Date A Live IV

Despite the numerous challenges he has overcome so far, Shidou Itsuka's mission with Ratatoskr is far from over. In a departure from his daily routine, Shidou encounters a starving woman lying on the street and ends up helping her. After the two arrive at her apartment, the woman introduces herself as Nia Honjou—a popular manga artist working under a pen name. However, cutting straight to the chase, Nia reveals that she is also a Spirit and is aware of Shidou's secret operation.

Interested in seeing his charisma firsthand, Nia challenges Shidou to win her over on a date. As he strives for an opportunity to seal her powers, Shidou learns more about Nia and her history with Deus Ex Machina Industries, a name he is all too familiar with...

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Date A Live IV adapts novels 13-16 of Koushi Tachibana's light novel series of the same name.

Date A Live IV was scheduled to premiere in October 2021, but was delayed to 2022 due to various undisclosed circumstances.

The series was released on Blu-ray and DVD in two volumes from August 24, 2022 to September 28, 2022.

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Adaptation:	Date A Live
Prequel:	Date A Live III
Sequel:	Date A Live V

Uchida, Maaya
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"OveR" by Miyu Tomita

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"S.O.S" by sweet ARMS

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Oct 27, 2023

Nezzuyki_kun

Recommended

The anime is constantly evolving. I had already mentioned my surprise when I discovered the previous season (Date A Live III), as the third season had revealed an aspect of the anime that I hadn't suspected in the first 2 seasons. This work has real depth, a touching and well-crafted story to tell, and it's not just a typical harem romantic comedy. This fourth season wonderfully continues this evolution. It seems that Date A Live has finally found an animation studio worthy of its license for this season 4. We had already seen this evolution in animation and pacing in "Date A Bullet," the spin-off ...

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Aug 2, 2022

RitoDeviluke

Mixed Feelings

A run of the mill Harem anime w/ Great art direction and character design, average story ( nothing Groundbreaking) and the same cringe dating extremely powerful women to "seal their power". This is one of those anime that I see as one of my guilty pleasures, as I watch it I know how absurd it can actually be but generally I just kind of embrace it and enjoy the show regardless. This is a male power fantasy, Our main character is perfect in almost everyway, the girls tits will always be almost out at all times and there will be panty shots.
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STORY [4/10] There ... is nothing special or innovative about this story. The story can be boiled down to, see sexy girl, date sexy girl, seal sexy girls extreme powers with a kiss and then make her a part of your Waifu harem. Some people will love it and some people will hate it but this definitely isn't some fantastic story , It is a lot of tropes put together with some good points that kept me watching it.

ART[7/10] The animation and CGI is much improved this season. There are some really well done and beautiful scenes and that cannot be denied. The female characters are very well drawn and animated and are all a pleasure to look at throughout the show. What I noticed is that it seams season 4 received a bit more money and that definitely seemed to go into the animation, CGI and art style.

SOUND [6/10] A well done soundtrack that does its intended job. No soundtracks feel out of place and I enjoyed the openings and closings and listened to them on most episodes. My fiancé also really enjoyed them as I could always catch her bobbing her head and dancing a little to them. There are some song choices that I believe could have been better but overall its not a bad attempt.

CHARACTER [5/10] For me the characters in season 4 of date a live can be boiled down to two words; likeable and shallow. The Main character is your average harem/Ecchi MC, hes altruistic to his detriment and never would even consider not throwing his life away for any of his Waifus. In truth that is really most of his character. To move on to the girls, they are beautiful to look at but really only exist as a plot device to push the main character along the story and assist him when needed. There isnt a whole lot of character building and there are a lot of new female characters added quickly but that is really what I see this show as, Waifu Collector 2.0. Saying all that I still liked the characters enough regardless of their shortcomings

ENJOYMENT [7/10] As I said this is one of my guilty pleasure shows and I really enjoyed the season, that I cannot lie about. I also cannot say that the story is AMAZING or that the character development is a masterpiece. The truth is if you are watching this show you should know what it is. It is a male power fantasy / Waifu collector sim, there is nothing wrong with enjoying shows like that but it is important to understand It for what it is. That being said.... I still love this show but I also understand it is nowhere near a masterpiece.

OVERALL [5/10] For me most everything in this anime is just passable, Its not gonna bring fans from any other Genres as the fan service and Male power fantasy is strong. all in all for me this is your average Ecchi/Harem w/ fanservice. It doesn't innovate or really do anything that interesting other than maybe the dating premise but That is really it. Know what your getting into when you watch this and just enjoy it for what it is.

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Jun 3, 2022

worlddestroyer

Not Recommended

Preliminary (4/12 eps)

ONE Word "DISAPPOINTED"

I will keep this short and this review is about comparing this season to the previous 3. So this is what I felt after watching 9 episodes:-

1)The new studio didn't take the project seriously.

2) The didn't gather enough funds or gathered it but decided to not use it.

3) The animators are not talented enough to recreate the original more detailed character designs.

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