My Dress-Up Darling Releases Marin ‘Chinese Waitress’ Artwork for Official Café

Popular manga series My Dress-Up Darling has released a new piece of artwork featuring main character Marin dressed as a “Chinese-style waitress” to celebrate the upcoming opening of an official themed café.

Via Comic Natalie, My Dress-Up Darling will launch the new collaboration café in Tokyo and Osaka, named the “My Dress-Up Darling Chinese Restaurant.” These are set to open in Ikebukuro’s Motto Café from Aug. 1 to Sept. 29, 2024, and Motto Café Osaka from Oct. 9 to Dec. 1, 2024. My Dress-Up Darling manga creator Shinichi Fukuda released a new commemorative visual for the occasion, featuring protagonist Marin Kitagawa dressed as a waitress for work in a Chinese-style restaurant. Readers can check out the visual and new My Dress-Up Darling Volume 13 cover, both released on May 24, 2024.

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The collaboration café will serve original food, drinks and merchandise themed around the franchise. Meanwhile, the release of My Dress-Up Darling Volume 13 comes in both a regular and special edition, with the latter featuring an acrylic diorama and more for Japanese audiences. Notably for fans all over the world, it was also revealed that My Dress-Up Darling had passed 11 million copies in circulation, highlighting its massive popularity ahead of an already confirmed and highly anticipated second season.

My Dress-Up Darling’s Official Café Follows Anime Collaborations Like Hello Kitty & One Piece

My Dress-Up Darling joins a host of other Japanese IPs to receive collaboration cafés, with North America particularly getting in on the food and fun. Hello Kitty opened her first café in Canada, quickly following One Piece‘s new cafe in Las Vegas, Nevada. It appears likely that following their success, a Dragon Ball Cafe could be on the cards, at least according to a new interview with renowned restaurant creator Andy Nguyen.

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The My Dress-Up Darling manga premiered in Square Enix’s Young Gangan magazine in January 2018, and has been collected into 13 volumes as of May 2024. Crunchyroll streams the anime adaptation by CloverWorks, officially described: “A loner boy and a flashy girl find common ground via cosplay in this sweet and spicy romcom! A high school boy with a passion for traditional dolls and a talent for sewing gets roped into making cosplay outfits for one of the prettiest, most popular girls in his class! As the odd couple grows ever closer, they find themselves in ever racier situations!”

My Dress-Up Darling

In this heartwarming and spicy romantic comedy, a solitary boy and an outgoing girl discover a shared interest in cosplay. The high school boy, skilled in sewing and passionate about traditional dolls, reluctantly becomes involved in creating cosplay outfits for one of the most attractive and popular girls in his class. As the unlikely pair develops a closer bond, they navigate increasingly provocative situations.

Author

Shinichi fukuda

Artist

Shinichi fukuda

Release Date

January 19, 2018

Genre

Romantic Comedy

Chapters

76

Volumes

12

Publisher

Square Enix

Source: Comic Natalie