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Jun 6, 2014 10:13 PM

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Ugh, Shido is such a lump of trash. Miku told you why she hates men, so you keep twisting it to "humans", pulling a "not all men!" on her, and then acting all Nice Guy. Was his original character design fitted with an oversized fedora? Her reasons for hating men aren't even just "one man did this to me", literally thousands of men treated her like trash, you're not only proving her point but also ignoring her feelings and needs to satisfy your own. "All men are pigs", you're right Miku, especially so in regards to Shido.

Oh well, at least he's dead now, where he belongs. Gotta love them killing off a guy to give a girl character development for once, even if I'm predicting some sorta time reversing bs with Kurumi to bring him back to life or something. It's not like she's doing anything else vaguely plot relevant.
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Jun 6, 2014 10:36 PM
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Miku had used her power to control them but wasn't work. The anime hadn't showed it. Her power is useless with them. It's bad.
But next ep, she'll protect Shidou in front of Tohka's attack with her power.
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Jun 6, 2014 10:56 PM

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Miku is kewl.

straggy said:
Oh well, at least he's dead now, where he belongs.

Couldn't agree more.
Jun 6, 2014 11:26 PM

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Date a Live is improving every episode
had good battles in this episode and the plot was also very good
was counted the past of Miku and seems that she also began to be affected by Shido, will be another to join the harem
But Shido was attacked and Tohka got desperate, something very bad happened
shame we only have one more episode
the outcome of what will happen with Tohka seems that will be for a future season ..
Jun 6, 2014 11:36 PM

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I hope ss3 will announce soon!
One ep left.
Jun 7, 2014 1:58 AM

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miku will most likely joing the harem (i don't know but probably there will be a third season)
now shido has to wake up to seal tohka's powers
Jun 7, 2014 2:11 AM

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This show needs a season 3, seriously!

I love the dynamics to all the characters, even if the back stories for most of them are super cliche. Hopefully they pull a cliffhanger and announce a second cour starting the week after next or something :D

Sigh, I'm gonna miss these characters a lot. I don't think the twins have been developed sufficiently, and I want to know more about the second and first Spirits!
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Jun 7, 2014 2:16 AM
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Time for sum Tohka action >:D
Agreed, needs a Third Season, or at least a few filler episodes. Cmon!
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Jun 7, 2014 3:17 AM

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I dislike Miku a lot less now, more like the hate has disappeared completely.

I don't think the animation quality was bad. If you compare it to the first few episodes, it was still a lot better.

Demon king? As in Hataraku Maou-sama? Okay, just kidding :p

I think, Miku will help Shido here. Her or Kurumi!
Jun 7, 2014 3:26 AM

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What the hell. How will they explain everything in just one episode?
Jun 7, 2014 4:22 AM

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Not really suprised for Miku being useless, it's not like she is the fighting type, except mind control she didn't really show anything, sure far from Kurumi's universality, like healing, damaging, cloning, teleport, memory reading and who knows what else. I only rememberl Miku showing pretty badass moves at the start of ep 05 agains AST.
Jun 7, 2014 5:44 AM

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Aw yeah! This episode was pretty amazing. I can see Miku's dere side incoming xD

I bet something epic is going to happen next episode. It always happens when a character is driven beyond rage mode watching their dear ones slaughtered infront of them. 5/5 for this episode ^^
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Jun 7, 2014 7:12 AM

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go miku finally doing something useful. what is the go with this demon king
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Jun 7, 2014 8:30 AM

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Shidou !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Jun 7, 2014 8:32 AM
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I'm seeing a lot of people ranting why Miku didn't do anything to help save Shido. But I honestly believe what she did, or rather not did, was quite reasonable. She still hasn't trusted Shido for her to care about him even just for a bit. So it's not surprising for Miku to just stand there and let Shido die.
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Jun 7, 2014 8:50 AM

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shadedclan said:
I'm seeing a lot of people ranting why Miku didn't do anything to help save Shido. But I honestly believe what she did, or rather not did, was quite reasonable. She still hasn't trusted Shido for her to care about him even just for a bit. So it's not surprising for Miku to just stand there and let Shido die.


Miku doesn't trust him. She doesn't trust anybody.
Her past actually does do a fairly good job of explaining why she's such a bitch. Hatred shifted to the villains now, where it belongs. Helps that the bickering between Miku and Shido was well-done and that Miku's starting to go into "Baka" mode so she doesn't feel like so much of a bitch.
I especially dislike Jessica and Ellen; while the latter at least has the power to back up the asinine arrogance, the former has jack shit and it pisses me off. Isaac is just an ass, which is to be expected.

And now, at last, with one episode left in the season, Dark Tohka makes her debut. I look forward to watching her kick massive amounts of DEM ass.
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Jun 7, 2014 11:41 AM

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Hum... Why was Miku standing there and watching Shido getting killed? Kinda bluffed me, she could have tried something.

So it's dark Tohka time! :P
I really wonder how they'll conclude everything in one episode, it seem impossible to me. It look like the beginning of a new arc, but it will end in the next episode. Well, we'll see. I know nothing about the LN so there is probably a good explanation for this.

I wanted to see Kotori come in as an angel :(

The production in general in that episode was kinda... odd.
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Jun 7, 2014 12:44 PM

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Season... III.... pls?

Isaac probably has mini earplugs in his ears anyway, so GG.

Did anybody notice that he sort of looks like... Soul from Soul Eater? Probably just me.

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Jun 7, 2014 12:57 PM

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Wasn't Date a Live quite profitable? Don't get why that lazy-ass animation.
Their faces were just off a number of times and there were more than a couple off still frames. I found the scene with a close-up of Shiro in a pool of blood and Thoka's screams in the background and her offscreen transformation especially irritating. For a second I thought the video froze...

That being said, Miku is finally becoming more likeable and less annoyingly arrogant.
Kurumi owning that robot army all by herself is pretty badass.

Looking forward to the final episode and I hope Thoka will be rescued (from herself) and things wrap up nicely. Ending this season on some kind of cliffhanger would be disappointing as I'm not seeing myself reading the novels and waiting for another season would be an obvious pain in the ass.
Jun 7, 2014 1:39 PM

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Damn only 1 episode left. There better be plans for a 3rd season.
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Jun 7, 2014 1:55 PM

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Real shame with the budget ;/

BeatzMe said:
Wasn't Date a Live quite profitable? Don't get why that lazy-ass animation.

It wasn't from what I've heard. Ny1 to confirm?
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Jun 7, 2014 3:12 PM

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Shido you need to regenerate faster or the kingdom will be inverted.

Great episode!!!
Jun 7, 2014 4:01 PM

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I think this was my favorite episode of the season.

Can't wait to see the last episode.
Jun 7, 2014 7:55 PM

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DGemu said:
Real shame with the budget ;/

BeatzMe said:
Wasn't Date a Live quite profitable? Don't get why that lazy-ass animation.

It wasn't from what I've heard. Ny1 to confirm?


The first season averaged 8.3k disc sales per volume, which is quite good. DAL isn't Infinite Stratos or anything but it is safe to say that the show is making Kadokawa a healthy profit.
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Jun 7, 2014 8:02 PM

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Excellent episode, I really didn't notice any dip in quality on the animation, except for the pointless black censor in one scene and Tohka's lips being out of sync near the end. Mostly because I was too caught up in how EPIC it was.

Miku's grown on me, now that's she's being all tsundere and we find out about her tragic past. Plus, I'm a sucker for blue hair and huge boobs.

I do have to wonder what the hell happened to her at the end, though. She just kinda stood there and watched Shido get ran through. Maybe she got blocked off from the rest of them, and the glass in the isolation chamber seems to resist Spirit powers.

Kurumi continues to be freaking awesome. Too bad none of the Spirits decided to help out Origami in her fight, Kurumi clones included.

Only one more episode to go ... sad that this only got 10 episodes. Considering they had to pad out the beginning with fanservice and dates, though, I can understand not adding in another arc. I'm glad that we were able to get two thoroughly fleshed out arcs, at least.
Jun 7, 2014 8:46 PM

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"No one can replace Tohka" nice nice nice shidou!
Jun 7, 2014 10:51 PM
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Tohka... no matter how cute you are... WHY ARE YOU SO STUPID?! Instead of trying to break the glass... just kill Ike... I mean the fucking retard is on that side of the glass anyways he kinda deserves to die... *sigh* by the way why the hell hasn't his stupid flame regen kicked in yet?

Oh and I agree with Straggy and just one more thing... it's not just thousands... I'd say it's even more... maybe tens of thousands or hell even hundreds of thousands. It didn't really say how many fans she had just that she was popular.
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shadedclan said:
I'm seeing a lot of people ranting why Miku didn't do anything to help save Shido. But I honestly believe what she did, or rather not did, was quite reasonable. She still hasn't trusted Shido for her to care about him even just for a bit. So it's not surprising for Miku to just stand there and let Shido die.

This is a bit of a stretch in my opinion. She stood around doing nothing for way too long. A few posts say she tried to take control of Isaac and Ellen in the novel, but that doesn't really fix the problem that the anime didn't show it (at least not yet(?)).

Doing nothing to protect Shido from a powerful DEM wizard (Ellen) who seems to be subservient to a -man- (Isaac) doesn't seem like a logical action for Miku at all. >.>

I think I would have liked to see Maou Tohka (is that what I should be calling her?) for more than 1 episode, but glancing at the translation on baka tsuki, she gets less than 2 chapters, so it's not like the anime staff are condensing it. O.o


Omnicast said:
Tohka... no matter how cute you are... WHY ARE YOU SO STUPID?! Instead of trying to break the glass... just kill Ike... I mean the fucking retard is on that side of the glass anyways he kinda deserves to die... *sigh* by the way why the hell hasn't his stupid flame regen kicked in yet?

Hm.... doesn't seem like a logical action in my opinion. Killing Isaac doesn't contribute anything to protecting Shido, and since Isaac has little, if any, combat ability, he's really not a priority target. Ellen would probably retaliate immediately by beheading Shido too. O.o
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Take him hostage then? *shrug*

Hmm seems like it's a better plan then just killing him. Wasn't thinking then since it was so facepalm worthy... anyways Ellen prioritizes smug bastard's face so it should work out in the end.
Jun 8, 2014 12:02 AM

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Honestly, I hate this bad guy not because he is one, it's because he basically has no motive other than to be evil and destroy the world. Then right at the end of the episode, he just starts to spout a bunch of nonsense (as of right now anyways). It's just... dumb and aggravating to me. Outside of that, I liked the episode and Miku's back story.
Jun 8, 2014 4:22 AM

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Seeing Miku's backstory, I don't dislike her as much, but why the hell did she just stand there while Shido was getting murdered?

Origami was pretty awesome as usual.

Downside for this episode was ,without a doubt, the animation quality.
Jun 8, 2014 4:30 AM

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I like Miku's character design. I think one of the best in DAL too bad she is yuri though.
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Jun 8, 2014 7:17 AM
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Can't believe Miku just stood there while Shidou was being pierced by Ellen's sword...
What in the world has Tohka done?

that is exactly how i think,why did miku just stood there like nothing happen,shock?
Anyway,its easy to know what happen to tohka,she became crazy and turn into dark tohka in the ending song.Easy to guess.
Jun 8, 2014 9:22 AM

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Benphyre said:
I like Miku's character design. I think one of the best in DAL too bad she is yuri though.


I'm sure Shido can change that xD

So now we learn Miku's past. I don't really dislike her anymore. And Tohka finally goes in inverse form. Guess we'll only have for one episode and I'm sure Shido will stop her by the power of words.

Hoping we find out what Kurumi is up to next episode because she just disappeared after last episode and I'm sure she's up to something.
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Takata said:
shadedclan said:
I'm seeing a lot of people ranting why Miku didn't do anything to help save Shido. But I honestly believe what she did, or rather not did, was quite reasonable. She still hasn't trusted Shido for her to care about him even just for a bit. So it's not surprising for Miku to just stand there and let Shido die.

This is a bit of a stretch in my opinion. She stood around doing nothing for way too long. A few posts say she tried to take control of Isaac and Ellen in the novel, but that doesn't really fix the problem that the anime didn't show it (at least not yet(?)).

Doing nothing to protect Shido from a powerful DEM wizard (Ellen) who seems to be subservient to a -man- (Isaac) doesn't seem like a logical action for Miku at all. >.>

I think I would have liked to see Maou Tohka (is that what I should be calling her?) for more than 1 episode, but glancing at the translation on baka tsuki, she gets less than 2 chapters, so it's not like the anime staff are condensing it. O.o


Omnicast said:
Tohka... no matter how cute you are... WHY ARE YOU SO STUPID?! Instead of trying to break the glass... just kill Ike... I mean the fucking retard is on that side of the glass anyways he kinda deserves to die... *sigh* by the way why the hell hasn't his stupid flame regen kicked in yet?

Hm.... doesn't seem like a logical action in my opinion. Killing Isaac doesn't contribute anything to protecting Shido, and since Isaac has little, if any, combat ability, he's really not a priority target. Ellen would probably retaliate immediately by beheading Shido too. O.o


Oh I was kind of disappointed they were going to wrap it up in one episode, but if it's that short in the LN, I guess I won't be too disappointed.
Jun 8, 2014 4:58 PM
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wow,Facts began to discover a little bit
Jun 8, 2014 7:34 PM
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Can't wait for the new episode,the shows getting interesting and awesome.Tohka can't stand anymore?I think she when turn to devil she lost all her memories and evil.though
Jun 8, 2014 8:04 PM
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the animation flunked big time

and shido you're getting whiny why?

i'm starting to hate you shido, now you're such a whiny b*tch~~~~~~~~~~
Jun 8, 2014 8:38 PM

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In the name of Holy Pancakes, what happened? o.o OMG! Miku, get yo lazy pretty bum over to the dying Shido and flipping save him like the powerful Spirit you are. OH MY GOD, like seriously. ;_; Oh god, Shidddoooo ;_; I'm just...too much feels...I don't know what to do. Poor Tohka. Why can't Yoshino fly into the building and save everyone? WHYYYYYY?!?!?!?! WHY MUST YOU DO THIS TO ME ~_~
Jun 8, 2014 8:44 PM
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Im curious about this "Demon lord" that Isaac was speaking of. Good episode though, and a good cliffhanger for the season finale.
Jun 8, 2014 11:12 PM

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Ending gave me goosebumps. No joke.
Jun 9, 2014 5:12 AM

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damn, this show has better action than black bullet or gokukoku no brynhildr

it's a shame though that the budget is so low this season.

Shidou! Regenerate your ass, summon Kurumi's Zaphkiel and shoot the bad guys in the face! Also, Kotori could do something useful, Efreet's help would be nice!

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Jun 9, 2014 8:10 AM
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This season covers Vol. 5, 6 and 7.... 10 eps just really cut short :(

hope to see the OVA DAL encore! :D
Jun 9, 2014 11:28 AM

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Poor Tohka, hope Shido will wake up and save her.

Wasn't expecting to hear that Miku used to be a human. And actually, why didn't she do anything when Ellen stabbed Shido or was about to kill him. What the hell ...
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One thing i don't really understand is, why are people getting so emotionol because shido got stabbed? I mean in one off the first episodes origami shot off half his stomach but shido just healed and got up like nothing even happent.. Why is this time any different then that time? did ellen have some kind of magic healing blocking poison on her blade?
Jun 9, 2014 4:20 PM

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[quote=Ragna92]I'm sure Shido can change that xD[/quote]
He will... find a compromise...!! Yes he will be number one in the future but....


Ragna92 said:
Hoping we find out what Kurumi is up to next episode because she just disappeared after last episode and I'm sure she's up to something.

In the anime, she just said she had another businesses to take care at the DEM facility. However in the LN there was a explanation about what she was doing. Let's just say that it's a tip for the evolution of the story, however having read till vol. 9 (included) I still dunno where to fit this info... maybe vol. 10 has the answer, since there will be a confrontation involving 3 spirits.

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Im curious about this "Demon lord" that Isaac was speaking of.

The "Demon King" is the inversed form of Tohka. During this inversed form, the spirit is completely out of control and is dominated by anger and destruction. There's is still not much information regarding the inversed form, since so far only two spirits ever inversed tohka and another on the latest volume.

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Regenerate your ass, summon Kurumi's Zaphkiel and shoot the bad guys in the face!

How could he summon Angels that he didn't seal inside of him yet? Foolish comment!!

linchpin said:
Also, Kotori could do something useful, Efreet's help would be nice!

You can forget this.... her next serious intervention is only on volume 9, so Kotori is out of the picture.

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One thing i don't really understand is, why are people getting so emotionol because shido got stabbed? I mean in one off the first episodes origami shot off half his stomach but shido just healed and got up like nothing even happent.. Why is this time any different then that time? did ellen have some kind of magic healing blocking poison on her blade?

Not that it's going to happen, but there was the possibility that Ellen creates a shield around the wound or around Shido preventing the wounds from closing.
It was said before in the LN that if the damage is too great, not even Kotori's powers will be able to save him, reason why everyone is so worried.




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Jun 9, 2014 7:59 PM

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lol Miku just stood there the whole time.

Also, I don't think a race against time to save Tohka is the best time for Miku to divulge her entire backstory.
Jun 9, 2014 8:04 PM

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At least they animated Shido kinda okay, but damn, Miku us freaken useless at the end.
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Someone say Kurumi will have a inverse state on following volume light manga.
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OMG the quality of the animation is really depressing that I had hard time watching it !!

If they keep this up I might find this series season to be unsatsifying
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