The Quintessential Quintuplets was a diamond in the rough within recent anime seasons that proved that there really were harem anime out there that could be watched with the entire family. The perverted jokes never border on the obscene, and its female cast carries a surprising amount of depth for its genre, as each of the quintuplets not only carries their own body language and personality but also a unique dynamic with the main character himself, with heartwarming drama and comedic gags just acting as the icing on top.

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Between its surprisingly clean jokes and deliciously complex, romance grid, this series soared as one of the best and oddly unique Shoujos on anyone's recommendation list. However, as fans patiently wait for season 2, this list will try to fill in the gap, as it runs down a few anime to catch for those who loved The Quintessential Quintuplets.

Updated September 15th, 2020 by Sean Cubillas: 2020 was a rough year for several industries. For anime in particular, the pandemic halted the development of several anime and delayed them to the next couple of years. This would unfortunately include The Quintessential Quintuplets, the second season of which was set to premiere earlier this year. While fans will have to wait just a little longer for the escapades of their favorite quintuplet girls, here are a few more anime that satisfy the hunger.

14 ORESUKI Are You The Only One Who Loves Me?

ORESUKI Cast

Harem anime are one of the most unique genres to come out of the medium. However, for reasons obvious to everyone with a sense of decency, they're not exactly for everyone. The Quintessential Quintuplets just happens to be one harem anime that uses its premise with a little restraint.

As such, ORESUKI Are You The Only One Who Loves Me? is a great pairing for the quints. More of a parody of harem anime than an actual harem anime, ORESUKI somehow delivers the same sincere romance of the genre but with plenty of tongue-in-cheek, meta-humor on top. It's a great pick for people who either hate harem anime or have seen a little too much of it.

13 Assassination Classroom

Koro Sensei Holds His Students

While it isn't the core of the series, the tutoring and education part of The Quintessential Quintuplets is still a prominent element to the series. If anyone was interested in the struggles and joys of teaching and learning. Assassination Classroom is one of the best fixes out there. A powerful alien has destroyed a portion of the moon and now threatens to destroy the Earth.

Giving in to his demands, the Japanese government must now allow the alien to... teach high school. While the students themselves are tasked with assassinating their teacher for the good of the world, there is plenty of fun in seeing this adorable monster turn around the lives of these kids.

12 Ouran High School Host Club

Ouran High School Host Club Cast

The Quintessential Quintuplets has a strong grasp of anime's distinct form of romance fundamentals. With misunderstandings, awkward glances, and hearts beating galore, the quints have their audience at the edge of their seats just waiting to see who will fall in love with who. That same wholesome drive for romance is also seen in Ouran High School Host Club, a lot of people's introduction to Shoujo and comedy anime.

This series focuses on a young girl whose work ethic and intelligence allow her to enroll in a prestigious school. However, when she suddenly finds herself in debt to one of the school's top clubs, she must now work with them to pay her debt. Funny enough, this involves dressing as a boy herself to participate in their high school version of a host club!

11 Mr. Osomatsu

The Matsuno brothers from Mr. Osomatsu sitting together in a row.

If The Quintessential Quintuplets is anything, it is certainly a comedy about identical siblings. If those are all the traits that a person needs to get into a series, then Mr. Osomatsu is possibly the closest thing to the quints in terms of premise. Mr. Osomatsu is one of the industry's oldest and most revered comedy series, and its modern rendition brings plenty of new laughs with improved animation.

The series itself focuses on sextuplet brothers (one more sibling than the quints) who put on a variety of gags and skits that span between everyday awkwardness and outrageous adventures.

10 Hibike! Euphonium

From Kyoto Animation, the anime studio that defines sweet and cuteness, comes an anime that got people a little too invested in the emotional stakes of the high school band. For those watching The Quintessential Quintuplets for its cute girls and Shoujo drama, then get ready for Hibike! Euphonium.

This series has leagues of girls bringing intertwining stories of passion, identity, and relationships that all coalesce to create some cathartic drama. On top of all of that, this series features some of the greatest uses of diegetic music known to anime kind.

9 Wotakoi: Love is Hard for Otaku

For those watching Quintuplets for its romance and strong embodiment of the Shoujo form, then try giving this little romp about nerds in love a try. A huge element of this that helps it stand out from the anime norm is the fact that the main ship gets together during the first episode. From there, this series is less "Will they? Won't they" and more about the cute nuances of a budding relationship.

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However, the series is still very much familiar with the very tropes that have made Shoujos so beloved, and it does a great job of parodying and celebrating those, too.

8 Baka and Test

For those more interested in the character-driven comedy and slapstick humor that Quintuplets employed between its clumsy girls and even a central focus on just studying, Baka and Test is one of the most ridiculous series ever to take place in a high school.

Taking place in a class system defined school, Baka and Test ups the ante by allowing its characters to actually fight one another with holographic avatars, using their own test grades as combat stats. This gives the typical anime comedy a decent, sci-fi coat of paint, as getting good grades carries even more hilarious stakes. With some heartwarming romance on the side, this is definitely a fun series.

7 Nisekoi

If the ever-elusive clean harem is what one is after, then look no further than one of Shonen Jump's premiere comedy series. Nisekoi focuses on yakuza heir, Raku Ichijou, as he is forced into a fake relationship with the daughter of a competing gang leader, Chitoge Kirsaki, so as to create peace between the competing gangs.

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However, the two find that they absolutely hate each other, with the story from there focusing on the trials and tribulations of putting on a fake relationship while also witnessing a potential romance between the two. All of this reaches new levels of tension, as this fake relationship collides with Raku's own high school crush, a promise to an ex-love of long ago, and a variety of other girls popping onto the scene.

6 Amagi Brilliant Park

If Hibike! Euphonium was the pinnacle of KyoAni's Shoujo, Slice of Life norm, then Amagi Brilliant Park is the antithetical parody of that. Looking for a good laugh to match the cutesy antics of Quintuplets? Amagi Brilliant Park is packed full with them.

Taking place on a magical theme park that literally needs customers for its fantastical citizens to survive, this series focuses on a motley crew of amusement park rejects, each one embodying the opposite of who should be representing a family establishment, as they work with a marketing genius to get their customers back. It's all trial and error, as these cute creatures struggle to act with any decency yet ever touching as they work to try and save their family and friends.

5 Clannad

Adapted from the dating sim of the same name, Clannad has everything to love about Quintuplets in spades (besides the quintuplets thing). Practically drawn on rose tinted animation cells, the stories of various high school friends help push a young Tomoya Okazaki during a harsh and confusing transitional period of his life.

With this comes some of the cutest and most sweet character interactions ever to beset Shoujo eyes, as well as some of the most cathartic and tearjerking story arcs. That's not even counting an ending that more than raised the bar for sad anime conclusions.

4 We Never Learn

The cast of We Never Learn.

Conceptually similar to The Quintessential Quintuplets, We Never Learn focuses on Nariyuki Yuiga, an incredibly average high school student, who must now act as the tutor to the two of the smartest girls in his school, either the complete master of the subject that the other is struggling in. The catch here being that they're natural geniuses who struggle to learn a subject from scratch.

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Each one carries some distinct personality traits that Nariyuki must implement if he's ever to effectively tutor them. From there, Nariyuki goes to great lengths to tutor them and his best friend, as well as deal with the high jinks of a few other girls.

3 Gamers!

A huge part of The Quintessential Quintuplets is its tight rope act of balancing the various internal interests of its characters and having them meet in romantic tugs of war and general high school awkwardness. It's a balancing routine between various competing parties that leads to some hilarious and even suspenseful encounters between characters.

Such a collision of different interests is what is at the center of Gamers!. The story itself focuses on a group of high school gamers, each derived from a different social status and relationship with video games.

What really defines it, however, is the clash between their preconceived social notions and their own romantic interests, allowing this anime to raise the bar for what misunderstandings can do to high school kids.

2 Monthly Girls Nozaki-kun

Using the Shoujo formulas described throughout this list, Monthly Girls Nozaki-kun creates its own unique, comedy and romance story that plays with Shoujo tropes just as much as it celebrates them.

When high schooler Sakura Chiyo finally confesses to her crush, she suddenly finds herself as an assistant to his secret double life as a Shoujo mangaka. The series from here describes, parodies, and honors the tropes it tries to teach its audience about, as some genuinely unique romances grow around it.

1 Tsurezure Children

Furuya and Minagawa from Tsurezure Children looking at each other confused.

The series with the shortest episodes on this list, Tsurezure Children is definitely a major go-to if one is simply interested in just reveling in the cuteness and catharsis of romance series. Each episode essentially bottles the major cadences of some of the cutest scenes found in any romance series and condenses them to short yet accessible stories.

Each subsequent episode builds from the previous one ever so slightly, as they focus on a cute moment rippling from an established foundation. There's no heavy exposition or any filler moments here. The intentions and body language of these characters is more than enough information to become invested in them, as all the enjoyment and plot development from there stems from pure performances.

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