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Feb 19, 2023
Mixed Feelings
As usual with the Free! franchise, the animation is smooth and the movie is very colourful! The animation is pretty lifelike with how it interacts with the characters, lighting, textures, and environment. Also, the sound design is pretty cool too, it suits the animation and the scenes nicely.

The storyline: Pretty easy to understand and follow, though some moments felt either drawn out or happened too fast so the pacing was a little off for some scenes. It mainly focused on how the characters hit a wall and they had to find their own way through/around it, for some characters it felt like nice development but for others it felt like it's already been done (either in the show or in other movies). Also, the ending had a familiar Free-like ending that we've seen in previous key moments of the franchise.

The characters: Nice to see them again, their designs haven't changed much since the beginning of the franchise, it would have been nice to see them visually change rather than just change their environment. VAs did a wonderful job at bringing the characters to life and adding so many feelings into the scenes too!

Overall, it was a good movie that I've been looking forward to. In some ways, I really hope that it was the last part of the franchise since I feel like the characters have reached their full potential and if another movie or show were to be released then it might mess up the pacing and development of the characters. I did enjoy the movie but at the same time, some moments did feel like they have been reused from the show which was a little bit disappointing.
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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