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Tsukimi Kurashita (倉下 月海) is the main female protagonist of the Princess Jellyfish series. She is an otaku girl with an obsession for jellyfish, who lives in Tokyo in a rented house with some eccentric friends she met online, and she wants to become an illustrator.

She is noted to be an awkward girl who is highly terrified of social interaction, attractive people, as well as the prospect of formal work.

Appearance[]

Tsukimi is a fair-skinned young woman who stands at average height with long black hair, that she usually styles in plaits, followed by large brown eyes, and freckles. Her appearance is noted to give her a demure and naive look.

She wears red-framed glasses and is often seeing wearing plain, somewhat old-fashioned clothes that would range from a full-on grey sweatsuit to a knee-length navy blue colored skirt and a pink jumper with plain trainers.

In stark contrast to her innocent looking appearance, whenever Tsukimi is shown to wear makeup or is fully dressed up, courtesy of Kuranosuke, she is shown to be an attractive young woman that garners the attention from the Koibuchi brothers on numerous occasions.

Personality[]

Tsukimi is noted to be innocent, youthful at heart, as well as somewhat naive about the world around her.

She is also shown to be kindhearted, an example being when she assists the other Amars with the daily task of shopping and cleaning. Outside of that, she would occasionally buy them small gifts from time to time with the money that she receives from her father.

Much like the other Amars, she has an irrational fear of stylish people and will usually petrify in their presence. Aside from having the inability to be around the "stylish", Tsukimi also has a hard time when being around males. However, this fear is easily eased whenever her glasses are removed, due to both bad eyesight and just so she won't have to see them up close.

Aside from her kind and youthful innocence, Tsukimi is shown to lack confidence and has extremely poor self-esteem towards herself, enough to where she'd constantly view herself as "ugly".

Despite perceiving herself as "ugly", and that her initial fear of being judged and hated by the Amars, if she were to dress up fashionably like the "stylish", she'd prefer to look the way she is. However, whenever everyone is on board with dressing up as an "After", she remains clueless to the fact that she is fairly attractive.

Outside of lacking confidence, her happiness shows whenever jellyfishes are involved.

Overview[]

Tsukimi is a 19-year-old girl who moved to Tokyo, in order to pursue her dream of becoming a professional illustrator.

As a child, she and her mother had visited an aquarium where she was entranced by jellyfish, which eventually became her number one obsession. Sometime after her mother's death, this affected her deeply to where she grew up shy and withdrawn, and that her social life presumably had very few friends or none.

But after making friends with the Amars, who she happened to have met online, she began to live a pretty normal life from then on.

However, things take a turn when she encounters Kuranosuke, on the night she intended to save Clara. Not only is Tsukimi the only resident of Amamizukan who knows Kuranosuke Koibuchi’s true gender, she'd do anything to prevent the secret from coming out, just so the Amars wouldn't grow suspicious. And ever since meeting Kuranosuke, her life began to turn upside down.

Relationships[]

Friends[]

  • Tsukimi met the Amars on an online message board and was invited to live with them. She is used to their antics just as much as they are used to hers and is shown to have a friendly relationship with them as individuals.
  • She met Kuranosuke Koibuchi when he helped her save Clara, and although she tried to deny him and ask him not to associate with her, he kept returning to Amamizukan, eventually winning over the other Amars. Tsukimi is the only one of them who knows he is actually male, and despite being a little scared of him because he's a boy, Tsukimi deeply admires him for his strength, beauty, and other "princess-like" qualities.

Family[]

  • Tsukimi's mother became very ill sometime in Tsukimi's childhood. Tsukimi had a close relationship with her mother and was deeply affected when she passed away. When Tsukimi is feeling sad, alone or happy, she usually speaks to her mother out loud or in her head to inform her about things.
  • Tsukimi still speaks to her father via the phone every once awhile, implying their relationship is still strong even after her mother's death.
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Romance[]

  • Tsukimi has a crush on Shuu Koibuchi, which he reciprocates, though at first he doesn't recognize her when she is in her "regular" clothes. She is tortured by the idea that he is in a relationship with Shōko Inari. Later, he recognizes her in her neet form and still holds his feelings for her. In the manga, Shuu and Tsukimi date with the agreement to marry, but their relationship falls apart while he's in Italy and Tsukimi has to make a deal to move to Singapore in order to save Amamizukan. When she returns, she tells Shuu that she's not ready to get married. In the live action movie, Tsukimi is given time by Shuu to answer his request for a courtship, but the story concludes without him receiving a direct answer. However, the closing credits have Hanamori and a giant stuffed jellyfish tell a sad Shuu not to worry.
  • It is hinted at in the anime that Tsukimi thinks Kuranosuke is "beautiful" and towards the end of the series she gets shy around him, especially when he's not dressing as a female. In the live action movie, it is strongly suggested that Tsukimi will choose Kuranosuke, between her declaring to her mother that she realizes Kuranosuke's always there for her, and the appearance of a second jellyfish in Clara's tank after the closing credits.
  • Several volumes into the manga, Tsukimi get her first kiss from Kai Fish, although it's unclear whether he is to be taken seriously as a potential love interest.

Quotes[]

  • (Tsukimi, thinking to herself)If reincarnation is real I hope I'm not a human next time. But I don't want to be a dog or a cat. Because there are "cute" ones and "not cute" ones. I just want to rock gently on the ocean waves. I want to be a jellyfish.[1]

Etymology[]

  • The name Tsukimi means "moon" (月) (tsuki) and "sea, ocean" (海) (mi).
  • Tsukimi's surname Kurashita means "warehouse" (倉) (kura) and "under, below" (下) (shita).

Trivia[]

  • One of the character moments Tsukimi has in common with Shū Koibuchi is plucking up the courage to knock on a door and speak.
    • For Tsukimi, this is when she has to approach the stylish employee at the pet store [2].
    • Her birthdate is on March 21st.
  • Tsukimi described Kuranosuke Koibuchi as the "Princess Jellyfish".

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References[]

  1. Princess Jellyfish manga Kodansha (2-in-1 Edition): Volume 2, Chapter 8, Pages 252-253
  2. Princess Jellyfish manga Kodansha (2-in-1 Edition): Volume 1, Chapter 1, Page 29
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