High☆Speed! -Starting Days", teaser poster and storyline are unveiled!　Four junior high school students' adolescence in swimming!

The teaser poster and story of the anime film "High☆Speed: Starting Days," which will be released on December 5, have been announced! -Starting Days-", which will be released in theaters on December 5, has revealed its teaser poster and story.

Starting Days" will be released on December 5! -Starting Days-" is the latest film animation of "Free! Based on the second volume of the original novel "High☆Speed! the film depicts the junior high school days of the main character Nanase Haruka and her friends. Directed by Yasuhiro Takemoto of "The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya," "Amagi Brilliant Park," and "Hyouka," the film is composed by Masahiro Yokoya, written by Maiko Nishioka, character design and chief animation director is Taishi Nishiya, and produced by Kyoto Animation.

The teaser poster and storyline have now been released. The teaser poster depicts four junior high school boys dressed in their school uniforms, trying to walk in different directions. In addition, it was announced that the advance tickets to be released on July 25th will come with a total of six types of newly-drawn clear files, and that an all-night screening event will be held. For details, please visit the official website (http://movie-highspeed.com/).

Yasuhiro Takemoto (Director) Comment
A new environment. New people. New challenges.There will be times in your life when you will dive into something new.At such times, what thoughts fill your mind?Anticipation? Anxiety? Excitement? Depression? Nervous?Or something more?In this film, Haruka and her friends dive into a new world called "junior high school.I would like to follow with sincerity whatHaruka and her friends, who are neither children nor adults, but are in the "awai" age group,think and feel.I would like to capture on film thebrilliance that can only be found at that moment in their lives,without missing a single moment of it.

<Story
Nanase Haruka has a special passion for interacting with and feeling water.In the medley relay race at the last competition she participated in as an elementary school student,Haruka, together withMakoto Tachibana,Nagisa Hazuki, and Rin Matsuoka, reached a "sight she had never seen before"....And in spring, when the cherry blossoms are in full bloom. Haruka and Makoto went to Iwatobi Junior High School.A new life was about to begin.Haruka and Makoto join the swimming club, and together with Asahi Shiina and Ikuya Kirishima, they form a medley relay team to compete.The four have different ideas and different goals.And they all have their own problems.They practice the relay in such a situation, but it doesn't go well. ......What does it take to be a "team?"What will Haruka, whose mind is still stuck in themedley relay of the past, think in this new place---?The film depictshow they gradually get to know each other and realize new feelings through swimming[High☆Speed! -Starting Days].The fresh youth of the boys, and their future through swimming, begins now.