五等分の花嫁 1

Good fun if you enjoy the genre

I bought this series on a whim yesterday from BookWalker sales and here we are, first volume down.

It was surprisingly smooth read despite some characters speaking in difficult kanji (especially 三玖 but also 風太郎 at times). Furigana throughout helps a ton.

The only rough spot was the historical part with lots of names. I was happy to recognize many of them by sound.

Despite enjoying this, caveats do apply: this is a harem romcom and with that come certain tropes. This first volume didn’t subver

Story

Uesugi Fuutarou, a study-obsessed, poor, reclusive high school boy gets stuck tutoring a group of 5 rich quintuplets with terrible academic abilities, who want nothing to do with him. He doesn't really want anything to do with them either, but as he goes to great lengths to get them to study, that begins to change. The story starts off with a flash of the future, where he is about to marry one of the 5, but keeps you really guessing about who until the very end.

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