Jellyfish Can't Swim in the Night

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Jellyfish Can't Swim in the Night
Anime key visual featuring the four main characters
夜のクラゲは泳げない
(Yoru no Kurage wa Oyogenai)
Created byJELEE
Anime television series
Directed byRyōhei Takeshita
Written byYūki Yaku
Music byMasaru Yokoyama
StudioDoga Kobo
Licensed bySentai Filmworks
Original networkTokyo MX, Kansai TV, BS11, AT-X, HTB
Original run April 7, 2024 – present
Episodes3
Manga
Written byJELEE
Illustrated byNiko Fujii
Published byKodansha
MagazineMagazine Pocket
DemographicShōnen
Original runApril 7, 2024 – present
Light novel
Written byYūki Yaku
Illustrated bypopman3580
Published byShogakukan
ImprintGagaga Bunko
DemographicMale
Original runMay 20, 2024 – scheduled
icon Anime and manga portal

Jellyfish Can't Swim in the Night (夜のクラゲは泳げない, Yoru no Kurage wa Oyogenai) is an original anime television series produced by Doga Kobo for its 50th anniversary and directed by Ryōhei Takeshita. It premiered in April 2024. A manga adaptation illustrated by Niko Fujii began serialization on Kodansha's Magazine Pocket manga website in April 2024.[1]

Plot

Four girls, "Mahiru Kouzuki", an illustrator who stops drawing, "Nonoka Tachibana", a former idol who wants to prove herself with singing, "Nox Ryūgasaki", a self-proclaimed "the strongest" VTuber, and "Kimura-chan", a mysterious composer who wants to support her favourite person, together form an anonymous artist group, "JELEE".

Characters

Mahiru Kōzuki (光月まひる, Kōzuki Mahiru) / Yoru Kurage (海月ヨル)[2]
Voiced by: Miku Itō[1]
Kano Yamanouchi (山ノ内花音, Yamanouchi Kano) / Nonoka Tachibana (橘ののか)[2]
Voiced by: Rie Takahashi[1]
Kiwi Watase (渡瀬キウイ, Watase Kiui) / Nox Ryūgasaki (竜ヶ崎ノクス)[2]
Voiced by: Miyu Tomita[1]
Mei "Kim Anouk" Takanashi (高梨・キム・アヌーク・めい, Takanashi "Kimu Anūku" Mei)
Voiced by: Miyuri Shimabukuro[1]
Miiko (みー子, Miiko)
Voiced by: Sumire Uesaka[3]
Mero Setō (瀬藤メロ, Setō Mero)
Voiced by: Miho Okasaki[3]
Momoko Yanagi (柳桃子, Yanagi Momoko)
Voiced by: Yukina Shuto[3]
Akari Suzumura (鈴村あかり, Suzumura Akari)
Voiced by: Sally Amaki[3]
Kaho (佳歩)
Voiced by: Ayu Matsuura[4]
Mion (美音)
Voiced by: Chika Anzai[4]
Ariel (亜璃恵瑠, Arieru)
Voiced by: Nao Tōyama[4]
Koharu (小春)
Voiced by: Asami Seto[4]
Yukine (雪音)
Voiced by: Yūko Kaida[4]
Ship Manager Honami (保奈美店長, Honami-tenchō)
Voiced by: Hekiru Shiina[4]

Production and release

On March 24, 2023, Doga Kobo announced it was producing an original television anime series titled Jellyfish Can't Swim in the Night, which would be scheduled to premiere in 2024, with its story taking place in Shibuya.[5][6] Later, three more batches of teaser PVs and teaser visuals were released on May 12,[7] July 28,[8] and October 23, 2023,[9] respectively. According to director Ryohei Takeshita, the teaser PVs were produced in live action, mainly because he did not want to strain the resources from the production of the anime series, and partly because he wanted to attempt to create something in live action.[10] On November 1, 2023, its first fully animated PV was released, together with cast and staff announced, as well as the series' premiere in April 2024.[1][11] On February 7, 2024, the second PV was released, as well as the series' premiere on April 7.[a]

An advance screening of the first two episodes was held on March 3, 2024, at Marunouchi Piccadilly, Tokyo,[12] with live broadcast in four cinemas in Saitama, Aichi, Osaka, and Miyazaki respectively.[13]

The screenwriter, Yūki Yaku, the art director, Yūji Kaneko, and the editor, Kashiko Kimura were all invited by Ryōhei Takeshita to the crew.[14][15][16]

Media

Anime

The series is created by JELEE, and takes place in Shibuya, Tokyo.[5] Produced by Doga Kobo, it is directed by Ryōhei Takeshita, with series composition by Yūki Yaku, original character designs by popman3580, and designs adapted for animation by Junichirō Taniguchi.[6][5][1][3] It premiered on April 7, 2024 on Tokyo MX and other networks.[a] The opening theme song is "Irodori" (イロドリ, "Color"), performed by KanoeRana, while the ending theme song is "Ichi-nichi wa 25-jikan" (1日は25時間, "25 Hours in a Day"), performed by Anna Tsurushima.[3][13] The series is licensed by Sentai Filmworks in North America, Australia and British Isles.[17] Muse Communication licensed the series in Asia-Pacific.[18]

Episodes

No.Title [19][b]Directed by [c]Written by [c]Storyboarded by [c]Original air date [21][a]
1"Jellyfish in the Night"
Transliteration: "Yoru no Kurage" (Japanese: 夜のクラゲ)		Ryōhei TakeshitaYūki YakuRyōhei TakeshitaApril 7, 2024 (2024-04-07)
Mahiru Kouzuki wakes up to her little sister filming her. She takes her sister's phone, deletes the video and heads to class. At school it is revealed that Mahiru is regarded as an illustrator. While her classmates praise her talent, Mahiru herself does not believe she has any noteworthy artistic ability. At night she heads out and walks through Shibuya. She talks to her friend, the school council president, over the phone. They discuss their futures and Mahiru says she doesn't want to be a corporate worker and is unsure about her future. While walking by a jellyfish mural, it is revealed in a flashback that Mahiru painted the mural as a child. When she was a child, she excitedly showed her friends the mural but they made fun of her artwork. Embarrassed, Mahiru hid that she drew the mural and quit being an artist. In the present, a performer placed posters on Mahiru's mural and a girl heckles the performer for doing so. Mahiru is shocked that someone actually liked her art and follows the girl. After talking to her, the girl is revealed to be Kano Yamanouchi, a former idol. Kano tells Mahiru that her mural is one of her favorite pieces of art and she invites Mahiru to collaborate with her music group "JELEE". Mahiru says that she isn't confident enough to do so and leaves. At home Mahiru learns that Kano had to quit her idol group after being accused of assaulting a coworker. She is shocked that Kano is able to continue working as a performance artist, despite the public humiliation and admires how strong she is. Later on during Halloween, the two run into each other again. Kano manages to convince Mahiru to collaborate after singing in front of the jellyfish mural and tearing down the posters that were defacing the mural. While Kano's performance is live streamed, another girl is shown to be watching intently.
2"Mei the Fangirl"
Transliteration: "Mei no Oshigoto" (Japanese: めいの推しごと)		TBATBATBAApril 14, 2024 (2024-04-14)
A girl is shown preparing to play the piano in front of a panel of judges. Mahiru is in her room and feels embarrassed about her decision to join JELEE on the livestream. Mahiru's younger sister notices that Mahiru has started illustrating again. Working at a cafe, Kano and Mahiru strategize on their approach to making JELEE a success. Mahiru decides they need another member capable of composing music. Kano and Mahiru discuss financing and realize they need 900,000 yen to fund their artist group. A super fan of Kano named Mei enters the cafe and offers Kano 100,000 yen. Mei explains she recognized Kano from the livestream and insists Kano return to the idol industry. Kano rebuffs Mei and hands her the money back, stating that she is done with the idol industry. Heading back home with Mahiru, Kano realizes Mei and her bags got swapped. Mei's bag contained a cover of Kano's music and they realize that Mei is a great musician. Kano, Mahiru, and Mei meet up once more. Mei offers to write music for Kano on the condition that she sings as an idol, not as JELEE's vocalist. In a flashback it is shown that Mei was actually a girl named Kim that had troubles making friends when she was in middle school. It is shown that Kano's idol persona helped Kim get through her troubles. Kano and Mahiru show up at Mei's piano exam. After the performance, Kano calls Mei by her real name, Kimura. After realizing that Kano truly cares about her, beyond just her idol persona, she stops feeling alone. Mei Kim officially joins JELEE afterwards as their music composer.
3"Kiui Watase"
Transliteration: "Watase Kiui" (Japanese: 渡瀬キウイ)		TBATBATBAApril 21, 2024 (2024-04-21)
A VTuber is shown live streaming from her bedroom, she ends the stream and sighs after. Mahiru, Kano, and Mei gather at the cafe to discuss JELEE's future direction. Mei shares her music, and Mahiru presents her illustration for the promotional art. Mahiru dances to Mei's music, sparking an idea in Kano's mind. Kano believes that having Mahiru's drawing move in sync with her actual dancing in the music video would be amusing. Mahiru tells Kano that they can reach out to her VTuber friend who specializes in streaming as a character model. They talk to the VTuber on a video call and Mahiru introduces her as Kiui, a childhood friend that she has always looked up to. The girls request Kiui's help in animating Mahiru's illustration for the MV, and she agrees. It is revealed that Kiui has a lot of free time due to living as a shut-in, spending entire nights streaming instead of sleeping. Several of Kiui's classmates show up to the festival, and Mahiru learns that Kiui no longer attends school. After Mahiru brings it up in one of their calls, Kiui abruptly ends the call in anger. A flashback reveals that Kiui did not fit in well with her elite prep school student body. She eventually started secluding herself from the outside world. At Mahiru's school festival, she decides to stream her performance to Kiui. The theme of the play involves dancing to try and convince a shut in goddess to come out. Mahiru's acting serves as both a school play event and a personal plea to Kiui to stop secluding herself. Kiui delivers the music video and the girls are impressed. Mahiru also assures Kiui that she doesn't mind if Kiui secludes herself, emphasizing that Kiui is still a very cool person to her. During a stream, Kiui plays JELEE's music video to promote the group. Later on, Kiui goes outside and finally meets Mahiru in person for the first time in two years.
4"Double A-Side"
Transliteration: "Ryou A Men" (Japanese: 両A面)		TBATBATBAApril 28, 2024 (2024-04-28)
Mero from "The Sunflower Dolls" discusses their return to the idol scene in an interview. Mahiru is excited that JELEE obtained 10000 views on their MV. While Kano is not as enthusiastic, she realizes the result is much better than her first solo cover as JELEE. As Mei is struggling to use music software, the group decides to meet up at Kano's apartment to work together. Under the producer Yukine, The Sunflower Dolls work towards promoting their group. The group members discuss the scandal that happened 2 years ago. At Kano's apartment, Kiui explains how music software works to Mei and the group has an icebreaker over pizza. Kano discusses their schedule, but the other members push back as the schedule feels unrealistic for those still going to school. Kano leaves upset, the other girls realize that she wants to keep pace with her former idol group. They meet Kano's older sister, Mion, who explains that the producer of The Sunflower Dolls is actually their mother. Mei and Kiui find Kano and they return to her apartment. Everyone works together late into the night on JELEE's new MV, which they release early morning.

Manga

A manga adaptation illustrated by Niko Fujii began serialization on Kodansha's Magazine Pocket manga website on April 7, 2024.[1][22]

Light novel

A light novel adaptation, written by Yūki Yaku and illustrated by popman3580, will begin publication under Shogakukan's Gagaga Bunko imprint on May 20, 2024.[23]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ a b c Tokyo MX lists the series premiere at 25:00 on April 6, 2024, which is effectively 1:00 a.m. JST on April 7.
  2. ^ All English titles are taken from HIDIVE.[20]
  3. ^ a b c Information is taken from the ending credits of each episode.

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h Cayanan, Joanna (November 1, 2023). "Doga Kobo's Jellyfish Can't Swim in the Night Anime Reveals Cast, More Staff, April Debut in 1st Promo Video". Anime News Network. Archived from the original on November 1, 2023. Retrieved November 1, 2023.
  2. ^ a b c "CHARACTER". Jellyfish Can't Swim in the Night official website (in Japanese). Archived from the original on February 29, 2024. Retrieved February 9, 2024.
  3. ^ a b c d e f Cayanan, Joanna (February 7, 2024). "Jellyfish Can't Swim in the Night Anime's Main Promo Video Reveals More Cast & Staff, Songs, April 6 Debut". Anime News Network. Archived from the original on February 7, 2024. Retrieved February 7, 2024.
  4. ^ a b c d e f "Jellyfish Can't Swim in the Night Anime Reveals 6 Cast Additions". Crunchyroll. April 6, 2024. Retrieved April 6, 2024.
  5. ^ a b c Hodgkins, Crystalyn (March 24, 2023). "Doga Kobo Announces Original TV Anime Jellyfish Can't Swim in the Night". Anime News Network. Archived from the original on March 24, 2023. Retrieved March 24, 2023.
  6. ^ a b 竹下良平×屋久ユウキ×動画工房のオリジナルアニメ「夜のクラゲは泳げない」来年放送. Natalie (in Japanese). Natasha, Inc. March 24, 2023. Archived from the original on March 24, 2023. Retrieved March 24, 2023.
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  10. ^ Takeshita, Ryohei [@ryoppe0905] (October 23, 2023). 実写にしたのはアニメ本編のリソースをティザーPVに割きたくないのが主な理由ですね。単純に自分が実写作ってみたかったのもあります。 (Tweet). Archived from the original on November 1, 2023. Retrieved January 1, 2024 – via Twitter.
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  12. ^ アニメ「夜のクラゲは泳げない」先行上映会に伊藤美来、富田美憂、島袋美由利が登壇. Natalie (in Japanese). Natasha, Inc. January 23, 2024. Archived from the original on January 23, 2024. Retrieved January 28, 2024.
  13. ^ a b アニメ「夜のクラゲは泳げない」に上坂すみれ、岡咲美保ら 第2弾PV＆主題歌情報公開. Natalie (in Japanese). Natasha, Inc. February 7, 2024. Archived from the original on February 7, 2024. Retrieved March 2, 2024.
  14. ^ スタッフインタビュー #1 シリーズ構成・脚本 屋久ユウキさんインタビュー. Jellyfish Can't Swim in the Night official website (in Japanese). January 11, 2024. Archived from the original on February 6, 2024. Retrieved February 6, 2024.
  15. ^ スタッフインタビュー #3 美術監督 金子雄司インタビュー. Jellyfish Can't Swim in the Night official website (in Japanese). January 25, 2024. Archived from the original on February 6, 2024. Retrieved February 6, 2024.
  16. ^ スタッフインタビュー #4 編集 木村佳史子インタビュー. Jellyfish Can't Swim in the Night official website (in Japanese). February 1, 2024. Archived from the original on February 6, 2024. Retrieved February 6, 2024.
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  18. ^ Antonio Pineda, Rafael (February 19, 2024). "Muse Asia Licenses Jellyfish Can't Swim in the Night Anime". Anime News Network. Archived from the original on February 19, 2024. Retrieved February 19, 2024.
  19. ^ "Sutōrī | Orijinaru Terebi Animēshon "Yoru no Kurage wa Oyogenai" Kōshiki Saito" STORY｜オリジナルTVアニメーション「夜のクラゲは泳げない」公式サイト [Story | Original TV Anime "Jellyfish Can't Swim in the Night" Official Site]. yorukura-anime.com (in Japanese). Retrieved April 6, 2024.
  20. ^ "Jellyfish Can't Swim in the Night - HIDIVE". HIDIVE. Retrieved April 6, 2024.
  21. ^ "On'Ea/Streaming｜Orijinaru Terebi Animēshon "Yoru no Kurage wa Oyogenai" Kōshiki Saito" ON AIR/STREAMING｜オリジナルTVアニメーション「夜のクラゲは泳げない」公式サイト [On Air/Streaming | Original TV Anime "Jellyfish Can't Swim in the Night" Official Site]. yorukura-anime.com (in Japanese). Retrieved April 6, 2024.
  22. ^ Magazine Pocket [@magapoke] (March 30, 2024). 4/7(日)より新連載スタート!!✨『 夜のクラゲは泳げない 』 (Tweet). Retrieved March 30, 2024 – via Twitter.
  23. ^ Yaku, Yūki [@Yaku_yuki] (March 18, 2024). イラストはアニメでもキャラクター原案を担当してくれたpopman3580さんが引き続き担当してくれます (Tweet). Retrieved March 30, 2024 – via Twitter.

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