My Dress-Up Darling
About My Dress-Up Darling
High schooler Wakana Gojo wants to become a kashirashi—a master craftsman who makes traditional Japanese Hina dolls. Though he's gung-ho about the craft, he knows nothing about the latest trends, and has a hard time fitting in with his class.
My Dress-Up Darling is an animation and comedy series that ran on Gunma TV and Tokyo MX. It ran for one season of 24 episodes between January 2022 and September 2025.
Its themes are playful, enthusiastic, erotic, and optimistic. The story is adapted from a manga. Hina Suguta appears as Marin Kitagawa (voice), and Shoya Ishige as Wakana Gojo (voice).
It comes from Aniplex, BS11, and CloverWorks. In the United States it streams on Crunchyroll, Crunchyroll Amazon Channel, and Netflix.
Mob Psycho 100, Yosuga no Sora, and The Comic Artist and His Assistants make useful companions to My Dress-Up Darling, all filed under coming of age and based on manga. TMDB voters put it at 8.4 out of 10 across 967 votes and it carries a TV-14 rating.