The anime adaptation of the manga Donten ni Warau Gaiden is set as a trilogy of films coming from WIT Studio that are set to run about 60-minutes each and some new promotion is out for them. Shochiku has a pair of spots coming at at 30 and 60-seconds that shows off the first film is set for a December 2nd, 2017 debut. Fans will be able to pick it up on home video at the same time there while the mass market edition of it will arrive on January 10th, 2018. The DVD is set to be priced at 6,500 yen and the Blu-ray at 7,400 yen. Extras include a booklet, a drama CD, and a cast talk sequence.
With Tetsuya Wakano directing, Eiji UImehara is handling the composition for the trilogy while Kie Tanaka is serving as the character designer and chief animation director. The new additions to the cast includes Fumiko Orikasa as Koyuki Kumou and Tooru Ookawa as Taiko Kumou.
The manga serves as side story material that takes place during and after the main series which saw simulcast from Funimation and a home video release as well. Check out our review of the original series.
The TV series was directed by Hiroshi Haraguchi based on the scripts by Yuuya Takahashi with Doga Kobo animating it. Takao Maki worked on the character designs for the series.
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.
Original plot concept: “Protect this country from behind the curtains of history.” In those days, we were dreaming seriously.
Eleven years before the resurrection of Orochi, the demon serpent that awakes every 300 years, there were those who aimed to protect the country behind the curtains of history. They are the Yamainu, the unit formed solely to contain Orochi. In that unit instructed by Kumou family head Taiko, its members include Tenka and his sworn friends Sousei Abeno, Kiiko Sasaki, and others.
However, as a result of a certain incident, Tenka parted ways with the other Yamainu who held the same ambitions. There was something that could not be protected if he remained affiliated with the unit.
In the twelfth year of the Meiji era, under the clear skies of Shiga where the serpent was destroyed, the Yamainu and the Kumou brothers discover Tenka’s hidden feelings.
