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My dress up darling anime1/15/2024 ![]() You can see the anguish and frustration in his fingertips. Wakana claws the floor in his dark moment of defeat. In Wakana’s case, Marin’s sheer joy made the push worth it.ĬloverWorks does an excellent job animating not just Marin’s bodily physics and facial expressions, but the studio also leverages them for personality. The sense of satisfaction when the project was finished offers a dangerous addiction. I’ve pushed to complete a project to the point where I didn’t believe I could go any further, only to push beyond that limit at a cost. The miscommunication leads to Wakana pushing himself to burnout and beyond it to finish Marin’s costume. She isn’t used to being around serious, dedicated people like Wakana, so she doesn’t know how to read them. One of the first conflicts has Wakana rushing to make her a cosplay outfit before an event Marin had mistakenly planted the idea and failed to read his flurry of activity as avoidance of her. Marin doesn’t have problems with faces–she wears her feelings on her sleeve, quite literally when she cosplays, but she struggles with reading people in a different way from Wakana. He can’t paint doll faces because he doesn’t look at or read the faces of the people around him. If you watch him carefully, he doesn’t look at people’s faces. Wakana, for instance, can’t master painting hina doll faces. ![]() Even the fan-service surrounding Marin develops her character. My Dress-Up Doll uses various subtle means to develop its characters. However, because of this isolation, both of them had learned to respect the interests of others. Likewise, Wakana can’t connect to people using his interest in obscure hina dolls. Yet, she also can’t connect with her friend group using her love for cosplay and video games. Marin is popular, talkative, and confident. However, in My Dress-Up Darling the socially able Marin is the otaku, proving you don’t have to be a backward dude to be into anime and manga. Usually with this sort of story, the guy is the otaku. Their relationship slowly develops as their mutually extreme interests collide and mix. Well, Marin sees his skill and immediately wants to recruit him to make her cosplay outfits. Hina dolls, by the way, are a traditional Japanese art. I watched it on a whim, expecting the usual tired ecchi nonsense, but I quickly connected with the characters and how Darling develops those characters.Įnter Wakana Gojo, the quiet and socially awkward high-school guy with a fascination with…hina doll craftsmanship! During his first semester, the popular and socially astute Marin Kitagawa sees him making a costume for a hina doll. My Dress-Up Darling surprised me with its heart and layers.
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