A review by librarianryan
Laughing Under the Clouds, Volume 1 by Kemuri Karakara

slow-paced

3.0

 I don’t quite have this manga figured out.  I think I need book two to understand more of what is happening.  Three brothers and a housemate (who appears to be 600 years old) ferry prisoners to the prison, or catch the ones that escape.  Part of why I find it confusing is because of my limited history knowledge of the samurai.  At times they seem evil and others times a hero.  I only know what I have learned from movies and let's just say western culture does a bad job teaching eastern culture.  I prefer the main story to the second story in the book that takes place 100 years earlier.  And while I found this book interesting.  I don’t think I found it interesting enough to pick up the sequel.