If you're looking for some anime with no pantyshot, cleavage and fan-service Kuragehime is definitely for you. The story is about a girl that look like Ugly Betty who wants an oral arm(jellyfish)because it bears some likeness with laces the princesses dress, I mean,a beautiful cross dresser and a bunch of nerd female otakus. No! seriouslly! Oh, Okey, I'll be serious. The story centers around Tsukimi Kurashita, a huge fan of jellyfish (kurage, a wordplay on the "kura/mi" and "tsuki/ge" in her name) and a girl who moves to Tokyo to become an illustrator. She moves into "Amamizukan," an apartment complex that is full of fujoshi (diehard female otaku) with a no-men-allowed rule. However, one day, Tsukimi invites a stylishly fashionable woman to stay at her room at Amamizukan — only to discover that the guest is not who 'she' seems to be.
Let's make some background check shall we. I was surprise, I thought Kuragehime is just an ugly anime adaptation of some weird manga but I was totally wrong! Kuragahime won this years, Kodansha Manga Award for the best shoujo manga. The same award had won by Kimi ni Todoke in 2008. So, I guess this is really worth of blogging. Evil smirk.
Kuragehime animation has plenty of reference and parody of some animes and movies. Like the opening song, well that's pretty obvious, you can see Star Wars reference .. a James Bond reference ... the Calling reference, it looks Metal Slug aliens for me though ... you can see Kill Bill as well.
Tsukimi Kurashita, an average girl, a huge fan of jellyfish, an aspiring illustrator live in an apartment called Amamizukan with lotsa Hardcode Otaku Nerds, well not all of them. Just like what I've said awhile ago she does have some resemblance of Betty from Ugly Betty, those untrimmed eyebrows, her pimple marks, unfashionable dress & hairstyle, dirty shoes ... I wonder if she has flab. - Bah! that's just too horrible, I feel sorry for her especially when she go to Shibuya pursuing her dreams and everything around her were so beautiful and sparkling and when she look at herself she see ugly only her ugliness. She even got called Nerd for the love of god. Being labeled as nerd is like 'you're one hell fucking ugly slug'
The Jellyfish could be moe sometime. Yes, it's true, don't you feel moe of her? she's cute and adorable but if you got sting by the oral arms or sorta you'll get poison and die eventually. Cute are deadly remember. Ok that's just too random. So, yeah, Jellyfish are indeed cute on this anime.
Haaaaaaaaaaayyyydeeeeeee ohh!! Haaaaaaaaaaayyyydeeeeeee. Ah yeah. I sing the song of Heidi. I mentioned it already that there's some parody of some animes here. One of them is Alps no Shoujo Heidi, it totally crack me up when the jellyfish said 'I could walk! I could walk' for the love of Poseidon! get this jellyfish back to sea!
The Mysterious Bishoujo comes! we have Mysterious Bishoujo over Ookami-san, we have Galactice Bishounen over Star Driver and now we have Mysterious Bishoujon-nen (shoujo 'girl' , shounen 'boy'). Kuranosuke Koibuchi is actually a guy who love to cross dress as a woman. Frantically speaking I totally do not understand guys who love to dress like women. If you'd try to ask them why do you love cross dressing they will just answer because we love men to drool over us. So, therefore, I conclude that all cross-dressers are indeed faggots!
The power of make-up! it's all explained over here. On this very video!
Impression-wise, yes this is really good series with 11 episodes. I like the character illustration. I could sense that there will be lots of character development over here. Can't wait to see Ugly Betty to go henshin into a beautiful young lass.
Oh, come to think of it ... Ugly Betty can be be face-off to Kirino since both of them are nerds in nature! Just random thoughts~
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