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Laid-Back Camp Creator Afro's mono Anime Casts Hikaru Tohno

The staff for the anime of Afro's mono four-panel manga revealed in a new character promotional video on Friday that Hikaru Tohno will voice the character Sakurako Shikishima. Sakurako is a second-year student and a member of the "cinephoto" club, but she was previously the president of the film studies club.

The anime will premiere in 2025.

Ryota Aikei (Jujutsu Kaisen assistant director) is directing the anime at Soigne. Takuya Miyahara is designing the characters. Yoko Yonaiyama (A Sign of Affection) is writing the script. Aniplex is producing.

Afro launched the four-panel manga in Houbunsha's Manga Time Kirara Carat in March 2017. The manga follows high school girls in the "cinephoto" club, which combines cinema and photography. Houbunsha published the manga's fourth compiled book volume on April 25.

Afro launched the Laid-Back Camp manga in Houbunsha's Manga Time Kirara Forward magazine in 2015, and moved it to Houbunsha's Comic Fuz manga website in 2019. Yen Press began releasing the manga in English in March 2018.

An anime based on the manga premiered in January 2018, and Crunchyroll streamed the 12-episode series as it aired. Crunchyroll also streamed an English dub of the first season. The second season of the anime premiered in January 2021. Yurukyan△ Season 3, the third anime season, premiered on April 4. An anime film based on the manga opened in July 2022, and Crunchyroll began streaming the film in November 2022.

The anime is getting a fourth season.

Sources: mono anime's website, Comic Natalie