Announced back in April and now set for a December 27th, 2014 release date in Japan, the second trailer for the live action Princess Jellyfish film has arrived and it’s another pretty fun experience. While live action adaptations can be a little dicey just by their nature, they look like they have the characters captured well here. The film is being directed by Taisuki Kawamura with a screenplay by Toshiya Ono. It stars Rena Nōnen (Amachan, Hot Road) as Tsukimi Kurashita, Masaki Suda as Kuranosuke Koibuchi, Hiroki Hasegawa as Shū Koibuchi, Chizuru Ikewaki as Banba, Rina Ōta as Mayaya, Tomoe Shinohara as Jiji and Azusa Babazono as Chieko.
The manga by Akiko Higashimura has been running since 2008 with thirteen volumes released to date as well as a TV series that FUNimation simulcast and eventually picked up for release with a lot of promotion behind it on DVD and Blu-ray.
Property concept: Plain, timid and obsessed with jellyfish, Tsukimi is a far cry from her idea of a princess. Her tepid life as a jobless illustrator comes complete with roommates who harbor diehard hobbies that solidify their status as hopeless social rejects. These wallflowers run a tight, nun-like ship, but their no-men-allowed-not-no-one-not-no-how bubble is unwittingly burst after Tsukimi brings home a rescued sea jelly and a beauty queen… who’s actually a guy. When the threat of losing their cozy convent inspires this glamour boy to turn the neurotic entourage into a portrait of success, will Tsukimi take her chance to bloom, or will she end up a hot mess?
