Light spoiler before we begin: He ends up choosing one girl, not all five.
There is no mention or context clues in this post about who wins, so feel free to read without squinting your eyes
Funnily enough, I find a lot of the bad reviews on here are dissatisfied with how the movie did not go the way they thought it would or should based upon the previous 2 seasons of the anime. I will be judging the movie mainly based upon the content within it, not outside material from the series. For stuff like that you can look at reviews of the previous two seasons.
With that said, the story didn’t end the way I’d hoped it would (my girl didn’t win) but I still loved how well it wrapped up a beautiful plot and gave everyone a chance to shine. The plot focuses mainly on a 3 day period during the last school festival the quintuplets and Fuutarou will have together before finishing high school. Given the group is coming to the end of their time together, especially as tutor and students, there is pressure to determine and act upon the feelings that have been building up since the quintuplets met Fuutarou. The movie gives good screen time and solid character development to each of the 5 girls, giving each one their own arc during the festival. And oh my god does their father (Nakano) get the character development you would hope for throughout the film.
The movies’s art style and quality is exactly the same as season 2 of the anime, and the music quality is also pretty much the same.
Now here’s some good news and bad news as this is likely the last video content the series will receive.
Good news: If you have yet to watch the movie and are rooting for one girl to marry Fuutarou by the end of it, that is what happens and it is a sugary sweet ending where everyone is happy.
Bad news: Mathematically your girl only has a 20% chance to win, and there is no indication or way to tell who is going to win up until the very moment it happens, even with everything that has happened since the very start of the series. There is all the heartbreak you would expect on the losers end of things, and let me tell you from experience that watching each of them cope with the results can be depressing, especially if they were who you were rooting for.
Overall, the girl who did win showed any doubters she may have had that she deserved to be the one to marry Fuutarou, and in all honesty, although I won’t elaborate on this so nothing gets spoiled, it was very refreshing to see it go a route that you would not expect a romance anime to go in their pick for the winning girl :)
