Episode 8 – My Dress-Up Darling

Now I just want to open this review by saying that episode eight is probably the best-looking episode of My Dress-Up Darling so far. I don’t just mean that from a general animation perspective, although there were some very nice character animations as is usual for the show by now. But more than that, certain shots and backdrops in this episode were far more detailed compared to what we had seen before, and coupled with the use of color and lighting as well as the overall shot composition, the episode manages to perfectly convey how some of these characters were feeling in the most subtle of ways. Considering the fact that this is apparently Yusuke Kawakami‘s first solo directed episode (he was an assistant director for an episode of Wonder Egg Priority), I think he and his team knocked it out of the park with this one and I would be very happy if he returned for future…