Haguregumo | |
First edition of Haguregumo, published by Shogakukan on July 6, 1975
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浮浪雲 (Haguregumo) |
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Genre | Comedy |
Manga | |
Written by | George Akiyama |
Published by | Shogakukan |
Demographic | Seinen |
Magazine | Big Comic Original |
Original run | 1973 – present |
Volumes | 109 |
Anime television film | |
Directed by | Mori Masaki |
Produced by | Chiaki Imada |
Written by | Atsushi Yamatoya |
Music by | Seiji Yokoyama |
Studio | Toei Animation & Madhouse |
Released | 24 April 1982 |
Runtime | 70 minutes |
Haguregumo (浮浪雲?, literally "Wandering Cloud") is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by George Akiyama. It has been serialized by Shogakukan in Big Comic Original since 1973 and collected in 109 tankōbon as of 2017. Haguregumo received the 1979 Shogakukan Manga Award for general category.
It was adapted into a movie in 1982 by Madhouse Studios and Toei Animation. Directed by Mori Masaki, it premiered in Japan on the 24 April 1982.
Set at the end of the Edo period, the series depicts Cloud's family with his wife, Turtle, their 11-year-old son and 8-year-old daughter. The Clouds are always ignoring work and playing. Cloud is notorious for womanising.