Laid-Back Camp Anime's 3rd Season Premieres in 2024 With New Studio, Staff

An event for the Laid-Back Camp franchise on Sunday announced that the third anime season based on the anime of Afro's Yurucamp (Yurukyan△, Laid-Back Camp Δ) manga will premiere in 2024. The new season is titled Yurukyan△ Season 3, and the animation studio is changing from C-Station to 8-Bit.

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Shin Tosaka (Infinite Stratos 2) is the new director, and Masafumi Sugiura (Uma Musume Pretty Derby) is now in charge of series composition. Hisanori Hashimoto (key animator for Attack on Titan, Guilty Crown) is the new character designer, Akiyuki Tateyama returning as the composer, and Takeshi Takadera is returning as the sound director.

Afro launched the manga in Houbunsha's Manga Time Kirara Forward magazine in 2015, and moved it to Houbunsha's Comic Fuz manga website in 2019. Yen Press began releasing the manga in English in March 2018.

An anime based on the manga premiered in January 2018, and Crunchyroll streamed the 12-episode series as it aired. Crunchyroll also streamed an English dub of the first season. The second season of the anime premiered in January 2021.

An anime film based on the manga opened in July 2022, and Crunchyroll began streaming the film in November 2022.

A live-action television series adaptation of the original manga premiered in January 2019.

The anime has inspired MAGES' Yurucamp Have a Nice Day! game for PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch in November 2022. Gemdrops released the Laid-Back Camp - Virtual - Lake Motosu (Yurucamp Virtual Camp Motosuko-hen) VR game in March 2021, and released the Laid-Back Camp - Virtual - Fumoto Campsite (Yurucamp Virtual Camp Fumoto Camp Jō-hen) VR game in April 2022.

Laid-Back Camp All-in-one!!, the first smartphone game in the franchise, released worldwide last month.

Sources: Laid-Back Camp anime's website, MoCa News