The story revolves around Haruka Nanase, a boy who has always loved to be immersed in water, and to swim in it. Before graduating from elementary school, he participated in a swimming tournament along with his fellow swimming club members, Makoto Tachibana, Nagisa Hazuki, and Rin Matsuoka. After achieving victory, each of the boys went their separate ways. Time passed, and in the middle of their uneventful high school lives Rin appears and challenges Haruka to a match, showing Haruka his overwhelming power. Not wanting it to end like this, Haruka, gathers together Makoto and Nagisa once again and brings a new member named Rei Ryugazaki to create the Iwatobi High School Swimming Club in order to defeat Rin.
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Nagisa, Rei, and the rest of the Iwatobi Swim Club have come to cheer on their former teammates at the All-Japan Invitational. Makoto tells them the story of how ever since Haruka swam for the first time, he'd been swimming only f...
To make it to nationals, the boys of Iwatobi must win! But the closer the tournament gets, the more nervous they become. Whereas Rin just grows more and more irritated. When it's time for them to shine-will Iwatobi get the gold?!
Leading into the national tournament, the boys look back on their journeys and talk about what they will do in the future.
Nagisa is acting strange, but he won't tell the other club members why. How will they find out and help him?
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