Anime Like Kenkou Zenrakei Suieibu Umishou
This one doesn't ask you to care about split times, it asks you to sit in a hot gym pool in 2007 and laugh at people who have no business being in a swim club. Kaname joined Umishou to finally learn to swim and got handed a roster of lunatics instead of a coach, which is the whole joke and the show knows it. Then Amuro shows up from Okinawa, moves underwater like she was born there, and treats swimsuits as optional, and the club's dynamic never recovers. The animation is visibly cheap, the actual plot doesn't bother showing up until the back half, and neither of those things matters because the gag rhythm is genuinely tight episode to episode. The romance stays light, nobody cries about their dead rival, and the whole thing smells like chlorine and sunscreen. Watch it in August with the windows open."""}
SYNOPSIS
Kaname joins his high school's swimming club hoping to finally learn how to swim, only to discover the team is staffed by quirky misfits who are more interested in goofing off than actually coaching. Just when things seem hopeless, Amuro transfers in from Okinawa with an infectious energy that immediately shakes up the group dynamic. She moves through the water with an almost supernatural grace, swimming faster and stranger than anyone should reasonably be able to. There's also the minor detail that she refuses to wear a swimsuit, a choice that sends the male members of the club into complete chaos. As Kaname watches her glide through the pool, something stirs in his memory: a fleeting childhood encounter with something that seemed impossible, something that looked almost human but wasn't quite. The longer Amuro stays on the team, the more he wonders if his past and present are somehow colliding. Between the constant comedy of a dysfunctional club and the strange mystery surrounding their newest member, Kaname's simple goal of learning to swim becomes far more complicated.
