The Quintessential Quintuplets: La Película

Ah harem anime. It's becomes a staple of anime. A genre like science fiction, comedy or action and like every genre you need something different to stand out. The Quintessential Quintuplets is one but unlike other harems where we wonder who the main character is going to end with, we know or main character will marry one of them. After two seasons, I thought we'd get a three season and more but instead we got a movie to wrap it up. I was a little skeptical at first but this one of one greatest anime movies from a series I've seen and I going to tell you WITHOUT ANY SPOILERS! This is my spoiler free review of The Quintessential Quintuplets movie

The plot is this. Following their summer vacation, Futaro Uesugi and the Nakano quintuplets Ichika, Nino, Miku, Yotsuba, and Itsuki, now third-year high school students, prepare for the upcoming school festival. On the day of the festival, Futaro invites the quintuplets to a room and confesses his love to them, but he tells them to wait until the end of the festival to know whom he has chosen among them. Each girl will get at least 15 minute segment. Showing a problem for each one and how they and Futaro solved it. In awhile this makes the movie the three season. It does get a little confusing at time but oh the pay off

So you can probably think that's all the movie is going to be but no. We see the girls past chase up to them in a way no one thought would happen but it does answer a big question I believe many where asking. Not to mention we finally see who Futaro picked and in all honesty I was absolutely surprised. I'm not going to tell you because this a spoiler free review but if you like me you'd be amazed. For the longest time, it looked like they were setting him up with one particular girl. That's not what happened and I loved that. It shows that just because you think it going the way you want doesn't mean it will. Still I'm happy for his pick and I have no doubt they will be happy together

Now I called this one of the greatest anime movies from a series I've seen. You are probably wondering why I said. Allow me to explain. Most anime movies based on series in my experience have tried to make some that wasn't close to the mark or tried to make something artsy. Ruining the film and quite possibly the show in general. For explain the Tenchi Muyo movies. The first was set in the Tenchi Universe world which is fine but most of time tried to something that's it's not. It still had action but only in the last 15 minutes

The second was just a Christmas special basically. I do like the background music and music in general but honestly that's probably the only thing going for it

The third movie you couldn't ven call a Tenchi movie. Just a whole different series with a movie. They just put Tenchi characters in. The art style was very nice. Down right beautiful. However that alone can't carry a movie. You need a story and this story is pretty weak

Now don't get me wrong. I'm not saying those were the worst. I'm just saying that I didn't find those stories particularly good. To each their own. However The Quintessential Quintuplets movie hits all the right spots to make it interesting while you ask who is Futaro going to pick. I know a lot of people are going to be either upset, sad or happy with who he picks but funny enough that's life. We often want this person to be with that person or we see things going this way rather than this way. Thing is we can't control others emotions. Just our own. You are either going to happy with his pick or upset. In the end I'm happy for him and his pick. This does make me wonder how this will affect the new anime they announced but we'll cross that bridge when we get there. If you want to see The Quintessential Quintuplets movie, it's on Crunchyroll. I recommend you watch after watching or for many people rewatching the anime. It helps. I hope you enjoyed this review.