#shu koibuchi

[a-thread-of-green]

[itriedsohard]

watching Princess Jellyfish and trying to look for fandom content only to find out that people still ship Inari and Shu… Inari very clearly SA’d Shuu but people still ship them??? from what I’ve seen so far there is so little content actually discussing what she did to him

[mediummushroom]

i made princess jellyfish keychains and even made shu shu and hanamori 🥰

release is to be decided so please keep an eye on my social media if you're interested!

[mermaidhugs]

i want you to realize how beautiful you really are

[slammingsuns]

Sketch commission of Shu Koibuchi from Princess Jellyfish!

[blonding]

shoutout to all two princess jellyfish fans this was way funnier in my head

[shizukais]

Kuragehime, Akiko Higashimura.

[acatkat]

My full illustration for the Utsukushii Zine from a while back!

Please enjoy the process gif as well! I had to reevaluate my composition until I was able to get something just right for this trio! twitter | twitter post

[yandereaddictsblog]

Some art dump of mine ✏📚🖍 - been years got to draw. (Just wanna put here in tumblr for doc. record).

Anime: Kuragehime (Princess Jellyfish) - By: Akiko Higashimura

Just found some image here in tumblr and in google, then combined the characters into doodle..

Colors are enhanced due to filter effects.

Just used a scratch paper (to save paper atleast), mongol pencil no. 2, pen by panda and color pencils by maped. (hehe just cheap ones)...

This is the original...

The negative filter one.

- missing the 2000's anime era 💗

[bekkomi]

My finished piece for the @utsukushii-zine Unfortunately we did not meet our production goal but I am happy to be part of a project for one of my all time favorite animes <3

[crunchy-multi-fan-one-9]

Tsukimi poly.

I think I’ll end up in fan stuff of mine polyshipping Tsukimi from jellyfish princess with kuranosuke and shu koibuchi.

[dropintomanga]

Rejectors Are Princesses, Too (Princess Jellyfish)

“Why? Why am I so confused right now? A normal girl would be happy to hear those words (”Will you marry me?”), right? I’ve seen it over and over again in TV shows and manga. When the man proposes, the woman cries with happiness. So how come I’m not crying?”

For many of us who’ve have fallen in love with someone and tried to confess our love to that person, more often than not, we get rejected. After processing all the bad emotions associated with the rejection, we move on. There’s ton of advice on how to deal with rejection. But what if you were the one who did the rejecting? After finishing up Princess Jellyfish, I was reminded of the perspective of the person who has to put up with a love confession by someone they aren’t interested in.

Near the end of the series, Tsukimi Kurashita goes through an ordeal where she ends up at Singapore to study fashion in order to save her friends from being homeless. After Kuranosuke Koibuchi rescues and brings her back to Japan, Tsukimi runs into the one guy she was interested in from the start of the series, Shu Koibuchi, the older brother of Kuranosuke. Shu just came back from Italy to get a jellyfish ring there as a way to propose to Tsukimi. When Shu gets his big chance to propose to Tsukimi, Tsukimi doesn’t know what to think at all. After some deliberation, Tsukimi rejects Shu’s marriage proposal saying that she still has things she wants to do.

Throughout the early-to-mid parts of the series, there was a big focus on the potential romance between Tsukimi and Shu. Both had extremely different personalities, but they found out each other attractive and their inner strengths admirable through multiple dates. However, during the attempt to save her home of Amamizukan from being sold, Tsukimi tried to reach Shu via phone. However, Shu dropped his mobile phone in the water. That led to Tsukimi’s lone journey into Singapore. This lack of communication between them around this time created a huge literal distance between the two that doomed the future of their relationship. One can argue that this change in plans for both characters threw the traditional script of a destined couple awry. This scriptlessness is part of a psychological phenomenon where people think they’re happy if something good happens to them, but they get a negative reaction instead. I heard about this idea of scriptlessness from a podcast episode about the growth of BS jobs. It was a discussion about how certain jobs are supposed to make you happy, but can end up making you miserable if the work there makes you feel like you’re not contributing to something bigger than yourself.

There was a brief part where unrequited love was compared to BS jobs.

“Q: You argue that there are even spiritual consequences of b.s. jobs, and one of them is something that you call scriptlessness (ph). What do you mean by that?

A: I remember being very impressed by a psychological study which looked at people in - you know, sort of looked at times they'd been in love or people had been in love with them when they were teenagers and how they'd managed to integrate the experience or - especially unrequited love. And what they found out was that, you know, if you are in love with someone who does not return your feelings, well, you know, it's difficult, but you can come up with a story about it. You know, you - people would come to terms with it. They almost remember the incidents fondly 20 years later. 

It was the people who had other people who were in love with them, who didn't actually feel the same way about them, who were still kind of hurting. They were really confused. They felt guilty, but they felt indignant. And they just didn't know how to feel.

And one of the reasons why, they suggested, is because, you know, if you're in love with someone who doesn't love you, you know exactly how you're supposed to feel. There's, like, 2,000 years of literature telling you exactly how you're supposed to feel, how you're supposed to behave, what's appropriate, what isn't. 

Whereas if you're on the other side, you're pretty much at a loss. You know, there are no novels written from the point of view of Roxane instead of, you know, Cyrano (from the play “Cyrano de Bergerac”). And so those people didn't have a script.”

Tsukimi was Roxane. She was somewhat at a loss over Shu’s proposal. Many girls would be ecstatic if the men they loved wanted to marry them. However, there’s a lot of societal pressure about marriage and for women to just settle down despite all the opportunities women have gotten over the years. That societal pressure leads to guilt. If they are the rejectors, they may get criticism via statements like “Why did you reject him? He looked like a great guy!” That starts to sting since the rejector is technically the main source of of the rejected’s pain. There’s really no real manual for it all because since being rejected is an universal feeling that’s more easy to talk about.  I did find that study on unrequited love and it’s quite the read. Rejectors don’t get portrayed often in media and when they do, it’s not well. They’re viewed as villains. Not many people want to understand rejectors’ perspectives because they view them as being selfish. Rejectors may also decide to be quiet about rejecting someone out of fear that their “interest” might retaliate with anger. Think about the bad relationships that women and men continue to foster due to their fear of being socially shamed.

Tsukimi did the right thing in telling Shu how she really felt. She did love him at one point, but her desire to accomplish something meaningful herself was greater. Shu’s love became unrequited over time. To be fair, he was worried that Tsukimi’s jellyfish obsession would make her out of reach for him. There’s also a huge age and social class gap between the two.

There’s an argument made that clarity is valued less than ambiguity in dating these days. Shu’s marriage proposal was clear and blunt as hell. It’s also a huge shocker because no one knows what life would bring. Loss is bound to happen more when relationships become more intimate. Shu is noted to be very naive when it comes to romance as he grew up mostly studying and trying to get into politics. He doesn’t fully grasp the many intricacies romantic relationships bring. Tsukimi became more willing to embrace a certain level of ambiguity after her experiences in Singapore. She started to see there were things more important than just romantic love. Even though she’s in full-on fashion designer mode by the end of the story, Tsukimi knows how important Kuranosuke is to her. She might love a guy at some point whether it’s Shu again, Kuranosuke, or someone else. She might not.  As Akiko Higashimura noted in the end, Princess Jellyfish is a neo princess story for the 21st century. Romantic love shouldn’t be the only type of love that matters. Also, more importantly, loving something/someone also means saying “no” sometimes. I wish more people realized that. Saying “no” doesn’t make you an ass. When done with politeness, assertiveness and respect, it makes you look good in front of others. Think about it - no one wants to be around a “yes” person who keeps doing things to please others and ends up disappointing them (and themselves) over and over again. Saying no is an act worthy of being worshiped royally like a prince or princess. On a side note: Princess Jellyfish was a fun read. I remember talking about starting it with one of Kodansha Comics’ people at Anime NYC last year. Now that I finished the series just before Anime NYC this year, I can see why Princess Jellyfish was popular in the U.S.. There’s a good amount of quirkiness that makes it stand out. Some parts were a little over-the-top and the hiatuses hurt the series a bit, but I recommend Princess Jellyfish to anyone who loves a silly romantic story that tries to convey a strong message about being beautiful.

[ahb-writes]

Marriage proposal via letter.

(from Princess Jellyfish omnibus #5)

[adunefaelivrin]

[pretty-setter-bois]

if i am not given a makeover by them then get taken to go out with their brother then is life really worth living?

bonus, the brother

(for legal reasons, this is a joke)

[lunamoonly]

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Tsukimi Kurashita © y Shuu Koibuchi © le pertenecen a Akiko Higashimura, todos los derechos reservados.