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Ani-One Streams 6 Episodes of Yuru Camp Anime
posted on by Adriana Hazra
Hong Kong content distributor MediaLink Entertainment Limited's Ani-One YouTube channel began streaming the first six episodes of the television anime of Afro's Yuru Camp (Yurukyan△, Laid-Back Camp Δ) manga on December 24 as a "Christmas Eve Special Express."
Alongside Hong Kong, the anime is available in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Laos, Macau, Malaysia, Maldives, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, the Philippines, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam.
The anime premiered in January 2018. The second season will premiere in January 2021.
The first season's staff are returning for the second season. Yoshiaki Kyougoku (Kuroko's Basketball and Robotics;Notes episode director, Tokyo Ghoul unit director) is directing the series at C-Station (STARMYU, Dragonar Academy). Jin Tanaka (Kirakira ☆ Precure a la Mode, Anne-Happy) is handling the series composition, and Mutsumi Sasaki (Dragonar Academy, Chaos;HEAd, Phantom ~Requiem for the Phantom~) is the character designer. Akiyuki Tateyama (Kuma Miko: Girl Meets Bear, Idol Incidents) is composing the music at MAGES.
Other staff members include:
- Color Design: Taeko Mizuno
- Art Director: Yoshimi Umino
- Director of Photography: Hiroaki Tanaka
- Sound Director: Takeshi Takadera
The ROOM CAMP (Heya Camp) short anime spinoff premiered on January 6, and Crunchyroll is streaming the series. "Episode 0" debuted on the first Blu-ray Disc/DVD volume of the Laid-Back Camp anime in March 2018. ROOM CAMP shipped on Blu-ray Disc and DVD in Japan on May 27 with the new "Sauna to Gohan to Sanrin Bike" (Sauna, Food, and a Three-Wheeler) episode.
A live-action television series adaptation of the original manga premiered on January 9.
Afro launched the manga in Houbunsha's Manga Time Kirara Forward magazine in 2015. Houbunsha published the manga's 10th compiled volume on March 12, and the 11th volume will ship on January 7. Yen Press began releasing the manga in English in March 2018.
