The official website of the anime Free! Dive to the Future, which will be the new television series of the franchise Free! of Kyoto Animation, has revealed a new promotional video in which we can listen to what will be the opening of the series, "Heading to Over", by OLDCODEX.
The series will premiere on July 12 at 2:15 on ABC TV, then airing on Tokyo MX 1, TV Aichi and BS11.
Nobunaga Shimazaki as Haruka Nanase
Mamoru Miyano as Rin Matsuoka
Tatsuhisa Suzuki as Makoto Tachibana
Toshiyuki Toyonaga as Asahi Shiina
Kouki Uchiyama as Ikuya Kirishima
Ryohei Kimura as Hiyori Ringtone
Yoshimasa Hosoya as Sosuke Yamazaki
Kenji Nojima as Natsuya Kirishima
Satoshi Hino as Nao Serizawa
Tsubasa Yonaga as Nagisa Hazuki
Daisuke Hirakawa as Rei Ryugazaki
Kouki Miyata as Aiichiro Nitori
Kenichi Suzumura as Momotaro Mikoshiba
Atsushi Abe as Romio Hayahune
Yoshitsugu Matsuoka as Shizuru Isurugi
Ryou Hirohashi as Ayumu Kunikida
In this new series Haruka, who teaches at a university in Tokyo, is reunited with Asahi and recalls his time in high school, including Ikuya. Makoto tries hard to pursue his new dream while in Tokyo with Haruka. Rin has an unexpected encounter in Sydney. While everyone is waiting for their new futures, what will they see before them? Would you rather face the past that you left behind?
Eisaku Kawanami, who was responsible for the storyboards and director of episodes in the first two television series, and director of the latest films, will be the director of this new series under Kyoto Animation and Animation DO. Masahiro Yokotani will return to supervise the scripts, while Futoshi Nishiya will regain his role as character designer and chief animation director. Tatsuya Kato will also return as a musical composer.
Other members of the team that will return for the occasion are:
Art direction: Shingo Kasai
3D Art: Joji Unoguchi
Color design: Yuka Yoneda
Design of backgrounds: Seiichi Akitake
Direction of photography: Kazuya Takao
Direction of 3D: Yuji Shibata
Sound management: Yota Tsuruoka
Sound production: Lantis
Style Five, the unit composed of the five main voices, will once again be in charge of performing the ending with the theme "Gold Evolution". The single will be released on August 22 and will include both the ending and a new duet between Haruka Nanase and Makoto Tachibana.
The first series of the franchise premiered in July 2013, followed by the second in July 2014 as Free! Eternal Summer and the film prec
