The 13 Best Anime Like 'The Quintessential Quintuplets,' Ranked

If you're a fan of The Quintessential Quintuplets, you probably appreciate harem romcoms with a light sprinkling of fan service and a side of an actually compelling story. Take this concept, subtract studying and add the yakuza and you get Nisekoi. Nisekoi follow Raku Ichijou, heir to a powerful yakuza family, as he tries to figure out which girl he made a childhood promise to, and develops close friendships with each of the adorable contenders. The other thing that the two shows have in common is that the main male character actually does have a relationship with one of the girls - though which girl Futaro will go for is not yet clear.

Nariyuki Yuiga comes from a poor family, and won't be able to attend university without some serious help. To make his dreams come true, he applies to earn a scholarship that will pay for his college tuition. Though he does win, one condition is that he has to tutor the other finalists, both of whom are really good at one subject, and really terrible at another one. This is easier said than done, especially since both of them are dead set in pursuing careers based around the skills they don't have. Both this anime and The Quintessential Quintuplets are rom-coms about a boy who finds himself tutoring adorable but challenging girls due to financial problems - it's hard to get more similar than that.

After his parents' divorce, Eita Kido becomes firmly convinced that romance is a waste of time. Instead, he spends all of his time studying to get into medical school. For this exact reason, Masuzu Natsukawa asks him to pretend to be her boyfriend so that people will stop confessing their love to her. He refuses at first, but blackmail changes his mind. Fake dating has unforeseen effects - including attracting the attention of other girls who also vie for his affection. While the plot of Oreshura isn't identical to that of QQ, the harem set-up with a serious, studious boy at the center will feel familiar to fans of the show.

Domestic Girlfriend and The Quintessential Quintuplets both aired during the Winter 2019 anime season. Because they share some major themes, the two are often discussed at the same time. While Domestic Girlfriend has a darker and more serious tone, both of them deal with a teenage boy who ends up forging relationships with sisters and ultimately having to choose between them.

One of the fun things about The Quintessential Quintuplets is how truly dysfunctional some of the characters are. They're not good at socializing, they're not good at school, and they're not good at handling their own emotions - but dang are they adorable. The same is true for the main characters of Haganai, a slice-of-life harem anime about a club for people who don't have friends. As the members try to help each other have satisfying social lives, they form relationships with each other - just as the characters in QQ do as they try to improve their grades.

If you watched The Quintessential Quintuplets and thought that it would be even better if one of the girls was a centaur and there was way more fanservice, you should watch Monster Musume: Everyday Life With Monster Girls. Thanks to a social worker being bad at her job, Kimihito Kurusu ends up playing hostess for non-human species who are trying to integrate into human society. His relationship with them is like Fuutarou's relationship with his students in reverse - rather than having to win them over, he has to deal with their excess affection from the very beginning.

Saekano: How To Raise A Boring Girlfriend is like The Quintessential Quintuplets in reverse. Rather than an intelligent and competent young man trying to persuade young women who actually really do need his help in order to graduate, there's Tomoya Aki, who is trying to persuade a group of young women who are far more talented than he is to help him out with making a dating sim. Either way, both series focus on an average guy trying to get some very cute girls who engage with him in an intellectual pursuit, so if that's your thing, you should watch Saekano.

There are some people who are watching The Quintessential Quintuplets not for its rom-com set-up or its harem full of cute girls, but because they dig the educational themes. Whether they relate to the student or teacher side of the equation, these fans want to watch shows that describe the educational process. Assassination Classroom is about a tentacle monster with a smiley fan for a head who spends a year teaching middle schoolers how to take him out, all while trying to bring out their individual strengths. His goal may not be exactly the same as Futaro's, but both of them begin the series in a combative relationship with their students, which grows and changes over time.

The "sisters" aspect of The Quintessential Quintuplets will definitely appeal to at least some viewers. A Sister Is All You Need is about a group of friends that includes a raunchy novel author. Both shows not only have a similar light-hearted, fan service filled harem vibe, but also take time to develop the characters, both regarding their interpersonal relationships and their intellectual pursuits. Both shows are "more than they seem" - if you like your fan service with a little substance, they're both good choices.

If you found yourself wishing that the students in The Quintessential Quintuplets were male, The Royal Tutor is for you. This show follows Heine Wittgenstein, a man tasked with tutoring all four of the king's sons to prepare them to take on the throne. Unfortunately, this is a lot harder than it sounds, because all of the boys have some seriously difficult personalities, and not all of them are willing to take his advice. Things get a little more dramatic and plot-heavy than they do in QQ, but the premise is nearly identical.

A list recommending harem ecchi comedies isn't complete without a mention of one of the originals of the genre, Love Hina. Love Hina follows Keitaro Urashima as he tries to manage a dormitory full of deeply bizarre girls and women, most of whom are at least somewhat attracted to him, but few of which are willing to act on it. If this set-up sounds a lot like the one in Quintessential Quintuplets, that's because it is. Some of the characters in QQ even seen to be modeled directly off of the characters from Love Hina. Itsuki's tsundere personality has a lot in common with Naru's, and Ichika's "lazy but sensual" vibe and short hair cut is reminiscent of Mitsune.

What if instead of trying to get five girls to learn, Futaro instead had to endure the lessons of five teachers? That's basically the plot of Happy Lesson, a story about an orphaned boy named Hitotose Chitose who ends up living with five of the more boisterous and bizarre teachers in anime history. Though living with them is a challenge, he still finds himself learning quite a bit from them.

If you were attracted to The Quintessential Quintuplets not for the harem set-up, but for the fact that the protagonists are five identical siblings, you should probably check out Osomatsu-san. This show follows the six identical Matsuno brothers who are failing at adult life just as hard as the Nakano sisters are failing at school. Though definitely in different genres - Osamatsu-san is an absurd comedy with no real romance, while QQ is a harem comedy intended to titillate - they both show how extremely different identical siblings can be from one another.