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Forum - View topicNEWS: My Dress-Up Darling Season 2 Anime Reveals Main Trailer Video, 2 New Cast
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Imhere642
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If they show an infamous scene like last season, we’ll be traumatized and uncomfortable. And for me I’m never watching this. (Also thanks Schaffrillas Productions).
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MFrontier
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The animation looks as fantastic as ever, Marin is as lively and adorable as ever, Marin and Gojo are as cute as ever, the cosplays are as sexy and on-point as ever, and we've got Ayumu Murase playing a femboy for the umpteenth time.
What more could you want? |
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949070
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whats peoples problem with this show lol?
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JustMonika
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They're jealous because they'll never get a girl like Marin Kitagawa in real life or They're just brain injured, lol. My Dress-Up Darling is like drugs to me. I can't get enough. |
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GoGoGoFalco
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The only complaining I remember was some Americans got upset Marin darkened her skin for a cosplay which is apparently frowned upon in some American circles because they claim it's 'blackface" despite it being a common practice in the cosplay scene. Maybe there were also complaints about the fanservice since they're minors or it's wish fulfillment since the dorky guy gets a hot cosplay gf. |
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kaiju3
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Clarifying: I personally am not bashing the show because of the fanservice or the wish fulfillment. I am bashing people who trash fanservice and wish fulfillment in most shows but gives this show a pass merely because it is about cosplay, a female dominated hobby, and the main male character is a doll dressmaker and makeup artist instead of an athlete, martial artist, gamer or engineer. This despite Dress-up Darling having far more problematic fanservice than what these same critics normally attack. And oh yeah, the fanservice is just as unnecessary to the story. Want proof? Here goes: Dance Dance Danseur, about a guy who renounces his family tradition of macho manliness - and very certain career prospects - in favor of (the VERY financially uncertain prospects of) becoming a ballet dancer, didn't turn have his love interest publicly promote and defend porn games aimed at men at every opportunity, or show sleazy footage from said games whenever possible. Smile Down The Runway, about a male dressmaker in the fashion model industry, contained almost no fanservice at all, let alone Marin's repeatedly pushing her way into Gojo's bedroom and him to view and touch her body despite his pleading with her to stop. Welcome To The Ballroom? A single mild slapstick scene that barely rates as fanservice as opposed to the bizarre creepiness of making the Inui sisters' bodies (a 17 year old who looks 12 and a 12 year old who looks 17) the sole most important thing about their extended arcs. Had this show been about a martial artist who defends his village from goblins or a homerun hitter leading his high school baseball team to Summer Koshien, that stuff would have been all everyone talked about and rightfully so. Yet it not only gets a pass but is frequently included on all the "best anime rom-com lists" along with Kaguya Sama Love Is War, Toradora and OreGairu - all far superior shows with much less problematic content, and this despite Toradora and OreGairu airing in eras when problematic content was fully expected in the genre - simply because it is about a doll-dressing cosplay guy. |
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Beltane70
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Just ignore Imhere624, their total existence on this site is just to express how much they hate this series. Their post will probably be removed by the moderators anyway. |
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TokimekiCrisis
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It's a bit interesting you use this example in a positive manner because Welcome to the Ballroom got some pretty scathing criticism from the progressive side of the fandom back in the day.. They said it was extreme sexist and problematic and went into rants about the gender politics in it. There was also this weird rivalry Yuri on Ice fans tried to push with it at the time. Despite the lack of fanservice it was still pretty reviled among the progressive crowds. "Logic" probably has little place when it comes to art. Art is a very emotional thing so even if you present evidence that someone shouldn't like something because it contains things they say they dislike if there's an emotional or personal attachment to it they still can enjoy or like it. One example I tend to see if Sailor Moon. It's often held up by a lot of progressives as one of the pinnacle zeniths of anime but it's filled with tons of stuff like constant fanservice of middle school aged protagonists, middle schoolers dating adult men, very regressive gender politics, and all kinds of other stuff you would think they would criticize in other shows. But perhaps they can look past all that for whatever that series means to them on a positive level. |
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