Carries the earmarks of pretty much every other harem series. Guy finds himself unexpectedly entangled with multiple girls, each with a unique look and personality that someone in the audience will like. Each maintains a certain amount of unresolved romance with said guy and rivalry with each other, while he does pretty much nothing about it.
Fortunately, Haruba’s manga—and the anime that came from it—have differences where it counts. First, our guy isn’t nearly as useless as others in his situation tend to be, though he is oblivious for a while. Second, rivalry between the girls has been replaced with character development and understanding. And, most importantly of all, our hero will marry one of these girls. We even see the bride at the altar in the first episode. But, owing to the fact that the girls in the running are identical quintuplets, we have no idea which one she is.
Our protagonist is Futarou Uesugi, a brilliant but poor high schooler looking after his devoted little sister and irresponsible dad. As the show begins, Futarou is given a promising opportunity: get paid handsomely to tutor the five daughters of the wealthy Nakano family, all of whom are doing terribly in school. But the quintuplets—big-sisterly Ichika, aggressive Nino, shy Miku, energetic Yotsuba, and strict Itsuki—have differing opinions on whether this should even be the case. The first half of the 12-episode season is spent winning over the Nakanos to the idea of improving their grades, but there’s always an undercurrent of something more…again, in varying degrees.
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The show’s central love story eventually spins out from a few rounds of pranks, identity switching, and the occasional harem-anime antics. But Futarou isn’t especially fixated on those. His obliviousness to his status as a love interest comes from his hyperfocus: initially on making money, then on genuinely caring for all the Nakanos and wanting them to succeed. Because there’s another thing we can read between the lines early on: each of them is exceptional in a different area, from athletics to a genuine love of studying history. They all have it in them to succeed in any way they want, provided they want to.
Initially presents itself as a sweet love story with a simple but intriguing mystery: which sister will win Futaro’s heart? But that question relies on answering a second one first: who are these girls, really? The Nakanos consider themselves five-fifths of a whole—great for report-card loopholes, less great regarding questions of identity. The sisters become a perfect backdrop for examinations of who we are versus what we become: five literally identical girls who developed in different ways, with different talents and goals.
They’re not the only ones who get life lessons, though—Futarou may fancy himself their teacher, but he has plenty to learn, as well. Later episodes see his initial
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Esque treatment of the Nakanos becoming a problem. The cynical strictness still sort of flies when their relationship is purely teacher/student, but that line is eventually blurred. In due course, Futarou has to deal with the fact that his attitudes can and do hurt others, and he begins to change.
While themes of identity and ambition are threaded through the whole series, it’s definitely not always that deep. There’s simple mistaken identity thanks to wigs and hair accessories. There’s the obligatory “Test of Courage” on a school trip. There’s people waking up in each other’s beds, walking in on each other in the bath, all the things you’d expect out of your rom-com anime. It’s not consistently heavy, and even its heavy moments are more like a weighted blanket than an anvil.
Ran as the manga was still being released, and the answer was still unknown. Now, though, the manga is complete, and its fans know which Nakano sister is all dolled up at the altar. Anime viewers can look forward to a second season in the near future, when the series’ big question may finally be tackled onscreen.
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Is surprisingly sweet and uplifting. It’s not a story about a guy choosing the best out of five sisters, but about six people becoming their best independent selves. It’s also gorgeous to look at, especially as the first season closes. Even if harem shows aren’t your thing, give this one a chance.
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A very smart and studious boy is given the opportunity of a lifetime – to make a great deal of money (
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), and all he has to do is tutor someone. Or maybe I should say, five someones. And so, our protagonist, Futarou, begins in trying to rein in five very different quintuplets that each have their own issues and hangups.
You know, I went into The Quintessential Quintuplets thinking it was a slice of life anime, but now I’m not so sure.. it is a slice of life, right? Yes. It must be, what was I thinking..
I think the best way to describe it is a slice of life anime that has ascended past a regular slice of life anime. The power to go even further beyond, if you catch my drift. Essentially, it’s a slice of life anime where a lot happens, which is uncharacteristic of many slice of life anime, where nothing really happens. Is there an actual definition for this?
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Exactly as the header says. This is a fun anime about Futarou tutoring 5 high school quintuplets, but don’t expect to learn anything like I did. Sure, there are some scenes where they all sit down and study together, or Fuutarou will point at someone’s paper and say “No, do it like this..”, but there are no real hard hitting learning moments. What can I say, why not take advantage of the opportunity to throw some interesting tidbits of information out there?
To be fair, there was some Japanese history trivia at one point, but not enough for me to sink my teeth into. Is it weird that I want to learn while watching anime? I pick up words here and there as I learn the Japanese language, but an explicitly educational anime would be great.
This will be my attempt to criticize an aspect of the anime without spoiling it, so that if you haven’t watched The Quintessential Quintuplets, you too can be puzzled by this decision.
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There’s one moment later on in the anime where they decide to do a flash-forward. If you know me, you know that I hate flashbacks. Flash-forwards? Not a huge fan of them either. Most stories can’t seem to use either of these tools effectively, and that’s the main reason I hate them.
So we get a flash-forward in this anime, and for some reason, they decided to spoil a critical detail involving the harem. It completely changes everything, and I’m not too sure why they thought it was a good idea. It sort of defeats the purpose of the show being a harem, in many ways. I guess they wanted us to be aware of some sort of serious undertone while watching the anime, that this wasn’t a regular harem anime… but I just didn’t like the decision to include it at all.
Yep, that’s right. Best girl time. While all of the quintuplets have some aspect or another to them that makes them a good girl, only one can be the best.
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Let me lay down my criteria for a best girl, that may be overridden by me at my own discretion because some girls are still good even if they don’t meet these criteria.
I didn’t see any pouty faces from her, but she does have the best hair in the anime as well as a great meddling tsundere attitude. The pouty face criteria is actually relatively new, so it’s possible that Nino did actually make a pouty face at some point and it just wasn’t on my radar at the time.
It’s a fun anime that manages to develop all 5 quintuplets and their relationship to Futarou very well. There are some comedic moments, some interesting moments, and some un-interesting moments, as well as some flash-forwards that I didn’t appreciate.
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If you are looking for a harem slice of life anime to watch that isn’t heavy on ecchi content, this is a great pick. I wouldn’t call it relaxing like I would with many other slice of life titles, but it is fun enough that you shouldn’t get too bored with it. All of the girls are cute in their own way, and there are some cute moments as well.
I’ll also give The Quintessential Quintuplets the Variety Is The Spice Of Life award, for managing to create such a diverse cast
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