Sono Bisque Doll wa Koi wo Suru

High school student Wakana Gojou spends his days perfecting the art of making hina dolls, hoping to eventually reach his grandfather's level of expertise. While his fellow teenagers busy themselves with pop culture, Gojou finds bliss in sewing clothes for his dolls. Nonetheless, he goes to great lengths to keep his unique hobby a secret, as he believes that he would be ridiculed were it revealed.

Enter Marin Kitagawa, an extraordinarily pretty girl whose confidence and poise are in stark contrast to Gojou's meekness. It would defy common sense for the friendless Gojou to mix with the likes of Kitagawa, who is always surrounded by her peers. However, the unimaginable happens when Kitagawa discovers Gojou's prowess with a sewing machine and brightly confesses to him about her own hobby: cosplay. Because her sewing skills are pitiable, she decides to enlist his help.

As Gojou and Kitagawa work together on one cosplay outfit after another, they cannot help but grow close—even though their lives are worlds apart.

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Kitagawa, Marin Main

Suguta, Hina Japanese

Gojou, Wakana Main

Ishige, Shouya Japanese

Inui, Sajuna Supporting

Tanezaki, Atsumi Japanese

Inui, Shinju Supporting

Youmiya, Hina Japanese

Sugaya, Nowa Supporting

Takeda, Larissa Tago Japanese

Gojou, Kaoru Supporting

Ono, Atsushi Japanese

Liz Supporting

Kuno, Misaki Japanese

Tengeji, Mirai Supporting

Tange, Sakura Japanese

Rune Supporting

Sekine, Akira Japanese

Kaname Supporting

Shirai, Yuusuke Japanese

Umehara, Shouta Producer

Oowada, Tomoyuki Producer

Nakayama, Nobuhiro Producer

Komatsu, Shouta Producer

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Aug 4, 2024

AnimeExplorer21

Recommended

OMG, I am HOOKED on Sono Bisque Doll wa Koi o Suru!! Just finished the whole season and I'm still reeling from all the feels. Wakana's adorbs awkwardness and Marin's sass are literally the perfect combo - I ship them so hard!

The show's got this amazing balance of comedy and drama down pat. One minute I'm LOLing at Wakana's silly moments, and the next I'm sobbing over Marin's heartbreaking backstory.

And can we talk about the COSPLAY?! Marin's outfits are literal perfection. I need them in my life, like, yesterday! But seriously, the attention to detail in the costumes and sets is mind-blowing.

If I'm being real, ... some of the supporting chars feel a bit meh, but honestly, who cares when Wakana and Marin's relationship is so captivating?

Anyway, if you haven't watched Sono Bisque Doll wa Koi o Suru yet, what's wrong with you?! Get on it, stat!!

Reviewer’s Rating: 8

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Jun 17, 2024

Eliserss

Mixed Feelings

Dress-up Darling sets itself apart from the typical romance manga - it's not just mindless lovey-dovey things happening and misunderstandings leading to comedic situations. When I went into this I expected it to just be generic hot cosplayer waifu bait and... well, I wasn't entirely wrong, but the cosplay aspect of this is what carries it to a 6 for me.

Cosplay is a different experience for everyone and the anime explores that pretty well. From the people caring about replicating a character 1:1 to the people just wanting to dress up as their favorite regardless of how their body matches. It also explores some ... other themes adjacent to the main cosplay theme. The strongest of these was the exploration of how we put others up on a pedestal when it comes to beauty. Everyone has insecurities, as obvious a statement as that is - and it's so obvious that we never really truly think about it. Dress-up Darling forces a realistic example of it in front of you and executes it very well to truly make you realize it.

However, the elephant in the room... The constant sexualization of minor characters. It made this uncomfortable at times despite the cosplay theme being explored pretty well (and as a cosplayer myself it's why I gave this a generous 6). Still, if you can try your best to look past it and see it more as a 'young love in silly moments' rather than 'wow, the author is a total creep' then you can probably be less disturbed by it.

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Feb 2, 2024

DarkSpaceVRP

Not Recommended

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For some time now, I've wanted to write a review about this anime. I think it's good to express my opinion on this work since in addition to practicing my writing a little, I can also express some points about this anime. From now on, this review will be extremely negative so feel free to disagree with my opinion.
I was at the beginning of 2022 (my god how fast time passes) and I came across a new anime from CloverWorks, a producer that despite some disasters like The Promissed Neverland and Darling In The Fraxx, knows how to make good anime like Spy x Family, ... Horimiya and Wonder Egg Priority. Since at that time I didn't have anything better to do other than go to school and sleep, I watched any anime that came out during the season and Dress-Up Darling was no exception. I had very high expectations about this anime but in the end I ended up being disappointed.
The anime's proposal isn't interesting at all, but it can still captivate those niche otakus, simply a hot girl and a doll maker in a silly relationship etc etc... It can't be that bad, can it?
Yes! It's horrible!
The execution is a disaster, the anime fails to convey any message in a subtle way or convey any feeling to the viewer, the anime fails in all aspects of the script. When they tried to convey a message in the first few episodes to viewers like, "Don't give up! Try hard!" They simply passed in the most ridiculous way possible, making the protagonist sleepless because of a promise he made to a girl he had just met. What kind of message do you want to send to the viewer? (Deprive yourself of sleep for women you disgusting otaku) or something like that. So far so good, it's still an anime despite being scripturally weak and people have a lot of hype, it should be good. I think that continuing to watch this anime was one of the worst decisions I could have made, this anime is a degradation for the anime industry, it uses such cheap humor and just focuses the production on Ecchi scenes, which embarrasses anyone with the minimal sense. The backstory is completely uninteresting and the protagonists' relationships are completely superficial. And it can even get worse! To get some drama or anything even remotely interesting, they put a second girl in the anime, at this point the script borders on insanity, bringing one of the worst scenes I've ever seen in my life. What's the fun in making jokes about a girl the protagonist doesn't even know naked in front of him?
Maybe I'm getting old or my sense of humor is completely outdated, but even if I tried, I couldn't entertain myself watching this anime. It has nothing good except the Ecchi scenes, and if the anime were to focus on Ecchi they would have had to make a Hentai that would have been much more logical. In fact, if this anime were a Hentai it would be much better, it would reach the target audience more easily and no one would be able to complain about how bad its backstory is, being able to spend money without worrying on degenerate scenes, made only to make otakus excited.
For me, nothing will ever explain how high this average score is. Even the song by The Smiths called Still Ill manages to convey a better message about the feelings of romance in 3 minutes of music, than this anime that depends on 12 episodes with 24 minutes each to fail to deliver anything to the viewer. And to finish, I'm going to write an excerpt from the song that expresses my opinion about current romance animes: "It just wasn't like, the old days anymore, no it wasn't like those days... am I still ill?".

Reviewer’s Rating: 3

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