Is this gonna be the final season?

I think season 5 will cover up to volume 20, which will leave last two volumes for a movie

They are still on Vol 18, which should be done by next episode (7)

Vol 19 is almost as long and deserves 4 episodes like this one. I'll still assume 3 episodes out of expecting the worst.

So remains Vol 20-22. And 1-2 episodes. So I don't know what they'll do. An anime original episode? Because no way they'll do vol 20 in two episodes (Unless special 48 min episodes, and we would have been informed by now).

And as someone said, OP contains nothing for Vol 20. DAL never has changed OP visuals for different arcs keeping the same song.

It will be dope if they adapt vol 11.5 and Shido's backstory to fill up an episode and end on Vol 19 by ep 12.

Conclusion: DAL won't be fully adapted by this season. However, it's doubtful if they'll make a separate season for the next three volumes. Probably a bunch of OVAs. Vol 20 and 21-22 adapted together will be kinda tonal whiplash, that's why I think so.

They are still on Vol 18, which should be done by next episode (7)

Vol 19 is almost as long and deserves 4 episodes like this one. I'll still assume 3 episodes out of expecting the worst.

So remains Vol 20-22. And 1-2 episodes. So I don't know what they'll do. An anime original episode? Because no way they'll do vol 20 in two episodes (Unless special 48 min episodes, and we would have been informed by now).

And as someone said, OP contains nothing for Vol 20. DAL never has changed OP visuals for different arcs keeping the same song.

It will be dope if they adapt vol 11.5 and Shido's backstory to fill up an episode and end on Vol 19 by ep 12.

Conclusion: DAL won't be fully adapted by this season. However, it's doubtful if they'll make a separate season for the next three volumes. Probably a bunch of OVAs. Vol 20 and 21-22 adapted together will be kinda tonal whiplash, that's why I think so.

season 5 ends at volume 19, the leaks have proven it. I don't think there will be a season 6, because volume 20 and 21/22 really don't go together and there is a year and a half that separates the two.

I think that for a question of cost, logic and marketing, it would be two films: one film for volume 20 and another for volume 21/22 with ova.

Most anime end with movies...

I hope so (char limit)

haha dude, stop. Show me this poll so I can laugh

sorry, I meant total visual change according to arc, to make it clear.

yes 5 episodes should be the goal. I am lowkey anti-jinxing at this point. Also W to the studio.

I'd be stoked for a s2 of Houseki no Kuni too, we are more similar than you first believed.

hahaha oh wow, this must mean its the best show ever! Please dude, we all know dal fans spammed this and it has zero meaning whatsoever but you keep making new accounts and rating it a 10, I hope that will change something

Sure. 30k people are watching this on mal so I'm pretty sure a big portion of the voters are rabid dal-fans wanting to get the show high on the list, otherwise I doubt it would go into the top 10 considering the other shows airing and the popularity of those. If people can't tell this poll is invalid idk what to think

Sure this season might be liked more but I think it's more due to people who watch other shows aren't voting as much cause they don't care. I didn't even know this poll existed and you know who was top ranked every week when the last dal season aired. I feel like that should tell you something about what audiences are mostly voting for these polls

Sure this season might be liked more but I think it's more due to people who watch other shows aren't voting as much cause they don't care. I didn't even know this poll existed and you know who was top ranked every week when the last dal season aired. I feel like that should tell you something about what audiences are mostly voting for these polls

Yeah I can tell your are one of them. I know it has a loyal fanbase that think it's the second coming of Christ so good for you guys that it sells well. The fact is though that it's nothing special, first season was interesting, last eps of s4 was pretty good and the story is ok in this season. Other than that it really is another trash harem with a dimwit mc and a lot of bad CG animation. I'm watching it since these kinds of shows are my guilty pleasure but I'm not dellusional enough to say it's a great or even good show, maybe good in the harem genre. Just a 6-7/10 and thats fine!

Yeah I can tell your are one of them. I know it has a loyal fanbase that think it's the second coming of Christ so good for you guys that it sells well. The fact is though that it's nothing special, first season was interesting, last eps of s4 was pretty good and the story is ok in this season. Other than that it really is another trash harem with a dimwit mc and a lot of bad CG animation. I'm watching it since these kinds of shows are my guilty pleasure but I'm not dellusional enough to say it's a great or even good show, maybe good in the harem genre. Just a 6-7/10 and thats fine!

Yeah I can tell your are one of them. I know it has a loyal fanbase that think it's the second coming of Christ so good for you guys that it sells well. The fact is though that it's nothing special, first season was interesting, last eps of s4 was pretty good and the story is ok in this season. Other than that it really is another trash harem with a dimwit mc and a lot of bad CG animation. I'm watching it since these kinds of shows are my guilty pleasure but I'm not dellusional enough to say it's a great or even good show, maybe good in the harem genre. Just a 6-7/10 and thats fine!

Cry me a river, stop getting so worked up over some comments I made of your favorite show. Imagine reporting someone for having different opinions than you, sounds a bit like a snowflake to me but you do you

Clearly you are trolling my guy. New account and you trashtalking every other anime says it all. Strange you haven't been banned yet. Although you probably have multiple accounts to rage bait, troll and give a 1 rating to shows on

Hope we get some OVA's or movies to finish things up. Still hard to believe we're near the end of this series though.

Yeah I can tell your are one of them. I know it has a loyal fanbase that think it's the second coming of Christ so good for you guys that it sells well. The fact is though that it's nothing special, first season was interesting, last eps of s4 was pretty good and the story is ok in this season. Other than that it really is another trash harem with a dimwit mc and a lot of bad CG animation. I'm watching it since these kinds of shows are my guilty pleasure but I'm not dellusional enough to say it's a great or even good show, maybe good in the harem genre. Just a 6-7/10 and thats fine!

@ColCasey

It really sells well, it's not me who says that but the Oricon statistics which are the official data for Japanese anime.

The first 3 seasons were classic ecchi comedy for the animated version, with some periods of drama, they were not very faithful to the LN on several important points, we are seeing the consequences currently, with many questions from spectators, but there were already some interesting foreshadowings. I looked at it as something fun but mundane, the serious stuff really started at the end of season 4, then this season, just like the rest will be. Which corresponds to volumes 16 to 22, if date a live is very appreciated it is because of these volumes, which makes it a top 5 of the LN for the history, the morality and the themes covered for these volumes. We are very far from the stupid ecchi harem in high school dxd. Kabbalah and the cultural and religious references are very numerous, as are the morals that result from it. We have references like the painting of the French revolution of 1830, the Picasso painting... But you have to know how to spot them. Then the themes of mourning, suicide, drugs, child abuse, depression, despair, the disease of alexithymia are addressed... We are on another level, nothing comparable to season 1. From from the next episode, you will see the evolution of the MC until the end, but it suffers from the poor adaptation of the ln of seasons 1 and 3, that's why you think it stupid.

Example: Engage kiss had excellent animation from the A1 picture studio, the fights were beautiful, yet the story was nice but classic, the characters were classic, and this harem trend was unjustified -------> 6/10 not season 2 announced. the exact opposite of date a live

No one watches Date A Live for its animation and combat, but simply for the story, morals, design, and character development. The most popular example being Kurumi who has marked all the memories, even of haters. A character who makes such an impression on the spectators is another sign of quality.

There's really no guilty pleasure in watching date a live s5, it's excellent, there are a few small animation budget issues in episode 3 and 6 but the rest is ok. (while at the end of season 1 and beginning of season 2, the exaggerated fanservice was really unjustified, I didn't like it)

This series should adapt through Volume 20, and then I'm guessing the last two will be a special or a movie. This should be the final TV series, but not the thing that ends this show altogether as I can expect an announcement about what will come of the Tohka Good End arc at the end of this season.

I know a couple of things from stuff I read from the wiki and I am honestly not one to usually comment, vote, or stuff... But I am honestly baffled at DaL V's popularity. I REALLY like the anime (wouldn't have watched it up to season 5, otherwise) but... Season 5 feels like such a dud to me? And I'm not talking about the animation, I gave up on an actually good looking anime through and through when they started to incorporate awful CGI heavily- it's the reveals and the ways thing go that are leaving me baffled. And then I read people praise it and say it's so faithful to novels...



And despite it all, I see everyone loving this. When I feel like the build up from S1 to S4, especially S4, was better than the payoff itself. All the reveals feel bland, the execution of truths and causes is terrible... And it's a 8.03, best anime for three weeks...
Then there's Spice and Wolf ranking so much lower...? When it's writing is leagues above?


As I said, I REALLY like DaL. I was super hyper and happy to see we'd get the whole LNs translated 'cos I really enjoyed it. It reminded me of Sora no Otoshimono, one of my favorite manga of all times; super goofy and silly, overly ecchi and pervy but knowing when to drop it all and get serious- and boy did it get serious when needed.
Of course, there's also been a crescendo, with less goofy, more broody. Makes sense, you're going to the climax and things are tense and dangerous, of course it'd not be as silly. But... I really think S4 was much better (even if an arc overstayed its welcome, the whole dark Thoka plot was bad IMO, and the CGI looked as terrible if not worse than S5's). Like, leagues better. The reveal about Mio/Phantom/Spirit of Origin was very well done over the course of all four seasons and the stakes, the possible causes to all that would get revealed felt so good... until they got revealed in S5 and it felt so flat...

I don't know, I feel so weird right now 'cos I see no one else finding faults and flaws with the season; and I am not saying the anime itself, 'cos that would be too easy, you just need to point out the cheap, awful CGI... it's the writing that I find a let down. And no one else does.
So I wonder if I've become terribly picky, or people are watching a different anime than I am...

@Rinnokuto

the fact that there are mages in dal is mentioned from season 2 (especially in the books), in the animated the studio of the time unfortunately overlooked many important details.

Shido vs Westcott's fight is much better in the LN, they skipped all of Shido's suffering and his difficulty in beating Isaac. Then the Kamehameha reference is logical, since we see it in season 1 and the beginning of season 4 in his drawings when he was younger, it is better brought out in ln.

And there is also a moral sense behind it all, wait until the end of the season to at least try to understand and what the whole main story of dal is based on...

The problem is that seasons 1 to 3 skipped many important elements, and this season, some viewers don't understand why we end up with mages or a mio so strong.

the writing is excellent.

The last 3 volumes of dal are also incredible in terms of the psychology of the characters and the themes covered. (this will not be animated in season 5)

This season V is good, the cgi is better than in season 4. If you find writing problems it is clearly the first 3 seasons which are the faults.. shido's entire childhood was skipped, the volume 12 completely destroyed by jc staff etc. Here most people get information from ln readers or themselves by reading quickly, to try to look for prefigurations and better understand the story.