It aired from January 9 to Maon Tokyo MX and other networks. Takeshi Nakatsuka composed the series' music. It was produced by CloverWorks and directed by Keisuke Shinohara, with Yoriko Tomita handling the series' scripts, and Kazumasa Ishida designing the characters and serving as chief animation director.
Volume list No.Īn anime television series adaptation was announced in the ninth issue of Young Gangan, which was published on April 16, 2021. ĭuring the Anime Expo in July 2019, Square Enix announced the English version of the series under the title My Dress-Up Darling and published it under its new publication imprint Square Enix Manga & Books. The individual chapters are collected and published by Square Enix, with nine tankōbon volumes being released as of March 2022. Written and illustrated by Shinichi Fukuda, the series began serialization in Young Gangan on January 19, 2018. While Shinju secretly wishes to cosplay herself, she fears falling short of her sister's high standards. She is also skillful at using a computer, processing and uploading the images she takes. When Sajuna cosplays, Shinju assumes the role of a photographer, using a camera borrowed from their father. Shinju is close to her sister and holds her in high regard. However, despite her imposing physique, she is remarkably timid. She is 178 cm tall and has voluptuous curves, because of which she is sometimes mistaken as an adult. Shinju is a junior high school student, but compared to her sister's petite figure, she is so big that she could almost fit into Wakana's uniform. Shinju Inui ( 乾 心寿, Inui Shinju) Voiced by: Hina Yomiya (Japanese) Jad Saxton (English) Sajuna's younger sister. Sajuna cherishes her younger sister Shinju and does all she can to make her happy. On the other hand, she is an outspoken and proactive individual, similar to Marin, who will go to great lengths to achieve her goals. However, despite being a year older than Wakana and Marin, Sajuna's youthful appearance was mistaken for a junior high or elementary student. She is a sophomore at an all-girls private high school.
Sajuna Inui ( 乾 紗寿叶, Inui Sajuna) Voiced by: Atsumi Tanezaki (Japanese) Risa Mei (English) A cosplayer who presents herself under the nickname of "Juju" ( ジュジュ). Her mother died when she was young, and her father is busy with work. After a successful debut cosplay, Marin grows closer to Wakana and eventually falls in love with him. She is a big otaku with a wide range of preferences, from magical girl anime, otome games to adult video games. She is quite energetic and proactive but clumsy with details and is not particularly skillful in handiworks. Marin Kitagawa ( 喜多川 海夢, Kitagawa Marin) Voiced by: Hina Suguta (Japanese) Amanda Lee (English) A beautiful girl with the appearance of a gyaru, who has an extroverted personality and is in the same class as Wakana. He has a crush on Marin and only grows closer to her as they work together. Likewise, he hid his doll-making hobbies and had no real friends until he met Marin.
Wakana has a large physique and is over 180 cm tall, but he has low self-esteem and is reclusive due to a bitter memory of being criticized by his childhood friend, who thought a boy should not be playing with girl dolls.
Being an orphan, he was raised by his grandfather, a craftsman of Hina dolls, who also inspired him to become a kashira-shi ( 頭師), a craftsman who makes the head of a Hina doll. Even though Wakana has no experience making a costume on a human scale, he is inspired by Marin's tenacity and agrees to make one for her.Ĭharacters Wakana Gojo ( 五条 新菜, Gojō Wakana) Voiced by: Shōya Ishige, Tomoyo Takayanagi (young) (Japanese) Paul Dateh, Jack Britton (young) (English) A first-year high school student. Marin, who has wanted to cosplay for a while and has observed Wakana's skill in sewing, asks him to create the costume of a character from a video game that she adores. One day during his first semester, his popular classmate Marin Kitagawa sees him making doll costumes in the school's sewing room. Wakana Gojo is a first-year high school student who dreams of becoming a hina doll craftsman.