【The Quintessential Quintuplets】Romantic Comedy×Harem Winner of 43rd annual Kodansha best-manga award!!

2021-11-29

What is “The Quintessential Quintuplets”?

The Quintessential Quintuplets is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Negi Haruba.
The series was serialized in Kodansha's Weekly Shounen Magazine from 2017 to 2020, with its chapters compiled in 14 separate volumes. The manga series has over 15 million copies in circulation.
The series is a commercial success, being the winner of the 43rd annual Kodansha Manga Award in Shounen category.
The Quintessential Quintuplets
(5-toubun no Hanayome)

What's the story?

The main protagonist of the series, Futaro Uesugi, is a poor & anti-social top student.
One day, while buying food from the cafeteria, he meets Itsuki, a readhead who he has never seen before.
Right off the bat, they get into an argument in front of the cafeteria.
Futaro is supposed to start tutoring a rich family’s kid.
When Futaro returns to class, the teacher introduces a new transfer student, Itsuki.
He immediately realizes that she is the kid whom he is supposed to tutor.
Futaro sees Itsuki eating lunch with some of her friends and for some reason, decides to follow them home.
After reaching her apartment, he tells Itsuki that he is going to be her new tutor.
Itsuki is shocked. But not as shocked as Futaro when he finds out that those girls were actually Itsuki’s quintuplet sisters, Miku, Yotsuba, Ichika and Nino.
Suddenly we are taken a few years ahead, the day of Futaro’s wedding.
It turns out that Futaro is marrying one of the five sisters but it is not revealed witch one until the end of the series.
We come back to the main story line, where Futaro gets ready to visit the Nakano house where the quintuplets live.
He gets to the house, but aside from Yotsuba, none of the other sisters are willing to study.
Suddenly, Nino calls everyone out for some cookies.
Futaro eats a cookie and the next thing he knows, he is waking up in a taxi outside his house, Itsuki is with him.
He realizes that Nino drugged him.
Futaro’s little sister, Raiha, invites Itsuki for dinner, Itsuki can’t say no to Raiha’s cute face.
While having dinner, Raiha mentions their family debt but Futaro quickly stops her.
Their hospitality melts itsuki’s heart and she promises Raiha that she will visit again.
Futaro begins to see some hope for Itsuki.
But as they are waiting for a taxi, Itsuki says” I get your motivation now, but I cannot co-operate”.
Will Futaro be able to tutor these sisters or will they fail their exams, again?
But the most important question of all, who will Futaro marry at the end?
The Quintessential Quintuplets
(5-toubun no Hanayome)

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