Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5233512-20130729111211

Let's all agree on something.

When the first PV for "Free!" was released, Kyoto Animation had already began producing "Free!" and the huge online interest was not what caused them to make this anime.

My first point is that it is practically impossible to plan and design, animate and colour-correct, and find actors to do voice-overs for a twelve-episode series within only two months.

My second point is that the award-winning light novel "High Speed!" that "Free!" is based on was written a few years ago for Kyoto Animation.

Now will everyone that reads this please educate the public that this anime was not simply stemmed from a single commercial? 