The Quintessential Quintuplets~

Very satisfactory extra episode to fill out the series, and takes a refreshing route of providing more warm interactions with the cast rather than just being another fanservice special. This should be perfectly fine to watch after either of the TV seasons. Plot-wise it is fairly straightforward, going through a few different scenes with the girls and Futarou. Nino gets a whole segment to herself, but the rest get their fair share of quality screen time (Miku fans may have a happy heart attack too). Overall it’s very enjoyable to see all of them again, and I would say the highlight of this is interactionsover visual fanservice. But there’s still a beach segment. Enjoy the speedo bro. Visually speaking it’s at least on par with the TV seasons, although of course Shaft injected a little of their trademark unique style into how scenes were portrayed (plus an unnecessarily well-animated OP, at least check that out on YouTube). Their style is however kept restrained to a tasteful amount to only enhance the comedy or character interactions, making sure not to take over too much of the focus. Other than that, it's well animated and faithfully replicates the artstyle. While this doesn’t have any vital content that can’t be skipped, this is still a great addition to what was presented in the TV seasons. Well worth the watch.

Finally, my favorite manga of all time gets the quality adaptation it deserved. It's a shame that they're just basically gathering up the scraps that Bibury left out of their rushed and incomprehensible movie, but Shaft makes the most of those scraps and then some. This adaptation actually makes me appreciate the fact that the manga's best chapter (Chapter 90) was excluded from the movie, because there is no way it would have been able to be adapted this perfectly without the existence of these specials. The only negative to these specials is that they show the incredible potential that a 5toubun no Hanayome animehad, and that makes the previous adaptations all the more disappointing. Nevertheless, fans of the manga will most likely find these episodes to be amazing, and I highly highly recommend them to anyone who likes 5toubun (especially the manga). Like a good anime should do, this adaptation ascends even further than the manga itself and becomes, in my opinion, the best piece of content ever put out related to this series. I wish there was more. 10/10.

Animation worthy of the work, finally. And it is clear that very significant moments were adapted for the main story and that if they had done it this way from the beginning, the reception of the anime and its ending could have been different. Furthermore, being able to see the quintuplets interacting with Fuutarou is great again, with emphasis as always on Miku and Nino. I still see hope for the author to redeem himself with more episodes and I will always continue to root for an alternative ending in which everyone ends up happy, even without having been chosen.