The anime adaptation of the High☆Speed! work gave us a taste of the character designs recently with a new key visual image of some of the main cast members but now the official site has updated more. The latest that we get is a new teaser spot that introduces all of them to us while the site itself has a look at the characters from different angles.
The recent site refresh revealed that Tatsuhisa Suzuki will be coming back to play Makoto again in the film. While the characters are obviously the same overall, there’s always a chance of recasting for a variety of reasons. Nobunaga Shimazaki was previously announced as returning to the property to play Haruka again.
The theatrical anime adaptation is being released as High☆Speed!: Free! Starting Days, which is set to land on December 5th, 2015. The light novel comes from Kouji Ohji with illustrations by Futoshi Nishiya and served as the original inspiration for the anime series, but the differences are that the anime upped the characters to high school level while the novel had them in junior high. The theatrical anime adaptation is expected to serve as a prequel to the TV series and breathe a little more life into the property for fans.
The original novel was written by Kouji Ohji back in 2011 and it received formal publishing in 2013 and 2014 via Kyoto Animation, who also produced the anime series. A manga adaptation of this project is also underway with Shiori Teshirogi set to illustrate it. The film is directed by Yasuhiro Takemoto based on the composition by Masahiro Yokotani and screenplay from Maiko Nishioka.
Plot concept: 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.
I havebeen looking everywhere to find out if this movie it would come out in the US or have an English dub or sub(dontcarewhich) Could someone tell me if it will or will not BecauseI really wanted to come out here there are many fans in the US it won’t be fair to just give it to the people in Japan
It’s not been acquired for release here yet, though it’s easy to imagine that FUNimation will go after it since they have the second season of the TV series.