I decided to take a break before I shoot myself over my Mabinogi alchemy training, so I watched episode 1 of Kuragehime to distract me. And I’m pleased to discover that aside from Arakawa 2, this may be the best show of the season. Kuragehime (Jellyfish Princess) is about a girl named Tsukimi Kareshita who [...]
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My first impression… W E I R D ! ! First of all the opening had the characters reenacting famous scenes from movies and characters like Star Wars and James Bond! But you need to remember that these characters are all a bit odd too! Tsukimi is the protagonist (top left hand corner) and is [...]
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This is the third of the anime I checked out. I decided I’ll blog Fortune Arterial, but please enjoy this anyway. So I’ve thought about this for days, after I watched Kuragehime, and I can only come to one conclusion. I just don’t know. I don’t know if I like or I don’t. I’m not [...]
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Kuragehime is one of those series that tend to slip under the radar during a filled season such as this one. The story is about a girl who moves to Tokyo to pursue her dream of becoming an illustrator. She lives in an apartment complex full of female otaku, but trouble arises one day when [...]
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Yeah, like hell we weren’t gonna blog this. ‘We’ being the operative word. Thus without further ado, allow us, Hana and ExecutiveOtaku, to present to you the bundle of awesomeness that is Kuragehime… Summary-in-a-sentence: 18 year old illustrator and self-proclaimed nerdy girl with a soft spot for spotted Jellyfish has always dreamed of becoming a princess, but [...]
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Alongside Shiki's continuation for the autumn season, Fuji Television's expanded noitaminA slot also gives us another, brand-new series to look forward to - Kuragehime.  If its name seems a little odd then this is explained in double-quick time by the show's opening episode, as we see our female protagonist in her youth marvelling at a particularly beautiful jellyfish while dreaming of looking
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In just a single episode, Kuragehime has topped expectations and was applauded for the most non-idealized depiction of female otaku to date. I’m no expert on otaku in anime, and my interest in Genshiken is merely passing, but even I can’t help be amazed by Kuragehime’s character designs— it’s been simply too long since we’ve [...]
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Summary: Oh, how wild the imagination of children is. They dream of dinosaurs and Batman, of aliens and unicorns. And really: what girl hasn’t dreamed of becoming a princess? Tsukimi is no exception. Ever since her trip to the aquarium with her mother, she promised her mother to become a princess and wear a dress [...]
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The last anime to air in the Fall season is also one of the best, and it undoubtedly has the best opening theme of the season.     We begin with a short memory of our main character Tsukimi...
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Meet the Amars and this Fall’s TRAP~ I have been waiting for this as this was one of my top 5 titles that I was really looking forward to. Not to mention, the fall title releases end with Kuragehime (excluding some kiddie ones). We come to a full circle and [...]
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That’s right, pulling double duty on noitaminA here! So from what I’ve been reading blogging-wise, on Twitter and forums, the first episode of Kuragehime seems to be near universally-loved, heaps of praise abound. I don’t want to go too over-the-top with my own praise, but I do believe it is the most well-executed first episode [...]
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I’ve never wavered when I said the anime to watch this fall season is Kuragehime, even when people were saying that Panty and Stocking was the fall show. After seeing the first episode, I really think I’m right. People have already mentioned its similarity with Kimi ni Todoke, although in contrast to that this possesses [...]
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The opening has a Star Trooper with a Jellyfish on it’s head. No more evidence for this anime’s awesomeness is [...]
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Fall is being invaded by sea life! With the recent Shinryaku! Ika Musume with some pretty cute squid girl and now Kuragehime with our lovely Jellyfish Princess. I fancy myself a potato princess so I can relate to jellyfish princesses as well. We meet a lovely bunch of girls with interesting hobbies and interests. They all [...] Related posts:Chu-Bra – 01 Baka to Test to Shokanju 08-12 Chu-Bra 05-06
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I have an affinity for traps. Maria of Maria†Holic, Peppo of Gankutsuou, Bridget of Guilty Gear, Hideyoshi of Baka to Test, Makato of W Juliet… So, an anime featuring a fujoshi – so far we only see her love for jellyfish but she calls herself a fujoshi – and a cross-dresser? Fashion and otaku? Heidi, [...] Related posts:Seikimatsu Occult Academy 1 SD Gundam – Brave BattleWarriors 01 Amagami SS 3
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This is Keitaro. And this is Narusegawa, Kaolla, Kitsune, Shinobu and Motoko. Make your own guesses as which one fits in to whom. So yeah. Take Love Hina, reverse the looks factors of the boy and the girls, throw in a bunch of movie references (lol the OP is win), and you have Kuragehime. It’s the [...]
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Katt: Oh, hey, have I finally decided on an anime to blog this season? I think I have! When we were all making our picks for this season, I was kind of intrigued by the description for Kuragehime; in spite of that, I was reluctant to commit to it. I procrastinated more and more on [...]
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I may look at Tentacool in a whole new light now… Although that’s kind of doubtful. Wow. This was… awesome. Just pure awesome. I’ve watched a lot of the new shows this season, and I’ve liked quite a number of them, but this honestly blew everything completely out of the water. It was funny, the [...]
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At long fecking last!  It’s the last of these ‘First Impressions’ posts (for another season at least).  To wrap up the Autumn season its time for the fashionably late Noitamina show Kuragehime and the just plain late Hakuouki Hekketsuroku. Hakuouki Hekketsuroku (Hakuouki S2) Sequel time then – I’ll be watching this since I managed to [...]
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Ah, first impressions for those really late airing Noitamina shows are pointless. Over the course of 2009 and 2010, there has been only one Noitamina series that I didn’t blog: Nodame Cantabile’s Final arc. Apart from that, it really evolved into a top-notch time-slot over the past two years, in which just about every premise [...]
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