Date A Live

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Japanese: デート・ア・ライブ
English: Date A Live
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Type: TV
Episodes: 12
Status: Finished Airing
Aired: Apr 6, 2013 to Jun 22, 2013
Premiered: Spring 2013
Broadcast: Saturdays at 01:30 (JST)
Licensors: Funimation
Studios: AIC PLUS+
Genres: ActionAction, FantasyFantasy, RomanceRomance, Sci-FiSci-Fi
Themes: HaremHarem, SchoolSchool, Urban FantasyUrban Fantasy
Duration: 25 min. per ep.
Rating: R - 17+ (violence & profanity)

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Score: 7.141 (scored by 605680605,680 users)
1 indicates a weighted score.
Ranked: #36802
2 based on the top anime page. Please note that 'Not yet aired' and 'R18+' titles are excluded.
Popularity: #155
Members: 1,078,135
Favorites: 10,084

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Synopsis

Thirty years ago, the Eurasian continent was devastated by a supermassive "spatial quake"—a phenomenon involving space vibrations of unknown origin—resulting in the deaths of over 150 million people. Since then, these quakes have been plaguing the world intermittently, albeit on a lighter scale.

Shidou Itsuka is a seemingly average high school student who lives with his younger sister, Kotori. When an imminent spatial quake threatens the safety of Tengu City, he rushes to save her, only to be caught in the resulting eruption. He discovers a mysterious girl at its source, who is revealed to be a "Spirit," an otherworldly entity whose appearance triggers a spatial quake. Soon after, he becomes embroiled in a skirmish between the girl and the Anti-Spirit Team, a ruthless strike force with the goal of annihilating Spirits.

However, there is a third party that believes in saving the spirits: "Ratatoskr," which surprisingly is commanded by Shidou's little sister! Kotori forcibly recruits Shidou after the clash, presenting to him an alternative method of dealing with the danger posed by the Spirits—make them fall in love with him. Now, the fate of the world rests on his dating prowess, as he seeks out Spirits in order to charm them.

[Written by MAL Rewrite]

Background

Date A Live adapts the first 4 novels of Koushi Tachibana's light novel series of the same name.

The anime premiered on March 31, 2013 on Niconico. On TV, it premiered on April 6, 2013 on Tokyo MX. The Blu-ray Box features an additional 35 minutes worth of content. Due to the Blu-ray Box being released after FUNimation Entertainment's release, this additional material was not included in any English release.

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"Date A Live (デート・ア・ライブ)" by sweet ARMS
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Ending Theme

1: "Hatsukoi Winding Road" by Kayoko Tsumita, Risako Murai, Midori Tsukimiya (eps 1)
2: "SAVE THE WORLD" by Iori Nomizu (eps 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12)
3: "SAVE MY HEART" by Iori Nomizu (eps 3, 7, 9, 11)
4: "Strawberry Rain (ストロベリーレイン)" by Iori Nomizu (eps 5)




Reviews

Feb 19, 2025
Date a Live is a Light Novel, written by Koushi Tachibana and illustrated by Tsunako, released in 2011 and finished in 2020 with 22 volumes.

Its anime adaptation was released in 2013 by studio AIC PLUS, having 12 episodes and an OVA, After the success of its first season Date a Live was renewed for its second season, but with its first studio change, from AIC PLUS it went to the studio IMS PRODUCTION (Masou Gakuen HXH, The Testament of the Sister New Devil) having 10 episodes and an OVA, His film was released in 2015, by the same studio as the second season, titled Date ...
Nov 12, 2024
Mixed Feelings
When I first started this anime, I thought that this was an immediate drop because of how they sexualize the girls in the show a lot and it felt like one of those generic harem anime's where the mc is all shy and nervous but pulls all the girls. However, bc I like fight scenes, I continued watching the anime (ngl those fight scenes were pretty good for it's time).

However, my perspective changed a bit, as I realized this anime was more trying to funny (and I personally did find it funny) than rather serious.

Overall, I recommend this to those who find the ...
Feb 25, 2025
Date a Live… is just a generic auto-insertion cliché show, with the most boring protagonist that even Kirito feels a true character in comparison. Everything is related around the bland protagonist and his harem of generic waifus. The plot is the girls falling in love with him in the flattest and cliché form meanwhile they have dull melodramatic and fanservice scenes. The conflict or seriousness is completely stupid and meaningless. The protagonist ignores all of the consequences of everything that happens because: “nobody will hurt my waifus. I must protect all of them”.

Maybe, the unique good thing of this show is Kurumi Tokisaki. At least, ...

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