 Kadokawa opened an official website for a fourth anime season for Koushi Tachibana's Date A Live light novel series on Sunday. The new season will air under the title Date A Live IV.  SynopsisThirty years ago, the Eurasian continent was devastated by a supermassive "spatial quake"—a phenomenon involving space vibrations of unknown origin—resulting in the deaths of over 150 million people. Since then, these quakes have been plaguing the world intermittently, albeit on a lighter scale. Shidou Itsuka is a seemingly average high school student who lives with his younger sister, Kotori. When an imminent spatial quake threatens the safety of Tengu City, he rushes to save her, only to be caught in the resulting eruption. He discovers a mysterious girl at its source, who is revealed to be a "Spirit," an otherworldly entity whose appearance triggers a spatial quake. Soon after, he becomes embroiled in a skirmish between the girl and the Anti-Spirit Team, a ruthless strike force with the goal of annihilating Spirits. However, there is a third party that believes in saving the spirits: "Ratatoskr," which surprisingly is commanded by Shidou's little sister! Kotori forcibly recruits Shidou after the clash, presenting to him an alternative method of dealing with the danger posed by the Spirits—make them fall in love with him. Now, the fate of the world rests on his dating prowess, as he seeks out Spirits in order to charm them. [Written by MAL Rewrite] The sci-fi romance light novel, featuring illustrations by Tsunako, has been published under the Fujimi Fantasia Bunko label since March 2011. Fujimi Shobo will publish the 22nd and final volume on Thursday. Date A Live has a cumulative 6 million copies of its volumes in circulation. AIC Plus+ produced the first anime season in Spring 2013. The second season by Production IMS premiered in 10 episodes the following Spring. The Date A Live: Mayuri Judgment anime film screened in Japan in August 2015. Date A Live III, the third and latest season by J.C.Staff, aired in Winter 2019. Funimation licensed the anime series in North America and released the first two seasons on Blu-ray and DVD in June 2014 and March 2016, respectively. The third season will ship on home video on April 28. A separate spin-off anime titled Date A Bullet is also in production, which was announced last September. Official site: https://date-a-live4th-anime.com/ Official Twitter: @date_a_info Novel special site: https://fantasiabunko.jp/sp/201103date/ Source: LN News Date A Live IV on MAL |
VindstotMar 16, 2020 6:24 PM
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| Hope for something decent and to see one day the end of this story. |
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| I can hardly wait. |
| Pretty rare for harems to get this many seasons |
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| Tf is this? I thought this is already over. I don't need more of this trash, but I probably watch it anyway |
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| I think this probably won't be the last season as the last volume will release on 19th march I really hope that this and Date a Bullet doesn't turn out like the previous insanely rushed season |
| Glad to see a season 4 get confirmed for this series! |
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| YES! More Tokisaki Kurumi please. |
| Cool to finnaly get some official news about it since it was already kinda rumored that a new season was in the works too not just the side story, i wonder now just how many LN volumes are left to adapt since the LN is also ending so iam kinda assuming they gonna try and wrap up the story in anime aswell :) |
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| As I mentioned earlier in the forum of the anime page, this was probably intended for AnimeJapan 2020 Event but it's very pleasing to see that they aren't keeping up waiting for long. Hopefully, Shingeki no Kyojin: the Final Season and the others will follow suit! Nice to finally have confirmation of this though. I've heard that DAL isn't as influential in Japan as it was before but it's good to see that there's still enough demand for it (and thanks to China, of course). I fear that J.C. Staff will helm this alongside Date A Bullet and a bunch load of others. Please cut them some slack. Question for novel readers: Is it possible for a complete adaption with this season being, say one-cour (11-13 episodes) like the previous installments? |
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| How many season it need for full adaptation ?? I'm hoping they adapt everything. |
| I guess I better start watching Date A Live since I have it in my anime backlog. |
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| I can't wait to see this show once again ! |
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| PLEASE. RE-ADAPT THE ITSUKA DISASTER VOLUME. Otherwise, idk how they will start Nia's arc, because without Itsuka Disaster being correctly adapted, the transition between volumes will be pretty damn stupid. Anyways, im hyped, but im really afraid. Still wanna see if JC Staff will keep adapting this... because these next arcs will enter a more important side of the story, and the story gets juicy real fast. Im just praying that it is a decent adaptation, we'll see how it goes. |
WaterLordMar 16, 2020 11:39 AM
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| @_MushiRock11_ Nope. Impossible, we need at least 2 more seasons of content tbh, if this show really wants to reach the end in anime format. 1st season adapted 4 volumes. 2nd season adapted from 5 to 7. Season 3 adapted from 8 to 11 while volume 12 was stupidly adapted in episode 12. Season 4 would adapt from 13 to 15 (Nia and Mukuro's Arcs). A season 5 probably from 16 to 19 (Kurumi and the spirit of origin arcs) and a 6th season from 20 to 22 concluding the story. So yeah xd there is still a lot left @KurumiNightmare @thepath too, since you guys were wondering about it as well. Hope it helps! |
WaterLordMar 16, 2020 8:49 AM
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| hopefully it doesn't end up being as butchered as 3rd season was |
 'On-Hold' is another way for a completionist to say 'Dropped' |
WaterLord said: Nope. Impossible, we need at least 2 more seasons of content tbh, if this show really wants to reach the end in anime format. 1st season adapted 4 volumes. 2nd season adapted from 5 to 7. Season 3 adapted from 8 to 11 while volume 12 was stupidly adapted in episode 12. Season 4 would adapt from 13 to 15 (Nia and Mukuro's Arcs). A season 5 probably from 16 to 19 (Kurumi and the spirit of origin arcs) and a 6th season from 20 to 22 concluding the story. So yeah xd there is still a lot left. Right, that's certainly a long way to go! I have a feeling it'll come down to like 5 tv seasons plus OVAs and/or Movies and whatnot but no basis to support this of course. Just a gut feeling, if you will. Hopefully, the team behind this will address those issues in earnest first (Vol. 12) and then give us a complete adaption then. |
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| I just want a season of this that is on par (at least in terms of budget) with S1. |
| Please for the love of God don't butcher this anymore as season 3 has. Being a huge fan and saw that trash "J.C Staff" produced just kill me a little inside. I mean is no one who has read the light novel up till the latest volume angry of how the anime adaptation is being treated? |
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| Season 3 was a travesty, but more Kurumi is always good. |
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| Oh, nice, really excited. My favorite romance / harem anime getting another season is great news. |
| "Well, she's flatter than a pancake" -Mimi Alpacas "Woof" -Tobiichi Origami "Are you trying to turn the dormitory into a strip club!?! -Atena Saotome |
| Super happy about seeing this. |
  All the Anime's on my list are all one's I own Personal physical copies of, or have seen in theaters that I plan on buying, series that I've watched on FUNimation or HIDIVE will not be on here unless/until I have already bought it. |
| Take your time JC Staff, I don't want to see phoned in animation. |
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| Take your time JC Staff, I don't want to see phoned in animation. |
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| It's actually insane how many waifus are in this show. Not that I'm complaining :) |
| Finally, something to actually be optimistic about (provided it isn't JC Staff again). Hopefully the anime is able to finish the full story now, whether in this season or a potential season 5. |
| Please keep the earlier trend (1 volume/3 episodes) Itsuka Disaster was a superb arc in the novel and they bastardized it, adapting it within 1 episode. The rest of the arcs are extremely heavy on the plot side, dealing with some of the best storytelling and one of the greatest villains I have seen in recent times. At least decent animation (Season 1) will do. |
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WaterLord said: @_MushiRock11_ Nope. Impossible, we need at least 2 more seasons of content tbh, if this show really wants to reach the end in anime format. 1st season adapted 4 volumes. 2nd season adapted from 5 to 7. Season 3 adapted from 8 to 11 while volume 12 was stupidly adapted in episode 12. Season 4 would adapt from 13 to 15 (Nia and Mukuro's Arcs). A season 5 probably from 16 to 19 (Kurumi and the spirit of origin arcs) and a 6th season from 20 to 22 concluding the story. So yeah xd there is still a lot left @KurumiNightmare @thepath too, since you guys were wondering about it as well. Hope it helps! Thanks for the info also about that 16-19 with kurumi etc is there a chance they might skip some of that since we are getting a spinoff which focuses kurumi or are the stories different and doesnt tie into the main story ? |
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KurumiNightmare said: No problem! Ahh no need to worry about that, Date a Bullet is just a spin off LN and has nothing to do with the main story. And Kurumi's arc is really damn good in the main Date a Live novel so.. if there will be a 5th season after this 4th one, expect something really awesome to look forward to.WaterLord said: @_MushiRock11_ Nope. Impossible, we need at least 2 more seasons of content tbh, if this show really wants to reach the end in anime format. 1st season adapted 4 volumes. 2nd season adapted from 5 to 7. Season 3 adapted from 8 to 11 while volume 12 was stupidly adapted in episode 12. Season 4 would adapt from 13 to 15 (Nia and Mukuro's Arcs). A season 5 probably from 16 to 19 (Kurumi and the spirit of origin arcs) and a 6th season from 20 to 22 concluding the story. So yeah xd there is still a lot left @KurumiNightmare @thepath too, since you guys were wondering about it as well. Hope it helps! Thanks for the info also about that 16-19 with kurumi etc is there a chance they might skip some of that since we are getting a spinoff which focuses kurumi or are the stories different and doesnt tie into the main story ? |
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WaterLord said: KurumiNightmare said: No problem! Ahh no need to worry about that, Date a Bullet is just a spin off LN and has nothing to do with the main story. And Kurumi's arc is really damn good in the main Date a Live novel so.. if there will be a 5th season after this 4th one, expect something really awesome to look forward to.Thanks for the info also about that 16-19 with kurumi etc is there a chance they might skip some of that since we are getting a spinoff which focuses kurumi or are the stories different and doesnt tie into the main story ? I see, really appreaciate all the info and hearing that its awesome makes me rly hyped up for it ^^ I kinda strongly believe we will get that adapted since they already went out of their way to adapt a side story for kurumi would be kinda dumb then to stop just befor entering her arc in main story >_< |
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| hehe~glad to see my favorite anime getting season 4 |
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| Wow! It's good to see.It's still going to continue. |
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BobRossTree said: And we have great stuff like magi not even getting s3, when shit like this gets 500 seasons... great Noice. Suffer more... |
| "All truth is meaningless. In the end, 'meaning' comes from the mind of each individual human. Even when there is a single truth, it can mean different things to different individuals. The truth has no meaning in itself!" - Erika Furudo |
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