The Doga Kobo series adaptation of the seven volume manga Donten ni Warau, known as Laughing Under the Clouds internationally, has now landed at Hulu. FUNimation has the one week exclusive on the show on their site while Hulu will be streaming it a week later. The first episode has now gone live there in its original Japanese with English language subtitles and those with a Hulu Plus subscription can watch this show on their TV and mobile devices.
The series stars 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 and Sayaka Ohara as Kiiko Sasaki.
It’s 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…?
