Scheduled to premiere on April 6, 2024, this promotional image from the original anime series was revealed today Jellyfish Can’t Swim in the Night (Yoru no Kurage wa Oyogenai).
This anime will celebrate the studio’s 50th anniversary Doga Kobo (Oshi no Ko, New Game!, Ikebukuro West Gate Park). With the story taking place in Shibuya, this is an original work by JELEE with direction from Ryohei Takeshita (Eromanga Sensei). The argument is Yūki Yaku (author of Bottom-tier Character Tomozaki) and the character design is by Junichirō Taniguchi (Magia Record: Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story, Touken Ranbu: Hanamaru) based on the drawings of popman3580.
In the cast we have:
- Miku Itō as Mahiru Kōzuki
- Rie Takahashi as Kano Yamanouchi
- Miyu Tomita like Kiwi Watase
- Miyuri Shimabukuro as Mei “Kim Anouk” Takanashi
- Sumire Uesaka as Miiko
- Miho Okasaki as Melo Seto
- Yukina Shuto as Momoko Yanagi
- Sally Amaki as Akari Suzumura
Synopsis for Jellyfish Can’t Swim in the Night
“I want to find out what I like.” Shibuya, a city full of identities. A girl who wanders through the Shibuya ward at night and cannot become anything begins to change after a special encounter with another person. A coming-of-age story Ryouhei Takeshitadirector of “Eromanga Sensei”, and Yuki Yakuauthor of “Jaku-Chara Tomozaki-kun”, presented by Doga Kobo, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary. The girls’ anonymous creative activities finally begin.
A manga adaptation by Niko Fujii will be released in Kodansha’s Magazine Pocket in April.
