A new climax key visual has been released for the ongoing Jellyfish Can’t Swim in the Night TV anime series, which was released shortly after the airing of episode eight. The anime first premiered in Japan on April 7, 2024.
Ryohei Takeshita (Eromanga Sensei, Pokémon: Paldean Winds director) is directing the anime series, 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 handling 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 was 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 series 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.
