History Manga / Kuragehime

** Chiako being the only Nun not to get any kind of makeover. Even when the 'makeover' is just throwing shawls and NiceHats on the others.

* BlankWhiteEyes

** Kuranosuke accidentally using 'ore' (calling himself 'boy' in the dub) in front of the other Nuns, and Tsukimi trying to district them from it by singing.

* BettyAndVeronica: In a straightforward example, Shū is the Archie to Tsukimi's Betty and Inari's Veronica. In a less straightforward example, Tsukimi is the Archie for Kuranosuke and Shū, though it is less immediately clear who the Betty and who the Veronica is.

* BerserkButton: Several. It's better not to add noodles to the meat in Banba's presence, and there are also more than a few things that will seriously annoy the hyperactive Mayaya. But the most prominent example would be Inari [[CrowningMomentOfFunny going apeshit]] on her [[ButtMonkey assistant]] just because the poor guy suggested [[AttractiveBentGender she-Kuranosuke]]'s a 'real knocker'...

--> I want to see you guys of the pressure-free generation do things that don't suit you, get in huge debt, be burdened with huge loans, and not know what to do.

* FairytaleMotifs: Specifically princesses, and there are various references to {{Cinderella}}.

** In episode 1, when Tsukimi is walking home with Kuranosuke, she looks at the beautiful "princess" in admiration. Then Tsukimi sees their reflections side by side in a store window, and sighs at how plain she is by comparison.

* SuperWindowJump: Parodied. Tsukimi tries this once in the anime, and twice in the manga; Kuranosuke pulls her back inside the first time, the second time she succeeds but it's a very short drop. Mayaya eventually tries this in the manga, too, but is also pulled back.

''Kuragehime'' (''Princess Jellyfish'') is an award-winning {{josei}} {{manga}} by Akiko Higashimura, adapted to {{anime}} by Brain Base, as part of Fall 2010's {{noitaminA}} block. Funimation is also simulcasting the series [[http://www4.funimation.com/video/?page=show&b=340 on their video portal.]]

Tsukimi, an extremely shy and self-deprecating 18 year old illustrator, has been fascinated by jellyfish ever since her mother took her to an aquarium. To her, they're everything she isn't - beautiful and graceful. While jellyfish-watching at a pet shop, she sees a spotted jellyfish next to a moon jellyfish in the same tank, a certain death for the spotted jellyfish. Overcoming her fear of stylish people (and men), she tries to talk the clerk into moving the spotted jellyfish out of the tank. Apathetic to the plight of this nerdy girl, the clerk just ignores her and Tsukimi [[SeriousBusiness gets into a fight with him over it]]. Things are looking bleak for Kurara (the spotted jellyfish) when a fashionable girl intervenes and talks the clerk into giving them the jellyfish.

''Kuragehime'' (''Jellyfish Princess'') is an award-winning {{josei}} {{manga}} by Akiko Higashimura, adapted to {{anime}} by Brain Base, as part of Fall 2010's {{noitaminA}} block. Funimation is also simulcasting the series [[http://www4.funimation.com/video/?page=show&b=340 on their video portal.]]

* ElmuhFuddSyndwome: Kurara's cutesy way of talking. Okay, she only speaks in Tsukimi's {{Imagine Spot}}s.

* PunnyName: Kurara is one character off from Kurage (Jellyfish, but you should know that by now).

* RapeIsOkWhenItIsFemaleOnMale : Wonderfully [[AvertedTrope averted]], no one was laughing except for the perpetrator (who has instantly won her place as the most hated character in the show).

** Tsukimi sees herself as [[HeidiGirlOfTheAlps Heidi]] helping [[IllGirl Kurara]] in one ImagineSpot.

* TopTenList: Hosted by Kurara.
* TwoPersonLoveTriangle: Between Shuu and Tsukimi, [[spoiler: though it's quickly becoming a humorous SiblingTriangle LoveDodecahedron.]]

** Also, the Sisterhood turning to stone as a defensive mechanism.

** WhatMeasureIsANonCute: For nerd girls, that is.

** [[NotSoDifferent 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 [[CampStraight a teenage girl]], and Inari appears to have based her life around business women mangas from the Eighties.