ゆるキャン△ Vol. 9 🏕

Anybody watched the Yuru Camp live action? I finally finished season 1 and it was pretty decent.

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Yep. I’ve watched the first season and half the second season. It’s not bad, but I feel like a fair amount of Nadeshiko’s goofiness doesn’t really carry over, so she loses her appeal a bit.

I think it’s fine that way. Imo it’s the right amount of anime-to-live-action overexaggeration before it turns cringy. :sweat_smile:

50 - バースデー!

Start date: August 28th

  • I’m reading along :books:
  • I’m taking my time :camping:
  • I’m dropping out :no_good_man: :no_good_woman:

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This week’s chapter is the second half of anime episode 12.


Geospot 11 (page 82-84): Mihama-misaki, though the location they’re actually standing is Deaisaki, across the water (the chapter title page is also from here, and yes, that ring is deliberately positioned to encirle Mount Fuji). Sensei describes it as being similarly-shaped to Oosezaki, which Rin visited last volume (as Nadeshiko mentions - it was Geospot 1).

Then they head back to the campsite.

The total route for day two, then, looks something like this. Total distance travelled, 101km (though only Rin did the first 20-odd kilometres, and only Sensei, Nadeshiko, Aoi and Akari did the last 20-odd kilometres - Ena and Aki only travelled sixty kilometres in total).

On the following day, they watch the sunrise from Mount Daruma, which I’ve previously linked. At the bottom of page 95, they’ve parked here - Google reckons it’s about a ten-minute walk from there to the summit. 132m gain in altitude.


I don’t have much by way of comments or questions this week, but the combo Nadeshiko is pulling off on page 106 is apparently Dhalsim’s “Yoga Flame” technique in Street Fighter II.

(Though, gripe time, Ms Tamosaitis has translated sensei’s line at the bottom of page 95 as “I’m going to watch too, so please come with us.” It’s like, did you even glance at the context of the chapter? Or did someone just give you the words and expect you to do it without the pictures? Because… that might explain a lot.)


Proper nouns:

Page 82
御浜岬=みはまみさき


So, I forgot to bring this up last week, but in the anime, rather than whether or not she believes in Santa Claus, Aoi’s criterion for judging that Akari had become an adult was her ability to distinguish cabbage from lettuce. I wonder if they didn’t want to broach the topic of Santa’s existence in a broadcast anime… (Also, instead of Aki trying to cross the tombolo from rock to rock and slipping, Akari just goes out in bare feet while they’re still deliberating.)

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Psst, @Naphthalene. You’ve gotta get yourself caught up with this series. :stuck_out_tongue:

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51 - 大空山はどんな色?

Start date: September 4th

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  • I’m taking my time :camping:
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I guess? When I’m done with my current book maybe.

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This week’s chapter is the first half of anime episode 13 (though the cold open is an extra scene, showing them descending from Mount Daruma).


The chapter starts right about here.

The Iida liquor store is Hiroi Liqor Store - aside from the exterior, the giveaway is that photos on Google Maps show the interior is filled with Yuru Camp merchandise.

Geospot 12 (page 112-121): Mount Omuro. The shot at the bottom of page 12 (and the chairlift station) is here. The Fuji-san viewing spot is here. (There’s an archery range up there. That… seems kinda weird to me.)

Page 122, the zoo they visit is Izu Shaboten Zoo - the capybara enclosure is here, while the capybara rotenburo is over here (right next to the red pandas, actually, so now I’m interested in this place). It’s so close to Mount Omuro that I’m almost confused as to why they drove there. (Zoo grounds map).


Page 109, レーズンサンド appears to be exactly what it sounds like

Page 113, heh, the last two finally got the wasabi ice cream.

Page 124, what are those faces that Aki and Nadeshiko are making in the third panel? Are they imitating something?

Page 125, Akari spent so much time selling up the capybaras over the course of this trip that I was more than half expecting them to discover that the exhibit would be closed for the season or somesuch. Somewhat relieved that it’s not. (Also, for Nadeshiko’s safety, Aoi needs to stop telling Akari and Aki not to run.)


Proper nouns:

Page 107
大室山=おおむろやま

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Me: Done with volume 8! I’m (kinda) in time for volume 9!
Volume 9: ends (except for extra chapter)
Me: surprised pikachu face

52 - 旅の終わりに

Start date: September 11th

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  • I’m taking my time :camping:
  • I’m dropping out :no_good_man: :no_good_woman:

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Just did the maths for fun and we should be halfway through volume 11 or at the very beginning of volume 12 when volume 13 will come out (based on the first two publication date estimates I found through google).
That means this club will continue all the way until May 2022! (followed by a massive 6 months break, I guess, Yotsuba club vibes)

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Triple posting to comment on the first chapter of this book, but how is Sensei okay??
She is obviously a high-functioning alcoholic, but wouldn’t drinking a lot after going cold turkey for a while be extremely dangerous? I know this is “just” a joke, but still…

Other than that, that chapter made me hungry.

Edit: reading @Belthazar’s comment, ゾンビぐらし is supposed to be a reference to something? (‘cause I don’t get it)

I think it says まじうま ココア. Hot cocoa is a staple of vending machines during winter.

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This week’s chapter is the second half of anime episode 13, and the end of the second season.


The first panel of the chapter is back at Darumayama Kogen, where they arrived back in chapter 49.

I’m fairly sure the place where Rin parts ways on page 136-137 is here - Google Maps’ directions concur it’s where you’d turn left to get back to Minobu when avoiding highways and tollways.

Page 140, the second panel is here. I’m reasonably sure that the third panel of page 142 is here, though the sign in the second panel (and one of Google’s suggested directions) places her on the next major road to the east instead. (Also, that suggested route is almost half an hour longer than the route Google thinks is the fastest, which might be why Nadeshiko comments on page 147 that Rin’s still going later than she’d expected.)

I couldn’t really pinpoint where Nadeshiko waits for Rin on page 149. It’s somewhere along the main Minobu road, for sure, but working exactly where will probably entail lots of wandering around in Street View.

Welp, day three summary, Sensei drove 182 km. Rin drove 100km, and I posted the route further up. So over the three days of the trip, Sensei drove 488km, while Rin drove 464 (a bit over her 450km approximation on page 143).


Well, I’m getting end-of-trip blues, and I wasn’t even on this trip…


Proper nouns:

Page 133
修善寺=しゅぜんじ

Page 155
新城=しんしろ (according to the Yuru Camp Wikipedia article - apparently it’s got a number of possible readings. It’s Rin’s grandfather’s family name, either way)


Oh, sweet summer child. Yotsuba is anticipating a three year break.

がっこうぐらし

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Me too. I really enjoyed this “whole volume trip”.

And I though the Flying witch club was bad Oo.

So much to look forward to!

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It’s funny that this series started as an elaborate infomercial for camping gear and is now mostly just scenery porn…

I looked up the plot, and it indeed makes a lot of sense. It’s from the same publisher, though, why did the author change the title? I feel like there’s no copyright problem…

EDIT: I AM NOW READING ALONG レッツラゴー

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番外編 - へやキャン△

Start date: September 18th

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  • I’m taking my time :camping:
  • I’m dropping out :no_good_man: :no_good_woman:

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And we are done with volume 9!
I usually assume we take a one week break in between, but does anyone want to just move ahead to volume 10 next week?

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I kinda want to try finding a wearable tent if I ever get around to doing the Shikoku pilgrimage - I’d need to take a raincoat if it rains and a tent if I can’t find accommodation, and if I can make both of those things the same item, that’d save on weight.

Why on earth is number 72 Aki’s dream?

I’m ready. I’m always ready. =)

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I want to try the 2 persons version. And the 16 version as well.

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I have no problem with continuing next week.

I guess we only need 13 more!

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I also don’t mind starting right away

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I’m also down to start right away!

Hopefully that doesn’t mess with the ゆる vibe

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