Kuragehime
The movie had its western premiere at the fantasia film festival july 14 2015 august 4 2015.
Kuragehime. Kuragehime began filming in may 2014 and was released in japan movie theaters on december 27 2014. Kuragehime follows tsukimi kurashita an 18 year old who moved from kagoshima to tokyo to become an illustrator. She lives in tokyo in an all female apartment complex full of various types of otaku.
Kuragehime jellyfish princess is a modern cinderella story featuring the unlikeliest cast of a jellyfish otaku princess and the cross dressing prince. Episode titles are parody of film titles. The first thing i noticed about the series is the heavy influence of live action movies.
Sex and the city 2008. Kuragehime s main focus is on female friendship and having passion for doing what you love. One day tsukimi is trying to rescue a jellyfish from poor living conditions in a pet store and a stylish young woman comes to her.
Tsukimi is a jellyfish otaku who comes to live in a shared bath and toilet women only apartment amamizukan. They fear and despise beautiful fashionable people while existing happily in their no man no make up world. It was directed by yasuhiro kawamura and distributed by asmik ace entertainment.
That all changes when a hipster saves the life of a jellyfish and intrudes upon tsukimi s isolated existence. Kurashita tsukimi is an 18 year old kurage otaku jellyfish fanatic. Kuragehime is a japanese josei manga series written and illustrated by akiko higashimura it was serialized in kodansha s manga magazine kiss from october 2008 to august 2017.
Any female can become a princess having this as the main moto of the story a geeky girl called tsukimi kurashita who s dream is to become an illustrator one day moves out to a city not to attend a vocational school or for work purposes but simply to chill out in her apartment in her own world.
