Week 5: Romance & Jellyfish

I had a friend who kept telling me to watch the anime Princess Jellyfish, but unfortunately I never did. So when I realized we were getting a presentation on it. I was pretty excited. I actually decided to watch a few epsiodes because why not? I can finally watch anime and say its for homework or something. So here's what I thought of the anime in retrospect to the presentation of the manga. It seemed that at times the romantic story lines took a back burner to demonstrating just how crazy the otaku female cast was, but such divergence from the main storyline was done successfully, since each of the portraits of the 'Sisterhood' were hilariously accurate. While the story would most certainly appeal to the geek in all of us, there was plenty of stylish goodness for the more glamorous of anime-viewers. In addition to the main plot, there were about three sub-plots taking place at any given time which involved sex and blackmail (which also had its fair dosage of comedy), tragedy and loss (for both of the main characters), and fashion and fame (not so much glamor and glitter, JEM fans).

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