#yuru camp chibi

[cobalt-72]

[hep-heptagon]

Yuru Camp changed my life I love it so much 💖

[paporuii]

Yuru Camp!! 🏕💕💖

Nadeshiko, Rin and Ayano playing UNO inspired from the ep 💗🌸

Tried to combine old and new style, I quite like it 👍🏻✨

This anime is really chill and I highly recommend it! I’ve never tried camping before and I think I should give it a go someday!

Refs + an old will-never-be-finished WIP

🌳 INPRNT || Redbubble 🌷

[bakemonogatarii]

Look what I bought

[lildragonscomics]

Currently starting a quest to make fanart of all the slice of life shows I love. First one - laid back camp (or comfy camp or yuru camp).

Currently on season 2 and I wonder if they do a big camping event, maybe in the movie they do. Ugh they're so precious I love this show.

[centrally-unplanned]

Alright, last batch:

The first half of these are "Official" Anime Books. We have the Official Guide Books for Yuru Camp & Bocchi the Rock, modern buys from a Kinokuniya. They are what you would expect: character designs, concept art, episode & story guides, cast & crew interviews, etc. I was very happy with the level of photography they have - Laid Back Camp of course has a ton of pages comparing photographs of the actual camp sites with their anime depictions, while the Bocchi book has a bunch of Shimo-Kitazawa scene spotting. The Bocchi book also has a page laying out all of the art used in its EDs, which I really love for their pastel-chibi style, very kino:

But I will admit how standardized this style of book has become is a little sad - these two unrelated anime have nearly identical layouts, because that is how it works these days. There is a reason I am drawn to the earlier history of anime so much, it was way more unfiltered. A minor note though on otherwise very fun buys.

Finally we have Haruhi-ism: The Art of Noizi Ito. This is a full-on waifu book, just a big collection of splash art of Haruhi being Haruhi and the rest of cast dealing with her bullshit with erotic flecks sprinkled throughout. A real whim buy as I picked it up for a few dollars; the used book market in Japan is truly amazing, I get now how people build such massive collections. What is cute though is that Noizi Ito is the illustrator for the light novels; she didn't work on the anime in any real way, and it shows:

Kyon and Mikuru have the greatest difference in design, but the style difference hits them all in some ways. The anime's visual design is of course far more omnipresent that the light novel illustrations are; it makes this book feel like its from a slightly parallel universe, where Ito was brought on to do the designs for the anime so its entire concept is shifted just a bit to the metaphorical left. The Berenstein Bears branch of Haruhi's multiverse, if you will.

The bottom three are more unique - additions to what I would call the "otaku studies" collection, books by otaku doing media or cultural analysis of anime or otakudom itself. First is A New Millenialist Perspective on the Daughters of Eve, by Mari Kotani, which is a feminist & post-modernist exploration of Evangelion. This whole genre of books...well, here is the back cover, in English for your convenience:

"Here, post-structuralist psychoanalytical theory will enable us to define Angel as the representation of 'abjection' in-" okay buddy, put down the weed and step away from the graduate studies applications, lets go for a walk. Seriously, stuff like this was absolutely in the water in 90's Japan; it was going through a huge wave of psycho-analytic sociology that broke into the mainstream. Back in the day there was a tendency to use this stuff as a way to "understand Eva" - that is backwards, Evangelion is not that deep. But instead, you can see works like these as a byproduct of fandom and the media mix - how Evangelion's brand as the "intellectual's show" was propagated and reinforced over time, and how a certain kind of fan related to it. Eva-as-show does not need these texts, but Eva-as-cultural-event was built from bricks like these. Its not the biggest "Eva philosophy" book but was well-enough known in its day, so it should be fun to read.

Okay, I'll be quick on the others: next is Kurahon, by Hideyuki Kurata - manga author of works like Read or Die. This books is a bunch of autobiographical-style essays about him being a complete hikikomori shut-in otaku collector maniac, complete with 2D Girl supremacy tracts and manifestos for the life of the outsider. Its extremely 2000's in its genre, this kind of ideology would die down as otaku culture transitioned fro- NOT NOW, deep breaths, whew, back on topic. Anyway, this books is insane, this is literally the first in-line image in the book as you go through his text:

Kurata is a lunatic, but he is my kind of lunatic, and this text has a level of raw, intense honesty and cultural reflection in it that really makes it stand out.

Last book is an edition of the print series Eureka! Haruhi Suzumiya Edition, which was a literary & cultural studies joint that collected essays on topics. Wait, one sec...sorry, not 'was', 'is', they are still at it! They have an upcoming collection on Tolkein, cool. Anyway, this of course falls into a similar genre of the Eva book as being quite high-concept, but is from a more diverse set of authors and is a bit more grounded. It has a whole section on Doujin and meta-textual elements in the anime fandom of Haruhi, excited to read that.

Okay okay, that is the Japan books, generally. Though I did realize that I had imported a few things before that I never posted about when they arrived, I might throw those on the stack and do a post about a few...

[conflagrate]

Yuru Camp S3 01

Chibi Rin!

Hello there, first glimpse of Fuji-san this season!

Aww she's missing her girlie😭

Someone's gonna die in the making of these stoves...

Oh they survived.

Pretty lights!

The gang together again!

My cozy camp show is back with me and suddenly, the world feels right again....

[prof-kenny]

[moonbug-julia]

Yuru Camp | Rin, Nadeshiko, Ena, Chiaki, & Aoi 🏕️✨

[animepopheart]

★ 【ぬー。】 「ゆるキャン△」 ☆ ⊳ nadeshiko / rin (yuru camp) ✔ republished w/permission ⊳ ⊳ follow me on twitter

[raichana-artblog]

Channel points chibi request - Rin

Chibi request from twitch channel points! thank you @beeyee0401 for all your support and hope you enjoy this chibi Rin!

[zappy94x]

Rin Chibi Fanart

This was probably the chilliest and laid backed anime I have seen in a while.

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[shutterandpencil]

"Rin and the Matcha Tiramisu"

Generally, I tend to debut my chibis in Cincinnati but, however, the day that Rin would have had such a debut didn't go well, so here she is.

Because she's already dressed for winter, pics with her would be seasonal.

[hobbylinkjapan]

From "Laid-Back Camp" comes an absolutely adorable mini figure of Nadeshiko Kagamihara! With a cheerful pose and expression so bright she could blind you, she's ready to cute-ify your desk, shelf, or display case! The details of her clothes have wonderful details despite her small and chibi-fied style; from her skirt to the Pom-Poms of her knit cap! Add her to your collection today!

Laid-Back Camp: Mini Figure Nadeshiko Kagamihara

[tru-doodles]

cute campers doing cute things, season two cant get here soon enough