HIGASHIMURA AKIKO

Kuragehime follows Tsukimi Kurashita, an 18-year-old who moved from Kagoshima to Tokyo to become an illustrator. Tsukimi is a jellyfish otaku who comes to live in a shared bath and toilet, women-only apartment, Amamizukan. Other tenants include fujoshi, NEETs and others who consider fashion their natural enemy, calling themselves "Amars (The Sisterhood)". One day, Tsukimi meets a fashionable and beautiful girl, Kuranosuke Koibuchi, who saves a jellyfish that is about to die at a pet shop. She later discovers that Kuranosuke is merely cross-dressing in order to evade inheritance of his father's occupation as a politician.

Kurashita Tsukimi is an 18 year old 'kurage otaku' (jellyfish fanatic). She lives in Tokyo in an all-female apartment complex full of various types of otaku. They fear and despise beautiful, fashionable people while existing happily in their no-man, no make-up world.That all changes when a 'hipster' saves the life of a jellyfish and intrudes upon Tsukimi's isolated existence. Things are made even more complicated when it turns out that the beautiful woman is actually a man in drag.

[from cotton candy scans]Haruka is a 30-year-old single woman who works as an overworked gossip magazine writer. Back in 6th grade, she had a crush on a 3rd grade boy. Since she was afraid of being bullied due to that, she told others that she crushed on the boy's brother instead. Despite that, the boy confesses and without an answer, moves away. Since then, Haruka wonders why she unconsciously likes celebrities that remind her of him. She wonders if he still remembers her...

Growing up in a rural town, Lee Jihyun had dreamed of becoming a fashion columnist. Now at 30, she finds herself working for a celebrity gossip website with a bulldog clip in her hair. A rumored relationship concerning her favorite star, Haneul, and an observation from a colleague causes her to reminisce about her childhood crush, Jimin. Is Haneul really the boy she once knew? To confirm her suspicions she contacts her hometown friend, Taein, not knowing that he harbors a crush of his own.

Shoko has turned 30 and she has finally given up on finding a marriage partner. Recently having completed a year long contract, she wants to explore the freedom her lack of relationship and job obligations afford her and books a trip to Seoul, Korea. Unencumbered, she wants to visit the Korean BBQ restaurants alone and drink to celebrate her “graduation from marriage seeking activities.“ Not quite supportive is her sister, one who is already married to a good-looking, high earning man, who thinks Shoko should do the responsible thing and give marriage hunting a shot again. But Shoko cannot be deterred. But life has a strange way of turning things around. On her trip to Seoul, Shoko makes a surprising discovery, and an unexpected connection…

"I spent all my time wondering 'What if?' Then one day I woke up and I was 33." Rinko doesn't think she's that bad-looking, but before she knew it, she was thirtysomething and single. Now she wants to get married by the time the Tokyo Olympics rolls around in six years, but ... that might be easier said than done!

from cotton candy scans: Haruka is a 30-year-old single woman who works as an overworked gossip magazine writer. Back in 6th grade, she had a crush on a 3rd grade boy. Since she was afraid of being bullied due to that, she told others that she crushed on the boy's brother instead. Despite that, the boy confesses and without an answer, moves away. Since then, Haruka wonders why she unconsciously likes celebrities that remind her of him. She wonders if he still remembers her...

Konno Izumi, a beautiful life drawing model tormented with the unrelenting curse of her excessive beauty. 

The life of daimyo Uesugi Kenshin commanded authority and fear during the Sengoku period of Japanese history. In this retelling, the powerful lord is reimagined as a woman.

"I always just worried about what could have been, and I'm already this age!" That isn't how it's supposed to go, but somehow I'm already thirty-ish! That's how it is for Rinko. It's six years until the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and she's been thinking about marriage but...