Date A Bullet: Nightmare or Queen

The conclusion to a side story nobody asked for with a character inexplicably favorited by many a gacha game player purely on her design and nothing about her character or role in the series. If you couldn't tell, I'm not a fan.

If you haven't seen season 4 of the main series you may be left scratching your head, as the later half of this spin-off relies on you having knowledge of Kurumi's backstory, which isn't explained until then. Looking at it that way it's slightly more interesting as a continuation of those story beats, but seeing as I still don't care for the character in ... the first place it can't really save a mediocre show. The plot was predictable and boring, telegraphing it's only real twist so hard you wonder why they bothered trying to make it a twist, and making sure to kill off all those boring characters introduced in part one who's names I'm sure you don't remember.

It wasn't horrible, just nothing remarkable here to make it worth watching if you're not some weird Kurumi stan. 7/10

Date A Bullet: Nightmare or Queen (2020)

They say a 10 is something you can watch over and over again. This is one such show and not just because Kurumi Tokisaki is the best girl to come out of all of anime.

The story continues directly from the last Date A Bullet segment and comes to its finale that then leads us to season 4 of the main Date A Live show when it comes out. It paces itself really nicely and has a nice twist to it that makes for a great episode.

The art is superbly done and very high quality.

The soundtrack and sound ... are of really great quality. The OP and ED are both awesome. Kurumi's personal soundtrack is awesome as usual and iconic nowadays.

Characters primarily around Kurumi develop and you really understand her much more than ever before if you are anime only. You see her when she was not even a spirit which was super cute, as well as her friend Sawa. Hibiki makes a great character on this one too. Should see more of her going forwards it would seem.

The episode is really great and memorable, definitely a fine addition to the series. 10/10.

I rated the 1st part 7/10 but this gets 5/10 . It gets messy.

Spoiler Free(not much of a story to spoil to be fair).
Majority of the cast is irrelevant, they're just girls with weapons. Kurumi's past is touched upon and tt's actually straight from the DAL visual novels, in other words canon, but it's done very poorly as if creators didn't want to spoil too much DAL's next season plot. If that was the case they shouldn't have tried to cover Kurumi's background story.
Logic of the story gets even worse. Just like last time, Kurumi's bullets freeze in midair only to go back and hit ... the enemy or Kurumi herself. I guess Kurumi can telekinetically control her bullets now.
Bullet effects make no sense. Aleph, the bullet used to accelarate time, is used to push a huge pillar without touching it as if it was a kinetic attack. Dalet, the bullet used for reversing time, hits enemies, fatally wounding them after, freezing midair and going back.
Higoromo got robbed out of a lot of screentime due to certain plot twist and that hurt her character severely.

Overall, it could have been better.

Story 3/10
Art 7/10
Sound 7/10 (lovely ED)
Character 4/10
Enjoyment 6/10