‘Sexy Swimming’ CM confirmed to be a real Anime!

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Kyoto Animation has unveiled the hugely viral “Sexy Swimming” commercial to be their upcoming Anime series this July 2013! Titled “Free”, the anime is based on Kōji Ōji's “High Speed!”, an honorable mention recipient in the 2nd Kyoto Animation Award in 2011.

And thus the Fujoshis on my Facebook rejoiced and the Heterosexual guys moaned. LOL!

TVアニメ『Free!』2013年7月よりABC朝日放送、TOKYO MX、テレビ愛知、BS11にて放送開始予定！
ニコニコ動画、ABC動画倶楽部でも配信予定！
■TVアニメ『Free!』公式サイト
http://iwatobi-sc.com/
■TVアニメ『Free!』公式Twitterアカウント
http://twitter.com/iwatobi_sc
【キャスト】
七瀬 遙 Cv. 島﨑信長
橘 真琴 Cv. 鈴木達央
松岡 凛 Cv. 宮野真守
葉月 渚 Cv. 代永 翼
竜ヶ崎 怜 Cv. 平川大輔
【スタッフ】
原案：おおじこうじ「ハイ☆スピード!」（第2回京都アニメーション大賞奨励賞作品）
監督：内海紘子
シリーズ構成：横谷昌宏
キャラクターデザイン：西屋太志
美術監督：鵜ノ口穣二
色彩設計：米田侑加
小物設定：秋竹斉一
撮影監督：高尾一也
音響監督：鶴岡陽太
音楽：加藤達也
音楽制作：ランティス
アニメーション制作：京都アニメーション／アニメーションDo
製作：岩鳶高校水泳部
(C) おおじこうじ・京都アニメーション／岩鳶高校水泳部

Excerpt from TVアニメ『Free!』PV (KyoaniChannel)

“ Kyoto Animation unveiled its new swimming team anime, Free!, on Friday. The television anime is based on Kōji Ōji's High Speed!, an honorable mention recipient in the 2nd Kyoto Animation Award in 2011.Hiroko Utsumi of Animation DO is directing the anime, and Masahiro Yokotani is supervising the scripts. Futoshi Nishiya is designing the characters, and Tatsuya Katou is composing the music.

Much of the same team created the "Suiei-hen" (Swimming) anime commercial that was unveiled last month.

The main cast are Nobunaga Shimazaki, Tatsuhisa Suzuki, Tsubasa Yonaga, Daisuke Hirakawa, and Mamoru Miyano (Rin Matsuoka).” 

Excerpt from http://www.animenewsnetwork.com

 

Here’s a recap at the amazingly fluid animation commercial that started everything. It looks better in HD 8D. I must admit I am VERY surprised at this turn of event ! I kept thinking the ‘Sexy swimming’ short clip was just a promotional video to promote Kyoto Animation –_- ;

I wonder was it originally planned to be an Anime or was Kyoto Animation persuaded to push through due to the overwhelming response. I guess we’ll never know xD