Sono Bisque Doll wa Koi wo Suru (My Dress-Up Darling)

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Synonyms: Sono Kisekae Ningyou wa Koi wo Suru, KiseKoi

Japanese: その着せ替え人形〈ビスク・ドール〉は恋をする

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Type: Manga

Volumes: 15

Chapters: Unknown

Status: Finished

Published: Jan 19, 2018 to Mar 21, 2025

Genre: Romance

Themes: Otaku Culture, School

Demographic: Seinen

Serialization: Young Gangan

Authors: Fukuda, Shinichi (Story & Art)

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Score: 7.97¹ (scored by 70,301 users)

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Ranked: #823²

² based on the top manga page. Please note that 'R18+' titles are excluded.

Popularity: #63

Members: 173,385

Favorites: 6,445

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MangaYoung GanganFukuda, Shinichi (Story & Art)

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Engrossed in the family business of traditional doll making, Wakana Gojou is a reserved high school freshman without friends. Harboring painful memories of a childhood friend's disdain toward his interest, Gojou cannot relate to his classmates and their pastimes, eventually isolating himself.

Gojou has yet to perfect his crafting of dolls' faces, but is exceptionally skilled at making their clothes. His finesse with the sewing machine is soon discovered by his beautiful classmate Marin Kitagawa, whose boldness and honesty Gojou both admires and envies. Instantly, she shares with Gojou her own hobby: she likes to cosplay as characters from erotic video games.

However, Kitagawa cannot sew her own costumes, leading her to seek Gojou's expertise. Now, as he is dragged along to the charming girl's endless cosplay-related affairs, Kitagawa becomes his first friend who fully accepts him. Thus, although polar opposites, their relationship slowly blossoms through their aptitude in helping each other in the intricate world of cosplay.

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Sono Bisque Doll wa Koi wo Suru ranked 16th in the 2020 Kono Manga ga Sugoi! for the Male Readers division.

The series has been published in English as My Dress-Up Darling by Square Enix since April 14, 2020. It has also been published digitally in English by the publisher through Manga UP! The manga has also been released in French by Kana since October 25, 2019; in German by Egmont Manga since October 7, 2020; in Polish by Studio JG since May 6, 2021; in Italian by J-POP since January 26, 2022; and in Spain and Brazilian Portuguese by Panini Comics since January 27, 2022, and February 3, 2023, respectively.

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Mar 23, 2025

olokinprime

Recommended

My Dress Up Darling is a heartfelt story that guarantees plenty of smiles. While it carries a mature tag and parental advisory, the content is comparable to other manga or anime in terms of explicitness. There is some nudity, but it always feels purposeful and never gratuitous.

The two main characters are remarkably nuanced. Gojo, a talented introvert, retreats into his passion for traditional hina dolls after losing his parents, finding solace with his grandfather, a master doll artisan. Kitagawa, on the other hand, defies first impressions—though she outwardly fits the gyaru stereotype, she's a dedicated otaku and passionate cosplayer. Their personalities and backstories add ...

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Apr 21, 2025

bergars

Mixed Feelings

Yeah, it's a bafflingly terrible ending, but I don't think the rest was perfect either.

I'm glad the many manga I started following in my love-starved times are ending. It began with the normal guy, being coupled with somebody excessively opposite to them. The trope, of course. Awesome, wholesome, interesting, coming from the development of cosplay and what it entails. How our hobbies define us in front of the people around us. The crunch, balancing life with hobbies, and how jealousy comes from limelights you participated in, but can't prove you did without self-imposed selfishness. It started to become mature, true to life, and ... true to the things we wish to be recognized in.

The romance worked, as both had a human chemistry which doesn't feel natural in many other manga, or anime for that matter. Away from forced conventions, this one had two people growing together while achieving dreams for one another.

Gojou became more than just the normal guy, he had goals, just like Marin, our co-protagonist. Both became a unit due to their goals, but as they differed, and met new people, life shaped who they were, and what they should focus in. Things got murky, and differences arrive. As both misunderstand, not their positive feelings, but the negative ones, something which doesn't usually happen. Both go through hardships which they wish not share with each other, and damn, it was becoming GOOD. And right as it picked up, it couldn't muster the great story on the other side, but a consistent meandering.

The story takes a pause, it explores other characters, go other places. People we don't care for, people who don't advance the story. It wasn't a side-story, but part of the main one, and as the monthly schedule went on, of course the audience wants the story to advance. Why should we wait if it doesn't lead anywhere? I held onto hope, the story could only get better with the current ideas, and there was some good conflict. The cousin arc, the final cosplay arc, it set up incredible new ideas. The story felt like it opened itself to a new, boundless potential. It could finally be a competitive, cosplay manga, filled with new conflicts.

The story gets so much better after, since the manga does what all romance manga strive to achieve, with many open routes to keep taking. It couldn't end there, it can't. There's so much in there.

It did. It fast-forwarded to the future, pretending all which was opened didn't exist. Oh… right, okay. Awesome. The potential, lost, plot lines, lost, redeemable characters, lost. The lesson in understanding, and tolerance, hobbies, and uniqueness in people. Everything, into dust.

I won't try to hammer and say the author should've ended it better. They had health issues, and had to cancel it. I'm judging the manga based on the quality of it, not on whatever happened to the author. The beginning was good, it got pretty bad, then it got AMAZING, pretty bad again, AWESOME, then… terrible ending. As it is, can't give it more than a 6.

What was good, was incredible, what was bad, bored me to death. A bunch that I love, a bit which I hate. It all boils down to it being a good manga, with big waves which change its quality. At least the art was great, and the feelings conveyed in expression, and the reactions of the characters were awesome.

6/10. Solid. I recommend it, at least for those who appreciate the trip, instead of the destination. Binging this would be way better than my monthly times with it.

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Dec 26, 2021

7ways

Not Recommended

Preliminary (66/? eps)

Story had potential, if it went the right path. I was expecting a more focused on slice of life story with the dress stuff. Well, in the end that's actually the side story. What you will get most of the time is a look-a-like of nagatoro, just teasing. When will authors stop making this childish type of works. I was really enjoying it at 1st. There's already more than 60 chapters and it feels like it's just dragging, nothing really happens on their relation neither in terms of the dress up story. It became quite hollow.

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