Camping 101 Starring: cute girls Weve had cute girls sailing to Antarctica Further than the Universe cute girls in the apocalypse Girls Last Tour cute girls singing dancing and playing instruments anime like KOn LoveLive And Hibike Euphonium and just cute girls doing nothing whatsoever Lucky star and Yuyushiki. Now we have cute girls going camping. It literally does what it says on the packet. Its a very relaxed sliceoflife anime about camping including all the aspects you would expect to see in a camping anime. It goes into great detail about the campsites they visit the equipment they use everything from how they buy it to how they set it up the food they make which by the way looks amazing and will make you hungry if you watch it before eating and the way they bond through camping together. I learnt enough about camping from this one anime that assuming I ever wanted to go I would know exactly how to prepare and what to do. And its nice to watch. Its very slow paced each episode generally consists of planning and executing a different camping trip. The art and animation are fantastic the scenery in particular is drawn absolutely beautifully. All the right colours and tones are used to convey the autumnlike feeling perfectly. The sound also fits the mood of the anime to a T. There are five main characters although the story mainly focusses on two of them. Rin is the silent one who enjoys the peace and quiet of camping alone. She doesnt tend to socialise much and this is what makes her friendship with the outgoing and talkative Nadeshiko endearing to watch. You get to know Rin through her actions the way her face lights up when she sips a hot cocoa the way she stares at a gorgeous view like shes trying to devour it the way she cares about her friends despite sometimes acting like theyre a nuisance to her. Shes very relatable as a character and thats part of why I liked the anime so much. Nadeshiko as mentioned before is the talkative one. Shes also the clumsy energetic and downright adorable one. Shes the type of girl who injects life into the anime and helps speed up the pace when it becomes too snaillike. Her becoming friends with Rin is essentially the premise of the anime they meet by chance on a camping site and in the way of anime find out they go to the same school together. She and Rin are a lot like chalk and cheese apart from their love of camping they couldnt be more different. However their friendship blossoms nonetheless and by the end of the anime theyve formed a solid relationship. The other main characters are relatively enjoyable to watch although they arent as developed as Rin and Nadeshiko. Aki and Aoi are girls in the same camping club as Nadeshiko and Ena is a friend of Rins whos persuaded to come along for the ride. Apart from camping the anime mainly shows them in school going shopping working and just hanging out together. Nothing exciting or even particularly interesting but their interactions are mildly humorous very lighthearted and always cute. The series shows how they each react to the camping aspect and what each of them actually enjoys about camping. For some its the peace for some its the food and for some its the companionship. Regardless after watching this I felt I would probably enjoy camping too for one reason or the other. Now although I said this anime was nice to watch I wouldnt call it entertaining. Its more like you feel contented with the world after watching it. I had to be in a certain frame of mind to see it when I was in the mood for something fastpaced and thrilling I watched another anime. So if youre looking for something tranquil something cute and relaxing this is a good choice. If youre not then Id give this one a miss until you are. XD