This scene is Kisumi handing over Haruka’s phone to Asahi, to which Asahi says to Makoto on the other line, “Hey Makoto, it’s been a while!”
The context to this scene is that Kisumi, Asahi, and Haruka are all in the same college, and they meet up during their break to chat. Kisumi then uses Haruka’s phone to call Makoto, and he pretends to be Haruka. However, Makoto is unphased and is like “Where’s Haru? Who is this?” and Kisumi says, “Ah, guess I can’t fool you after all. It’s me, Kisumi!”
He then hands the phone to Asahi, who says the line above.
This scene happens when Makoto, Haruka, Kisumi, and Asahi meet up at Asahi’s sister’s cafe that she owns in Tokyo. His sister also is married and has a newborn child. Asahi mentions that they have a ton of photo albums of old photos in the cafe, and when he takes out the album, Kisumi asks him, “Ohh is it a photo album of me??” and Asahi gets flustered and says, “Of course NOT!”
Asahi races against Haruka in a freestyle match, and during this race, Makoto and Kisumi watch the two swim. Kisumi says the last time he saw Asahi race was way back in middle school. Kisumi cheers on Asahi while Makoto cheers on Haruka.
The Tachibana siblings from Free! for the Sibling Anthology!! @sibzine
There’s a limited amount of physical copies and PDFs left so make sure to grab a copy while you still can on the online store. There’s so many amazing artists and it’s such a gorgeous zine. I’m so glad I got to be a part of it <33
for a long time i didn’t know that makoto’s seiyuu is the vocalist of oldcodex, omg! thanks to childofcolour i discovered this fact and since then couldn’t help but think about makoto being a famous j-rock star
Plume de Lynx 