Rin Shima likes to camp alone by the lakes around Mount Fuji. After she helps Nadeshiko Kagamihara, a newcomer from Shizuoka who falls asleep while chasing a view of the mountain, the two end up camping together, and Nadeshiko joins her school's Outdoor Activities Club for trips across Yamanashi and Shizuoka.
Plus 5 optional extras and 1 more title.
4 titles · 37 episodes + 1 movie · ~17 hours
Watch the three TV seasons in order, then the movie. The movie jumps years ahead to the cast as working adults, so it works best as the last stop after Season 3. Season 4 is due in 2027. The OVAs and the Room Camp shorts are optional extras you can fit in whenever you like.
Start here. Nadeshiko moves to Yamanashi, meets Rin at Lake Motosu, and joins the Outdoor Activities Club with Chiaki and Aoi. The season ends with the group's first camping trip together at Christmas. 12 episodes.
Opens with Rin's solo New Year trip along the Shizuoka coast and builds up to the club's group camping trip to the Izu Peninsula. 13 episodes.
Picks up after the Izu trip, with Nadeshiko's childhood friend Ayano trying camping for the first time. Production moved to a new studio, Eight Bit, so the art looks slightly different. 12 episodes.
Rin, Nadeshiko, Chiaki, Aoi and Ena reunite as working adults to build a campsite together. Watch it after Season 3, since it looks ahead to where the characters end up.
⚠ Set years after the TV series. The story was written for the film and does not adapt the manga.
The next TV season. Director Shin Tosaka returns, with animation moving to FuRyu Pictures and a new character designer, Ryuta Ura.
⚠ Announced for 2027. No month or date has been given yet.
Three short bonus episodes released with the Season 1 Blu-rays in Japan, one per volume.
Nadeshiko, Chiaki and Aoi travel around Yamanashi collecting stamps for a prefecture stamp rally. 12 episodes of three to four minutes each. Best after Season 1.
A roughly 12-minute bonus episode released with the Room Camp Blu-ray. Watch it after Room Camp.
Two bonus episodes, Mystery Camp and Traveling Rin Shima, released with Season 2 Blu-ray volumes 2 and 3.
Three bonus episodes of about seven minutes each from the Season 3 Blu-rays: The Outclub's Room, Rainy Camping, and a spring trip to Lake Inaga.
The core of Laid-Back Camp is three TV seasons and one movie. The seasons follow the girls through their high school years without any gaps, so they go in the obvious order: Season 1, Season 2, Season 3.
The movie is the one entry people get wrong. It came out in 2022, between Season 2 and Season 3, which makes it look like a bridge between them. It is not. The film is set years later, with Rin, Nadeshiko, Chiaki, Aoi and Ena grown up and working, and it tells an original story written for the film rather than adapting the manga. Season 3 continues directly from the end of Season 2, so nothing is lost by holding the movie until after Season 3. Watching it last also keeps the time skip where it naturally belongs: at the end of everything the TV series has shown so far.
The extras are all short and none of them move the main story forward. The OVAs were released with the Japanese Blu-rays of each season. Room Camp is a spin-off of 12 episodes running three to four minutes each, following Nadeshiko, Chiaki and Aoi on a stamp rally around Yamanashi, plus one longer bonus episode. Room Camp works best once you have met the cast in Season 1.
Season 4 has been announced for 2027 with no month given yet.
Laid-Back Camp (Yuru Camp) has 3 seasons and 1 film in the main run — 37 episodes altogether.
| Title | Type | Episodes | Aired |
|---|---|---|---|
| Laid-Back Camp | TV Series | 12 episodes | January 2018 |
| Laid-Back Camp Season 2 | TV Series | 13 episodes | January 2021 |
| Laid-Back Camp Season 3 | TV Series | 12 episodes | April 2024 |
| Laid-Back Camp The Movie | Movie | July 2022 |
| Title | Type | Episodes | Aired |
|---|---|---|---|
| Laid-Back Camp Season 4 | TV Series | — | 2027 |
| Title | Type | Episodes | Aired |
|---|---|---|---|
| Laid-Back Camp OVA | OVA | 3 episodes | March 2018 |
| Room Camp | TV Short | 12 episodes | January 2020 |
| Room Camp: Saunas and Grub and Three-Wheeler Bikes | OVA | 1 episode | April 2020 |
| Laid-Back Camp Season 2 OVA | OVA | 2 episodes | May 2021 |
| Laid-Back Camp Season 3 OVA | OVA | 3 episodes | June 2024 |
4 titles · 37 episodes + 1 movie · ~17 hours
Where each part of the anime lines up with the source, so you know where to pick up reading.
Afro's manga is still ongoing, with 18 volumes out in Japan as of March 2026, and Yen Press publishes it in English. The movie is an original story written for the film and does not adapt any part of the manga. Room Camp adapts chapters from Afro's separate Room Camp spin-off manga.
Start with Season 1 (2018). It introduces Rin and Nadeshiko and sets up the Outdoor Activities Club. Every other entry assumes you have seen it.
Season 1, Season 2, Season 3, then Laid-Back Camp The Movie. The OVAs and the Room Camp spin-off are optional and can be watched any time after Season 1. Season 4 is due in 2027.
At the very end. Although it came out in 2022, between Season 2 and Season 3, the movie is set years later, when Rin, Nadeshiko, Chiaki, Aoi and Ena are working adults who reunite to build a campsite. Season 3 continues directly from Season 2, so watch the movie after Season 3.
No. It is an original story written for the film by the anime's writers. The adult versions of the characters do not come from the manga.
No. Room Camp is a spin-off of 12 episodes running three to four minutes each, in which Nadeshiko, Chiaki and Aoi travel around Yamanashi on a stamp rally. It is based on Afro's separate Room Camp manga and does not affect the main series. There is also a roughly 12-minute bonus episode from its Blu-ray.
No. The OVAs are short bonus episodes that came with the Japanese Blu-ray releases: three for Season 1, two for Season 2 and three for Season 3. They are fun extras but skipping them leaves no gap in the story.
Yes, for all three TV seasons. Crunchyroll added an English dub of Season 1 in August 2022 and of Season 2 in January 2024, and Season 3 was dubbed as it aired in 2024. In the first two seasons Celeste Perez voices Rin and Morgan Lauré voices Nadeshiko, with Katelyn Barr as Chiaki, Hannah Alyea as Aoi and Molly Zhang as Ena.
The main anime-original entry is the movie, which tells a new story set years after the TV series. The OVAs are short Blu-ray bonus episodes rather than part of the main run, so you can skip them without missing anything.
Crunchyroll streams all three TV seasons and the movie in most regions. Availability can differ by country, so check the service in your region.
The three TV seasons total 37 episodes of just under 24 minutes each, and the movie runs about two hours, so the core watch order takes about 17 hours. The OVAs and Room Camp add more than an hour on top of that.
No. Afro's manga is still running, with 18 volumes out in Japan as of March 2026. Season 3 finished airing on June 20, 2024, and Season 4 has been announced for 2027.
Season 4 is scheduled for 2027. No month has been announced yet. Director Shin Tosaka returns from Season 3, and animation moves to FuRyu Pictures with a new character designer, Ryuta Ura.
