S2E01 Storm of Dive and Dash!

Dive Dash of Storm! (嵐のダイブダッシュ！ Arashi no daibudasshu!) is the first episode of season two of the Free! anime, and the thirteenth episode of the overall series. It aired on July 2, 2014.

Synopsis
As the spring season arrives, Haruka Nanase and his friends Makoto Tachibana, Nagisa Hazuki and Rei Ryugazaki are invited by Rin Matsuoka to the Samezuka Academy to witness the departure of the school's third year students. During the racing festivities, Seijuro Mikoshiba invites the Iwatobi High School's swim club to a friendly freestyle relay against Samezuka before officially making Rin the next Samezuka swim captain. Afterwards the swim club struggles to recruit new members due to the cold weather of the season and their club teacher Miho Amakata suggests that they use Goro Sasabe's newly reopened Iwatobi SC Returns swim club to practice. At the following public swimming tournament Rin and Haruka end up swimming in adjacent lanes and Rin challenges Haruka to a friendly race. Despite Haruka not showing any interest, his actions end up speaking for himself and both friends finish the race simultaneously. That afternoon, the swim club invites Rin to Iwatobi High to let him swim in their pool full of cherry blossoms which had been a dream of his. However the weather ruins the sentiment and Rin questions Haruka and Makoto about their futures. The next day, a new transfer student and acquaintance of Rin's, Sosuke Yamazaki, transfers to Samesuka Academy.

Characters
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