I do tell you right of the bat that this show is no near masterpiece. It still has a lot of mishaps though I do think it's a pretty decent one now with experience.
The show has pretty much lots of elements in a dating sim, heck it is pretty obvious that referencing a dating simulator was taken into account when making the storyline.
It does well in presenting a Dating Sim environment. Guy who has tasked to basically make girls fall in love with them, to basically save humankind. While a small group of people helps him by using a 3 choice system similar to decision making in dating sims. Plus hitting the worst decision may lead to cringeworthy moments leading to dropping a girl's affinity is well presented in this show.
Although one episode hit me hard and was episode 8 in particular where MC is dating multiple girls at once which is an essence of playing a dating sim "efficiently". This is well done in particular since it also sparks realism seeing how the MC is pretty tired after all that happenings.
This does not mean the show is all good though as there are many mistakes the show makes but this one in particular is worth to mention. It is highly fast paced. I don't actually have problems with the pacing of the introduction of characters but I have a problem with how they affect the story. Since almost all the characters pretty much majorly affect the main story unlike some other great shows where they just do this on another season. It feels like it does this just to make the show feel and look awesome in paper, it accomplishes that yes but only on paper. It also weakens the surprise factor more as there are just so much happening you're not gonna even get surprised anymore. Although this does accomplish a no-filler approach though so it still kind of does that well in that regard. Heck I tell you, even the swimsuit episode isn't a filler.
Other things I'll talk about are the characters. The characters have drastically unique personalities, There's not much cliché aura to them. It's also a part of a dating sim to have characters that have drastically different personalities to have a different approach on the other characters. The Opening sequence is nostalgic, making me feel when it was 8 years ago talking about why the show just doesn't make sense.
So should I recommend you watch the show?
If you like dating sims then do so, oh wait. Check out Kami Nomi zo Shiru Sekai first since that show has a much more delicate approach on the topic. The two are also similar in a sense making me think that did date a live actually referenced kami nomi zo shiru sekai?
If you don't have a lot of experience or just not like the genre in general then don't.
6/10
