The Quintessential Quintuplets*, a TV special that depicts the characters’ honeymoon trip, will have a three-week theatrical screening in Japan that begins on September 20 JST. A teaser visual, as well as staff details, were also released.
Like 2022’s The Quintessential Quintuplets Movie, The Quintessential Quintuplets* is a Bibury Animation Studios production with Masato Jinbo as director. Another returning core staff member is Masato Katsumata as character designer. For the new special, Jinbo is also credited as series composer, while The Quintessential Quintuplets creator Negi Haruba has a script cooperation credit.
The Quintessential Quintuplets* was announced in April as one of The Quintessential Quintuplets anime adaptation’s fifth anniversary projects. At the time, it was said that the story will be based on a draft by Haruba and that he would have complete supervision for the narrative.
Haruba’s Kodansha-published manga previously inspired two TV anime seasons that premiered in 2019 and 2021, the aforementioned movie, and a two-part 2023 TV anime special titled The Quintessential Quintuplets~. The manga debuted in Weekly Shonen Magazine in 2017 and ended in 2020 with 14 tankoubon volumes. Kodansha USA describes its premise as:
Five girls who want to do anything but study, and their tutor: a high school boy who’s got book smarts and not much else. Futaro Uesugi took the tutoring gig because he was desperate for cash, but when his students—the five beautiful daughters of a wealthy businessman—find five times the excuses to slack off, what can he do?! At this rate, the sisters won’t graduate, so if he wants to get paid, Futaro must think of a plan to suit each of them … Which feels hopeless when five out of five of them think he’s a loser!
The first season of The Quintessential Quintuplets was directed by Satoshi Kuwabara at Tezuka Productions, while the second season was directed by Kaori at Bibury Animation Studios. The Quintessential Quintuplets~ was produced by Shaft and directed by Yukihiro Miyamoto.
Keiichirou Oochi was the series composer for the previous TV anime and wrote most of the episodes. He also wrote the movie’s screenplay. Michinosuke Nakamura was the first season’s character designer, and thereafter credited with character design cooperation. The Quintessential Quintuplets~ had Kazuya Shiotsuki as character designer.
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Cast
• Yoshitsugu Matsuoka as Uesugi Futaro
• Kana Hanazawa as Ichika Nakano
• Ayana Taketatsu as Nino Nakano
• Miku Ito as Miku Nakano
• Ayane Sakura as Yotsuba Nakano
• Inori Minase as Itsuki Nakano
Source: @5Hanayome_anime
