The original TV anime series Yoru no Kurage wa Oyogenai (Jellyfish Can’t Swim in the Night) is getting a novel adaptation by Yaku Yuuki, the head writer and scriptwriter for the original anime. Shogakukan will release the first novel on May 20th, 2024, following the anime’s storyline set in episodes 1 to 4.
The anime premiered on April 6th, 2024, on Tokyo MX and BS11 channels, and HIDIVE is streaming the anime as it airs in Japan. The anime, directed by Takeshita Ryohei (Eromanga Sensei) at Doga Kobo studio, stars:
- Itou Miku as Mahiru Kouzuki
- Takahashi Rei as Kano Yamanouchi
- Tomita Miyu as Kiwi Watase
- Shimabukuro Miyuri as Mei “Kim Anouk” Takanashi
The anime has also inspired Fujii Niko’s manga adaptation, which started on April 7th, 2024, on Kodansha’s Magazine Pocket app.
Shibuya is a city full of identity. It is here on Shibuya’s late-night streets that illustrator Mahiru Kozuki, former idol Kano Yamanouchi, Vtuber Kiui Watase, and composer Mei Kim Anouk Takanashi — four young women who are slightly outside the world — join together and form an anonymous artist group called JELEE. “I” also want to shine like someone else. If it’s not me but “we,” then we might be able to shine.
