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 becomes 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. Amamizukan's surrounding
neighborhood is under threat of redevelopment, as opportunists aim to turn the
quaint area into a more cosmopolitan region, with many of the buildings being
demolished to make room for hotels and shopping centers.
Although Amamizukan's tenants fear and loathe attractive people, they are
helped by Kuranosuke who does not want to see Amamizukan destroyed.
Complete 11 episode series
Dual language options