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My Dress Up Darling was absolutely wonderful!

Finally finished up the My Dress Up Darling anime season 1 last night, and I loved it. Both Marin and Wakana were such well written characters. I've never read the manga, but I'd heard a lot about it and didn't know what to expect.

Holy cow was it hilarious, wholesome, and so heartwarming. The comedic timing was spot on, and I loved the attention to details that the writing team put into the cosplay work. It's like the level of detail of Those Snow White Notes (another anime I highly recommend).

I'm also so frustrated by the phone in EP11!

The Love Hotel scene was so well written, and everything that happened to lead to that moment, that when that damn phone rang I slammed my desk and shouted "NO!". The shock of Wakana's realization of where they were and what he'd let happen, his attempt to get Marin off of him only for her to panic, throwing her phone only for it to turn the light off… then the two of them actually taking a moment and realizing that they really weren't against it. How they showed them slowly start to relax, move in close, only for the phone to ring… I didn't necessarily want them to have sex, which would've felt completely against the tone of the show, but I just wanted them to finally kiss!

This! This is how you do romantic tension.

Their relationship building up over 10 episodes was so realistic, even for an anime. I was Wakana in high-school, so every episode was like watching me when I bumbled my way through dealing with kids in school, and girls that actually were interested in me.

The fact that Wakana is a really decent guy, who has normal feelings that he just hasn't dealt with before because he wasn't really interested in anything but his Hina dolls is so relatable to me. I was aware of girls, even was attracted to a few. But I just didn't have time with violin, and singing lessons. When someone forces you to actually have to face those feelings with a real person? It makes you realize there's a much larger world out there than you were aware of.

Marin's hilarious innocence with obvious events/things, yet willing to go with the flow, and Wakana's extreme introvertedness and inexperience with people in general, only to become friends with an extreme extrovert like Marin was the perfect build up to this moment.

The phone event wouldn't have worked if they hadn't earned our belief that these two would absolutely be the best for each other. They clearly are attracted to each other, so we keep rooting for them to finally just confess it.

I can't wait to season 2. I just hope they buck the way the manga has been going from what I've heard, and actually let them confess their feelings. Wakana's going to have a heart attack if he doesn't deal with his own feelings soon.

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I mentioned on my last stream about a reenactment group at Nagoya Castle, in Japan. Between the samurai and ninja.

Here’s the brochure from it that was brought back by my sister-in-law. Looks so cool, I absolutely want to go and see it someday.