5-toubun no Hanayome Movie

(SPOILERS WILL BE MARKED!) Finally, it comes to an end, I loved this series as a whole, and I have become strongly attached to fictional characters once again. I think that the movie does a good job of ending the show for what its worth and the situation it was put in but if it weren't for the previous two seasons, the score would be drastically lower than an 8/10 because of some major issues which the movie could not control, but was hindered by regardless. Let's start with the fact that we should have received a season 3. It seems that much of themanga material was cut off in favor of the easy way out in a movie, a full season would have received greater attention and given far better closure to the show and possibly saved the show from some of the backlash which ill talk ab later on in the spoilers section. I can't help but feel that they had given up on the success of a third season because of such backlash as well and that they took the easy way out to end the series with a movie rather than dedicate time to the third season, oh well, it sucks but whatever. I definitely hold movies to an stricter standard given that they take less time but I feel that the pacing was efficient and the overall layout made sense even though things were cut out of the manga. Without spoiling, I must also say for those of you who haven't watched the movie yet and/or haven't gotten the ending spoiled, the movie is still a good watch and worth watching and even though it was disappointing for me and other quintuplets fans, the reasoning is more so from issues stemming from production all the way back to the manga. What's disappointing more so has to do with the plot and you should still go watch the film, even if you know the ending. If you are finished here, thanks for reading, I appreciate your time and this is nashy out (SPOILERS from here on) Now to those who don't care ab spoilers/alr seen the movie, this is more gonna be a rant ab the movie. Starting with Yotsuba's victory, there are some glaring issues here. I'm not super crazily obsessed with one girl and their victory but it's clear that the manga was rushed into making a decision and Yotsuba's victory was intended to prevent people from getting bad that the popular girls, like nino and miku lost. Yotsuba was developed as this character who intended for all the sisters to get along without pursuing futaro's love, so that no one would be mad when she eventually won. The problem with this, apart from the glaring lack of development that Yotsuba and Futaro's relationship gets, is that Futaro also gets woven into the issue. After watching the movie, I can't help but feel that Futaro chose Yotsuba out of pity and fear of breaking ties with the other sisters. Like I said, this really wasn't a movie issue but I still think a third season could have developed the relationship better and created a more well-received medium given that the manga was already spoiled at the time the movie came out for a lot of people. Yotsuba would have garnered more fans because she and futaro would have gotten more one-on-one screen time and the show would have been popular rather than simply throwing in a "gotcha" with an hour left in the movie. Additionally, I really hate takebayashi and the biological father's introductions. I feel like it really brought the movie's quality down and it was redundant from the start. They barely got any screen time for such significant plot developments. It screws with the viewer because the plot twist is essentially useless and could have been left out in the case of the biological father in particular. Takebayashi (the dark haired childhood friend) wasn't as bad as a whole father left out of two seasons brought up in a movie but it was aggravating because the viewers see a huge shift in the plot near the end of the series and it pissed me off as a viewer, as well as others I'm sure, because it came so late. Neither event was even properly developed so like whats the point. They should have just saved time and removed those scenes for other scenes that were cut. I'm also not a fan of school festivals in general but I liked the formatting of the festival from each sister's point of view, I thought that was nice. All in all, I loved this series but it could have been so much more given that harem's are typically garbage and this is easily one of my favorite romance anime but issues stemming back from a rushed ending in the manga hindered the quality of the movie in particular because the first two seasons are still great as was the manga chapters those seasons adapted (not to mention we probably would have had a third season with better reviews of the manga). Overall, the movie really couldn't have done much better in terms of adapting the manga, a third season would have been better, and this is still a really good romance series in my opinion, especially for a harem, but one that surely disappointed in the end as it could have been something that was unanimously agreed upon by everyone as one of the best romance animes, REALLY long review here and if you read it all, your patience is extremely appreciated. Thanks, -nashy out

I watched the movie with a friend of mine at 2 am and we were both on the verge of tears at the end of the movie. We really enjoyed the movie and I, as a manga reader, even thought that the movie has delivered the ending better than the manga did. Mainly because the music was absolutely touching, the animation was great and every single flashback fit so well to the scene. After I read some reviews on MAL on this movie, I was surprised on how many people did not enjoy the movie, mainly because a) the "character with the least development" won, b)it skipped too many scenes from the manga or c) the romance in this movie is bad. So I've decided to write a review myself to give a bit of support to those people who actually liked the movie. If you still don't know who the bride is going to be, I'm recommending you to stop reading this or any review on MAL due to spoilers. Starting with point a), I want to clarify that I like all five sisters and neither of them deserve to lose in my opinion. However, people saying that the MC choosing Yotsuba is unrealistic and weird is just nonsense to me. I don't want to explain it further because Twitter has gone through this discussion a hundred times already, but you should know that character development is just an element for the plot of a story and not a requirement for a character to be good, or at least for a character to be "chosen" in a harem anime. You wouldn't expect your crush to go through an entire character arc in order for you to marry him/her, or would you? It is pretty understandable that the MC chose Yotsuba if he already loves the way she is from the beginning. Besides, her character development did in fact happen while she was younger, right after meeting the MC in Kyoto to the point where she realizes she doesn't need to be better than her sisters. Nino and Miku in fact got more development throughout the story, yes, but because of that, the fact that the MC didn't choose them is even more heart-wrenching and the scene where Nino and Miku hug each other at school knowing they've lost the love-war got emotionally more powerful. Going on with point b), I personally thought that they did a pretty good job on only picking the most important scenes of the manga to put in the movie. The movie got even stretched to more than 2 hours, so do people want it to be even longer when they say they left out too many scenes? I agree that it would be better storytelling-wise if this anime got a third season instead of a movie, but they must surely had their reasons why they've decided to only make a movie. The pacing for me was absolutely fine, but I do believe that non-manga readers may get confused at some point due to some scenes that got left out, but it wouldn't be a big deal for understanding the main plot or the ending anyway. I also partly agree to people saying that the movie was just a sequence of TV anime episodes packed into a movie. Nevertheless, I enjoyed watching the movie as a movie - it got its proper introduction, rising action, climax, falling action and resolution. Finally to point c), its subjective whether someone enjoys the romance or not. However, this movie isn't just purely about romance, it's also about family. Especially in the movie, we could see that no matter how many times the bond between the sisters gets damaged, they always manage to realize that they have to stay together, also because their late mother told them to do so. And watching the sisters getting along well at the end of the movie just makes me so happy. Plus, the development of the Nakano father was also quite nice to watch, especially when you see that he does in fact care for her daughters. I definitely liked when he asked the MC at the wedding if Yotsuba is really "happy from the bottom of her heart". You can clearly see a difference between the Nakano family in the 2 TV seasons and the Nakano family in the movie. All in all, I absolutely enjoyed watching this piece of art, it was a rollercoaster of emotions all throughout the movie with elements of romance, comedy and drama. The music was always perfectly fitting the mood of the scene and overall well composed, the animation is as great as it was in the second season. They did a fantastic job on putting all the remaining important manga content in a movie which actually builds up towards the end. The ending itself is well-written and I love the idea of playing the quintuplets game (where the MC has to guess who is who) at the wedding, going through all five sisters and what makes them special, both for Fuutarou and Yotsuba. That was the emotional peak of the movie. -> A must-watch for everyone who enjoyed the TV show. And please don't write bad reviews only because the girl you like didn't get chosen, even if you can list hundreds of reasons why your girl would be the much better option. That's not the point of a movie review, that's just presenting your personal waifu list. Thanks for reading, stay healthy and have a great day.

I just have to get this off my chest. The fact that one girl worked hard and had a "better character arc" does not warrant them being the winning girl. Life takes many twists and turns, and you never know where you might end up in the end. You may put all your guts towards reaching your dream but ultimately there's no guarantee you'll achieve it. Having that one person in your life also does not guarantee your happiness because 1) you're not entitled to mutual feelings and 2) happiness and fulfillment will not be brought to you by someone else's or something else's existence inyour life, it comes from within you, understanding that you're the only one who can make you happy. Fuutarou spent a long time contemplating his feelings. He knew, just like we did, that he has to choose one of the girls if he wants their and his feelings to amount to something. He knew that a choice had to be made. But your heart is what it is, you can't force it to feel a certain way. But it also knows exactly what it wants. He just had to ask it and search for his feelings. And by the end, his discovery was that throughout all of this, he deep down loved just the one. You might have the urge to say this just happened to be that way, it could've all easily ended up another way. And you'd be right, in a sense. The reason he chose her IS the circumstances that lead to that point. All the experiences that he had up to that point had built up to this moment and culminated with his heart's final verdict, and who are we to rule against his heart? I know this is all fictional and I'm starting to sound kinda deranged but this is very much how it happens in real life. People just happen to fall in love as they live their life. The saying is as old as time itself: we do not choose who we love. This series was in the back of my mind for a long time after I finished watching the second season. I knew that we'll end up with one of the sisters as the bride, but I just couldn't imagine how anyone could objectively choose that one girl to end up as the winning girl in the end of the story. And that's exactly it: there is no place for objectivity to be had in the final decision. I knew that it would absolutely feel cheap if the outcome of the story had some rationalized reasoning behind its existence. Cuz that's not how love works. Feelings are beyond the reach of your rationalizations. Love does not obey any logical reasoning, and neither does it have to. You love who you love, and that's just that. And I'm glad that this series made me realize that once again.

This movie is the finale for the whole anime series. The manga finished 3 years ago and most of the people knew pretty much what was going to happen including me even though I didn't finish the manga fully. The start of the movie had a bit weird storytelling but we can understand since there are 5 sisters with different POV's. Even though the start was a bit complicated they actually went with a good pace and ended it really well in my opinion. Even though I knew who would be the winner from the start like most of the people I didn't have muchhype for this movie but watching it my hype just kept increasing. In my opinion this was a great finisher for the entire series. It was filled with emotions and it was a really enjoyable watch for me. I guess in the end what made this series so enjoyable is the community itself. It was really fun to see people debating over who would win in the end (I'm a Nino supporter :D). Well for me this movie was an amazing watch and if you're thinking about watching it that means you probably watched 2 previous seasons so go on. -Don't be sad because it's over, smile because it happened.

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