Date A Live V

Shidou Itsuka faces greater peril than ever due to his continued involvement with Ratatoskr. He has already sealed 10 Spirits, and Isaac Westcott, leader of Deus Ex Machina Industries, has finally decided to kill Shidou and plunder the Spirits' powers for himself.

To achieve his goal, Isaac declares an all-out war against Ratatoskr, forcing the organization to exhaust its resources to ensure Shidou's survival. Despite being severely outnumbered and outmatched, a glimmer of hope exists in the form of the Spirit of Time, Kurumi Tokisaki. Shidou must seal and acquire Kurumi's power to travel to the past and confront the Spirit of Origin—the catalyst that started it all.

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Yatogami, Tooka Main

Inoue, Marina Japanese

Itsuka, Kotori Main

Taketatsu, Ayana Japanese

Itsuka, Shidou Main

Shimazaki, Nobunaga Japanese

Tokisaki, Kurumi Supporting

Sanada, Asami Japanese

Tobiichi, Origami Supporting

Togashi, Misuzu Japanese

Yoshino Supporting

Nomizu, Iori Japanese

Izayoi, Miku Supporting

Chihara, Minori Japanese

Kyouno, Natsumi Supporting

Mano, Ayumi Japanese

Yamai, Yuzuru Supporting

Bridcutt, Sarah Emi Japanese

Yamai, Kaguya Supporting

Uchida, Maaya Japanese

Iizuka, Aya Producer

Umeda, Masakatsu Producer

Matsuda, Taiyou Producer

Nakagawa, Jun Director, Episode Director

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Jun 26, 2024

WhisperingCloud9

Recommended

This Date a live season was totally a masterpiece in every aspect. The OP and ED were great, the animation was amazing, the entire storyline was well adapted and every character played their role perfectly and that’s why it was a great watch for me. This season made me tear up more than once and the last episode was totally heartbreaking for me and it ended with a cliffhanger so, I am hoping that they adapt the rest volumes of the light novel which is enough for another season. I am really looking forward to another season. Date a Live has its own legacy which ... started years ago and to be honest each season was really fulfilling and enjoyable. Shido is the best MC any Harem Ecchi Romance anime ever got.
Every episode of this season from start to finish was a masterpiece. This season was wholesome and hope they make another season ^^

Reviewer’s Rating: 10

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Jun 30, 2024

robert788

Mixed Feelings

Well-written

Date A Live V (2024)

I want this to be a 10, I want it if not to be a 9, but I can't get past a 5.

The show is the continuation as you expect but now the story is not really the fun dating with some battles but it is also not quite the battles you want it to be either. The show sits in the middle of what it is trying to achieve and gives me at least a mixed feeling.

Does the story go full steam ahead? Yes.
Is it satisfying? Not really.
Is it bloated? Yes.
Do the love connections make any ... difference more than just shouting SHIDO! SHIDO! SHIDO! Over and over? Nope.
Does Kurumi still come out as the best girl? Yes, yes she does.
Can we believe it took them that long to figure out who Deus was? Apparently.
Has it ever been the same since Origami stopped being a pervert? No, it has not.

The show is at its climax, everything has come together and now we are met with the showdown, it is just a shame it felt quite hollow. The show looks beautiful in terms of characters for definite. Everything was good but not the best, it has been better before.

My biggest issue is that even with the ending, I don't feel like the story came together but it was just cramming a mass of chapters into 12 episodes. Maybe it was too quick, maybe it needed a climax movie to follow. I think now for me the show has run its course, time to leave it alone. 5/10.

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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Jun 26, 2024

captainkunnka

Not Recommended

If you disliked S4, you'll dislike S5, and vice versa.

Date A Live has long since stopped being aware of how silly their show is. The things people are talking about haven't been the case since 2014. I'm surprised it's been getting this much praise.

1 - Melodramatic as HELL. Nothing about this season is self-aware or not taking itself seriously. Feels like I'm watching a spanish soap opera with the amount of cheap twists or drama. For example, the main villain is completely capable of acting as though he's defeated 5 times in a single episode, just to whip something out of his sleeve (or something ... happens that feels like pure luck), and he'll be like "I'm playing 5D chess maaaan". Mindless character-killing on par with Akame ga Kill, to the point where I was completely devoid of emotion to watching these characters die. Two fake-out deaths that I can think of.

2 - Focus on fight scenes with 'big' stakes (when we know nothing will happen). Fights being a scream-fest (the last episode, every girl just screams the name of their angel and there's that).

3 - Lazy comedy scenes with jokes being oversimplified and with zero charm.

4 - Shido being such a weird character you can't even tell if he's supposed to be a playboy or a virgin. The confident Shido scenes gave me a headache, I audibly groaned.

5 - Laziness. Intriguing elements like the AST's involvement in the war oversimplified to safe on effort. Huge world-building details that change the way I view this world omitted until the last second. Shido whipping out powers we've never seen before to end a threat, because we've made the villain too smart.

6 - Ugly animation. Distractingly bad in fight scenes, and the studio completely gave up on animating facial expressions. Heavy hitting emotional scenes come off as odd because Shido will have the most mind-bending revelation thrown at him and not change his expression. It feels like I'm watching a child role-play with plastic, stiff figurines.

7 - Shido! Shido! Master! Shido! Darling! Shido! Shido! Boy! Shido-sama! Shin! Onii-chan! This is the extent of the dialogue whenever the group of spirits shows up. It literally gives me a headache, and I cannot understand why they felt the need to include the SAME scene so many times. That's pretty much all the girls do, too. In the one scene where they're not fighting, they're reminiscing on the things Shido did for them (and swooning over those memories).

In its defense though, I loved the flashback episodes. But the rest is simply bad. The show is DESPERATE to get you to feel something, and I simply felt nothing. I never sympathized with Mio, or Shido, or Ike, or Karen, or anyone. S1 was never desperate to grab you in, it did so effortlessly. S5 feels like they're simply trying too hard.

Reviewer’s Rating: 4

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