Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-174.101.116.82-20130729125737/@comment-24.17.74.245-20140717040159

76.126.232.132 wrote: 125.161.31.161 wrote: 190.44.118.167 wrote: Dude seriously, this anime was made for the fangirls, remember that I think it was a 'dead' project that finally came out as a successful project because the fangirls united made it true, that said, the show is to please the fangirls and their fujoshi desires, you can say, of course they aren't gonna say "Hey I am gay, I love you, date me" but all the homoerotic concept in this anime is incredible, t's obviously made it on purpose, and not only because "they are close friends" I agree they are indeed close friends, but who said you can't like/fall in love with a close friend of yours? plus being gay or lesbian is not something you should judge anyways, if you give a look at the episodes and anime in general (again) you'll realize how filled with (yaoi) fanservice it is, I mean look at makoto...man..., look at nagisa, or rei...everyone basically, the only one who has actually showed an interest for a girl in this show is the samezukas captain Seijuro, and about the "If i was your boyfriend" thing that happened in the DRAMA CD, of course they are gonna say "If you were a girl" since they can't blatantly declare themselves homosexuals just like that, there are rules, and the anime is indeed not clasified as 'yaoi, bl, shounen-ai" the anime actually might have their male audience as well? or pretty young people, so of course they are gonna say "If i was a girl" but doing that, was obviously on purpose for the fujoshi fangirls in general, this anime supports the yaoi fanservice, look at how haru replied he'd date Makoto because "it seemed easiest" if that is not a reason to ship them, or anyone else, then what it is? also they know Makoharu is practically the most popular pairing in the show, they are indeed doing all of this on purpose, have you seen the latest official art?! calendar things, and promotional posters?! give it a look, and we'll talk again, I am not against straight pairing or straight shows at all! I like a lot of them, and I ship a lot of hetero pairings, but sometimes we have to stop try to shoving our straight principles or whatever in a series that is obviously mostly to please the yaoi/bishounen fangirl...yeah...I ship makoharu btw, they are really cute together, friends or lovers, they're meant to be (though theyre boyfriends to me, thank you) for the last fucking time!! Free! was not created due to 'fangirls' or the 'petition' they put on crunchyroll.. Its novel had been created way before. Do u think it only took  4 months for them to create an anime?

anyway, we all know, the homoerotic subtexts are visible enough[that even the straightest person out there will probably notice it]. No one can deny it. Not even animals. It was based off of the light novel High Speed, but there was no plot beforehand. The dead project likely had some leftover material that they used, but in no way did the petition not affect the release of Free!.

The only thing that petition did was get Free! released earlier than planned. It was supposed to be released after Kyoukai no Kanata but they released it earlier because of the fan feedback. The anime was announced in 2007 so really the petition had little to no effect whatsoever in the anime's creation. Even more is that the petition was OVERSEAS fandom. They don't care about the overseas fandom, they only care about what the Japanese fans want. It was probably the massive amounts of fanart from sites like Pixiv that got it released earlier.