

I've only watched _Free!_ and _Free!: Eternal Summer_ , but recently a friend
recommended I watch _Haikyuu!!_ and looking at images of it, I'm reminded of
_Free!_ a great deal.

The characters even look similar and they both contain a plot based around a
sports team.

Are they related, or could this just be a coincidence?


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Are Free! and Haikyu!! related?


Apart from being of the same genre and containing similar enough art style, I
don't think the productions are related.

Differences:

  * The authors are different ( **Masahiro Yokotani** vs **Haruichi Furudate** )
  * The production studios are different: _Haikyuu!!_ is produced by **Production I.G** , _Free!_ by **Kyoto Animation**
  * _Haikyuu!!_ is shonen whilst _Free!_ is mostly targeted at women.

Similarities:

  * Character style (but this could just be that the style of the characters has been found to appeal to their target market and chosen for this reason)
  * Exclamation marks in their title!! (but so has _K-On!!_ and many other shows)
  * Sports genre

The similarities between the shows aren't really substantial enough to warrant
a link between them, so I doubt they are.

[I thought that _Chihayafuru_ (another sports title) was similar to
_Haikyuu!!_ also, but it also doesn't have anything in common, so I think this
is just an art style that sports anime have evolved into]


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I actually think the creators of haikyuu stole some ideas from free since the
similarities are crazy. The characters seem to be fairly similar but another
key point is the plot. Both teams have a female president, both teams failed
to make it into their first competition, both teams go on training camps, both
teams succeed in getting into the second competition they try for and not to
mention the same some of character realationship the king of the court has and
the great king has kinda resembles haku and runs realationship a little bit. I
don't know I'm just saying. Also \- free was released in 2013 \- haikyuu's
first season was released in 2015


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