CATDOLL: Japanese junior high school students draw promotional images for swimming pools based on the image from "Free!"

The animation "Free!" is closely related to the images of various animals. As if influenced by the animation, animal images drawn by junior high school students appeared in a citizen swimming pool in Shizuoka, Japan.

Animal images represented by the characters in "Free!"

In "Free!", each character has his or her own representative animal image. For example, Nanase Haruka is a dolphin, Tachibana Makoto is a killer whale, Hazuki Nagisa is a penguin, Ryugasaki Rei is a butterfly, Matsuoka Rin is a shark, Nitori Aiichiro is a little gray duck, Yamazaki Sosuke is a whale shark, Mikoshiba Hyakutaro is a sea urchin, etc. These cute animal images also accompany the characters and are deeply rooted in the hearts of the audience.

Interior painting of Shizuoka Swimming Pool

According to recent reports, several paintings painted by local junior high school students appeared in a swimming pool in the eastern part of Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. It sounds normal, but why do these paintings look more and more like the representative animals in "Free!"?

CP grouping with obvious meaning

The artistic conception of the picture above is even more obvious. As a work that is deeply loved by rotten girls, the various BL pairings in the play are also talked about with relish. In this picture, the animals corresponding to the characters are kissing each other. Is it also a metaphor for something?

Official animal stickers

Why are these paintings associated with Free!? Because in 2013, in celebration of the release of the CD, the official gave fans stickers of animals with characters, which were very similar to these paintings in terms of color, design and style.