"The Quintessential Quintuplets, Vol 1" by Negi Haruba

Funny – check!
Great and engaging plot – check!
Amazing drawings – check!

This is a story about Futaro, an excellent student whose family is suffering under crippling debt. To earn extra money, his father secures him a job as a tutor for a new student, but Futaro is very surprised when it turns out it is not just one person he has to tutor, but five identical quintuplets sisters that hate nothing more than doing their homework. (And for a good reason. They are struggling in getting passing grades)
Futaro is set in for a challenge as all of the sisters hate him on sight alone, and will do anything to get away from him. At first, their relationship is full of distrust and dislike, as the story evolves, it turns into something different.

We know very early, in a flashforward from chapter 1, that Futaro someday will marry one of the sisters, and at first that seems unlikely.
Futaro is not your typical hero. He's stuck up, anal about homework and has been very busy in achieving good grades so now his social skills are suffering. But his determination to do everything to make the sisters succeed is surprisingly sweet, and as the story evolves he helps the girls in more ways than just improving their grades.

This is such a cute and funny read.
I love the dynamic between the sisters and Futaro. It's definitely what's keeping me reading.

I'm on volume 9, and I have NO IDEA who he will end up with!
And it's not because I don't have a favourite, I DO!, but then something new and exciting happens, lots of hints and not-so-much hints, and I'm suddenly at a different team, and yet I think I might cry if he doesn't end up with my fav girl.

There are still so many things that can happen in this story, it's no near slowing down, and I'm nervously anticipating the next volume.

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