Free!
Kyoto Animation
Since I've already talked about a similar slice-of-life series, K-On, at length, this will be a bit of a shorter one, but I've still got something to discuss.
The muscles.
Good lord the muscles.
As you can most likely tell, Free! (and its second series, Free! Eternal Summer) enjoys a mostly female fanbase. Like K-On, it is a series about five high-school-aged characters (Haruka, Makoto, Rei, Nagisa, and Rin) and revolves around their hobby (swimming) as well as other diversions, much like K-On (although Free! does concentrate a lot more on the actual activities of the club, and has a stronger plotline than K-On does).
Where the two diverge is that, while K-On's aesthetic is very moe, Free! relies on 'bishōnen' characteristics as well as full-on eye candy in the muscle department.
I mean, in the above pictures, the characters are sixteen, seventeen tops. While they are swimmers (and the art director intensely researched the body types of the main characters and designed them accurately according to what strokes they swim) this amount of muscle on a teenager is admittedly just a little unrealistic.
I'm not sure it was entirely necessary, but c'mon...
Who can resist cute anime boys?
Good lord the muscles.
As you can most likely tell, Free! (and its second series, Free! Eternal Summer) enjoys a mostly female fanbase. Like K-On, it is a series about five high-school-aged characters (Haruka, Makoto, Rei, Nagisa, and Rin) and revolves around their hobby (swimming) as well as other diversions, much like K-On (although Free! does concentrate a lot more on the actual activities of the club, and has a stronger plotline than K-On does).
Where the two diverge is that, while K-On's aesthetic is very moe, Free! relies on 'bishōnen' characteristics as well as full-on eye candy in the muscle department.
I mean, in the above pictures, the characters are sixteen, seventeen tops. While they are swimmers (and the art director intensely researched the body types of the main characters and designed them accurately according to what strokes they swim) this amount of muscle on a teenager is admittedly just a little unrealistic.
I'm not sure it was entirely necessary, but c'mon...
Who can resist cute anime boys?
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