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My Dress-Up Darling is a story of accepting your weirdness and the weirdness of others and it warms my awkward heart [Popverse Jump]

There is a little Gojo in all of us, just begging for acceptance.

Popverse Jump Gojo Being Series Header My Dress Up Darling
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Were you that kid in school who was obsessed with some geeky stuff that everyone thought was weird? Did you feel like you had to hide your interests from the world, lest your friends and family discover you love anime, video games, or comic books and ridicule you for your “childish” interests? Considering you’re reading a pop culture website, specifically an article about anime, I’m going to guess the answer is yes. And you know what? That’s cool, because we’ve all been there. Like the characters in My Dress-Up Darling, we’ve got to learn to accept our own weirdness – and the weirdness in others.

This undercurrent of not just accepting but embracing each other for our different interests isn’t something that has been introduced in My Dress-Up Darling season two, but it certainly has come to the forefront in recent episodes. While I’m not a huge

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Trent Cannon

Trent Cannon: Trent is a freelance writer who has been covering anime, video games, and pop culture for a decade. (He/Him)

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