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My Dress-Up Darling Season 2 to Premiere in July

Aniplex's AnimeJapan 2025 stage event for the My Dress-Up Darling radio program announced on Sunday that the second anime season based on Shinichi Fukuda's My Dress-Up Darling (Sono Bisque Doll wa Koi wo Suru) manga will premiere in July. The event also debuted a "Memories" promotional video and an illustration to commemorate the news:

The manga's first television anime season premiered in January 2022 for 12 episodes. Funimation streamed the anime as it aired in Japan, and also streamed an English dub. Crunchyroll is also streaming the anime and English dub.

The manga also inspired a live-action series that premiered in Japan on October 8.

Square Enix Manga & Books publishes the manga in English, and it describes the story:

Traumatized by a childhood incident with a friend who took exception to his love of traditional dolls, doll-artisan hopeful Wakana Gojō 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.

The manga launched in Square Enix's Young Gangan magazine in January 2018. Square Enix published the manga's 14th compiled book volume on November 25. Square Enix Manga & Books published the manga's 12th volume in English on October 22. The manga switched to a monthly serialization for its current "Tenmei" (Mandate of Heaven) arc on September 15, 2023. The manga's "Tenmei" arc had launched with the 86th chapter that debuted on January 6, 2023.

Source: Aniplex's AnimeJapan 2025 stage event for My Dress-Up Darling radio program