Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-66.250.190.31-20130716162252/@comment-76.91.127.81-20130815035649

Well I mean as much as the fans of Free! like to pair everyone together, the point of the anime isn't romance. It's not the driving force of the plot. And as someone said before, there's only 12 episodes in this anime, so throwing in a romance only to have it last for like 3/4 episodes wouldn't be very good writing and it would just seemed rush and unsatisfactory. I don't think any of the main characters will have any romance in the anime. There's just no room for that at all and it's not conducive to the plot of the anime.