#HIDIVE Licenses Jellyfish Can’t Swim in the Night for Spring 2024 Streaming

AMC Networks has announced that it has licensed the original anime series Jellyfish Can’t Swim in the Night for streaming on its HIDIVE service in Spring 2024. The anime will exclusively stream on HIDIVE and is set to premiere in Japan on April 6, 2024. 

HIDIVE will also host the North American premiere of Jellyfish Can’t Swim in the Night on March 29, 2024 at Anime Boston 2024. The anime’s first two episodes will be screened at the event.  

Ryouhei Takeshita (Eromanga Sensei and Pokémon: Paldean Winds director) is directing the original 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 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 Toyota (Girlfriend, Girlfriend character designer) and Asuka Suzuki (Synduality Noir co-sub-character designer) as additional co-chief animation directors, Yuuki Kaneko (Tengoku Daimakyo) as art director, Kei Ishiguro (OSHI NO KO) as color designer, Hamunezukob as in-anime drafts illustrator, and Takafumi Kuwano (OSHI NO KO) as compositing director. Shinnosuke Oota (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 the main animators.

Meanwhile, the anime’s main voice cast includes:

• • Miku Ito as Mahiru Kozuki
• • Rie Takahashi as Kano Yamanouchi
• • Miyu Tomita as Kiwi Watase
• • Miyuri Shimabukuro as Kim-Anouk-Mei Takahashi
• • Sumire Uesaka as Miko
• • Miho Okasaki as Mero Seto
• • Yukina Shuto as Momoko Yanagi
• • Sally Amaki as Akari Suzumura

HIDIVE describes the synopsis of Jellyfish Can’t Swim in the Night 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.

Source: press release