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We know that we’ve been eager for a resolution to Marin and Gojo’s tumultuous relationship for several months now, but we didn’t expect the end to come quite so quickly. That’s right, folks: My Dress-Up Darling, one of the most popular romance manga in recent years, is coming to an end. Just one chapter remains to see how those two kids make their unusual relationship work.

Young Gangan magazine, which publishes the manga, announced in its fifth issue of the year that My Dress-Up Darling would end on March 21, 2025 with Chapter 115. The final chapter will wrap up the current arc as well as the ongoing story of Marin and Gojo’s new relationship, leaving very little time before we say goodbye to them forever. A spin-off manga, titled Chu with a Dress-Up Doll, began publishing in December 2024. A second season of the popular anime is airing in 2025.

Chapter 114 was only just released in Japan, which shows Marin and Gojo visiting the beach once again to celebrate the end of exams and promise to be together forever. This is fairly standard romance manga behavior, but the announcement that Chapter 115 would be the end of My Dress-Up Darling feels very abrupt. 
Marin and Gojo only had their all-important confession in Chapter 107, which was released in August.

Since then, we’ve had more cosplay and more cute moments, but not quite enough time to let these two be a couple. Because the manga switched to a monthly schedule in late 2023, we all thought we had a bit longer before the final chapter of My Dress-Up Darling.

Each week, Popverse's resident anime expert Trent Cannon runs down the latest and, dare we say "greatest," in anime and manga in Popverse Jump. Some recent columns have included... 

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