Cinematography:
Hitoshi TamuraComposer:
Yoshimori MakotoCast:
Jun'ichi Suwabe, Mamiko Noto, Shigeru Chiba, Sumire Morohoshi, Takehito Koyasu, Masaya Onosaka, Chuck Huber, Kana Hanazawa, Akemi Okamura, Mitsuki Saiga (more)VOD (2)
Episodes(11)
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Sex and the Sisterhood (E01)
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Sukiyaki Western Matsusaka (E02)
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Enchanted (E03)
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I'll See You in My Aquarium (E04)
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I Want to Be a Jellyfish (E05)
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Night of the Living Sisterhood (E06)
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Spellbound and Stone Broke (E07)
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Million Dollar Babies (E08)
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Midnight Pureboy (E09)
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Terms of Lukewarmment (E10)
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Jellyfish of Dreams (E11)
Plots(1)
Plain, timid, and obsessed with jellyfish, Tsukimi is a far cry from her idea of a princess. Her tepid life as a jobless illustrator comes complete with roommates who harbor diehard hobbies that solidify their status as hopeless rejects. These wallflowers run a tight nun-like ship, but their no-men-allowed-not-no-one-not-no-how bubble is unwittingly burst after Tsukimi brings home a rescued sea jelly and a beauty queen - who's actually a guy. When the threat of losing their cozy convent inspires this glamour boy to turn the neurotic entourage into a portrait of success, will Tsukimi take her chance to bloom, or will she end up a hot mess? (Anime Ltd)
(more)Reviews (2)
I want seconds! :-) A house full of weirdos is visited by Kuranosuke, who also has his own perversion. No one in this anime was normal, and that may have caused me to see them all as perfectly normal over time. I had fun with them, and I wanted to see what would happen next. This anime is the only one from the 2010 fall season where I listened to both the opening and the ending every time. Both are absolutely brilliant and fitting – both visually and musically. The quirkiness of the characters was so nice and accessible that I looked forward to the next episode every time. A better 4 stars. It's not for nothing that I would call josei my favorite genre ^^
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Somehow I cannot shake off the feeling that I just saw something that was very much like a soap opera, although it did have some surprising elements that the writers of soap operas probably would not have thought of, and I did not find it as moronic. Furthermore, I quite liked the love story, or rather the portrayal of it, and the way the anime's creators guided us through the main female protagonist's feelings and inner world quite well. I also had an idea that stuck in my head, that getting a jellyfish tank at home is a great idea. On the other hand, what annoyed me was the tenants of Amamizukan. Somehow I could not get on with this group, and they were extremely unlikable, much like the "Ugly Girls Club" in Ugly Betty. Otherwise, some characters were portrayed strangely (such as the shy thirty-year-old virgin, the career woman, and the modern emancipated woman = bitch, the best female character was the main male protagonist), which has been mentioned here on FilmBooster by a few reviewers before me. It made me rather uncomfortable, and I cannot say I liked it much. What I enjoyed was the soundtrack; which was quite good. All in all, this show is exactly one of those where there were things I liked and things I did not like, and therefore, the result is somewhere in the middle - 5/10.
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