After moving, Nadeshiko decides to go see Mount Fuji. She manages to bike pretty far, but has to turn back because of the weather and ends up fainting.
When she wakes up, she finds herself somewhere she has never been and no way to find her way back. It is in this wilderness where she is saved by Rin, a girl who was out camping by herself.
Anime can show off a lot of nice Japanese scenery, but Laid-Back Camp is a series that really excels at showing you natural landscapes in Japan in ways most people – even ones that live there – probably wouldn’t get to see. If you are looking for more anime recommendations like Laid-Back Camp, head on down below.
Anime Like Laid-Back Camp
For Fans of Beautiful Scenery
Non Non Biyori
Asahigaoka is rural village in the middle of nowhere, and for the five students who go to school there, their days are all about keeping the boredom at bay.
All of different ages, the ways they entertain themselves never border on normal.
Similarities Between Laid-Back Camp and Non Non Biyori
- Both series are cute girls doing cute outdoor things
- Beautiful scenery is the highlight of both series
- There is not a lot of plot other than friendship activities
Differences Between Laid-Back Camp and Non Non Biyori
- Non Non Biyori captures excellent summer vibes while Laid-Back Camp is a distinctly winter experience
- Non Non Biyori has no specific theme like camping in Laid-Back Camp, so each episode is often random shenanigans
Encouragement of Climb
Aoi Yukimura has loved mountains since she was a kid, but a playground accident left her afraid of heights. Now a timid first year high school student, she is practically friendless until she reconnects with the lively Hinata.
As an old friend from her climbing days, Hinata fosters a change in Aoi’s world that leads her back to the mountains she loves.
Similarities Between Laid-Back Camp and Encouragement of Climb
- Both series are cute girls doing cute outdoor things
- Both series are focused on a specific outdoor activity
- Both feature excellent outdoor visuals
- Both are club-based anime
- Both focus on getting characters to open up to their new friends
Differences Between Laid-Back Camp and Encouragement of Climb
- Laid-Back Camp is winter camping while Encouragement of Climb is mountain climbing
- Encouragement of Climb has a larger plot of helping the main character overcome her fear of heights while Laid-Back Camp features no trauma
Aria
Mars has now become known as Aqua, a planet of water. On this planet is the peaceful city of drift upon the sea called Neo Venezia.
A replica of Earth’s Venice, gondolas are the primary mode of transportation in Neo Venezia. Join a novice tour guide as she shows the wonders of her city.
Similarities Between Laid-Back Camp and Aria
- Both series highlight the visuals of the scenery, first and foremost
- Both series feature female casts doing things
- Both series have slow, relaxing iyashikei-type plots
Differences Between Laid-Back Camp and Aria
- Aria is about giving tours on a Venice-like sci-fi water planet while Laid-Back Camp is about winter camping
- While both series follow cute girls, many of the characters in Aria are adults and not designed in the modern moe style like Laid-Back Camp, so Aria is not a traditional CGDCT anime
- Aria is more of a workplace iyashikei while Laid-Back Camp is about school, clubs, and hobbies
Hakumei and Mikochi
At only a few inches tall, Hakumei and Mikochi live in the forest in a tiny house built into a tree. This is the tale of their ordinary and fantastic daily life in the woods.
Similarities Between Laid-Back Camp and Hakumei and Mikochi
- Both series feature cute girls hanging out and doing slice of life things
- You get to watch the character make and eat a lot of food
- Both series are plotless, iyashikei anime
- Beautiful scenery carries the show
Differences Between Laid-Back Camp and Hakumei and Mikochi
- Laid-Back Camp is standard moe while Hakumei and Mikochi go to the extreme and becomes so moe that the characters look like adorable potatoes
- Hakumei and Mikochi takes place in a fantasy world following tiny human-like characters
- Hakumei and Mikochi has no specific focus like Laid-Back Camp has with winter camping
Amanchu
Hikari Kohinata grew up by the sea and as a result developed a deep love of scuba diving. On her first day of high school, her hobby and her relentless cheerfulness sweeps up those around her in a maelstrom, and they all cultivate a love for diving together.
Similarities Between Laid-Back Camp and Amanchu
- Both series feature beautiful visuals of Japan
- Both series follow school clubs doing specific outdoor things
- Both activities are presented in a pretty educational way
- Both series have a quirky character that brings everyone together
- Both series are plotless iyashikei
Differences Between Laid-Back Camp and Amanchu
- Amanchu is about free-diving while Laid-Back Camp is about winter camping
- Amanchu isn’t CGDCT
For Fans of Cute Girls Doing Outdoor Things
A Place Further Than The Universe
Upon discovering an old list she made in the last year of middle school, Mari Tamaki, who is now in her second year of high school, realizes she is not making the most of her youth. Whenever she tries to do something new, she is paralyzed with inaction.
Then one day she meets Shirase, a girl who’s mother went missing when she was in middle school on an expedition to Antarctica.
Knowing full well it is close to impossible, she works hard in order to go to search for her mother and invites Mari along for the ride.
Similarities Between Laid-Back Camp and A Place Further Than The Universe
- Both series feature a group of girls traveling and visiting destinations
- Both series feature lovely outdoor visuals
- Both series feature a female main cast
Differences Between Laid-Back Camp and A Place Further Than The Universe
- A Place Further Than The Universe has a plot that it is pursuing rather than the slice of life offered in Laid-Back Camp
- A Place Further Than The Universe offers more character depth and drama
Slow Loop
As a young girl, Hiyori’s father taught her the joys of fly fishing. Even after he unexpectedly passed away, she still uses fishing as a way to feel connected to him.
One day while fishing, she meets and energetic new girl in town named Koharu who ends up fishing and eating said fish together. However, when she returns home, she discovers that Koharu is also her new step-sister.
Similarities Between Laid-Back Camp and Slow Loop
- Both series are cute girls doing cute outdoor things
- Both series offer educational details about the specific activity
- Both series are about reserved girls opening up to a new more cutely clumsy friend
- Both series feature an above average amount of cooking food
Differences Between Laid-Back Camp and Slow Loop
- Slow Loop is about new step-siblings bonding over fly fishing rather than a club going winter camping like in Laid-Back Camp
- Slow Loop loves its ocean visuals compared to the mountain scenery of Laid-Back Camp
- Slow Loop, due to a series of tragic family deaths, has a bit more drama
Do It Yourself
After the Fourth Industrial Revolution, cutting edge technologies have taken over and the old way of doing things is left in the dust. For childhood friends Serufu Yua and Miku Suride, they both applied to the elite Yuyu Girls’ Vocational High School that excels in teaching new technology.
However, due to her grades, care-free accident-magnet Yua could only get into the neighboring Gatagata Girls’ High School.
After getting into an bike accident, Yua has a run in with a passerby who fixes her bike effortlessly and later finds out that she is a member of the Do It Yourself Club. With the club in danger of shutting down due to a lack of members and becoming enchanted by the old way of fixing and building things, Yua hopes to gather new friendships and build new crafts by joining it.
Similarities Between Laid-Back Camp and Do It Yourself
- Both series follow school clubs full of girls
- Both series are cute girls doing cute outdoor/handy things
- Both series feature colder/reserved girls bonding with energetic, quirky newbies
- Both series feature unique, peaceful visuals
- Both series are episodic and often a bit plotless
Differences Between Laid-Back Camp and Do It Yourself
- Do It Yourself is in a slightly futuristic setting about a club that fixes old things instead of going right to the newest tech
- Do It Yourself is more about the bonding of a club of misfits, which does add more plot compared to Laid-Back Camp
- Do It Yourself doesn’t have as much of an outdoor focus like Laid-Back Camp, but presents its visuals in the same quiet, contemplative way
Diary Of Our Days At The Breakwater
Hina Tsurugi has just moved to a quiet seaside town with her family.
While visiting the ocean, she stumbles upon a girl named Yuuki who invites her to join her while fishing. Hina manages to land an octopus, but being afraid of bugs and big creatures, she begs Yuuki to remove it when it lands on her.
Yuuki uses this as an opportunity to try to get her to join the Breakwater Club, a club where members catch and eat fish.
Similarities Between Laid-Back Camp and Diary Of Our Days At The Breakwater
- Both series are cute girls doing cute outdoor things
- Both series follow school clubs
- Both series feature newbies becoming increasingly passionate about the specific activity
- Friendship and lovely visuals carry the show rather than any sort of plot
- Both series are educational about their specific activity
- Both series feature an above average amount of cooking
Differences Between Laid-Back Camp and Diary Of Our Days At The Breakwater
- Our Days at the Breakwater is about fishing while Laid-Back Camp is about winter camping
- Our Days at The Breakwater kind of forces the main character into the club
Stardust Telepath
For Konohoshi Umika, her social anxiety makes her feel like an alien trapped on Earth. Due to feeling so much like an outcast, she dreams of building a rocket to take her into space so she can meet aliens who might finally understand her.
One day, she meets the energetic and friendly Akeuchi Yuu, a girl who also claims to be an alien that crashed on Earth and can’t get home. In fact, she can’t even remember which planet she even calls home or how she got to Earth.
Bonding with Akeuchi, the pair decide to start building rockets so that she can go back home.
Similarities Between Laid-Back Camp and Stardust Telepath
- Both series feature cute girls doing non-traditional cute girl things
- Both series follow a school club
- Both series feature a reserved girl being pulled out of her shell by an energetic quirky new student
- Both series have unique and/or beautiful visuals
Differences Between Laid-Back Camp and Stardust Telepath
- Stardust Telepath is about rocket science clubs and maybe one girl being an alien
- Stardust Telepath has specific club goals that does give the series more plot than Laid-Back Camp
- Stardust Telepath has a lot more obvious yuri baiting
Asteroid in Love
As a child, Mira met a boy named Ao at a campsite. While they were gazing at the sky, Mira learned there was a star with her name, but none with Ao’s name. She made a promise that one day they would name an asteroid after him.
Years later, Mira is reunited with Ao at their school’s Earth Science Club. This is also when she discovers that Ao is actually a girl.
Similarities Between Laid-Back Camp and Asteroid in Love
- Both series feature cute girls doing outdoor things
- Both series follow school clubs
- Both series love their beautiful outdoor visuals
- Both series are often plotless slice of life
Differences Between Laid-Back Camp and Asteroid in Love
- Asteroid in Love follows the combined Astronomy and Geology Club
- Asteroid in Love is often most focused on yuri baiting than the actual club activities
- Asteroid in Love shows off nice night visuals rather than the nice overall outdoor scenery that Laid-Back Camp enjoys
For Fans of Soothing Iyashikei
The Flying Witch
The young Makoto Kowata is a witch, but her skills in magic leave something to be desired. To further train her craft, she moves to rural Aomori to live with her cousins.
This area, rich in nature, is the perfect place to commune with natural forces and hone her craft.
Similarities Between Laid-Back Camp and The Flying Witch
- Both series enjoy country scenery early and often
- Both series feature long, lingering shots of nature to add to the relaxing atmosphere
- Minimal actual plot, maximal slice of life meanderings
- Both are soothing, chill iyashikei anime with likable characters and little drama
Differences Between Laid-Back Camp and The Flying Witch
- The Flying Witch is about witches grounded more in Wiccan lore, so it is lightly supernatural
- The Flying Witch is more realistic and less stylized moe CGDCT like Laid-Back Camp
- The Flying Witch is more about a singular main character honing her magic, she just does so through small slice of life outings
Super Cub
Koguma is a student who has nothing. She lives alone, has no hobbies, and no friends. However, one day she stops by a vehicle shop in hopes of getting a motor scooter for her commute.
Disheartened by price tags initially, she is sold on an old pre-owned Super Cub. However, what she didn’t know is the many different ways that the scooter would open up her world.
Similarities Between Laid-Back Camp and Super Cub
- Both series are about cute girls enjoying the outdoors
- Lovely scenery with settings and characters grounded in realism
- Educational about the specific subject of the series
- Both series feature girls bonding over a shared love of something
- Both series feature women traveling on mopeds and enjoying the freedom provided by them
Differences Between Laid-Back Camp and Super Cub
- Super Cub is about a girl whose world is opened up by getting a moped unlike Laid-Back Camp that is about winter camping
- Super Cub can be a bit melancholy and occasionally dramatic compared to the overall cheerful and peaceful Laid-Back Camp
Akebi’s Sailor Uniform
Living in a rural area and previously going to a small one-room school with no other girls her age, Akebi holds the dream of going to the prestigious Roubai Academy for girls like her mother and wearing that illustrious sailor uniform. With her uniform on, she endeavors to make as many friends as possible.
Similarities Between Laid-Back Camp and Akebi’s Sailor Uniform
- Both series are cute girls doing cute slice of life things
- Both series are about an expanding friend group at school
- Both excel at making a mundane real world look so beautiful
- Not much plot to be found
Differences Between Laid-Back Camp and Akebi’s Sailor Uniform
- There is no unifying activity that brings them together in Akebi’s Sailor Uniform like winter camping does in Laid-Back Camp
- Akebi’s Sailor Uniform is really just about making friends at an all-girls school
- Akebi’s Sailor Uniform is unexpectedly stunning in the art and animation
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