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I'm trying to comprehend Room Camp (Heyacamp), but not due to a complex story design.  The story is simplicity in itself.  But Room Camp, which came out in the year between the two Laid-Back Camp seasons (2020), seems to have taken a cue from Yama no Susume (Encouragement of Climb) which began with two seasons of shorts.  Each episode of Room Camp lasts 3 minutes, 30 seconds.  This is rather smart on C-Station's part.  The plodding pace of a usual Laid-Back Camp episode can be death for the drowsy, but such a short time span for Room Camp gets the job done without a snooze alert.  Really, the agonizingly slow pace is the only knock I have on the Laid-Back Camp concept.

The twelve episodes deal with a stamp rally Nadeshiko, Aki, and Aoi take.  Visit a spot, find the stamp pad, and fill the twelve places in your travel booklet to receive a prize.  In the meantime, Rin and Ena do cameo work helping the trekkers when Nadeshiko characteristically loses the stamp booklet half-way through the adventure.  The rest is finding the point of interest and talk up the features of the region around Mt. Fuji.  In the end, the stamp rally really was Aoi and Aki's scheme to acquaint Nadeshiko with her new prefecture.  Nadeshiko comes back with her own plan to tour the area ... super massive stamp rally.  And for the viewer, a cute story was enjoyed.

The animation follows that used in the Laid-Back series without change (unlike the 2022 movie where Nadeshiko experiments with shorter hair), but that is using a proven design.  The gentle iyashikei is promoted by a closing theme which blends the genre of country music (I know that wasn't Reva McEntyre, but ...) with the comradery of girls who support each other.  Still, those ever-present scarves.  Won't these girls do any summer activities?  We can only hope for the up-coming movie.