What begins as a peaceful solo camping trip takes a wildly unexpected turn when Yamamichi Kensuke crosses paths with a group of beautiful, fun-loving young women who've lost their way in the woods. One thing leads to another—too many drinks, a cramped tent, a steamy visit to the hot springs—and Kensuke's quiet getaway becomes a night he won't soon forget. But the real shock hits back home, when Kensuke discovers that he's been assigned as the substitute instructor for the very same young women from the campsite! Now he must navigate the fallout of their wild night together in this sexy, hilarious misadventure that inspired the hit anime.

Harem Camp! has story by and art by YUUKI HB. English translation is done by Matthew Carolan. Lettering by Jamil Stewart. Published by Seven Seas Entertainment (October 6, 2026). Rated M.

Jean-Karlo Lemus
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Most anime take advantage of their theme to be mildly educational regarding said hobby. And not doing so is a valid decision, so it's not like a manga is completely disposable if it isn't didactic in some way. But the set-up to Harem Camp! gives it the impression that it'll concern itself with the minutiae of camping. It does... but very distantly. Yuru Camp, this ain't—what we have here is a whole lot of hanky panky.

Far be it for me to be against a series all about boning in the woods, but protagonist Kensuke doesn't make the best first impression; getting drunk and assaulting your future student while she's saying “no” doesn't exactly endear him all that much. And again, far be it for me to slam a series for having extended sequences where our protagonist fantasizes about boning his harem of students in their tent, but it always felt like Harem Camp! could've found more natural ways for its cast of characters to end up in bed with Kensuke. That he becomes their substitute teacher feels like even more of a contrivance. I'm not a fan of how the manga tries to establish Kensuke as a victim at the whims of the girl he assaulted, either, especially since he's very willing to get drunk and do it again anyway. He's not enough of a jerk to be a lovable rogue, and he's not nice enough to be likable. The translation does get some points for some clever wordplay, but by that token, I'm not sure about Kensuke getting called “unc.” I get why it's done; it's a reasonable equivalent for “jii-san,” but its use clashes with the rest of how Haruki speaks.

Yuuki's artwork is at least effective. His faces are intended to be cute, but they seem to be informed by old memes about the “uguu~” faces from Kanon, considering how high up everyone's mouths are compared to their chins. There are a handful of panels that really illustrate how pretty the great outdoors are, like one lovely panel where the cast enjoys their assembled camp under the Milky Way, or the handful of panels where Kensuke cooks up a grilled campground steak. But it's pretty obvious that Harem Camp!'s priority is showing off T&A, and it finds as many excuses as it can to show off the characters' panties or exposed boobs. And yet, with this being a softcore series, you can't actually see explicit penetration, which never stops being the darnedest thing. We see one of the girls put a condom onto Kensuke with her mouth, and the manga isn't shy about showing off semen either.

Maybe if Kensuke wasn't such a predatory cretin, and maybe if there was more to the female cast than a love of camping and getting buggered in the woods, Harem Camp! would have a bit more to offer. Folks looking for some good T&A in the great outdoors might want to keep looking elsewhere.

Lucas DeRuyter
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So they really will just let people call anything a “hit anime” nowadays, huh? Harem Camp! is an ecchi series by YUUKI HB that was first published online in 2021, with new chapters still being released today. It was adapted into a short-form anime that premiered in 2022, which I, as a person who gets paid to review hentai, only heard about when OceanVeil started dubbing it in September of 2026. Despite the insistence of the synopsis section on the back of the first volume of Harem Camp!, it's far from a major success, and its only memorable qualities are how antiquated and misogynistic it feels in 2026.

Beginning with a group of four young women approaching Yamamichi Kensuke, a weird man who should go into the woods and never return, while he's on a camping trip; our protagonist goes on to molest one of them while they sleep in his tent and then tricks them into attending a mixed-gender hot spring with him. The plot thickens when he discovers that these women are all high school students when he starts working in their district as a substitute teacher. Rather than report him for sexually coercing and assaulting them, though, they blackmail him into being the supervisor of their camping club so that they can explore further sexual situations together.

If I haven't been clear already, the main character in Harem Camp! sucks, and this work sucks for making him the protagonist and normalizing this comically sexist behavior. This manga almost reads like a parody the way it has its lead leering and nearly wolf-whistling at these young women and their stereotypical hentai designs, but it clearly lacks the self-awareness to iterate or comment on the tropes it's packed full of. There are more upskirt shots in this volume of Harem Camp! than there are panels where the women are wearing school uniforms and posed non-provocatively, and the way this work sees its female characters primarily as sex objects feels grosser than ever in 2026.

The one compliment I'll give this work is that at least it gives each of the characters distinct sexual proclivities to make them feel more distinct and the sexual scenarios feel more varied. Though, even then, these women are basically cardboard cutouts with sex organs, with personalities that amount to little more than “is into BDSM” or “is secretly a slut.” I guess if you can only get off to overtly misogynistic media, then you should read Harem Camp!, but I'd strongly advise everyone who doesn't hate women to avoid this manga.

Bolts
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Oh the great outdoors, a perfect place to run across random girls of different sexual proclivities. This is a harem story that was admittedly a little hard for me to get into considering just how unlikable the main lead actually is. Not only is the first sexual encounter of the entire book built on him forcing himself on somebody in a dark, crowded tent, but he also doesn't really do a lot that believably makes me think that these girls would want to have any type of sexual relationship with him. The only thing that perpetuates a lot of the sex scenes in this book is the fact that all of the girls that he comes across are some degree of twisted or they are the ones taking advantage of opportunities to use him. So there's this weird tug of war that's going on throughout the book where it feels like everyone is taking advantage of each other, but not in a way that feels particularly engaging or titillating. I'm not sure if this is a book that is made for people that want to live out a fantasy where they are able to take advantage of somebody or if it's for readers that want to be the person being taken advantage of. Both of those fetishes are technically explored here, but it's not really done in a consistent way.

The title of the book is called Harem Camp! because a majority of the sexual encounters that take place revolve around camping in some way, whether it's at a campsite or as an extension of a camping club. All this really means is that there are a few sexual encounters that take place inside of a tent or outside, so the book doesn't even really play with its premise all that well in an interesting way. There's just a lot about this book that comes off as very awkward and un-engaging outside of the moments where the presentation plays around with onomatopoeias.

I don't believe in the sexual chemistry between any of the characters, I don't really find myself particularly rooting for anybody and the sex scenes themselves come off as very boring, even if they also technically play with the taboo of a teacher getting it on with their students. It almost feels like the writer had a bunch of ideas and wanted to use the camping angle as a way to explore all of them. However, what actually ended up happening is a tonally inconsistent story where everybody is just sort of into whatever the specific sex scene calls for. This isn't a mishmash of different fetishes that potentially appeal to everybody, it's an unfocused mess that doesn't fully explore any particular type of sexual gratification, thus making it very hard to recommend to anybody.