The first film, titled Donten ni Warau Gaiden: Ketsubetsu, Yamainu no Chikai (Laughing Under the Clouds Gaiden – Parting, The Oath of the Yamainu), will open in Japan on December 2.
Shochiku began streaming a television commercial for the first film in the anime trilogy film adaptation of Kemuri Karakara’s Donten ni Warau Gaiden (Laughing Under the Clouds – Side Story) manga on Thursday.
Shochiku Films’ English information page for Laughing Under the Clouds Gaiden (Donten ni Warau Gaiden) is now listing the anime with nine 20-minute installments.
Karakara launched Donten ni Warau Gaiden on Mag Garden’s “Beat’s” manga site in 2014 after publishing the original Donten ni Warau manga in Mag Garden’s Monthly Comic Avarus magazine from 2011-2013.