Makoto Tachibana

Makoto Tachibana, also known as Mako-chan and Makocchi-senpai, is one of the main characters from the Free! series.
== Charactah Account ==
Haruka's best friend. Caring, considerate, but easily frightened. Elementary school buddies with Haruka, Nagisa, and Rin.
Makoto is a nice and considerate guy, who is always concerned about his friends' welfare. Due to his caring personality, he is often seen with a gentle smile on his face. However, he is rather weak-hearted and can get scared easily, as shown when he appeared terrified of the possibility that their old Swimming Club may be haunted. When he gets scared he tends to hide behind Haruka or cling to him in some way.
Makoto also seems to be one of the more sensible people in the group and can get a bit worn out from his friends' peculiar antics and mannerisms. He is the one usually restraining Haruka from randomly stripping or diving into fish tanks.
== Appearance ==
=== Anime ===
* Free!
* Free! Dive to the Future
* Free! Dive to the Future Episode 0
* Free! Eternal Summer
* Free! Eternal Summer Special
* Free! Movie: Starting Days
* Free! Movie 1: Timeless Medley - The Bond
* Free! Movie 1: Timeless Medley - The Bond Photo Session
* Free! Movie 2: Timeless Medley - The Promise
* Free! Movie 2: Timeless Medley - The Promise Photo Session
* Free! Movie 3: Road to the World - Yume
* Free! Movie 4: The Final Stroke - Zenpen
* Free! Movie 5: The Final Stroke - Kouhen
* Free! Starting Days
* Free! Take Your Marks
* Free! Take Your Marks Photo Session
* Free!: FrFr - Short Movie
=== Light Novels ===
* High Speed!
=== Manga ===
* High Speed!
== Trivia ==
* His motif animal is the orca, the largest member of the dolphin family.
* The kanji for his family name Tachibana is also the Chinese hanzi character for "wild orange."
* Like all members of the Iwatobi High School Swimming Club, Makoto has a gender-neutral name that is considered feminine.
* Despite being on the swim team, Makoto is afraid of the ocean.
* Makoto has been described as the wishy-washy type by Haruka, because he is too nice and was unable to decide which club member would be his boyfriend if he were a girl.
* Makoto and Haruka appear to have a game that consists of Makoto guessing what Haruka is thinking.
* According to Free! TV ANIMATION GUIDE BOOK:
** Makoto's favorite foods are green curry and chocolate.
** Makoto's best subject is literature, while he's bad at English and art.
** Makoto likes physical activity and manual labor.
* Makoto was voted Sexiest Anime Man of 2013, winning over Haru Yoshida from "Tonari no Kaibutsu-kun" with 24,861 votes.
** Both characters are voiced by Tatsuhisa Suzuki.
* Makoto won the muscle contest held at ITSC RETURNS, where Gou Matsuoka acts as one of the judges.
** Gou gives the most points to her brother, Rin.
* Makoto's voice actor, Tatsuhisa Suzuki, is the vocalist for OLDCODEX, the band which performs the opening themes for all three seasons of Free! — "Rage on", "Dried Up Youthful Fame" and "Heading to Over".
* Young Makoto's English voice actor, Colleen Clinkenbeard, also voices Mrs Tachibana and Tsukushi Kurimiya.
* At a staff talk event for Free!–the Final Stroke–, one of the character designers discussed the main characters' body types in terms of musculature. Makoto was listed as being "type 5:" the second most well-muscled of all the types. Makoto was listed as having "softer" muscles compared to Sosuke, since Sosuke has had to do post-surgery training to recover from his shoulder injury.
* There is both a Meijo University and a Chuo University in Tokyo, Japan.
* Those born under Scorpio are loyal friends, resourceful and protective, but can also be manipulative and self-righteous. They enjoy teasing and finding talent in others, and dislike superficiality and dishonesty. Those born on Nov 17 face the challenge of finding their true self separate from family and past influences to become centered in the world. Traits are affected by the position of the moon and other planets at the time of birth.
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Makoto Tachibana at Free! Wiki
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