Free! Iwatobi Swim Club Season 2 Eternal Summer sneak preview and new character announced! Welcoming Sosuke Yamazaki!
The good people of the wildly popular Free! anime adaptation have updated their official website!
New items include a teaser video for the new season coming in July, plus updated character profiles and the initial design for a new regular character!
After the previous competition, the bonds of friendship have deepened between Haruka, Makoto, Nagisa and Rei. Even in their unchanging everyday lives, they have matured in many ways.
On the other side, Rin has overcome his past and sprints towards his dreams. Aiming to become the best team together with his new teammates.
Iwatobi and Samezuka, friends and swimming…and their futures. The boys face themselves, while holding their dreams and emotions within their hearts, welcoming a new summer.
Sosuke Yamazaki 山崎宗介
According to the character profile, Sosuke Yamazaki was Rin’s childhood close friend in elementary school, from a time before his transfer to Iwatobi Elementary. He had a very good understanding of Rin from when they were young, to the point where Rin considers him family.
He has steadfast strength in facing everything, and is seldom fazed by anything. When it comes to swimming, he takes on a tough and no-nonsense stance on himself and those around him. Based on information from High Speed! it appears his speciality is the butterfly.
CV Yoshimasa Hosoya
Writer’s comments:
Although it’s still not clear whether Sosuke will be joining the Samezuka team (although he’s credited in the same block as Rin, Nittori and Mikoshiba). It’ll be exciting to see Rin interacting with a real friend other than the Iwatobi boys, plus all the potential awkward moments if he starts referring to Rin’s past… Based on the character profile, Sosuke appears to be very much Rin’s rock, or Rin’s very own Mako (the visuals as well…)
Cast-wise, Hosoya is definitely an awesome pick, he’s been great in sports anime and at grounded, steady characters (Hyuuga Junpei from Kuroko no Basuke & Sentarou from Sakamichi no Apollon comes to mind). Plus chemistry with Miyano is already a given, so we’re going to expect some serious sparks!
Plus! A special trailer was broadcast on the huge screen on the Akihabara UDX building over the weekend as a special promo~ You can watch that here!
All images from iwatobi-sc.com
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