Since we have no word of a UK release of season 1 (season 2 is on the way though) I picked up the US release of Free! Or should I say the shitty release of Free! For such a good and well loved anime it deserved so much more than this monstrosity. IT LOOKS LIKE A BOOTLEG BUT IS LEGIT! What the hell were they thinking, I still can’t believe this is the legal cover. The cover is grainy, pix-elated, the text on the cover is even written like a bootleg set would be (The ‘season 1 Episodes 1-12′ bit). And to add to its humiliation they splurged on this terrible release by giving it a cardboard slip cover so this terrible cover has to be viewed twice! On the positive though (cos we've always gotta stay positive) I have season 1 of Free! in my anime collection, I paid barely anything for it (I found it dirt cheap) and the disks themselves are bearable to look at and..I suppose Crunchyroll did what they set out to do and got Free! onto a home release format. Bring on Alltheanime’s release of season 2 its going to be a definite improvement on this