The Photography Club is in danger of shutting down?! And the Cinema Club too?! Fret not, for they shall merge and become... Cinephoto Club! Now club members Satsuki, An, and Sakurako are asked to be the main characters for manga artist Haruno's latest work that's centered around action cameras. The girls head out to capture the lovely sights of Japan, experimenting with gadgets beyond photography and film equipment, and of course, chomping on the local delicacies along the way!
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Marinate1016
So, has enough time passed for me to be able to say I like Mono more than Yuru Camp? I know that’s sacrilegious to say with Yuru camp’s prestige among CGDCT series, but I really had such an awesome time with Mono and connected with its characters in a way I never did with Yuru camp. Part of that’s because this follows a photography/videography club which I can relate to way more as a photographer than camping trips, but I also just think the cast is simply better here. An, Sakurako, Sacchan, Haruno sensei and Kako just have an amazing dynamic. Every interaction iscomedic gold and they truly feel like a group of best friends trying to see the best that Japan has to offer. This was such a cozy watch and I’ll miss my girls.
Obviously everyone’s opinion will vary on whether or not this is better than Yuru camp, probably depending on how much you enjoy camping, but it really doesn’t matter. The show’s amazing and they both have their strengths. This season we actually got two travel oriented shows in this and Zatsutabi, while this one didn’t lean into the preparation, planning and execution aspects of travel like ZatsuTabi, it did take us to some really cool places around Japan where the girls got to experience a lot of the local culture, food and of course take some awesome photos. I really could just watch 100 episodes of the girls going to a different place every week and just trying new foods or making a video of them skating down a mountain. It’s such seemingly mundane situations, but they feel so fun because of this cast.
The supporting characters outside of the main trio were a riot too. Haruno sensei is basically a big sister figure to the girls, and her friends like the totally not Kuroneko ™️ influenced Kurokuma and the free spirited Kako, stole the show whenever they were on screen. I actually wouldn’t have minded a few more episodes focusing on just the side characters. Especially Kurokuma, whose recurring ghost gimmick was funny as hell. You have your obligatory Afro-sensei yuri teasing between Kako and Haruno which I enjoyed, they have a really sweet relationship and encouraged each other a lot. They’re both mentors to the girls as well and motivate them to pursue their dreams which I enjoyed.
My only complaint with this one is that for a series that’s supposed to be following a photography/videography club, there’s little focus on camera stuff! The first episode sets it up, the girls get an action camera and then it just sort of becomes an after thought. The girls will go to a place and explore and then at the end, if we’re lucky, they’ll remember to record it, but until the final episode of the season I feel like videography/photography wasn’t as big a part of the story as I’d have liked. Even with that though, I loved this show because of how good my girls were. They truly brightened my day every Saturday.
I have to give a special shoutout to studio soigné for the job they did here because this show had NO business having the levels of sakuga it had at times. I mean why the hell are some of the best animated scenes of the season, coming from MONO of all things! People often think of battle shonen when we talk sakuga, but don’t sleep on the wholesome slice of life stuff, there’s some great direction here that takes the show to the next level. The character designs look great and the voice acting is top notch with Koga Aoi’s An performance being my highlight.
We truly ate good this season with all the slice of life CGDCT series and Mono was a huge part of that. I’ll never be able to thank Afro sensei enough for this series, I think it connected with me on the level that most people connected with Yuru camp. I always felt kinda compelled to force myself to like that series as much as everyone else because of how loved it is. Not saying it’s bad or not good, but it didn’t hook me like Mono has. This was a special watch for me and I’ll definitely miss it.
Mono gets 9 cups of shaved ice, out of 10
MarlsMarsBars
mono is a slice of life series from the same author of Laid-Back Camp, Afro. If you love Yuru Camp, then mono is right up your alleyway - a CGDCT anime where the characters travel to various places, eat very delicious food, and soak in the atmosphere. However, instead of camping being the main focus and hook of this series, the main characters use their cameras to take snapshots of their adventures. I don’t have a lot to say about mono other than I really enjoyed this anime. As someone who is a Laid-Back Camp fan, I felt right at home with mono. There iseven some nice Yuru Camp fan service thrown in at times, but I’m glad it’s all just background cameos and silly throwaway scenes that don’t detract from the main focus of this show. This series felt like the author was given more freedom to do whatever they wanted because the types of episodic adventures really varied in mono. Whether it be visiting a wide variety of restaurants across Yamanashi as part of a contest, taking pictures of spheres, characters taking videos of them skateboarding down a mountain, or filming a POV horror short film, there is way more diversity in what the characters do throughout this twelve episode endeavor. The beautiful animation and overall art direction makes both the character interactions and adventures a lot more enjoyable to watch. No joke, this anime probably has the second best animation quality I’ve seen from this season, only behind To Be Hero X. If Laid-Back Camp was very lo-fi in nature in order to let you be immersed in the atmosphere of the show, mono takes that to another level.
I only have one minor complaint about mono, and it pertains to the overall premise of this series. As I mentioned before, the characters in this series use their cameras to take pictures and videos as a way to record their memories throughout their adventures. The main reason why the characters use cameras is because they are in the Cinephoto club, so obviously taking pictures and recording videos would be a part of their club activities. This is fine. However, it seems like there were some stretch of episodes where this aspect is *almost* non-existent, and the characters are just hanging out doing whatever. I don’t personally mind this, but I feel like the anime loses its main focus at times, however, it’s not an egregious amount.
Hopefully this anime gets another season. If Laid-Back Camp received multiple seasons, a spin-off, and a movie, then I think mono deserves a somewhat similar treatment. The laid-back nature of mono will make any fans of Afro’s other slice of life work feel right at home. Even if this isn’t your type of anime that you would watch, if you at least appreciate art and animation in general, please watch mono.
whiteflame55
I hopped onto this series a little later in the season, not because I’m not a fan of SoL comedy series focused on high school girls (I’ve loved a number of them), but because it just didn’t seem to stand out all that well. It wasn’t even the only travel series this season, and while the camera shots looked pretty cool and the character designs were cute and eye-catching, nothing else really stuck out to me. Sitting down and watching it proved I really was missing out. Mono has a great sense of humor, with many of its most hilarious moments helmed by Haruno Akiyama, a mangaartist who dominates nearly every scene she’s in and bounces off the other characters so well. She literally drives much of the plot as she drives around and experiences a great deal of beautiful locations in Japan, devours copious amounts of food, all in the name of research for her almost certainly cat-centric manga. The more the series leans into her and the others’ eccentricities, the better it gets, and bringing in other manga artists like Kurokuma to not only give us some background on locations, but dig into some of the more surprising supernatural happenings going on around them (and sometimes in their homes) really makes the series’ world pop in a way other SoL worlds don’t usually manage. We even get some interesting insights into traveling through the lens of Kako Komada on her motorcycle.
The central trio of girls stay pretty fun throughout, though some of their odder elements and, in particular, their aims with their newly formed Cinephoto Club largely take a backseat to travel adventures. It does come up early on and I kind of love the dilemma that got Amamiya into this in the first place - her senpai and the only subject she had graduated, so she literally just lies under a desk incapacitated by that absence. She and the others leave that behind and just enjoy the trip, finding opportunities to take new shots and learning to appreciate their surroundings with some pretty landscape sakuga, but I do wish the series hadn’t entirely left that behind them, as I think that does remove a substantial chunk of what made the series so funny to start. Shikishima ends up being a great travel companion throughout and that girl’s ability to eat is very impressive. And of course, there’s Taishou, who just keeps showing up at various places they go to for no particular reason other than to photobomb and take off. Love him.
I think the series really thrives in its episodes where it gets to do two things: showcase some exceptional animation and give them a unique hook or twist. The travel adventures are fun and all, but only a few of their trips end up standing out. I particularly loved Akiyama’s short-term possession in episode 5, the downhill skateboarding in episode 8 which just popped off on the shots, and the ninja trick mansion in episode 10.
So yes, I absolutely enjoyed riding around with these girls on fun adventures. The quality of the animation wasn’t consistently amazing, but it also didn’t have to be. As long as the photos and videos look great and the series occasionally throws all of its budget into a single shot, those end up popping more as a result, and the backgrounds almost always look great. The humor didn’t always hit for me, but when it did, this was just a grand time to watch. It isn’t breaking the mold on SoL, but it works far better than I expected going in.
KANLen09
mono - It's the weekend; it's the animation you've been waiting for; it's mono! That's not a monotonous pun, by the way... Who doesn't love the true-to-honest goodness of the "Cute Girls Doing Cute Things" a la CGDCT theme? It's the mainstay for every slice-of-life series that features an all-female cast doing the things that they love to do, and for days and nights that spontaneously form memories as time progresses, while being simplistic in general with a touch of comedy. And in this Spring season, which I like to dub "Aniplex CGDCT Saturdays", the duality of shows that air alongside each other are true definitionswhen it comes to pure feelings and emotions of the theme itself: P.A. Works's Hibi wa Sugiredo Meshi Umashi a.k.a Food for the Soul, and the brand-new studio Soigne's mono, of which I'll cover the latter here, are created by mangaka afro, which is the author's 2nd work after the beloved Yuru Camp a.k.a Laid-Back Camp, which was serialized just 2 years after the former in Houbunsha's ever-popular Manga Time Kirara magazine.
As is with every afro work, you're going to get hints and splices of Yuru Camp that are splashed onto the series, and the author herself basically admitted that mono carries much of the same weight and relation to her other parent story, that both series can be constantly interchanged between each other since they take place in the Yamanashi Prefecture. For mono's case, compared to the more mature "high school to young adult" setting of Yuru Camp, the former takes on a purely high school approach, where, similar to Nadeshiko Kagamihara, Chikaki Oogaki, and Aoi Inuyama with their Outdoor Activities Club, it's the Cinephoto Club with the lead girls of Satsuki Amamiya, An Kiriyama, and Sakurako Shikishima, who are fated friends, each with their own goals and ambitions.
What started as a spark for Satsuki "Sacchan" Amamiya is joining the Photography Club and admiring the things that the club has done, for someone who's initially not interested in the art skill itself. However, as great as the club is settling on the laurels of its Senpais, Sacchan is the club's only Kouhai, and when the Senpais reached their graduation phase, she's the only one left in the club, without a clear direction on what to do next. The thing is, besides her club, which is on the verge of shutdown due to a shortage of members, there lies yet another club with the same issue: the Cinema Club, led by Sakurako Shikishima, which has a member going by An Kiriyama, who is best friends with her and Sacchan. To help each other out, the two small clubs joined forces to create the Cinephoto Club to consolidate their efforts into one collective and start out their photographic and cinematic adventure...with a pseudo-Insta360 on hand. To put fate as coincidence even further, the Insta360 camera brought the 3 high school girls to meet the aspiring mangaka Haruno Akiyama (and her pet cat Taishou), as well as her friends, motovlogger Kako Komada and her fellow manga illustrator Torayo Kurokuma, who specializes in all things horror and supernatural. Together, the 3 Kouhais and 3 experienced Senpais embark on a journey and experience travelling within Yamanashi and beyond a la Yuru Camp style.
For one, I really don't think it's a bad idea that afro chose to expand Yuru Camp with her ways knowingly possible, but the fact that mono is interconnected to the former series will inevitably mean that ideas and concepts from there (which has now become quite the big franchise) will be recycled into this series. This, therein, lies the problem that people will see through the lens that mono is just the inferior version of Yuru Camp, with a different setting that still results in a Yuru Camp-esque experience that's one and the same. Sadly, even with the original source materials of concern, with both series simultaneously being serialized at the same time, the progress of Yuru Camp will mean that mono has to take a backseat, of which, as of this review, is only 5 volumes long compared to 17 volumes of the former. But I'm getting a little too ahead of myself.
While mono may have a smaller cast of characters as compared to Yuru Camp, they're still as enjoyable to watch, and the "plot" is more centralized as well, being of the fact that Satsuki, Kiriyama, and Sakurako have to keep their newly established Cinephoto Club alive by not just going on journeys but also documenting them as they go with their trusty Insta360 camera. It's pretty much the same feeling as Yuru Camp seeing Sacchan and the group go on their own adventures; the only difference is that this has a sense of purpose as compared to the real "laid-back" nature of the former. Undoubtedly, while I find that Satsuki and Kiriyama would be better served by standing out much more, it's the weight and collaboration of the others that help them find ideas and concepts and put them into execution that is what they wanted to do. Notably, it's the Senpais that do, due to Haruno being the lazy bum of a mangaka and Kurokuma adding to the flair with her horror-ific personality. Still, it's good characters written for good measure, like how afro always does in her works.
For a brand-new studio and its debut series, studio Soigne truly impresses with its level of production and animation that goes beyond what C-Station and 8bit have done with Yuru Camp since its introduction into the anime scene in Winter 2018. Of course, I could just chalk it down to the ever-so-elusive Aniplex-backed project that gives the show quite the budget to work with, and budgeted it works to a great degree. If this level of animation is to come for the studio's next adaptation of the Yuri comedy series Kamiina Botan, Yoeru Sugata wa Yuri no Hana, then Soigne is off to a great start. Props to director Ryota Aikei for his debut directorial role for the series too.
The OST by famed K-On! and GJ-bu composer Hajime Hyakkoku works alright in the series, considering that this is his first work after a drought of being left out of anime projects, with the last being Fall 2020's Senyoku no Sigrdrifa a.k.a Warlords of Sigrdrifa. Even the catchy OP by the VAs and Halca's ED also work, though they're good at best and not as memorable as that of Yuru Camp.
At the end of the day, you can draw your own comparisons between mono and Yuru Camp, but I'd like to give the benefit of the doubt that each work is wholly its own, even if they're interchangeable works of the same setting. Both series are good in their own right, but most importantly, try not to associate (or, in simple words, lump) the series with Yuru Camp being the originator for all things that are to love about mono.
An inferior Yuru Camp, but still very good, and that's what matters.
AboAhmed130
✍️My Personal Opinion✍️ A tip before the review: this anime is from the same creator as Yuru Camp. Honestly, if you haven’t watched Yuru Camp, I strongly recommend watching at least one season before Mono. Trust me, it’ll greatly improve your experience. If you don’t like Yuru Camp, you likely won’t like Mono either—and vice versa. Both have a very similar art and storytelling style; the only difference is the characters and plot. Now about Mono—to be honest, it was disappointing. The first episode misleads you. It makes you think the main character is passionate about photography and plans to start a club, but by the endof the anime, the school setting and the club are almost completely forgotten. They only appear in the first and last episodes—very superficially.
The anime is slow and a bit boring—I had to speed it up to 2x just to enjoy it. But don’t let that be your focus, because this anime has a specific purpose and audience, which I’ll explain.
✅Recommended For:
This is key, so pay attention: this anime was designed to show you Japan—every episode is centered around real-life Japanese locations. And I want to thank whoever kept listing the places shown in each episode in the comments—that person made the experience so much better! I recommend checking their comments after every episode.
This anime is for travel lovers, especially those interested in tourism in Japan. A thousand times more about tourism than photography.
Also recommended for:
CGDCT fans
Iyashikei (healing) anime fans
Yuru Camp lovers
Slice-of-life enjoyers
Fans of slow-paced, relaxing anime
🚨Not Recommended For:
If you’re not part of the above groups, don’t bother—it won’t suit you and you’ll likely criticize it heavily.
✍️Conclusion✍️
I’m recommending it despite not liking it personally, because it truly shines in showcasing real locations in Japan. It excels in that one specific area, so I won’t lie and say it’s bad when that part is handled excellently. This anime is made for a specific audience, and it would be unfair to trash it just because it wasn’t for me.
7/10 — I didn’t enjoy it, but I do recommend it to a select group. Have a good watch! And again, thanks to that commenter who made the anime more enjoyable.
FlowMAL
Mono started with tremendous promise, captivating me with its distinctive premise centred around a “cinephoto club” (cinema and photography) and exploring intriguing photographic techniques such as 360-degree cameras and timelapse photography. This fresh concept, combined with occasional slice-of-life and comedic moments, initially set it apart and offered a unique and engaging anime. However, as the show progressed, it gradually shifted its focus away from this promising concept and instead leaned heavily into generic slice-of-life territory, using photography merely as a backdrop rather than the main theme. While the slice-of-life content still had its charm, it lacked the spark the show originally promised. It felt like therewas a significant missed opportunity, considering how strongly the anime had initially established itself in the opening episodes. I found myself wishing they’d returned to the creativity of the early episodes, which felt genuinely inspired.
This shift also impacted character development. The five main characters had distinct, lovable personalities with potential for depth, yet the show didn't fully utilise this. Conversely, the supporting characters were disappointingly two-dimensional and forgettable, significantly detracting from the overall appeal.
Regarding its comedic aspects, Mono generally offered average humour while occasionally providing genuinely funny moments. Many of the slice-of-life scenarios were enjoyable, although certain segments, such as an overly drawn-out video call in episode 7, felt unnecessarily tedious.
Despite these shortcomings, the anime did excel in its music. The opening song was nice, and the ending song was great, complementing the overall mood of the series. The animation and art are also excellent, especially for such a new studio.
Overall, Mono is a decent watch if you're looking for a casual slice-of-life anime, but it falls short of its initial promise. Perhaps my expectations influenced this disappointment, but it remains hard to shake off the feeling that Mono could have been something truly special; it teased greatness but ultimately played it safe.
RobertBobert
Knowing that this manga is another CGDCT from Yuru Camp writer Afro-sensei, you'd probably expect it to be a similarly comfy, heartwarming SoL, perhaps somehow connected to his previous work. Well, Mono delivers on that last point. It's truly a Yuru Camp spin-off. Otherwise, the storytelling, pacing, and aesthetics of this manga are significantly different from Girls Who Love Camping. Despite its somewhat melancholy title, Mono is actually a fairly emotionally diverse, quirkily funny comedy that isn't afraid to experiment. While the first two episodes are more or less reminiscent of "Yuru Camp with camera" theme, this element eventually fades into the background, becoming something ofa connecting but not the main link in the show. The same thing happens with the seemingly light yuri teasing from the first episode, which is smoothed out and disappears so quickly that disconcerted shippers even have to desperately look for its remains in completely chaste other places of the show. Seriously, shipping goggles have long ceased to amaze me, but the search for "obligatory teasing" among any characters who get along with each other has long since become an end in itself.
Instead, the show could offer gastronomic tourist tours (seriously, this show is just full of ads for various places where you can eat deliciously or even drink), a whole series of comedy horror and even... well, I won't try to retell the show to you, watch it yourself and you'll see everything. I will only say that all of the characters are quite unique, funny and memorable, so you will often catch yourself specifically waiting for how this or that character will react to some funny or interesting situation, sometimes even revealing to you previously unknown sides of themselves. Mono may be a huge departure from the original Yuru Camp, but Afro-sensei still maintains a high level of quality in character writing. I've never been a huge fan of CGDCT, as all-female titles aren't my cup of tea, but this show was so good that for the first time I was excited to watch a new episode of all-female anime every week.
What ended up happening was something of a spin-off that was noticeably different from the main story, but at the same time naturally complemented it. Given Yuru Camp's immense popularity, it was clear that Mono's adaptation would be somewhat overshadowed by the expected comparisons. But while you might not get "Yuru Camp from a side view" or "Yuru Camp in a different region", you'll definitely get a lot of fun and cute pleasure from adapting a manga by someone who clearly knows how to draw quality CGDCT. Oh yeah, and as you'd expect from Afro-sensei, any technical or meta issues in this show are handled with 100% authenticity. You could practically use it as a tour guide to summer Yamanashi.
BrotherCoa
I am not gonna lie, this anime was quite strange. But despite that it is one I very much enjoyed watching. Sometimes you do not need action, mystery or pure romance - you need that good slice of life moments to really enjoy life and this anime is offering a lot of it. Animation and sound: very good. The artstyle is quite unique for this anime , if you show me a random shot 10 years from now I would say 'yeah, that's from Mono'. It is very enjoyable to the eyes and animation during some scenes is amazing (like when they were skateboarding during middleof the show). Music is also good, I actually did remember one track - the one that appear when there is some funny scene (like when they poked the cat with cucumber). It has some electric wibe and it was great, it stick to my mind and that praiseworthy enough.
Overall - animation and music are great.
Characters: quite varied. You have three highschool girls who are part of the same club and they go around taking photos and making movies. Then you have three manga artists and finally a motorbike driver. All characters are funny and enjoyable to watch despite all of them being kind of bland. Three highschool girls are your basic anime girls but without any notable trope like school idol, otaku or happy go around. You might argues that Sakurako is kuudere type but she has a lot of warm moments as well to fall just into that category. The others however fall into category of: lazy manga artist, gothic loli manga artist who is into supernatural and a lady who enjoys riding a bike a bit too much. All of them combined do not bring something new or something deep - but what they bring is cheerful interactions as they go from situation to situation over the 12 episodes.
Overall - characters are good and enjoyable. Not as interesting in other anime series but different enough to see what will happen next.
Story: Honestly I am confused here, if you ask me what is the main story of Mono I would struggle to answer giving how random everything is as episodes progress. Imagine Baccano but there is no grand plot that ties them all together in the end. Basically the anime starts with highschool girl Satsuki's sempai graduating and her losing her cool becasue of that (becasue she loves sempai a bit too much...) so in order for club not to be dissolved (since they are lacking members now) and in order to find something other to do in life she decides to merge the photo club with cinema club and make photocinema club. Then after buying a camera online and meeting it's previous owner, the manga artist Haruno, all of them go to various places in order to do random slice of life things. Be it for taking new images, getting inspiration for manga, going on a trip, competing in eating competition, encountering supernatural things etc... Did I mention this show has supernatural things? It is also full of references to other big media and anime/manga.
Overall - story may be all over the place but it is quite enjoyable watch as you never know what will happen from week to week.
Overall grade: 9. Very good slice of life anime.
I would recommend it to other people. Even if you are not slice of life enjoyer with animation and music this good, characters this different and plot this random you are bound to have enjoyable time regardless.
kola_tv
So, the original creator is the same person behind Yuri Camp, which a lot of you seem to love (I haven’t seen it, though). Let’s check the anime’s description—Photo-Kino Club, right? And how much of the show is actually about that? Barely anything. The title starts with one premise, but the plot veers in the complete opposite direction. Some say it’s just Yuri Camp without the camping. So, who’s this anime really about? The schoolgirls in the club? Yeah, right. Instead, the author obsesses over a damn mangaka (basically themselves), making the whole thing way duller. Hell, what’s the main heroine’s name? I don’t even remember—bad sign. Ihaven’t been this bored by a slice-of-life comedy in ages. Episode 7 was pure agony. Our beloved writer just decided to make an entire episode about the mangaka and her mangaka friends. Sounds okay on paper, but in reality? Just a bunch of random conversations and café-hopping. Slice-of-life needs skill to pull off, and this episode proves it. If you introduce characters, at least try to make us care. Oh, and guess what? Episode 6 was also mostly about the mangaka. The actual MC (y’know, the schoolgirl?) is MIA for nearly two whole episodes.
The character interactions? Almost every conversation revolves around the mangaka. Look, I get it, but the schoolgirls are supposed to be the main characters—they should drive the dialogue, not just toss in a line or two. Half the time, it’s just the adults talking while the girls awkwardly chime in.
Now, the technical side? Absolutely stellar. If not for the animators, I’d have dropped this by Episode 7. They’re carrying this mid-tier show on their backs. The cinematography, fluid motion, and occasional sakuga are fantastic. They use creative angles and dynamic shots to keep things visually engaging.
The humor takes a nosedive after the early episodes. At first, the jokes come fast, but later, you’re lucky to get a couple of chuckles per episode.
The ‘mystery’ subplot? Completely out of place. There’s this one supernatural character, but the author stops treating it like a joke or folklore and just… runs with it. Feels like they ran out of ideas for the manga and shoved this in as filler.
Verdict: It’s a fun show with top-tier production, but as a ‘travel through Japan’ anime? Weak. This season’s real travel gem is Zatsu Tabi—no flashy animation, but the backgrounds and atmosphere are gorgeous. Mono gets a 7/10 from me.
Fran
The absolute lack of direction in this one is astonishing. None of the things established on the first episode mattered at all by the next one. It just turned into discount Yuru Camp, focusing on whatever seemed to be most popular with viewers. "Oh yall prefer to watch the catgirl go around the countryside? Let's turn the show into pretty much only that". "Oh yall like the goth manga author? More chapters with her". Now for the sake of argument, let's pretend the first and last episodes just didn't happen. I love me some Yuru Camp, so if you trim the first and last episodes andrebrand this show as Yuru Camp season 4 waiting room, surely it would work out, right? Wrong.
The show lacks the depth that made Yuru Camp so great. Yes, depth in an SoL CGDCT show. With Yuru Camp, there was a real sense of progression and accomplishment. The girls start out with rudimentary equipment and next to no camping knowledge, and by the end they become seasoned campers. They make a conscious effort to learn and practice. There's also a nice "life" progression going on where the equipment that seemed so expensive and out of reach suddenly doesn't seem so anymore after getting a job and having one's own money. Obviously this isn't the main focus of the show, it's not some sort of camping sports anime, but it serves as a strong foundation the show can then use to make it's slow pace and almost non-action look interesting and rewarding to watch.
This one doesn't have any sort of progression at all. The girls don't have to worry about being transportation, accommodation, skill, anything. It's as CGDCT as it gets. And while that + the Japanese countryside would seem like the perfect formula, the reality is that it makes this show hollow. The one redeeming thing is that at least Afro is getting a paycheck out of this, that he best invest back into Yuru Camp.
