Yuru Camp△ Season 2

Having spent Christmas camping with her new friends, Rin Shima embarks on a solo-camping trip to see the New Year sunrise by the sea. All goes according to plan until unforeseen weather blocks the roads back home, making a return trip impossible. Rin, who is now stranded for a few days, is invited by Nadeshiko Kagamihara to stay at her grandmother's house.

What is supposed to be a two-day trip becomes an extended period of sightseeing and new experiences for Rin, and she encounters some new and old faces along the way. Yuru Camp△ Season 2 continues the story of Rin, Nadeshiko, and their friends as they further explore the joys of camping.

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Shima, Rin Main

Touyama, Nao Japanese

Kagamihara, Nadeshiko Main

Hanamori, Yumiri Japanese

Inuyama, Aoi Main

Toyosaki, Aki Japanese

Oogaki, Chiaki Main

Hara, Sayuri Japanese

Saitou, Ena Main

Takahashi, Rie Japanese

Kagamihara, Sakura Supporting

Inoue, Marina Japanese

Toba, Minami Supporting

Itou, Shizuka Japanese

Toki, Ayano Supporting

Kurosawa, Tomoyo Japanese

Shinshirou, Hajime Supporting

Ootsuka, Akio Japanese

Inuyama, Akari Supporting

Matsuda, Risae Japanese

Oowada, Tomoyuki Producer

Watase, Shouta Producer

Kobayashi, Hiroyuki Producer

Shimosato, Satoru Producer

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Apr 16, 2025

Rhymxr

Recommended

Have you ever experienced the feeling of a post-high depression? Perhaps you spent time with family/friends/loved ones or you just finished an event you were looking forward to. . . And then it suddenly hits you that it’s time to say goodbye?

That’s what this is. Is a cute and sweet, wholesome, slow-burn anime that feels as natural as breathing. In a way, all these characters feel like your friends. I cared about them all. I loved seeing them just exist. I loved co-existing with them.

And then Nadeshiko sums it up really well at the end - it’s hard to not feel sad when it’s over. ...

It’s such . . . A unique way of making an audience cry. Now you have to say goodbye to all your friends. And now you have to move in.

Masterpiece of a show.

Reviewer’s Rating: 10

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Apr 11, 2021

PixelB

Mixed Feelings

Yuru Camp is a grossly overrated anime that barely kept my attention all the way to the end. Truly, I was in a grueling death march near the end of the show.

Yuru camp season 2 plays it safe, and overall, is just a step down Non Non Biyori. While nature shots are adequate in Yuru Camp, they're sporadic and are usually still shots that aren't the greatest. Non non biyori features them both in greater frequency and quality. Plus, Yuru Camp is largely a show centered around camping and nature, yet, again, the feeling that you're being immersed in nature while not being overpowering ... is done so much better in Non Non Biyori. Hell, let's not talk about other series, season 2 isn't even better than season 1 since it barely builds off or branches off anything from season 1.

What makes Yuru Camp a middling show is definitely how it plays it safe and repetitively. Again, season 2 mainly features similar scenarios to season 1 without much change. The formula is always some people in the outdoors club going camping, and going to do some leisure activities unique to that area. This formula actually doesn't sound bad, but Yuru Camp executes it on such a surface level. Hot Springs, cafes, specialty foods, famous landmarks, Yuru Camp dabbles in these areas but never truly dives into depth into any particular activity. Describing the action of camping might have been the only thing that there was a huge focus on. You mainly have the characters doing these random activities in quick succession, as well as eating, but you're not satisfied. The scenic shots are pretty decent, but can't carry the entire show. The landmarks and activities just have the characters quickly visiting them without much meaningful dialogue or events happening, and the cooking process is briefly mentioned despite being food emphasized quite a bit in the entire series.
It's always the "activity" being emphasized over the characters, and that's my biggest problem with the series. Which characters do you really get to know. For a story that's largely about the many interactions of the characters when camping, you sure as hell barely get to know them in any particular depth. This mainly has to do with the many "nothing" conversations that happen. I'm totally happy to watch the characters have mundane conversations, but the conversations these characters have always have to do with the particular activity that they're doing and never really have to do with their own personalities, hobbies, problems, etc. There's only so much you can do when camping, especially when it gets darker after dinner, and even when doing other activities like hiking and visiting landmarks, there's always time for random conversations, and that's certainly one beauty of camping. Yet, this show does not capture this aspect very well. I never get to really see any silly conversations or slice of life conversation like I do in Non Non Biyori, for example, but rather it's always about "look at this food I'm eating," "wow this mountain looks great," or "it's cold!!!"
Overall, I wished for there to be more fun character interactions that aren't always focused on the environment around them, and just some more in depth focus on the particular activities they're doing. Again, close up shots of the cooking progress, some fun events or dialogue that happen when they're at a particular location, this stuff never happens.
Overall, you're stuck with barely developed characters sticking to their pet lines and interactions for the entire series, with nothing else to carry it, whether it be the scenic shots, locations, dialogue, and activities.

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Sep 9, 2023

ExemplarCayman

Not Recommended

For context, I rated the first season 9/10. It’s the best camping gear commercial I’ve ever seen, a prime Cannes Lions material. It’s also a superb CGDCT that elevates a low-bar concept with high-bar execution.
So this review is going to focus on breaking down what makes S2 a failure of a sequel:

1. It’s not even the same show.
S1 was a series about cute girls doing camping. There is no camping in S2. Season 2, in its best moments, is a series about cute girls visiting famous tourist traps, and in its worst moment - a series about cute girls eating cake and saying how oishii ... it is. Yeah, I definitely haven’t seen that in 200 other CGDCT shows before, and it definitely isn’t the bottom of the CGDCT material barrel that mangaka resort to when they run out of ideas. If the title of the series is “Laid-Back Camp” then I expect to see some actual camping in it. If I wanted to see a show about food, I’d watch Food Wars.

2. There is no humor anymore.
‘Member Rin getting body-slammed by a shiba? A pinecone saying, “konnichiwa?” The outdoors club failing to pitch a tent in the schoolyard with deadpan narration? Chiaki burning her hand? Secret society B.L.A.N.K.E.T.? I ‘member. One of the strongest aspects of the first season was its masterfully-timed gut-busting comedy - and it’s not there anymore. There is 1 (one) good joke in the entirety of S2 (the pinecone genocide). Instead, we’re subjected to jokes(?) like Chiaki being an absolute cunt to a foreign tourist, with the rest of the cast staring at her with an awkward blank expression that doesn’t even make it clear whether Chiaki’s behavior is supposed to look wrong, or if we’re unironically expected to go along with her heckling.

4. The pacing is fubared.
Let’s revisit the title of the show again. It’s “Laid-Back Camp.” And that’s how S1 was - it was laid-back. There were two main characters, Rin and Nadeshiko, plus a bunch of extras. The show didn’t have a problem with not showing those extras for entire episodes at a time. The show didn’t have a problem with spending 10 minutes on Rin alone making herself a cup of coffee. It was peak comfy. A truly healing/iyashikei anime.
Season 2 upgrades Aoi, Chiaki, and Ena to the main characters, and now there are always, always at least five (often more) characters on the screen, all the freaking time. The result is a frantic flickering mess where none of them get any decent character moments, there is no time to focus on anything, and it’s just not comfy at all. If the title of the series is “Laid-Back Camp” then I expect it to actually have a laid-back mood. If I wanted to see a show about going fast, I’d watch Initial D.

5/10, a second-rate CGDCT that I wouldn’t have bothered finishing if it didn’t share the name with a much better predecessor.

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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