On April 18, 2021, at a special event titled “The Quintessential Quintuplets ∬ SPECIAL EVENT 2021,” the five voice actors for the Nakano sisters and Bibury Studios announced the sequel to the second season of The Quintessential Quintuplets will be a movie, releasing to theaters in 2022. The official announcement from the anime’s twitter account came with the same key visual from a previous announcement with slightly altered text to reflect the decision to make a movie.
After the initial announcement of a planned sequel on the day the second season of The Quintessential Quintuplets ended, speculation was rampant on whether Bibury Studios would make a movie or a full cour third season. Now we know. Manga fans can despairingly consider which of their favorite story arcs near the end of the story’s run will face the cutting block in the anime movie adaptation.
The big question for the movie now is if it will be faithful to the manga’s conclusion. There’s already a video game for the quintuplets, in bathing suits, to explore five romantic routes, so does the movie need to show us five different brides?
Since the Japanese language is often vague about plural nouns, the announcement of one movie could be about several movies. An anime movie usually covers the equivalent of three or four anime episodes, so there’s still hope for ample time in The Quintessential Quintuplets movie, or movies, to cover how Fuutarou falls in love and comes to terms with the girl he met in Kyoto in his childhood.
What do you think? Will The Quintessential Quintuplets have more than one movie? Will it change the ending of the manga? Will Bibury Studios make tons of special OVA’s for the future awfully expensive Blu-ray box sets? Are you already mourning the loss of the harem ending scene that will never be? J-List is there to comfort you.
Both seasons of The Quintessential Quintuplets stream on Funimation, Crunchyroll, and VRV.
