Shinichi Fukuda is the Japanese manga creator behind the series My Dress-Up Darling, which was adapted into an anime television series. Fukuda is a female artist who uses a pen name that is traditionally masculine in Japan. Her professional career began in 2006 when she won the Kadokawa Encouragement Prize for New Mangaka in the Ace category. Following this award, she published several one-shot stories in Kadokawa’s Monthly Shonen Ace magazine.

Fukuda’s first serialized manga was Shibaraku, which ran from 2009 to 2011. Her second series was Momoiro Meloik, initially published as a one-shot in 2011 before being serialized from 2012 to 2016 in the magazine Young King. In January 2018, she began her most successful work, My Dress-Up Darling, in Square Enix’s Young Gangan magazine. Fukuda has stated that the idea for the series came from her former editor, who introduced her to the world of cosplay, and that several versions of the story were written before the final one was chosen. The manga became a commercial success, with over 7.5 million copies in circulation by September 2022. A 12-episode anime adaptation produced by studio CloverWorks aired from January to March 2022, and a sequel has been announced. The manga concluded its serialization in March 2025.