The Quintessential Quintuplets (Japanese: 五等分の花嫁, Hepburn: Go-Tōbun no Hanayome, lit. “Five Equal Brides” or “The Five-Fifths Bride(s)”) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Negi Haruba. It was serialized in Kodansha‘s Weekly Shōnen Magazine from August 2017 to February 2020. The series follows the daily life of a high school student Futaro Uesugi, who is hired as a private tutor for a group of identical quintuplets: Ichika, Nino, Miku, Yotsuba, and Itsuki Nakano. At the very beginning of the story, it is shown that the events are being told in a flashback, while an adult Futaro prepares to marry one of the Nakano Quintuplets whose identity is only revealed near the end of the series.

The series is published in English by Kodansha USA under the Kodansha Comics imprint. The anime series is licensed in North America under a Crunchyroll–Funimation partnership. An anime television series adaptation produced by Tezuka Productions aired from January to March 2019 on TBS and other channels. A second season produced by Bibury Animation Studios aired from January to March 2021. The second season’s sequel, The Quintessential Quintuplets the Movie, will be released as a film in May 2022.

The series is a commercial success, being the 5th best-selling manga in 2019, and the 3rd best-selling manga in the first half of 2020 in Japan. In 2019, the manga won the award for the shōnen category at the 43rd annual Kodansha Manga Awards.

Synopsis

High school student Futaro Uesugi is an academically gifted student that leads a difficult life—his mother has died, he has no friends, and on top of all that, his father has incurred a large amount of debt.

An opportunity presents itself when the rich Nakano family transfers to his school. Futaro is promptly hired as a highly paid tutor. However, much to Futaro’s dismay, he discovers that his five charges—identical quintuplet sisters of varied personalities—have no interest in studying at all and have abysmal grades. Some of the quintuplets are against having Futaro, whom they view as a stranger, in their apartment, but Futaro’s diligent tenacity gradually convinces those girls to accept him and to improve their grades.

Throughout the series, Futaro develops special relationships with each of the quintuplets. Through a flashforward, it is revealed that he eventually marries one of them, but her true identity is only revealed near the end of the series.

The Quintessential Quintuplets
Volume 1 tankōbon cover, featuring the Nakano quintuplets
五等分の花嫁 (Go-Tōbun no Hanayome)
Genre	Harem Romantic comedy
Manga
Written by	Negi Haruba
Published by	Kodansha
English publisher	NA Kodansha USA
Imprint	Shōnen Magazine Comics
Magazine	Weekly Shōnen Magazine
Demographic	Shōnen
Original run	August 9, 2017 – February 19, 2020
Volumes	14 (List of volumes)
Anime television series
Directed by	Satoshi Kuwabara
Produced by	Gōta Aijima Makoto Furukawa Junichirō Tanaka Shinichi Nakamura Yasuhiro Takano
Written by	Keiichirō Ōchi
Music by	Hanae Nakamura Miki Sakurai Natsumi Tabuchi
Studio	Tezuka Productions
Licensed by	NA Crunchyroll Funimation SEA Children’s Playground Entertainment
Original network	TBS, SUN, BS-TBS
Original run	January 9, 2019 – March 28, 2019
Episodes	12 (List of episodes)
Anime television series
The Quintessential Quintuplets II
Directed by	Kaori
Produced by	Gōta Aijima Makoto Furukawa Junichirō Tanaka Yūichi Izumi Takaaki Nakanome Mitsutoshi Ogura Tomoyuki Oowada Tomoki Ueda Kento Yoshida
Written by	Keiichirō Ōchi
Music by	Hanae Nakamura Miki Sakurai
Studio	Bibury Animation Studios
Licensed by	NA Crunchyroll Funimation SEA Children’s Playground Entertainment
Original network	TBS, SUN, BS11
Original run	January 8, 2021 – March 26, 2021
Episodes	12 (List of episodes)
Anime film
The Quintessential Quintuplets the Movie
Directed by	Masato Jinbo
Written by	Keiichirō Ōchi
Music by	Hanae Nakamura Miki Sakurai
Studio	Bibury Animation Studios
Released	May 20, 2022
Video games
The Quintessential Quintuplets: The Quintuplets Can’t Divide the Puzzle Into Five Equal Parts (2020) The Quintessential Quintuplets ∬: Summer Memories Also Come in Five (2021) The Quintessential Quintuplets the Movie: Five Memories of My Time with You (2022)