Princess Jellyfish 9

Ending was a little too abrupt and tidy but overall a fun, charming, and beautifully drawn series. On to Blank Canvas!

The last book of the series. It's bittersweet like saying goodbye to some friends you've enjoyed having around. This is my one of my favorite manga series next to Honey and Clover, and Orange.

Came as expected.

Good book and good condition.

I think this is a cute story that every closet otaku will realate too.

👍🏻

I can’t believe it’s over but it’s such a wonderful manga!!!

Love this series! Worth every penny!

Princess Jellyfish is one of my favourite girly guilty pleasure manga series. Whilst I've loved the English edition's regular release schedule over the past couple of years and Kodansha's choice to include two volumes in virtually every book, it always meant the end would come around pretty fast... The ninth book is slimmer than the rest, containing the final volume of the manga and a little compilation of bonus material - so take care not to pay over the odds for it!This volume offers a fairly gentle farewell to Princess Jellyfish's main characters. The series' bigger conflicts (raising enough money to save Amamizukan, braving the challenges of a fickle, cut-throat fashion industry, and trying to cater to 'stylish' ideals and trends) are pushed aside in favour of focusing on the Jelly Fish brand's final 'metamorphosis' into a line of clothes that Tsukimi and her friends would feel comfortable wearing ('by Amars, for Amars'). I've always preferred the more intimate focus of the series' first half to what came after (I could never completely get into that arc with Fish), so this shift is more than welcome and marks a return to the passions and priorities that really motivate Tsukimi in particular. Along the way there are reunions and revelations that answer some of the series' ongoing mysteries. Arguably the ending works well -because- it doesn't necessarily wrap everything up in a neat little 'happily ever after' way rather than in spite of that, and this feels nicely in keeping with the series' overall tone and its refusal to buy fully into fairy tales. I'm not going to say it's the greatest, most satisfactory ending to a comic series ever, but regardless of how you feel about it it's still much, much better than the ridiculously abrupt ending to the anime.Perhaps reflecting the relatively sedate 'winding-down' tone and the simpler look of the clothing, the artwork lacks some of the energy from earlier volumes. That's not to say it's bad; just different somehow, a little more spare. There are some very pretty colour illustrations too.I'll miss my regular returns to Amamizukan, but this volume goes some way towards softening the blow with a preview of the first issue of Higashimura's 'Tokyo Tarareba Girls', which at the time of writing is due to be published in the UK very soon.

Arrived promptly.