My Dress-Up Darling

## My Dress-Up Darling **My Dress-Up Darling** (その着せ替え人形は恋をする, *Sono Bisque Doll wa Koi wo Suru*) is a 2022 anime television series produced by CloverWorks, adapted from Shinichi Fukuda's manga. It became one of the biggest anime hits of 2022, celebrated for the warmth and authenticity of its central relationship, the quality of its animation, and its genuine affection for both the doll-making craft and cosplay culture. The series struck a chord with audiences worldwide for presenting a romance built on mutual respect and genuine interest rather than contrived misunderstandings. Wakana Gojo has a single, consuming passion: traditional Japanese hina dolls. He works alone in his grandfather's doll-making workshop, a quiet, unsociable boy who is convinced his interest is too strange for anyone to understand. At school he is invisible — except to Marin Kitagawa, the effervescent class beauty who everyone assumes lives a perfect, shallow social life. But Marin has a secret: she is deeply passionate about cosplay and anime, and she desperately wants to bring her favorite characters to life in costume. When she discovers that Gojo can sew, she asks — with guileless enthusiasm — if he will help her make a costume. What begins as an awkward transaction becomes a genuine collaboration, and then a warm, funny, wholehearted romance between two people who discover that their seemingly different worlds share the same core: a love for craft and the stories we pour our hearts into.