2.5-jigen no Ririsa

After a disastrous romantic confession, Masamune Okumura finds solace in the fictional world of anime and manga. Now a second-year high school student and the president of the Manga Research Club, Masamune spends a peaceful existence watching the adventures of the angel Liliel, his favorite character.

In the beginning of the academic year, Masamune’s life is turned upside down when he meets first-year student Ririsa Amano, a passionate cosplay practitioner. Despite Masamune's initial reluctance, the determined young woman manages to convince him to become her personal photographer for the production of a collection dedicated to their common favorite character: Liliel.

As Masamune enthusiastically discovers the world of cosplay and photo editing, he is unexpectedly reunited with his childhood friend Mikari Tachibana, who has become a model in the hope of impressing her beloved upperclassman. Realizing that modeling is not enough to intrigue the hopeless otaku, Mikari decides to join the club and become a cosplayer herself, all to finally have a chance at winning Masamune's heart. However, Masamune's love for fictional characters may not be capable of extending to those who impersonate them.

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Tachibana, Mikari Main

Kitou, Akari Japanese

Amano, Ririsa Main

Maeda, Kaori Japanese

Noa Main

Suzushiro, Sayumi Japanese

Okumura, Masamune Main

Enoki, Junya Japanese

Kisaki, Aria Main

Watabe, Sayumi Japanese

Hanyuu, Mayuri Supporting

Ichimichi, Mao Japanese

Nagomi Supporting

Yamane, Aya Japanese

Taki, Midori Supporting

Mano, Ayumi Japanese

Eri Supporting

Hasegawa, Ikumi Japanese

Magino Supporting

Nukui, Yuka Japanese

Sotokawa, Akihiro Producer

Fujishiro, Atsushi Producer

Takeuchi, Masahiko Producer

Uehara, Yurie Producer

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Aug 2, 2024

Deoxyribo9

Recommended

Preliminary (5/24 eps)

This is pretty much a cosplay anime first and foremost, that's how the adaption has chosen to focus on things. The relationship between the lead Okumura and Lilysa develop in a way that you can see potential romance, but they're such perfect partners that support each other that you can feel their chemistry on a platonic level. The first three episodes represent more a prologue to the main course of cosplay and the exploration of cosplay culture. A reflection of how the source material evolves from the ecchi romcom harem to something more complex.

The main difference between Dress Up Darling and this series is ... that you get a better idea of Japanese Cosplay culture rather than the more individual costume by costume dress ups and creations by Gojo and Marin. The overall cast feels stronger as a result even outside the childhood friend Mikari, you have the other cosplay cast that you feel you're going to meet again. And you want to meet again because you want to reward kindness with kindness. The world is much larger than outside the clubroom, but you can't help but root for Lilysa to succeed. You want her to be the best Lilliel there ever was. Even if her only skills and expertise seems to be related to cosplay and the creation of.

The VAs and the OST really pull their weight in bringing the story to life. The OST is able to sell the romantic and cosplay moments equally well with the right instrumentation. Okumura and Mikari's VA really sell the loudness and bravado while Mikari showcases the confident, but tsundereness. Former showcases this in Episode 4 between yelling reactions in public to an episode he's watching, to motivating Lilysa to put on the cosplay outfit. And pretty much every scene Mikari's in you can feel the vacillation between love rival to good friend. So far the studio's been keeping good pace with the manga, cutting and rearranging where needed to hit the key moments in a timely matter. Episode 2 is a fine example of rearranging so that Mikari's moments are framed throughout the episode rather than in one large block. With how the pacing has ended up so far, Episode 5 was able to fit in a pretty meaty bonus chapter adaption that helped flesh out the cast as a whole as they discussed about common cosplay issues they suffer. Lilysa really facilitates most of the comedic moments by playing her absurdities rather straight, but the anime is great at executing the comedic scenes. Like getting people to look for an Elf Lady cosplayer in the subway to return her coverup underwear.

Also you can never go wrong with an ED Dance number sung by the VA's of Lilysa and Mikari in character.

This series is a definite delayed burn, because the charms of the series only really start becoming apparent as the fanservice takes a back seat to the cosplay action. Somethings are predictable because this is ultimately a shonen romance. On the other end, there are still surprises left for new people.

Reviewer’s Rating: 9

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Jul 29, 2024

Ishigami45

Mixed Feelings

Preliminary (3/24 eps)

Here we go. First of all, a point I have to emphasize right at the beginning: ANIME IS CENSORED! The manga is much more explicit, very much. J.C Staff did the favor of removing the only interesting point from the work.

Fine, but if it’s bad, why did you mark it as mixed feelings? Simple, I definitely hate censorship. For me, if it’s adapting something, it has to be the same way as the original or improve what already has changing some things. However, there are some points that make me like this work: Traits of the characters are beautiful, the characters are beautiful, the ... plot does not appear to be dragged (so far), removed much of the ecchi but another small part remained... Given that it has studio that removes everything, then I would say it is a plus point.

Overall, I give my AVERAGE SCORE a 7. But depending on it, it can go down to 3-4.

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Jul 19, 2024

kxlel02

Not Recommended

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Preliminary (3/24 eps)

A moment of silence for every manga fan who's heard an announcement that a beloved manga of theirs is getting an anime adaptation only to hear that J.C. Staff is the studio adapting it. A truly heart wrenching realization that it's going to be completely sullied beyond recognition.

I'm not typically one to rate things this early on and especially not to write a review on it but I feel obligated to in this case as a big fan of the source material who's watching this abomination of an adaptation. J.C. staff might be the biggest joke of a big name studio to still be ... producing anime in 2024. As if what they did to my believed OPM wasn't enough, they had to ruin another great manga.

For those unfamiliar with the source material, 2.5 dimensional seduction at it's core is pretty similar to the impression you would get reading the plot description and watching the first 3 episodes. An ecchi manga revolving around a hopeless otaku who only finds 2D girls attractive but starts to question this after seeing real life girls cosplay as his favorite characters. The key part of that missing in the anime is 'ecchi'.

The manga is true to the title of 'ecchi'. Uncensored and quite generous with the amount of fan service such as the usual panty shots, revealing clothing, changing scenes, and skimpy cosplay with the occasional full nude panels. The anime however doesn't deserve to be titled as such. Every ecchi scene is completely watered down to the point if I didn't know the source or see the tag, I would assume this was just a regular anime with very light fan service. Every revealing shot is basically completely out of frame or has convenient placement to not see so much as a slip of skin. Each scene meant to be the pinnacle of fan service in the source is watered down to a slight shot of skin and a little moan as if that makes things the same. Even the base design of Lileil's cosplay is completely censored down.

I will give credit where it's due. As far as the regular scenes go, it's a solidly produced show. But for a show tagged with 'ecchi', that alone doesn't cut it.

Being tame and vanilla is fine and I'm sure most people don't mind watching stuff like that. But chances are if you're willingly watching an ecchi anime, you're here for the goods. And I'm here to tell you, they're not here. Do yourself a favor and go read the manga for the real stuff. I've seen Cartoon Network Y-7 shows that are less vanilla than this so-called 'ecchi' anime.

Reviewer’s Rating: 4

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