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Youkoso Jitsuryoku Shijou Shugi no Kyoushitsu e

Also known as Classroom of the Elite.

Studio: Lerche
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological

Koudo Ikusei Senior High School is a leading school with state-of-the-art facilities. The students there have the freedom to wear any hairstyle and bring any personal effects they desire. Koudo Ikusei is like a utopia, but the truth is that only the most superior students receive favorable treatment.

Kiyotaka Ayanokouji is a student of D-class, which is where the school dumps its "inferior" students in order to ridicule them. For a certain reason, Kiyotaka was careless on his entrance examination, and was put in D-class. After meeting Suzune Horikita and Kikyou Kushida, two other students in his class, Kiyotaka's situation begins to change.



Tags: School , Primarily Teen Cast , Ensemble Cast , Male Protagonist , Anti-Hero , Survival , Blackmail , Kuudere , Battle Royale , Coming of Age , Philosophy , Tsundere , Nudity , Aromantic , Female Harem , Boarding School , School Club , Yuri , Wilderness , Camping

Nichijou

Also known as Nichijou - My Ordinary Life.

Studio: Kyoto Animation
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

Nichijou primarily focuses on the daily antics of a trio of childhood friends—high school girls Mio Naganohara, Yuuko Aioi and Mai Minakami—whose stories soon intertwine with the young genius Hakase Shinonome, her robot caretaker Nano, and their talking cat Sakamoto. With every passing day, the lives of these six, as well as of the many people around them, experience both the calms of normal life and the insanity of the absurd. Walking to school, being bitten by a talking crow, spending time with friends, and watching the principal suplex a deer: they are all in a day's work in the extraordinary everyday lives of those in Nichijou.



Tags: Surreal Comedy , Episodic , Slapstick , School , Female Protagonist , Ensemble Cast , Primarily Teen Cast , Primarily Female Cast , Parody , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Achronological Order , Robots , Camping , Shounen , Body Horror , Drawing , Tsundere , Love Triangle , Football , Guns

Yuru Camp△

Also known as Laid-Back Camp.

Studio: C-Station
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

Rin likes to go camping by herself along the lakes that provide a scenic view of Mt. Fuji. Nadeshiko loves to take cycling trips by herself to places where she can see Mt. Fuji. After they meet, Rin and Nadeshiko take camping trips, eat cup ramen together, and enjoy the scenery.



Tags: Outdoor Activities , Camping , Iyashikei , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Primarily Female Cast , Female Protagonist , Rural , Food , Primarily Teen Cast , Educational , Travel , School Club , Kuudere , Seinen , Episodic , Yuri , Mopeds , School , Animals , Cycling

Tondemo Skill de Isekai Hourou Meshi

Also known as Campfire Cooking in Another World with my Absurd Skill.

Studio: MAPPA
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Comedy , Fantasy

Mukouda Tsuyoshi, an ordinary salaryman, is suddenly transported to another world one day. The unique skill he gains upon arrival in this world is the seemingly useless "Online Grocery." Mukouda is discouraged at first, but the modern foods he's able to bring to his new world using this skill prove to have some unbelievable effects!



Tags: Food , Found Family , Isekai , Iyashikei , Camping , Animals , Outdoor Activities , Travel , Male Protagonist , Gods , Creature Taming , Magic , Work , Economics , Dragons , Goblin , Dungeon , Kaiju

Kimi wa Houkago Insomnia

Also known as Insomniacs After School.

Studio: LIDENFILMS
Status: Finished
Genres: Romance , Slice of Life

Ganta Nakami is a high school student who suffers from insomnia. One day, he meets Isaki Magari, a girl with the same condition. A strange, but special relationship forms as they share a secret and catch up on their sleep in their school’s abandoned observatory…



Tags: Coming of Age , Iyashikei , Primarily Teen Cast , Heterosexual , Photography , Seinen , Astronomy , School Club , Female Protagonist , Male Protagonist , School , Rural , Camping , Disability , Outdoor Activities , Animals , Tanned Skin , Swimming

Youkoso Jitsuryoku Shijou Shugi no Kyoushitsu e 4th Season 2-nensei-hen Ichi Gakki

Also known as Classroom of the Elite 4th Season: Second Year, First Semester.

Studio: Lerche
Status: Releasing
Genres: Drama , Psychological

The fourth season of Youkoso Jitsuryoku Shijou Shugi no Kyoushitsu e.

As Ayanokouji and his classmates begin their second year at the Advanced Nurturing High School, they’re greeted by a fresh gauntlet of exams and a fresh batch of rather unique first-year students. They’ll have to get to know each other quickly, because the first special exam pairs the first-years with the second-years on a written test—with only the second-years facing expulsion if their team performs poorly! Worse yet? It seems one of the new first-years is also from the White Room. Can Ayanokouji avoid expulsion while sussing out the identity of this hidden foe?



Tags: Boarding School , Survival , Fugitive , Battle Royale , Male Protagonist , School , Criminal Organization , Blackmail , Anti-Hero , Martial Arts , Coming of Age , Memory Manipulation , Bullying , Philosophy , Heterosexual , Primarily Teen Cast , Tragedy , Conspiracy , Suicide , Seinen , Amnesia , Delinquents , Revenge , Athletics , Disability , Love Triangle , Female Harem , Wilderness , Camping , Time Skip

Yuru Camp△ SEASON 2

Also known as LAID-BACK CAMP SEASON2.

Studio: C-Station
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

Having spent Christmas camping with her new friends, Rin Shima embarks on a solo-camping trip to see the New Year sunrise by the sea. All goes according to plan until unforeseen weather blocks the roads back home, making a return trip impossible. Rin, who is now stranded for a few days, is invited by Nadeshiko Kagamihara to stay at her grandmother's house.

What is supposed to be a two-day trip becomes an extended period of sightseeing and new experiences for Rin, and she encounters some new and old faces along the way.



Tags: Outdoor Activities , Iyashikei , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Primarily Female Cast , Camping , Female Protagonist , Episodic , Food , Educational , Primarily Teen Cast , Kuudere , Seinen , Rural , School Club , Mopeds , Ensemble Cast , Coming of Age , Motorcycles

Digimon Adventure

Also known as Digimon: Digital Monsters.

Studio: Toei Animation
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Comedy , Drama , Fantasy , Sci-Fi

Seven kids are transported to the Digital World, a strange place where digital creatures called "Digimon" reside. A group of Digimon soon befriend them and keep the kids out of harm's way. The children then discover they are the Chosen Children, which protect the Digital World from evil Digimon like Devimon and Vamdemon.

Tags: Isekai , Virtual World , Primarily Child Cast , Proxy Battle , Ensemble Cast , Artificial Intelligence , Coming of Age , Kaiju , Kids , Henshin , Wilderness , Animals , Anthropomorphism , Reverse Isekai , Dinosaurs , Creature Taming , Cosmic Horror , Angels , Primarily Animal Cast , Camping , Survival , Travel , Family Life , Time Skip , Dragons , Demons , Male Protagonist , Urban , Adoption , Desert , Tomboy , Vampire

Dark Gathering

Also known as Dark Gathering.

Studio: OLM
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Horror , Supernatural

After a devastating encounter with a restless spirit, ghost-fearing psychic Keitarou Gentouga became a shut-in to avoid additional spectral catastrophes. But no man is a haunted island, and Keitarou eventually reintegrates with society by getting a part-time job as a tutor to the child prodigy Yayoi Houzuki. Yayoi isn’t just an academic genius, though. She’s a talented psychic medium hell-bent on finding the malevolent spirit behind her mother’s disappearance, and she’s gravely determined to drag Keitarou into her terrifying world of grotesque supernatural phenomenon.



Tags: Ghost , Exorcism , Creature Taming , Revenge , Urban Fantasy , Necromancy , Male Protagonist , Tragedy , Orphan , Conspiracy , Female Protagonist , Body Horror , Gore , Gods , Suicide , Shounen , Body Swapping , Yandere , Rehabilitation , Heterosexual , Curses , Denpa , Episodic , Proxy Battle , Afterlife , Cannibalism , Travel , Oiran , Hikikomori , Cars , War , School , College , Incest , Camping , Bullying

Tondemo Skill de Isekai Hourou Meshi 2

Also known as Campfire Cooking in Another World with my Absurd Skill Season 2.

Studio: MAPPA
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Comedy , Fantasy

The second season of Tondemo Skill de Isekai Hourou Meshi.

When a magical realm looks to summon heroes, they’re sorely disappointed to end up with a mediocre salaryman. Mukoda Tsuyoshi may not be a hero, but this conjuring error has given him a delicious power—Online Grocery. And something about this modern food brings with it unbelievable effects. This easy access paired with his cooking skills will have patrons from across the land coming back for more!



Tags: Iyashikei , Food , Isekai , Work , Animals , Male Protagonist , Gods , Travel , Magic , Economics , Primarily Adult Cast , Creature Taming , Dragons , Elf , Wilderness , Camping , Slapstick , Dungeon , Desert , Kuudere , Tsundere

Yuru Camp△ Movie

Also known as Laid-Back Camp The Movie.

Studio: C-Station
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

Rin Shima has left her hometown in Yamanashi to live on her own in Nagoya while working for a small publishing company there. On one winter’s weekend in the not-too-distant future, as she’s planning a bike tour, she unexpectedly receives a message from an old high school friend, Chiaki Oogaki, saying she’s currently in Nagoya. Chiaki now works for an organization promoting tourism in Yamanashi, and she’s in charge of a project to reopen a facility that was closed a few years ago. When Rin casually suggests that such a large property would make a good campground, Chiaki is inspired. She gathers up all of their old camping buddies— Nadeshiko Kagamihara, who works at an outdoor goods store in Tokyo; Aoi Inuyama, who’s now an elementary school teacher in their hometown of Yamanashi; and Ena Saitou, who works at a dog grooming salon in Yokohama—and the campground-opening project is set in motion. So the story of five outdoorsy girls who became friends thanks to their shared love of camping begins once more, taking on a new challenge with the knowledge and experience they’ve gained.



Tags: Outdoor Activities , Primarily Adult Cast , Camping , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Iyashikei , Time Skip , Primarily Female Cast , Female Protagonist , Food , Coming of Age , Rural , Travel , Work , Mopeds , Seinen , Motorcycles , Animals , Robots

Gokushufudou Season 2

Also known as The Way of the Househusband: Season 2.

Studio: J.C.STAFF
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

The second season of Gokushufudou.

Tags: Yakuza , Food , Seinen , Episodic , Urban , Slapstick , Male Protagonist , Heterosexual , Animals , Family Life , Camping , Flash

Yuru Camp△ SEASON 3

Also known as Laid-Back Camp Season 3.

Studio: 8-bit
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

Within the narrow walls of the Outdoor Activities Club room, the few but lively members carry on the camping spirit as they have fun with DIY club experiments. Exciting experiences such as these have brought Nadeshiko Kagamihara deep into the world of camping, making her want to once again go on a solo trip.

However, other plans come first, as Ayano Toki and Rin Shima invite Nadeshiko to camp near Ooi River. Eager to go on their first journey together, the girls set off to forge precious memories that will stick with their hearts for years to come.



Tags: Outdoor Activities , Iyashikei , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Primarily Female Cast , Female Protagonist , Camping , Travel , Seinen , Trains , Food , School Club , Primarily Teen Cast , Educational , Ensemble Cast , Mopeds , Motorcycles , CGI , Cycling , Time Manipulation

Yama no Susume

Also known as Encouragement of Climb.

Studio: 8-bit
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Comedy , Slice of Life

Aoi prefers indoor hobbies and is afraid of heights, but her childhood friend Hinata loves to show off her passion for mountain climbing. As young children they once watched the sunrise from the top of a mountain, and now they've decided to take up mountain climbing in hopes of seeing that sunrise again. They have cooking battles with mountaineering gear, climb small hills in their neighborhood, and meet new mountaineering friends as they learn the ropes of the hobby. When will they finally see that sunrise again?



Tags: Outdoor Activities , Primarily Female Cast , Mountaineering , Iyashikei , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Female Protagonist , Primarily Teen Cast , Educational , Yuri , Seinen , School , Food , Primarily Child Cast , Camping

Heya Camp△

Also known as ROOM CAMP.

Studio: C-Station
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

The Outdoor Activities Club, Aka, the Outclub has 3 members. In the countryside of Yamanashi Prefecture, there’s a high school named Motosu High School. Go even further to one of the school buildings and you’ll find a very laid-back outdoor club that uses one corner of the classroom as their club room. Kagamihara Nadeshiko finally wants to kill some time in their club room, but then Ohgaki Chiaki and Inuyama Aoi suddenly announce that they’re all going on a trip. The girls enjoy the various local treats as they travel around, but where in the world is the end destination for this trip?!



Tags: Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Outdoor Activities , Iyashikei , Primarily Female Cast , Female Protagonist , Food , Seinen , Camping , Travel , Primarily Teen Cast

Yuru Camp△ OVA

Studio: C-Station
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

OVAs included in each of the three volumes of the Yuru Camp△ Blu-ray/DVD.

This entry contains the following:
BD/DVD Volume 1: へやキャン△episode0 (Heya Camp Episode 0), March 28, 2018.
BD/DVD Volume 2: ほらキャン△ (Hora Camp), May 23, 2018.
BD/DVD Volume 3: サバキャン△ (Survival Camp), July 25, 2018.

Tags: Outdoor Activities , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , School Club , Iyashikei , Female Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast , Survival , Food , Seinen , Primarily Teen Cast , Camping

Yuru Yuri Nachuyachumi!

Also known as YuruYuri Nachuyachumi!.

Studio: TYO Animations
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

Upon finding some camping equipment in the clubroom, the Amusement Club decide to go camping together for summer vacation, with the student council deciding to tag along. After spending the day making curry, the girls form pairs to go on a test of courage before hitting a bathhouse together.



Tags: Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Primarily Female Cast , Female Protagonist , Primarily Teen Cast , Yuri , Outdoor Activities , Camping , LGBTQ+ Themes , School , School Club , Primarily Child Cast , Kuudere , Tsundere , Slapstick

Futari Solo Camp

Also known as Solo Camping for Two.

Studio: SynergySP
Status: Finished
Genres: Romance , Slice of Life

Gen Kinokura, 34 years old.

A solitary camper who cherishes his alone time in nature, Gen enjoys his usual solo camping trips. However, he unexpectedly encounters Shizuku Kusano, a complete beginner in camping. Reluctantly, Gen ends up camping with Shizuku, despite it being the last thing he wanted to do.

What will become of Gen’s peaceful camping life now that it’s turned upside down by this new companion?



Tags: Camping , Heterosexual , Food , Educational , Outdoor Activities , Age Gap , Primarily Adult Cast , Seinen , Male Protagonist , Badminton

Bad Girl

Also known as Bad Girl.

Studio: Bridge
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Romance

Yuu Yuutani is a first-year high school student with sharp eyes, large piercings and flashy two-tone hair. She's become notorious as a bad girl… but she's really not. At heart, Yuu is an incredibly good girl, but her mind is always full of thoughts of the beautiful and popular Atori Mizutori, the school’s Madonna and head of the student disciplinary committee. So, on her mission to attract the attention of Atori, Yuu decided to quit being an honor student and become a "bad delinquent!”



Tags: Female Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast , School , Primarily Teen Cast , Yuri , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Delinquents , Urban , Surreal Comedy , Tsundere , LGBTQ+ Themes , Camping , Pet Play , Female Harem , Gyaru

Chuukan Kanriroku Tonegawa

Also known as Mr. Tonegawa: Middle Management Blues.

Studio: MADHOUSE
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Psychological

Teiai Group is one of Japan's largest firms. Yukio Tonegawa, a man with a larger-than-life presence and sharp intellect, works as the right-hand man of Chairman Kazutaka Hyodo. One day, the chairman commands Tonegawa to spearhead "Game of Death," an evil project that employs debtors. He rallies his direct reports and scrambles to form Team Tonegawa, only to encounter a barrage of challenges from the erratic chairman and his disloyal employees, ultimately leading to his demotion.

Team Tonegawa is bombarded with an onslaught of wide-ranging problems! "Mr. Tonegawa - Middle Management Blues -" is a spinoff of "Kaiji," the hit manga series that boasts a total circulation of over 20 million printed copies.



Note: Episode 14-15, parts of 18, and parts of 20-23 of this entry adapts the Kaiji spin-off manga Ichinichi Gaishutsuroku Hanchou.

Tags: Work , Primarily Adult Cast , Primarily Male Cast , Male Protagonist , Parody , Seinen , Office , Food , Card Battle , Episodic , Bowling , Slavery , Mahjong , Pandemic , Acting , Camping , Memory Manipulation