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Feb 20, 7:13 AM
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The editor note at the end of the chapter says the manga is ending next chapter.

https://x.com/MangaMoguraRE/status/1892593433484947781
Feb 20, 7:19 AM
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NOOOOOO!!!

They just got together man… I was hoping to see more. Bummer…

I’m hoping they pull a Takagi-San and give us a sequel set in the future.
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Feb 20, 7:49 AM
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I was kinda hoping it would end with Gojou and Marin doing a cosplay together.
Feb 20, 9:25 AM
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I just saw that on Twitter and i was thinking, no way.

It really does not make sense as they have only just got together as well as introducing the author.... its going to be an unsatisfying and rushed ending, isn't it?
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Feb 20, 9:36 AM
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i dont know if i should be happy or sad 🙁
Feb 20, 10:01 AM
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This is clearly either the author being too sick or just fed up with the manga itself. It could be both, considering how the last 15 chapters of the series are mostly complaints of the magazine author/editors in a very meta way.

I am glad it ends quickly but this is gonna be rushed or some timeskip chapter maybe.
Feb 20, 10:25 AM
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and here's another series ending in 2025
Feb 20, 11:12 AM
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Wow another rom/com manga which takes forever for the characters to get together and gets worse worse as it drags its feet for them to get together then ends cause the creator already used all their ideas
Feb 20, 11:23 AM
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Dang, that caught me a little off guard tbh. I mean, part of me kinda thought the author was heading towards the conclusion of the story after all the Comiket stuff, but at the same time I've also thought she would explore a little bit the new dynamic between Gojo and Marin.

But oh well, guess that's that then. Gonna miss this series, after all.
Feb 20, 11:59 AM
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Pakumen- said:
This is clearly either the author being too sick or just fed up with the manga itself. It could be both, considering how the last 15 chapters of the series are mostly complaints of the magazine author/editors in a very meta way.

I am glad it ends quickly but this is gonna be rushed or some timeskip chapter maybe.

Clearly. You must know the author personally.
Feb 20, 2:35 PM

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Wow is this still a thing where the author milks the shit out of a Love interest then just end it once they're together? Glad I never caught up to this manga
Feb 20, 3:25 PM
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Really ending already? I've only seen the anime but did hear a bit ago they got together kissed all that but it ending already? Worth reading? or just watch anime.
Feb 20, 5:07 PM

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Really ending already? I've only seen the anime but did hear a bit ago they got together kissed all that but it ending already? Worth reading? or just watch anime.
@Rexnihilo Just wait for the anime, one of the last arcs is good, but it drags for so long, maybe the anime will fix that.
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JayTCU said:
Pakumen- said:
This is clearly either the author being too sick or just fed up with the manga itself. It could be both, considering how the last 15 chapters of the series are mostly complaints of the magazine author/editors in a very meta way.

I am glad it ends quickly but this is gonna be rushed or some timeskip chapter maybe.

Clearly. You must know the author personally.

Doesnt take a genius, considering they have made quite a few comments about "mangaka being under appreciated", "the stress of deadlines" and "people's expectations". Add that up to the many breaks due to author's health and there you have it.

It's not like authors do not read the fans feedback, and most people were done with the manga by how much it drags on during the Nun's arc all the way to Haniel.
Feb 20, 7:25 PM
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So for the past what?... Year we've gotten "Muh Pwincess!" just to get them together and it to then end 3 chapters later in which literally nothing happened.
What an utter waste of time.
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Rexnihilo said:
Really ending already? I've only seen the anime but did hear a bit ago they got together kissed all that but it ending already? Worth reading? or just watch anime.

Not worth it in the slightest.
Feb 20, 8:37 PM
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when the last chapter will release?
Feb 20, 9:05 PM
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when the last chapter will release?
@cursed_viper 21 march

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2025-02-20/my-dress-up-darling-manga-ends-in-next-chapter-on-march-21/.221470

It's here so chapter 115 should be the last if I am right.
Feb 20, 9:39 PM

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Gojo didn't even make any Hina dolls..
Feb 21, 4:31 AM

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So... this ends... in a predictable fashion. Drop of the ball of the last few years for me, for sure. Quick exit to the left the moment they get into relationship.

Scratch that. I think this manga was doomed from the moment it got animated and became mega successful. The pressure for S2 to be made was simply too much. While the first.... 30 chapters were probably immaculately edited from the star to match the 1 cour show in hope to even get made, the ongoing story just.... wings it. There is no overrearching arc anymore and thus, if S1 was 40-ish chapters, S2 will be almost twice that. The subsequent drama because of health, longer delivery times, getting postponed for a month a few times, was just buying time to at least plan for something, anything, out of the gate for S2 to be made and is shows clearly because the story problems start almost exactly at the time anime aired, which is at the school festival arc. After that, everything went downhill. There was no plan for story to confront the scope of another 12 eps, no greater arc, just the episodic cosplays and it struggled for years to get through the haniel arc to the natural 12ep finale, the confession. I also have a theory that the author self inserts into the Gojo-kun during the haniel arc. It checks out.

So. While I admit that I have no insight into how editor-author relationship works in manga publishing in Japan, I feel this is something that a tight knit relationship with mutual understanding should be able to iron out... But I can also see how this is a big business in Japan and corporations certainly aren't above squeezing the authors dry when cash is to be made. In a funny art-imitating-life case, it could also be completely possible that what is happening here is what is the story setup of Zenshuu(2025). A mega successful mangaka caught between corporate expectations, corporate japanese culture, japanese non-confrontationalism, ego, and their own inexperience in writing any kind of broader stories on their own.

Speaking of which, it is becoming really old how it shows how these types of stories are made by socially handicapped virgins who can't even fathom how a functioning relationship between two adults look. Not even that. There is almost no deepth to ANY of the story elements. It was somehow excused at the start, because you kind of hope they will elaborate as the story goes. But no. It was at the very end of haniel arc that we get some speed-run closure, on the childhood friend, the romance, Gojos fear of loosing the dream, loosing the grand-dad and taking care of business alone, all of which I am convinced is an editorial rescue of the conclusion of the story. And those are legitimate, interesting things that could be explored.
These authors are simply too shielded from the society to have any insight on how the life actually goes on beside their singular interest(very asian thing), what stories it weaves by itself and how are those concluded.
I don't expect Dostoevsky kind of introspection on life and death through a few thousand pages, but to not been able to deconstruct Marin slipping away from Gojo because of her popularity, or his doll making dreams slipping away from him because he's in love and want to placate the partner (a story as old as time, happening all the time all around us) just shows how inexperienced everybody involved into making the story is.

Which is a god damn shame, because the characters and personalities in this are top notch. But we couldn't even soldier through the standard trope of "relationships surviving through high school finals" every other romance manga does... which tells a lot.

Just... disappointment all around
Feb 21, 5:27 AM
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Bit abrupt didn’t the author want to focus more on the cosplaying side.
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Feb 21, 5:19 PM

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WHATTTT ARE YOU KIDDING ME??? THE MOMENT THEY GET INTO A RELATIONSHIP IT ENDS??!?!?!
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The Japanese aren't right in the head.
There I said it.

If you feel burned out then take a break.
Crazy idea, I know.
There's this thing called a hiatus.


So no school trip
No development on the Hina Doll front
No development on the dress making front
And well no relationship development
They aren't even out of high school which is the stereotypical end of the romance anime
Didn't meet the dad, just FYI


I still remember when I confessed to my gf and we got together, life just ended.


So I bet in the final chapter he will miraculously make a hina doll, out of thin air.
Just poof, there you go.
It's going to be the most bland chapter ever.



So yeah Horimiya >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> every single romance manga till the end of time
I thought this one would come close but nope.
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Knighthammer619 said:
I just saw that on Twitter and i was thinking, no way.

It really does not make sense as they have only just got together as well as introducing the author.... its going to be an unsatisfying and rushed ending, isn't it?

what about the author?
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Tyon said:
The Japanese aren't right in the head.
There I said it.

If you feel burned out then take a break.
Crazy idea, I know.
There's this thing called a hiatus.


So no school trip
No development on the Hina Doll front
No development on the dress making front
And well no relationship development
They aren't even out of high school which is the stereotypical end of the romance anime
Didn't meet the dad, just FYI


I still remember when I confessed to my gf and we got together, life just ended.


So I bet in the final chapter he will miraculously make a hina doll, out of thin air.
Just poof, there you go.
It's going to be the most bland chapter ever.



So yeah Horimiya >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> every single romance manga till the end of time
I thought this one would come close but nope.

nah, nisekoi. .........
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im not happy about this :|

but we had a good run
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Knighthammer619 said:
I just saw that on Twitter and i was thinking, no way.

It really does not make sense as they have only just got together as well as introducing the author.... its going to be an unsatisfying and rushed ending, isn't it?

what about the author?
@_Sanchay The author/creator of Haniel - they basically started a new arc, so to speak with the author of that series potentially contacting Marin as well as those working with him
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Knighthammer619 said:
@_Sanchay The author/creator of Haniel - they basically started a new arc, so to speak with the author of that series potentially contacting Marin as well as those working with him

okay 👍, thanks.

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