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My Dress-Up Darling Ep. 24 “Dear My Dress-Up Darling” ends the second season on quite the high note. All with the entire group getting in on the Coffin cosplay in a beautifully horrific way. Add in some interpersonal revelations among the friend group and even a confession from Marin to Wakana, and you’ve got a banger of a season finale here. Now if only there were any accompanying news about a third season, then it might actually be a high note.
My Dress-Up Darling Ep. 24 “Dear My Dress-Up Darling”: Details in Brief
My Dress-Up Darling Ep. 24 “Dear My Dress-Up Darling” is the 12th episode (you can read my review of Ep. 13-14, Ep. 15-16, Ep. 17, Ep. 18-21, Ep. 22, and Ep. 23 here) of the second season of this romantic comedy and slice of cosplay life anime series, and the 23rd overall. Said anime is the anime adaptation of the 15-volume long manga of the same name by Shinichi Fukuda.
CloverWorks (The Promised Neverland, Horimiya, Spy x Family) will be returning to production this second season, just as they did with the first season. In fact, longtime readers of THS will recall that we did a review of that first season here. Crunchyroll once more is licensing this anime for its global release. Keisuke Shinohara returns as the director, with Yoriko Tomita also returning as the writer.
Synopsis
Alas, My Dress-Up Darling Season 2 has now concluded with this season finale. In fact, My Dress-Up Darling Ep. 24 “Dear My Dress-Up Darling” only just made its debut on Crunchyroll on September 20, 2025. Thus, if you haven’t seen this finale yet, here’s the synopsis below:
“Marin, Wakana, and the others finally have their “Coffin” group cosplay session.”
My Dress-Up Darling Ep. 24 “Dear My Dress-Up Darling”: The Good
As the centerpiece of this show, the group Coffin cosplay is definitely the best part about My Dress-Up Darling Ep. 24 “Dear My Dress-Up Darling”. It’s all in the details of the cosplay itself. Everyone in the group cooperates to faithfully recreate iconic (and horrific) scenes from the game, right down to juxtaposing the sprite art with the scene’s recreation in the anime’s art style, which is all hilarious because the game itself is fictional and exists only in the setting of the manga/anime by Shinichi Fukuda. However, that attention to detail is what seals the deal. It makes you believe that this fictional game is real despite it being otherwise. In fact, it really does make you wish that some fan(s) might defictionalize Coffin into a real life horror visual novel. Well, we can at least hope that might be the case.
Aside from the Coffin cosplay itself, the interpersonal relationships between the characters themselves and the resulting development is the other reason why I love this season finale. The list of includes but isn’t limited to: Juju (voiced by Atsumi Tanezaki (JP) and Risa Mei (EN)) discovering that she loves cosplaying as characters other than just magical girls (although those are still her favorite) in between being utterly terrified of the horror elements of the photoshoot, Marin discovering that Akira (voiced by Maki Kawase (JP) and Hannah Alyea (EN)) is actually secretly her number one bestest best fan (to the point of screaming and crying in ecstasy at merely being hugged by her), and Marin getting to confess to Wakana (voiced by Shōya Ishige (JP) and Paul Dateh (EN)) at long last…kind of.
That last one is a bit debatable since Wakana clearly doesn’t get that he has just been confessed to. Then again, Marin wasn’t exactly clear about that either since all she said is that she wanted a selfie together. Welp, maybe both of them might come around to confessing for real in the next season.
My Dress-Up Darling Ep. 24 “Dear My Dress-Up Darling”: The Bad
Honestly, the one big complaint I have about this season finale is the lack of faithfulness to the manga at the end. Yes, that’s right. The ending scene with the not-quite-confession is an anime original, and has a weirdly final tone to it. That combined with the utter lack of news of a third season seems to suggest this anime-original ending is meant to end the anime as a whole…even though it has nowhere near adapted all of Shinichi Fukuda’s manga. It’s a rather disheartening ending to the anime if that’s the case.
Alas though, if you’re looking for action, My Dress-Up Darling isn’t the anime for you. It’s a slice of life romantic comedy story with a focus on the world of cosplay, not a shonen battle action story. If you want that and/or a load of blood and gore, then you might want to check out Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Kaiju No. 8, DDDD, DAN DA DAN, Sword Art Online Alternative: Gun Gale Online II, Zenshu, Blue Box, Solo Leveling, Black Butler, and/or Nyaight of the Living Cat. However, if you want a nice and relaxing anime to chill out to, then check out Senpai is an Otokonoko, Apocalypse Hotel, Spice and Wolf: Merchant Meets the Wise Wolf, and/or The Ancient Magus’ Bride.
All while we wait for a Season 3 of My Dress-Up Darling to make its debut…eventually. Hopefully. Maybe. We can only hope that someone announces a third season at some point.
What did you think of this season finale for My Dress-Up Darling? Were you too wowed by most of it only to be disappointed by the ending? Tell us your thoughts in the comments section below.
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