Chiaki Ōgaki

* Anime as of S3
* Movie
* Drama
* Manga

### Debut

*Welcome to the Outdoor Activities Club!* (Season 1, Episode 2); brief appearance in *Mount Fuji and Curry Noodles* (Season 1, Episode 1)

## Personal status

### Occupation

Student
Liquor store worker (part-time)

### Affiliations

Motosu High School
Outdoor Activities Club

### Friends

Rin Shima (high school and camping friend)
Ena Saitō (high school friend)
Ayano Toki (Nadeshiko's middle school friend)

## Media

### Anime Debut

*Welcome to the Outdoor Activities Club!* (Season 1, Episode 2)

## Portrayal

### Japanese (drama)

Momoko Tanabe

**Chiaki Ōgaki** (大垣 千明 *Ōgaki Chiaki*) is a high-school girl in *Yuru CampΔ* who is a student at Motosu High School. She is a founding member of The Outdoor Activities Club.

## Appearance

Chiaki is a fair-skinned girl with thigh-length bluish-purple hair that is tied in twin ponytails on the side of her head with some of her hair falling onto the sides of her face, very short bangs above her eyebrows, brown eyes and semi-rectangular wire-frame glasses. In Season 2, her bangs were slightly longer.

When outdoors and when camping, she wears black leggings, reddish-brown boots and a large dark-blue coat.

When at school, she wears the typical female uniform (*seifuku*, 制服).

## Personality

Chiaki is a friendly, bright, and playful girl. She is shown to be very happy and high energy. She is a bit mischievous and sometimes pulls pranks on other club members, often initiated by or with Aoi, especially concerning Nadeshiko.

## Camping

Chiaki started camping with her family and found it really fun, from eating curry to sleeping in the wild, hence she founded The Outdoor Activities Club to do it more, but along with her friend Aoi Inuyama.

## *Yuru Camp Movie*

In the movie set ten years after the events of Season 1, Chiaki works as a tourism promoter for Yamanashi Prefecture, having quit a previous job in Kyoto. Chiaki has by then also developed a fondness for alcoholic drinks, similar to her old teacher Minami Toba.

After taking charge of a project to regenerate a disused site in Takaori, she travels to Nagoya, inviting Rin over for dinner. Chiaki gets wasted during said dinner and inexplicably drags Rin all the way to the Takaori site by taxi, after Rin makes the suggestion of turning the area into a campsite. She also drunk-texts Nadeshiko, Aoi and Ena, inviting them to the site; only Nadeshiko makes it there. Nadeshiko treats Chiaki and Rin to a hotpot at her family home; by that time, Aoi arrives and Chiaki discusses her plans in more detail.

When Ena, who couldn't join the others because of her work commitments, offers her help with the campsite project, Chiaki starts assigning roles related to said project. On their next meeting at the Yamanashi prefectural building, Ena joins the others at the meeting room Chiaki was assigned to, which is as narrow as the old Outdoor Activities Club room from high school. Chiaki notes down the ideas that all her friends have, before scheduling their next meeting at the site proper to do initial clearing and surveying.

During a trial camp run at the site, Ena's dog Chikuwa discovers old earthenware nearby, which Chiaki later reports to her boss. Chiaki then relays bad news about their camp - the discovered earthenware dates back to the Jōmon period, and more of them had been found by archaeologists excavating the site, causing Yamanashi prefecture to cancel the campsite project and turn the area into an historic site.

Chiaki uses her spare time to help Aoi move her belongings out of her former elementary school that is set to close down. Afterwards, she discusses with Aoi for ways to save their campsite project. When they go to the assigned meeting room to discuss further, they spot Nadeshiko and Rin already there, followed by Ena. Chiaki proposes a revision of their original campsite plans, which culminates in a video mostly directed by Ena. Chiaki shows this video at the next prefectural conference that was to discuss the future of the Takaori site. After excavation of the site is complete with the help of Rin, Nadeshiko and Aoi, Chiaki's revised plan is given the go-ahead, and Chiaki wastes no time delivering the good news. The campsite is opened on October 2, and Chiaki attends the inauguration.

## Trivia

* Ranked 5th in a 2021 survey of favorite *Yuru CampΔ* characters.
* The name **Chiaki** means "thousand" (千) (**chi**) and "clear, crystal" (晶), "bright" (明) or "autumn" (秋) (**aki**).
	+ Part of the name **Aki** can also mean "second, Asia" (亜) (**a**) and "hope" (希) (**ki**).
* Chiaki's surname **Ōgaki** means "big, great" (大) (**o**) and "fence" (垣) (**kaki**/**gaki**).
	+ **Ōgaki** is taken from *Ōgaki*, which is a city in Gifu Prefecture.
* Chiaki's birthday is on August 31.
* Chiaki rejected Nadeshiko's request to join The Outdoor Activities Club at first because their activity room would be crowded if they had many members. Later she found out from Aoi that they might be moved to a bigger room if they have four or more members. She eventually accepts Nadeshiko's application to join the club.
* Chiaki works at the Minobu branch of Kawamoto Liquors.
	+ Supposedly the real-life store was closed due to COVID-19 as reported in January 2021.
* Chiaki is the co-founder of The Outdoor Activities Club at her school, along with Aoi Inuyama.
* Chiaki and Aoi take the train from Hadakajima Station to get to school.
* Of the five main characters, Chiaki is the only one of them without any member of her immediate family appearing in the series (as of Volume 14).

## Media

### Images

Chiaki in school uniform for Season 2Anime character design before S3Season templateMovie image
Season 3 character design previewSticker image?Promotional poster for Season 1Chiaki in the manga
## References

1. ↑ *Yamanashi-Kankou.jp* - Anime Laid-Back Camp △ Models that Appeared in the Third Episode
2. ↑ *NetLab ITmedia* - 【ゆるキャン△】人気キャラクターランキングTOP9！　1位の「志摩リン」に次ぐ2位は？【2021年調査】 (in Japanese; in English: *[Yuru Camp△] Top 9 popular character rankings! What is the second place after the first place "Rin Shima"? [2021 survey]*) 2021/11/23 21:05（公開）, 2021/11/16 19:55（更新）
3. ↑ *Anime News Etoile* - Yuru Camp: The store Chiaki works in has been closed January 09, 2021
4. ↑ *Exams, Caribou, Steamed Buns, Yum!* (Season 1, Episode 8)
5. ↑ *YuruCamp.jp* - キャラクター｜映画『ゆるキャン△』公式サイト