Kayo Hikiyama (ep 6), Kazumi Ikeda (eps 2, 5), Nobuaki Maruki (OP; ED; ep 4)
Assistant Episode Director:
Rika Ōta (ep 2)
Takuya Yamamura (ep 5)
Assistant producer:
Hiroshi Kogure
Midori Nonoue
Assistant Unit Director: Taichi Ishidate (OP; ED)
Background Art: Ayami Hidaka (Anime Kobo Basara), Cheon Bok Lee (Studio Blue), Ikuko Tamine, Ji Hee Kim (Studio Blue), Joji Unoguchi, Ju Ran Kim (Studio Blue), Jung Ah Park (Studio Blue), Manae Yamatogi, Marie Kitai (Anime Kobo Basara), Mi Jin Lee (Studio Blue), Mi Ran Moon (Studio Blue), Mikiko Watanabe, Miyuki Hiratoko, Momoka Nagatani, Mutsuo Shinohara, Naoki Hosokawa, Nozomi Ōishi, Sagako Itakura (Anime Kobo Basara), Seiki Tamura (Anime Kobo Basara), Shingo Kasai, Shūhei Okude, Shuuko Uematsu (Anime Kobo Basara), So Yun Shin (Studio Blue), Tomoki Hiraishi, Yoshikatsu Matsumoto (Anime Kobo Basara), Yukiko Takeuchi, Yun Suk Ryeom (Studio Blue)
Background Manager: Joji Unoguchi (OP; ED)
Color Check:
Naomi Ishida
Yūka Yoneda
Color Check Assistance:
Naomi Ishida
Yuki Semori
Color design: Yūka Yoneda
Color Design Assistant: Akiyo Takeda
Color setting: Akiyo Takeda, Kana Miyata, Naomi Ishida, Yūka Yoneda
Editing: Gen Itakura, Haruka Yasumoto, Kengo Shigemura
Finish Animation: Asako Aisawa, Aya Toyosawa, Ayumi Shimoura, Ayumi Yamamori, Emi Ebisu, Hitomi Imaizumi, Kazuki Kurihara, Kei Nishino, Mayumi Taguchi, Mihoko Eda, Nanako Kitaoka, Rie Takagi, Rina Miura, Sachiko Sasaki, Shōko Doi, Tomoko Shima, Yasumi Kawai, Youko Shukuya, Yuki Semori, Yukie Tsuda
In-Between Animation:
Aika Aoki, Akiko Higaki, Atsushi Ishida, Atsushi Miyaji, Aya Sato, Ayaka Nagahama, Ayaka Tada
Chitose Nakamine
Emi Nakano
Fumiyasu Kodaka
Hiroko Kuroda
Jun’ichi Uda
Kaju Fujita, Kaori Furukawa, Kazuhiko Horikawa, Kenji Murayama, Kiyoka Negi, Kumi Kuroda, Kyōhei Andō
Maiko Tanigami, Maki Inoue, Makiko Nagahora, Manami Natsumeda, Masato Fukushima, Mie Kiyohara, Minako Usugi, Motoki Matsumura
Naoko Fujita, Naoya Nakayama, Natsumi Tada, Noriko Kashihara
Sayaka Ikeda, Seiya Kumano
Youhei Kawasaki, Yumi Oohashi, Yumi Ookawa, Yumiko Hashi, Yuuki Noguchi
In-Between Check: Hiroko Kuroda, Kiyoka Negi, Motoki Matsumura, Naoko Fujita, Yumiko Hashi
Key Animation:
Ai Yukimura (OP; ED; ep 4), Akiyoshi Shidou (ep 8)
Chinatsu Morimoto (eps 1-2, 5, 9), Chiyoko Ueno (ED; eps 1, 8)
Eisaku Kawanami (eps 2, 5, 9), Emi Kitamura (ep 1), Emiko Nakano (eps 3-4, 9)
Fumio Tada (eps 1-2, 7)
Hana Hosoda (eps 3-4, 9, 11), Haruka Fujita (eps 3-4), Haruka Sagawa (eps 3-5, 9), Hidehiro Asama (eps 4, 10), Hira Kashiwagi (eps 1-2, 5, 9), Hiroshi Karata (OP; eps 7, 9), Hiroyuki Takahashi (OP)
Kanae Ōkura (eps 3-4), Kayo Hikiyama (ep 1), Kazumi Ikeda (OP; ep 2), Kōhei Nakahara (eps 3-4, 9, 11), Kunihiro Hane (OP; ep 8), Kyōhei Andō (eps 5-6, 11)
Maiko Hado (5 episodes), Mariko Takahashi (eps 3-5, 9), Masanao Murayama (ED; ep 8), Masaya Makita (ED; eps 1-2, 6, 11), Minoru Ōta (eps 1-2, 5, 9)
Nami Iwasaki (ED; eps 7, 9), Naoki Nakanishi (eps 4, 10), Naoko Machida (eps 8, 10), Naoko Yamada (ED), Nobuaki Maruki (eps 1, 3, 9, 11)
Rie Sezaki (OP; ep 8), Ryouhei Muta (OP; 5 episodes)
Sana Suzuki (ep 4), Seiichi Akitake (OP; ep 4), Shinpei Sawa (OP; ED; eps 4, 11)
Taiichi Ogawa (ep 3), Taira Yamaguchi (eps 3-5, 9, 11), Takuya Yamamura (ED; eps 1, 5, 9), Tatsutaka Maruko (ep 8), Tatsuya Satou (OP; eps 1-2, 5, 9), Tomofumi Sugitani (eps 7, 9), Tomoko Yoshimura (ED; eps 4, 10)
Yoshiaki Urata (OP; ep 10), Yuki Kakuda (eps 4, 10), Yukiko Horiguchi (OP; eps 2, 7, 9), Yūko Akami (eps 7, 9), Yumi Fujii (OP; 5 episodes)
Literature: Miyuki Egami
Logo Design: Yayoi Sueoka
Music producer: Shigeru Saitō
Online Editing Manager: Takayuki Tabata
Photography: Akihiro Ura, Hiroki Ueda, Kōhei Funamoto, Yoshiko Tanaka
Photography Manager: Kazuya Takao (OP; ED)
Planning Assistant:
Taketo Muroichi
Yoshimi Nakajima
Planning Producer: Hideaki Hatta
Production manager: Keisuke Yokota (5 episodes), Riri Senami (ep 8), Risa Sakai (ep 7), Yōtarō Satō (eps 3-4, 9)
Prop Design: Seiichi Akitake
Publicity: Mayumi Yamaguchi, Mirei Sakamoto, Takuma Kishimoto, Yuki Takamura
Publicity Producer:
Rie Miyai
Yasushi Miwa
Recording: Satoshi Yano
Recording Assistant: Fumiaki Tanaka
Setting Manager: Ikuna Ōhashi
Sound Effects: Eiko Morikawa
Sound Production Manager: Yoshimi Sugiyama
Special Effects: Shizuka Uno
Theme Song Performance: Daisuke Hirakawa (ED), Mamoru Miyano (ED), Nobunaga Shimazaki (ED), OLDCODEX (OP), Tatsuhisa Suzuki (ED), Tsubasa Yonaga (ED)
Web Design: Momoyo Kawabata, Natsumi Hamada, Shin’ya Tomofuji