FUNimation is putting a good bit of promotion into Laughing Under the Clouds, known as Donten ni Warau in Japan, especially now that it’s debuting its first dubbed episode today. The latest piece of their marketing puzzle is the debut of the opening sequence on their million+ member strong YouTube channel, with it being subtitled as well. The song comes from Satomi Sato and is called Le Jour. FUNimation is simulcasting new episodes of the series every Saturday at 1:30pm for the fall 2014 anime season, which you can find here.
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…?
