360° video trailer, visuals, main cast, animation studio released
A new official website and Twitter account were opened on Friday to announce that Laid-Back Camp Afro's four-panel single-panel manga will be getting an animated television series. The site released images, key staff, and a 360° video, in which viewers can move the panoramic camera around:
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Image via anime mono's website
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Afro shared an illustration to commemorate the announcement:
Image via anime mono's website
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Ryota Aikei (Jujutsu Kaisen assistant director) is directing the anime at Soigne. Takuya Miyahara is designing the characters. Yoko Yonaiyama (A Sign of Affection) is writing the script. Aniplex is in production.
Afro launched the four-panel manga on Houbunsha's Manga Time Kirara Carat in March 2017. The manga follows high school girls in a “cinephoto” club, combining cinema and photography. Houbunsha published the manga's third compilation volume in October 2022 and will publish the fourth volume on April 25.
Afro launched the Laid-Back Camp manga in Houbunsha's Manga Time Kirara Forward magazine in 2015 and shipped it to Houbunsha's Comic Fuz manga website in 2019. Yen Press began publishing the manga in English in 2019. March 2018.
An anime based on the manga premiered in January 2018, and Crunchyroll streamed the 12-episode series. aired. Crunchyroll also streamed the English dub of the first season. The second season of the anime premiered in January 2021. Yurukyan△ Season 3, the third anime season, will premiere on April 4 on AT-X at 11:00 p.m. JST, then on Tokyo MX at 11:30 p.m. JST and on BS11 at 12pm JST (effective April 5). An anime film based on the manga debuted in July 2022, and Crunchyroll began streaming the series in November 2022.
Source: website, Comic Natalie
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