Alternative Endings to The Quintessential Quintuplets?

The big talk about The Quintessential Quintuplets obviously has been who the bride will eventually be. And for good reason since it is promised to us at the beginning of the series and reiterated every so often. 

I have had my theories on this, but I have pinpointed yet another idea that author and illustrator Negi Haruba might just well go for. The idea is for alternate endings to the story. 

I said in the past that picking just one quintuplet to win might make for a very divisive and potentially disappointing ending that only a small portion of fans will like, leading to Game Of Thrones level petitions to remake the ending to satisfy others. With how popular this series has become, an unpopular ending would ruin everything that’s been built up to this point. The ending can really screw up what is a great series, and that happens a lot. 

An alternative for Negi Haruba to satisfy everyone is to get the story to a point where it becomes a pick your own adventure. He can make endings where Fuutarou marries any of the five quints depending on the ending that any individual person wants. 

And there could be hints at this potentially being the case with some symbolism of the series, like multiple wedding dresses being shown in a wedding flash forward and the bride in those flash forwards not resembling either of the quintuplets specifically but rather traits taken from all of them mixed into one. And each quintuplet will get a volume cover with a wedding dress on. And the branching storylines about Rena, bell girl and others (with more storylines to come I’m sure) could be a good way to spilt off the story at the end. 

With an underlying part of this series being that all the quintuplets are separate but combined as one and one isn’t supposed to be greater than another, it might be difficult to just choose one and make that canon. And picking all of them or none of them would be unpopular as well for a harem series. So giving fans a chance to choose and not choosing just one and picking any of the five to be canon might not be as bad as the possible other options. 

I honestly think this could happen as Negi Haruba has been going away from a lot of typical harem tropes with this series. It’s not totally out of the question it’d be done again at the end. 

People might like one definitive ending, but this kind of conclusion could at least pacify enough fans that it might be done this way.