Mamoru Miyano, Koki Miyata, and Kenjiro Tsuda took the stage! Timeless Medley - The Promise" Opening Day Greetings Report

Free!" is a TV animation based on "High☆Speed! a TV animation based on the 2nd Kyoto Animation Grand Prize winner "High☆Speed! The story depicts the coming-of-age and bonding of high school boys with swimming as the theme, and the high quality animation unique to Kyoto Animation has captured the hearts of many fans, and became very popular with a second season airing in July 2014.
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Following the release of "Free! The Movie -Timeless Medley- Kizuna" in April 2017, "Free! The opening day greeting was held at Shinjuku Piccadilly in Tokyo on July 1. Live viewing was also held at theaters nationwide.

On stage to greet the audience were Mamoru Miyano, who plays Rin Matsuoka, Yuki Miyata, who plays Aiichiro Nitori, and Kenjiro Tsuda, who plays Seijuro Mikoshiba. The event venue was filled with excitement as all of the past heads of Samegara Gakuen took the stage.

The audience gave a grand cheer to the three as they appeared on stage.

Mr. Tsuda greeted the audience with a pose of "Shark! which was the greeting for Samegara Gakuen in the web radio program "Iwatobi-chan Channel" on the special edition CD "Shark! It was Tsuda's first time to greet the audience at a "Free!" event, but he made a strong appeal as the head of the Samegara Academy.

The stage greeting took place after the first screening of the film on its opening day, which started at 9:00 a.m. The audience filled the hall. The audience filled the hall with the first fans who had finished watching the film. In front of such an audience, the cast members were asked to share their candid impressions of the day.

Miyano-san, who plays Rin, commented that she was glad to have the shark pattern story put together. He appealed that it was not only the fans who had been waiting for this day, but also themselves. He said that he himself had seen the work the day before the performance and could not stop crying from the beginning, and felt that "we, Samegara, were fighting with something big. He also said that the performance of Sosuke Yamazaki, played by Yoshimasa Hosoya, soaked into him, and that he unintentionally contacted Mr. Hosoya while watching the work. Mr. Miyano said that he sent a message to Mr. Hosoya saying, "I'll be waiting for your return." He also said that he sent an image of Mr. Hosoya giving him a fist bump.

Mr. Miyata, who plays Aiichiro, also spoke of Samegara Gakuen as a "good team that compensates for each other's shortcomings," saying, "This could not have happened even if one of us was missing. He touched on the feelings of Seijuro, who is watching over Rin and the other actors in the audience in the play.

The cast members with such strong feelings also talked about scenes they wanted people to pay attention to and their favorite scenes.

Of course, they could have chosen "all of them," but if they had to, they would have chosen "the scene with Sosuke" (Mr. Miyano) and "the scene before the relay, when he said, 'Let's swim! (Miyata), and "the scene where he is angry at the juniors from the audience" (Tsuda).

Miyano-san and Tsuda-san also praised Mikoshiba Seijuro's younger brother Mikoshiba Hyakutaro (CV: Suzumura Kenichi), and the talk turned into a search for good points about Samegara, such as the fact that Samegara, unlike Iwatobi, has a heated swimming pool, and the audience was filled with laughter.

The audience laughed as they talked about their memories of the recording sessions. Ms. Tsuda, who said there were not many swimming scenes in the movie, showed how she breathed when swimming, and the cheering scene was also discussed in various ways, such as learning realistic shouts from the staff who actually went to cover the competition.

In the end, each cast member gave a passionate message to the audience.

Mr. Miyano said, "We, too, were able to feel the excellence of the work "Free! The bonds they have formed are beautiful and I want to keep seeing them. We made a promise to everyone here that we will definitely meet again, and we hope that you will enjoy this work to the fullest. Thank you for your continued support of Free. With these words, the "Shark! pose was performed, and the stage greeting ended.

Free! -Timeless Medley- Promise" is currently showing in theaters nationwide to rave reviews.

The long-awaited new anime "Free! -Take Your Marks-" will be screened in theaters in the fall.