5-toubun no Hanayome (The Quintessential Quintuplets)

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Synonyms: Gotoubun no Hanayome, The Five Wedded Brides

Japanese: 五等分の花嫁

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Type: Manga

Volumes: 14

Chapters: 122

Status: Finished

Published: Aug 9, 2017 to Feb 19, 2020

Genres: Award Winning, Comedy, Romance

Themes: Harem, School

Demographic: Shounen

Serialization: Shounen Magazine (Weekly)

Authors: Haruba, Negi (Story & Art)

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Score: 7.90¹ (scored by 105,389 users)

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Ranked: #1029²

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Popularity: #65

Members: 174,220

Favorites: 10,652

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The Quintessential Quintuplets

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Considered a genius, high school student Fuutarou Uesugi excels at studying and obtains a perfect score on every test. Due to his intense focus in that regard, he is a reclusive person with no friends. Additionally, he lives in a tight financial state as a result of family debts.

Fuutarou's mundane lifestyle is interrupted when Itsuki Nakano, a new transfer student, contests him for his usual lunch seat. After a short altercation, Fuutarou emerges victorious by insulting Itsuki's eating habits, which angers her enough to leave. However, when Fuutarou learns that he has been offered the private tutor position of a wealthy family's academically hopeless daughters, he immediately regrets his prior encounter. It turns out that the beneficiaries of his tutoring are none other than Itsuki and her four identical siblings: the shy Miku, the cheerful Yotsuba, the devious Nino, and the mature Ichika!

Teaching these quintuplets may prove more difficult for Fuutarou than he initially expected, as the last thing they want to do is seriously study. Now, Fuutarou must face the various challenges of tutoring five beautiful yet eccentric girls.

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5-toubun no Hanayome won the 43rd Kodansha Manga Award in the shounen category, along with Fumetsu no Anata e. The series ranked eighth in the Best Printed Manga category at the fourth Tsugi ni Kuru Manga Awards in 2018.

The series was published in English as The Quintessential Quintuplets by Kodansha Comic USA from June 26, 2018, to August 11, 2020. It was also released in Spanish by Panini Comics from December 18, 2019, to February 9, 2022; in Brazilian Portuguese by Panini Comics from April 3, 2020, to June 18, 2022; and in Polish by Studio JG from October 23, 2020, to June 30, 2023.

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Nakano, Nino

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Nakano, Itsuki

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Nakano, Yotsuba

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Nakano, Ichika

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Uesugi, Fuutarou

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Uesugi, Raiha

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Uesugi, Isanari

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Nakano, Maruo

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Jun 1, 2025

xShiningxMoonx

Recommended

8/10
+ Unique premise; story beats and characters subvert expectations of genre
+ Avoids negatives often seen in genre; favors positive cliches over drama, tropes, or fan service
- Too many characters affect pacing in a negative way
- Ending can be argued as decisive due to uneven character development

The Quintessential Quintuplets contains many ingredients that make it a strong contender in the buddy love genre. With strong character work, cute designs, and the avoidance of cheesy drama, tropes, and distasteful fan service, it’s one of the best Shonen romance has to offer.

MC Fuutaro, while somewhat unlikeable, grows and changes from a hardened, socially awkward teenager into one ...

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Jun 12, 2024

darkpixelftw

Mixed Feelings

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Great writing and charming characters but it can't quite live up to the premise of five equal love interests and suffers from a very rushed ending. Mixed Recommendation

Story: 6/10
Well paced for the first ~80%. There's a long section at the start where there's little to no romcom shenanigans and I wish more manga slowed down at the start to give us a chance to get to know the characters outside of a romantic context.

The author gave themselves herculean task trying to develop six distinct main characters (the sisters + Uesugi) and, for the most part, they manage to pull it off. They manage to portion ...

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Jul 1, 2025

okay_lol

Not Recommended

This review has no spoilers. I'd like to save you the trouble of reading this manga if you're on the fence about it, and I can't reasonably do that if I deter you from wanting to read this review to avoid spoilers.

There's a very good reason this series is so well-renowned, and that reason comes in the form of roughly the first 80-100 chapters of the series. The protagonist and the two of the five sisters who play the most pivotal roles in the story are all exceptionally well-designed, each going through remarkable personal growth over the course of the story. Romance is a key ... component, but you won't find senseless chapters dedicated to fanservice or scenes that tastelessly have their romantic moments ruined by convenient distractions popping up at the wrong time. It's a real story with real characters, and it's an absolute pleasure.

Unfortunately, real life caught up with Negi, the author. After that 80-to-100 chapter mark, all of the effort and care put into the story slipped hard. What follows is a *violent* decline in quality. Many on this site will tell you this series is astonishing. To this day, the majority of the reviews on MAL still promise a compelling story. Too bad for you; you won't get one.

Instead, the final stretch of the manga is a string of bland, meandering arcs that smoothly transition into perhaps the biggest middle finger you could possibly give to the long-time readers of your manga. After centring so much of the story around those two sisters with genuine romantic appeal, who grew and changed so much throughout the course of the story, and whom upwards of 80% of the fanbase voted as their favorite character, the story closes by having the protagonist hand his heart to a side character. The bland girl with almost no appeal, no presence in the story, and quite literally zero romantic development. Because fuck you.

All the careful buildup, all the layered interactions, the romantic development — none of it matters. Credit where credit is due, the author definitely nailed the subversive part of storytelling with The Quintessential Quintuplets. Too bad he had to fuck the storytelling part in order to do it. I think the biggest tragedy of this series is that it could've been great, and it very nearly was. But you can feel, with every carelessly written chapter toward the end, just how badly it didn't want to be anymore.

Don't bother with it. If you read this manga, it will spit on a lot more than just your time. Go read Locked to Death or Please Behave, My Wife. Your time, feelings, and investment will be much better spent.

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