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.
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.
Hitomi Ezoe (episode director for new JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure franchise, My Hero Academia season 2) is the assistant director, and Yutaka Yamada (Tokyo Ghoul, Tokyo Ghoul √A) is composing the music.
The anime project was initially announced as a film, and the staff later clarified that it will be a film trilogy.