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My Dress-Up Darling Season 2 Anime Reveals Spira Spica's Opening Theme in Video
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The staff of the second season of television anime of Shinichi Fukuda's My Dress-Up Darling (Sono Bisque Doll wa Koi wo Suru) manga revealed in a video on Saturday that Spira Spica will return to the franchise perform the sequel's opening theme song "Ao to Kirameki." The video confirms additional staff and previews the opening theme:
The season will get an advanced screening at the Ikebukuro HUMAX Cinemas on June 29.
Keisuke Shinohara is returning to direct the anime at CloverWorks. Yoriko Tomita is returning to oversee the series scripts, and Kazumasa Ishida is returning as the character designer and chief animation director. Yūsuke Yamamoto, who was an episode director and storyboarder for the first season, is the assistant director. Jun Yamazaki is returning as chief animation director alongside Ishida, and Yohei Yaegashi is a new chief animation director. Takeshi Nakatsuka is returning to compose the music.
Additional staff includes:
- Main Animator: Naoya Takahashi
- Costume Design: Erika Nishihara
- Prop Design: Ayumi Nagaki
- Color Design: Mai Yamaguchi
- Art Director: Hiroyuki Nemoto
- Director of Photography: Ruri Satō
- Technical Director: Yūya Sakuma
- CG Director: Jie Ren
- Editor: Daisuke Hiraki
- Sound Director: Akiko Fujita
- Sound Effects: Hiroki Nozaki and Airi Kobayashi
The manga's first television anime adaptation 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 adaptation 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, and ended on March 21.
Source: Press release
