Review: Free! Eternal Summer Review

Free! Eternal Summer

review

This is season two of Free!, season one was titled Free! Iwatobi Swim Club. Sadly season one hasn't been released in Australia yet. Free! is an anime about a group of high school friends who create a swim club, and follows that summer. 

The story also deals with the rivalry between the Iwatobi swim club and their rivals the Samezuka Academy swimming group.

It should be pointed out that this anime is a story about friendship and rivalry. 

There isn't much action as such, no not expect giant  robots or alien symbiotic parasites.

 Expect a beautiful story about friendship, love and rivalry. I don't mean that to sound boring at all, the show if far from boring. It also left me with a smile on my face almost the entire time.

The story is amazing but the art is utterly beautiful. The use of shadow and darkness to aid in the mood of a scene is brilliant.

Light is used to equal effect and some of the night scenes are simply breathtaking.

 

Perspective is also used to great effect. 

It may be a slight SPOILER but there are some really terrible Australian accents, so much cringe.

I have to say i loved this season, other than it being too short, and the guys seeming to be missing some nipples i have no complaints. It was quite expensive though.

The Australian DVD set is released by Madman. I have a few Madman DVDs in my collection and they are usually good quality.

The inside cover of the DVD case has a cool picture of the club.

The spine of the DVD case says it includes four disks, while the front says it contains only two.

So my biggest issue with the DVD set is that it is missing the majority of the extra features. These features were listed on the Madman web store as well as on the back of the DVD case. I have crossed out the features that are missing, in the photo above.

 I have contacted Madman ans am still awaiting a response, i will update here with the outcome.
Also the copyright warning is long, a Madman video which is  yet another copyright warning thing and you cant skip any of them.

I will give this DVD set 3 1/2 out of 5, but the show itself would be 4 1/2 out of 5, i am lowering the score based on the missing features from the disks. 

I would not recommend buying this DVD set at full price until the issues are sorted out.