#Laid-Back Camp Season 3 Unveils 7th Character Visual Featuring Ema & Mei

A seventh new character visual featuring Ema and Mei has been unveiled for the currently airing third season of Laid-Back Camp, which began airing in Japan on April 4, 2024. 

Shin Tosaka (Regalia: The Three Sacred Stars) is directing the third season, with Masafumi Sugiura (Uma Musume: Pretty Derby co-series screenwriter) as screenwriter, Naofumi Hashimoto (Ryman’s Club sub-character designer) as character designer, Gakuto Gonbei (Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead) as art director, Hiyori’s Miho Hasegawa (Helck) as color designer, Chiptune’s Katsuhito Ogawa (Alice Gear Aegis: Expansion) as compositing director, and Akiyuki Tateyama as returning music composer. 

Meanwhile, the anime’s voice cast includes: 

• • Yumiri Hanamori as Nadeshiko Kagamihara
• • Nao Toyama as Rin Shima
• • Sayuri Hara as Chiaki Ogaki
• • Aki Toyosaki as Aoi Inuyama
• • Rie Takahashi as Ena Saito
• • Tomoyo Kurosawa as Ayano Toki
• • Maria Sashide as Mei Nakatsugawa
• • Kokoa Amano as Ema Mizunami
• • Akio Ootsuka as Hajime Shinshiro/Narrator

The first two Laid-Back Camp anime seasons premiered in 2018 and 2021. An anime film sequel with adult versions of the cast was released in Japan in July 2022. An anime adaptation of the Room Camp spin-off debuted in 2020. Crunchyroll is streaming all previous seasons of the anime, as well as the film. 

The anime is based on the slice of life camping manga by Afro, which began serialization in Houbunsha’s Manga Time Kirara Forward magazine in July 2015 until 2019, when it was transferred to the Comic Fuz app. Sixteen tankobon volumes have been released as of March 2024.

Yen Press releases the manga series in English, describing the main synopsis as:

Rin enjoys camping by the lakeshore, Mt. Fuji in view. Nadeshiko rides her bike to see Mt. Fuji, too. As the two eat cup noodles together, what scenery will they behold? This series will make readers fall in love with camping!

Source: Yuru Camp Official Anime Twitter