Decided to watch this anime, or at least the first episode, because of the awkward pinup style photos of it online. They seriously draw in all the muscles and it makes the characters look a little freakish. When they're wearing clothes, they're shaped like normal anime guys. Take those clothes off, and you've got some crazy definition that looks pretty out of place.
Anyway, it's a slice of life anime about four friends who really like swimming. Life takes them on separate paths and so the story starts with the main character Haruka remembering the past fondly. His other friend from the club, Makoto, picks him up for school where they run into their old swimming buddy Nagisa, who has recently transferred back.
Nagisa is the chibi-face, adorable one of the group. This makes the muscular juxtaposition even weirder, at least for his character. Anyway, Nagisa really wants to swim with his friends like before and also wants to dig up their swimming memory time capsule. The capsule has a trophy they won with the fourth member of their group, Rin, before he moved to Australia (to go to swimming school, I guess, because that's a thing?) and before their beloved swimming club went down the crapper.
So, they wander a bit, and talk about their feels, to their old pool and find, shocker, RIN! Who is really a big jerkface and challenges Haruka to a race. Now, Haruka always wears his swimming pants(?), I'm not really sure what to call them. They're like professional swimmer leggings. His are only shorts, but clearly Rin also always wears his and his are long pants. I'm not going to think about this too hard. Maybe he has extra swim pants like underwear. Perhaps he carries them with him to change once he gets the one pair wet. The implications that he never takes them off ever, even in the tub, just disturbs me. That's a lot of smegma, sir. Also, on putting back on real pants over them, wouldn't that just create wet pants forever? I am really trying hard not to think about it, but it is just too weird.
But, I digress. THE POOL IS EMPTY. So, they don't actually race. But it turns out Rin already dug up their trophy and drops it on the ground as he leaves. Not in a cool, drop the mic way, just in a nonchalant, over the shoulder, 'meh' way. This gives Nagisa feels.
So there's this girl that keeps showing up, she's got a manly name, for manly things. She's Rin's sister, who tells the gang that Rin is attending a different school. Makoto and Nagisa basically convince Haruka to go to the school by telling him he can swim in their pool, to which, upon arrival, he promptly strips to his leggings. They don't invade the pool immediately, but instead creep around until everyone leaves and then trespass. The two who don't constantly wear swimming gear decide to skinny dip and it's a grand time until Rin shows up and orders them to leave.
Haruka then challenges Rin to a race.
And then the end credits start. And really, I laughed my way through the end credits because of boy bands and desert harems.
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