The announcement of My Dress-Up Darling Season 2’s ending theme song, “Kawaii Kaiwai” by PiKi, has been commemorated with a special illustration from animator Saki Takahashi.
The illustration depicts main heroine Marin Kitagawa with PiKi’s Karen Matsumoto and Haruka Sakuraba.
My Dress-Up Darling Season 2 will premiere on July 5 JST (effectively July 6 at 12 AM JST) and will be streamed by Crunchyroll. The anime is the sequel to 2022’s My Dress-Up Darling and is based on the manga by Shinichi Fukuda, which ran from January 2018 to March 2025 in Young Gangan. Season 2’s synopsis reads:
Marin Kitagawa and Wakana Gojo meet one day and their become closer through cosplay. There are still so many cosplays they want to do and so many outfits they want to make. While interacting with their classmates and meeting new cosplay friends, Marin and Wakana’s world expands even more. And will there be any new developments with Marin’s love for Wakana that’s filled with never-ending excitement?
Square Enix describes the manga as:
Traumatized by a childhood incident with a friend who took exception to his love of traditional dolls, doll-artisan hopeful Wakana Gojou passes his days as a loner, finding solace in the home ec room at his high school. To Wakana, people like beautiful Marin Kitagawa, a trendy girl who’s always surrounded by a throng of friends, is practically an alien from another world. But when cheerful Marin–never one to be shy–spots Wakana sewing away one day after school, she barges in with the aim of roping her quiet classmate into her secret hobby: cosplay! Will Wakana’s wounded heart be able to handle the invasion from this sexy alien?!
There is a “parallel spin-off comedy” manga titled Kisekae Ningyo de chu and drawn by Choboraunyopomi, as well as 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
