Hello, and welcome to our weeps area. An exploration in an education and anime. I'm your anime idiot, patrick dugan.
I'm an anime expert, dana hollander.
And I'm brenda mccullough. Your anime sniper on point B. Because I'm a camper.
Because you're a camper.
It's a csco reference.
Okay, I get it.
I played Call of Duty.
I picked the term.
Csco is a thing that happens.
Battlefield, right?
Yeah, that's it.
Videos game.
Got them. Shoot them off. Which is exactly the opposite tone of what our show is this week.
Yeah.
Dana, what do we got going on?
First pick after the four kids of thawn, baby.
Oh, God. These shackles. We can take them off.
Here we go. Yeah. It's like the end of aladdin when the genie is freed. I'm going to go to Disney World.
Oh, God, we forgot to have koi fria's after that last episode.
Oh, no. I was thinking of, like, the weighted armor for Dragon Ball Z. And you take it off you wear it when you're training and you take it off and you can move faster. The weights are gone.
Yeah, or like that one scene from naruto that I've seen.
Rock Lee.
Same concept.
Anyway, yeah, broccoli. Yes. I figured it would be a good idea to pick something seemingly pretty chill, pretty slice of lifey. We're watching laid back camp.
Oh, it's a good name already.
Right in the title. Yeah.
I'm sorry, did that chill Vibe just commented? It's in my room. Did it join you as well?
My autumn scented candle just lit itself.
I am already in baja shorts. It's just nice to survive.
But, yeah, I think Paul told me about this one. It's usually where I hear about anime.
Checks out our intern, Paul.
Yeah, I googled and the manga, I guess, started in 2015 and the anime was on in winter of 2018, so it's pretty fresh.
Fresh chill.
We viben out here.
We Viben.
Vibe. Vibing listeners in 100 years from now can easily date when we record these episodes by what slang we're using that week.
Honestly, by the time this one comes out, vibing will probably be, like, out the window.
It's already gone.
It's already over.
Hey, vibes are forever, baby. That's why I invested all my money into Vibes.
Oh, man. It could be dirty to say you invested your money in Vibes.
It's still a good vibe. It's just a different place.
It's just a different kind of good Vibe energy.
We need to be chill.
I'm so sorry.
I have to diversify my portfolio, so I invested in both.
To show your chill. But you're also a little risky.
Little frisky chill, but also love the thrill.
Oh, yeah. Shit.
Can you tell we're excited to not be talking about working?
I feel like I'm glowing.
It's not bad because we still got some good runs out of it, but it's like my apartment, and on the weekends, I have the choice to go anywhere I want, and then I'm locked up in my hole for like, 14 hours a day. And it's like, I don't utilize that freedom, but I like having it.
Well, have either of you heard of Laid Back Camp or no.
No, I cannot say I have. But I'm interested.
Okay. Fun.
Yeah. It's going to be a new experience for all of us, but it's going to be a good CoV experience.
Nothing too famous.
Should we all just turn on ASMR voice for the rest of this? Is that what we're doing?
Welcome back to my channel. Welcome back to my channel. We're kind of just too stuck. You like that? You got those goodier tangles.
Okay, let's watch them.
We're going to watch the first three episode. That crisp breeze, that lonely lake. I got the camping bug.
Very appropriate time of year.
Extremely seasonal.
I was worried with the title Laid Back Camp that it was going to have strong summer vibes. But this is such a fall show.
I love it.
Especially for how us being in the shitty concrete city, it's like, ooh, the wilderness. The nice relaxing call of nature.
We live in a hellscape that's on fire.
This is nice.
This is dreamy. This is absolutely dreamy.
I don't like actual camping, but I love anime camping. I love camping through huawei anime girls, honestly.
Same. Let's talk about it.
Camping by proxy.
So episode one, we start out and there are some girls chilling around a campfire toasting marshmallows, just chatting, having a nice time. Vibing, if you will.
I will. Not anymore.
That's the last time we're saying it this episode.
Listeners.
The listeners are lucky.
Yeah.
They didn't hear the 30 times we said vibing in the break.
Here's a fun little drinking game for are we there yet? Take a shot. Every time we say viben. Don't. You will hurt. You're probably already drunk by now.
So that's happening. And then we get like, a shot of all of them, and they're just all very cute and very sweet looking gals, all bundled up into warmth. And then we get the opening and I like the song. Like, the song is something that I would listen to, but the visuals are not excellent.
Yeah, it's weird. It sort of feels like very infographic slapped together on an old computer program. Sort of just like panning around like painted backgrounds.
Yeah, it's very much the graphic design is my passion. meme, like. Not great looking.
Yeah.
But the song is very nice.
The song is nice. Very cute.
Yeah. So we come back from the opening and there's a cute girl with blue hair and she's biking up a mountain around a mountain. Yeah, it's very pretty. The scenery is very pretty.
A lot of scenic shops.
Yeah. All of the autumn trees. Love it.
Those good things. Our bodies crave that we do not get in the city.
Yeah.
Trees, nature, oxygen.
And she stops at a point. And she looks out to see Mount fuji. And sadly, the top is obscured by clouds. And that's when she looks at her phone and it says that it's November 4. And it was that moment that I was just like, oh, man, I'm going to love this. I'm going to love this show. How crazy would it have been if we watched it on November 4, though? That would have blown my mind.
We're pretty close. I think it's the most topical we've gotten to the setting of the show.
Yeah, we're within the week as of recording.
Yeah, that's true. So she keeps biking after that. And she stops at what I thought was a bus stop. It turns out she's heading to a campground. And this is like the campground bathroom. And she sees a girl just snoozing on a bench.
Shoe hug. Shoe hug. Shoe snoring. That's a snoring.
I got it.
Thank you for elaborating.
Yeah. clarifying. And she's just like, it's cold out here. That girl's going to catch a cold. And then she just bikes away. Oh, well, I'm not going to bother her. And then she checks in at, like, the campground check in place.
You've been camping, camp.
And then she rides her bike. She rides off to her campsite. And as she's riding, a guy walks into the building. And the guy who checks her in explains to him that she usually comes here around this time of year because the guy who's walking into the building is like she seems kind of young.
To be by herself, especially for fall camping. What?
All of Sea nani.
Nani.
And she rides down to a lake. And it's very nice. It's a very nice view of Mount fuji from this lake.
Very beautiful. Yeah.
A solid 70% of the show is just like scenic shots with no dialogue. And it is excellent.
It's very appreciated after four kids, which crammed every microsecond screen time with dialogue.
Yeah. And she is all alone at this campsite. She's like, great. I love the off season. And she sets up camp. And during this little montage of her setting up her tent and all that stuff, this music is playing. And I love the music in this show because it's very animal crossing, very harvest moon. I love it. It's also very chill, like renaissance fair vibes as well. Oh, shit. I said it again.
Put a quarter in the vibe, Joe.
I'm sorry, but I love the music. I love acoustic and string music. It just chills me out, like folky.
Yeah.
This is a very solid show to nap, too.
Absolutely.
I was happy we watched it earlier in the day because I'm like, if this is around, like 08:00 P.m. Or something, I'd be gone. I'd be asleep.
I'd be snoozing, snooze cruise. So she set up and seeing my note I wrote, she's so capable all on her own. And it's great. She has her tent and then she has, like, a little chair, and then she sits and reads. And I love this part. This is just this little thing where she like I don't know if she talks about getting cold, but she takes out one of those little hot packs that you shake and then hold in your hands, and she just has it. It's cute. I don't know. It's the little things.
Yeah.
And she remarks that it is getting cold, but she doesn't want to make a fire because it takes too much work. And also she'll end up smelling like.
Smoke, which is the most delightful smell in the world. So I don't know why she's complaining.
People really like the smell of a campfire.
My favorite scent, I enjoy it as.
A passive scent, but if it's an overbearing, like, the smoke is just pouring into my face from the fire. Not a fan of that.
I was a camping boy growing up. Just like the scent on your jacket, and then once you return home, it's still on your jacket. So every time you go outside, you're like, oh, I'm still cozy from the camp fire days later.
That sounds so nice.
I love camping.
You weren't a big.
My white boy is showing. I love camping.
Go camping. But she gives in, and she goes to find firewood. And at this particular campsite, you can just go around and find the things you need for a fire. And we find out some fun tips.
Well, camping tips from, like, this narrator.
Man voice she, like, picks up a pine cone. First of all, the pine cone goes, hello, which is so good.
And it continues on for multiple episodes where it's just like, oh, there's a pine cone.
Hello.
And that's it. It's not like it's sent to it. It just makes this weird. It just says hello when you pick it up.
Yeah, it's adorable. And the man talks about how pine cones make very good kindling because they burn fast or something like that.
They burn well, yeah, they're aerated. But it's also usually dried out so the fire can spread.
All yeah.
You got to find I loved that they were dropping legitimate camping tips in this show. It's so good.
So good. And then he talks about firewood again, like, find the dryer wood, the better. And then she finds a bunch and she chops it into smaller pieces. And after she makes the fire, she heads to the bathroom, and the girl is still sleeping there, but she's moved.
She's slugged around a bit.
Yeah. And then after she gets back to her camp, there's like, more little tips on how to start a camp fire. Oh, no, she doesn't make the fire yet. She makes it when she gets back. Whatever. She makes a fire.
Yeah.
And it's at this point we find out her name is Rin because her friend texted her and said, hey, Rin, where'd you go this weekend? And Rin sends a picture of Mount fuji. And her friend is like, oh, neat. That's a nice place. And then she sends her a picture of her dog with the text, don't catch a cold.
I love it in my notes. I just have it, like, in all caps. Her friend sends a very good cuddly pup pic. And this is a very good show.
Yes, excellent. And after that, she just keeps hanging out, reading into the night. And then we get a scene of a girl in a house with glasses, and she's like, oh, where's she gone? Like, why isn't she home yet? And I thought that she was talking about Rin. And I'll leave it at that for now. Mystery. And now it's dark, and Rin gets back up to go to the bathroom again, and the girl isn't there anymore. And she's like, I guess she left. And then she turns around to see the girl standing there crying. And Rin freaks out and runs away. And the pink girl. Pink girl? That's what I put in my notes. The girl with pink hair.
No, my notes just had pink because her name is said like her name twice.
Yeah.
And it's a hard name.
Her name is going to be Pink in the show. Yeah.
Actually, let's do this now. At the bumper, at the end of the third episode, they say, hey, we're going to give you a nickname. fujiko. So let's call her that.
Fujiko.
That's what the nickname was. Okay. Yeah, fujiko.
She's chasing Rin down, and she's like, Wait, no, don't leave. And she goes back with her to her camp. And Rin finds out that fujiko was there to see Mount fuji. And she biked up, but she got too tired, so she fell asleep. And when she woke up, it was dark. And then Rin is like, why don't you call someone to come pick you up? And then fujiko is like, I don't know where my phone is. And then Rin offers to share some ramen with her. And she's like, oh, really? And then Rin says, 15 books. She's like she, like, extends her hand. She has a ¥100 piece. And she's like, I'll give it to you in 15 payments PayPal shows. Very sweet. But she's kidding. She gives her ramen, and she sets it up. She sets up her little camping stove thingy. And fujiko is, like, really impressed by Rin and her camping skill. And then they start eating these cup noodles. And I was like, wow, cup noodles always look so good in anime. And then Rin is, like, watching fujiko eat, and she has the thought, wow, she really makes that look delicious.
Yeah, fujiko is just going to town on it.
Yeah, slurping them up. Thank you. And then after they eat, there's a moment where fujiko thinks about how small Rin is.
I think so tiny or opposite way?
Thinking that Rin thinking that we only really get rin's thoughts in this episode.
That's why I was confused.
It's very one sided at this point.
I thought it was fujiko thinking that about Rin.
I don't know.
One of them is thinking the other one's tiny, but they're the same size.
They're equally tiny.
And then ren asks her where she came from and fujiko says the name of a town. And Rin is like, dang, that's really far.
It's way down the back.
Yeah. And then fujiko says again, well, I came to see Mount fuji, but now it's too cloudy. And then at that moment, she's facing Rin, and Rin is facing Mount fuji, and the clouds part. And Rin is like, oh, well, turn around. Look at that. And then you could see Mount fuji in the moonlight. And it was so nut. Such a nice moment. It was so romantic. I loved it. This shows gay as hell in my mouth.
Ugly. I'm like and this is when two characters fall in love. Absolutely.
And then she turns around to Ryan and she's like, oh, I just remembered my sister's phone number.
Fuji inspired me. Brain cells.
It was written in the sky.
And then Rin lets her borrow her cell phone and her sister comes and picks her up. And her sister is the one that we saw before. It wasn't Rin's sister, it was fujiko's sister.
Mystery solved.
Mystery solved. And to thank Rin, she gives her a bag of kiwis. That's pretty funny.
I don't know if this is ever supposed to be a thing or if it's like a pun or something, but it's never explained of like, oh, this is why I have kiwis. Here you go, here's some kiwis. Okay.
I have so many, just a lot of kiwis.
And then before they drive kiwis for free weeds. I had to justify it somehow. Anyway, sorry, continue.
And before they go, fujiko runs out of the car and she gives her in her phone number and she wrote her name on it. Her real name is nadeshiko, which is long. And I wrote chico the one other time that I wrote it down, but fujiko fujiko. So she gives her a phone number and then she says that they should go camping together again sometime. And I'm like, that's gay.
This is gay, camping on the first date. Okay, all right.
Overnight. And then they're writing home and she asks her older sister if they have camping stuff because she wants to see Mount fuji at night again. But as she's saying that, there's like a shot of Rin. And I was just like, oh my goodness. Oh, my God. Love is in the air.
What's going on here?
And then we get another part where she's going to school. fujiko is going to school for the first time because they just moved there. So she's going to her new high school.
Shit, I forgot to do the bingo card. Transfer student.
Transfer student.
And there's more nice scenery as she goes to school. She like, bikes there and then takes a train. And then she's walking there, and surprise, they don't interact. But we do find out that they do go to the same school.
They just pass by each other.
Yeah. And then there's a funny scene of two girls talking about their ideal tent. And they talk about how it'll be warmed and it'll have a stable roof, so if it rains, everything's okay. And then they're like, Wait, that's just a Kotasu table. And I was like, that's funny. That's a good joke.
That's the ideal tent, though.
It's true. And that's episode one.
Yeah. Oh, God, such a good show.
Very good. Very good so far.
So episode two opens up with a rin reading out reading an outdoor cooking book, saying she's getting a little sick of ramen. So she wants to figure out how to cook meals when she's out there. Something besides just boiled noodles. But fujiko did make it look good. So she's like, I don't know, maybe I'll stick with the ramen.
A bit chewed, girl made noodles look good.
I mean, I didn't think the show was gay when I was watching it, but saying it out loud, yeah.
Shit'S, Craig, everything's gay if you need it to be.
It's like Mark hamill says about Luke skywalker. If you think he's gay, he's gay. If you think this is gay, it's gay.
He already tried making out what the sister wants. He's into some different taste. As she's thinking, hold on, hold on.
You can't compare that to being gay. That's terrible.
You know, I don't think about what I say, you know, I just spit it out and move on.
I just want to acknowledge it.
I will acknowledge it. Yes. I will acknowledge it was inappropriate, no.
Ill intent, but watch yourself count.
If I have to start watching my mouth now, I'll have to do it in real life. And I can't handle that responsibility. Anyway, as she's thinking about fujiko and the noodles, she's like, oh, yeah, maybe she looks at her phone. She's like, yeah, maybe I'll call her next time. Maybe we'll go camping again. And as she's looking down at her phone, Fujigo is running by like, I'll buy. Because she's just a literal golden retriever and a human body just so excited. She can't handle it. So she's running down the hall, like through school. And then we see she's running around in school. We get different shots of that. And she runs up to the outdoors Club. She's like, oh boy, oh, boy, oh, boy. And throws open the door and it's empty. No one's in there. And it's a very narrow room, though. It's probably like a person wide width. And then like a bookshelf. And that's it. And it's just a very long corridor. So she's like, oh, wow. It's a small room, very narrow. And while she's there, she's just looking through the bookshelf and seeing everything that's there. We got a few camping books and a few magazines about camping gear and some firewood in there. Just a bunch of different supplies and random little cubby holes. And while she's looking through it, we see one of the club members we saw in the last episode open up the door and then slammed that door because there's a stranger in my proximity and I don't like it. So she's, like, peeking back through to the door like, what are you doing? Are you a thief? What are you getting at? What's happening? And they come back in, and the other club member walks up and they create her. And they find out. The initial club member, she's got the purple hair pictures, glasses, or nicknames aki. But she's got bluish hair and glasses. So that's the eat of the episode.
Yes, that's what I have in my notes.
I actually got her name, so I'll call her by her name. But for the show's purposes, that's the eda. So they're talking to fujiko and they say, like, oh, I'm aki. This is A. So they introduced themselves. So there are only two members of the Outdoors Club. And fujiko talks about Ran and her experience and everything they did. She said. Oh. What about Ran? Is she not a member? She's like, no, she's kind of, like solo. She's kind of like the lone wolf of camping. And she's like, oh, well, I was thinking about joining the Outdoors Club. And hockey is like, no, we can't have it. It's too cramped as it is. And holly boys are outside of like, yo, what the fuck? More people means more budget means bigger space. And hockey immediately turns like, oh, great. Welcome to the club.
We wanted you so bad.
I was just being coy teasing you. And then they welcome to the club. And they're like, oh, great. And as they're welcoming trickles, like, oh, welcome. They throw their hands up and they're already hitting each other. Like hitting each other in the gut. Or like, oh, God, it's already too cramped. There's a few moments, especially in this episode, where I'm like, oh, this show is, like, just very cute. But I got some genuine laughs out of the show, which caught me a very off guard. I was surprised by that. So they welcome her to the club and they say, having a small room is fine because we mostly do stuff outside because it's the Outdoors Club, thus the name. And they go aside for a bit and look around like, oh, boy. We usually do, like, bonfires on the school property. We rig a bubble lease for them and they let us burn like a little campfire and have some coffee. It's very nice forgetting the name, hitting that point. What's? Pink Fujika?
Pink fujiko.
Fujika. There you go. I'm hit my limit.
Too many times.
I've said it too much. It's slowly erasing it.
Oh, I said a japanese name correctly. I got to forget it or mess it up somehow.
Can't have this.
I got to start calling her Amy.
She think.
I would do that? Don't, fujiko.
That's a threat.
Fujiko. Okay, we got to be chill. Chill. fives shit. Put it in the Five jar.
All the money we raise apart all.
The money we raised in the Five jar is what we're going to use to go camping with. And so she's like, oh, we can't do it because we just had a bonfire the other day. And it's like, damn it. So they go back to the club club room and just start looking through the books and the magazines they have and food girls looking at him. It's like, oh, wow, look at these tents. And like, oh, what's this? And they teach her a little bit about the different kinds of tents there are and like, what you have to do to set them up and stuff. And she's like, oh, man, I can't wait to go camping. And aki is like, why don't you keep looking at those tents? She's like, 5000, 6000, ¥8000, ¥10,000. And she's like, oh, God. She's like, yeah, gears.
They were even more than that, buddy.
Oh, yeah, it just it got up.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
They said the highest one was like 80,000.
Yeah, 82,000. Lowest was 39,000. jeez, I remember numbers. It's a curse.
It's a burden. So, yeah, aki is like, yeah, gear is expensive, so you got to prep and you got to work to do your activity to earn it, basically. And she says, on the bright side, I got this tent dirt cheap. And it's like ¥980, which is like, what, $9? Like $10, $10. And she's like, It's great because it came in the off season, so we couldn't use it during the summer. But now we can use it now. And they run outside and prep that tent to get practice in setting up the tent as a group. And then while they go run outside, we see Rin is in the classroom or like, library, and she looks out the window and sees fujiko is out there. She's like, oh, fuck. fujiko is a class to me. Like, she's in the school. My worlds are colliding. I wasn't prepping for this. And while she's there, she's reading a book and her friend is doing her hair. And she's like, oh, we saw in the first episode she had her hair up in, like a very tight bun. But normally she has very long hair. So we see her friend doing it for her. And as she's doing it, she's like, look, I made a bear out of her hair.
Bear hair.
Very impressive.
So good.
This show is so good.
And Rain is just like, knock it off. Put it the way I like it. And while they're doing that, they see them sending the club, setting the tent up outside. And Rin's friend is like, oh, it looks like they're having some trouble. It looks like one of the poles they had to set up. The tent snapped. And she's like, oh, yeah, that happens. Usually you just send it back to the manufacturer. But sometimes you can find a fitting that only can join. The two pieces are broken and you can tape it up for, like an emergency hold if if it breaks, like, while you're out camping. And at that moment, rinse friend, like, holds out the fitting. I was like, oh, is this it? She's like, yeah. How? What?
Why?
And she's like, oh, I just happened to find it. Lost and found. And I just happened to take it. Convenient.
A likely story.
She can see the future.
I guess. Her friend is also a big camper, so she might have just gotten it for Rin. And she's like, oh, you can go give it to them. And then you can teach them how to use it and help them out because you're a big outdoorsy person. Rin is just like, no. She's like, Jesus. Okay, Rin, calm down. Just very nonplussed about having to interact with the outdoors club because she likes camping by herself. She likes her alone time, so she doesn't want to do it. So her friend, who we find out around this time is saito. Is that how it's pronounced?
Yeah, I think so.
Saito goes out and say, all right, well, I'll go give it to him and help him out.
Yes, it is sado. Sorry, I had it in my notes somewhere. I had to find it.
Yeah. And at this point, we see sato go outside and give them the fitting. And we see her helping them out. And they tape it all up. And they're like, yeah, it works. And the club starts asking saido about where she found out, are you a big camper? She's like, no, but my friend is Rain. She's right over there and just fucking calls her out right in front of everybody. No. And it's at this point fujiko sees her. That's Rain. That's my camp friend. That's my friend I made at camp. Oh, boy, oh, boy, oh, boy. That's my girlfriend. And she's just like a dog, gets so excited because running straight for Rain and hits her face right into the glass. And I got a good chuckle out of me because she's just, like, sliding against the window like, Rin my friend. It's just so excited. And then we cut to a shot of cuts away to Rin riding up, going off on another weekend to camp. And this time it's a different place. It's like a big grassy field underneath Mount fuji. So not at the lake.
Beautiful. Stunning.
Expensive.
She says it's more of a popular location, so it costs more. And it's a beautiful view. But then because it's on a field of grass, you can't do a campfire. If you do, you have to buy or. Rent a campfire stands. And then you have to, I think, also, like, pay for the firewood. And she's doing all the math. She's like, well, no fire this time. Going to just sleep in her sleep bag.
It's all just die.
Just roll over.
I'll die. That's fine.
Very possible in the outdoors. And because it's a popular place, there's also more campers. We see. But because the field is so big, she has plenty of space. But someone's camping. She's like, all right, time to do. Time to put that outdoor cooking book to use and make some meals, like outside, except there were no markets on the way up here, so I have no food. So ramen again. And it's around this time when she's setting up. I said it once. saito, saito. Thank you. texture. Like, hey, how's your camping trip going? Send me a picture if you can. And she says, I really enjoyed this part. This is the one that really got me. While she's texting saito, she's like, oh, and bring me back some food. And then it's just like, no, fine. I released some bears, like lions and tigers in the CAMPFIELD camping site. So you'll be killed because you won't bring me food. And written, like, text back, like, what you did. What? Starts matching the keys, like she's being attacked. And then she takes back like, good, now I'm dead. Are you happy? Excited? Text back like, well, you didn't bring me any food, so I starved. Dead. So I'm also dead now. But then during the text conversation, there are little avatar icons. Get halos after that.
It was so good.
This is some true I can envision myself having this conversation with my best friend.
I love it. It was a very genuine conversation. It wasn't like stock dialogue genuine.
That's what I was looking for.
And they had also just a very cute little back and forth with like and then they get Halos afterwards. It's like, oh, this show is good. This is a good show.
This is a good show.
Camping is good, but not real camping. Like anime camping is good. And then Rand starts doing the math on everything she'd have to buy for the campgrounds because it's like a popular one. She's like, yeah, no, I'm going for a hike. I'm going to make use of the camping permit I already had to pay for. So do the free option. And as she's walking around, she finds, like, the bathrooms. And she finds, like, an old barn. And it takes a picture and sends it to sato. Find some dogs, some good old dogs. And two shiba e news who are like they got some ropes around them because they're you know, they're buying a house. They're not out in the wilderness, but they're by a house. And she sees the dogs, and they see her. So they go running towards her. And then the one dog stops at the end of its rope, and it's right in front of rin. And she gets, like, a little smirk like, ha, can't get me now. And the other dog just bolts into her song and takes her out.
It's also made me laugh out loud.
I got a good chunk of that because it's so unexpected. So she's playing with the dogs for a bit and get some pictures and sends them to sato. And it's at this point we see sido looking through her phone and looking through the conversation of pictures. She's like, oh, maybe I'll go camping. This looks really nice. It's like, oh, look, dogs. And she looks at her dog. I didn't write the dog's name down, but it's like, big old fluffy chihuahua looking dog. And she's like, oh, maybe you will go camping. Would you like to go camping, buddy? And he just looks at her dead in the eyes. It's just, like, smirking the whole time. It's like and then lays back down.
Just like, nah, man, I'm an indoor dog.
Yeah, secure out of your mind.
I don't get my paws dirty.
I'm all cozy right now. I ain't going outside. And she's like, fine, you're not like the outdoorsy type of dog, but maybe we'll go for a walk. And a dog jumps up like a walk, and it's like, all right. She's like, god, what a selfish dog. You only want to do what's good for you. And she goes to the balcony. She's like, it's so beautiful. Hope cold. Never mind. And shuts the door and just goes back inside and snuggles up with the dog. So she takes a picture of her dog, like, laying on a green blanket and sends it to rin. She's like, look, he's a hot dog.
He's a hot dog. He's a hot dog.
This is so good. And it's also a way to transition back from sido to Rain. And it's like, oh, that's well done. That's just good show writing.
Very good.
So we cut back to rain, and she's, like, laughing at the pictures and enjoying her book. And then it cuts back to Fujico, who's talking to rent, flashbacks to when Fujiko finds out Ryan goes to her school. So she's talking to her like, oh, you can join our club. How great would that be? You're already a camper. And Ryan does the disgusted face again. I'm like, clubs. So she's just like, oh, maybe not. Maybe you don't want to join it's. While Ryan is remembering the sequence, she's still hearing fujiko's voice in her head, like, ring, ring. It's getting louder. She's like, no, I don't want to join your club. And it's at that moment she opens her eyes and sees Fujiko is there. She found her because she's her stalker. She's her girlfriend. She knows where she is at all times.
She's got that location on.
And she's like, why are you here? She's like, oh, I brought food. We can get hot pot. Let's make hot pot together. She's like, how did you find me? She's like, oh, sido, something in your location. It's just like, that bitch, but, like, not aggressive. The show is fun, wants them to date. She's the wing woman setting you up. And it's when we see food go, has like, a bunch of food. She's like, we're making that hot pot, and it's going to be baller. And just kind of like high energy, but not like excessive, but clearly much more than rizzi Sue, especially on a camping trip. And then, yeah, I think it cuts there. This threw me off until the third episode. So we get credit sequence of shots of them all camping, and we see Food go and rent, which is like, oh, we just saw them, so that makes sense. And the credits went over. The show continued while the credits were going over it in the first episode. So I thought that's how they would always go. So I was like, oh, it's their camping. And then it cuts to two members of the Outdoors Club, a tent in sleep bags with another member. So I was like, oh, are they also there? And then it cuts them all out, sitting outside of their tents, and Fujiko is falling asleep. And then the next morning it shows them out like a sunrise altogether. And it's side tow, Fujiko, all the three members of the group of the club. So I'm like, oh, they all showed up for something. This is just like the standard end sequence when it did throw me off for a while until the third episode.
Yeah, especially with that first one being like, a continuation.
Yeah, cute song as always. Very cute. A woo.
It is very cute.
And we get the little end credit sequence where it's called like, Room Camp. And it's just them in the Outdoors Club, like, having a little mochi syrup snack. And it's aki teaching them how the right way to eat it. And they're like, oh, yeah, we've been saving these. Like, here you go. We can like, all share in it. And as aki and Ali are, like, finishing theirs oh, man, that's really good. They look down and all the food is gone. Like, all the snacks are gone. What the and it's just food, chico. She's the eater. She's the foodie of the group and has no control.
Same.
It's our burden today.
It's not my fault food is too tasty.
Something I really liked, though, in this episode was that when she was thinking about when Fujiko asked her to join the club, she had this moment of like, I feel bad. I didn't mean to convey that on my face. I'm just, like, bad at hiding it. Yeah, so she was like, dang, maybe I should have invited her. And that's when she hears the voice in her head, and she's like, okay, I get it. I feel bad.
Yeah, it was some good self reflection. For a camping cup of anime that a lot of anime could use. That level of reflection.
I loved it.
It's so good that the most conflict we had was my tone was a little harsh.
I could have said that better.
She could tell that I didn't want to join the club.
Thank you. I'm not good at hiding my expressions and lying to people like that's. The conflict.
So cute.
Polite rejection.
Oh, no. That's a challenge.
She has done this.
But yeah, we pick up in episode three. We get the preparation that Fujiko puts into crashing this camping trip. She's looking through her like, shed and finds a tent after digging and having everything fall on her. But she opens it up and it's like an open sided tent you would put at a beach or sort of more of an awning than a tent. She's like, oh, I'm going to freeze.
To death with this.
So she convinces her sister to give her a ride and basically camp out with her.
Her sister is so nice, though. There's never a moment where she's just like, ugh, my little sister. She's always just like, for sure.
She has a couple of moments where she's like, that's about as much negativity.
Yeah, she always does it because she loves her. I love it.
It's the kind of character I really love where it's like, hey, sister, can you go drop me off into the campsite? And we later find out, like, she drops her off and then we'll have to come back so it's not just a one day drop off thing. And her sister does it without any begrudging. She's like, yeah, I'll do it. I'll do you favors. But it's like, I'm going to tease you though, when she picks go up the first time, you'll idiot. why'd you get lost? Like, you should have known better. You should take your better care of yourself. And clearly it's coming from a place of love. But she is still, like, hitting her bit and throwing her in the car. Like, get in there. I'm taking you home. But then anytime Fuchiko asks her to do a favor, she'll do it. And she's there first. But she'll give her a little shit for it. And I really love those characters.
I love it.
So sweet.
So we get a sweet little road trip sequence. I only wrote it in my notes, so I'm putting it here. Chill road trip vibes.
Yeah.
I Venmoed it. So gets dropped off at the camp site and starts looking for rin. And that links up where we left off last episode. So they're all together. She has all her food and she's setting up a hot pot. And when rin is like, hey, so what are you going to do? Because night is falling and it's cold. I'm not really inviting you into my tent. So what's your plan here, kids?
As much as she wants, that's for episode five.
But yeah, fujiko is like, oh, yeah, my sister, she's going to be back around nine. We'll sleep in the car and then go from there.
I love it.
Just so sweet.
So sweet.
Good family values.
So she starts getting cold and rin offers the warming packs. They're the sticky kind. So we get like a little tutorial on where is the best place to put these heating pads. If you're out in the cold, on the base of your neck and your stomach and your back. It's like anywhere with thick veins. Wear a jacket over it. Don't just rely on that idiot.
Got to be all cozy. Yeah.
So, yeah, now she's super cozy. She's all warm real quick.
I even like just the narrator who does the little camping tips. Just sounds like a soft spoken grandfather, but who's had like he's lived, so he's like he had a hard life, but now he's like calm and hello, children. Just do this. Hello.
I know how to survive because I've been through some shit.
Yeah, it's just all very good.
So we go back into town for a minute. We see aki, our eda friend, playing for a job at a liquor store.
Eda would never work at a liquor store. That's shame.
Oh, my goodness.
Also confusing how they're allowing high schoolers to work at liquor stores.
Questionable, because it wasn't just like a liquor store. It was like a bev mo.
Yeah, it was like a, like warehouse.
Yeah, like a beer distributor in, like, Pennsylvania where they got just like a huge shipping house that's just for you. Yeah, sorry. It's immediately what I thought of when I saw it.
God. idiot, won't you camp in Pennsylvania?
Idiot. Don't. It's not great. That's where the blurring happens.
Fair enough.
Great.
Yeah.
But yeah, aki is all nervous and super professional in the liquor store. She's like, yeah, just work here. We went to the same high school. You're good.
You're jail, bud.
She has a fun moment where she tries to sit on, like, a milk crate, but it's upside down and she falls into it, but she still gets the job.
I like that. He asks, do you do that on purpose? And she's like, stuck in it with her hands up.
And I was like, no, I did not.
No, I did not accept my failure. Move on.
So she meets up with Ali after, and she also got a job elsewhere. I forget if they said where.
I don't think they did.
Okay, so it doesn't matter.
I think they're kind of flying. It's like the market behind her.
Yeah, they both have jobs and they're like, hey, now that we actually have people interested in the club and it's not just us dicking around, we can actually have money and save up, so we can actually go on like a winter camping trip. And that's like their big plan. So the hot pot back at the other camp is all set. It looks super spicy, but Fujiko insists that it's fine, and they have a nice, warm, cozy dinner. And it looks delicious.
I want to try to make that. It seems so easy. You just put veggies and some gyoza and a hot and a boiling pot, and then later it was delicious.
Whoa. So good.
It's like cooking or something.
What is this? Breath of the Wild minigame ding.
I did have hot pot not too long ago for, like, the first time and, like, yeah, don't fuck with the red hot pot. That shit's super spicy. You're not prepared for it.
Good to know.
Yeah.
I will avoid it. Say that in your best learned grandpa voice for me, please.
Yes.
It is good to be cautious around the red hot pot. It is particularly spicy and may not be suitable for newcomers to the hot pot.
I'm uncomfortable.
I liked it.
That's why I talk with a loud.
Obnoxious voice like this.
You just sounded like John mulaney. He entered your body, my dear wife. Someone's in here. All right, keep going.
So after they have dinner well, first off, Fujiko eats, like, most of it. And Rinse like, Holy shit. She just keeps eating.
I should have brought rice. It's like still. She's like, I see the tips. Anyway. It's like still.
Still.
That's me.
Yeah, same. And rin apologizes for how she responded to being invited to the club. And fujiko is like, yeah, it's fine. Afterwards, Ali told me that you're super into outdoor stuff, but you like quiet camping and not our fun rowdy camping. So let's just agree to have a relaxed hot pot camp again and sort of set up. Let's camp on your terms and not throw you into a group that you.
Don'T want to be with.
Mutual understanding and community.
In episode three where does it go from here?
It's so nice.
They start playing music and start just looking at Mount fuji again, a nice, sweet acoustic track. Just as they're looking at this beautiful mountain in the distance, tegan and Sarah.
Comes on the radio. The hand just reaches towards the other hand a little bit.
There'S. A moment later, I lost my mind. Keep talking.
Yeah, we'll get that.
They start talking about the next day. Fujiko wants to wake up for sunrise to see it, which is at 06:00. A.m and ren is like, I think I'm good. Yeah, no dog, but knock yourself out. So they part ways. Fujiko meets up with her sister, and they just sleep in the parking lot. They set an alarm to wake up at 540. And of course, Fujiko is like, fuck this. I'm not getting up.
I'm already awake, still curled up.
And like, I'm awake.
But the sister is like, Fuck you. You made me come out here and just pinches her nose to get her to actually wake up.
I love it. Fujiko kind of dropped off out of the car just like, in pajamas, still just holding a big comfitter, just like a little kid who had, like, a nightmare and is walking to her parents room. So pure.
So, yeah, she goes and sits at the campsite where rin is sleeping. She sits outside on the chair, and then the sun comes up over the mountain, and it's beautiful. And immediately Fujiko is like, It's too bright.
I'm good. I hit my limit.
But the part where they were showing the dew drops on grass, oh, my heart felt so warm. It was so nice. I love nature, I really do.
But yes. So she ducks into rin's tent and just goes to sleep in there next to Ryan. So we flash to the next day. rin is in the library looking over the pics from this camping trip, and saito sees her and starts questioning her on like, hey, why do you only camp in the fall and winter? And, yeah, we get the reasoning of like, oh, yeah, there's no bugs. You're not all sweaty. It's less crowded, so you're not competing with a bunch of loud groups. It can just be you in the.
Woods and you can eat soup.
Yes, soup tastes better than a cold.
Yeah, campfires are warmer and cozier, and you can eat soup. So it's quiet and cozy. The two things she loves. So we get that little justification and Saitos like, so where are you heading to next, huh? And ren's like traitor. I'm not telling you. You're going to tell Fujiko again? But yeah, then we flash back to the camp. rin wakes up and sees Fujiko sleeping there, and it's like, all right, you're not so bad.
Yeah, the picture one.
Yeah, she took a picture of her while she was sleeping. That's what that was on her phone.
That's what she's smart.
Sorry, I glossed over that part. Sorry.
Yeah, when saito comes up to her, she's like, what are you smiling about? And then rinse like nothing. And she, like, hides her phone. And then we, as the audience see that it's a picture of her sleeping, but in that scene, she's, like, watching her sleep, and she kind of reaches out her hand, but, like, pulls it back because she, like, turns over. Oh, it's so cute. If that's not gay, I don't know what it is.
And you know what gay is?
You know what gay is?
We got lesbians camping. Need I say more?
Honestly, I was sitting there thinking, damn, I hope there's an episode where they meet, like, a lesbian couple that just wears flannels that hangs out in my ear, and they teach them about camping. That would be so good.
Is the sister's car a subaru?
What are you getting at?
That I just need all the lesbian tropes.
I need it all.
Oh, God. It's very good. It's all very good.
Yeah, I think there's a little more in this episode. It's just her getting her nickname, right?
Oh, yeah, it's just the post credits thing. And they're like, hey, you love Mount fuji, huh? We're going to call you Fujiko. And she's like, all right.
I also love that in Japanese they call Mount fuji fujisan.
It's so cute.
It's so good.
Yeah, they're talking about like, oh, wow, you really like Mount fuji. She's like, oh, yeah, it's this and this and this. And they're like, why don't you climb? It's like, no, I can't climb. Oh, no, I like to appreciate Mount fuji from afar.
And like, I can only look at her. I'm not worthy.
Like, you're talking about Mount fuji. Like you have a crush on it's. Like, what now? And I really enjoy that.
My crush is on rain.
It's fine.
Did you say nothing?
I also love because it's fall, they're all walking around, like in school. They're in their uniforms and stuff, but they got these big old chunky scarfs, like, around their necks at all times that just look like neck pillows. It's like you could just doze off standing up in those crunches. The comfort, the chill.
This is the coziest looking show I think I've ever watched.
Yeah, it really just like it evokes that feeling. It's just, like so nice. Like it's over. The garden wall is similar, but like, in a darker way.
Yeah.
Or it makes you feel very autumnal, but like, it also hurts.
Like the scenery is autumnal, but you see the characters suffering through it. Here everyone's good to go. They're all just cozied up in a sleeping bag in the jacket with heating pads, and it's great.
Oh, yeah, get the heating pads and puts them on. And ren helps her put them on. She's like, merely curls up.
It's like, what on her back?
She's like, oh, I'm just going to lay down here. Maybe take a tickety two and just take a snooze for about five minutes. And rent is just like, no, don't, you're cooking.
There's a fire.
No, there's a fire. Don't.
I love that though, when she's putting it on her back and the way she just goes, thank you. It's just like, oh my gosh, so cute. Anyway, are we there yet?
Absolutely.
Yeah.
This is a perfect napping show. Like I said, I'm going to fall asleep to this so hard all day.
It's your new nightcap. Just a quick episode of Laid back camp and you're out.
Yeah, I enjoyed every minute of it. I got to look into the fandom to other people. They got to ship these girls, right?
Well, absolutely.
We did one episode in, and we.
Are already shipping, I'm sure there's and.
Then the other two girls from the club too, like the eda character and the blonde girl. People have to ship them.
Ida and mommy. And then saito eventually joins. We can tell from the credits. Sounds like they all she's got. That good dog. Yeah.
So you know that there's a dog in it consistently.
It's not the twist where it dies. Oh, man, so good. I think we would have enjoyed this regardless, but I think it's both the exact time in the show. But it's like just the autumn fives and it kind of got chilly in La. It kind of got chilly in La. For like a quick minute and then it was like 85 today. So like no, but like it got.
Chilly enough for everyone to get sick and then yeah, so it went back to be sick through it. I'm still bitter, but we get the.
Escapism of like, here's what real autumn looks like, here's what other people do. And that's nice sometimes. So it's like, oh, that's good. And it sounds like the shitty Pennsylvania autumn where it's just raining and muddy all the time. And it's like, oh, this is pleasant. So I was like, yeah, I'm probably going to continue watching. It's only like twelve episodes, so we're like a quarter of the way down.
I think there's another season.
Oh, is there?
Maybe.
I think there was like I felt like a laid back camp special online. Yeah, I don't know.
But I also think this was the perfect show to get back into our regular anime viewing.
This is a good one.
You're welcome. I'm glad it wasn't summery. Like this was this was perfect.
Definitely. I thought it was going to be summary, so this is very pleasant. Another good one from Paul.
Yeah, if he is the one that recommended it to me, and I think he is, odds are we trust him.
So what do we have going on next week?
Next week we actually remembered because it's not a marathon and we're running in circles and frantically forgetting how the show is structured. Yes, next week we're finished with the four kids. It's on. We're done with the guest, but we're also not because we have another guest.
Immediately diving right back in.
We got you. We tricked you. Pulled a bamboozle. This is someone I wanted to have on for a while now. And we tried getting her on for the four kids, but just schedules didn't work. We got her quickly after and it's happily Aaron from the manga pod, which is a well known manga podcast video podcast online. And she's bringing one of her favorite, which is a good old sports anime we haven't had in a good long while called karoko No Basket. It's about basketball.
Bball, baby.
We're playing it ball.
We got to chill with this show. We got to warm up. We got to get ready for the big game.
We have to pump up the jam, pump it up.
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That was very jazz. Radio host with you, obviously.
No.
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We should make an asmr channel.
Let me just list all the digi.
Mom and you said it.