Kurage no Shokudou

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Synonyms: Jellyfish Restaurant, Jellyfish Diner

Japanese: クラゲの食堂

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Type: OVA

Episodes: 1

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Mar 9, 2016

Producers: Starchild Records, Grooove

Licensors: None found, add some

Studios: Zexcs

Source: Light novel

Genres: Drama, Slice of Life

Duration: 29 min.

Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

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Score: 6.23¹ (scored by 5,547 users)

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Ranked: #8435²

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Popularity: #5352

Members: 15,434

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One fateful day, Youtarou Misaki is rescued by a man named Arashi Mutou from drowning in the sea. After getting him to dry land, Arashi wakes Youtarou up and asks for his name. Youtarou's memories quickly surge back, but instead of telling Arashi his name, he decides to lie and act clueless about his past.

Arashi nurses Youtarou and lets him temporarily stay at his diner, Kurage no Shokudou. Despite his hospitality, Youtarou continues to insist that he has no recollection of how he ended up drifting across the sea. How will the fake amnesiac go on with his life now that he has abandoned his family and home?

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Characters & Voice Actors

Yashima, Natsuko

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Koorogi, Satomi
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Mutou, Arashi

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Matsukaze, Masaya
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Misaki, Youtarou

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Kurihara, Goro
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Taniguchi, Hiromi

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Kameyama, Toshiki

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Suzumura, Chika

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Customi Z

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"Shiosai (潮騒)" by Customi Z

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Jun 13, 2016

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Recommended

It's very short, but in the span of 20 minutes, you learn a lot about each character, and even catch a glimpse of their dynamics, before the OVA snapshot, and maybe in the future.

The art doesn't get in the way -- it's a bit understated, and so is the music, although I loved the movement.

As for the story - it's a reminder that there are times when all we really need is a bit of reset, and sometimes, people are lucky enough to find kind souls who allow us just that. It wasn't particularly sad, rather, I felt it dealt with loss in a ...

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Jun 15, 2019

ItIsIDio

Mixed Feelings

Kurage no Shokudou is a brief 30 minutes story about dealing with the loss of someone significant to you. It is told through a few slow running scenes where up to two, sometimes three, characters interact. The biggest problem I have with the story is that it seems like it is setting up a premise for a story that it wants to start and due to that reason it doesn’t wrap up what it begins. If this was the first episode of an anime series or the first 30 minutes of a movie, this could’ve been a somewhat decent setup for what is to ... come, but as things are, the story merely presents you that two of the characters have unresolved issues about who they have lost and their situation at large, but doesn’t resolve those plot points because it does not have any time for the pace it has chosen to have. It presents a bunch of ideas in a fairly decent manner, but does not wrap up any of them. Its conclusion is that the characters presented are finally ready to start the process of dealing with their issues, making the whole thing seem unresolved.

To me it seems as an attempt for presenting a pilot to a board of directors to see whether or not they would decide they want a long running series or an experiment on whether or not this type of story is gonna get any traction. But if you just present the premise and reach no conclusion in a short story, the viewers will only consider that they have wasted their time and be thankful that it was not more than 30 minutes they have lost.

The scenes were structured in a way that presents a bunch of information and interactions in a relatively comprehensive way, with each scene slowing down to make sure you grasp every moment presented to you on screen. Which is fine if you have enough time to present the events you are trying to. It’s very nice to go far and beyond and ensure that the outcome of each of your scenes has the intended outcome, but if you cannot achieve that outcome, it’s a safer bet to focus on the process rather than the outcome. In this case, an approach where each event flowed dynamically into the next and the pace was faster might’ve helped in more ways than you would expect. First of all the setup would’ve had less information, meaning that the story would have less things to wrap up and more time to focus on an worthwhile conclusion and make it seem like there is more going on in the story by presenting less information. Second is that by having a faster pace the 30 minutes could’ve felt more eventful, and not seem like it was filled with a bunch of really slow running scenes, which while visually and cinematographically decently executed, I can summarize the events probably in less than four sentences.

There’s no payoff for experiencing this story. If you watch an action anime, the payoff is that after you see a confrontation unfold you see who is the winner and how that changes both characters. If you watch a drama, the payoff is that after you see two or more people experience an issue, you see how that impacts their lives in significant ways moving forward. And there are countless other examples. But here, no payoff is given.

I don’t recommend watching this story because there’s really nothing you can obtain out of the story in a plain manner. This type of theme has been explored as a subplot in various other media and stories and probably have seen the payoff a bunch of times, since it is a relatable topic and the characters can only be defined by the issues they have. You understand who they are quite clearly, but that is not enough to make them distinguishable. As a story, it is forgettable and nothing you have not experienced before.

However if you are interested in storytelling, you can go for it. It is interesting to see a story that makes no glaring mistakes that presents you with a good deal of details, but ultimately fail as one because of the fact it has no payoff. It highlights unintentionally that any story in order to have felt worthwhile, it needs to have a payoff. It needs to offer you some satisfaction. It can present you the full picture with as many details as possible. If none of the threads presented are concluded or explored beyond „they exist” then there is no point to even presenting any of the information to the viewer. It is a relatively easy to digest example, so give it a shot if that is something that interests you. But if it is for entertainment value, I wouldn’t bother.

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Aug 27, 2018

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Mixed Feelings

I really struggled with how to rate this one, it had a lot of promise, but it fell way short of what it could have been. The story needed to be elaborated a lot more than what it was, and it felt like nothing was really explained to the audience (N.B. this might be better handled in the Light Novels, but in the OVA it was handled poorly). I feel like if this was a 90-minute movie it would have been better paced. I can get where others were seeing a bit of shonen-ai during this, but since none of the characters were completely fleshed ...

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