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EP. REVIEW: My Dress-Up Darling

utter creepy trash and made from men who have never been in a relationship with an actual female.

Redbeard 101 wrote:

utter creepy trash and made from men who have never been in a relationship with an actual female.

Kind Sir! I may not have liked this show (finding the writing dishonest) but your cruel and demeaning attack against the target audience will not stand! Of course, one could argue that a show about an unrealistic and perfect female starting an unprompted relationship with heavy sexual undertones with a man devoid of character, friends and fixated on his hobbies could be targeted to creepy men, and it may also be that creepy men enjoy carefully animated fictional breasts, but aren't they people too?

As much as our opinions differs, I feel the need to defend them. They may be the target audience for this show, but respect should be given!

Redbeard 101 wrote:

I mean seriously some of the comments thus far have just been utter creepy trash and made from men who have never been in a relationship with an actual female.

Hope I’m not derailing, but… was it your intent to present these two as equally objectionable?

your cruel and demeaning attack against the target audience will not stand!

Shay Guy wrote:

Redbeard 101 wrote: I mean seriously some of the comments thus far have just been utter creepy trash and made from men who have never been in a relationship with an actual female. Hope I’m not derailing, but… was it your intent to present these two as equally objectionable?

Not to speak over, but I'm pretty sure the point was more of a venn diagram. I.e. Group A "utter creepy trash" Group B: "men who have never been in relationship with an actual female" Overlap Group C: "men who have never been in a relationship with an actual female and are utter creepy trash"

RandomUser1471 wrote:

your cruel and demeaning attack against the target audience will not stand!

The target audience of the show isn't Overlap Group C, the poster is suggesting there are people in that group commenting here on the site. If the show was trying to target them, I don't think they'd be so upset about it to begin with.

You can drop the obnoxious fake etiquette since it’s pretty clear he was not talking about the target audience there. Despite the number of creeps in this thread pretending otherwise, this show is not porn.

Not to speak over, but I'm pretty sure the point was more of a venn diagram. I.e. Group A "utter creepy trash" Group B: "men who have never been in relationship with an actual female" Overlap Group C: "men who have never been in a relationship with an actual female and are utter creepy trash"

Bingo #1. (And I don't feel you were talking over, but thank you none the less)

Those sorts of people are NOT the target audience.

There's probably a disconnect between first time viewers and manga readers here, because for two episodes she has been a piece of meat to gawk at with no voice whatsoever. Fifteen minutes of carefully crafted bikini shots aren't character development.

...Apparently the idea that girls can have hobbies or interests and that the actual point of the show is to care about that is too scary and has to be dismissed because god forbid anything exist for any other reason than to please dudes who see women as objects.

The degree to which Gojo is comfortable with Marin being naked vs the degree to which Marin feels uncomfortable being around Gojo naked is plot relevant and changes with time. Also a little detailed that was mentioned but not delved into yet but Marine is a professional model so she's pretty comfortable being in revealing clothing. I also want to reiterate that there will be alot of this. The show is regularly about Marin transforming from wearing nothing into being fully costumed up and how to transform her body type into something else, so seeing her in various states of undress will be common.

Kitagawa comes close to being a manic pixie dream girl but I think avoids it by having a central interest that drives her mania. I liked the first episode enough to try the manga, which looks like it's turning into something of a harem with somewhat oblivious Gojo at the center, but is rescued by being a series which does to cosplay what Moyashimon did to fermentation.

Kitagawa and Gojo are both learning what it takes to do good cosplay. Gojo, especially, does research to see how he can improve his cosplay designs and support Kitagawa's cosplay presentation.

I'm not into cosplay, but the details are fascinating! I hope the anime dwells on those details too.

I can see why you'd think that the series is going the harem route, but I don't. I think the opposite. If I'm not mistaken, Kitagawa is the only person that Gojo has called pretty and/or beautiful. And if you read far enough into the series, you'll see the significance of that.