A main trailer and main visual for My Dress-Up Darling Season 2 have been released just a few days before the TV anime’s July 5 JST (effectively July 6 at 12 AM JST) Japanese premiere.
There are also some new cast announcements:
• Ayumu Murase as Amane Himeno
• Shohei Komatsu as Shiki Kashiwagi
My Dress-Up Darling adapts 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?
Crunchyroll will stream the new season starting July 5. The first season aired in 2022.
The manga also inspired 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 (1), (2), (3), (4)
