Kuragehime
| Princess Jellyfish | |
Cover of volume 1 of Princess Jellyfish, published by Kodansha
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海月姫 (Kuragehime) |
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| Genre | Romantic comedy |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Akiko Higashimura |
| Published by | Kodansha |
| English publisher | |
| Demographic | Josei |
| Magazine | Kiss |
| Original run | November 10, 2008 – present |
| Volumes | 16 |
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by | Takahiro Omori |
| Produced by | Kazuaki Morijiri Mitsuhiro Matsuo Yoshinori Takeeda |
| Written by | Jukki Hanada |
| Music by | Makoto Yoshimori |
| Studio | Brain's Base |
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| Original network | Fuji TV (Noitamina) |
| English network | |
| Original run | October 15, 2010 – December 31, 2010 |
| Episodes | 11 |
| Live-action film | |
| Directed by | Taisuke Kawamura |
| Written by | Toshiya Ono |
| Studio | Asmik Ace Entertainment |
| Released | December 27, 2014 |
Princess Jellyfish (Japanese: 海月姫 Hepburn: Kuragehime?) is a Japanese josei manga series written and illustrated by Akiko Higashimura. It began serialization in the Kodansha manga magazine Kiss on November 10, 2008. The manga is licensed in North America by Kodansha Comics USA. An 11-episode anime television series based on the manga was produced by Brain's Base and aired on Fuji TV's Noitamina programming block between October and December 2010. The anime has been licensed by Funimation. A live-action film adaptation premiered in Japan on December 27, 2014.
Princess Jellyfish centers around Amamizukan, an apartment building in Tokyo, where the only tenants are otaku women, and where no men are allowed. While each character has her own particular fixation, the protagonist is Tsukimi Kurashita, whose love of jellyfish stems from memories of her deceased mother taking her to an aquarium and linking the lace-like tendrils of jellyfish to the dresses of princesses. Tsukimi hopes to become an illustrator and is an awkward girl terrified of social interaction, attractive people and the prospect of formal work.
The other tenants of Amamizukan are the same, being NEETs who refer to themselves as the "Amars" (nuns). Tsukimi meets the stylish Kuranosuke Koibuchi, the illegitimate son of a politician, who cross-dresses to avoid the obligations of politics and to feel closer to his mother. Tsukimi keeps the secret of his masculinity from her man-hating housemates, even as she is troubled by the intimacy of having a man in her room at times.
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