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No doubt, the end of this season will see everyone (including Sensei) on another massive camping trip, just as season 1 ended.
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They set up camp, and now they have all this time to have a camping trip of their own. Their trip doesn’t end though, and we’ll be seeing more of them next week. Calling her ‘Nabeshiko’ at school or in a text message will be funny once, and would end up getting boring afterwards maybe. As much as I want it to, this won’t be something that Chiaki, Aoi and Ena will return home to. Sadly, I don’t think this will be some long-running joke. I’m really surprised that they didn’t think to bring this joke in sooner, say in the first season or something. …this week’s episode introduces Nabeshiko. And as the first season gave us talking pine cones… Heck, I shouldn’t be saying anything dark here Yuru Camp remains an amazing show, and has so far given us an excellent second season that we can enjoy just as watch as the first season.
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Sounds a little dark, I know, and so I apologize for that. It is a literal slice of life, and considering our lives suck, we watch these shows to make us feel better about ourselves. It’s stuff like this that I really like in the many slice-of-life shows I’ve seen…and there’ve been so many. Chiaki slipping on ice, the Caribou bear, and so on. And it’s these little hiccups that are the core part of this episode. This trip of theirs doesn’t go perfectly though no trip does, of course. And just as I enjoyed last week’s switch to Nadeshiko, I’m liking this switch to other characters in the show, especially since we already have a bit of an attachment to Chiaki, Aoi and Ena. Just as last week’s episode of Yuru Camp focused on Nadeshiko, this week’s is focused almost entirely on Chiaki, Aoi and Ena, as they go on their camping trip over the school break at Lake Yamanaka together. These are all things I’m enjoying pretty much though, and even if these weird things like forgettable people and complex dialogue, I can still sit through these 25 minutes or so every week. Soon enough, we’ll be seeing Sorawo and Toriko get into more trouble in the Otherside, Kozakura yelling at them for being idiots, and maybe Toriko getting more drunk. Otherside Picnic revolves around Sorawo and Toriko, and only them. I guess we’ll just assume that they were consumed and taken in by whatever lurks in the Otherside. Just as we forgot about other regular people seen in the Otherside, these same soldiers will be people we forget about in due course. Saying that though, a good part of me is glad that this wasn’t some long-running arc or story in the show. Like these soldiers were just forgettable fodder in the show. I don’t know how this was all told in the manga, but this somehow felt a little off. Anyway, both Sorawo and Toriko decide not to take all of the soldier’s advice seriously, and decide to call home (how I don’t know), steal an assault rifle and find their own way back, leaving the soldiers behind. Oh, and it turns out that I’ve been saying Sorawo’s name wrong all this time I originally thought it was Sorao. I’m really nitpicking there, besides it really doesn’t matter. I get that senior officers that are stationed in Okinawa would have a decent grasp at Japanese, but the other soldiers keep on alternating between languages for no reason. What I don’t understand is the constant switch from Engrish to Japanese, and back to Engrish. And of course, you can understand the terrible Engrish here. Having been there for so long, you can understand how they’re slowly losing their sanity. This week’s Otherside Picnic continues directly from last week, where the two are found by US troops stuck in the Otherside, trying to survive from a group of large monsters and a ‘meat train’.