A new music video has been released for the ongoing TV anime series Jellyfish Can’t Swim in the Night for JELEE’s song “Tsuki no Ondo.” It was shown in the anime’s fourth episode on April 28, 2024. The series first premiered in Japan on April 7, 2024.
The music video highlights a lone girl walking through a beautiful illuminated street. It serves as a real music video created by the in-anime group JELEE in the series. As such, the fictional credits from the anime include vocal/lyrics by JELEE, music composition by Kimura-chan, illustration and character design by Yoru Kurage, and video production by Nox Ryugasaki.
The real production credits for the music video credit Rie Takahashi singing as her character Kano Yamanouchi and 40mP as lyricist and composer. Yuma Saito, who directed the first music video for Sunflower Dolls’ “Colorful Moonlight,” returns to direct the video for “Tsuki no Ondo.” OTOIRO’s Naoki Hasegawa is in charge of the video’s compositing, editing, and 3DCG production, with Hamunezuko credited as the main illustration, and Shuri providing additional illustration assistance.
Ryohei Takeshita (Eromanga Sensei, Pokémon: Paldean Winds director) is directing Jellyfish Can’t Swim in the Night, with Yuuki Yaku (Bottom-Tier Tomozaki author) as series screenwriter and scriptwriter, illustrator popman3580 as original character designer, Junichiro Taniguchi (Sing Yesterday for Me) as character designer and co-chief animation director, and Masaru Yokoyama (Horimiya) as music composer. Doga Kobo is in charge of the animation production.
Other staff include Chiaki Nakajima (Love Lab character designer) and Shuri (OSHI NO KO Episode 11 co-animation director) as sub-character designers, Akiko Toyoda (Girlfriend, Girlfriend character designer) and Asuka Suzuki (Synduality Noir co-sub-character designer) as additional co-chief animation directors, Yuji Kaneko (Tengoku Daimakyo) as art director, Kei Ishiguro (OSHI NO KO) as color designer, Hamunezuko as in-anime drafts illustrator, and Takafumi Kuwano (OSHI NO KO) as compositing director. Shinnosuke Ota (Warlords of Sigrdrifa co-main animator), Saurabh Singh, and Kazuma Nakao (Shikimori’s Not Just A Cutie OP, Episodes 4, 6 et al. co-animation director) are credited as the main animators.
Meanwhile, the anime’s main voice cast includes:
- • Miku Ito as Mahiru Kozuki
- • Rie Takahashi as Kano Yamanouchi
- • Miyu Tomita as Kiui Watase
- • Miyuri Shimabukuro as Mei Kim Anouk Takanashi
- • Sumire Uesaka as Miko
- • Miho Okasaki as Mero Seto
- • Yukina Shuto as Momoko Yanagi
- • Sally Amaki as Akari Suzumura
A manga adaptation by Niko Fujii began serialization in Kodansha’s Magazine Pocket app and website on April 7, 2024. A light novel adaptation by Yaku and popman3580 will be released on May 20, 2024.
HIDIVE and Muse Asia are streaming Jellyfish Can’t Swim in the Night outside of Japan, with the former describing the synopsis as:
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.
