If you loved Free!: Timeless Medley - The Bond, try Free!: Take Your Marks
A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.
What they share
Both films are directed by Eisaku Kawanami, and they both carry the bittersweet, cozy mood tags, and they sit in Animation / Comedy territory. If that's the register that drew you to Free!: Timeless Medley - The Bond, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
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What Free!: Take Your Marks is
Here's a film doing what anime films do: filling in the gaps. Haruka prepares to leave Iwatobi High School in four episodic stories set in March. It gives the fanbase what it wants, and that's the point.
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