Aoi Inuyama

* Anime as of S3
* Movie
* Drama
* Manga

### Debut

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

## Personal status

### Occupation

Student
Supermarket Cashier (Anime)
Supermarket attendant (Live-action)

### Affiliations

Motosu High School
Outdoor Activities Club

### Relatives

Akari Inuyama (younger sister)
Mineko Inuyama (grandmother)

### 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)

Yumena Yanai

**Aoi Inuyama** (犬山 あおい *Inuyama Aoi*) 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

Aoi is a fair-skinned girl with chest-length greenish-brown hair (its edges fade to a blonder shade), which is tied in a side ponytail on the left which is held by a purple hair bobble with bangs hanging on the right side of her forehead. Her eyes are olive-green colored. Her eyebrows are not only visible through her hair, but appear in front of a hat if she's wearing one.

When camping or outdoors, she wears a large grey-and-white scarf, a light-blue sweater with a dark-blue shirt, a multicolored skirt, and brown boots.

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

## Personality

Kind and affable, Aoi is a sincerely sweet young girl with a general interest in camping. Although, she has a tendency to lie about herself and make tall tales. In later volumes this can be discerned by Aoi's irises disappearing; Nadeshiko and Chiaki pick up on it eventually. The tendency to lie runs through the Inuyama family.

## *Yuru Camp Movie*

In the movie set ten years after the events of Season 1, Aoi works as an elementary school teacher at Fujikawa Elementary, which was set to close at the end of the academic year. However, Aoi had already been referred to another school to continue teaching.

When Aoi first hears of Chiaki's campsite plans, she is moved by Nadeshiko's enthusiasm for it, and offers to help out. As a result, Aoi is tasked with scheduling duties related to the project. Aoi also proposes the idea for a kids' area at one part of the campsite.

Not long after Aoi teaches her last lesson at Fujikawa Elementary, she hears the bad news that the campsite project would be suspended. Nevertheless, she remains in touch with Chiaki for ways to save their campsite, and eventually, a revised plan for the campsite is given the go-ahead. Aoi decides to salvage the old tyres from her former school, and incorporate them as part of the new kids' area.

Aoi is a qualified motorist by this time. She drives a Honda N-one.

## Trivia

* Ranked 3rd in a 2021 survey of favorite *Yuru CampΔ* characters.
* Aoi's surname **Inuyama** means "dog" (犬) (**inu**) and "mountain, hill" (山) (**yama**).
	+ **Inuyama** is taken from *Inuyama*, which is situated at *Aichi Prefecture*.
* She speaks Japanese with Kansai dialect. In Volume 1, she says that this is because she was born in *Inuyama*, Gifu Prefecture (although Inuyama is in Aichi Prefecture).
* Aoi's birthday is the same as Nadeshiko Kagamihara's, which is on March 4.
* Aoi has her own comic strip, called *"Inu-Inu-Inuko-san (DogDogDog Girl)"*, which appears inside the cover of each volume of the collected release of the manga.
	+ In the segment in Curry Noodles Are the Best Travel Companion, several things relating to Aoi's nickname, Inuko are revealed;
		- Aoi once lived in Inuyama city where her family ran a dog cafe named "Cafe Inuyama"
		- All members of her family are born on the year of the dog.
* Aoi's voice actress, Aki Toyosaki, also shares a pronounced fang, as seen in Aoi's character design.

## Media

### Images

Aoi in school uniform for Season 2Anime character design before S3Season 1 templateMovie image
Season 3 character design previewSticker image?Promotional poster for Season 1Aoi in the manga
Volume 4 - The sisters make their tall-tale faces
Fan art

## References

1. ↑ *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）
2. ↑ *YuruCamp.jp* - キャラクター｜映画『ゆるキャン△』公式サイト