Anime Dress Up Games & PFP Makers
Big eyes, bigger hair, main character energy. Anime games split into two halves: the ones where you dress a character someone drew, and the ones where you draw the character yourself.
Late For School 
Kawaii Kitty Cat Girl 
Manga Creator Vampire Hunter Page 8 
Mega Fantasy Avatar Creator 
Mega Anime Avatar Creator 
Sailor Moon And Friends Cosmic Glam 
Video Game Avatar Creator 
Kawaii Chibi Fighter 
Anime Couple Picture Creator 
Chibi Doll: Avatar Creator 
Kawaii Monster Trainer Avatar Maker 
Princess Culture of Cuteness 
Kawaii Superhero Avatar Maker 
Princesses Different Styles 
Princesses Kawaii Looks And Manicure 
K-Pop Star 
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Kawaii Witch School 
Tokyo Mew Mew Creator 
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Manga Creator Vampire Hunter Page 5 
Manga Creator Vampire Hunter Page 3 
Manga Creator Vampire Hunter Page 9 
Manga Creator Vampire Hunter Page 1 
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Pokegirl 
Kawaii Chibi Avatar Maker 
Manga Creator - Fantasy World Page 3 
SNK Cosplayer New 
Powerpuff Yourself 
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Manga Creator - Fantasy World Page 2 Two kinds of anime game
The first kind hands you a manga-styled heroine and a wardrobe. School uniforms, seifuku, magical-girl outfits, street fashion pulled out of Harajuku. You are styling inside an established drawing style, and the style does a lot of the work for you.
The second kind is the avatar creator, and it is what most people are actually after when they search for anime dress up games. You set the eye shape, the eye colour, the eyebrows, the hairstyle, the expression, and the result is a face nobody has used before.
Pokegirl is the strongest of these here. Trainer design in the games it borrows from is famously limited, a handful of presets and a cap, and this is the answer to that.
Anime PFPs, specifically
An anime profile picture reads well at small sizes for one structural reason: the eyes are enormous. Lean on that.
Frame tight on the face. Choose a hair colour and an eye colour that are not in the same family, or the whole face flattens out at forty pixels. Keep the background flat so the silhouette stays clean in a circular crop. And build it square from the start rather than cropping a full-body pose afterwards, because you lose most of the character that way.
If the picture is for Discord or a game profile, test it small before you commit. Zoom your own screenshot down to the size it will actually be shown at, and most of the decisions make themselves.
Chibi, manga and the rest of the vocabulary
Chibi is the same style with the proportions pushed: huge head, tiny body, simplified detail. It is the easiest anime style to make look finished, which is why it is everywhere and why it works so well as an icon.
Manga style is the flatter, sharper, black-and-white register, built for panels rather than for screens.
Magical girl is a costume genre inside the drawing style: transformation sequences, ribbons, impossible hair.
An honest note on size
This is one of the smaller shelves on the site, with thirty-five games rather than the several hundred sitting under dress up. What is here is worth playing, and the creators in particular are good, but if you want volume the doll creator shelf overlaps heavily and is deeper.
For softer pastel anime looks, kawaii is next door. If the character needs wings or a tail rather than a hairstyle, fantasy has more.
Frequently asked questions
Which anime games are the most played here?
Chibi Doll: Avatar Creator, Sailor Moon And Friends Cosmic Glam, the Manga Creator Vampire Hunter pages, Pokegirl and Tokyo Mew Mew Creator. The Manga Creator series runs across numbered pages, so it is closer to a comic than to a single game.
What are anime dress up games?
Games drawn in a Japanese anime or manga style, where you either dress an existing character or build one from scratch in that style: big eyes, detailed hair, expressive faces.
How do I make an anime PFP for Discord or Instagram?
Use one of the avatar creators, frame tight on the face, contrast the hair and eye colours, keep the background flat, then screenshot and crop square. Anime faces survive a small circular crop better than realistic ones.
Can I make an anime boy character?
In the deeper creators, yes, with their own hair and clothing sets. The base character in most of the games here is female.
What is a chibi maker?
A creator that uses chibi proportions: an oversized head, a small body and simplified detail. It is the easiest anime style to make look finished and it works especially well as an icon.
How many anime games are there here?
Thirty-five, which makes this one of the smaller shelves. The doll creator category overlaps heavily and has more.
Are these games free and download-free?
Yes. They run in the browser with no account and no install.
Can I use what I make as my own original character?
For personal use, a profile picture, a roleplay or a story, yes, and that is what most people do. Selling the exported image is a different question, since the art assets belong to whoever drew the game.