If you were
crossing your fingers that you'll see the queen of cosplay back
anytime soon, I have some very bad news for you. The team behind the massive
success of My Dress-Up Darling has just unleashed a bucket of
cold water on the otaku community. During a recent interview, producer Shota
Umehara of the CloverWorks studio confessed that the
possibility of a third season is literally blank. There are no scripts, there
are no schedules, and, most painfully for the fandom, there is
absolutely no one working on new episodes at this very moment.
Untouchable
Quality: The CloverWorks Oath
But before
you panic and give up the series for dead, there's a gigantic justification
behind this indefinite hiatus. The producer was blunt in declaring that they
will never deliver a mediocre anime just to meet the demands
of the market. He himself assured that, if the pieces fall into place in the
future, he would be the first to want to return to the project. We must
remember the brutal workload that the second animated installment had last
year. They had to painstakingly design and animate more than 200 costumes to
make the chemistry between Marin Kitagawa and Wakana
Gojo shine on screen. That level of attention to detail is sickening,
and logically, they flatly refuse to sacrifice it for the sake of haste.
A wait
that is totally worth it
All this
sincerity came to light when the production committee sat down
to evaluate the brutal wear and tear of the last episodes. Shinichi
Fukuda's original manga already concluded its main stage in March
2025, so material to continue adapting definitely exists. However, the
anime industry is going through a saturated moment and creatives
prefer to do things right. They have already shown us that patience pays very
high dividends: the gap between the debut in 2022 and the continuation was
long, but the visual result was crowned as an absolute jewel of school
romance.
