YURU CAMP△ SEASON 2

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MANGA ComedyYuru Camp△
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OVA ComedyYuru Camp△ SEASON 2 OVA
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ANIME ComedyYuru Camp△ SEASON 3

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  Groenboys

  100/100
  Yuru Camp S2 isn’t just an amazing experience, it is anime that means a lot to me

  I love watching anime. I have a deep passion for watching, discussing and critiquing anime. Nuancing my opinions, sharing love for shows and discovering new experiences is what keeps me continuing to watch anime. It is a passion that is hard to really express to people who don’t watch anime, but I sure try to share that deep-rooted passion with others who are willing to listen. I can see this sort of passion in Yuru Camp.

  Yuru Camp is a show that means a lot to me. Back in 2018 Yuru Camp was one of the first anime that I watched and I loved every second of it. I listened to the soundtrack on repeat, I tried to let my friends watch it, you could almost say I was obsessed with it. But as the years went by and I watched more and more anime, I started to forget that love that I had for YuruCamp. Now that Yuru Camp season 2 is done, I did not only relive that feeling of love for the anime that I forgot for a time, but also have that love amplified by a thousand. I fucking love Yuru Camp, and there are so many reasons why.

  Firstly, the anime is just genuinely great. It is Iyashikei at its best. With a simple premise as “Girls go camping”, the anime really gets a lot out of it. It not only shows multiple ways how to camp, but also shows the dangers that come with it and the extra work you have to do for certain trips. The creators of these anime definitely know what camping takes and you see that back in the anime.

  The characters are great too. Rin and Nadeshiko are the definite highlights of the cast. Both have amazing designs and personalities that work well off each other. Rin, the cold but sweet camping fanatic, interacting with Nadeshiko, a bowl of marshmallows and hot chocolate, are some of the best moments of the show. The rest of the character cast is not as strong but still really enjoyable. Aoi is a nice onee-san type that loves to tease others. Ena might not have much as a personality but she compliments Rin well and her dog is adorable. Chiaki is probably the weakest character with how she is often a comedic relief and her comedy tends to have lots of hits & misses, but she still has some great moments. The rest of the characters are mostly made up of chill adults. What makes this character cast work so well is that these friendships feel real. They joke with each other, but also look out for each other and help each other when needed too. They don’t suddenly fall in love, they don’t have exaggerated manners, they don’t go through significant emotional arcs, they are all friends/family that bond over love for camping.

  What really sells this anime for me and loads of other people are the production values. The art of this anime is gorgeous. The animation may not be impressive, but the character designs are great and the backgrounds are jaw dropping. Some of the composition also enhances the experience a ton. One of the best things about this anime is the OST. This OST makes me melt into my chair of comfort. It is quiet and meaningful when it needs to, jolly and upbeat when the scene is funny and during down times the relaxing sounds of string instruments make you feel at ease. Even if you decide to not watch the anime after reading this review, please just listen to the OST on Youtube. It is amazing.

  Those aspects are already great, but after watching all 25 episodes of this anime, I finally realised why this anime means a lot to me: the way it conveys its passion for camping. I am not a camper and the times I have camped have all been a mixed experience, but I can still feel what joys camping can bring in this anime.

  Without any lazy running gags, without any distracting drama, without any sort of moe yuri-bait, this anime shows that camping is about enjoying the quiet beautiful nature. Reading a book while eating self-made dinner in the cold is a healing experience that is hard to get anywhere else, but camping isn’t just solo. You can share this experience with multiple people. With that, even if you screw up, you screw up together and fix things together. Watching the sunset go down or staring at the night sky full of stars becomes an experience you can share with the ones you camp, an unique experience you then only have with those ones.

  I mentioned that I have a deep-rooted passion for watching anime, but it is a hard passion to really share with others. While not really that equivalent, camping is also not a hobby that is easy for people to really get, but this anime knows how to let people get what camping is all about by combining all these amazing elements I mentioned previously in a passion-filled 24 minutes 25 episodes total. Watching people that I love doing things that they love in a fashion that doesn’t challenge me and just wants me to have a good time is an amazing healing experience. This experience especially hits hard after going through an exhausting 2020 which brought me enormous distress and loss of motivation, so the comfort of an anime about people doing what they love brought genuine tears to my eyes with the first episode of season 2.

  Also, regarding how season 2 compares to season 1, from my perspective, I think it improves enough on things to make it a great second season. With how in season 1 introduced the characters and the setting, this second season now puts its focus on the girls going camping instead of learning and preparing for it. You also see some genuine progression in the series: In season 1 most of the girls were really amateur and had to discover a lot of things, and now in season 2 they already are more experienced and you see that by seeing them enjoy camping more instead of having to deal with the difficulties of it (but don’t worry, there is still a good amount of problem solving in season 2). It is also nice to see the relationships between characters thicken: They get more comfortable with each other and can comment more on each other's personalities.

  I fucking love Yuru Camp. It is an anime that I can recommend with all my soul, especially after how heavy 2020 was.

  So yeah, watch Yuru Camp you dingus.

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• 

  DYAAA

  100/100
  It's kind of sad that the trip's over, huh?

  Yuru Camp Season 2 isn't just a good successor of what the first season was, it's better in every possible way.

  Although the Yuru Camp Season 1 is what I would call the perfect representation of what Cute Girls Doing Cute Things animes should be, this season breaks every standard the previous season established.

  Let's start talking about the most important aspect of it. Yuru Camp's characters are perfect, flawless representation of what a good group of friends would look like, being none of them just an stereotype of each character a common CGDCT would have. Nadeshiko, being the center of the group and acting as the main girl of the anime isn't your usual airhead that leads every CGDCT group, she shows signs of being responsible and a capable person who just ends up loving camping. Rin is the other main girl, who instead of just being a counterpart of Nadeshiko, being the one of the group that likes being alone is my personal favourite. She isn't a Tsundere that instantly refuses to every invitation from Nadeshiko, Rin just have a lot of fun camping alone. A lot of time in the anime is spent showing Rin travelling alone across Japan, which is by itself enough to gain a 10/10 from me. We have the other girls in the group: Aoi, Ena, and Chiaki. All of them have their traits that makes them different from everyone in their group, one thing I liked a lot is that they gave them a solo camping arc so they could shine and not be eclipsed by Nadeshiko and Rin.

  The jokes made in every episode were always funny and refreshing, without any recurrent joke that ended up being annoying by how many times it was repeated. Each episode had new jokes and funny situations to laugh at. The girls' synergy is just amazing, being both grupal campings the best of each season. Another important thing is that the jokes came from every member of the group, so all the comedic pressure wasn't in just one character, needing the latter to be in every scene so there isn't any boring parts.

  The plot is simple and doesn't have any mind blowing plot twist. It's just them camping, gaining money to go camping, preparing to go camping, and more camping. Yuru Camp achieves in making every trip unique, being all of them different in some way to the other. What I love from it is that it gives time to all relevant characters such as Nadeshiko's sister or Rin's grandpa. Although, I do think Toba-sensei deserved more screen time, as she deserved a trip centered around her.

  Now we can move to one of the other selling points of the anime. Its production. Yuru Camp's animation isn't the best thing of the world and won't be the next Kimetsu no Yaiba, but its characters designs are amazing and more importantly, its landscapes are astonishing, showcasing the beauty of Japan's nature. Every single place they visit is awesome, asking for you to come visit Japan and go through every location they went. Now we have the OST, which is by far, my personal favorite of every other anime. The music is perfect for every moment, being the instruments used in every song fitting to the general atmosphere of the anime. Both opening and ending were solid and at the same level of the first two. I used to think Seize the Day was far worse than Shiny Days, but the more I heard it, the more I loved it, to the point where I consider it as one of my favourite openings ever.

  I usually have difficulties explaining my thoughts of an anime but I really wanted to make a review about Yuru Camp, as I haven't enjoyed watching an anime every week as much as I did with this one. In general I believe Yuru Camp S2 is the most perfect CGDCT I have ever seen and set the standard really high for future animes of the genre. Every element of it is perfect and well executed, having literally 0 things I could complain about besides having only 13 chapters.

  TLDR: THIS SHIT IS FLAWLESS, THE PEAK OF CGDCT ANIMES.

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• 

  nflstreet

  90/100
  More of the same, which is great—Yuru Camp never fails to be a relaxing experience

  The art of creating a ‘comforting’ anime is one that seems easy. Just have ‘cute girls’ doing ‘cute things’, and voila, you have an anime. Seems easy, doesn’t it? It might seem easy compared to other anime, but the art of making a Cute Girls Doing Cute Things (CGDCT) anime that has staying power is much more difficult. Even if YOU liked it, how many CGDCT anime that you’ve seen been forgotten to time. That CGDCT anime that you liked when it aired eight years ago is now only known for a blackface scene. Another one you watched five years ago hasn’t been mentioned on your timeline in three years. You get my point. In a niche genre that’s easy to emulate, average CGDCT anime are a dime-a-dozen. It’s rare though that you get one that’s good enough to be remembered for not just being a ‘good CGDCT anime’, but a ‘good anime’ in general. This season of Yuru Camp, like its predecessor, manages to achieve this.

  _Flashback of Rin on her first time solo-camping_

  This season changes little from season one, which is good since there’s no need to overcomplicate an anime like Yuru Camp. We do get to meet new characters, like Ayano, who’s Nadeshiko’s childhood friend, and we get to see more of reoccurring characters, like Rin’s cool grandfather. Other than the episodes purely focused on camping trips, we get to see a flashback to Rin’s first-time solo-camping, the girls working at their part-time jobs throughout winter, and them all planning future trips. This season shows them at school less, and them on camping trips more (one camping trip in particular takes up four episodes). While the first season focused on them camping in the Yamanashi prefecture, this season has them exploring the coast, and other ‘geosites’ of the Shizuoka prefecture. These prefectures are near the middle of Japan, and aren’t usually featured in anime. Various people (usually on image-boards) have tongue-in-cheek criticized Yuru Camp for being ‘propaganda by the Japanese tourism industry’. All I can say is that it’s pretty damn good propaganda then. While nature shots can end up looking the same (by nature of it being nature), Yuru Camp does a great job of differentiating every spot and giving it a reason for being shown. These spots are the same in real life, which leads to having the anime tell why THIS place, in particular, is so important that the girls have to visit it. Along with them visiting geosites, the girls also go to various restaurants, onsens, campsites, and even a capybara sanctuary. As I said earlier, Yuru Camp is a pretty good advertisement for this part of Japan, which is rarely seen in anime.

  _Nadeshiko spreading Secret Society Blanket propaganda_

  Is there anything better about this season? Not in particular. We do get to see some exciting arcs, such as Nadeshiko planning out and going on a solo-camp, and some of the other girls camping in sub-freezing weather. This season adds little new to the table, but at the same time detracts little as well. My biggest complaint is about how jarring some of the scenes of Rin riding her moped are. I forget if they did this in the first season as well, but her moped contrasts heavily with the beautiful landscapes, and are laughable to see. I get why they decided to go with 3D animation instead of drawing each frame, but still, it doesn’t look good. That’s the most of my complaints—about all of the other complaints I’ve seen have been on image-boards. Complaints about the decline in the quality of the animation and whatever. Although a Google Maps watermark being left in a landscape shot is hilarious, it doesn’t detract that much from the anime. I have a feeling that nine out of ten of the complainers from said image-boards are just trying to rile up Yuru Camp fans. Needless to say, there’s no fatal flaw to Yuru Camp. I don’t care, and I’m guessing most watchers don’t care, if the studio uses techniques to turn Google Maps photospheres into anime landscapes. It’s funny to see a watermark that was accidentally left in, but it isn’t episode-ruining.

  _The girls crossing a tombolo in Izu_

  If you’re someone who watched and enjoyed the first season of Yuru Camp, and haven’t watched this season yet, you should watch it as soon as possible. If you haven’t watched the first season yet, watch it before watching this. C-Station (the studio) knows what they’re doing. Yuru Camp is a ‘healing anime’, or an anime that is relaxing to watch. While not all scenarios this season are relaxing to see, Yuru Camp still maintains to be a ‘brain massager’, as one of my friends calls the show. To put it simply, Yuru Camp just ‘gets it’. There’s no need to force unnecessary drama between the characters. There’s no need to show fanservice of the girls for the sake of sales. There’s no need to make what’s ultimately a simple anime complex for the sake of complexity. The only reason why anyone would become upset watching an episode is that it might cost thousands of dollars for them to camp at the same places the girls do. Yuru Camp might not be the most thought-provoking anime, but it still has the opportunity to change your life. There’re probably thousands of people who watched Yuru Camp that decided to camp at least once due to the anime. Yuru Camp hasn’t convinced me to go camping, but it has inspired me to do a day trip to state parks with friends. Other than the beautiful waterfalls, the delicious ice cream at a gift shop near the state park, and the exhausting walk down and up the trail, I learned several things about Tallulah Gorge State Park—like how several scenes from the classic movie Deliverance (often considered one of the best thriller movies ever, and could be considered the antithetical to Yuru Camp) were filmed there. If you’re American, there’s more than likely at least one state or national park close to you that you haven’t ever been to. Visiting it with friends, family, or by yourself, can be a great way to spend a day when you don’t have anything to do. If you aren’t American, I hope you have a thing similar to the National Park Service, so you can also enjoy your countries natural beauty, preserved and protected from those whose only goal is to extract resources. Beyond the veneer of ‘cute girls doing cute things’, Yuru Camp reminds us that fun can still be had outdoors. The tranquility and serenity of ‘the great outdoors’ is something that even the biggest basement dweller needs to experience once in a while.

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