**Princess Jellyfish** is a heartfelt and unconventional josei comedy-drama manga that celebrates individuality, self-expression, and the courage to step outside societal expectations, centered on Tsukimi Kurashita, a shy jellyfish-obsessed otaku girl who lives in Amamizukan, a women-only apartment complex inhabited by eccentric female nerds who fear fashionable people, especially stylish women known as “normies,” until their sheltered world is disrupted by Kuranosuke Koibuchi, a bold and flamboyant cross-dressing fashion lover who befriends Tsukimi and gradually pulls her and the other residents into the wider world, unfolding into a charming and emotionally rich story about self-acceptance, creative ambition, and redefining beauty through gentle romance, personal growth, and humorous culture clashes, delivering sharp social commentary on gender norms, appearance, and adulthood while balancing laugh-out-loud comedy with sincere emotional moments, expressive art, and relatable character struggles, earning widespread praise for its originality and empowering message and standing as one of the most beloved modern josei series, later adapted into successful anime and live-action versions, also known as Princess Jellyfish manga, Kuragehime, 海月姫, Akiko Higashimura manga, Tsukimi Kurashita manga, Kuranosuke Koibuchi manga, otaku slice of life manga, crossdressing romance manga, and josei coming of age manga.