Laid-Back Camp the Movie

Laid-Back Camp the Movie (2022)

映画 ゆるキャン△

Your favorite cozy camping anime returns with a movie as the former members of the Outdoors Club get together again, this time to build a campsite! Reunite with Nadeshiko, Rin, Chiaki, Aoi, and Ena as they gather around the campfire once more with good food and good company.

Date of release
2022-07-01
TMDB
7.6 / 10 (75)
Runtime
2h 1m
Genres
Animation, Comedy
Director
Yoshiaki Kyougoku

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Box office: $8.3M
  • Based on: Laid-Back Camp

Laid-Back Camp Movie is a 2022 Japanese animated film based on the manga series Laid-Back Camp by Afro. Produced by C-Station and distributed by Shochiku, the film is directed by Yoshiaki Kyogoku from an original story written by Jin Tanaka and Mutsumi Ito. In the film, a grown-up Nadeshiko Kagamihara, Rin Shima, Chiaki Ōgaki, Aoi Inuyama, and Ena Saitō reunite to build a campsite.

Production

Producer Shōichi Hotta approached animation producer Ryoji Maru with a "big new" project, which included a film, after accepting an offer from FuRyu in July 2018 to lead a sequel project for the first season of Laid-Back Camp. In October 2018, the film was announced at the Yuru Camp Secret Society Blanket Enrollment Explanation Meeting event in Saitama Prefecture.

In April 2021, staff from two seasons of Laid-Back Camp were confirmed to be returning for the film, including Kyogoku as the director, Jin Tanaka and Mutsumi Ito as scriptwriters, and Mutsumi Sasaki as the character designer. This is Kyogoku's first anime film that he has directed.

Kyogoku wanted "to see more of the five [characters] [as adults]" after a brief scene in the final episode of the anime series' first season in which Nadeshiko imagines the five of them as adults. He originally planned for them "to have a campsite on a slightly larger scale, or to have a campsite in a different location", but he ended up with the idea of "build[ing] a campsite" since "it was something that only adults could do".

The logo of Laid-Back Camp Movie was revealed in March 2022. In the same month, additional staff for the film were revealed, including Miho Imoto and Noriko Tsutsumiya as prop designers, Yoshimi Umino as the art director, Hiroaki Tanaka as the cinematographer, and Takeshi Takadera as the sound director.

Tōyama revealed that the film used "movie" (映画, eiga) instead of "the movie" (劇場版, gekijōban) in the title so that viewers could "enjoy the [film] as a stand-alone work, not as a [film] that can only be enjoyed by those who have seen the TV series." Kyogoku also described the film as a "stand-alone film", stating that it was "neither an extension nor an expansion of the TV series." In September 2022, Maru revealed that he made a cameo appearance…

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