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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'' (''Princess Jellyfish'') is an award-winning [[Josei]] [[Manga]] by Akiko Higashimura, adapted to [[Anime]] by Brain Base, as part of Fall 2010's [[Noitamin ANoitaminA]] block. Funimation simulcasted the series [http://www.funimation.com/princess-jellyfish/episodes on their video portal] and later released it as a box set.
 
A [[Kuragehime (Manga)/Characters|Character Page]] is now in the works!
 
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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 Withwith Shock]]
* [[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 [[Ge Ge GeGeGeGe no Kitaro|Shigeru Mizuki]] character!".
* [[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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* [[Twelve-Episode Anime|Eleven Episode Anime]]
* [[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 (Literaturenovel)|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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* [[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 Withwith a Heart of Gold]]: Nisha. She constantly tells Kuranosuke and Tsukimi that they're idiots and her idea of encouragement is to tell them that she basically wants to watch them fail, but she's really trying to help since neither of them knows anything about the fashion industry (Nisha: You can't just sell couture clothes, you need things average girls can buy. Kuranosuke: That doesn't interest me.). The most obvious sign she's on their side is the fact that she didn't trick them into buying loads of expensive fabric.
* [[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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* [[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 Withwith People]]: All the characters have issues interacting with others, but Chieko's friend and fellow doll-enthusiast Nomu takes the cake: she considers her dolls as her daughters and people as "worthless little worms".
* [[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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** 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-Out]]: The OP is Shout Out central, with nods to ''[[Sex and Thethe City]]'', ''[[Star Wars]]'', ''[[Singin' in Thethe Rain (Film)|Singin in The Rain]]'', ''[[Mary Poppins]]'', ''[[Emperor of the North]]'', ''[[God of Gamblers]]'', ''[[James Bond]]'', ''[[Game of Death]]'' (or ''[[Kill Bill]]'', your choice), ''[[The Graduate]]'' ([[ELAINE]]!!!!!), and ''[[Close Encounters of the Third Kind]]''.
** 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.
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** 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 Withwith Shock]]. Also a self-defense mechanism for the Nunnery's inhabitants in case of contact with stylish people.
* [[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 Thethe Dead]]: Tsukimi addresses her [[Surrogate Soliloquy|inner monologues]] to her mother.
* [[Tastes Like Friendship]]: Kuranosuke really wins the girls over with that expensive meat.
* [[This Is for Emphasis, Bitch]]: "Them boobs is fake, bitches!"
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