My Dress Up Darling

Director(s)

Keisuke Shinohara
Production Year

2022
Genre(s)

Animation, Comedy, Drama
Cast

Amanda Lee, Paul Dateh, R Bruce Elliott

TV Show

My Dress Up Darling

MY DRESS UP DARLING is a Japanese comedy drama anime series; in this episode, a teenage boy who feels isolated due to his unusual passion for doll-making makes an unexpected connection with a popular classmate. …

Director(s)

Keisuke Shinohara
Production Year

2022
Genre(s)

Animation, Comedy, Drama
Cast

Amanda Lee, Paul Dateh, R Bruce Elliott

strong sex references

Classified Date:

01/09/2023

Use:

Physical media + VOD/Streaming

sex

There is a close-up image of a teenager’s underwear when her skirt accidentally flips up. Other scenes feature visual focus on the chests and legs of female characters wearing revealing clothing, as well as occasional crude verbal innuendo including an allusion to BDSM.

Bad language includes ‘crap’ and ‘fricking’. Teenage girls discuss whether a boy was ‘stalking’ one of them in an attempt to flirt, but they do not appear to mean the term literally. A young girl rejects a young boy’s friendship due to his doll-making hobby, claiming that boys aren’t ‘meant’ to play with dolls. We see a small amount of blood on a pair of scissors after a boy accidentally cuts his finger.

strong sex references

Classified Date:

01/09/2023

Use:

Physical media + VOD/Streaming

sex

The episode features frequent close-up focus on the chests and behinds of female characters in revealing clothing. This includes prolonged comic scenes in which a blushing teenage boy takes the body measurements of a teenage girl who is wearing only a skimpy bikini. There are also strong references to an adult video game based on BDSM roleplay, including a brief image of a game character wearing a ball gag.

implied strong language, moderate sex references

Classified Date:

01/09/2023

Use:

Physical media + VOD/Streaming

language

There is use of implied strong language (‘f**k’) as well as use of mild bad language (‘shit’, ‘crap’, ‘fricking’) and milder terms (‘hell’, ‘God’).

sex

It is implied that a teenage boy has woken up in a state of arousal after a dream in which he fantasised about a girl in his class.

moderate sex references

Classified Date:

01/09/2023

Use:

Physical media + VOD/Streaming

sex

There are brief close up images highlighting the body of a female character who is getting changed.

There is use of mild and very mild bad language (‘ass’, ‘hell’). A teenager becomes increasingly stressed about his work load, eventually breaking down, though a friend offers positive reassurances and helps him to recover. In a scene of very mild threat, an elderly man is startled and falls down, injuring himself.

strong sex references

Classified Date:

01/09/2023

Use:

Physical media + VOD/Streaming

sex

Frequent visual and verbal references are made to women's breast size and there is a close up on a woman repeatedly jiggling her clothed breasts up and down with her hands. A man unzips a female character's dress and wipes a cool cloth over her in a sexualised manner and she makes noises similar to climaxing sounds as he does it.

Use of mild bad language ('crap') is accompanied by very mild terms ('God').

strong sex references

Classified Date:

01/09/2023

Use:

Physical media + VOD/Streaming

sex

After an embarrassed teenage boy storms into a bathroom to confront what he believes to be an intruder, he is surprised to find a barely dressed teenage girl. The teenage girl slips over and he is implied to get a full view of her genitals; however, there is no actual breast or genital nudity. The girl later calls him a 'peeping tom' and says she will tell others he saw her naked unless he does what she wants.

Use of moderate bad language ('bitch') is accompanied by milder terms such as 'shit' and 'freakin'. There are scenes of mild, fantastical threat.

moderate bad language, sex references

Classified Date:

01/09/2023

Use:

Physical media + VOD/Streaming

language

Use of moderate bad language ('bitch') is accompanied by milder terms such as 'crap', 'screw', 'freaking', 'God' and 'damn'.

sex

Moderate sex references include a teenage boy becoming flustered as he stares at a teenager's large breasts.

There are occasional moments of fantastical mild violence and threat.

moderate sex references, drug references

Classified Date:

01/09/2023

Use:

Physical media + VOD/Streaming

sex

There are close up images of cleavage and a female character's underwear.

drugs

There are used medical syringes on the ground of an abandoned hospital.

There is use of mild bad language ('fricking') and milder terms ('screw', 'God'). Mild fantasy violence includes a character briefly fighting a monster. Characters look scared in an abandoned hospital building.

strong sex references

Classified Date:

01/09/2023

Use:

Physical media + VOD/Streaming

sex

Strong sex references and sexualised images occurs. There are frequent close ups on cleavage, and references to erections and mastubation.

strong sex references

Classified Date:

01/09/2023

Use:

Physical media + VOD/Streaming

sex

Female characters wear fetishistic, skimpy costumes, with one seen chained up on her knees. There is a sexualised focus on their bodies. A girl's breasts begin to jiggle beneath her top, causing buttons to pop off. A young man is accused of trying to watch a girl showering and is called a 'giant perv'. There are undetailed references to a 'love hotel'. There is sexualised female buttock and partial breast nudity.

There is an implied use of strong language ('what the f') along with milder terms which include 'crap' and 'fricking'. A character falls and injures her head in a slapstick fall.

strong sex references

Classified Date:

01/09/2023

Use:

Physical media + VOD/Streaming

sex

A teenager watches what is implied to be pornographic material and hears sexual moaning from another room during a stay at a Japanese 'love hotel'. There are references to 'adult paraphernalia', with sight of a suggestively phallic shaped microphone, and to the hotel being 'pervy'. A teenage girl in sexually suggestive clothing straddles a boy so he can take photos of her; they later embrace and seem about to engage in sexual activity before being interrupted. The bodies of female characters are frequently shown in a sexualised way.

A teenage boy repeatedly hits himself in the head in frustration.

strong bloody images

Classified Date:

01/09/2023

Use:

Physical media + VOD/Streaming

injury detail

We see a young woman covered in blood as characters watch a gory horror film on television.

There are moderate verbal references and the clothed bodies of female characters are shown in a sexualised way. A character becomes scared by a horror film featuring a killer with a chainsaw, screaming when she is startled by something innocuous. A teenage girl who cannot swim falls into a pool, but is saved by her friend. There is mild bad language ('crap' and 'frig').

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Classified Date:

01/09/2023

Use:

Physical media + VOD/Streaming

Distributor:

Crunchyroll Limited

Classified date

01/09/2023
Distributor

Crunchyroll Limited
Language

English

Director(s)

Keisuke Shinohara

Production Year

2022

Genre(s)

Animation, Comedy, Drama

Cast

Amanda Lee, Paul Dateh, R Bruce Elliott