Free! - Episode 9
When your team wins the medley relay, what do you do next? Uh, not Disneyland, how about a squideriffic summer festival?
Haruka pulls it all together on his last leg of the freestyle portion of the medley relay, and the swim club wins their heat, qualifying for regional championships. The school is so happy, they even have an assembly to announce the results. Too bad the banner saying congratulations was just the Judo Club's banner taped over with the Swim Club. Hey, reuse is good use!
Then this show has the staple for slice-of-life shows: the summer festival. You got booths, you got babes in yukatas, and you got food, but in this particular town of Iwatobi, that means squid. Squid plushies, squid rice, squid tempura, squid masks, squid lamps, and squid catching contests. Squid-tastic!
Nearby is the temple to some water god, so Rin's swim team captain wants to go and make a prayer for their regional meet too. Rin ends up walking through the festival and remembering good times with his old friends, but Nagisa and Rei see him, and want to help Haruka avoid him, otherwise he'll get all depressed again. Nagisa enlists Makoto's help with a couple of winks, and Rei becomes Rei-Tanteika (Detective Rei) in order to follow Rin and text Nagisa his location so he and Makoto can steer Haruka away from him. Rei doesn't enthusiastic at first, but he takes to it with gusto after he starts sneaking around.
Rin gets all nostalgic about swimming with his friends at their old elementary school, and then decides to join his own team's medley relay squad. Yay future drama!
And now bonus winking media:
But actually, the little bell ringing noise the anime added was better:
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