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Date A Live
Date A Live (Japanese: デート・ア・ライブ Hepburn: Dēto A Raibu?) is a Japanese light novel series written by Kōshi Tachibana and illustrated by Tsunako. An anime adaptation series aired on TV from April 6 to June 22, 2013. Each episode was streamed in lower quality on Niconico a week before its TV premiere. Following the end of the first season, a second season was announced, titled Date A Live II, which began airing from April 12 to June 14, 2014. At the end of the second season, a theatrical film adaptation was announced. It premiered on 22 August 2015. The movie Blueray Disc will be releashed on 26 February 2016 ^^
| Manga |
| Date AST Like |
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| Illustrated by | Kakashi Oniyazu |
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| Published by | Fujimi Shobo |
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| Demographic | Shonen |
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| Magazine | Monthly Dragon Age |
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| Original run | December 9, 2013 |
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| Volumes | 4 |
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PLOT
The series begins with a strange phenomenon called a "spatial quake" devastating the center of Eurasia, resulting at least 150 million casualties. For the next 30 years, smaller spatial quakes plague the world on an irregular basis. In the present, Shido Itsuka, a seemingly ordinary high schooler comes across a mysterious girl at the ground zero of a spatial quake. He learns from his adopted sister Kotori that the girl is one of the "Spirits" from different dimension whom are the real cause of the spatial quakes that occur when they manifest themselves in the real world. Shido's intelligent classmate, Origami Tobiichi, is a sergeant of the AST (Anti-Spirit Team) special unit designed to suppress the threat posed by Spirits to exact revenge of her parents' deaths. He also learns that Kotori is the commander of the airship <Fraxinus>, crewed by the organization <Ratatoskr>, and is recruited to make use of his mysterious ability to seal the Spirits' powers thus stopping them from being a threat to mankind. However, there is a catch: to seal a Spirit's power, he must make her fall in love with him and make her kiss him. When Shido successfully sealed the Spirit he named Tohka Yatogami, she participates in battles at times to support Shido in his cause to save other Spirits by taking them on a date
| Anime television series |
| Directed by | Keitaro Motonaga |
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| Produced by | Chiaki Kurakane |
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| Written by | Hideki Shirane |
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| Music by | Go Sakabe |
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| Studio | AIC PLUS+ |
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| Network | JAITS, Tokyo MX, AT-X, TwellV,Animax |
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| Original run | March 31, 2013 – June 16, 2013
(Niconico broadcast)
April 6, 2013 – June 22, 2013
(Tokyo MX broadcast) |
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| Episodes | 12 + OVA (List of episodes) |
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Season 1
Opening : Date A Live - sweet ARMS
Ending : Save The World - Iori Nomizu
Save My Heart - Iori Nomizu
Strawberry Rain - Iori Nomizu
Shido Itsuka
Voiced by: Nobunaga Shimazaki, Saeko Zōgō (Shiori) (Japanese), Josh Grelle (English
Shido is the protagonist of Date A Live who possesses a strange power that allows him to seal the powers of a Spirit in his body with a kiss; however, the seal will only work if the Spirit holds enough trust or affection toward him to allow it. Although considering trust and affection is a two-way street he probably needs to have a certain amount of affection too, or at least genuinely want to help the spirit from the bottom of his heart which he usually does even before seeking out a spirit. This ability to seal and contain 99% of a spirit's power might have been given to him by Phantom soon after it turned Kotori into the spirit Ifrit. After sealing a Spirit's powers, there will be an invisible link connecting him and the Spirit, through which a portion of the sealed power will flow back to the Spirit if said Spirit's mental state becomes unstable, and back to Shido once the Spirit's mental state restabilizes. So the more angry/distraught/unhappy a spirit is the more power she takes back temporarily while conversely the happier/content/joyful a spirit the more her power level doesn't rise from the minimum level of 1%. He also has the ability to recover from severe injuries which would normally be fatal. This ability is revealed in volume 4 to be due to his having sealed Kotori's power five years prior to the start of the story, and him using her healing ability each time he gets injured.
Tohka Yatogami
Voiced by: Marina Inoue (Japanese), Michelle Rojas (English)
Tohka is the first Spirit saved by Shido. She transfers into his class at the end of the first volume. Shido named her for the date of their first meeting, the 10th (though one kanji is different, the tenth day of a month is pronounced as Tohka). Reine later added the Yatogami surname for her. She has long dark purple hair and purple eyes. She is ignorant of the ways of the world, but nevertheless has a normal sense of embarrassment. She seems to have strong feelings for Shido, which she is shown to be unable to understand when she gets jealous after seeing Shido accidentally kiss Yoshino. However, on learning that Yoshino is a Spirit like herself she decides to support Shido in his cause to save the other Spirits such as Kurumi. She even actively participates in battles at times. As of volume 12 she is confirmed to be in love with Shido.
Yoshino
Voiced by: Iori Nomizu (Japanese), Tia Ballard (English)
The Second Spirit saved by Shido. She has the appearance of a young girl around Kotori's age, with long blue hair and matching eyes. She has a very shy personality, depending on her puppet in her left hand, Yoshinon, most of the time for communication. She is a very docile Spirit, and does not attack the AST when they attack her, not even summoning her Angel, reasoning that if she does not like being hurt, they would also not like it. However when she loses [Yoshinon] she will be at a loss, and when attacked will summon her Angel, but only to defend herself.
Kotori Itsuka
Voiced by: Ayana Taketatsu (Japanese), Bryn Apprill (English)
She has red hair, often in twin tails, and her eyes are red. She is almost always shown with a Chupa Chups lollipop in her mouth. She displays two very different characters, bordering on split personality. When she wears white ribbons in her hair, she is completely relaxed and peaceful and shows an immature, spoiled character that's always clinging to her brother. When on Ratatoskr's mothership, Fraxinus, or dealing with major situations, she switches to black ribbons taking on an arrogant, superior attitude to everyone including Shido, but nevertheless still cares deeply for him as shown on many occasions. This difference in character is revealed in volume 4 to be due to Shido giving her black ribbons as a present for her ninth birthday after sealing her powers, and telling her to be strong as long as she wears them. However she is extremely weak to horror-related things, and reacts strongly to them regardless of character.
Origami Tobiichi
Voiced by: Misuzu Togashi (Japanese), Michelle Lee (English)
A highly intelligent classmate of Shido who is athletic, "beautiful", and the most famous person in Shido's school. She is often described as doll-like in appearance. She has short white hair and blue-grey eyes. She is the only human "girlfriend" of Shido, and out of all the other girls who like him, she is the most aggressive in her pursuit of him showing no bounds in her attempts to learn more about him, get closer to him, or even on trying to get more intimate with him. If not obsessive it borderlines as she does some weird things such as knowing Shido's exact measurements, and dressed up as a maid when he visited her after overhearing he likes maids. Her dating preparations include an energy drink where one drop will increase his energy a hundredfold, chloroform for emergencies, and a pair of handcuffs with masking tape in case she needs to use them. She knew Shido from when they were children living in the same apartment building and him doing something that had a profound impact on her.
Kurumi Tokisaki
Voiced by: Asami Sanada (Japanese), Alexis Tipton (English)
The third Spirit that appears in the series, and the most dangerous. Her Astral Dress, Elohim, is a Gothic Lolita style dress made out of crimson and black frills. While in her Astral Dress, she wears her black hair in twintails, with the hair on her left side longer than her right. While not in her Astral Dress, her hair is tied up slightly differently, with both sides being of the same length except for the fringe covering her left eye, showing only her red right eye. Her left eye is an inorganic golden clock face, representing her remaining time (essentially measuring how much life she has left.) Although she is prone to killing people without a second thought, there is a twisted justice to her actions. She has so far only killed humans who are doing bad things such as surrounding and hassling her when she wanted to be left alone.
| Anime television series |
| Date A Live II |
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| Directed by | Keitaro Motonaga |
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| Produced by | Chiaki Kurakane |
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| Written by | Hideki Shirane |
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| Music by | Go Sakabe |
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| Studio | Production IMS |
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| Network | Tokyo MX, AT-X |
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| Original run | April 12, 2014 – June 14, 2014 |
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| Episodes | 10 + OVA (List of episodes) |
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Season 2
Opening : Trust In You - sweet ARMS
Ending : Day To Story - Kaori Sadohara
Kaguya Yamai
Voiced by: Maaya Uchida (Japanese), Brittney Karbowski (English)
Her personality is outgoing and very highly spoken of herself to the point that she doesn't always think statements through. The resulting effects from her outspokenness can make her seem childish or immature. She has her long orange colored hair braided up. Her main weapon is El Re'em, a lance.
Yuzuru Yamai
Voiced by: Sarah Emi Bridcutt (Japanese), Megan Shipman (English)
Personality-wise, she speaks in a distinctive manner in an almost robotic structure with her intent of the statement stated beforehand in a one word sentence. She is reserved however she will not hesitate to point out the flaws within Kaguya's arguments. She looks identical to Kaguya, albeit being slightly more well-endowed than her twin. Other differences include her hair being braided into three portions and her expression appears listless. Her main weapon is El Nahash, a chain.
Miku Izayoi
Voiced by: Minori Chihara (Japanese), Jad Saxton (English)[2]
The fourth Spirit saved by Shido. Miku is a Spirit that first appears in volume 6 of the series. She is introduced as a student of Rindōji Girls' Academy who first appeared in this world in March, and transferred to Rindōji in April. She also works as a very famous and popular idol singer. She is initially distrusing of men as well as humanity. She has violet hair and eyes, and she is always seen with a yellow flower-shaped hair clip in her hair. Her Astral Dress, Shaddai El Chai, adds a yellow crescent moon to the hair clip, as well as a number of white flowers in her hair. The Astral Dress itself consists of a mainly yellow dress with some blue parts as well as white frills.
| Anime film |
| Date A Live Movie: Mayuri Judgement |
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| Directed by | Keitaro Motonaga |
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| Written by | Hideki Shirane |
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| Studio | Production IMS |
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Released
BD | August 22, 2015
February 26, 2016 |
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Date A Live Movie : Mayuri Judgement
OST : Invisible Date - sweet ARMS
Key Of Truth - sweet ARMS
Mayuri
Voiced by Sora Amamiya (
Japanese)
Mayuri is a Spirit born from the spirit mana that Tohka, Yoshino,Kotori, Kaguya, Yuzuru, and Miku unconsciously emitted due to their stress and desire to have Shido all to themselves. However, since she was born from spirit mana, she would eventually disappear.
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