Kuragehime
Princess Jellyfish

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This manga started out beautifully. The plot? Amazing. The characters? Funny and soooo unique. I was hooked in the beginning. This was one of those mangas that just kept you reading to see what happens next.

It was a long run, but alas, in the end the mangaka seemed to have given up on the story in its final chapters.

I feel like there was SO much more room for story development, as well as for the development of our characters and their relationships.

The manga was shot to a new level of interesting in the second half. Things became intense. The story was really ... going somewhere... and then it was abandoned. I cannot put into words how much the ending was rushed. An entire conclusion to a story that was more than 80 chapters long, was squeezed into a mere 2 chapters and it pissed me the hell off. The logic of the story and characters was thrown right into the trash.

This was a really good manga, but the story and the characters deserved better. The ending sank my love for this manga halfway to the bottom.

Princess Jellyfish is a wonderful manga. I went in with no idea what to expect really, having not even read the tagline summary but merely a screencap of a funny panel, and absolutely fell in love with its fun, extremely goofy cast of characters. It wonderfully balanced a plot that got way more intense than I ever expected (and gave me a lot of anxiety while reading...) with a group of friends that had me laughing nonstop almost entirely from just their personal interactions. (Especially Hanamori, who had me laughing pretty much every time he appeared.)

There's a review on here that insisted that the author ... lost interest in her work near the end, but aside from a conflict wrapping up a little too neatly, I felt like Higashimura's love for her work shone brightly through both the entire story and through her very consistent bonus chapters in each volume as well.

The art is really impressive (and cute!), and perfectly silly when it needs to be. I never once got the sense that she was taking cheap shortcuts. Princess Jellyfish is clean and consistent all throughout.

I enjoyed this manga intensely from start to finish, and while the Amars probably deserved more backstory outside of bonus chapters, they never wore on me. Although their antics are a bit exaggerated, the whole group all felt pretty true to a bunch of shut-ins that just want to pursue their interests and don't care to share details of their lives, honestly. (speaking as one of those people)

I wouldn't call it flawless, but it's definitely landed a spot in my favorites.

I watched the anime first then read the manga since the 11 episodes was not enough and I wanted more. After finishing the manga, I can confirm the manga version is the superior version. I was really surprised seeing how much the anime diverted from the manga which is a complete shame. The story made a lot more sense in the manga than what the anime did.

The first half of the manga was done well, Really love the relationships and dynamic of Tsukimi, the amars, and Kurapyon. The second half was ok but the story and pacing got a strange. It seemed like the author ... did not know what to do with the story so she focused a bit on the new characters that were introduced. It's probably just me but I didn't care at all for these new characters they were just padding and used for conflict. It didn't help that the author utilize these characters at all for the last couple chapters since they appeared and somehow everything is ok.

The ending was pretty rushed since everything concluded in the two chapters. I personally enjoyed it since the story felt like itself again at the end but it would have been nice if the author gave it a couple more chapters since the pacing was really strange near the end.

I also wished the author focused a bit more on the side characters that were already there like the amars and the landmark developer lady, maybe add Tsukimi's dad into the picture or one of the other Amars' parents. It would have been interesting to see how the parents think of their daughters in this situation since they are the ones providing the allowance for their kid. It would have been interesting if the author explored more on the backstories of the characters and why they became otakus like the afro amars or the kimono amars.

Overall, I give Kuragehime a 7.5/10. Manga is pretty solid for the most part. I enjoyed reading it except for the second half and really love most of the characters especially Kurapyon's brother. I'm so proud of my 30 year old boy. It was also pretty nice to see a female neet as a protagonist since there's barely any stories with female neets