Announced as going into production in August 2013 and set for an October 2014 premiere, the Doga Kobo series adaptation of the six volume manga Donten ni Warau recently got its English language title of Laughing Under the Clouds. Now the production has updated with a number of new cast announcements in addition to the first four below which were announced previously:
Yūichi Nakamura as Tenka Kumo
Yuuki Kaji as Soramaru Kumo
Tsubasa Yonaga as Chūtarō Kumo
Takahiro Sakurai as Shirasu Kinjō.
Mamiko Noto as Nishiki
Shinichiro Miki as Naoto Kagami
Rina Satou as Botan
Kenichi Suzumura as Abe no Hirari
Hiro Shimono as Rakuchō Takeda
Hiroki Yasumoto as Seiichirou Takamine
Sayaka Ohara as Kiiko Sasaki
The series is being directed by Hiroshi Haraguchi based on scripts by Yuuya Takahashi with Doga Kobo animating it. Takao Maki is handling the character designs for the series.
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: ANN]
