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Tsukimi, an extremely shy and self-deprecating 18 year old illustrator, has been fascinated by jellyfish ever since her mother took her to an aquarium. To her, they're everything she isn't - beautiful and graceful. While jellyfish-watching at a pet shop, she sees a spotted jellyfish next to a moon jellyfish in the same tank, a certain death for the spotted jellyfish. Overcoming her fear of stylish people (and men), she tries to talk the clerk into moving the spotted jellyfish out of the tank. Apathetic to the plight of this nerdy girl, the clerk just ignores her and Tsukimi [[Serious Business|gets into a fight with him over it]]. Things are looking bleak for Clara (the spotted jellyfish) when a fashionable girl intervenes and talks the clerk into giving them the jellyfish.
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The mysterious "princess" follows Tsukimi to the "Nunnery", the boarding house she shares with a bunch of fellow nerdy [[Otaku]] girls, and ends up sleeping in Tsukimi's room. This dreamy girl, however, is not all what [[Wholesome Crossdresser|she looks...]]
'''''Kuragehime''''',
A [[Kuragehime
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* [[Agent Peacock]]: Kuranosuke is this, albiet a slightly more realistic than usual version.
* [[Almost Kiss]]: Episode 7.
* [[A Man Is Not a Virgin]]: Subverted. Although he's naive when it comes to women and relationships, Shū is intelligent and politically savvy.
** Kuranosuke, on the other hand, is this trope played straight.
* [[Anger Born of Worry]] - The one time we see [[The Stoic|Shuu]] get well and truly angry is when Inari {{spoiler|pretended she was going to commit suicide as a joke.}} He actually ''[[Would Hit a Girl|hits]] [[Armor
* [[Astronomic Zoom]]: When Kuranosuke says something inconceivable to our heroine: "Because I wanted to see you, Tsukimi." After a while you wonder how much farther it's gonna zoom out.
* [[Attention Deficit Ooh Shiny]]: The Nuns when confronted with objects of their nerdy desires. Especially Mayaya and Banba. Kuranosuke and Shuu's uncle, the ''Prime Minister of Japan'', would rather be a hyperactive teenage girl than the leader of the country.
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* [[Blinding Bangs]]: Banba, Jiji, and Mayaya. Mayaya grew hers out after her "fierce eyes" got her the nickname "Contract Killer".
* [[Blind Idiot Translation]]: When MC Hanamori tries to say "jellyfish" in English it comes out "jelly ear mushroom"
* [[Blue
* [[But Not Too Foreign]]: {{spoiler|Kuranosuke in all probability}}.
** Nisha is Indian but speaks fluent Japanese (with an Osaka accent, I believe) since her ex-husband was Japanese.
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* [[Corner of Woe]]: First episode.
** The Nuns go into this whenever someone violates some rule or asks some question on the 'Top 5 Things You Shouldn't Do in the Presence of/Ask the Nuns' (As helpfully pointed out by Clara, usually.)
* [[Damned By Faint Praise]]: "I almost kissed a girl who is practically a [[
* [[Delayed Reaction]]: Shu and Tsukimi are so innocent that their [[Accidental Hug]] and [[Accidental Pervert]] moments take a while to set in.
* [[Demoted to Extra]]: Nomu and Nisha do not appear in the anime.
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* [[Dropped a Bridget On Him|Dropped A Bridget On Her]]
* [[Dropped Glasses]]: Tsukimi gets bolder without her glasses on. See [[Rule of Symbolism]] below.
* [[Twelve
* [[Elmuh Fudd Syndwome]]: Clara's cutesy way of talking. Okay, she only speaks in Tsukimi's [[Imagine Spot|Imagine Spots]].
* [[Fairy Tale Motifs]]: Specifically princesses, and there are various references to [[Cinderella (
* [[Fairytale Wedding Dress]]
* [[Fashion Hurts]]: The high-heels-are-torture version. Kuranosuke assures the Sisterhood that the heels are weapon, so they just have to get used to the pain.
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* [[Gecko Ending]]
* [[Gender Vocabulary Slip]]: Kuranosuke slips into the [[Japanese Pronouns|''ore'' pronoun]], but since he's so good at cross-dressing, he still passes as a [[Bokukko]] (with a bit of help from Tsukimi, see below).
* [[Hey,
** [[Junichi Suwabe]] as Shuu, [[Takehito Koyasu]] as Hanamori...
* [[Hikikomori]]: The unseen BL author, who never comes out of her room, is nocturnal, and communicates with the other Nuns via handwritten notes slipped under the door. The other Nuns also display milder hiki tendencies.
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* [[I Need a Freaking Drink]]: Tsukimi has trouble sleeping restfully after {{spoiler|a photo of Inari and Shu in bed together broke her heart}}. She asks [[Hikikomori|Mejiro]] for advice on how to shut the painful thoughts from her mind. The answer? [[Big Word Shout|BOOZE]]! [[Drowning My Sorrows|Tsukimi complies]].
* [[Japanese Ranguage]]: Tsukimi uses it to cover Kuranosuke's ''[[Japanese Pronouns|ore]]'' slips by pretending them to be the Spanish ''olé''.
* [[Jerk
* [[Jiangshi]]: Mayaya thinks Tsukimi is cosplaying one after her clumsy attempts at removing her make-up. {{spoiler|And then the Nuns start goofing around playing too...}}
* [[Kansai Regional Accent]]: [[Funny Foreigner|Nisha]] has this, apparently because her ex-husband is from there.
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* [[Lonely Doll Girl]]: Nomu, but only to "worthless little worms" who don't love her "children" like she does.
* [[Love Bubbles]]: Played for laughs.
* [[Loves My Alter Ego]]: Shuu thinks dolled-up Tsukimi is [[Single
* [[The Love Slap of Epiphany]]: {{spoiler|Shu}} slaps {{spoiler|Inari}} for pretending to {{spoiler|commit suicide}} as a joke. This is the point where she starts to develop real feelings for him.
* [[Luminescent Blush]]: Kuranosuke gets one in Episode 11 that flirts with [[High
* [[Makeover Montage]]: Kuranosuke started one in Episode 3 with Tsukimi. [[She Cleans Up Nicely|He did a good job.]]
* [[Manic Pixie Dream Girl|Manic Pixie Dream Guy]]: Kuranosuke is a rare male example of the manic pixie dream girl.
* [[Matchmaker Crush]]: {{spoiler|Kuranosuke does his best to get Shu and Tsukimi together, only to realize a bit too late that ''he's'' falling for Tsukimi.}}
* [[May
* [[Meaningful Name]]: The kanji for Inari's name is shared with a Shinto deity who is closely associated with Kitsune. What do the Nuns call her? "The Vixen."
** More immediately, the kanji for Tsukimi (月海) reversed can be read as "kurage" (海月), or "jellyfish".
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* [[No Romantic Resolution]]: The anime doesn't resolve the love triangle.
* [[Nosebleed]]: Tsukimi and Shu each have one, which occur several minutes ''after'' they experience something arousing.
* [[Not Good
* [[Otaku]]: The girls of the Nunnery call themselves fujoshis, but only one of them (the mysterious [[Hikikomori]] BL author) fits the [[Yaoi Fangirl]] stereotype; the others are into less commonly depicted interests, like [[Rail Enthusiast|trains]], Japanese dolls, ''[[Romance of the Three Kingdoms]]'', jellyfish, old men...
** [[Not So Different|Even the "normal" people have strange obsessions]]: Shuu's driver is obsessed with cars to the point where he drove off a girlfriend, Kuranosuke is obsessed with fashion (but not in any practical way -- he wants to start a fashion line without knowing how to sew or even knowing anyone who knows how to sew), Kuranosuke and Shuu's dad loves women of all ages and demeanors except disgusting cross-dressers like his idiot son, ''the freaking prime minister of Japan'' seems to wish he was [[Camp Straight|a teenage girl]], and Inari appears to have based her life around business women mangas from the Eighties.
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* [[Please Put Some Clothes On]]: Tsukimi says this to Kuranosuke when he's hanging around her apartment in his boxers.
* [[Primal Scene]]: Subverted with {{spoiler|poor Shuu}} and [[Lampshaded]] by Kuranosuke.
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** {{spoiler|Turns out to not so subverted as Kuranosuke's lampshading is revealed to be almost prescient in what happened: Walk-in closet? Check. Backstage room? Check. Theater? Check. He was only off in that they were making out, and that by his dad's own admission, "Only made it to second base!" }}
* [[Punny Name]]: Clara's transliterated spelling (Kurara) is one character off from Kurage (Jellyfish, but you should know that by now).
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* [[Recursive Crossdressing]]: What the amars ''think'' "Kurako" is doing {{spoiler|although they quickly get confused when "she" is outed as a cross-dresser ("But if she's a girl forced to be a man in public why is she dressing like a girl to proclaim she's a man in front of the TV cameras...?")}}.
* [[Repeat Cut]]: Tsukimi is ''really'' shocked by [[Nerds Are Virgins|a very bold question]].
* [[Romance
* [[Rule of Symbolism]]: Lots of mirror-gazing and watching behind glasses and glass windows going on.
** In episode 1, when Tsukimi is walking home with Kuranosuke, she looks at the beautiful "princess" in admiration. Then Tsukimi sees their reflections side by side in a store window, and sighs at how plain she is by comparison. Later in the same episode, Tsukimi looks in her mirror when she tries on the "princess's" wig, and proceeds to muse on the subject of beauty and princesses.
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** I always knew Mayaya [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/kuragehime/v06/c033/15.html just needed to ditch those bangs].
* [[Shirtless Scene]]: Never mind the make-up...
* [[Shout
** Tsukimi sees herself as [[Heidi, Girl of the Alps|Heidi]] helping [[Ill Girl|Clara]] in one [[Imagine Spot]].
** [[Barbie]], used straight as a symbol of unattainable beauty.
** And somehow, strangely Vic's Vapor Rub.
*** Vapor rubs, particularly Vic's, are pretty popular in Japan.
** Back to movie references: Kon Ichikawa's ''[[
** In episode 9, Inari [[Saint Seiya|goes Pegasus]] when told Shu is {{spoiler|a virgin}}.
** Kuranosuke {{spoiler|manages to trick Chieko and Jiji into thinking he's a girl raised as a boy (even he can't believe it worked) when he}} refers to ''[[Rose of Versailles]]'' and starts dressing as Oscar.
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* [[Shrinking Violet]]: Tsukimi.
* {{spoiler|[[Sibling Triangle]]}}
* [[Sibling Yin
* [[Single Woman Seeks Good Man]]: {{spoiler|Inari ends up falling for pure-pure Shu.}}
* [[Slapstick Knows No Gender]]
*** Although Inari also hits this trope when she gets comically elbowed in the face by Kuranosuke.
* [[Spit Take]]
* [[Step Three: Profit]]: Kuranosuke's initial plan to save the Nunnery, which is basically summarised as follows:
** Step 1: Makeovers!
** Step 2: ???
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*** This would be compounded by being, well, otaku in Japan: the view is ''not'' a positive one. If the Nuns present themselves as being even ''relatively'' normal people, they're going to get a '''lot''' farther in Japan than if they're a touch too noticeably fujoshi.<ref>Which means 'rotten women,' and should say a lot about how female otaku are perceived.</ref>
** Nisha later takes great pains to point out that Kuranosuke's very short-sighted idea to start a fashion line by selling couture clothes is not sustainable, especially in this economy:
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** By the way, this is her being encouraging.
* [[Super Window Jump]]: Parodied. Tsukimi tries this once in the anime, and twice in the manga; Kuranosuke pulls her back inside the first time, the second time she succeeds but it's a very short drop.
** Mayaya eventually tries this in the manga, too, but is also pulled back.
** {{spoiler|Mr. Koibuchi}}, of all people, jumps ''through'' a window to get into Kuranosuke's room!
* [[Taken for Granite]]: As an extreme form of [[Blue
* [[Take That]]: Mayaya is appalled by the [[Moe Moe]] version of a ''[[Romance of the Three Kingdoms]]'' character she finds at the local convenience store. [[Koihime Musou|I wonder which loose anime adaptation of that story this could be referring to...]]
* [[Talking to
* [[Tastes Like Friendship]]: Kuranosuke really wins the girls over with that expensive meat.
* [[This Is for Emphasis, Bitch]]: "Them boobs is fake, bitches!"
* [[Too Much Information]]: When Hanamori is surrounded by the "24 Ophelias" he blurts out that he's so obsessed with cars that his girlfriend left him because he loves cars more than her. Later, he lets it slip that if he's bribed with cars he'll reveal anything to anyone and {{spoiler|at the fashion show goes into great detail that Kuranosuke is just a cross-dresser, not transsexual.}}
* [[Top Ten List]]: Hosted by Clara.
* [[Trying Not to Cry]]
* [[Two
* [[Verbal Tic]]: A few of the characters have odd exclamations, IE Mayaya's "Nuwo!" or Inari's use of outdated sayings.
* [[What Do You Mean
* [[What Measure Is a Non
* [[Wholesome Crossdresser]]: Kuranosuke, though he denies it and says he's just "interested in female fashion".
** That's one of his reasons for cross dressing, the other being {{spoiler|ruining his image to avoid being railroaded into a political career by his family.}}
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