The story revolves around Haruka Nanase, a boy who has always loved to be immersed in water, and to swim in it. Before graduating from elementary school, he participated in a swimming tournament along with his fellow swimming club members, Makoto Tachibana, Nagisa Hazuki, and Rin Matsuoka. After achieving victory, each of the boys went their separate ways. Time passed, and in the middle of their uneventful high school lives Rin appears and challenges Haruka to a match, showing Haruka his overwhelming power. Not wanting it to end like this, Haruka, gathers together Makoto and Nagisa once again and brings a new member named Rei Ryugazaki to create the Iwatobi High School Swimming Club in order to defeat Rin. (Source: Anime News Network)
Japanese study overview
Free! is a Japanese anime of 61,054 characters, with 3,130 unique words and 975 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is easy, 1.7 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 3,130 words by how often they appear, and you can study them on Jiten or download them as an Anki deck.
Vocabulary highlights
Here are some of the words that appear most often in this media, as well as a sample of its rarer vocabulary.
- 真琴Kotomi×502
- 怜Satoi×490
- 渚Sho×387
- 遙Haru×318
- 凛cold×272
- 渚water's edge×263
- 泳ぐto swim×180
- 江Irie×163
- 俺I×148
- 僕I×147
- 江inlet×133
- 先輩senior (at school, work, etc.)×113
- 天方Amakata×90
- 笹部Sasabe×85
- 水泳部swimming club (at a university, corporation, etc.)×66
- 似鳥Ijima×52
- 鮫shark×36
- 松岡Hayashi×35
- 鳶black kite (Milvus migrans)×24
- 県大会prefectural tournament×15