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Part two of the Timeless Medley series, Yakusoku/The Promise, is a Samezuka centered recap of Eternal Summer; in other words it’s ES without most of the Iwatobi scenes. The plot centers on Rin and Sousuke’s individual character arcs, Sousuke’s most heavily, as well as their relationship with each other. Nitori’s character development is also covered because of the relay being central to the overall story, and Momo remains as a supporting role. 

The movie opens with new scenes of Rin and his family, showing his mom and dad for the first time in the series. We’re shown a more in depth look into Rin’s relationship with his dad, the person he’s always loved and looked up to the most, since chasing his dad’s dream was an important part of his story in season one. Rin’s dad is shown to be a caring father who often plays with Rin and Gou, and even teaches them how to swim when they discover that he used to be a talented swimmer. On the day Rin’s dad dies, the whole family is shown to be broken hearted, but Rin is determined to remain strong in this time of sorrow. Afterwards we see the days when Rin meets Sousuke and Haru for the first time; Sousuke challenging Rin for the first time at the Sano SC, and Rin seeing Haru at a tournament. From there we see a montage showing the events of season one and the high speed movie;m. Starting from the Iwatobi SC relay and Rin leaving for Austraila, we see parallels of Haru and Rin during their first year in middle school and what happened to them up until their reunion in winter that same year; Haru is shown to have a positive development while Rin has the opposite experience, being unable to overcome swimmers that are stronger than him and even stopping in the middle of a race just like Haru did in ES Episode 9. A new clip of the Iwatobi Middle team just just before the scene of Rin and Haru’s reunion race. Haru looks up at the sky to see a hawk, then fading to Rin solemnly staring at an empty sky in Australia. After the reunion in middle school, the montage skips to show Rin’s development in season one, overcoming his torment to regain his passion in the final relay of season one. The montage ends with Rin becoming captain from the start of season two. From there it’s the opening theme. 

The opening theme, Rising Free, is mainly clips of the main Samezuka boys, and brief clips of Kisumi, Ikuya, Asahi, as well as Natsuya and Nao together as adults (however they’re only shown from behind). The Iwatobi team is shown towards the end of the theme standing off opposite to Samezuka in a setting similar to the season one opening when they’re underwater looking at each other. 

From there the movie is a direct recap of ES with a few new clips and scenes. 

Starting with Episode 1, Sousuke
Is shown visiting Iwatobi SC Returns before quickly changing scenes to Samezuka. Rin is trying to get used to his new duties as captain when he recieve a call from the Iwatobi boys telling him to come to Iwatobi while he’s in the locker room. This is the same invite to see the Sakura pool but is change from the direct invite at the local tournament that was in the TV anime to just a phone call. The Sakura pool scene remains the same, but Makoto and Haru being unsure of their future when asked by Rin is cut. 

From Episode 2 we see Sousuke and Rin reuniting, Sousuke joining the swim team, Iwatobi inviting Rin and his team to Splash Fes, meeting Momo, Sousuke and Haru’s confrontation at the vending machines (but without that dubstep music is was awkward yet intense), and the relay race. 

Next it’s straight to Episode 4. This is almost completely unedited aside from cutting out the Iwatobi scenes (no gross rice balls, sorry). Basically it’s all the Rin and Sousuke scenes from that episode.

Afterwards are scenes from Episodes 6 and 7, i.e. the regional tournament. We see Nitori’s race, Rin’s race against Haru, Momo being chosen for the relay team, Nitori sulking over not being able swim with Rin because he thinks his swimming is poor but Sousuke reassures him to try harder, the relay race (except the actual race isn’t shown, it’s just the scene before it starts and skipping directly to Samezuka celebrating their victory). 

Moving along to Episode 8, Nitori congratulates Rin on receiving offers from scouts, including “sousuke’s team”. And then the fight between Rin and Sousuke where Rin questions how serious Sousuke is about the relay. Let me quick mention that the whole movie has a new soundtrack, and this scene had one of the best new tracks in my opinion; it was super intense. Afterwards is the scene where Sousuke coaches Nitori, and then the race that secured Nitori a spot on the relay team; I believe that was from the beginning of Episode 9. 

Speaking of Episode 9 (nice transition between thoughts), from this episode we see Rin announcing the relay team (Momo, Nitori, Sousuke, and Rin), Seijirou seeing the relay listing from Momo, Momo telling the other relay members that they’re the “best team”, Sousuke’s shoulder starting to hurt in the practice pool, Rin’s freestyle race, Rin seeing Haru stop in the pool, Rin talking to Haru in the locker room (most of this scene is edited. It’s just Rin yelling at Haru “what are you doing?!” And then cut off by Haru slamming his fist on the lockers. That it).

Episode 10 is also almost fully shown, aide from most of the Iwatobi appearances being cut. So we see Rin confronting Sousuke about his shoulder and then Sousuke revealing the truth, along with Sousuke, Nitori, and Momo telling Rin they want to swim the relay no matter what. The relay from that episode is edited so that is focuses on just the Samezuka team’s swimming. And then the ending clip where Sousuke says he’s found his dream. 

Episode 11. Rin receives the air mail from his coach in Australia, and Sousuke talking Haru at Iwatobi about talking his future more seriously after the fallout at the prefectural tournament. After Rin dismisses the Samezuka team for their week long break, he receives a text from Makoto. This is followed by two new scenes. First, Makoto calls Rin while he’s still at the cliff where he and Haru had their fight. Makoto explains what happened with Haru and how he’s worried about Haru’s future and wants him to see the world (essentially just retold what he said to Haru). He asks Rin to do something to help Haru, which is where he decides to take Haru to Australia with him. The next scene is Rin packing for his trip and Sousuke ask if it’s really ok for him to take Haru with him, to which Rin claims he’s “not doing this for Haru” or something like that. Also Rin asks what kind of souvenir Sousuke wants and he says “nothing sweet” (it was really cute).

Because it has no relevance to the Samezuka plot line, Episode 12 is completely skipped. Sorry RinHaru fans, your ship is cut. 

Not much is shown from Episode 13 aside from Rin coming back, the third years graduating and Nitori becoming captain, and Rin telling Sousuke that he’ll wait for him to come back to swimming. This scene transitions into the ending theme with Nitori and Momo inviting Rin and Sousuke to go eat, and they four exit the pool together while the ending theme, Clear Blue Departures, begins. 

The ending theme shows many new clips including Nitori performing his captain duties, Rei being appointed as the new captain of the Iwatobi team while Makoto and Haru say their goodbyes, a flashback of the Iwatobi Middle boys (Haru, Makoto, Asahi, Ikuya, and Kisumi), and a flashback of Rin and Sousuke in elementary school. The credits start rolling with a series of clips of the Iwatobi boys from season 1 and 2, clips from the OVA, and the ending art frames. 

The post credits scenes are all new animation.
Starting with Rin and Sousuke having a talk on a cliff side park at sunset. Rin is going to be leaving for Australia soon and tells Sousuke that he’ll write him letters again, and properly reply this time. Sousuke tells Rin about a swimmer that caught his interest at the National tournament, Ikuya. He remembers when Ikuya swam Breast in middle school, but says he’s become more talented because he performed well in the individual medley. But most notably was that Ikuya’s freestyle swimming was exactly the same as Haru’s. Sousuke warns Rin about Ikuya since it’s likely that they may complete agains each other in the future.
Transition to Ikuya in his dorm room with his roommate, Hiyori. Ikuya exits the room to call Natsuya. (Hiyori: “calling his onii-chan, huh”. Ikuya: “*comes back in* don’t call him that *leaves again*”. Hiyori: “lol that was cute”).
Next is Asahi at his swim club saying goodbye to his kouhai. He gets a text from Kisumi saying “Let’s meet up!” And Asahi agrees to meet up in Iwatobi in May. Reading Asahi’s reply, Kisumi thinks about how he wants to meet up with everyone again.
The final scene is Haru and Makoto at Shibuya Crossing in Tokyo. Clearly still getting used to Tokyo life by commenting on how big and busy it is, they both agree that they’re excited to start moving towards the future. The frames switch between the two of them standing in Tokyo and standing on starting blocks in a stadium,
Haru in his swimsuit and Makoto wearing his coaching wetsuit. An announcer says “ Take your marks. Go.” and they cross the intersection, and the scene fades out with “See you next stage” in the corner. 

A “preview” for Take Your Marks is at the end, where Style Five is commenting about new stories that will be told from after Haru’s graduation in March. Four “episode” titles are given (I don’t remember the titles, sorry) along with the release date for Take Your Marks, 10/28.