Kate Bishop & Clint Barton - Hawkeye Trailer
“Why are you giving me such a hard time?” Kate asked before snatching her arrow out of Barton’s grasp.
Clint turned his back on the young S.H.I.E.L.D. recruit. Because you’re too young. This will get you killed. “It’s the job,” was his reply.
Jennifer Lawrence as Kate Bishop. Jeremy Renner as Clint Barton.
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Congrats Devoted Fans, The Swimming Anime Is Now Real
A month ago, the fandom around the “Swimming Anime” was based on an anime that wasn’t real. Fans didn’t care. They gave the characters identities, back stories, fan-art and more—all based on a 30 second clip! Some dismissed these efforts as ridiculous, but it seems it has paid off: the anime is now becoming a reality. Check out the new promotional video by Kyoto Animation studio above.
This was the first clip, which wasn’t originally intended to promote an anime—it was just a promotional thing for the Kyoto Animation studio:
I’m not usually into all-boy cast series, but it’s about swimteam, and swimteam used to be my life for a while. Also, they’re pretty hot (Although I preferred the original animated short to the official trailer)
I’m actually kind of fascinated by the rise of this entire swimming anime phenomenon. If my dash and a couple of Kotaku articles are to be believed (I haven’t really researched it), Kyoto Animation put together this commercial short [above] just to promote their studio featuring boys from a swimming club in a non-existent anime series, where-in the boys mirrored the character archetypes normally present in their moe shows like “K-On!” These sort of studio promotional shorts are apparently kind of par for the course for Kyoto Animation.
Tumblr took it and ran. Whether it was genuine want of the imaginary “Swimming Anime” show or just Tumblr embracing the latest thing into a meme/fad of some sort (because Tumblr and butts) is a matter that probably varies from person to person. The overnight sensation around a single commercial was pretty significant though.
Then, roughly only a month or two later, Kyoto Animation has decided to embrace the hype and is creating a real show, dubbed “Free!”. Because of how fast this came together and how much of it would seem to have to be a response to what appears to be mostly overseas fans who would not net immediate profits if ever, I do wonder if it was planned to become a series from the get go — animation is a process, and not a speedy one. If it is all true, the response and speed of it from KyoAni is impressive and potentially an interesting potential shift in the idustry. But never the less, what occurred has been fascinating to watch go down.
If nothing else, the hype has successfully peaked my curiosity.
