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When it comes to romance manga, sometimes more is more. With The Quintessential Quintuplets, you get five beautiful women vying for the attention of a single, hapless young man. However, it manages not to avoid many of the more frustrating tropes of the harem genre by making sure that the girls remain close throughout. They are sisters, after all. And you can read the second half of their story for almost half off thanks to the Amazon Black Friday Sale.

The Quintessential Quintuplets Part 2 Manga Box Set is currently 45% off on the Amazon Black Friday Sale, knocking the price down from $76.96 to $42.24. That is a great price for seven volumes of romance manga, taking you all the way to the moment when we finally find out which Nakano sister Futaro ends up marrying. Spoilers: it might not be who you think it is.

The only downside here is that The Quintessential Quintuplets Part 1 Manga Box Set isn’t on a similar sale, so you are going to pay full price for the first half of the series. However, if you’ve seen season one of the anime or already have the first seven volumes of the manga, this is still a solid deal.

The most difficult thing is trying to decide which of the Quintuplets is your favorite. Personally, I was always a fan of Miku, but there aren’t any wrong answers here. Each one is genuinely compelling and interesting, which is what elevates this series beyond its concept into one of my favorite romance manga ever.

Each week, Popverse's resident anime expert Trent Cannon runs down the latest and, dare we say "greatest," in anime and manga in Popverse Jump. Some recent columns have included... 

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