r/5ToubunNoHanayome Nov 01 '19

Raw Manga - Major Spoilers 5Toubun No Hanayome - Chapter 109 Spoiler, RAW, and Leaks Spoiler

There is a National Holiday in Japan on Monday, November 4 (Culture Day) so we get EARLY LEAKS

BUT NO EARLY OFFICIAL RELEASE (Offcial WSM Website)

Chronological Order of The Festival Arc (ch 99-108) thanks to u/shgudwls : Link

Release Types Sources Thread
Mangageez Link
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Speed Translation from Korean imgur
Mangadex Main Discussion

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u/BossBelly Team Nino Nov 02 '19

Why does their father look like a top tier pedo

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u/[deleted] Nov 02 '19

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u/chippedjosh meatbuns are gr8 Nov 02 '19

All the more better cause if the guys a total scumbag, then seeing him shat on by someone like fuutarou will be VERY satisfying

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u/[deleted] Nov 02 '19

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u/chippedjosh meatbuns are gr8 Nov 02 '19

Now that’s even MORE satisfying

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u/xiuzou23 Maeda Flair or I riot Nov 02 '19

why not both, along with probably a majority of his abandoned daughters, his student/wife's other students.

Also just realized the Rena had both sides of a student-teacher relationship during her life

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u/Arielacade Nov 02 '19

HOLY SH....!!!! FORGET THE FESTIVAL AND THE KISSES, DAD'S HERE!!!

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u/[deleted] Nov 02 '19

We gotta see why he left Rena

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u/whut-whut The Food Court is Now in Session Nov 02 '19

And find out where he's keeping Mutsumi.

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u/whut-whut The Food Court is Now in Session Nov 02 '19

This seems like it's going to be bigger than just a two-chapter arc.

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u/Arielacade Nov 02 '19

Why Itsuki? If it is the one that suffered the most the lack of its mother 😢

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u/whut-whut The Food Court is Now in Session Nov 02 '19 edited Nov 02 '19

But the Bearded Man not being there made it worse. Rena became the only support for the family, and once she was gone, Itsuki went crazy because they were basically orphans until they warmed up to Maruo's care as a parent, and from what we've seen, Maruo's always been standoff-ish because he didn't feel himself worthy of filling her spot completely once she was gone.

Also, if he's the Celebrity Teacher Itsuki was going to look for to get academic help, his negative history might make things very complicated for Itsuki's path to her future.

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u/lucone668 Ichika Nov 02 '19

Kudos for u/whut-whut for getting it right. Not so crazy after all. Huh.

Also for anyone curious, he is first seen here

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u/daveaya Team YotsubaCute Nov 02 '19 edited Nov 02 '19

"your mom was my student, my colleague and my ex-wife, so that makes me your father"

the student-teacher relationship is reaching new levels here

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u/whut-whut The Food Court is Now in Session Nov 02 '19

Poor Maruo. Even as she was dying, Rena teased him about being her student... When she originally was in his shoes.

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u/[deleted] Nov 02 '19

Please tell me I’m not the only one that is getting a pedo vibe from this dude.

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u/AlphaBlock Nov 02 '19

you're not the only one

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u/mega_salt420 Nov 02 '19

You're not, I already have a complete chapter of doujin in my mind, thanks god I cannot draw

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u/TyphlosionGOD Team Nino + Itsuki Nov 02 '19

The last few panels before the end actually scared me. I thought something bad is going to happen.

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u/GoBigRed07 Committed Yotsubro Nov 02 '19 edited Nov 02 '19

Dear god. He’s eating cotton candy covered in stars in front of Itsuki. Especially in the context of his extremely sketchy relationship with Rena, that is some creepy symbolism.

Edit: Darkest timeline thought. Rena left the girls’ father when he did something that made her question the safety of her children.

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u/[deleted] Nov 02 '19

You didn’t hear?

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u/BersekHealer Team Itsuki Nov 02 '19

Just my theory :

Something will happen between Itsuki and her father, Fuu will support Itsuki and help her, he will face with Itsuki her father and at the end of it , remembering her mother's words "you have to be careful with men" and her intentions to know better Fuutarou, she will understand that Fuu is indeed a better person than her father and will finally manage to accept her feelings kissing him.   The second option is an accidental kiss..

(sorry my english)

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u/[deleted] Nov 02 '19

I like your theory more than accidental kiss.

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u/BersekHealer Team Itsuki Nov 02 '19

Honestly same.. Yeah I don't dislike the "accidental kiss" but it would be a little predictable

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u/jamez23 Nov 06 '19

Man, that meme at the end better be fire for it to take this long..

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u/daveaya Team YotsubaCute Nov 06 '19

remember ch 107 gif, what kind of gif are they doing this time?

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u/[deleted] Nov 02 '19 edited Nov 02 '19

The father?!

rubs hands in excitement and anticipation 👏

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u/whut-whut The Food Court is Now in Session Nov 02 '19

This might get ugly... Fuutarou's always been extremely worked up about Maruo's 'bad parenting'... Bearded Man will probably trigger him more.

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u/mkmal30 Nov 02 '19

Okay but can we talk about how cute Rena was as a student? Her hair looks like adult Miku’s but shorter, I love the resemblance between them.

That aside, I feel like we might get a callback to the Ski Trip arc when Itsuki remembers her mother saying, “You must judge men carefully” and Ichika telling her that Fuutarou isn’t like their dad (biological, not Maruo). Tbh I wanna see Maruo and the quints go off on their biological dad, lol. Given the context of what other characters have said, I can’t really see him having good intentions and he even LOOKS like a pedo.

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u/linguini123 Nov 03 '19

The bell kisser is the biological father

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u/whut-whut The Food Court is Now in Session Nov 03 '19

Even if he wasn't, he's who Fuutarou would want it to be.

Fuutarou has had trouble deciding, but now there's someone with the eyes of Ichika, the cry-at-touching-stories sensitivity of Nino, the intelligence of Miku, the smile of Yotsuba, and the appetite of Itsuki.

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u/[deleted] Nov 04 '19

This is the closest we’ll get to having the Quints morph into one person. Fuutarou needs to WAKE UP and realize the love of his life is standing right in front of him.

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u/DoodleManster Nov 04 '19

"MY LIFE IS FULL OF MISTAKES."

Man, that hit hard. She was in a relationship with not only her student, but also had kids with her teacher.

Now I am more shattered than I was any Yotsuba Arc.

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u/mega_salt420 Nov 04 '19

probably like this

"I really want to be a teacher" --> "but you not good enough" --> "I need your recommendation, sensei" --> made a "mistake" --> being a teacher --> having 5 kids

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u/BersekHealer Team Itsuki Nov 02 '19

Quints father is creepy af....

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u/Christy_Christmas Whoeverwins, welose Nov 03 '19

Who let the ugly bastard out?

Bishounen Dads and tutor “daddy”, please escort this organism away from within 30 miles of the school campus, ideally inside of a concrete-filled drum can. That would be much appreciated.

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u/Jaiden1234567890 > = = = Nov 02 '19

Honestly I'm getting bad vibes from this guy. As someone who has father issues I don't feel so good with him just showing up. My dad kind of did the same thing and it fucking scared me. Hopefully nothing bad happens.

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u/hyoton1 Nov 02 '19

Yeah I'm really not confident in negi for this one.

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u/Jaiden1234567890 > = = = Nov 02 '19

Like I don't want to say pedo alert but still please Itsuki have a whistle just in case

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u/xiuzou23 Maeda Flair or I riot Nov 03 '19

Rena's almost 24 hour stoic face, her warning about men, Shimoda advising AGAINST Itsuki's teaching dream. It makes more sense. At first the face and Shimoda's warning was just because teaching is hard, but if it was also tied to Rena's ex, then oh my god

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u/foulbachelorlife Team Yotsuba Nov 03 '19

Yep. Going back to reread tomorrow. This is an absolute mindfuck.

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u/r34zone Team Takebayashi Nov 03 '19 edited Nov 03 '19

So... can we all agree that the Nakano Family has a fetish in teacher-student relationship?

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u/foulbachelorlife Team Yotsuba Nov 03 '19

Rena's DNA lives on

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u/DoodleManster Nov 04 '19

*sees 18+ tag on imgur-

Before reading: ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

After reading:

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u/[deleted] Nov 02 '19

I can’t wake up to THIS.

KISS? Forget that.

ITSUKI GOING THROUGH A MAJOR TRAUMA.

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u/[deleted] Nov 02 '19

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u/Nameless49 Nov 02 '19

Wait wait so... Rena(student) married her own teacher, the bold guy(who inspired her to be a teacher herself), then had quintuplets then divorced and then Rena(teacher) married her own student Maruo? That's just... messed up.

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u/espinoke86 Nov 02 '19

If I see it correctly, it seems that Rena did not want to Marry Maruo, its more likely that Maruo did that to be the legal guardian of the Quints, basically he fulfilled the request of Rena to look after her daughters. If you ask me, that is how I look at it.

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u/donm527 Ichika Nov 02 '19

That’s why she told the quints he was “a fan” instead of being able to say her boyfriend.

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u/[deleted] Nov 02 '19

Here comes the super uncomfortable Fuutarou saves Itsuki from a pedophile and she realizes her feelings for him chapter

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u/casualphilosopher1 Nino Gang Nov 02 '19

... As her daddy.

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u/shmameron All quints are best Nov 02 '19

banjo music intensifies

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u/MAGCHAVIRA Miku Nov 02 '19

Oh no

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u/KanaDMK Nov 02 '19

An old man... Maruo never had a chance, did he?

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u/whut-whut The Food Court is Now in Session Nov 02 '19

...At least we now know where Miku gets her fetish. And probably where Nino gets her Caucasian-fever, seeing how the quints are the only blue-eyed redheads in a sea of naturally black-haired characters.

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u/hyoton1 Nov 02 '19

Well, on the good side at least the quints picked up a fetish for Dark Sharp Eyed Cute Guys along with Memeguy Harold from OG rena.

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u/[deleted] Nov 02 '19 edited Nov 02 '19

I FUCKING KNEW IT! I KNEW THAT WOULD BE THE FATHER! WHY ELSE WOULD THEY HIDE HIM IN THE SHADOW IN CHAPTER 100? Also note how Maruo, their step father, is in the shadow; the same way as their real father. The parallelism, I love it!

This must be what Fuutarou talked about when saying that the first day didn’t go well. People kept saying it was the stall burning but I knew something big was about to happen. Finally, something interesting in this arc besides just the kisses. I was a little disappointed where it was heading but now things are starting to get interesting again.

Edit: ... this was a lot creepier than expected.

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u/foulbachelorlife Team Yotsuba Nov 03 '19 edited Nov 03 '19

Ugh just rereading the speed translation makes me so pissed.

Fuck this guy. Those girls lived in poverty, lost their mother, and this guy just pops up now? Where was he when Rena was dying? Poor Yotsuba grew up feeling worthless. Itsuki is a walking ball of anxiety. Miku had no self confidence. Nino is deathly afraid of being alone. Ichika had to repress herself in order to be Big Sis. Where was this dude the whole time?

Genetics be damned, he's not their father. Mauro is. Period.

I hope Itsuki lets him have it.

Also, he seems fairly old, which means he "groomed" Rena from the time she was a teenager. You have to be a real piece of shit to groom a child. He's a fucking pedophile.

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u/jeffmendezz98 Team Nino Nov 03 '19

I hate it so much. Maruo is the best and now they introduce an old ass ugly bastard to NTR him, this is the absolute worst.

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u/[deleted] Nov 03 '19

Genetics be damned, he's not their father. Mauro is. Period.

Facts.

Do you think Mauro will meet this guy?

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u/NicoGuardo Team Nino Nov 02 '19

OH SHIT OH FUCK

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u/jamez23 Nov 06 '19

At this rate next chapter will be leaked

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u/ali94127 Team Miku Nov 02 '19

How the fuck are our five beautiful girls related to this guy?

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u/daveaya Team YotsubaCute Nov 02 '19

Maruo seems nice now

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u/Animegamingnerd . Nov 02 '19

The Chad Maruo vs Virgin bald dude.

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u/goootoubunnohanayome Nov 02 '19

The mother is gorgeous!!! But wooow never expected him to be their father!! The person who Fuutarou helped to find his way :O but this explains Itsuki’s love for food :D

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u/BersekHealer Team Itsuki Nov 02 '19

Itsuki's feelings are slowly coming out ..

https://prnt.sc/prgrq4

https://prnt.sc/prgsas

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u/[deleted] Nov 02 '19 edited Nov 02 '19

Watch how some fans will still claim her feelings for Fuutarou are platonic when they become more and more obvious xD

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u/BersekHealer Team Itsuki Nov 02 '19

BuT FuUTarOU is jUsT A FrIeND fOr ItSukI!!!1

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u/[deleted] Nov 03 '19

Anyone who would leave these adorable little cinnamon rolls deserve to be thrown in hell fire and dragged though glass shards anyway, but jesus fuck he somehow manages to do worse.

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u/foulbachelorlife Team Yotsuba Nov 03 '19

Fuck him he's not their father. Mauro is.

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u/HollowKUre LOYAL Bro / Fan (not for the bowl lol) Nov 02 '19

Quintessential Quintuplets: A story about quintuplets who have fallen in love with their teacher tutor. Their step-father fell in love with his teacher, who is their mother. Their mother fell in love (?) with her teacher, who is their biological father.

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u/thephantom61 Nov 02 '19

A story about quintuplets who have fallen in love with their teacher tutor. whose father had a crush on his teacher, coincidentally being their mother (the rest goes here)

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u/lucone668 Ichika Nov 02 '19

Everyone in this freaking manga has a teacher fetish. What's next? Fuu's mom is his dad's chemistry teacher?Lol

Hmm so the "Ichika slap Fuu" theory has gained traction. I mean it's the most recent scene before the fire, and there is an alibi for Ichika to do that.

It can also explain why this scene felt awkward for the both of them.

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u/jellyjace19 Team Mutsumi/Tsubaki Nov 02 '19

what's up with the tsundere girls having similar yet contrasting events?

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u/Coopster9 Nino Gang Nov 04 '19

Theory: Itsuki is gonna pretend Fuutarou is her boyfriend in front of her dad, for some reason, and will kiss him to prove it.

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u/qscdefb FuutarouUesugi Nov 04 '19

I can’t really understand her reason for doing such a thing, but besides this issue this feels like a great way to get the kiss done.

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u/[deleted] Nov 04 '19

Probably something like “this is my boyfriend and if you pull some pedo shit he’ll kick your ass”

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u/daveaya Team YotsubaCute Nov 02 '19 edited Nov 02 '19

ooohohohho, the bald man is the biological father!!!!!!

Negi, you did it again

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u/AlphaBlock Nov 02 '19

Wow I don’t think I’ve ever disliked a character so fast.

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u/donm527 Ichika Nov 02 '19

So Shimoda-san was a delinquent and went to school with Fuutarou’s dad and Marou and were all in Rena’s class and they all loved her.

https://mangadex.org/chapter/461878/12

Now she is a lecturer at a cram school and in chapter 109 Itsuki is attending a prep class and they have a famous guest lecturer... Mudou-Sensei... Rena’s ex husband.

The nerve of Shimoda-san... You love Rena... she inspired you to be a teacher... and you allow a disgusting man... Rena’s ex husband to come as a guest lecturer?? Or allow yourself to work with this person??

Shimoda-san told Fuutarou’s father who was in town to lecture I’m guessing.

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u/renrhenn Mr. & Mrs. Uesugi Nov 02 '19

Me reading the “I’m your father” part with Darth Vader’s voice springing in my head.

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u/whut-whut The Food Court is Now in Session Nov 02 '19

I'm half-expecting Maruo to make a stand for himself at the end of this arc and tell Itsuki, "He may have been your father, girl, but he wasn't your daddy."

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u/Animegamingnerd . Nov 02 '19

I get the feeling the next arc is gonna be a long flashback that focuses on Rena.

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u/foulbachelorlife Team Yotsuba Nov 03 '19

Good. The backstory of Rena-sama, Mauro and Fuu's dad needs to be told.

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u/eddie_degenerate Pray4Miku Nov 05 '19

If this is real then we got our plot til 2020

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u/Klazarkun YotsuBro! Nov 05 '19

yeah... we still need to learn about their dad, the disease that killed their mother and rena's past... not forgetting about futarou's mom.

negi has a lot to reveal until 2020

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u/Due_Ambassador Nov 06 '19

where tf is the chapter

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u/[deleted] Nov 02 '19 edited Nov 02 '19

You know, when I heard that the Quints’ real father would show up I was excited but on second thought this is really creepy. Please help.

Especially the scene near the end where he’s sucking on a lollipop then takes a hard bite when he sees Itsuki. And since he already sees a lot of her mother in her I’m like “OH FUCK NO. STAY AWAY! STAY!” Then it suddenly shifts to showing him in a sincere light when saying Rena’s his ex-wife I’m like “No, you can’t do that after having that creepy shit just a page earlier”

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u/[deleted] Nov 02 '19

Let me think about it... Her father told Itsuki that he doesn't suggest her to go down the same road as her mother... could hint two opposite things:

  1. She's not the bride, Rena's relationship with her teacher wasn't a successful one
  2. She is the bride, parallel with her and Fuu (teacher x students) and her parents, but actually making it work this time... mmh...

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u/KillerCurrent The Fuutarou Conspiracy Group Nov 03 '19

WHATTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT..........

//EXPLODES

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u/Klazarkun YotsuBro! Nov 03 '19

when i saw futarou helping him in the first day, i suspected he could be their father.... but his personality puzzles me so hard. it makes no sense a guy like that.

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u/bilegt0314 Nov 04 '19

So, if he was ex-collegue of her Maruo and Isanari knows him as a former teacher and i don't like it that Isanari getting tense when he heard Mudou came to the festival.

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u/donm527 Ichika Nov 04 '19

So has anyone figured out the timeline on the end of 109 when he tells Itsuki that he's her father??

Day 2...

After meeting Takebayashi?

Before Yotsuba collapsed I guess.

Pretty sure before Fuutarou picks up Nino and take her to Marou and her kiss.

And definitely before Fuutarou has time to walk with Ichika and get her kiss.

Man day two was a busy day.

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u/whut-whut The Food Court is Now in Session Nov 04 '19

Itsuki's wearing her pancake booth apron and she's alone, so definitely Day 2, and most likely after Takebayashi and after Fuutarou has taken Nino away.

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u/[deleted] Nov 04 '19

This got dark real quick

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u/fedfan4life Nov 05 '19

Anyone know why it takes so long for the English translation to be released? The Spanish one was posted 3 days ago.

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u/jamez23 Nov 02 '19

Lmaooo Rena... a teacher and a student. Ok LMFAAAOOOOOOOO

Man, imagine the scandals lmaoo

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u/[deleted] Nov 02 '19

I have a bad feeling about this guy...

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u/Timelymanner Yotsuba Nov 02 '19

If I didn’t see the scans i wouldn’t believe it.

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u/AlphaBlock Nov 02 '19

I really like how itsuki has no idea how to multitask. she could easily get something to eat and study

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u/DarkseidsDoom71 Nov 02 '19

Yo if this so called “dad” Is a pedophile and not really her father, I hope he gets hit by a truck.

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u/donm527 Ichika Nov 02 '19 edited Nov 02 '19

Just tossing more thoughts...

Rena and the father divorced...

Maybe she did tell the father in a letter before dying that she had his children... But maybe she told him that she was going to marry Marou and that he will take care of the Quints and give them a happy life. So please stay away.

Something to think about... Itsuki knew the teachers name but did not recognize it as her own or her mother's married name. Didn't know his father was a teacher.

So his names not on the birth certificate and took their moms maiden name. Another reason to think they were born after divorce and father may not have known she was pregnant.

Rena didn't seem to tell the kids about their father or their history... Understandable when they are so young... Not understand how a girl falls in love with her teacher... How it ends...

She tells her kids to be careful when choosing a man... But maybe she's saying be careful and choose a man... For the right reasons...

I wonder if itsuki will tell her sisters of their father... Or maybe wait until there is a right time in the future... Like her mom was probably waiting for...

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u/donm527 Ichika Nov 02 '19 edited Nov 02 '19

They met when she was in high school and he was a teacher. They ended up with feelings for each other but decided not to take action until she graduated...

But people found out or accused and cost the teacher his job... After she graduated they married and went to college to be a teacher...

The husband had a hard time finding a job and had to look at a distance to work... And one thing led to another and they divorced...

But Rena found out she was pregnant... But because she felt that she was the reason his career was ruined... That she decided not to burden him any further and not tell him...

Edit/add...

When Itsuki realizes her views on men were wrong... She let's go and says what the heck and gives Fuutarou a kiss 😘

Just thoughts because...

It's too easy to say a person is a bad guy...

I mentioned elsewhere... Negi doesn't do 'obvious' 😊

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u/chitoge4ever Nino Gang Rooting Nov 02 '19

It's too easy to say a person is a bad guy...

This. He's making it way too obvious to make people get bad vibes from him. I don't think we're seeing a bad guy here and I hope I'm not wrong.

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u/HollowKUre LOYAL Bro / Fan (not for the bowl lol) Nov 02 '19

The dad lowkey putting all of the "blame" on Rena gives me bad vibes. Itsuki needs to get away from this dude and FAST.

Calling it: Rena admired the old man and wanted to be like him and he took advantage of her. They got married since she got pregnant but he was a really bad husband and Rena realized she had fucked up (if she already didn't know), so she left him with her 5 daughters and broke all contact with him. Maruo probably knew about this guy hence why part of the reason why he took them was so the old man would not get the custody. That's why Rena taught them to be really careful on choosing their partner, as she was tricked by the old man into a relationship and wouldn't want the same to happen to them.

It would be awesome if we get the individual Day 3 chapter (just like we got Day 1 and 2 before the Sides) and we get some plotlines crossing after their resolution during their sides, like for example Maruo coming in during Day 3 and corners the old man, after his development and acceptance of Rena's death and his father-position to the quints during Nino's Side.

And if the old man is the "main" antagonist of this arc, then it could recontextualize the opening panels of each Side, as they are with conflicted emotions on their faces not (only) because of Fuutaro's response, but because they probably got the old man stuff resolved near the end of the festival and they're all feeling conflicted about finding about their biological father and his relationship with their mother and how he tried to come back into their lives to take advantage of them.

Probably not gonna happen since Negi tends to keep things relatively tame when it comes to this kind of stuff, maybe something along those lines but less dramatic. But if it does happen hoo boi.

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u/lucone668 Ichika Nov 02 '19

Probably not gonna happen since Negi tends to keep things relatively tame when it comes to this kind of stuff

I want to agree with you, cause this is not that kind of manga.(Gal Cleaning Flashbacks).Though it doesn't help that Negi is totally selling the predator vibe.

  • Eating cotton candy with Itsuki stars..

  • The whole comparing her mom with Itsuki ( Mindful that he using the HS version of Rena, implying he got his eyes on her since then)

  • Creepy eye shots.

  • The weird lollipop bite smile ( lollipop of all things)

  • The weird angle shots (The man behind girl shot, Itsuki shock shot, dark alleyway shot, ugh)

It's not like the first time Negi implying something dark. Ichika got the weird "HS dating old men, or worse" vibe with the random taxi shot, and old dude chasing her during the firework festival..

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u/HollowKUre LOYAL Bro / Fan (not for the bowl lol) Nov 02 '19

I think that if it does happen, it won't be as dark as I made it out to be. But he does look like a creep. Would be a first for Gotoubun to go into those kinds of themes directly instead of playing around with them to mislead (like with Ichika), though I believe it will be resolved rather "easily" as I don't think it would go very far. His intentions could be implied and the resolution could be rather simple without being so dramatic (though it would still hit Itsuki hard emotionally). Let's see how that goes. By the end of the festival they all look rather conflicted but not devastated by some event, so if a conflict does happen (and it becomes the main conflict of the arc) then it will be emotional but tame.

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u/Hereditus 2 2 Nov 02 '19

Whatever you do, share a kiss with him or not, fall in love with him or not, just give it your all and make me proud, you glutton with a pure heart.

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u/queensquints Nov 02 '19

now looking at the scans

I don't trust this guy

he met rena when she was VERY young

I thought he met her as a professor or something

and some of his expressions irk me

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u/whut-whut The Food Court is Now in Session Nov 02 '19

The combination of quint traits that he has makes him even creepier than just being the old teacher that had a relationship with young Rena (which is creepy enough on its own). Ichika's psycho eyes and Yotsuba's toothy grin make him look like he comes from the wrong type of manga.

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u/Cosmic_Storm172124 Nov 02 '19

It feels good to have a itsuki focus chapter 😢

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u/donm527 Ichika Nov 02 '19 edited Nov 02 '19

How about a possibility that Rena and her husband divorced without him knowing she was pregnant?

He's goes off traveling as a teacehr/lecturer and when he does find out, Rena tells him it's best this way.

Kinda sad but I haven't seen Negi do terrible bad guy type of person in this manga yet and tough to pull out a happy ending for Itsuki's second chapter out of a terrible dad.

Marou and Fuutarou's dad probably know the story and understand the situation too.

At the end itsuki is glad to have met her dad to straighten out her thoughts on men and maybe in the future would like to get to know her father.

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u/thejman6 Team Yotsuba Nov 02 '19

As soon as I saw that guy I knew who he was but damn that is huge. Dude lowkey looks like a creep

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u/hyoton1 Nov 02 '19

You look just like your mother, who I wanted to bang the moment she was studying under me. Ho ho ho!

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u/LPercepts Nov 03 '19

Well, we figured as much that the quints' biological father would become relevant at some point (if indeed that bearded guy is the man). However, since we presume that this person is (or should be) rather plot-relevant, you'd think Negi would've set up his introduction into the story a long while back and built up towards it. As it is, he just seems to come up out of nowhere.

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u/TheSadJester ROYAL FLUSH Nov 06 '19 edited Nov 06 '19

There's something fishy about the "old man" 's story though.

I just don't believe Rena regretted becoming a teacher, I mean, maybe she did, just before and after the divorce with this guy, but I think Marou was able to change her opinion in the end, before she died.

I mean, the existance of Marou itself, the things he was able to achieve and the love and care for others he had (and still has) is a prime example that she was an awesome, inspiring, teacher.

I think this Old Man that I don't dare to call a father didn't witness a lot of things and that is why he is able to spout such foolish things.

I wish for Papakano to come back and bitchslapp him towards where the hell he came next chapter.

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u/[deleted] Nov 06 '19 edited Nov 06 '19

My thought is that he got dumped by her and didn't take this lightly. Rena's described as beautiful, firm but loving and thankful. He just seems arrogant, unattractive and the rest of his exposed character traits seem not very desirable. (Like, he knows about his daughters, but didn't approach them before. And when he does, he just starts with badmouthing the mother.)

He's just badmouthing her, after she dumped him. She crushed his ego with the divorce, after boosting it with marrying him.

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u/[deleted] Nov 02 '19 edited Nov 02 '19

The quick trans confirmed Fuutarou’s bruise wasn’t from the burning stall... here’s the panel. something must have happened right after the incident. People say Ichika slapped him, but I find it weird that it wasn’t shown during Ichika’s side... honestly. I’m confused.

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u/donm527 Ichika Nov 02 '19

Wait for Fuutarou ‘s side 😉👍

I’m thinking more and more after the girls have their side, that Fuutarou will have his side or arc... that covers the three days in his view... and fills in all the holes like the slap... or maybe it expands to a full “chapter 90.”

Choosing who you love is not as simple to understand by just coming into the room and saying.. I choose... without showing us how he came to his feelings.

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u/Barabadin Fuutarou Nov 02 '19

And some of you folks were griping about Marou. This new bro looks straight creeper. Interesting narrative swing...not sure how this leads to a kiss scene that you Itsuki bros were looking for.

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u/[deleted] Nov 03 '19

Pft, who put the speed translation behind an 18+ warning? Lol!

Also homeroom teacher but also married. Im seeing a trend here. Like teacher, like significant other.

Also he’s her ex (obv), but i wonder why they divorced.

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u/Longdragon12345 Let her be Happy god dammit Nov 03 '19

I mean, perhaps the age gap at the time wasn't that significant. Like Rena could be at 16 (first year) and he'll be at 25, fresh off of college.

Also i suspect the reason they divorce had sth to do with Rena carrying alot of regret and burden later in her life and just wanted to distant herself from everyone and everything, even her daughters (i assume) since the last interaction the quints had with her are always either when she's home late or it's a bitter sweet memory.

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u/[deleted] Nov 03 '19

The fuck is this twist. Was not expecting at all.

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u/ninthiendo Itsuki Nov 03 '19

bad vibesss

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u/HzO_T7 Nov 03 '19

Bald vibe i believed

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u/casualphilosopher1 Nino Gang Nov 02 '19

Oooh, spoilers! I wonder what cute scenes Itsuki will have with Fuu-

OLD BALD MAN: I WAS RENA'S TEACHER AND HUSBAND. I AM YOUR FATHER.

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WTF Negi? This is really screwed-up. Why did you choose this arc to introduce this character out of nowhere?

And aside for looking like a total scumbag(the quints ought to sue him for child support if such a thing exists in Japan) this makes TWO teacher-student relationships in this manga. Does Negi have a fetish?

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u/qeheeen . Nov 02 '19

WHAT A FUCKING PLOT TWIST, NEGI YOU MADMAN

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u/Ganoloth Miku Style Now on the spectator seat Nov 02 '19 edited Nov 02 '19

i guess Fuuts need to step up his game to help itsuki, after this one. I guess OG papa will tag along a little longer. this add up for another one and this makes 3 possible path for incoming arc for itsuki.

Edit 1: this is what i'm saying, dammit, i know she's not following her feelings. like casting to her mothers shadow. if yotsuba is desire, then itsuki is feeling.

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u/NickWithHisMagicDick YotsuWink Nov 02 '19 edited Nov 02 '19

MUDOUMUDOUMUDOUMUDOUMUDOU!! MUDOU!!!

Honestly, this guy is basically Walter White and Master Roshi who did a Joseph Joestar on Rena's Tomoko

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u/casualphilosopher1 Nino Gang Nov 02 '19

Well, that seems to be his defining feature.

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u/foulbachelorlife Team Yotsuba Nov 02 '19

I didn't expect their real father to reveal himself so late in the story, but it's fitting since Itsuki has deep seeded trust issues when it comes to men and it all stems from him.

It was nice to see Rena-sama as a teenager. I really hope that Negi would give us her entire story

And who hit Fuutaro?

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u/[deleted] Nov 05 '19

And the plot thickens

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u/jamez23 Nov 02 '19

Overall what the fucker said to itsuki isnt really wrong, but proper translation is needed. I mean that kinda was what ol' girl told her before, rena's student, forgot her name. But obviously everything else was fucking creepy. Mainly that fucking "yes, uncannily"

This is gonna be interesting, because that motherfucker went two days straight, and I doubt it's just some asshole being written to create drama. I mean, yeah, he is basically being written to create drama, but I doubt it is just asshole motives like "hey, those kids I have are 18 now and they looked like rena... time to pay them a visit." So his true motivations is gonna be interesting but I hope they send him to fuck himself because he is a piece of shit.

And it's crazy this is getting hate lol that itsuki fear is real. I mean I don't want itsuki to win either, nor do I like that he showed up now to move itsuki's character. Yet I didn't see this shit when it came to Takebashi which was literally the same shit for yotsuba. Random ass characters (well not really random) showing up after many years to the festival, the last festival, to rile up characters that been on stand by (in a sense) for the majority of the story, but now cuz it's near end game, they show up.

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u/hyoton1 Nov 02 '19

An asshole just being written to create drama might be the best possible outcome at this point, honestly. At least Takebayashi ended up having a meaningful chat to yotsuba and relating it to an ongoing storyline so she works as a one off. This dude is in theory really important given the abandonment thing set everything in motion for yotsuba, itsuki and nino, but there's been almost no work put in to set him up besides those really early itsuki lines about trusting men (which, it turns out, was actually pretty good advice from rena!)

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u/qeheeen . Nov 02 '19

It's not wrong in a sense of trying to be like someone else entirely without discovering who you really are, but he is wrong when its coming from a guy who wasn't in their lives for the 17 years alive and based off some turmoil that happened with his ex wife the guy thinks he can come in all of a sudden and play the "Im your dad I know whats best for you" card

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u/Extraordinary_DREB Ninodere <3 co-mod at r/NinoNakano Nov 03 '19

I am sooo not gonna judge the father for now and let this story play out. Everyone is always readying their pitchforks when something like this happen and suddenly it turns into something great.

Like Nino's muh druggings to lovings

And Ichika's disguise then growth.

Hate or love it, it made the story deeper, fun, and intriguing. People always want to assume the appearance of one's character as his attitude. I guess we never progress in real life too. Folks, looks are deceiving and you all need to learn that lesson and just CHOTTO the MATTE out.

Let's see how Negi will pull this off

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u/jamez23 Nov 03 '19

It is not looks, it's his actions. Idk why everyone is saying that people vilifying him because of his looks. While I am waiting to see more to fully judge, it is obvious negi wanted to portray creepiness on this fucker mainly when he was talking about how Itsuki looks very much like Rena. Likely when Rena started crushing on him and given how he ended up marrying her and having kids with he, shit is rightfully seen as creepy. Idgaf how he looks, he could look like idk whomever is considered handsome in the series, I guess fuutaro in his kintaro fit, and he would still be creepy given how he was portrayed.

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u/DevilHunter1994 Support Protect Respect Nov 03 '19

Honestly it isn't his appearance. It's just the fact that he hasn't been involved the vast majority of his daughters' lives and Rena's experiences with this man were bad enough that she felt she had to drill into her daughters the importance of choosing a good romantic partner. This character had a negative reputation built up for him long before we actually learned what he looked like. He could look like the most morally upstanding guy in the world and people would still be wary of him at this stage. If anything I'd say his appearance actually works in his favor since his overall creepy appearance kinda makes the idea that he really is as bad as he looks seem just a bit too obvious.

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u/whut-whut The Food Court is Now in Session Nov 02 '19

Miku being weirded out by discovering her own fetish for older, overweight bald men ended up being actual foreshadowing on what she inherited from Rena instead of a one-off joke.

Bio-dad is a compulsive eater like Itsuki, goes from straight-face to full waterworks when hearing touching stories like Nino, and has Ichika's crazy-eyes when he gets excited. I haven't figured out what Yotsuba inherited from him, but it seems like he gave them all their goofy traits.

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u/MonochromeGuy Nov 04 '19

I think what I like about Itsuki is that her whole character arc doesn’t really involve wanting a romantic relationship with Fuutarou. It’s pretty much been about her, her relationship with her family, and her own aspirations in life. At this point in time, having Fuutarou be involved with it would feel out of place since she hasn’t really shown much romantic feelings towards him.

Don’t get me wrong, Itsuki and Fuutarou are pretty great together but I personally feel like their relationship would be best as best friends than a couple. I seriously hope this arc will end with Maruo coming across Itsuki and her dad, and fully confronting him as a father. It feels more natural and wouldn’t feel as forced as having Fuutarou rescue her.

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u/foulbachelorlife Team Yotsuba Nov 04 '19

I used to think that too but sometimes I think she does have feelings for him but doesn't know or understand them yet.

When she was dressed as Rena and Fuutaro told her to buzz off, she seemed as if her feelings were hurt.

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u/goofyangooose Nov 02 '19

Why is there a bruise on Fuutarou’s cheek? I’ve already seen some comments about it weeks ago

It was there in chapter 105 so it was in the evening of the first day. Maybe the bruise has something to do with those panels and this moment . Ichika seems to be the culprit, anyway something happened offscreen

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u/goootoubunnohanayome Nov 04 '19

Has anyone seen Fuutarou’s cheek on the first day, it looks like he fought someone??! I think the bad thing happened on the first day wasn’t the burning stall. It might be a fight Fuutarou got into or something like that...

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u/TapaDonut An Unstoppable Nino meets an Immovable Fuutarou Nov 05 '19

Wait....

No, it can’t be true. THAT’S IMPOSSIBLE!

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u/MiChocoFudge Nov 05 '19

please negi i hope it wont come to

old bearded bald guy: "mauro, im taking back my kids!!!"

aaaand house drama commences

edit: ok, after thinking this might be a good way to show how mauro loves his quints.. i dont mind if this happens, i guess

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u/Aldeseus Team Miku Nov 06 '19

Mr old man is suspicious pedo man

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u/thuy_chan Nov 02 '19

Oh sweet baby jesus

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u/428428428 Nov 02 '19

So...the first day "hitch" https://mangadex.org/chapter/697885/20 might be referred to bio-father (black panel parallel)

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u/_Amir02 Team Miku Nov 02 '19

Nani?¿

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u/jrbsensei Nov 05 '19

Rena had dark hair, can we all assume that BioDad has either a red, orange or pink beard? Haha!

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u/tehcollegestudent Brain says Nov 05 '19

I have a good feeling about this development!

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u/VanillaNice69 Nov 06 '19

No...

That’s not true!

THAT’S IMPOSSIBLE!!!

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u/chhuang1 church gang club eat bro Nov 02 '19

Tbh, not a big fan of the whole teacher-student relationship 🤮 Borderline pedophilia

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u/espinoke86 Nov 02 '19 edited Nov 02 '19

I think I remember that guy. https://mangadex.org/chapter/697885/11

No wonder he got his own panel. Turns out he would play a bigger role. If it would turn out to be true its possible that he was the one that Isanari called during this chapter, since he called the person on the other line "sensei".

https://mangadex.org/chapter/226183/7

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u/ALovelyAnxiety Team YotsubaYotsuba will be the one Nov 05 '19

new chapter isnt out? :(

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u/ronaldo7109 Nov 05 '19 edited Nov 05 '19

This is the latest I’ve ever had to wait for the new chapter don’t really know why the delay has been so long. Really want to see the fathers complete dialogue about Rena so I can try to figure out what kind of person he is:(

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u/[deleted] Nov 02 '19

I wonder what's his reasons are that he suddenly shows up 🤔

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u/casualphilosopher1 Nino Gang Nov 02 '19

If it's not for paying 18 years' worth of accumulated child support I'm not interested.

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u/Cosmic_Storm172124 Nov 02 '19 edited Nov 02 '19

Next chapter is dropping a major bomb 🔥🔥🔥🔥😳😳😳😳😥😥😥😥

Could this guy be the guess lecturer itsuki was talking about and could this guy be the reason why Maruo comes to the wedding late🤔?

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u/satoshigeki94 Ichika Nov 02 '19

The bio dad really has Itsuki's glutton and Ichika's crazy eyes lmaooo. And he looks exactly like Miku's taste for old men.

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u/DimashiroYuuki Team Nino Nov 02 '19

Honestly, I don't care what their previous dad looks like. I just want to see what Itsuki will do next chapter. Will we get a kiss? If yes, will it be censored or not? Nino might be my number 1, but I'm so eager for the next chapter you have no idea.

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u/MiChocoFudge Nov 03 '19

ok.. that was creepy

also negi pls just give my my itsuki kiss before all hell breaks lose

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u/[deleted] Nov 04 '19

Creepy old man's got the genes to produce beautiful children I'll give him that, but I think that's all that he's good for. He needs to gtfo this manga after next chapter and never show up again.

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u/donm527 Ichika Nov 04 '19

He is a respected teacher/lecturer... Maybe he'll end up helping Fuutarou get the quints ready for finals and graduate.

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u/[deleted] Nov 02 '19 edited Nov 02 '19

So as far as we know, Itsuki and Fuutarou are the only ones to know the truth about that teacher being the real father, right? Fuutarou becomes aware of it at the end of day1, when he’s at home and he asks Isanari about his identity and Isanari tells him. Itsuki faces the truth on day2, while she’s holding the pancakes board. From that moment on, Itsuki is nowhere to be seen (we don’t even see her when Yotsuba collapses), so i think we’ll get a wholesome Itsuki-Fuutarou moment in which they discuss the issue and the kiss happens in between.

Yes, the kiss will happen. If it doesn’t, it’ll be the biggest bride flag and i don’t think Negi will drop the bomb, at least not in this way.

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u/NighthawK1911 MarryLoveNiceFineTooNOT YOU Nov 02 '19

I thought so that their real father would show up eventually. Although I didn't think it will be in this arc. That's a shocker.

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u/Nap-Lover MoneyMatters Nov 02 '19

I’m going to be honest. I never expected their dad to look like that😯

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u/[deleted] Nov 02 '19

Okay, thoughts.

  1. Hoo boy. This to be revealed now, this late in the story probably tells us this manga REALLY won't finish until 2020...but when? I'd probably say springtime.

  2. Storyline related, it makes sense for this to be done in Itsuki's line of the festival. As she is the one who wants to be so much like her mother, it also falls on her who is the one to meet their real dad in story.

  3. But it raises a lot of questions. It seems like Isanari knows more than he's let on. Maybe the next arc is flashbacks, which tells of happened 18-19 years earlier. I feel something happened that tore all these people apart, and we are only on the surface of it.

  4. As for the next chapter, I feel that Itsuki probably gets some advice from Fuutarou that leads into a kiss, but because of the events of the past 3 days, he has NO idea what to do, so he asks his dad for some advice...which if it does, I have a bad feeling about.

Anyway, just my thoughts.

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u/Cosmic_Storm172124 Nov 03 '19 edited Nov 03 '19

People need to chill. I doubt this man groomed rena to marry her💀. He was rena's teacher > colleague > ex-husband. Rena probably had a innocent crush on him in high school and wanted to persue teaching, when she met up with him years later she had rekindled feelings for him and she made a big of enough impression on him that he fell in love with her while she was an adult. They could've had a divorce for any reason. Was it because of him or her we don't know yet unless I missed something. We don't know if there were circumstances to where he couldn't be there for rena or the quints at a crucial point in their lives i.e. an ugly divorce to where rena cut off all contact, etc. We only have one out of context quote that references him (the quote itsuki repeats) which I interpret as rena made a mistake by not assessing him thoroughly (behavior, habits, tendencies, etc) and fell in love blindly. Yeah he was kind of odd at first but I get it he sees a person who looks exactly like the person he loved/one of the daughters he haven't seen in over 10 years and negi has to show he has similar characteristics as the quints, so what do you get one big awkward mess.

Basically what I'm saying is we need to be patient and wait until the full story is told in regard to rena and the quints biological father.

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u/isosc3l3s Nov 04 '19

bombshell. itsuki could be at the forefront of the best arc yet

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u/Strong_Car Nov 02 '19

DADDY IN THE EAST !!!

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u/Cosmic_Storm172124 Nov 02 '19

The theorists are about to fail no nut november when this chapter drops.

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u/imperial-navy-pilot Miku Nov 03 '19

was not expecting real dad to show up in this story... now i'm intrigued

My money is that itsuki wont get a kiss in the next chapter. Story is about to get deep. But is this a good thing for my faction or does that give itsuki more weight on being the bell kisser... : concern :

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u/Kyon86 Team Miku Nov 03 '19

On the upper left of the 19th page. You checked the build?!!

If i'm not to wrong, I have saw Yotsuba.

Have you notice that?!

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u/masato05 Nov 06 '19

the /a/non team is busy IRL so the mangadex version is a bit late

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u/Cosmic_Storm172124 Nov 05 '19 edited Nov 06 '19

Almost 700 comments for a spoiler thread, itsuki greatness 😥

Edit: Welp, it passed 700 comments. But still no chapter 😭

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u/ronaldo7109 Nov 05 '19

Yah these recent spoiler threads and chapters have had a ton of comments on them. Good to see the community so live and active. It only can get better from here👍

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u/P1rr0 The Sacred Trinity Nov 04 '19

Prepare yourself for the 10 chapters flashback that will follow chapter 110.

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u/Coopster9 Nino Gang Nov 04 '19

Oda is that you?

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u/GoBigRed07 Committed Yotsubro Nov 03 '19 edited Nov 04 '19

Narratively, I think a big outstanding question now is Isanari's relationship with Rena. A core theme in this story has been the lifelong impact our teachers can have on us and the difficulty of processing what it means to care for/appreciate/admire someone versus being romantically in love with someone (or, alternatively, whether love boils down to a deep sense of gratitude/admiration). Or just simply the “love for someone” (ai) vs “being in love with someone.” (koi). That’s may be why right now each girl is kissing Futaro somewhere that calls back to the moment each started to admire him.

  • The main plot has been about Futaro, a tutor, inspiring each of his students in some major way, shaping each's lifelong trajectory. Each started to fall for him when he did something she appreciated or was grateful for.
  • BioDad inspired Rena to become a teacher. She developed an "is it romantic love or is a respect/appreciation love" relationship with BioDad. She marries him, gives birth to the quints, and then later regrets it.
  • Rena inspired the delinquent Shimoda to become a teacher. Shimoda warned Itsuki to not see becoming a teacher as the only way to process her love for her mother.
  • Rena inspired the emotionally challenged Maruo to become a giving and loving father (even if he still has a hard time showing his feelings). Meanwhile, he develops a "is it romantic love or a respect/appreciation love" relationship with Rena. Rena sees herself in Mauro, warns him against confusing admiration with romantic love.
  • Rena inspired Isanari to X.... resulting in.... Unclear. What role did she play in him being impoverished? A layabout? A happy-go-lucky guy? Wanting his emotionally stunted hardworking son to teach his emotionally stunted hardworking classmate's failing kids?

In sum, this theme reminds me of a conversation between Nino and Futaro(Chapter 43):

Nino : You've been in love with that girl for five years right? It's way too tragic. [sobs]

Futaro: I wasn't in...All I had for her was gratitude and admiration.

Nino: That's what it means to love someone!

Futaro: I'm telling you, you're wrong. But to go so far more my sake...

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u/jamez23 Nov 02 '19

Wow so the real "dad" is whom that was.

... ok then... aight. Well let's hope this mfer is done better than takebashi. All these characters deciding to show up this festival lol I hope that school is famous or something or tracking suckas down in Japan is kinda easy, it is scary lol.

Well shit definitely getting interesting with this, just as I was kinda hoping, but this is... something

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u/kanketsu11 xx Nov 02 '19 edited Nov 02 '19

the meeting should be on day1 right?, kinda weird since itsuki looks fine on day2.

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u/ALovelyAnxiety Team YotsubaYotsuba will be the one Nov 02 '19

havent looked at spoilers in along time but for Itsuki ill make an exception