Futari Solo Camp (Japanese: ふたりソロキャンプ, Hepburn: Futari Soro Kyanpu, "Solo Camping with Just the Two of Us") is a Japanese camping-themed manga series written and illustrated by Yudai Debata. It was serialized in Kodansha's seinen manga magazine Evening from October 2018 to February 2023, when the magazine ceased its publication. Following a brief run in the Comic Days [ja] manga app, the series resumed in Morning in December 2023. Its chapters have been collected in 19 tankōbon volumes as of November 2024. A live-action television drama adaptation is set to premiere in January 2025.

Futari Solo Camp
First tankōbon volume cover, featuring Gen Kinokura (front) and Shizuku Kusano (back)
ふたりソロキャンプ
(Futari Soro Kyanpu)
Manga
Written byYudai Debata
Published byKodansha
ImprintEvening KC
Magazine
  • Evening (October 9, 2018 – February 28, 2023)
  • Comic Days [ja] (April 21 – May 19, 2023)
  • Morning (December 14, 2023 – present)
DemographicSeinen
Original runOctober 9, 2018 – present
Volumes19
Television drama
Directed by
  • Takashi Ninomiya
  • Katsutoshi Hirabayashi
Written byAyako Kitagawa
StudioHeadquarters
Original networkTokyo MX
Original run January 9, 2025 scheduled

Characters

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Gen Kinokura (樹乃倉 巌, Kinokura Gen)
Portrayed by: Win Morisaki[1]
An expert 34-year-old out-and-out solo camper who enjoys the quiet solitude away from the city, being able to appreciate nature.
Shizuku Kusano (草野 雫, Kusano Shizuku)
Portrayed by: Miyu Honda[1]
A 20-year-old junior college student with little experience about camping alone. She asks Gen to be her mentor in order to develop her solo camping skills by camping together until she is able to manage on her own.

Media

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Manga

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Futari Solo Camp is written and illustrated by Yudai Debata. It debuted in Kodansha's seinen manga magazine Evening, under the title Hitori, Yaei Nite Omofu (独り、野営にて思ふ).[2][3] Evening ceased its publication on February 28, 2023,[4] and the series finished its first part in the last issue; following three special chapters published in the Comic Days [ja] manga app from April 21 to May 19, 2023,[5][6][7] the series resumed in Morning on December 14 of the same year.[8][9] Kodansha has collected its chapters into individual tankōbon volumes. The first volume was released on March 22, 2019.[10] As of November 21, 2024, 19 volumes have been released.[11]

Volumes

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No. Japanese release date Japanese ISBN
1 March 22, 2019[12]978-4-06-514905-8
2 May 23, 2019[13]978-4-06-516174-6
3 August 6, 2019[14]978-4-06-516945-2
4 November 21, 2019[15]978-4-06-518010-5
5 March 23, 2020[16]978-4-06-518923-8
6 May 22, 2020[17]978-4-06-519585-7
7 August 11, 2020[18]978-4-06-520490-0
8 December 23, 2020[19]978-4-06-521819-8
9 March 23, 2021[20]978-4-06-522678-0
978-4-06-523424-2 (LE)
10 July 14, 2021[21]978-4-06-524044-1
978-4-06-524605-4 (LE)
11 November 22, 2021[22]978-4-06-525887-3
978-4-06-525886-6 (LE)
12 March 23, 2022[23]978-4-06-527124-7
978-4-06-527125-4 (LE)
13 July 22, 2022[24]978-4-06-528464-3
14 November 22, 2022[25]978-4-06-529761-2
15 April 21, 2023[26]978-4-06-530943-8
16 July 21, 2023[27]978-4-06-532426-4
978-4-06-532536-0 (LE)
17 April 23, 2024[28]978-4-06-535251-9
18 July 23, 2024[29]978-4-06-536019-4
19 November 21, 2024[11]978-4-06-537522-8

Drama

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A live-action television drama adaptation was announced on November 15, 2024. The drama is directed by Takashi Ninomiya and Katsutoshi Hirabayashi, with scripts written by Ayako Kitagawa. It is set to premiere on January 9, 2025, on Tokyo MX.[1]

Reception

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By December 2020, the manga had over 1 million copies in circulation (including digital versions).[30] By November 2024, the manga had over 3 million copies in circulation.[1] Futari Solo Camp was nominated for the 45th Kodansha Manga Award in the general category in 2021.[31]

References

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