This is the list of characters in the manga/anime My Dress-Up Darling.
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Marin Kitagawa
Marin Kitagawa
Voiced by: Hina Suguta (Japanese), Amanda Lee (English) Foreign VAs
The female lead, title character, and de facto main character. A popular first-year highschooler who works part-time as a model, Marin wants to get into cosplay to become her favorite characters from manga, anime and videogames. Unfortunately, she lacks the ability to make costumes, leading her to enlist Wakana Gojo's help when she learns that he's skilled at making clothes.
- Aren't You Going to Ravish Me?: Several of Gojo's Accidental Pervert moments and her reactions to it, particularly in the Love Hotel where they are literally seconds away from making out in a compromising position when the front desk calls them to ask if they needed their rental of the room extended, imply that she's ready to throw herself at Gojo as soon as he decides to make a move on her. Downplayed by the fact that she doesn't get offended or angry, just disappointed because she wants something to happen between them.
- Ascended Fangirl: Although she's a successful model, Marin admires the most popular cosplayers and is elated when "Juju-sama" takes notice of her... though Sajuna is more interested in Gojo's clothes than Kitagawa herself. Despite this, Marin's excitement only grows when Sajuna agrees to share a studio with her for a day in exchange for splitting the cost.
- Be Yourself: True to her welcoming and non-judgy nature, Marin is a firm believer that everyone should be free to enjoy whatever they want, and nobody should judge them for it, no matter who they are. It's this ethos that allows Gojo, someone's who never been able to share his passion with others, to open up to her.
- Bifauxnen: Made the entire female population of their school collectively Squee and go bright-red in envy when she cosplays as Rei, a Bifauxnen club host and grabs the Student Council President by her waist on stage and does Rei's Catchphrase."Princess, can I be your Number 1. Please?"
- Big Eater: She loves to eat. On their first outing to shop for materials, Gojo is left flabbergasted when she still buys a meat-wrapped onigiri after they had a big bowl of ramen. And in the fireworks festival she stopped in every food stall she spotted.
- Black Bra and Panties: More than once, but especially when she wore some extremely racy undies coming over to Gojo's place for what she assumed was a home date.
- Inverted in Chapter 75 when Gojo stays the night at her home. Thanks to her misunderstanding his words about "planning not to sleep tonight", she decides to put on a set of white undies, thinking that Gojo will like them. Much to her disappointment, nothing happens in the end.
- Book Dumb: Despite her Class Princess aura, Marin seems to struggle at school, though mostly because she tends to neglect her homework until the last minute. So she's less dumb and more just lazy.
- Brooding Boy, Gentle Girl: The cheerful, friendly and supportive Nice Girl to Gojo's brooding boy.
- Can't Act Perverted Toward a Love Interest: She didn't seem to mind showing Gojo some skin at first. However, as her feelings for Gojo develop, Marin gets embarrassed more often around him (though context and other peculiarities seem to matter more in terms of what does or doesn't embarass her).
- Casting Gag: Hina Suguta has also voiced Toko Kirigaya, who is also a popular high-schooler in her school, shares the similarity of being not the sharpest sled in terms of school studies, and is the same height, at 164cm.
- Class Princess: She's quite wealthy, popular, and could easily be the Alpha Bitch, but Marin is very much a sweetheart who isn't nearly as perfect as people think.
- Cloudcuckoolander: Although Marin is popular, sociable and outgoing, it's quite clear that she's pretty eccentric, quirky and outlandish, and lacks common sense on top of a vivid imagination.
- Cordon Bleugh Chef: Zigzagged. Kitagawa's cooking looks unappetizing at best and inedible at worst despite her best efforts. She often haphazardly throws everything she can into a dish and once writes "sorry" after an omurice dish she prepared for Gojo didn't turn out the way she wanted it. Although he expects the worst, Gojo is pleasantly surprised at how good it tastes, as he's so used to cooking traditional Japanese meals that he didn't think of using chicken broth and soy sauce when making it.
- Corpsing: In-Universe. Marin often can't help but smile or laugh spontaneously when doing her cosplays, even when she's supposed to act like characters who are stoic and aloof. It's one of her defining traits as a cosplayer, something that annoys Juju to no end.
- Cosplay Otaku Girl: She is the embodiment of this trope. Loving all things anime, manga and video games, Marin wants to get into cosplay to become her favorite characters, especially in regards to Shizuku-tan. Unfortunately, she isn't any good at actually making the costumes she wants to wear, so she asks Gojo to make them for her after discovering his sewing skills.
- Covert Pervert: As Gojo learns over time, Marin, while a wholesome and wonderful person on one hand, is also rather horny and has a pretty dirty mind on the other hand.
- The "covert" part may be debatable, but she does play erotic games (and above her age restriction, no less), and not-so-subtly hints she's into humiliation play when describing what's good about Shizuku and why she wants to cosplay her. She goes as far as to draw tally marks on her thighs for accuracy towards the cosplay.
- She shows visible disappointment when Gojo finds a way to make her Bunny Girl outfit not fall off despite having no shoulderstraps, much to his and the store clerk's confusion, implying she wanted to make a Wardrobe Malfunction happen around Gojo.
- Cute Clumsy Girl: Has shades of this, first by being shown quite unskilled at sewing cosplays despite the very detailed instructions, and later by somehow falling wholesale in a pool after having tried to dip a single foot.
- Cuteness Proximity: Marin is prone to losing her mind whenever she's close to a cute-looking cosplayer, both female (like Sajuna) and male (like Chitose).
- Death Glare: Only seen twice, first when a guy who tried to hit on her made fun of the Shion-tan keychain on her bag and she was not pleased. Much later, she gives it to a group of guys who try to ask her out in the train when she's depressed about not going anywhere with Gojo.
- Didn't Think This Through: Marin's Fatal Flaw. Her passionate and impulsive natures echo off each other, and she often jumps straight into things without quite considering what she's doing. Highlights include attempting to make a cosplay outfit without any handicraft skills, trying to avoid making Gojo uncomfortable during her measuring by wearing a swimsuit that would likely be more revealing than her usual underwear, padding her breasts with two nubras to make her chest look bigger with the Shizuku cosplay despite her outfit being fitted to her exact measurements with no leeway, booking her and Gojo a room at a Love Hotel for a cosplay shoot instead of a studio, or immediately consuming all the food Gojo gives her which is supposed to be for the morning after.
- Ditzy Genius: Marin is knowledgeable about otaku culture, open-minded and overall intelligent, but she's lazy, impractical with handiwork, and can be clumsy.
- Elmuh Fudd Syndwome: Whenever she's internally Squeeing over Gojo, she often pronounces "suki" as "chuki", which the subtitles translate as "I wuv him". It's worth noting that in the manga, she has a tongue piercing,
◊ which might have something to do with it. - Endearingly Dorky: When she starts ranting her head off about a game or series she likes, or when Gojo unintentionally pushes one of her buttons in a good way.
- Establishing Character Moment: Kitagawa has two moments in the first chapter/episode that best describe her beyond her appearance. The first is calling out Gojo for letting their classmates take advantage of him, showing that she is more perceptive than her outward personality would suggest. The second is her appreciating Gojo's Hina doll without any hint of judgement, which was the complete reversal of the childhood friend that called him creepy.
- Fang Thpeak: In the dub, she speaks a bit like this when she tries on the fake fangs Gojo gives her for her Veronica cosplay.
- Female Gaze: Once she catches feelings for Gojo, Kitagawa frequently starts staring at him, her face red as a tomato, whenever he's looking especially handsome while doing mundane things, talking to his family, or working on their projects. It's nowhere near as sexualized as the Male Gaze she provides but it is much more sensual and intimate, symbolizing both her emotional attachment to him and her very strong crush on him.
- Gamer Chick: Her hobbies include video games. Her first cosplay is of Shizuku, a character from an H-Game, and her third cosplay, Prisoner Veronica, is a character from a fighting game.
- Genki Girl: Very upbeat, sunny, energetic, friendly and cheerful. Sometimes this can overwhelm more withdrawn characters like Gojo and Sajuna.
- Girly Girl with a Tomboy Streak: Marin is a Manic Pixie Dream Girl gyaru and a successful model who's also a big fan of otaku culture, including HGames. The series overall carries An Aesop that you shouldn't let your gender stop you from enjoying the things you like.
- Growling Gut: Her hunger pangs are noticeably loud, and seem to be one of the few things she's self-conscious about whenever they interrupt her time with Gojo.
- Gyaru Girl: One of the most famous modern day examples, particularly of the Kogal subtype. Kitagawa has the "trendy, fashionable girl" look, including bright-colored hair dye, red contacts, colored nail polish, miniskirt alongside other accessories. She also frequents Shibuya (a shopping district which is a fashion center and popular with Tokyo youths) with her female friends.
- Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: She's sweet and passionate, and has the golden hair to match.
- Head-Turning Beauty: She's a model on the side and absolutely looks it, with or without makeup and in a lot of different styles. One clothing store employee and several people in Shibuya on Halloween outright refer to Kitagawa as "Insanely hot".
- Hidden Depths: She's very much into anime and other nerdy hobbies, despite her popularity and attractiveness. Sajuna even feels awful for mistaking Kitagawa for an airheaded gyaru by her looks alone when she's actually a huge nerd.
- Hormone-Addled Teenager:
- Not as evident as with Gojo, but she does have her moments. For starters, she gets red up to the ears, after being completely unfazed about Gojo having to measure her bust and so on, when Gojo accidentally just barely taps her private parts through her bikini bottom without noticing during the inseam measurement, and Kitagawa plays with her hair longingly when he immediately dodged the situation by mistaking her bright blush for the room being too hot and going over to turn the A/C on.
- After eating over at his place for the first time after her first cosplay event, she doesn't seem too bothered by the thought of doing something "indecent" with Gojo, while looking longingly into her reflection on the train home from his place.
- Has offered Gojo decidedly lewd pictures of her cosplays more than once, and sent him several pictures of hers in just a swimsuit or lingerie, only backing off due to him getting too flustered by it.
- When they're doing a cosplay shoot in a Love Hotel, one of the neighbouring rooms starts getting... noisy. While Marin's casually straddling Gojo, who is rapidly approaching a Raging Stiffie from the sound and the position they got in while he was too in the zone to notice. When he grabs her around the waist to move her off him before she notices, she gets visibly aroused and wide-eyed, starts breathing heavy and begins wrapping her legs around Gojo's back before they're interrupted by a phonecall, at which point she excuses herself to the bathroom to calm down. Also stands out as the only time so far she isn't gushing about Gojo's admirable traits after a tittilating situation, and instead just has her sitting against the wall with her heart nearly beating out of her chest."...That was seriously intense..."
- After inviting Gojo to spend the night in her apartment due to the trains back to his house being out of operations, she sees him buying Energy Drinks with suggestive names while shopping for spare clothes and breakfast, with her turning beet red when he states it's because he "[doesn't] plan on sleeping." While he's planning to just stay up until the trains are running again, Kitagawa's heart starts practically beating out of her chest as she thinks he's planning on going all the way with her that night.
- Human Hummingbird: In Episode 6, she starts flapping her arms like wings while thinking "I wuv Gojo-kun!"
- Insecure Love Interest: Downplayed. She's very much in tune with herself and remains as self-assured as ever. But his inability to notice her feelings, constant denials that they're dating, extreme nervousness whenever they're being sexual, and their inability to actually do anything when they're alone and both consenting, all seriously frustrate her over the course of the story, and it is a blow to her pride because she's annoyed at the lack of progress in her courtship of her favorite seamstress boy.
- Laughing Mad: Both times when she's on the receiving end of Juju's Blunt "No", Kitagawa's only reaction is to literally laugh out loud to Juju's face.
- Leg Focus: Kitagawa's long, slender legs are one of the main sources of primary focus when it comes to her body proportions, with many camera angles and panning shots putting a lot of emphasis on them, as well as Gojo's Male Gaze. Her being relatively tall means Gojo is still One Head Taller than her when he's massively tall by Japanese high-schooler standards.
- Love Epiphany: After their first cosplay event, Kitagawa starts developing feelings for Gojo after he mutters how beautiful she looked before falling asleep. She remembers the significance of that word to him, as he only uses it for things he holds truly dear to him. In turn, she realizes how much he means to her ever since he started helping her pursue cosplay.
- Love Makes You Dumb: A more comedic example than most, but while Kitagawa is usually fashion conscious, when she takes Gojo to Shibuya to shop, she's so dizzy in love with him that she thinks he can make anything he wears look good, while the shop clerk helping them is dumbfounded as to how tacky the outfits are.
- Male Gaze: In addition to being a primary source of it herself, Kitagawa herself absolutely flaunts it and even seems to have it herself. She'll be the first to compliment a cosplayer's boobs, face or legs, and makes Gojo put in a suspender in her Bunny Girl fishnets to get more emphasis on her butt and the back of her thighs."How can one single line make such a huge difference?! Look! Look!! Compare 'em both."
- Manic Pixie Dream Girl: Downplayed, as it's portrayed far more realistically. Cheerful extrovert Kitagawa does help loner introvert Gojo break out of his shell, but because they're both unabashed nerds. The reason they bond is not because she's the light to his darkness per se, but because despite being very different on paper, they're actually Birds of a Feather.
- Minor Living Alone: She lives by herself in a luxurious apartment, since her dad works abroad.
- Missing Mom: She mentions in Chapter 15 that her mom died of illness when she was very young.
- Modesty Shorts: She wears shorts under her Shizuku-tan cosplay when she goes to the outdoor event; there are posted signs advising cosplayers in skirts to do exactly that.
- Money Dumb: Downplayed. It's not that she's dumb per se, she's just frankly careless and doesn't have much common sense when spending her cash. For example, when her classmates asked her to go buy food and to get anything, she bought single super-sized items as opposed to smaller multiple items. She also buys an SLR camera because she believes the M in Model M stands for Marin.
- Ms. Fanservice: Quite a bit of screentime after she begins her friendship with Gojo is dedicated to showing off various parts of her body. In episode 2 alone, a majority of the episode is spent with Gojo taking her measurements while she wears a swimsuit, with a healthy dose of breast bounce for good measure. A much later chapter of the manganote even shows her topless, with Nipple and Dimed averted.
- My God, What Have I Done?: Because they didn't communicate the deadlines for a cosplay convention properly, Gojo crunches to finish her dress in the span of two weeks, all while juggling school tests, managing the family shop, and having to care for his injured grandpa; he works himself to the point of exhaustion. Marin immediately breaks into tears realizing that he was working himself sick just for her, and apologizes for putting him in that situation. He apologizes too for not being more open and on the same page as her.
- Nerves of Steel: Downplayed as it's not during a life or death situation. Marin surprisingly takes Juju's harsh remarks in stride, never once caring or even paying attention to how one of her cosplay idols frankly does not like her and constantly snipes at her. Her feelings are never hurt and she barely seems to give a damn, which annoys Juju to no end since she can't ever get a reaction from Kitagawa.
- Nice Girl: It might be easy to get the wrong impression by her Class Princess looks, but Marin is a very kind and friendly person, and also a loyal and supportive friend who's always open-minded. It helps Gojo open up to her while he's still got almost no social connections in their school.
- Non-Idle Rich: Downplayed. While her father covers most of her daily expenses, she insists on working part-time as a model to afford anything that has to do with her cosplay hobby.
- No Sense of Personal Space: When she gets excited about something, sometimes she tends to get a little too close for comfort. Best shown when she meets Sajuna "Juju" Inui, causing the latter to freak out. Averted when Gojo cops two handfuls of her slender waist without thinking about it in the Love Hotel, which makes her beet-red and horny; A later scene implies this became a turn-on of hers◊.
- Positive Friend Influence: She's this to Gojo, helping him overcome his self-imposed social isolation and enjoy his youth.
- Poster-Gallery Bedroom: Her (very nice) room is covered in anime posters, pillows, figurines, and any other merchandise related to her favourite shows/games.
- Precision F-Strike: As soon as Marin realizes she's falling for Gojo, she literally says "Oh shit... oh shit!"
- Proud to Be a Geek: While she doesn't really label herself as a geek, she's very open about her love for anime and games despite being a popular and fashionable Gyaru Girl. She doesn't have any shame in what she loves, and she firmly believes that people shouldn't make fun of others for what they love, either.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: Inverted. She wears red contacts, but is one of the nicest characters in the series.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: The Red to Gojo's Blue. She's practically Hot-Blooded next to his calm awkward introverted nature.
- Ridiculous Procrastinator: When it comes to schoolwork, she admits she tends to leave it up to the last minute. Her father had to ground her because of that when he came to visit her during the summer break.
- Serious Business: Aside from the cosplay itself, she throws a birthday party for Shizuku-tan.
- Shameless Fanservice Girl: Downplayed. Marin generally has no problem showing Gojo some skin, much to his embarrassment (probably owing to her work as a model), but she’s become more self-aware as she gradually develops feelings for him.
- Single Woman Seeks Good Man: She falls for Gojo's kind and sincere nature, and the fact that he always does his best to support her with her cosplay hobby and make her happy.
- Skewed Priorities: To Gojo and Juju's consternation, Marin tends to freak out at the wrong things, which has become a Running Gag:
- During the first cosplay event, she allows a female photographer to take a few last photos of her before leaving. Then a gust of wind flips her skirt, and the photographer says she's gonna delete the last photos. Kitagawa agrees she should, because she didn't look at the camera.
- When Gojo visits her at her home for the first time, she comes down wearing only her pajamas and her top's almost falling off, leaving poor Gojo paralyzed in shock. She then looks at herself in the mirror, freaks out and goes back inside, because she forgot to put on her red contacts.
- At one point, she's willing to show Gojo a sexy bra, only to open her blouse and realize she's wearing a plain one, and quickly closes it in embarrassment.
- When her stylist and modeling agent tells her that she's gained weight, Kitagawa brushes it off for a while saying that she's still in great shape, which she is but then she realizes that her cosplays don't fit anymore as Gojo had made every cosplay to her exact measurements at the time (though when she brings this up as an issue, Gojo offers to just resize them, a pretty trivial task for a tailor); It's only then that she takes her diet seriously.
- Smitten Teenage Girl: When she falls for Gojo, she falls for him really hard. Luminescent Blush doesn't even begin to describe how red she can get around him.
- Spoiled Sweet: She's rather wealthy, but very nice. Still she pays for most of her expenses not from the family dough, but from her own modeling income.
- Super Drowning Skills: To say she cannot swim at all is a serious understatement. It is shown that when she and Gojo are walking at their school poolside, the former fell into water. She'd be a goner if not for Gojo.
- Supporting Protagonist: Marin is both the title character and main character with Gojo as her Love Interest. While Gojo's growth as a person and her role in his development are major aspects of the series, Marin's perspective and internal thoughts increasingly become the focal point of the story as she reconciles with her own development as a person even beyond her relationship with Gojo. In fact, she's the one who catches feelings first, and we see her internal thoughts much more frequently as a result. It's her wants, her needs, her dreams, her desires, and her experiences that drive the story forward, with Gojo alongside her as her Love Interest and de facto Best Friend. She is Gojo's guide in moving forward as a person and artist, and it is Kitagawa's sheer force of personality that inspires Gojo to do what he does for her, because for her to succeed in her courtship of him, he has to overcome his insecurities with her help.
- The Tease: Kitagawa is a pro at making people flustered. Sometimes unintentionally, sometimes intentionally, but she's definitely this. When he's too embarrassed by a particularly Stripperific cosplay of hers to be there when she's taking pictures in it, she offers him to send him pictures of her wearing it instead with a Luminescent Blush all over her face. When she learned Gojo has a weakness for women's napes showing in yukatas, she immediately begins trying to walk in front of him so he'll have to look at it. Although later as Kitagawa's feelings towards Gojou increase, she's toned this down significantly. Whereas at the beginning she had no issue showing off part of her lingerie to "Thank him" for his help, her increasing self consciousness as she develops genuine feelings for him decreases her doing this on purpose.
- Tears of Remorse: By episode 4, when Kitagawa realizes that Gojo worked overtime just to get the Shizuku-tan costume ready for her, she starts crying as she feels it's her fault for not telling him that she was willing to wait. Thankfully, they turn into Tears of Joy when he assures her it's fine as long as she's happy with the result.
- Terrible Artist: For all her enthusiasm, Marin struggles to make cosplay costumes herself even with dedicated instructions from a guide written for beginners. This is why she seeks out Gojo when she learns about his ability to sew.
- Through His Stomach: Kitagawa attempts to make an Omurice adorned with a loving message when Gojo first visits her at her house. Unfortunately, she makes a mess of it and it ends up looking more like super-eggy Fried Rice with "Sorry" written on it. On the inverse, Gojo's cooking skills are yet another thing that endears him to her, and she not only has Dinner regularly at his house, but he always sends her home with a breakfast for the next day. Unfortunately, her Big Eater nature mixing with her love of his cooking means she inevitably ends up eating everything as soon as she's home, leading to the below-mentioned Weight Woe.
- Uptown Girl: She's from an incredibly wealthy family and falls in love with Gojo, whose family business is much more modest. Unlike most examples of this trope, their class differences rarely if ever come up over the course of their developing relationship.
- Valley Girl: Due to her Gyaru Girl image, Kitagawa's dialogue is translated in this manner in the English dub and sub, peppering her dialogue with "likes" and other vernacular. Can vary in other languages depending on how well the archetype translates to this, with some of them having her using no special jargon whatsoever.
- Verbal Tic: Marin loves saying "Yabai" (literally meaning "dangerous" but commonly used as a catch-all exclamation of surprise or approval, similar to "sick" or "based"). Much like modern Japanese teens, she absolutely peppers her speech with the term.
- Weight Woe: Late in the manga, owing to her Big Eater tendencies, Marin discovers to her horror that she's gained some weight and Gojo's costumes no longer fit her as before.
Wakana Gojo
Wakana Gojo
Voiced by: Shōya Ishige, Tomoyo Takayanagi (Young) (Japanese), Paul Dateh, Jack Britton (young) (English) Foreign VAs
The male lead and Marin Kitagawa's Love Interest. Coming from a family of Hina Doll makers, he wants to follow in his grandfather's footsteps in the family business. Unfortunately, when a girl told him he was weird and gross for liking Hina dolls, he became a loner out of fear of being ostracized for his hobby, until he meets Kitagawa.
- Accidental Pervert: He enters his bathroom unaware that his grandpa let Sajuna use it beforehand. He also didn't quite seem to get what suddenly grasping Kitagawa's waist with both hands when he's usually shy about physical contact would imply.
- A smaller example, but while taking the last measures for Kitagawa, Gojo accidentally touches her crotch with his finger. It's the only moment she's visibly flustered, but she doesn't attack or yell at him for it.
- Affectionate Nickname: His cousin Miori calls him "Wacchan". His childhood friend also called him that way in the flashbacks.
- Apologises a Lot: He has a habit of saying sumimasen (meaning "Excuse me", "Sorry" in Japanese) even when the situation deems unnecessary.
- Be Careful What You Wish For: Gojo took on the Haniel cosplay as a personal challenge, and his eventual intent in making it was to fully bring out the character's eerie, unsettling angelic Uncanny Valley aspects that will "make people still want to fall in love with you" that he believes Kitagawa can portray. When the pair get to Comiket, it's a massive, runaway success to the point they're stopped well outside the venue building for a near-unending circle photoshoot, and afterwards Kitagawa is approached by a recruiter asking if she wishes to be a pro cosplayer... with Gojo left outside the circle, in what appears to be a mire of jealousy, staring into the crowd created by his work and Kitagawa's portrayal, and wishing he hadn't committed to those words.
- Brooding Boy, Gentle Girl: The withdrawn, melancholic and brooding Shrinking Violet to Kitagawa's gentle girl.
- Brutal Honesty: While critiquing Kitagawa's attempts at making a cosplay costume, Gojo acts uncharacteristically blunt and critical due to his own expertise, wondering how she made something so awful even with a kit that comes with detailed instructions. It takes him a few seconds to realize what he said before apologizing profusely for his scathing remarks. On the other hand, he doesn't dole out praise lightly, and if he compliments something (or someone), he really means it.
- Character Development: He overcomes many of his social awkwardness and personal insecurities directly from his relationship with Kitagawa.
- Character Focus: Kitagawa is a cheerful person, already quite self-assured from the start, who falls in love with Gojo pretty fast, however, he has some deep seated insecurities that must be dealt with first before they both see eye to eye; with that the later story developments focuses a great deal more on Gojo than Kitagawa, as he grows more as a person, making new friends, an overall more sociable guy moving towards finally accepting himself fully, no more being afraid of growing closer to Kitagawa thinking she would be settling for less by sticking with him.
- Character Tic: He tends to raise his hand completely open and straight near his face like a student addressing a teacher whenever he has a particular question he wishes to ask someone, highlighting his socially awkward nature in doing this outside a classroom setting as well as (especially later on as he gets more into cosplay) his intense desire to learn about things he doesn't understand.
- Clueless Chick-Magnet: Downplayed, but his kind nature seems to have gained him the affections of not only Marin Kitagawa, but also Sajuna Inui. He is, of course, completely unaware.
- Companion Cube: Gojo's prized hina doll head made by his grandfather, which indirectly kickstarts the plot with Gojo promising to make its outfit which causes him to be accidentally found out by Kitagawa. It becomes less so as the story advances and he slowly opens up to other people thanks to Kitagawa.
- Consummate Professional: Gojo takes gathering information about a character for a cosplay hilariously seriously instead of settling for simple references and character notes, opting to play eroge games to get a feel for Shizuku-tan, and preparing to watch 127 episodes of an anime series.
- Covert Pervert: Obviously he's not immune to sexy thoughts, especially about Kitagawa, but he always tries his best to remain respectful and chaste, such as when he turns on the TV at a Love Hotel and immediately turns it off when he realizes it's porn. That said, he does almost immediately turn the TV back on to watch it on mute for a while.
- Determinator: Once he finally decides to get the Shizuku-tan costume done, he works nonstop to finish it on time for the cosplay event, all for the sake of seeing Kitagawa smile.
- Deuteragonist: As the male lead and Love Interest, Gojo's growth as a person is directly influenced, enabled, and motivated by Kitagawa, who drives the plot through her sheer force of personality. While his growth as a person is a focal point of the story, it is ultimately in service to her courtship of him; he can't become her future boyfriend before overcoming his insecurities with her help.
- Did I Just Say That Out Loud?: While at school working on the Rei cosplay, Kitagawa is nearby with her friends gushing over Rei's amazing qualities. So absorbed he is in both his work and gaining understanding of why the girls are gushing, Gojo accidentally mutters "I get it..." just loud enough for them to hear, immediately pulling their attention as he freaks out over letting that slip.
- Extreme Doormat: Downplayed but present. Gojo's classmates dumped the cleaning after class duties on him, and he was too nice to refuse even when he didn't want to do it. Kitagawa calls him out on this, telling him he should be honest when he doesn't want to do something, especially when they're clearly taking advantage of him.
- Fingore: Frequently has accidents during his sewing jobs, given that his hands are covered in sticky plasters even before cutting one of his fingers with a pair of scissors.
- Formal Characters Use Keigo: He always uses very formal speech patterns, which emphasizes his polite, humble personality as well as how he lives an old-fashioned lifestyle with his grandfather.
- Flat "What": Gojo's standard reaction to anything he doesn't understand is to go completely deadpan, even if he was just a jittering mess seconds ago.
- Friendless Background: Since the incident with the girl who called him gross for liking Hina dolls, he closed up from other people (barring his own family) and had no friends during elementary and middle schools.
- Gender-Blender Name: Wakana is more often a female name in Japan, though it fits with his feminine interests and skills despite being male. Lampshaded by Akira, who before meeting him in person assumed by his name that he was a woman.
- Gentle Giant: He's this for a first-year highschooler, standing 185cm (close to 6'1"), but is extremely polite, meek and shy.
- Hormone-Addled Teenager: Donwplayed. Being in the proximity of a beautiful girl like Kitagawa inevitably turns him on, no matter how much he tries to repress it. To his credit, though, he always focuses on the job at hand and never takes advantage of her.
- Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: Gojo is MASSIVE for a Japanese first-year highschooler at 185cmnote , and is noted by his classmates to be broadly built and made to do some of the heavy lifting at the School Festival where the other boys struggled. Kitagawa, no shortie herself at 164cm, is dwarfed by him when they walk side by side. His especially large and flexible hands are heavily implied to be a turn on for Kitagawa, especially after that time in the Love Hotel where he grabbed her naked waist with both hands and was able to fully encompass it.
- Inelegant Blubbering: When Sajuna compliments him about his work with the Shizuku-tan costume, he's so moved by her words that he starts crying and grabs her hands giving a garbled "Thank you so much!", creeping her out.
- Innocently Insensitive: His Brutal Honesty on Kitagawa's failed attempt at cosplay almost drove her to tears, though he quickly apologized when he realized. Also, whenever he pulls a She Is Not My Girlfriend, he unwittingly puts her in a tough spot because, unknown to him, she would very much love to date him for real and he's struggling with why she'd be interested in him despite giving her so many reasons to.
- Insecure Love Interest: The primary reason for his She Is Not My Girlfriend outbursts - he sees Kitagawa as being so astronomically out of his league that he is incapable of imagining her being interested in him, despite having practically won her heart by the fifth episode. Early on it's so bad that he actually attempts to cut ties with her entirely because he's worried that the inevitable rumors that they're dating will damage her reputation.
- Last-Name Basis: As he starts the series without a single friend, he's never called by his given name by his peers, and only his grandfather calls him Wakana.
- Limited Wardrobe: Aside from his school uniform, he only has white undershirts and an indigo samue, a traditional working suit popularly worn by artisans, farmers and some Buddhist monks. Because of this, he feels out of place whenever Kitagawa takes him to a trendy place like Ikebukuro. When he's attending a cosplay meetup, his outfit gets him mistaken for someone cosplaying a monk. That said, this seems partly due to feeling much more comfortable in more traditional Japanese clothing - when Kitagawa takes him shopping in Shibuya for new threads, he ends up only picking out a couple of jinbei.
- Martial Arts Headband: Seemingly uses a simple washcloth for this purpose, punctuating his moments of most intense focus, and the climaxes where he experiences the most growth.
- Nice Guy: Always kind and polite to everyone, sometimes even to a fault. Kitagawa even criticizes him in episode 1 for always taking people at their word and not realizing his classmates just use him to do campus chores in their place.
- Not Distracted by the Sexy: As opposed to his everyday life where he becomes a nervous wreck around Kitagawa, Gojo completely no-sells the content of Kitagawa's eroge and hentai in general. He's more interested in taking notes on how to replicate the costume design and finds the content of the eroge so absurd that it has no effect on him. That said, he isn't quite immune to regular porn, perfectly understood the implications of being in a love hotel, and was moments from getting steamy with Kitagawa in said lovel hotel before their reservation ended.
- Oblivious to Love: Probably owing to his own insecurities, he doesn't catch that Kitagawa's teasing later becomes less joking and more because she's genuinely attracted to him.
- One Head Taller: With Kitagawa, since he is of above-average height for Japanese people.
- One-Note Cook: Gojo is noted to be a fine cook, but living with only his grandpa for company means that he only knows how to make old-timey Japanese dishes. Kitagawa's much more slapdash cooking style takes him aback every time, though he finds himself pleasantly surprised by the way some of her dishes come together.
- Raised by Grandparents: He lives with his grandpa, as his parents have passed away prior to the start of the series (their portraits are seen on the family altar in the first episode's opening scene).
- Real Men Wear Pink: His social isolation was due to struggling with this concept when he was younger because a childhood friend called him weird for his interest in Hina dolls. One thing that immediately warms him up to Kitagawa is that she looks right past this and notices that he's a real wizard when it comes to sewing, make-up, aesthetics, handiwork and cooking.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: The calm, timid Blue to Kitagawa's Red.
- Serious Business: Gojo makes it clear that his sense of aesthetics and his personal view of beauty is this to him that he can't call something beautiful arbitrarily, he has to absolutely mean it. Cue him calling Kitagawa beautiful in a sleep deprived state, which shortly after makes her head-over-heels for him.
- She Is Not My Girlfriend: Even though he's genuinely attracted to Kitagawa's looks and cheery personality, whenever anyone suggests they're dating he's quick to deny it.
- He actually mentions this trope ad verbatim in the English dub, specifically after Sajuna mentions to Kitagawa that she's not out to get her "boyfriend".
- Socially Awkward Hero: Due to his own personal hangups about his passion for doll-making and a childhood event that scarred him emotionally, Gojo is incredibly shy and meek. He struggles to express himself in any context outside of clothes and doll-making and has not made a single friend since the traumatic event all the way up to his first year of high school.
- Supreme Chef: He's a very good cook, albeit mostly with traditional Japanese dishesnote .
- Textile Work Is Feminine: Much of his social anxiety comes from a former childhood friend calling him a freak over his love of dolls and dollmaking, and he's horrified when Kitagawa walks in on him using the school's sewing machine out of fear that she'll think less of him for being good at it. Much of his character development comes from Kitagawa helping helping him realize that his interests are just as valid as anyone else's and that those who would disparage him for them aren't worth his time.
- When He Smiles: In Chapter 10/Episode 4, when Kitagawa assures him that he'll one day be a great dollmaker like he hopes to be, he smiles genuinely happy for the first time in front of her. Kitagawa can't help but comment on it, much to his surprise.
Cosplayers
Sajuna Inui
Sajuna Inui
Voiced by: Atsumi Tanezaki (Japanese), Risa Mei (English) Foreign VAs
A famous online cosplayer who goes by the online name "Juju-sama". She specializes in cosplaying young Magical Girls.
- A-Cup Angst: Her primary reason for not wanting to cosplay as Black Lobelia is revealed to be that, rather than feeling like she's too short to pull it off, she doesn't feel like her petite figure (especially her breasts) would be suited towards the cosplay.
- Bad Liar: She vehemently denies being scared of the abandoned hospital studio they were going to use for the cosplay photos. Gojo doesn't buy it for a minute.
- Berserk Button: She gets visibly angry when she's mistaken for or treated like a child.
- Big Sister Instinct: While Sajuna can come across as abrasive and icy at times, the one thing she'll always do is try to make her little sister Shinju happy. She'll even subject herself to cosplaying from a horror game, something she outright hates, just to let Shinju experience something she loves.
- Blackmail: When Gojo tells her that he doesn't do cosplay costumes for business, she threatens to turn him in to the police for seeing her naked, unless he makes her a costume.
- Blunt "No": Her response to Kitagawa's invitation to do a team-up cosplay together, and later to attend a coffin party with other cosplayers. She eventually relents on both occasions, though.
- Cosplay Otaku Girl: She's a cosplayer who's very famous online; while she's not as openly enthusiastic about cosplay as Marin, it's still clear that she takes it very seriously, as she mainly sees it as a way to live out her childhood dream of becoming a Magical Girl.
- Early-Bird Cameo: Kitagawa shows Gojo a picture of her cosplay in chapter 7.
- Faint in Shock: Due to her enrolling in an all-girls school, she never has the chance to hold hands with someone of the opposite sex, so when Gojo unexpectedly holds her hands to show his gratitude for her trust in his costume-making skill, she straight up faints.
- Foil: Her and Kitagawa could not be any more different. Both take Cosplay very seriously, refusing to cosplay a character they love if their body types can't do the cosplay justice - but while Kitagawa is peppy, outgoing, and eager to make new friends in the cosplay scene; Sajuna is reserved, professional, and wishes to cosplay for herself and by herself.
- Full-Name Basis: When she talks to Gojo and Kitagawa, she always refers to them by their full names, exemplifying her more professional and distant nature.
- Girlish Pigtails: Which complement her childlike looks. Kitagawa thinks they look cute on her.
- Height Angst: Downplayed. Despite being older than Kitagawa and Gojo, she's extremely short. While she's comfortable with herself, and her petite figure lets her cosplay the Magical Girl characters she's adored since childhood; she's none too happy whenever she's mistaken for a child and admits to envying her little sister's figure when it would let her accurately pull off a wider variety of cosplays.
- Inelegant Blubbering: When she realizes that she misjudged Kitagawa about the kind of cosplayer she was, she breaks into tears as she apologizes.
- I'm Not Here to Make Friends: She bluntly states to Kitagawa that she has no interest in making friends with her or other cosplayers, and that she does her cosplay only for herself.
- Jerkass to One: She's a tsundere, sure, but she isn't jerkish with others as much as she is with Kitagawa.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: She can be somewhat arrogant, harsh and stubborn, is a little aloof, prefers to keep people at a distance, is even willing to use dirty tactics to get what she wants, bases her first impressions of people on incomplete assumptions about who they are, and often behaves like she's Surrounded by Idiots. But deep down she does have a good heart. She loves her sister dearly, genuinely feels awful for misjudging Kitagawa, actually apologizes to Kitagawa due to that misjudgment, and grows fond of both Kitagawa and Gojo as people even though she refuses to budge on not (openly) calling them her friends. Deep down, she appreciates having friends no matter how much she pretends otherwise.
- My God, What Have I Done?: Downplayed. After she sees how far Gojo went to help Shinju with the Souma cosplay, she feels she's been a terrible sister for not noticing before.
- Naked First Impression: She first met Gojo when he enters his bathroom thinking that his grandfather let a potentially dangerous stranger inside, right after she steps out of the shower.
- Not So Above It All:
- Despite trying to appear mature and calm (keyword being "trying"), when she sees her sister cosplaying for the first time, she's so impressed that she starts fangirling and gushing over it, just like Kitagawa herself.
- Despite hating cosplayers who break character doing a shoot, even she can't resist smiling and laughing along when Kitagawa lets her excitement about doing a shoot with Juju get the better of her.
- Older Than They Look: She's actually a second year high schooler (meaning she's older than Kitagawa and Gojo), but could easily pass off for an elementary schooler.
- Reclusive Artist: An In-Universe case. Until she met Kitagawa, she refused to work or join up with other cosplayers, even to the point of refusing to attend events. Some people doubted that she actually existed because of this.
- Rose-Haired Sweetie: Downplayed. Not at first sight, as she is usually very serious and even a bit aloof, but deep down is much nicer.
- Serious Business: She takes her cosplays very, very seriously. This actually helps her in getting along with Kitagawa, upon realizing the latter shares a similar view.
- Single Woman Seeks Good Man: Much like Kitagawa, Gojo's kindness and earnestness, not only towards her but towards her little sister as well, seems to have caused her to start falling for him.
- Stalker without a Crush: She follows Gojo to his home in secret, wanting to hire him for a costume. Interestingly, it's implied she develops a crush on him later, but by then she's dropped the "stalker" part.
- Sugar-and-Ice Personality: At first she comes across as somewhat haughty and aloof, but she has a kinder side underneath.
- Tragic Dream: As a child, she wanted to become a Magical Girl, until she realized it was impossible. She got into cosplay since for her, cosplaying as magical girl characters is the closest thing she can do to become one.
- Tsundere: She's a Harsh type by default. Her sweet side tends to come out when she's with her sister, or when talking about her own interests. She starts becoming the Sweet type towards Gojo as well once she apparently starts falling for him, though remains firmly a Harsh type towards Kitagawa.
- Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Horror stuff in general, which was one of the reasons she rejected at first the invitation to the coffin party. She also gets visibly creeped out by the abandoned hospital building (not helped by the fact there's a thunderstorm outside).
Shinju Inui
Shinju Inui
Voiced by: Hina Yomiya (Japanese), Jad Saxton (English) Foreign VAs
Sajuna's younger sister, a middle school student. Often helps her sister as a photographer, though she wants to get into cosplay herself.
- Bifauxnen: Kitagawa comments that as "Souma-Oniichan", Shinju has both a masculine presence and a feminine face.
- Big Little Sister: Sajuna Inui's little sister, Shinju, is a middle schooler, 178 cm tall and absurdly curvaceous for her age, to the point that even a part-time model like Kitagawa is jealous. It's even more noticeable since Sajuna is petite enough to pass for an elementary schooler.
- Big Sister Worship: The "Juju-sama" thing was actually her idea because she adores Sajuna. She gushes about her super cute big sister to Gojo. Her motivation for cosplaying as Souma onii-chan is because he reminds her of admirable elder siblings, such as Sajuna.
- Boob-Based Gag: The first time she puts Gojo's school shirt on in order to cosplay as Souma onii-chan, her large bust ends up sending buttons flying as if they were projectiles. Shortly afterwards, her bust gets in the way of Gojo's first attempt at taking measurements of her head.
- D-Cup Distress: Her large bust is a huge problem to her, given that she wants to cosplay a male character.
- Gentle Giant: Towers over the rest of the cast except for Gojo, yet sweet and soft as a kitten.
- Height Angst: Of the too-tall variety, contrasting with her sister who's too short. At 178cm, she's taller than most adult men in Japan, let alone people her age or Kitagawa.
- Huge Schoolgirl: She's in middle school, yet is almost as tall as Gojo (who's no shorty himself) and very curvy. She could pass for Sajuna's Absurdly Youthful Mother if she put her mind to it.
- I Am Not Pretty: While her generous physique and sweet disposition makes her the most traditionally feminine girl of the principal cast, Shinju doesn't consider herself to be beautiful, flat out telling Gojo that she considers herself "fat" and too big, no doubt stemming from insecurities from being bullied/ostracized by other girls for her unusual height.
- Ms. Fanservice: Though Shinju as a rule is conservatively dressed and makes no active effort to doll herself up like Kitagawa does, the camera angles love to accentuate how well endowed she is, especially in various states of undress.
- Nice Girl: Shy, polite and humble, Shinju is also a supportive sister and friend who is sweet, kind and considerate to a fault.
- Nightmare Fetishist: Chapter 72 reveals that she's really into horror stuff.
- Rose-Haired Sweetie: She has pink hair and is very sweet and friendly, and it takes much less for her than her sister to get comfortable with people.
- She Cleans Up Nicely: A cosplay variation. In her school uniform, Shinju seems to have no waist, but wearing a cosplay reveals she is actually very slender; she only needs to supress her chest to make for a tall, athletic-looking male character.
- Shrinking Violet: Extremely shy and easily flustered.
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Suppressed Mammaries: One of Shinju's greatest struggles in her desired Souma-oniichan cosplay is to flatten down her sizeable bosom enough that she could pass as a man. She does eventually manage this, through a combination of a sarashi and b-holder. Though before too long these also give out on her from the strain. - Wardrobe Malfunction: A common occurrence for Shinju when she tries to cosplay. As she commonly tries to cosplay male characters with flat chests, while she has a sizeable chest, this can lead to some unfortunate buttons and fabric giving way.
- Younger Than They Look: She’s still in middle school but much taller than the already above-average high-schooler Kitagawa. This appearance of hers makes Gojo forget that she’s still too young to get a job to afford cosplaying. Gojo gets around this by keeping the final product within 15000 yennote , which Shinju can manage with her allowance.
Chitose Amano
Chitose Amano
Voiced by:
A male cosplayer who specializes in crossdressing. His cosplayer name is "Himeno Amane".
- Dark and Troubled Past: He was often bullied because of his effeminate looks. Then his girlfriend found out about his crossdressing cosplay and threw all his costumes away...
- Pretty Boy: Gojo and Kitagawa eventually find out that he looks good both in and out of costume.
- Terrible Artist: Amane buys the costumes and wigs he uses as he's also not creative enough to make them from scratch. Zigzagged in that he's very good at makeup to make his cross-play very convincing.
- Wholesome Crossdresser: His specialty. He can cosplay as female characters very convincingly.
Akira Ogata
Akira Ogata
Voiced by:
A 20-year old creative filmer, who specializes in original cosplay.
- Aloof Dark-Haired Girl: Has the looks and attitude, displaying a serious demeanor most of the time.
- Bifauxnen: Her photo with a samurai cosplay and her name made Gojo assume she was actually male.
- Dark and Troubled Past: She apparently had issues with her parents, who didn't approve of her hobbies, even throwing out her mangas when she entered middle school. It eventually her to move out to live on her own, and couldn't retake them until she entered college.
- Early-Bird Cameo: When Marin and Gojo rent a studio with backdrops and props for her Arisha cosplay, she shows him a set of photos of a woman playing President Luna, the handler for the bunnygirl-hitmen; several volumes later Akira confides in Gojo that she was the one playing President Luna.
- Fangirl: Though it was thought that Akira hated Marin for some unknown reason, the truth was quite the opposite. As it turns out, she's been enamored by Marin and her cosplays since the first time she saw pictures posted on her social media. Even going so far as to call Marin her "Princess" and gushing and crying about how pretty she was when the truth came out. The reason Akira was seemingly so standoffish and cold upon first meeting her and not wanting to talk to her was because being so close to the object of her admiration made her clam up from nervousness.
- Gender-Blender Name: A part of the reason that Gojou thought she was a man before meeting her, as "Akira" is more often used as a masculine name.
- Hate at First Sight: Chitose took notice that she remained silent during the whole conversation until Kitagawa left the room and asked if she was too hard to handle. When Gojo accidentally eavesdrops on their conversation in the smoking room, she confesses that she wants absolutely nothing to do with Kitagawa. This turns out to be a subversion as in Chapter 85 that she doesn't hate Marin - she absolutely adores her. She ignores Marin because she's too embarrassed to talk to her. This actually given a bit of foreshadowing as Akira struggled to answer Gojo and was surprised by his appearance.
- Mentor Archetype: After becoming acquainted with Akira online, she becomes something of a cosplay mentor to him when it comes to prop making and costume design. She acts as a sounding board, gives him advice, and even assists him in the crafting of smaller items so he can focus on the biggest parts of his Haniel cosplay.
- Not So Stoic: She keeps an aloof and stoic attitude until Chapter 85, where she has a breakdown when she reveals the reason why she wants to keep her distance with Kitagawa. Turns out she absolutely adores her but is too embarrassed to approach her.
- Samus Is a Girl: Gojo had assumed by her photos and name that she was a guy. It didn't help that she was using male pronouns when she communicated with him online.
Family
Kaoru Gojo
Kaoru Gojo
Voiced by: Atsushi Ono (Japanese), R. Bruce Elliott (English) Foreign VAs
Gojo's grandfather and guardian, who inspired him to follow his footsteps in Hina Doll making.
- Cool Old Guy: Seems very supportive of his grandson in whatever he does.
- *Crack!* "Oh, My Back!": Ends up out of commission to run the Hina Doll shop for two weeks because he hurt his back falling against the stairs when he saw Gojo had bought lace stockings for the Shizuku-tan cosplay. He was nearly sent back to the hospital when the first thing he comes home to was Gojo holding the newly cleaned finished cosplay and Kitagawa next to him, once again assuming the worst.
- Entertainingly Wrong: When he spots the lingerie his grandson bought, his first thought was Gojo bought it for himself. It's not until he meets Kitagawa that he learns it was actually for her.
- Gender-Blender Name: Just as his grandson, Kaoru being more of a female name.
- Good Parents: Is immensely supportive of Gojo following his footsteps, and tries to keep an open mind with his grandson's activities (even if seeing his grandson buying lace stockings and playing porn games bewilders him at first).
- Old Master: Has nearly fifty years of experience within his craft. Once he gets a good look at the clothes Gojo has begun making for Kitagawa, he's able to give constructive criticism on what Gojo's done well and what needs to improve, despite not being a tailor by trade.note
- Outliving One's Offspring: A given, as Gojo moved in with him after the death of his son and daughter-in-law.
- Parental Substitute: Not only to Gojo, but also to Kitagawa to some extent. He offers her a place in their home and at their dinner table since her mother is deceased and her father works abroad.
- Shipper on Deck: Indirectly by inviting Kitagawa to come over for dinner on the regular since she's living alone, and encourage Gojo to keep making cosplay clothes to broaden his artistic horizons, especially since it's giving Gojo a social life and a chance to score in romance. Additionally, Gojo's newfound experience with doing Kitagawa's makeup is also drastically improving his own skills painting Hina doll heads.
Miori Gojo
Miori Gojo
Voiced by: Misako Tomioka (Japanese), Caitlin Glass (English) Foreign VAs
Granddaughter of Kaoru, and Gojo's cousin.
- Entertainingly Wrong: She assumes it's normal for her cousin to have some female lingerie for himself, since she sometimes likes to wear male boxers. She is, of course, unaware that it's actually for Kitagawa's costume.
Masumi Kitagawa
Masumi Kitagawa
Marin Kitagawa's widowed father, who's often working abroad.
- Adapted Out: His scene in the anime is changed to a phone call instead of visiting his daughter at home, so he doesn't appear in person.
- Disappeared Dad: Averted. He took good care of Kitagawa before and after her mother's death, but was reassigned to a job overseas by his company around the time Kitagawa got into high school (a few months before the series began, give or take), to his dismay. He still keeps in touch and comes home on vacation and during the summer of course, and takes care of all of his daughter's non-cosplay expenses (since she insists on paying for that out of her own pocket).
- Good Parents: He and his daughter seem to have a very good relationship, though he's not above grounding her for not doing her homework because he knows the workload will be overwhelming later if she keeps pushing it back.
- Shared Family Quirks: While lamenting over his daughter's Ridiculous Procrastinator tendencies, it takes only a second of self-reflection to realize she gets it from him, who shared her procrastination tendencies when he was younger. He even speaks like Marin to an extent when talking about his jealousy over Marin getting to frequently eat Gojo's cooking.
- Shipper on Deck: Kind of. Assumes that Gojo and Marin are dating when he asks Gojo to take care of her at the end of Chapter 102. Gojo just assumes that he's just talking about the food.
- Unnamed Parent: His first name has yet to be revealed. No longer applies as of Chapter 102, where Gojo's grandfather refers to him by his given name.
Fellow students
Nowa Sugaya
Nowa Sugaya
Voiced by: Rarisa Tago Takeda (Japanese), Dani Chambers (English) Foreign VAs
One of Kitagawa's friends at school.
- Gyaru Girl: Like Kitagawa, she dyes her hair and wears various trendy accessories.
- Girlish Pigtails: Wears her hair in short twintails.
- Oral Fixation: She's often seen with a lollipop in her mouth.
- Nonconformist Dyed Hair: Most of her hair is black, but the underside of her twin tails is red, showing how she follows Gyaru Girl trends rather than dressing to code for school.
Rune and Daia
Rune and Daia
Voiced by: Akira Sekine (Rune) and Yuka Amemiya (Daia) (Japanese), Natalie Hoover (Rune) and Madeleine Morris (Daia) (English) Foreign VAs
Kitagawa's other two friends at school.
- Those Two Girls: They're always seen together along with Nowa.
Other characters
Nobara
Nobara "Non-chan"
Voiced by: Mai Kanno (Japanese), Lila Britton (English) Foreign VAs
A childhood friend of Gojo, who unwittingly caused him to become a loner.
- Childhood Friends: Judging by the fact she referred to Gojo as "Wacchan" (and he in turn calls her "Non-chan"). At least until that fateful day.
- Kids Are Cruel: She told Gojo that she considered him gross and weird for liking Hina dolls, and that she hated him.
- Small Role, Big Impact: She only shows up extremely briefly at the very beginning of the story, but she is the major catalyst behind Gojo's issues and insecurities about his hobbies.
Usami
Usami
Voiced by:
The clerk at the fabric store that Gojo and Kitagawa frequent for their cosplay supplies. He's very knowledgeable about tailoring, and often offers advice to Gojo when he's confused about a specialized aspect of a new outfit.
- Adapted Out: His first appearance in the manga has him help out Gojo with the Flower Princess Blaze!! outfits, but Gojo shopping for those supplies is left out in the anime, presumably to allow for better pacing with Gojo helping Shinju.
- Cool Old Guy: In a similar way to Kaoru, Usami doesn't judge Gojo when he asks for advice on how to make Kitagawa and Sejuna's Flower Princess Blaze!! outfits more breathable than Kitagawa's Slippery Girls 2 cosplay, even when Usami thinks that Gojo is going to be the one wearing them.
- Entertainingly Wrong: He thinks Gojo is into crossdressing at first and decides to be as helpful and supportive as he can as to not give (what he assumes would be) Gojo a bad first impression of shopping supplies for said (nonexistent) hobby. Once Gojo brings Kitagawa along the second time he visits the store, said misunderstanding is cleared up easily since they have already gotten chummy.
- Flat "What": When Kitagawa looks dissapointed that him and Gojo have found a workaround for her bunny costume that requires no shoulderstraps but still preventing a Wardrobe Malfunction.
- Nice Guy: Is a friendly and welcome face who genuinely enjoys helping his clients, and comes to be on good terms with Kitagawa and Gojo.
Suzuka
Suzuka
Voiced by: Marie Miyake (Japanese) Foreign VAs
A photographer that Kitagawa befriended during her first cosplay outing. She's also friends with Akira.
- Camera Fiend: A given, since she's a photographer.
- Covert Pervert: Later interactions with her make it clear that she has something of a cosplay fetish, and that she's into younger men. In Chapter 82, she's even willing to let Chitose change in front of her.
- Ephebophile: States that she gets aroused reading Shonen sports manga, and her reaction to being properly introduced to Gojo is excitement over meeting "a Wild High School Boy."
- Fangirl: Of cosplayers as a whole.
- Serious Business: While not a cosplayer herself, she's as much of an Otaku as Kitagawa and Sajuna. When she learns that Kitagawa cosplayed as Rei-sama and didn't get any photos, she loudly curses her luck for not being able to see it.
