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The Quintessential Quintuplets
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
Yoshitsugu Matsuoka
Futaro Uesugi (voice)
24 eps
Kana Hanazawa
Ichika Nakano (voice)
24 eps
Ayana Taketatsu
Nino Nakano (voice)
24 eps
Miku Ito
Miku Nakano (voice)
24 eps
Ayane Sakura
Yotsuba Nakano (voice)
24 eps
Inori Minase
Itsuki Nakano (voice)
24 eps
Natsumi Takamori
Raiha Uesugi (voice)
12 eps
Yutaka Nakano
Grandfather (voice)
2 eps
Ryuji Yamamoto
Male Student (voice)
1 eps
Saika Kitamori
Female Student (voice)
1 eps
Shiori Izawa
Ceremony Staff (voice)
1 eps
Shunichi Toki
Male Student (voice)
1 eps
Matsuri Mizuguchi
School Cafeteria Staff (voice)
2 eps
Nichika Omori
Radio Voice (voice)
1 eps
Naoto Kobayashi
Shopkeeper (voice)
1 eps
Koji Seki
Homeroom Teacher (voice)
3 eps
Hiiro Narumi
Staff (voice)
1 eps
Takaaki Torashima
Examiner (voice)
1 eps
Ryota Akazawa
Beard Man (voice)
4 eps
Genki Muro
Medical Intern (voice)
2 eps
Kaoru Sakura
Otori (voice)
4 eps
Matsuri Kumano
Girl (voice)
1 eps
Yuta Aoki
Yamauchi (voice)
1 eps
Koudai Sakai
Boy (voice)
1 eps
Tatsuya Zenzai
Boy (voice)
1 eps
Marina Yamada
Girl (voice)
1 eps
Nanae Sakurai
Girl (voice)
2 eps
Mao Ichimichi
Girl (voice)
1 eps
Hideki Kanno
Director (voice)
1 eps
Yukari Anzai
Eba (voice)
5 eps
Yurie Ichihara
Announcement (voice)
1 eps
Hisako Tojo
Yamada (voice)
6 eps
Takaya Kuroda
Maruo Nakano (voice)
6 eps
Aya Uchida
Matsui (voice)
2 eps
Yurie Kozakai
Announcement (voice)
1 eps
Saya Fukuzumi
Staff (voice)
1 eps
Hiromichi Tezuka
Teacher (voice)
1 eps
Ayumi Mano
Sanada (voice)
1 eps
Wakana Kowaka
Lady (voice)
1 eps
Satoshi Kobayashi
Police Man (voice)
1 eps
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How The Quintessential Quintuplets actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
The Quintessential Quintuplets reads strongest on Character Depth, Bingeability and Humour.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
The story
What it's about
Fuutarou Uesugi is a poor, antisocial ace student who one day meets the rich transfer student Itsuki Nakano. They argue but when Uesugi realizes he is to be her tutor, he tries to get on better terms. While trying to do so he meets four other girls.
The run
Seasons
2 seasons · 24 episodes.
Season 1 · Complete
Season 1
201912 episodes
7.0IMDbUesugi Fuutarou, a high school second-year from a poor family, receives a highly appealing offer to work part-time as a tutor... but his students turn out to be girls from his own class! What's more, they're quintuplets... and all five are beautiful, but happen to be problem students who have borderline grades and hate studying! Looks like his first assignment will be to win all the sisters' trust?! Every day is a wild party in this rom-com centering around the quintuplet sisters of the Nakano household!
Best episode · S01E02 Rooftop Confession
Season 2 · Complete
Season 2
202112 episodes
7.1IMDbFutaro already has his hands full with the quintuplets, but when his first love shows up out of nowhere, things get even more complicated. From costumes to competition, how each of the sisters tries to win him over may just seal their fate—and his!
Best episode · S02E12 Sisters War (2)
Where the series peaks
Best Episodes
The hours that define the show, ranked by audience response and editorial signal.
S01E02 · Signature episode
Rooftop Confession
Futaro proposes an exam to settle the debate of whether or not the quintuplets need a tutor.
- Directed by Fumio Maezono
- Written by Keiichiro Ochi
S01E01 · Signature episode
The Quintessential Quintuplets
Uesugi Fuutarou lands a tutoring job that promises five times the normal pay. As it turns out, it’s going to take more than five times the work.
- Directed by Yasuo Iwamoto
- Written by Keiichiro Ochi
S01E04 · Signature episode
A Day Off
Futaro receives his first pay, and decides to take Raiha to the arcade, where she’s always wanted to go.
- Written by Mayumi Morita
Recently aired
Latest Episodes
S02E10
Five Cranes in Return
- Directed by Yoshihisa Matsumoto
- Written by Keiichiro Ochi
S02E09
Welcome to Class 3-1
- Directed by Kazuomi Koga
- Written by Keiichiro Ochi
S02E07
Begin the Offensive
- Directed by Ippei Ichii
- Written by Keiichiro Ochi
Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Executive production
- Yuichi IzumiProducer
- Gota AijimaProducer
- Takahiro SasakiExecutive Producer
- Tomoki UedaProducer
- Junichiro TanakaProducer
- Takaaki NakanomeProducer
Writing
- Keiichiro OchiWriter
- Mayumi MoritaWriter
Direction
- Youichirou AokiDirector
- Ippei IchiiDirector
- Kazuomi KogaDirector
- Yoshihisa MatsumotoDirector
- Kento ShintaniDirector
- Yasuo IwamotoDirector
Cinematography
- Daisuke ChibaDirector of Photography
- Kazumasa SomeyaDirector of Photography
- Rei EgamiDirector of Photography
Music
- Miki SakuraiOriginal Music Composer
- Natsumi TabuchiOriginal Music Composer
- Hanae NakamuraOriginal Music Composer
Where to watch
Streaming
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