ハイ☆スピード! [High Speed!] by Kouji Ouji


ハイ☆スピード! [High Speed!]
Epub ハイ☆スピード! [High Speed!]
By Kouji Ouji
ISBN 4907064063
ISBN-13 9784907064068
Publication 15 July 2025
Number of Pages 231
Format Type Paperback

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In its integrity but I postponed it As a result I find myself in the awkward situation of reviewing a light novel that is so closely related to KyoAni that what should be just my opinions of High Speed must carry a somber tone I considered not reviewing it altogether but decided against it this will be a small and hardly consequent but honest tribute to every single person who has been affected by the tragedy that claimed the life of over thirty KyoAni staff HS is the light novel behind the extremely famous Free anime It can be viewed as something of a prequel This review will refer to the anime for comparison but specific events will be spoiler tagged As already mentioned.

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It is blocked by the sea on one side and by steep mountains on all others As a result it has been isolated for most of its history and even at the time of the story is only connected to the outside world by a road Another consequence of the mountains encroaching on the village is the lack of building space The houses are crammed so closely together not for the quaintness of it but because any kind of available space is a commodity The same goes for the scant farming land. ハイ☆スピード high speed pdf free It follows that the shrine is not just beautiful but very ambivalent We are told that ancient rites have be performed there to appease the sea god in the hopes of calm seas and abundant catches of fish Iwatobe comes across as claustrophobic.

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Is this the manga for Free or is it a light novel Paperback The Light Novel is basically the Japanese version of Young Adult literature Just like our western YA literature has a few very pervasive tropes the obligatory love triangle dystopian future etc the Japanese Light Novel also has a distinct style I was curious to find out . ハイ☆スピード! [High speed by power Since I am nursing a small swimming obsession now I thought I d start with High Speed a light novel about four kids in late elementary school forming a team for a relay match There aren t a lot of official translations for Light Novels yet so I m reading a fan translation Thank you anonymous fan Let s be clear This not great literature it s a book for young teenagers about sports in fan translation But I had a good time reading it and I had an equally good time deconstructing it High Speed is not what I was expecting at all I was expecting a fun fast and funny romp This is a slow paced novel with a very melancholy tone There s a lot of descriptions of the wind blowing through the trees in the morning the view of the mountains above the fishing village and a TON of lyrical descriptions of swimming Check out the opening paragraph Creating a rift in the water with his fingertips he slips into it From arms to head chest stomach then feet He doesn t use all his force nor does he surrender himself Accepted by the water then accepting it They both accept each other s existence You don t exclude each other You don t become one body While being of different qualities from the start a relation continues without denying each other That s what swimming meant to Haruka. ハイ☆スピード! [High high speed handpiece There are other peculiarities to the style the narration is very much tell not show and doesn t mind taking you out of the story to explain say the layout of the fishing village There s a ton of exposition but brought in such a way that it slows the story down to a pleasant walk The descriptions are very visual so the experience is still very much that of reading a manga or watching an anime. ハイ☆スピード! [High speed jump starter There is little interaction between characters and a lot of focus on the character s thoughts and feelings The main focus of the novel is the character s relationships with each other and with the water Describing the interaction between the water and each character is where the novel really shines and grows out of the YA tropes For Makoto the water is a dangerous enemy that needs to be subdued Haruka feels the water and can t stand it if faster swimmers somehow encroach on that relationship Rin is convinced that swimming well requires sincerity that you need to swim with honest feelings Nagisa is the embodiment of that sincerity an unthinking competitive swimmerThe story is incredible simple but elegant It s presented as very much slice of life but in the end all the random elements are tied together into one harmonious whole Even the descriptions of the mountains turn into a metaphor for the competition between the two main characters There s a small layer of magical realism that works well to express the nature of sports and give emotional resonance to the story Paperback Free 2. ハイ☆スピード コミカライズ 5 4 2 5 4 Paperback I obviously picked this up because of Free and I m glad to see how the anime is pretty faithful to the book Sure there s no Rei but the main themes of friendship and dreams were translated from book to screen I really liked reading on Haru s character development participating in a relay made him understand the true meaning of friendship rather than thinking that other people are burdensome Also Rin s development is pretty great too Loved how he shared his and his father s dream of becoming an Olympic swimmer at the end D The only criticism I had was that since it s geared towards primary school kids the language is pretty simple Moreover I m not sure if it s because I read a translated version but some of the sentence structure felt a bit awkward Still enjoyed my time reading it though Paperback First time I had read a light novel with sports as a genre but since I had already finished watching Free it wasn t new to me Now really there were some parts in the novel where I had to say this was in the anime because the references were exactly the same The series was pretty much the sequel to the light novel Also I couldn t completely shut out my knowledge of the series while reading because Rin s relationship with the other boys which the series couldn t fully accommodate for the lack of episodes had now become understandable thanks to High Speed I think that the translators of this novel really did a good job This wouldn t be possible without them They had to be good writers as much as being good translators because if the translations were done sloppily no one would ve dared read this Kouji Ouji played with my emotions damn well especially when it came to my favorite character Makoto He was still that sweet worrywart in High Speed and by just reading his thoughts I know this really sounds pathetic but he melted my poor heart this guy seriously needs a big hug Well just read the light novel It made me want to look back at the things I did and didn t do in grade school Considering their age these kids were great compared to myself when I was their age Paperback The original novel that inspired the 2013 Kyoto Animation series Free TV Free 2 6 High Speed The anime adaption of their younger years and beginning friendships really doesn t do it justice It also gives a better insight to Haru s character as you can t read his thought process in animation If you love the anime I definitely recommend reading Thank you to the translators around the internet for making it possible for those that can t read Japanese Paperback I have been meaning to review this one ever since I finished it if only because I do not see many reviews on gr that focus on the original Japanese text it concerns the Japanese text with no reference to any fan translated material Perhaps for this reason but mostly I suspect due to my personal interaction with said text be it in terms of tone style or content my overall opinion is very much different from the majority of the fandom. ハイ☆スピード スペシャルパンフレット HS is first and foremost a book about children At the same time it is hardly one aimed at children This mismatch between cast and target audience is hardly that rare but there is something a bit off putting about 6th graders and one 5th grader involved in such an intense entanglement of personal relationships frustrated expectations emotional turmoil and often crippling sense of identity crisis This affects the entire cast with varying degrees of intensity reaching peaks of great stress so that one cannot wonder where are the adults in all this. ハイ☆スピード! [High speed ispower The answer is the adults are almost entirely missing Even than a book about children this is a book about children to the exclusion of the adult world Grownups are mentioned and only very rarely the one exception is Rin s father who has been dead for years It seems symbolic of the entire HS universe that the only grownups who count are dead and never actually interact with any of the children There is something to be said about zeroing in on the daily routine and inner life of children without bogging down the narrative with adults in this case it creates a vivid world but it also gives it an added sense of isolation Haruka Makoto Rin and to a lesser extent even Nagisa are or less left to fend for themselves even when it is very clear that they are in dire need of adult intervention No one seems at all consider that these children need help and unfortunately this is so true to the reality of Japanese schools that one cannot help wondering if the author meant to strike a chord Ironically Free in which the characters are in high school actually has a supporting cast of two adults that while mostly there for comic relief do appear. ハイ☆スピード! high speed kindle app Haruka the protagonist is severally detached from everything and harbors a kind of such monumental indifference that it often comes across as disturbing Free toned it down by turning him into the typical whatever character and by hyping his love for water into several running jokes Haruka as a teen is often amusing since his deadpan delivery can be used in all sorts of situations but as a child he is terrifying At first glance Haruka is your average quiet boy who has one great obsession with swimming dislikes unnecessary confrontation and limits his conversation to the bare minimum The light novel goes into his thought processes and it is here than anywhere else that Haruka s issues become clear These run much deeper than just not liking being around people too much and wanting to be left alone to swim On many occasions Haruka comments inwardly about how little he cares about well anything There are times when he tries to care but this causes him such strain that he simply cannot bring himself to do it Much has been said about the wonderful bond between Haruka and Makoto and this is such an important part of the entire franchise that it will be analyzed in greater detail later but for now it suffices to say that while Haruka does care for Makoto a lot of his inner dialogue is heavily critical of him Haruka finds Makoto meddlesome thinks that Makoto cramps his style would rather Makoto shut up often than not and does not approve of Makoto s befriending others In fact the very first scene has Haruka fuming at Makoto for daring to call him by his given name since it is girly Haruka has a great complex about this all the boys have names usually attributed to females but this only bothers him and has no problems telling Makoto that he keeps at it he will never speak to him again Makoto has the patience of saint and this too requires deeper looking to as I hardly think it is a good thing Haruka has this Zen relationship when it comes to swimming and this drives much of the drama and wonder of the entire franchise Some of the most beautiful and evocative passages are those in which Haruka thinks about how he feels about water The opening line Water is alive was brilliantly adapted by KyoAni into a visually rich and charged epiphany of sorts But it is very telling that Haruka seems to connect much readily with water and trees than he does with human beings For the most part Haruka is not even troubled by his lack of connection with those around him One of the subplots has Haruka contemplate the emotions of the schoolyard cherry trees As a graduation project his class decides to make flower beds around trees which angers Haruka exceedingly He views the trees as majestic and sees such petty efforts as belittling their might Haruka is much emotionally invested in this than in say Rin s problems. ハイ☆スピード! [High speed love But there are a few occasions when it dawns on him that maybe something is very wrong These are subtle and usually he brushes them off right immediately but when they happen one senses that as dark as High Speed gets for a story with kids it could have been much darker if it followed its premise to its logical conclusion by showing us exactly what happens to kids like Haruka Haruka gets by with barely speaking in part because Makoto does that for him Makoto translates Haruka grunts into proper Japanese Makoto anticipates what is on Haruka s mind and does spare Haruka the chore of ever voicing it and Haruka exploits this shamelessly Whenever Haruka is cornered into having to interact with others and Makoto is not there he will find himself peeved that his best friend has let him down The sheer selfishness of this is never truly brought home either For some reason everyone indulges Haruka and thus Haruka remains in a state of stasis from which Rin forces him out In a sense the main thrust of HS is precisely this Rin needs Haruka to change for reasons of his own to be fair and Haruka resists him every step of the way. 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[High speed love In fact Haruka s defining line may very well be none of my business He will apply this across the board but eventually coalesce around Rin Haruka s intense dislike of Rin is perplexing and nothing short of nasty While it is true that Haruka is very critical of all his peers when it comes to Rin he seems to see no redeeming quality At the heart of this conflict are two diametrically opposed ways of relating to swimming Rin s is competitive in nature he wants to be faster studies how to do and obsesses about technique being already proficient in all four styles Haruka s is self reflective in nature he does not care about being faster as such his one concern is to reach an emotional connection with water via the act of swimming The moment Rin pushes for Haruka to join him in a relay at the upcoming swim meet Haruka immediately bristles up as his very sense of self is under the attack. ハイ☆スピード! high speed pdf to excel The stakes may seem absurdly high for what is in essence a competition between 6th graders but the novel manages to keep it credible As the author explains in the afterword he picked this particular period of the boys life because it is one rife with questions about self identity and how to navigate between childhood proper and teenage years There is also a cultural element here as in the Japanese school system year 6 is the final one of elementary school year 7 being the entrance into middle school This means that the boys except Nagisa are very much in a threshold moment of their lives On one hand they are seniors at their elementary school about to graduate and on the other hand they are about to enter another school with greater demands as freshmen The action takes place in the winter months as the school year is winding down and so Rin s transfer into Haruka and Makoto s school with only two two months of elementary school to go is indeed odd Haruka takes it a personal affront Makoto and the rest of the class are bemused and not exactly sure what to make of it. ハイ☆スピード high speed pdf download This brings me to Rin and how his role as a secondary character does to some extent subvert the narrative of HS and by implication the whole of Free as primarily sports related cultural products Rin is in many ways although not all what sports anime leads tend to be He is enthusiastic brave hard working to the extreme gets along with others and likes to gather them together into teams His task of recruiting a recalcitrant member namely Haruka is almost a staple of early days sports anime HS chooses a different route though in that it is Haruka who is the lead and Rin who by necessity must play second fiddle Rin is displaced of the protagonist role in ways than one on a immediate level he is catalyst to Haruka s coming to realize his true potential but in a subversive manner Run is sidelined on account of a power imbalance that is two fold Rin needs Haruka in order to make his dream team and Haruka does not need Rin at all Rin cannot win against Haruka despite all the effort and training he puts into it Then there is also the fact that while they clash Rin clearly admires Haruka and Haruka being who is does not admire Rin this does change somewhat but the power dynamics are what they are. ハイ☆スピード high speed pdf download At first I along with some other readers of the light novel thought that KyoAni went a bridge too far in turning Rin into a brooding angst filled teen whose obsession with Haruka borders on disturbing But upon further reflection I think it is a possible and entirely believable evolution of his character If Rin and Haruka are the axis that justifies the plot the other boys are interesting in themselves and of even greater interest is how they relate to both Rin and Haruka Makoto is by far the most popular and the one KyoAni retooled completely Overall from HS to Free the cast evolved in a coherent and plot consistent manner so that the first can be called a prequel without much of a problem But when it comes to Makoto there are actual changes in canonical events that are surprising I already found it curious how in Free Makoto s fear of the sea is connected to the funeral of Rin s father This event that is shown in a flashback is actually fleshed out in the novel but the damage is even greater as Makoto and not Rin which always surprised me develops a phobia of water Not just of vast bodies of water something that many people fear but of any kind of water Swimming for Makoto is a terrifying experience and he only manages to truly appreciate it once he starts swimming backstroke for the relay Makoto fears a monster that lurks in the water and that will devour him He knows the fear is irrational but cannot overcome it Nor has he told anyone either the scene in which he finally confesses all this to Haruka is one of the strongest in the entire novel Makoto is the foil of all trauma When Haruka nearly drowns another event that KyoAni opted to omit it is Makoto who is distraught to the point of nervous breakdown Again no adult asks him about his uncontrollable shaking or deep emotional suffering That Haruka may be traumatized by his nearly dying is also something adults do not consider onl y Makoto worries over this. ハイ☆スピード! high speed ebook reader Makoto s co dependence is not explored as such but I cannot help seeing it in any other light Especially when it is contrasted with the deep bond between Rin and Sousuke Sousuke barely appears in this volume and KyoAni shuffled him to the second season leading to some awkwardness when he is finally introduced but he is pivotal nonetheless As Rin explains Sousuke is his best friend the one who truly understands him better than anyone else and yet did not place any obstacles when Rin decided to switch schools and thus leave him behind. ハイ☆スピード high speed ebook download More than just that Sousuke accepts that Rin will be going to Australia and thus they will not meet for years to come It is a painful but necessary separation and Sousuke is very much aware of this I cannot imagine Makoto at this stage being at all accepting of Haruka s deciding to do anything without him That cuts both ways were Makoto to transfer schools Haruka would have a meltdown because he knows that he cannot function without someone to smooth out things for him. ハイ☆スピード! [High speed coat I found it very interesting that Rin seems very aware of the potentially crippling effects of letting a friendship replace agency altogether While Rin does not put it in such terms nor does the author directly make the connection Rin seems to fear that his very close friendship with Sousuke will become what Makoto and Haruka s is Makoto clings to Haruka and Haruka is comfortable using Makoto They are indeed friends and I am not devaluing that but there is a very dark aspect to their friendship that hardly ever gets addressed Arguably Free has been hinting at this Makoto s development as a character by season two is necessarily connected to his letting go of Haruka And Haruka s shock at this and dismay comes as delayed growth as if Haruka cannot break free no pun intended from his shell until he too is not relying on Makoto for so much Amid all this turmoil Nagisa is a breath of fresh air Nagisa is one year younger and considerably less troubled than his seniors In a novel in which characters withhold information that would have made everything easier had it been shared at the proper time Nagisa who lacks a filter and voices his thoughts is precisely what the cast needed Nagisa is also genuinely funny Free is filled with running gags and moments of that zany situational KyoAni humor that is almost entirely absent in HS Nagisa is the one who brings a smile to everyone s lips both characters and readers and this across both works In HS he has an intensity and sincerity to him that affects Rin Makoto and eventually even Haruka If it is Rin who works hard to build up a team it may be Nagisa who ends up actually sealing the deal. ハイ☆スピード! high speed ebook pdf converter Free narrowed down the focus somewhat when it came to character interaction but HS spends a lot time expanding Rin and Nagisa as a pair Nagisa actively seeks out Rin s attention and asks for his coaching Nagise then goes on to call out Rin s bluff in an amusing but never malicious manner It is a stark contrast with Haruka whose hostility comes out in the way he sneers at Rin Nagisa the little brother kind makes Rin laugh despite himself while Haruka by always assuming Rin has bad intentions replies in kind and only annoys Rin There is another character that is crucial to the story and that is Iwatobe itself The way Iwatobe is portrayed in the HS is both radically different and paradoxically remarkably similar The anime followed the description very faithfully in particular the steep narrow stairway leading to the shrine and overlooking the sea The way in which the landscape is all involving the natural world represented by the sea beyond and greenery above the human world in which Haruka and Makoto live in the houses gathered along the incline and the spiritual for lack of a better term in the Shinto shrine make this location very representative of Iwatobe as a whole. ハイ☆スピード high speed pdf free Iwatobe and this location in particular is beautifully described in the novel in a passage of great descriptive power and KyoAni went above and beyond in recreating it Yet the tone of the town and its overall atmosphere are very different The novel adds information that skewed my impression of Iwatobe In HS we learn that Iwatobe is a virtual island of sorts potentially dangerous existing in a perilous and delicate balance along a thing edge Iwatobe is both intensely physical a place and a psychological locus Rin feels the negative pull of this place despite not being a native of Iwatobe than his peers and this is because of class The novel again never speaks of it as such but Rin s entire tragedy revolves around the fact that his father died from a professional hazard specific to the poor Even before drowning Rin s father had already had his dreams shattered Rin was even robbed of any real memories with his father because he had to work so hard at sea to support the family Rin has to escape from Iwatobe because he knows on some level that remaining there will be the death of him Not literally so but in the same way that his father could not become an Olympic swimmer Makoto knows that the sea gods are often unkind but both him and Haruka can live in a perpetual now that does not shadow their future Rin leaves Japan altogether for Australia because he has no other choice he knows from his personal experience that the gods are cruel in this narrow slice of land on which not all humans are created equal Placed in this light Rin s frustration with Haruka goes way beyond swimming ability Haruka has the luxury of worrying about what swimming means to him because he is highly privileged Rin has absolutely no other choice but to fight tooth and claw for everything he has In this sense I wish Rin had been the lead. ハイ☆スピード! [High speed jump starter Overall HS is surprisingly deep and layered I am looking forward to the second volume Paperback So Technically I haven t finished yet because I can only find translation until Chapter 5 but I know that after reading the next chapter I won t regret the rating I m giving it right now. ハイ☆スピード high speed ebook free MakoHaru is OTP life perfection I want someone in my life who looks at me like my beautiful Makoto looks at my dear Haru It s all right Haru s is here with me 3 3 3 3 It warms my heart so much their relashionship and how much they love each other Makoto is so afraid of the water but just the though of Haru being there with him makes everything okay. ハイ☆スピード! [High speed factor In here is also even clear how much Haru struggles with his thoughts and how confused he is He just wants to be free but he can t help but feel things he doesn t want to feel care about people and stuff he doesn t want to care he can t help himself of overthing things and being moody and annoyed with everything I relate so much with Haru sometimes. ハイ☆スピード high speed pdf download I love this babes so so so so much 3 Nagisa is the most adorable boy on the planet It s impossible to resist this cutie He makes me smile every time Seriously Nagisa is just a ray of sunshine and I love him so much Even Haru can t resist him He s just too adorable Going back to when they were little makes me see how much Rin has changed Rin is such a competitive and persistent boy Really bossy too Shame that Sousuke isn t here yet Yazaki chan appears than I was expecting She clearly looks up and than that to Haru and the others I can never get too much of Free and my boys I can t wait for Paperback Paperback Second book in the Cramathon A book out of your comfort zone. ハイ☆スピード high speed pdf free La verdad es que eleg este libro no solo por ser una novela ligera que est claramente fuera de mi zona de comfort sino tambi n por los buenos recuerdos que tengo del anime Free que est basado en ella. ハイ☆スピード! 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ハイ☆スピード! [High Speed!] By Kouji Ouji
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