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Free! Music: Style Five
By Tom Smith. Anime music doesn’t get much more “anime” than STYLE FIVE, a super group formed especially for the ending themes to a series all about breaststrokes, front crawls and doggy paddles; Free! Eternal Summer. The series kicks off with a blaster of an opening song from OLDCODEX. That’s the band fronted by Free! […]
Free! Eternal Summer
By Andy Hanley. If ever you want an example of how to build hype around an anime series, you could do worse than to take a leaf from the playbook of Kyoto Animation. In March 2013 a short, 30-second promotional video produced by off-shoot Animation Do appeared on television and online. Social media was ablaze […]
Free! Music: OLDCODEX
By Tom Smith. Who would’ve guessed that an anime about swimming would be causing such a splash as Free! Eternal Summer? Then again, judging by how swiftly its male cast manage to strip to their speedos and show off their glistening muscles, maybe it isn’t such a wonder. Either way, the franchise has become so […]