

In the first season of Free!, the three main swimmers of Iwatobi Swim Club
could only manage to add one new swimmer, Rei. (Gou, while a member, was not a
swimmer.) In the second season, even though it was an active and ongoing goal,
they never managed to add anyone else. While the issue was not actually
central to the plot, it bothers me that these likeable guys could not find
anyone else.

I can think of two possibilities. The first is production-based -- the folks
doing the anime chose not to complicate the plot with any more characters. To
counter that, though, the Samezuka Acadamy, with already at least a dozen on
their team, added two more significant ones during the 2nd season. The other
possibility is that there is an underlying reason within the story that the
Iwatobi High School Swim Club is supposed to die. It will do so after this
school year, due to the graduation of Haru and Makoto. With only three members
(two swimmers), the team would be auto-disbanded. Why can they not get any new
teammates?


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Why so few Iwatobi Swim Club members?


It is not that they didn't try getting more members, but it's just that no one
showed interest in joining the swimming club. In one of the episode, it is
shown that the club members put on a show to recruit new members, but fail
drastically.

I don't remember the episode number as of now. I will add the reference when I
find the episode. It was like a stage in which each club showcases themselves
to get new members from the first years.


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