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The Quintessential Quintuplets Anime Reveals Promo Video, Visual
posted on by Jennifer Sherman
The official website for the television anime adaptation of Negi Haruba's The Quintessential Quintuplets (Gotōbun no Hanayome) manga revealed a promotional video and the second key visual on Friday. The video previews the opening theme song "Gotōbun no Kimochi" (Quintuplet Feelings) by Nakano-ke no Itsuko (The Nakano Family's Quintuplets), a group composed of the five main female cast members.
The series will premiere on TBS on January 10 at 25:28 (effectively, January 11 at 1:28 a.m.), and it will then run on Sun TV and BS-TBS.
The cast includes:
Kana Hanazawa as Ichika Nakano
Ayana Taketatsu as Nino Nakano
Miku Itō as Miku Nakano
Ayane Sakura as Yotsuba Nakano
Inori Minase as Itsuki Nakano
Satoshi Kuwabara (Dagashi Kashi 2, Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal) is directing the series at Tezuka Productions (Dagashi Kashi 2, Black Jack). Keiichirō Ōchi is in charge of series composition (Hinamatsuri, La Corda d'Oro Blue Sky). Michinosuke Nakamura (Hajime no Ippo Rising, Kids on the Slope) and Miyabi Uta (name romanization not confirmed) are designing the characters. Natsumi Tabuchi (Castle Town Dandelion, Clockwork Planet), Hanae Nakamura (Clockwork Planet, Convenience Store Boy Friends), and Miki Sakurai are composing the music.
Aya Uchida is performing the ending theme song "Sign."
Kodansha Comics is releasing the series digitally, and it describes the story:
One day, a poor high school second-year named Futaro Uesugi comes across a private tutoring gig with good pay. But his pupils are his classmates!! And they're quintuplets!! A-and they're all gorgeous girls, but they're also troublemakers who hate to study and are on the verge of flunking out! And his first task is simply gaining the sisters' trust?! Every day is a party! The curtain is rising on the Nakano quintuplets' quirky romantic comedy with five times the cute!!
The manga launched in Weekly Shōnen Magazine on August 9, 2017, and Kodansha shipped the seventh compiled book volume on December 17. The series has more than 700,000 copies in print as of August 8.
Sources:The Quintessential Quintuplets anime's website, TBS animation YouTube channel, Comic Natalie