My Dress-Up Darling Season 2 Kicks Off on July 5, Unveils Gojo and Marin Visual

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A July 5 JST premiere date (effectively July 6 at 12 AM JST) and a visual of Gojo and Marin for My Dress-Up Darling Season 2 have been announced.

A short promotional video for the anime was shared along with the new information.

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My Dress-Up Darling Season 2 continues the story from 2022’s My Dress-Up Darling. The series is adapted from the manga by Shinichi Fukuda, which was serialized from January 2018 to March 2025 in Young Gangan. The synopsis for Season 2 states:
Marin Kitagawa and Wakana Gojo encounter each other and bond through cosplay. They have numerous cosplays they want to create and outfits to design. While engaging with their classmates and making new cosplay friends, Marin and Wakana’s horizons broaden significantly. Will there be new developments in Marin’s feelings for Wakana that are filled with continuous excitement?

Square Enix presents the manga as follows:
Wakana Gojou, haunted by a childhood incident involving a friend who ridiculed his affection for traditional dolls, leads a solitary life, finding comfort in his high school’s home economics room. To Wakana, captivating Marin Kitagawa—a fashionable girl never without a group of friends—seems like a creature from another planet. However, once lively Marin—who never shies away—spots Wakana diligently sewing one after-school day, she intrudes, intending to involve her quiet classmate in her secret passion: cosplay! Can Wakana’s fragile heart withstand this charming invasion from an enticing alien?!

The original material has also inspired a “parallel spin-off comedy” manga titled Kisekae Ningyo de chu, illustrated by Choboraunyopomi, along with a live-action drama.

Staff (returning)
• Director: Keisuke Shinohara
• Series composer and scriptwriter: Yoriko Tomita
• Character designer and chief animation director: Kazumasa Ishida
• Assistant director: Yusuke Yamamoto (Bocchi the Rock!, Season 1 Episode 1 storyboard artist and director)
• Chief animation director: Jun Yamazaki
(reprising, Umamusume Pretty Derby: Road to the Top and Umamusume Pretty Derby:  Beginning of a New Era character designer)
• Chief animation director:  Yohei Yaegashi (The Star Seekers: Hoshi o Ou Shounentachi character designer and chief animation director)
• Main Animator: Naoya Takahashi (reprising)
• Costume designer: Erika Nishihara (reprising)
• Color designer: Mai Yamaguchi (reprising)
• Background art director: Hiroyuki Nemoto (Season 1 background art designer, Touken Ranbu Kai: Kyoden Moyuru Honnouji)
• Compositing director: Ruri Sato (The Elusive Samurai assistant compositing director)
• Animation production: CloverWorks
Cast
• Hina Suguta as Marin Kitagawa
• Shoya Ishige as Wakana Gojo
• Atsumi Tanezaki as Sajuna Inui
• Hina Youmiya as Shinju Inui
• Atsushi Ono as Kaoru Gojo

Source: @kisekoi_anime