Audience reviews
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Banisoup
I had a hard time rating this one! It's definitely a shonen anime but it's different than the other ones I've seen, it has a lot of heart! They don't have filler in this show and honest to god I feel like they could have spent a bit more time on the story only because I really enjoyed watching the relationships and.... some of them needed more time. The brothers designs were what peaked my interest and then their relationships. They have some amazing banter and really show a different side than what I'm used to seeing with shows like this. It's a short anime so I highly recommend checking it out!
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This thing is boring and nothing special. The story doesn't pick up until episode three and gets a little exciting until episode 8. For a twelve episode show that is bad. This anime uses cheap tactics in order to get an emotion respond from it's viewers. This anime feels like a bunch of amateurs wrote and directed this. I can't hate on it too much on the story, I always felt if you have a weak story put some romance in it and they put two of them. The romance is clumsily one romance is very rush the other does it better but it goes no where.
The characters is where i think why people overrated this anime. The brothers goes thou hardship throughout the show or do they?
Having a twist does not make good anime mediocre is a honest score for this anime.
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Donten Ni Warau is a special show. It shows promise, but doesn't build on it as much as it could.
The story is like a epic about a fight against evil and overcoming obstacles.
I enjoyed the show, but can't give it a higher rating because:
Pace: The pace is not worst one I've seen, but definitely not the best one either, as it moves quite slow in the first 50-60% of the show, before suddenly going back in time to explain some of the background, and then speeding towards the end.
Story: The story stats of a bit whimsical, with three brother capturing criminals the police let escape and ferrying them over to a prison island. But there is some darker story in the background that starts coming to light around halfway through. The story was solid enough, with some exceptions, like the ending, wh…
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Lame. In every possible way. It's a real struggle to find anything good about this anime : Action scenes are mediocre, somewhat barely enjoyable at their best. Rhythm is a disaster, especially since the comedy/bromance cut-scenes intervenes at the worst possible time, with not even an once of originality, and all predictable. Was the bromance even necessary to the story to begin with ... ? That could have been - at least - an effective bait, a trap to lure the young girls audience but when it's done that bad, I can only see it as a mockery, an insult to their intelligence.
And the story is not helping, of course. 3 to 4 episodes are enough to know where the whole thing is going (here's come the convenient monster... yay !).
Mostly, this anime goes down because it's cheap. Everything's che…
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DONTEN NI WARAU ANIME REVIEW
OVERALL: 8.6
PLOT: 8/10
This anime is unexpectedly great for a 12 episode one. Since I hardly see post and pictures of this series, I thought that is was just fine. However, upon watching it, the excitement I've felt is enough to complete it with just one sitting. This anime focuses on the three brothers and a known monster who will endangered their lives, must we say human lives, every 300 years. I'm truly moved on the bond of these three brothers. Honestly, I've cried, a lot, while watching this one. It's rare to see an anime showing this kind of compassionate love to his family. And this successfully showed it. For me, the plot is twisted just perfectly fine, you will expect but don't expect. However, the one you expect happens. Something like that if you kn…
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Super Samurai Bros.
This is one of the most enjoyable short series I've seen in some time. Laughing Under the Clouds seems to take some serious inspiration from some of my favorite anime series of all time with strong familial themes of loss, growth and personal development similar to Gurren Lagan and a striking visual and tonal style that almost shocked me wasn't straight from the team of Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood. The OP and EP were also wonderful and expertly implemented in a sense that they evolved along with the story they told with some seriously high quality music I wouldn't mind having on a playlist with some of the greats.
The visuals are top notch with characters that endear themselves quickly, though I only wish the series could've run a little longer to further expand a…
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I don't want to give a lengthy review for this,because my main goal is to just notice the main strength,weakness, and my opinion on each.
Story: The story is ok. I would not say it's a typical type story. Storyline is taking place in the past, probably during the wartime(it's completely fiction). It involves action so I would not say it's entirely unique, but I think they could've developed it a little bit more. It was going toward a good story if they did not rush too much.
Sound: The soundtrack is not anything out of ordinary.For some action scenes it tries to add dramatic sense to it, mostly ninja or samurai type. But the story overpowers the soundtrack, so sometimes it's even hard to notice the background music.
Character: I want to refrain from spoilers, but this is more like a st…
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Great anime, I really enjoyed it the artwork was awesome as well as the story. I enjoyed all the charecters also I'll give it an 8 out 10
The reason II don't give it a 10 is because it was way too short. The length of the anime didn't allow the sorry of the characters to develop properly. For example Shirasu's brother was made out to be this powerful guy and they did nothing with him. Also the orochi battle was very short. I could go on but I liked the anime despite these problems.
Overall very good I'll watch this again
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If you like nicely ended stories with much action and plot twisting you'll like this anime.
I had lots of mixed feelings of this anime. Ok first I love Tenka he is the absolutely best character ever, but the reason for my mixed feelings were they were constantly using him as an excuse. Like to get stronger, the reason for this the reason for that, like NO don't do that to MY Tenka!!
(please excuse my language)
Story- Ahhhh again it's like they used Tenka as an excuse too much. This is a giant jumbled animated version of producers continuously bitch slapping the audience. Like it seems calm but then shit gets real and it's like noooo wait what? noooooo wait what?! that kind of feeling the whole way through. While I was watching it I was like I'm so giving this a 1 how dare they but then…
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******contains minor spoilers******
-UNDERRATED
-AWESOME PLOT TWIST
I KNOW what ur thinking . You must be thinking this anime is quite horrible(despite you've not watched it) . As the rating and first few review's score ain't good. BUT watch it! Luckily i did not trust the ratings and score of the anime and reviews . If i do so, i missed out on one good anime .
Plot: 8/10
The plot is about during the Meiji Era there's a giant evil snake that exist to destroy lands and cause problems and it comes every thousand year and no one knows what is it whether a spirit or natual disaster .And the snake need to process or rather choose a person to be the host and it is chosen randomly. And so to prevent this there's 3 brothers who is the "Yamainu Squad" . They are gonna kill the person who is c…
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Donten ni Warau also known as Laughing Under the Clouds(which after finishing the anime, the title makes a lot of sense to me now!) looks like a series that is pretty generic at first, but it really isn't.
The show centers around the relationship between the three Komou brothers - Tenka, the oldest, Soramaru, the 'middle brother', and Chuutarou, the youngest, and the events that go on around them.
Now, onto the review!
Story: 10/10
The story was very interesting, mainly focusing on the brothers' relationship(will go into their relationship in the characters section), and the "Orochi's Vessel" that appears once in a few hundred years ? (not sure of the time...). The story was very good, keeping me interested enough to keep watching. Keeping this short to avoid any spoilers.
Art/Animat…
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SpoilerFree Summary [tl;dr]-> this anime focuses on the character development and human interaction mainly, while the story and the combats develops too fast and time to time the events seems out of place or rather rushed. While that's to be expected with having just 12 episodes, if you are into details and mainly give importance to the plot, you may not feel utterly satisfied with Donten.
However, if what you're looking for is not the actions and that you don't mull over details of the plot; but like human drama, interection between the characters and especially brotherly love, you'll probably like Donten, as it's a warm&lovely anime and leaves you with a smile on the face; as its title suggest.
**Possible SPOILERS Ahead**
Main (Detailed) Summary;
Story is good and rather interest…
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I think this is a decent anime - despite receiving some not-as-high ratings by previous viewers. The art is really really good for sure, so you wont be disappointed on that front.
The plot is not bad - I dont know about other viewers, but I could predict the major plot twist much in advance. You will really feel the bromance when you watch this, but it's not shounen-ai or yaoi or anything close. Just nice, brotherly/family love.
You'll probably appreciate the MC's personality. As the middle sibling, he has some inferiority complex towards his talented older brother, and he wants to get stronger so his brothers can rely on him.
Anyways, it's worth watching. I smiled at the end, and felt like it was a good use of my time.
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Not many animes can give me a suitable plot twist/twists because i'm the reigning champion of predicting what's going to happen and I'm usually right. With that, that's why I was so fucking amazed by this anime because it caught me by surprise a few times.
This anime has it all, laughs that make you want to rewind and rewatch that moment a couple of times, and that perfect blend of bitter sweet while even throwing in some pretty good lessons.
When I finished the anime I couldn't help but smile, so don't miss out on this because it's worth giving it a try.
And keep on laughing.
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Donten ni Warau (Laughing Under the Clouds) is a rare breed. I say this for its ability to tell a story guided by events of the past with a greater focus for the future. Taking place in the present time with a trio of brothers, they have the duty of ferrying convicted criminals as result of high levels of crime rate. That’s the least of their concern though as we find out a malevolent legend known as the ‘Orochi’ that lurks from the past. Should we even call it a legend? It’s known that every 300 years, the Orochi will reincarnate to bring forth destruction. Brace yourself for a story of the fantasy coming ages.
The series is based off of the manga the same name written by Karakara-Kemuri with two other prequels taking place some separate centuries before its current timeline. Regardless,…
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Don’t be put out by the first few episodes. They probably weren’t what you were expecting. I nearly dropped this anime, however, don’t lose faith and be patient. By the time you get to episode 6, the story will take you on an emotional rollercoaster, trust me. The story is literally like a rollercoaster. The start is always boring as it is slowly ascending but as soon as it gets to the top, that’s when everything starts. The plot gets deeper, the characters are clarified, and the story is explained. This story is a mix of old and new. There are ninjas/samurais and there are police brigades. There’s also magic and demons. Just wait until the plot twist at the end of episode 10. XD
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Like I usually do, I go to my favorite anime website every season and watch the 1st episode of each anime. If I'm somewhat into it, I usually stick around; and this one caught my attention.
Story
Basically it's your typical good vs evil anime with the good guys primarily focusing on the 3 brothers, while the 1st two older brothers are far more interesting, the third and youngest...well honestly could've done without him. Didn't really do much or affect much of the story except for maybe like 5 or 10 minutes of the story in ALL of the series. Really. Like your typical good vs evil anime, there are happy times, then tough times and then reunion and then happy time again, gee..didn't see that coming. Honestly it didn't really blow me away or anything. It was a pretty typical setting I've see…
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SPOILER FREE! This review is going to be split into two parts: subjective and objective (or the difference between my heart and my mind).
We'll start with OBJECTIVE. The art is aesthetically pleasing and the character designs are unique enough that you don't mix up anyone. It pulls off both serious and cutesy expressions very well, but that's standard for shoujo. It also showed me a male outfit that made me go "WTF" in the same way I look at the suits in Kill la Kill.
The animation is mediocre at best. The fights are nice towards the end but the beginning is pretty lazily done (a sound effect and a flash). I said before the interspersed serious and cutesy art is nice, but they really don't transition well animation wise. There are some parts which are jarring and completely take you out…
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My sister and I like historical anime and we got interested in it. First few episodes were in, my opinion, boring. I know they were needed; to meet them, get familiar with their past etc. At that time I really considered on dropping it... but I'm so glad I didn't. I think the real plot twist starts somewhere around the fifth episode as a real shock. From that point onward there was nothing else except surprises.
Story is unique and it doesn't left out any characters. I'm really considering on reading the manga. I wasn't sure should I give the story 9 or 8 because of the one little detail in the last episode, but I think it deserves that 9.
Art was nice, as any new anime coming out. I didn't like the look of the characters at first, but you get used to it after some time. Beside that, the…
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I don't quite remember the last time I actually watched an ancient-themed anime since Fushigi Yuugi. If there is, I probably have forgotten about it.
So Donten ni Warau was really underrated this Fall 2014. It deserves more attention! Like really, I had fun watching this series!
The bond between the Kumoh brothers is really admirable. Tenka as the eldest is really effective. At first sight he might look like just another fun-loving big brother, but he's more than that. The people in their village pretty much love him because of their family's reputation.
Soramaru and Chuutaro as the younger brothers is really cute too. Soramaru is admirable because of his determination to keep up (or even overcome) with his older brother. Chuutaro acts as the foundation of their relationship for he is t…
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