Laid-Back Camp Season 4 Sets April 2027 Premiere, Shares New Trailer

The official website for Laid-Back Camp (Yuru Camp), the television anime based on Afro’s manga, unveiled its main trailer and visual on Friday. Both confirm an April 2027 premiere for season four.

The trailer previews three songs:

• Opening theme: “Brand New.” by Asaka
• Ending theme: “Happa no Tegami” (Leaf Letter) by Eri Sasaki
• Overall series theme: “Tonari ni Ireba” by Kiminone

The returning cast includes:

• Yumiri Hanamori as Nadeshiko Kagamihara
• Nao Tōyama as Rin Shima
• Sayuri Hara as Chiaki Ōgaki
• Aki Toyosaki as Aoi Inuyama
• Rie Takahashi as Ena Saitō
• Tomoyo Kurosawa as Ayano Toki
• Maria Sashide as Ema Mizunami
• Kokoa Amano as Mei Nakatsugawa
• Akio Ōtsuka as Narrator

Shin Tosaka returns from season three to direct at FuRyu Pictures, which replaces the previous season’s studio, 8-Bit. Pierre Sugiura, also known as Masafumi Sugiura, again handles the series scripts.

Ryūta Ura replaces Hisanori Hashimoto as character designer. Ura’s key animation credits include Demon Slayer – Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Mugen Train and the Fate/stay night: Heaven’s Feel film trilogy.

Akiyuki Tateyama returns to compose the music, while Takeshi Takadera returns as sound director.

The website also announced these additional staff members:

• Cooking Design: Kōichi Motomura
• Prop Design: Masateru Inada
• Color Key Artist: Nanako Okazaki
• Art Director: Masatoshi Muto
• Background Art: Studio Jack
• Compositing Director of Photography: Yūta Katayama
• CG Director: Kazuto Furuya
• Offline Editing: Akinori Mishima (Mishima Editing Room)
• Music Production: MFIVE
• Sound Production: HALF H·P STUDIO
• Animation Producer: Sōta Machiguchi

The first anime season premiered in January 2018. Crunchyroll streamed its 12 episodes as they aired and also streamed an English dub. Season two followed in January 2021.

The anime film opened in July 2022 and began streaming on Crunchyroll in November 2022. A live-action television adaptation of the original manga premiered in January 2019.

The anime also inspired MAGES’ Yurucamp Have a Nice Day!, which launched for PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch in November 2022.

Gemdrops released two VR games: Laid-Back Camp - Virtual - Lake Motosu (Yurucamp Virtual Camp Motosuko-hen) in March 2021, and Laid-Back Camp - Virtual - Fumoto Campsite (Yurucamp Virtual Camp Fumoto Camp Jō-hen) in April 2022.

Laid-Back Camp All-in-one!!, the franchise’s first smartphone game, launched worldwide in June 2023. Cozy Trail Games’ smartphone puzzle game Laid-Back Camp: Puzzle Camp (Yurukyan△ Puzzle Camp) followed in July 2024.

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