Kuragehime

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.

Kuragehime. They fear and despise beautiful fashionable people while existing happily in their no man no make up world. She lives in tokyo in an all female apartment complex full of various types of otaku. Kurashita tsukimi is an 18 year old kurage otaku jellyfish fanatic. Tsukimi is a jellyfish otaku who comes to live in a shared bath and toilet women only apartment amamizukan.

The movie had its western premiere at the fantasia film festival july 14 2015 august 4 2015. That all changes when a hipster saves the life of a jellyfish and intrudes upon tsukimi s isolated existence. Kuragehime began filming in may 2014 and was released in japan movie theaters on december 27 2014. 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.

Tsukimi is a member of the amars an all women s living quarters full of socially awkward young women. The first thing i noticed about the series is the heavy influence of live action movies. Sex and the city 2008. Kuragehime follows tsukimi kurashita an 18 year old who moved from kagoshima to tokyo to become an illustrator.

Kuragehime s main focus is on female friendship and having passion for doing what you love. 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. With rika izumi jun kaname haruka kinami kin ya kitaôji. It was directed by yasuhiro kawamura and distributed by asmik ace entertainment.