My Dress-Up Darling volume 5 - Shinichi Fukuda

 And we are back to the budding romance between the class loner Gojo and the popular girl that wants to cosplay Marin.

And as she comes to Gojo to fit a very revealing outfit he is making for one of her favorite characters, he blunders around in her open and casual style.

 

In order to tune Gojo up a bit, Marin takes him out shopping, realising all the more how hard she is falling in love with him.   As he prepares for a shoot after visiting a manga cafe and getting an idea for a succubus cosplay, Marin books them a studio.  However, this studio turns out to be a love hotel instead, making Gojo feeling very uncomfortable being there with Marin.  But during the shoot, they accidentally get very close to each other.

As her dad returns briefly home, Marin is forced to do her vacation homework first.  But when she finishes, she and Gojo go out together to a fireworks festival, having a lovely time as summer draws to an end.  She promises to wear better shoes the next year as Gojo has to carry her for blisters on her feet, cementing their friendship.  Later on, when Gojo comforts her by phone as she can't sleep due to a horror movie they saw, she hears him falling asleep on the other side.  And confesses she loves him on the phone...

And that is where the anime ended, so every new volume now, starting soon with volume 6, is a brand new journey of exploration for me in this lovely cute love story.  I can`t wait to dive in!