#and watching everyone else struggle loooooool

[scaredpigeons]

Love harassing my friends with my unhinged thoughts

[sachi-pon]

free! dive to the future episode 11 liveblog/review thing

hey, i’m not super late this time. XD yay for me. but actually, i’m not happy. i'm sad!!! the reason i’m sad is that this season is almost over. ugh i am so upset ;__;

my previous liveblogs:  (episode 1) (episode 2) (episode 3) (episode 4) (episode 5) (episode 6) (episode 7) (episode 8) (episode 9)  (episode 10)

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loooooool both girls glanced into the tokyo crowd for just a second and immediately found their perfect guys!! XDDDD

haha the newbies are so excited to meet makoto. they're all thinking like "HEY I WANNA TOUCH HIS HAND FIRST"

it's a little sad that makoto, rei, and nagisa are together but not haru =( i just want them all to be together again!

eating a good meal is the first step toward working toward your dreams? uhhh okay

that is the most muscular lock screen ever  o////o

"muscle freak" perfect name lol.

HAHA WOW: "i tried calling you a million times, but i could never get though." "that's because i was ignoring you."

"i know everything about you" is never really a comforting thing to hear someone say.

kids these days are saying "all the rage with the youth of today? lol wtf.

why does haru look sad when he thinks about iwatobi swimmers about to compete in tomorrow's tournament??? [EDIT: later i realized, he thought he would miss it. he hadn't yet thought about trying to get rin to drive him there.]

everyone around the whole table copied nagisa's pose. that was so cute. XD

rei giving nagisa a little pep talk is the sweetest thing ever!!!! ^___^

"i like the ones who struggle as if their lives depended on it" well you seem like a nice person...

"GOU-SAN!!!!!!!!" lol calm down man!

"my brothers talk about you all the time" hahahahahaha awkward

yes, rin has cleavage. this is an indisputable, scientifically proven fact. i just wanted to point that out.

THE GIRLS HAVING AN INSTANT FRIENDSHIP AND HUGGING IN THE BACKGROUND I AM DYING OF LAUGHTER.

i heard "cool down" so clearly. i love the fact that japanese has so many english loanwords! =)

wait, huh? what is happening? haru and rin talking on the phone, and then rei getting something from a vending machine, and then nagisa in a hotel room wondering where rei is, and then it's suddenly the next day??? that was weird. so many abrupt scenes.

now, rin is kidnapping haru??? rin kinda has a devious look on his face lol.

haru had a TINY little smile... it was so small but was there... i think.

haru wanted to cheer on his old teammates ugh this show is so sweet that it's giving me cavities.

rin and haru didn't tell anyone they were coming? omg, perfect. they wanted to suprise everyone aaaaaah i am getting so excited i hate this show.

sousuke is here too yaaaaaaay =)

wait, what was sousuke going to say?? don't cut to another scene.

this is the third time rei has disappeared and people were wondering where he was. it happened at the beginning of the episode, then it happened with nagisa in the hotel room. now it's happening at the tournament. hmmm...

"this is a pretty stupid thing to do!!!" rin says with a big smile on his face.

lol of course haru would say that something is "free."

all the people still stuck in traffic are like "we should get up and run like those guys."

rei needed to go outside and look at the butterflies. after all, the butterfly ghost has possessed him, you know!!

asahi's not-smooth backward hop on one foot, yeah i saw that.

awwww asahi and rei were such cute kids!!!!

omg i love this background music. it's so pretty.

perfect, rei just happens to run into asahi who is the perfect person to give him the advice he needs. "don't overthink it!"

so many reigisa flashbacks, i am too emotional uggghhh AND THE MUSIC IS KILLING ME.

yes!! chappy-senpai is here!!! it's true!! XD

“RRRRRRREEEEEEEEEIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” -makoto

haha now haru is yelling too. that is so unusual, but it is SO CUTE argh.

i knew rei would be awesome!!! he was feeling some stress before the race, but i think asahi really helped him.

rin cheering for ai ;___; <33333

nagisa and ai are so serious lol. but i can't take them seriously because they are both adorable. <3

rei cheering for nagisa loudly and more passionately than everyone i am dead i am dead.

aww i wanted nagisa to beat ai but i am also glad that ai won hahaha (that makes no sense, i know)

now the tournament's over... i tend to feel nervous every time there is a small amount of time left in an episode, especially when something really happy has just happened. i always feel like something bad's about to happen (even though that's not always how it goes, i still feel this way!!!)

YESSSS YESSSSS YEEEEESSSSSSS HARU MAKOTO REI AND NAGISA ARE ALL TOGETHER AGAIN YES YES YES!!!!!!!!! FINALLY!!!!!!!!!! i love these four. <3333333

"the whole time i was in the water, my heart was dancing." nagisa you are TOO PRECIOUS. STOP. JUST STOP. =)

sousuke is getting waaaaaaay too close to rin okay <33333

sousuke laughing is too much for my heart to handle, i don't know about you all. ;__;

"i would have regretted it more if i hadn't been here" haru awwwww. and rin talking about his bonds with his friends. it was such a wonderful thing to say!!!

the episode's over. hmm nothing bad happened like i felt. hahaha

just one more episode left!!! thank you, nagisa and rei, for narrating the previews for us. all the free! fans have appreciated it XD

so here are my thoughts: I LOVED THIS EPISODE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (well okay, i usually feel that way after free! episodes, so it's not surprising that i would say that hahaha.) this was an episode about friendship. yes, it's a common theme in many anime (and other stories in general), but i still like it, and i really ike the way free! does it. throughout free! in general, in all seasons, we've seen so much friendship beautifully illustrated and shown to us. it's not just characters TALKING about friendship (although there is a lot of that), but it's characters actually expressing their friendship in various ways, for example, haru and rin skipping their training in order to go and support their friends. we are seeing how much these characters mean to each other. i keep getting such a happy feeling throughout this whole series. ^___^ i appreciate the writers, animators, voice actors, and everyone else who came together to create this show, because i obviously love watching it and there are so many special moments that are heartwarming and touching.

the reigisa montage. i just... idk. that was... i am... *bursts into tears* there was this gorgeous music, and all these cute scenes with rei and nagisa... I LOVED IT!!!!!!!! <3 my heart exploded when i watched it. (maybe i need to go to the hospital for that?) those two are very, very, very sweet, and they are always so supportive of each other. the relationship that they have together is just so solid. they obviously have two different personalities, but they fit together very well and they both know that the other person will always care for them and be there for them. ;__; waaahhh i can't emotionally handle reigisa. reigisa is too overwhelming for meeeee!!!

here's something weird though: hiyori and ikuya have barely been seen in this show since their plotline got resolved. i know there are a lot of characters so there is limited time to squeeze everyone in. so i understand. however, it still feels a bit strange. i assume they'll show up in the next episode, though.

the next episode... ugggggh. i know it's the last one of the season. (hopefully not the last one EVER!!!!) i am dreading it. yes, there's the big showdown between haru and rin that i'm excited to see, but actually, i am not too happy about the next episode. i am going to have conflicting feelings throughout the episode. i am going to be both really happy and really sad at the same time. uggggh ugggggh ugggggh (uggggh is the sound of me groaning and suffering XD)