

In the anime _The Quintessential Quintuplets_ , the quintuplets have halluces
separated from Index toes.

Yotsuba's feet, from Season 1:[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/rzADU.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/rzADU.jpg)

Itsuki's feet, from Season 2:[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ULRs3.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ULRs3.jpg)

It's said that in the past, Japanese wear wooden sandals and therefore get
this kind of separation. However, in the anime, the quintuplets don't wear
shoes at home.

At their fancy home, from S1: [![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/o0kAp.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/o0kAp.jpg)
In the cottage during vacation, from S2:[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Y6o5K.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Y6o5K.jpg)

[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/kdOaS.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/kdOaS.png)

[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/yjHLK.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/yjHLK.jpg)

My guess is that they wore wooden sandals or the like back in their childhood
and formed the separations. But childhood isn't very long, babyhood subtracted
when one doesn't wear any shoes. **Can wearing wooden sandals in childhood
form a lifelong separation between the hallux and the Index toe? How long does
it take to form such a separation by wearing wooden sandals and the like?**

**If the above idea doesn't make sense, how can a modern Japanese form such a
separation?**


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Can wearing wooden sandals in childhood form a lifelong separation between the hallux and the Index toe?


Partial answer:

Maybe this a false alarm.

At least, this may not apply to Itsuki s1. See S01E04 when Itsuki, Fuutarou
and Raiha are taking a photo.

> [![enter image description
> here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/xt2mI.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/xt2mI.png)

S1 and S2 obviously had different animators, so this may be an animation
adaptation thing.


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