My Dress-up Darling volume 1 - Shinichi Fukuda

 After totally adoring the anime, it's time to start the manga!

Though why does it come in a plastic wrap with a parental advisory label on it?

 

Well, time to find out as I dug into the first volume of the series. 

Wakana Gojo, a loner boy who lost his parents at a young age, lives with his grandfather.  And just like him, he strives to become a kashirashi (a japanese doll maker).  On the other hand of the spectrum is Marin Kitagawa, a beautiful, always cheerfull girl and incredibly popular in class.  They accidentally meet in the sewing room after class, and Gojo agrees to make Marin's cosplay outfit, as he never met someone so unjudgemental.

 

 

So after sealing their pact, Marin shows up at Gojo's house for measurements to be taken.  Poor Gojo is so uncomfortable with a beautiful girl in his room, he fumbles and stumbles at first. Because what is the most gorgeous girl in school doing on his bed in her bathing suit after all.

Later at school, marin approaches Gojo casually with her friends, but because he wants to stop rumours of them going out, he runs from her.  She catches up to him, telling him he is silly and takes him out for a shopping trip for the costume materials.  Later, just before she takes the train, she tells him the event is already in two weeks time...

Ah, just as innocently nice as the anime I must say, but I don`t get the parental advisory label to be honest... is it for 1 perhaps suggestive panel or the 1 time an "adult word" got used????

And to wave off this volume, some wise words by the anime girl of 2022: