The manga was nominated for the Kodansha Manga Awards and the Manga Taisho Award in 2015.
Matsuura launched her Kasane manga in Evening in April 2013 as her debut work, and ended it in August 2018.
The film opened in Japan in September 2018 at #9.
The magazine teased that the manga’s story will be a large scale story stretching from Japan’s Tenpō era (1830-1844) to the Bakumatsu period (mid-late 1800s) and beyond.