Title: KuragehimeGenre: Comedy, Slice of LifeRating: 8.3/10 Summary: The story centers around Tsukimi Kurashita, a huge fan of jellyfish who moves to Tokyo to become an illustrator. She moves into [...]
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Kuragehime (Princess Jellyfish) Anime Review. Here’s my review of the HIT 2010 slice of life comedy anime, Kuragehime (AKA Princess Jellyfish).   Short Review This show is hilarious and crazy [...]
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More known in the West under the name of Princess Jellyfish, Kuragehime has been licensed for simulcast at the time of its broadcast by Funimation and I’m pretty sure the DVDs have been released recently. (But I am not sure, I don’t particularly care for DVDs I can’t play either ^^) Anyway, Kuragehime started as a … Continue reading »
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Preface First off, for those who celebrate Christmas, I hope you enjoy the holidays. Just like last year, I have decided to participate in a Secret Santa Anime project hosted by Reverse Thieves. In this project, you give a list of what you watched to a person, which is randomly selected. Then, they suggest three [...]
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The story of a poor girl and prince charming has been used and retold countless of times since the dawn of humanity and it always captured people’s hearts. Kuragehime (or Jellyfish Princess) also tells the same old story of a … Continue reading →
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I really shouldn’t need to point out how different the experience is between listening to music in a live-concert setting and from the comfort of your own home. Even for a concert in which the set-list is made up entirely of instrumentals, I really love the way the music comes to life within the concert [...]
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Album Title: Kuragehime Original Soundtrack “Amazing AMARS!!” Anime Title: Kuragehime (Jellyfish Princess) Artist: Makoto Yoshimori, Chatmonchy, Sambomaster Catalog Number: KSCL-1689 Release Type: Soundtrack Release Date: January 26, 2011 Purchase at: CDJapan, Play-Asia Tracklist [[Visit blog to check out this spoiler]] Review: Those who’ve tracked Makoto Yoshimori’s emergence as an anime composer will know that his [...]
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Note: While this post focuses on discussion of the anime Kuragehime, I feel the need to first discuss the definition of “otaku” and consider reactions to the label. We all know nerds, and most people are nerds about one thing … Continue reading →
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From saving the sisterhood to jellyfish-style dresses, it’s all in the end of Kuragehime~. Kyokai: Hi all, sorry to keep you waiting… Well, as if someone was waiting but with one thing or the other, Kuragehime episodics dived on being updated regularly. So, Hoshi and I bring you a final round  up one of the [...]
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A lot of the focus on Kuragehime lies in its overarching plot, romance, and comedy.  The quirks that define the characters don’t get nearly as much attention for good reason: the producers didn’t flesh them out fully, and so, many of them are little more than caricatures that are, unfortunately, left unexplored. But imagine what [...]
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What? Only 11 episodes? Kuragehime wraps up with Tsukimi and Kuranosuke debuting their own fashion brand of Jellyfish dresses. I was hoping more for an ending that involved their relationships, but with the series ending at an odd number of 11 episodes I can understand why it wasn’t included. All the characters continued to be [...]
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The finale post explains the defects (and then repeats the theme a few times): Of course, as the season finale, there was a lot left to be desired, so I’ll get my gripes out of the way first, namely: the whole rushrushrush feeling that resulted in whisking Shu-Shu out of the way with uncle kiraboshi and [...]
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The final, though less than thrilling, conclusion to a series we’ve all greatly enjoyed. Summary-in-a-sentence: Kurako and the nunz finish off and enter their dresses in a fashion show, where their ‘Jellyfish’ brand is born; Shu-Shu is seen leaving on a jetplane with uncle kiraboshi and Inari; and Chieko’s mum returns and announces that the Amazu is [...]
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Let’s wrap this up. Of all the loose ends, the story ties up only the most obvious one: Amamizu-kan stays. Mired in some ridiculous relationship woes herself, Shoko all but abandons her goal to redevelop the land. She never really … Continue reading →
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For some reason I wasn't in the mood to watch anime after the New Year but I know I have to get out of this slump soon. Since I started with a shitty anime, I thought of making up with Kuragehime final episode. I'm reluctant to watch this to be honest when I saw everyone's reaction but I have to do it sooner or later so let's just do this now.This is how I felt after watching Starry Sky >>Looks like Tsukimi has found what she wants to do with her life and that is to create many more jellyfish dresses. Kuranosuke made a mistake of encouraging her so his wardrobe has become the victim of fashion. Chieko and Jiji are clever enough to get out of there before they become the slaves. Unfortunately they don't have anywhere else to go since their house has been sealed up so they went back to Kuranosuke's hoping that he can help them out.What a sight to behold XDLittle that they know that it was all a big mistake. The construction workers sealed up the wrong house. LOL fuck this, I was ready to kill the bitch. Well, I still am. Even though their house is safe at the moment, the redevelopment is still on going around them so it is only a matter of whether or not they can come up with the money to buy the house. They are working hard with the jellyfish dolls etc.Oh yeah, I forgot about the afro the dresses that Tsukimi made. The dress was chose for a fashion competition or something and thanks to one of the judges' obsession with afro (in this case Banban's afro), they got selected. Well I'm not taking anything away from Tsukimi's effort. It is a nice looking dress after all and it deserves to win. With that out of the way Tsukimi is now officially a designer.This is all thanks to Kuranosuke. Thanks to him, even the nunz are better at socializing now. He obviously still pins his feelings unconsciously on Tsukimi and it is fun to see him blushing whenever he sprout the truth only to realize what he said afterward.cute :3And fuck me please. I can't believe I was right. The bitch/whore/cunt/slut/skank really did have a change of heart. After that smack on her face, she has a crush on my Shu-shu. Needless to say, I'm not happy with this development. If Shu feels the same way, I am so gonna rage.To run away from her feeling, the bitch plan to get away and I want to kick the director's ass for putting Shu on the same plane as well. Fuck, however way I see it, it looks like the bitch will get her hands on Shu.I don't know why people think this episode sucks. I enjoyed it a lot. Sure it left so many things unanswered and with no indication of a second season but I'm truly believe that this is far from over. There are so many unresolved issues:Tsukimi's true feelings. She HAS to choose whether it's the older brother or the younger oneKuranosuke needs to be truthful to his feelingsShu needs to kill the bitchShu needs to tell the truth about Kuranosuke's mom (that she committed suicide, if I reckoned correctly)the redevelopment issue regarding the nunz's placeI'm looking forward to season two of Kuragehime ^__^
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Katt: This post is far later than any of my other Kuragehime entries have been (er, barring the one I skipped) and I am so sorry for that! Especially since it is the last episode! But I like to think that I have a good excuse, what with Funimation posting the episode a day later [...]
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(Happy New Year! /throws confetti) Obviously, I know I should say “Long time no see, aye?” but what good will that do? Besides, this isn’t even a proper blog post — I just wanted to share some of my anime/manga reviews-of-sorts from my livejournal — but I swear in a few days (or weeks, . . . → Read More: hello: this is a post about Inazuma Eleven, Kuragehime, One Piece, and some hentai
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Episode 8 of Kuragehime, “Million Dollar Babies” (ミリオンダラー・ベイビーズ), begins with Kuranosuke ransacking a storage room for stuff to sell. Considering the sort of people the Amamizukan caters to, it’s no surprise that the particular room in question is full of the same stuff collected by a fetishist: cups of all sorts. While everyone else thinks [...]
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Keep your guard up, I repeat, keep your guard up! We are entering STYLISH territory! Quick Summary:  Tsukimi begins to get hyped up and optstimistic about making more dresses, while the Amars finds that Amamizukan has been encaved in a construction zone! However they later learn it was a mistake by the construction workers. They [...]
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