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| THIS IS AN ANIME ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS THE MANGA BEYOND THIS EPISODE. ---------------------------------------- I liked this movie more than the main series. Kurumi was my favorite girl in Date a Live and I thought I would watch this just for her. I didn’t expect to like it, but I did. White Queen was Kurumi’s friend who got killed by her all along. “I hope your love blossoms one day”... this scene made me cry. I didn’t like the fight scene that much but I liked what they said to each other. It was a good movie in my opinion. 7/10. |
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| So the true identity of Queen was Sawa + Abandoned part of Kurumi huh, no wonder she looked like a silver haired Kurumi. Welp too bad she had to die once again and her last wish was for Kurumi's love to blossom which . Decent two episodes, it was fun to watch more of Kurumi. |
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MegamiRem said: Welp, I accidentally clicked the spoiler but it's good to know lol.So the true identity of Queen was Sawa + Abandoned part of Kurumi huh, no wonder she looked like a silver haired Kurumi. Welp too bad she had to die once again and her last wish was for Kurumi's love to blossom which . Decent two episodes, it was fun to watch more of Kurumi. |
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| This was much better than the first episode Kurumi is so based as always, but did I miss something? When did Kurumi kill Sawa in the other world? Also, I hope the “meeting him again” is referred to Shido. Would love to see a romantic development between the two |
| Okay, this movie certainly made a whole lot more sense. I didn't care too much about the other spirits so it didn't faze me when they dropped one after the other. What was the point of them aside from being Queen's food anyway, lol? But the whole thing surrounding Kurumi-san was interesting. Starting off with that past scene, I knew it'd be coming in some way or another but I certainly didn't expect Queen to be her. Also, makes sense how the impersonator seemed to know a thing or two during the interrogation. Nice to see that Kurumi-san seems to be a lot more resolute in her aim of meeting that someone and managed to find a companion in the process. I wonder who that special person is though. "See you in Season 4" - We better be getting answers then. Shido would be especially nice xD. Xenocrisi said: Kurumi is so based as always, but did I miss something? When did Kurumi kill Sawa in the other world? Yeah, same here, didn't quite this bit either. How did Sawa-san turn into a "monster" in the first place? Maybe it's just me but the framerate was actually better this time around too, which is great to see and the art style is still pretty darn good. |
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| This could have been a lot more enjoyable if I read the LN I believe, need confirmation from readers xD I wonder what she meant when she said she turned into a monster. |
| I enjoyed it more than the first episode. I hope we get to see more of this side series, Kurumi is such a fun character to watch but she barely makes any appearances in the main series. |
| it was a nice christmass eve pressent to have this movie |
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| As long as my waifu Kurumi is kicking ass, I will always be pleased. Great stuff! |
| "You can't spell slaughter without laughter". |
| I think what they meant by her being a monster is because she hates everything in that world and she is killing the other spirits. I was hoping Kurumi would heal Sawa and they will have a happy ending but anyway it's still a good watch. |
| They took the main source(Date a Bullet Light Novel) and chaged 90% of the story. Total waste of hype. I'll give it a 4/10 PS: It doesn't even make sense that Kurumi killed her with dalet |
| My waifu, Kurumi is back and she is cute and badass as always. Cant wait to see her meet with Shido. Overall, I love this movie. |
| Yep. Not gonna lie, I'm a little confused by this. From what I can understand, White Queen was actually Kurumi's inverse fused with her friend that she killed? Why did she kill her friend? Maybe it's been too long since I watched DAL that I've just forgotten how Kurumi's power works, or inverse in general for that matter. I should play the visual novel soon... |
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| Well, that was maybe ever so slightly more coherent than the first part, but still a mess. So, to sum up, the Kurumi from the Encore OVA ended up in this battle royale on some other plane of existence and ended up fighting against her Inverse self fused with her friend who she for some reason killed beforehand. Alrighty then. Even with this half being slightly more focused, it still felt like a full cour of anime was crammed into two episodes and that never, ever ends well. Especially for a battle royale narrative, given how incoherent and terrible those are at even the best of times. Regardless, the big question I have is this: what is the point of this story being told? Why should we care about any of this, relative to the main narrative or even in isolation? It seems to me that this only exists because Kurumi is so popular and they wanted to milk that fact. And when a spin-off is made solely - or at least primarily - for that purpose, as is basically always the case, the end result is just a shallow story that lacks everything that made the main series interesting to begin with. On top of that, the character that the spin-off centres around is usually made worse by their increased narrative focus, as the characters who often end up with spin-offs typically work better in supporting roles: as an anti-hero, Kurumi is great in the main Date a Live narrative, but this proves she can't carry a narrative on her own (though that does somewhat circle back into the fact that the existence of this spin-off is forced by popularity, rather than there being a meaningful story to be told). 5/10 |
| How does this have a higher score than Date A Live? While I don't dislike it, the story is entirely frivolous. |
| その目だれの目？ |
| It was better than the first part for sure. Would have liked to know why Kurumi killed her friend to begin with... As it stands this spinoff "just exists" with not much purpose. |
| Finally got to watch DOB I was glad I remember most of the Kurumi Festival OVA and was able to understand that DOB was some kind if world where the Kurumi that got sucked went into this world.(correct me if im wrong) All things aside,this was genuinely confusing for me...This new world just popped out of nowhere with no context whatsoever. It felt way rushed and I'm not sure if I get to feel anything for Sawa-san.. Nevertheless, animation and sound was superb as always. I get the feeling that LN readers might understand the story more..Sure hope to see more in Season 4 |
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| really enjoyed this. Sad that her former classmate had to be put down, but she seemed mentally unstable already. well, and Kurumi found a new friend. Looks like Hibiki would be a good companion. Funny, Kurumi got sad when Hibiki cannot be cat anymore. lol and looks like that's a season 4 announce? nice. :) |
| Why they decided to do this in two regular-length episodes is beyond me. Way too rushed and too many questions left unanswered. |
| >Ecchi na no wa ikenai to omoimasu!< |
| Theres a lot of things i dont understand , i guess it will be explained later but , at first i was like "so shes inside the real kurumi after she got killed , meaning ppl inside got killed by kurumi , but no one know kurumi except sawa , kurumi dont know them too , so they didnt got killed by kurumi , this world is a place where dead spirit go But then that mean hibiki is also a spirit , and she go back to real world , meaning hibiki is a new spirit in date a live but they were in the same school than when sawa was alive...so it might be just memories of the real kurumi , and the half spirits would be sawa memories , or forgoten memories , but whos hibiki then ?! Maybe shes just a cat , kurumi have a thing for cats Even sawa (linked to kurumi) reacted in a strange way when she hurt the cat |
Loli world is just a cute world full of cute meat |
| Thats it? A good anime but lot of plothole unexplained. Maybe it explained in the LN so can someone help me? -Isnt Kurumi should kill Hibiki (cat) in order to win the tournament? So basically, they cant go together to Kurumis world. -How did Kurumi even die? How and why Kurumi murder Queen? -What timeline is this in the anime? Is it after the latest date a live season? Or who are those girls and what are their purpose. But those waifus are irrelevant. I hope someone can answer my question. @FhpZod @MegamiRem |
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Gazz said: This is a spin off story of the Date a live main story focusing the dead Kurumi who came to an alternate world.Thats it? A good anime but lot of plothole unexplained. Maybe it explained in the LN so can someone help me? -Isnt Kurumi should kill Hibiki (cat) in order to win the tournament? So basically, they cant go together to Kurumis world. -How did Kurumi even die? How and why Kurumi murder Queen? -What timeline is this in the anime? Is it after the latest date a live season? Or who are those girls and what are their purpose. But those waifus are irrelevant. I hope someone can answer my question. @FhpZod @MegamiRem |
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MegamiRem said: Gazz said: This is a spin off story of the Date a live main story focusing the dead Kurumi who came to an alternate world.Thats it? A good anime but lot of plothole unexplained. Maybe it explained in the LN so can someone help me? -Isnt Kurumi should kill Hibiki (cat) in order to win the tournament? So basically, they cant go together to Kurumis world. -How did Kurumi even die? How and why Kurumi murder Queen? -What timeline is this in the anime? Is it after the latest date a live season? Or who are those girls and what are their purpose. But those waifus are irrelevant. I hope someone can answer my question. @FhpZod @MegamiRem Thank you. So basically, its unrelated to the original Date a Live. Good, now can you tell me what are your thoughts on my 3 questions above? |
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Gazz said: By murdering Queen you mean the Sawa flashback part? If yes then that hasn't been shown in the main story anime yet, it's explained in LN later afaik. Also as for Kurumi killing the cat, that was a just a trap set from Queen iirc. I dun remember the content well enough to give a proper explanation unfortunately. Watched these two episodes when they came out which were months ago.MegamiRem said: This is a spin off story of the Date a live main story focusing the dead Kurumi who came to an alternate world. Thank you. So basically, its unrelated to the original Date a Live. Good, now can you tell me what are your thoughts on my 3 questions above? |
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MegamiRem said: By murdering Queen you mean the Sawa flashback part? If yes then that hasn't been shown in the main story anime yet, it's explained in LN later afaik. Also as for Kurumi killing the cat, that was a just a trap set from Queen iirc. I dun remember the content well enough to give a proper explanation unfortunately. Watched these two episodes when they came out which were months ago. Its okay, the movie itself is confusing hence I don't blame you if you forgotten a thing or two. Sorry if my elementary english is hard to read. Its my 4th language. Btw about Kurumi and Hibiki, what I mean is that, at the start of the movie she says that the winner of the tournament will get any wish they want fulfilled. However, its a battle royale so only one can win. Fast forward to Kurumi vs Queen, Queen got killed. So Kurumi and Hibiki left standing. However, they decided to walk out that 'garden like place' to go to Kurumi's world. Isnt that impossible unless Kurumi kill Hibiki? Her wish cant be granted if one girl is alive right. |
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| wtf, there is explanation for nothing; plot holes everywhere even if I like Kurumi... cmon, there is no way I can properly enjoy this with so many plotholes. I guess our lovely Shidou-san is more important than her friend? That is the only thing I could got, I think. 5/10 |
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| Meh. Didn't really understand what happened |
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| So Kurumi wasn't always spirit?.. How she became spirit?.. "When you talk about precious memories, it starts to seem that it never happened".. Hm.. Interesting words by Kurumi.. Queen is the part Kurumi refused.. Hm.. What is that part?.. Why Kurumi had to kill her friend?.. Was it accident?.. Or there was some reason?.. |
| Pretty decent/good overall. Seeing different Kurumi's reactions was funny and she is so cute =/ Short, but interesting flashback, i wish they'd shown why she killed Sawa (also who was the Kurumi at that moment). The pacing is rather strange, like the battles just end instantly and you think, should it really be like that. Overall 7/10 decent, not the best but enjoyable. Hope to one day to see the conclusion of the story. |
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| Felt a bit rushed but nice animation (as always) and alright story |
| As usual DAL continues to be confusing. Stuff just happens without any explanation given. |
| I didn't like the background plot at all, and this episode ended up leading to a simple idea with just the right action. A little disappointed. kekeke |
| Kurumi wakes up. Her eye is normal. Sawa. Yui leaves. Tsang wants to fight Kurumi last. Betrayal? Tsang wins. Kurumi follows the cat. Dat note. Kurumi fires at Hibiki. And that was the end. I cant believe they killed my waifu Yui. WTF! She was the sexiest DAL character. She was too fine to die. With that said... I knew Hibiki was the cat. Same eye color and neck tie. |
| If you see that my post is exactly 1 month old (or more) from when it was posted... Don't waste your time, especially when you want to reply with something petty & insignificant. Assume that I've moved on (because I have). |
| Hmm, I'm unfamiliar with Sawa. Maybe I'll learn more about her if I watch the latest DAL seasons. I spoiled myself a little bit and discovered that she's one of her personalities. Cool fights and I like the bullet techniques. That ED is good! Waifu wars + Kurumi = 8/10 |
| After seeing DAL IV. it sort of made sense with the limited budget why they compressed 7 volumes into an hour long ova. They wanted it to have it connect as close to the main story without diverging into an almost alternate universe. |
| The premise of the show was decent, the animation and music were great too but both movies felt way shorter than what they should be. The characters were introduced just to be killed few moments later, the "plot twist" with the cat had 0 impact, this "otherworld" settings seems to be a big part of the DAL universe but it was badly introduced... Maybe the movie doesn't make the novel justice but the novel seems to be longer but the movie was just too cramped. Maybe if they reworked it, it would be better. |
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