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Live-Action Princess Jellyfish Series Casts Kento Kaku as Kai Fish
posted on by Crystalyn Hodgkins
The official Twitter account for the live-action television series based on Akiko Higashimura's Princess Jellyfish manga announced on Monday that Kento Kaku (live-action Ranma ½ special, live-action The Disastrous Life of Saiki K.) will play the fashion industrialist Kai Fish in the series starting in the seventh episode.
The previously announced cast includes:
- Kyōko Yoshine as Tsukimi Kurashita
- Kōji Seto as Kuranosuke Koibuchi
- Asuka Kudō as Shū Koibuchi
- Haruka Kinami as Jiji
- Rena Matsui as Banba
- Rio Uchida as Mayaya
- Eriko Tomiyama as Chieko
- Jun Kaname as Yoshio Hanamori
- Kinya Kitaōji as Keiichirō Koibuchi
- Moga Mogami as Kotone Kiriyama
- Koyuki as Tsukimi's mother (guest role)
- Yumi Adachi as Nomu
- Noriko Eguchi as Nisha
- Mayumi Wakamura as Kuranosuke's mother Lina
The series premiered on January 15 on Fuji TV and airs on Mondays at 9:00 p.m. Jun'ichi Ishikawa is directing the show, and Yūichi Tokunaga is penning the script. The musical group Café Latte Funsui Kōen (Café Latte Fountain Park) are performing the opening theme song "Go Sign wa 1 Coin."
Kodansha Comics describes the original manga's story:
Tsukimi, who has loved jellyfish from a young age, resides in Amamizukan, a fangirl-only dorm. One evening at the local pet store, Tsukimi sees a lovely jellyfish in danger, but a beautiful woman comes to the rescue. They go back to Amamizukan together, but this "woman"... is actually a man!
Higashimura launched the series in Kiss in 2008, and ended it in August. Kodansha published the manga's 17th and final volume in November. Crunchyroll publishes the manga in English on its online platform, and Kodansha Comics debuted the series in English in print in February 2016. The manga inspired a 2010 television anime series that Funimation released in North America and a 2014 live-action film. The manga was nominated for an Eisner Award last year.
Source: Comic Natalie
