Announced as going into production in August 2013 and set for an October 2014 premiere, the Doga Kobo series adaptatoin of the six volume manga Donten ni Warau has gotten an official English language title. Nippon TV has set up their licensing page for the property and they’re using the title Laughing Under the Clouds for it. Not all names are used through what licensors request, though more often than not they are, but it provides a good clue as to what we’ll see it localized as in the future.
Plot concept: In the eleventh year of the Meiji era carrying swords was forbidden by the government and those known as samurai were slowly fading away. However, there were plenty who didn’t like those changes taking place in Japan and inevitably the crime rates increased. The country’s only solution was an inescapable lake prison. Since the prison had no other way to access it except by water, the three boys of the Kumo family were assigned to transport the criminals to their new “home”. Although, is that the only thing they were doing…?
[Source: WTK]
