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Date A Live (TV)

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[ adapted from Date A Live (light novel) ]

Alternative title:
デート・ア・ライブ (Japanese)
Themes: fanservice
Plot Summary: Thirty years before a strange phenomena called a "spacequake" devastated the center of Eurasia, claiming the lives of at least 150 million people. Since then, smaller spacequakes plague the world on a irregular basis. Shidō Itsuka, a seemingly ordinary high schooler comes across a mysterious girl at the ground zero of a spacequake and learns from his sister Kotori she is one of the "Spirits" who are the real cause of the spacequakes that occur when they manifest themselves in the world. He also learns that Kotori is the captain of the airship Ratatoskr and recruits him to make use of his mysterious ability to seal the Spirits' powers and stop them from being a threat to mankind. However, there is a catch: to seal a Spirit, he must make her fall in love with him.
User Ratings: 35 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 2 votes (dub:1, sub:1)
 Excellent: 5 votes (sub:5)
 Very good: 8 votes (sub:8)
 Good: 5 votes (sub:5)
 Decent: 4 votes (sub:4)
 So-so: 3 votes (sub:3)
 Not really good: 2 votes (sub:2)
 Weak: 3 votes (sub:2, ?:1)
 Bad: 1 vote (sub:1)
 Awful: 2 votes (sub:2)
 Worst ever: -
Seen in part or in whole by 209 users, rank: #2380 (of 5563)
Median rating: Decent
Arithmetic mean: 6.400 (Decent+), std. dev.: 2.4634, rank: #3401 (of 5554)
Weighted mean: 5.846 (Decent), rank: #4345 (of 5554) (seen all: 5.62 / seen some: 6.66 / won't finish: 4.10)
Bayesian estimate: 6.253 (Decent+), rank: #3321 (of 4226)
Episode titles: We have 12
Vintage:
2013-03-30 (Streaming on Niconico)
2013-04-05 (Tokyo MX TV Broadcast)
Opening Theme:
"Date A Live" (デート・ア・ライブ) by sweet ARMS
Ending Theme:
"Save the World" by Iori Nomizu
#1: "Hatsukoi Winding Road" by Kayoko Tsumita, Risako Murai and Midori Tsukimiya (ep 1)
#3: "SAVE MY HEART" by Iori Nomizu (eps 3, 7)
#4: "Sutoroberi Reiso (ストロベリーレイン)" by Iori Nomizu (ep 5)
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Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Series Composition: Hideki Shirane
Script:
Hideki Shirane (eps 1-5)
Hitoshi Tanaka (ep 7)
Takaaki Suzuki (ep 6)
Storyboard:
Goichi Iwahata (OP; ED; eps 2, 4-5)
Hiroshi Kugimiya (ep 2)
Hisashi Saito (ep 7)
Keitaro Motonaga (eps 1, 5)
Miyana Okita (ep 3)
Shinichiro Kimura (ep 6)
Episode Director:
Hisaya Takabayashi (ep 7)
Keitaro Motonaga (eps 1, 4-5)
Shinichiro Kimura (ep 6)
Takashi Andō (eps 2-3)
Unit Director: Keitaro Motonaga (OP; ED)
Music: Go Sakabe
Original Concept: Koji Tachibana (ep 6)
Original creator: Koushi Tachibana
Original Character Design: Tsunako
Character Design: Satoshi Ishino
Art Director: Hiroshi Itō (Kusanagi)
Animation Director:
Hideoki Kusama (eps 2, 5)
Isamu Fukushima (ep 6)
Jouji Sawada (ep 4)
Kouji Sugimoto (ep 7)
Masayoshi Kikuchi (ep 7)
Miyana Okita (ep 3)
Noriko Morishima (ED; ep 1)
Ryota Niino (ep 5)
Satoshi Ishino (OP)
Shou Kawashima (ep 6)
Mechanical design: Mika Akitaka
3D Director: Tetsuya Watanabe
Sound Director: Yasunori Ebina
Executive producer: Takeshi Yasuda
3DCG Manager: Shinya Nakano
Animation Director Cooperation:
Hideki Furukawa (eps 1, 3)
Miyana Okita (ep 4)
Animation producer:
Jiyū Ōgi
Yukiya Sakikawa
Art Setting: Nobuto Sue (Kusanagi)
Assistant Animation Director:
Masato Numazu (ep 4)
Mayumi Fujita (ep 7)
Assistant Director: Kaoru Suzuki
Background Art:
Natsuki Kusakabe (Kusanagi)
Shingo Kanai (Kusanagi)
Shiori Shiwa (Kusanagi)
Tomoyuki Kanezawa (Kusanagi)
Toshiki Nishi (Kusanagi)
Background Assistance:
Geki Katsumata (Cosmo Arts)
Hieu N (Nam Hai)
Hironori Ishikawa (Cosmo Arts)
Huang Son
Hung Cuc (Nam Hai)
Hung M (Nam Hai)
Huy Viet (Nam Hai)
Kyoko Kitano (Cosmo Arts)
Mai B (Nam Hai)
Miwa Yoshida
Oanh Phi (Nam Hai)
Trang Tuyet (Nam Hai)
Vu Cuc (Nam Hai)
Wei Wu
Yusuke Ikeda (Nam Hai)
Brush Characters: Goichi Iwahata (ep 6)
Chief Mechanical Animation Director: Ken Ootsuka
Clothing Assistance: Miyana Okita (ep 4)
Color design: Atsushi Furukawa
Composite Director: Hideki Imaizumi
Effects Director: Jouji Sawada
Finish Check Assistance: Shinya Nakano
Format Editing: Yoshiaki Kimura
Key Animation:
Akio Kitahara (ep 6)
Akira Ito (ep 3)
Akira Kano (OP)
Akira Tabata (ep 4)
Akiyoshi Fukamachi (ep 2)
Arihiro Gotou (ep 5)
Atsuko Watanabe (OP)
Atsushi Takayanagi (ep 5)
Aya Nagumo (ep 6)
Ayako Karatani (ep 4)
Ayana Hori (ep 7)
Ayumi Abe (ep 6)
Ayumi Namiki (eps 2-3)
Ayumi Tsujimoto (ep 6)
Chizuru Kiuchi (ep 4)
Daisuke Tomiyama (ep 5)
Fumiko Kon (ep 3)
Futoshi Higashide (OP)
Hideki Furukawa (OP; ED; ep 1)
Hideoki Kusama (eps 1-3)
Hiroko Watabe (eps 2, 6)
Hiroshi Kamogawa (ep 5)
Hirotoshi Akiyama (ep 7)
Hiroyoshi Iida (eps 4, 6)
Hiroyuki Itai (ep 3)
Hiroyuki Okuno (ep 6)
Hisashi Saito (ED)
Hyung-Il Kim (ep 7)
Isamu Fukushima (eps 2, 6)
Issei Sakamoto (ep 4)
Jouji Sawada (eps 1, 4)
Kana Watanabe (ep 4)
Katsutoshi Kobayashi (ep 4)
Katsuyuki Matsumoto (ep 3)
Katsuyuki Yamazaki (ep 2)
Kazunori Osawa (eps 1, 5)
Kazunori Shibata (ep 5)
Keiko Motoya (eps 2, 6)
Keisuke Watabe (OP)
Keita Hagio (ep 3)
Keizou Ichikawa (ep 3)
Ken Ootsuka (OP; eps 1, 5)
Kenichi Ishimaru (eps 1-3, 5-6)
Kenji Takimoto (ep 7)
Kiyotaka Nakahara (OP; ep 2)
Koji Maruoka (ep 3)
Koji Watanabe (OP)
Kōki Hirano (ep 7)
Kouji Sugimoto (OP)
Kunihiko Kimura (ep 3)
Kunihiro Sakurai (ep 7)
Kyota Washikita (OP; ep 5)
Lee Si Eun (ep 5)
Maki Aoki (ep 3)
Maki Murakami (ep 2)
Makito Uehara (ep 3)
Masahiro Furihata (eps 2, 6)
Masaru Yoshioka (ep 4)
Masato Kato (ep 4)
Masato Numazu (ep 4)
Masayoshi Kikuchi (OP; ep 1)
Maya Uenishi (ep 4)
Mayu Ōno (ep 7)
Mayumi Fujita (ep 7)
Megumi Yoshimura (ep 7)
Michiaki Sugimoto (ep 4)
Michiyo Sugawara (ep 7)
Miho Hanada (eps 1-2)
Miho Kawasaki (ep 5)
Mihoko Ishihara (ep 6)
Miyana Okita (OP; ED)
Momoko Nagakawa (eps 1, 5)
Motoko Watanabe (OP)
Motonori Nishibe (ep 6)
Nami Inoue (ep 7)
Naoyuki Owada (eps 2, 6)
Narumi Takahashi (eps 3, 6)
Nobutaka Masuda (ep 5)
Noriaki Arai (ep 5)
Noriko Morishima (ep 1)
Noriyasu Murata (ep 5)
Rie Fujiwara (ep 6)
Rie Ikegami (ep 4)
Rie Omori (ep 2)
Rika Kanetaka (ep 3)
Risa Kameoka (ep 7)
Ryota Niino (OP; eps 1, 5)
Saori Yamazaki (ep 7)
Satomi Yamanaka (ep 1)
Sawa Fukami (ep 7)
Sawako Yamamoto (ep 3)
Sayaka Maruyama (ep 7)
Sayaka Ueno (ep 7)
Seung Hyun Hong (ep 5)
Shigeru Uchihara (eps 3, 5)
Shin Young Kim (ep 7)
Shingo Nishiyama (ep 7)
Shinsuke Terasawa (ep 4)
Shinya Kameyama (ep 3)
Shinya Nishizawa (ep 3)
Shiori Araki (ep 7)
Shoji Matsumoto (ep 6)
Shōko Maruyama (ep 3)
Shu Watabe (ep 3)
Shuuhei Hosokawa (ep 5)
Shuuji Takahara (ep 5)
Tadashi Sugita (OP; eps 1, 5)
Taeko Oda (ep 3)
Taidou Hanafusa (ep 6)
Takaaki Wada (ep 3)
Takeshi Iijima (eps 2, 6)
Teruyo Katō (OP; eps 1, 5)
Tetsuya Matsukawa (ep 2)
Tomohito Matsuhiro (ep 4)
Tomotsugu Sakakibara (ep 3)
Tomoya Kosakai (ep 6)
Tomoyuki Ohshita (ep 5)
Toshiaki Kimura (ep 7)
Toshifumi Kusunose (ep 6)
Toshiharu Sugie (ep 5)
Yasushi Ohara (ep 1)
Yasutetsu Aoki (ep 5)
Yong Sik Kim (ep 7)
Yoshiaki Tomita (ep 3)
Yoshie Kimoto (ep 2)
Yoshihiro Nagata (eps 1-2, 6)
Yoshitaka Sato (ep 5)
Yūichi Fukushima (ep 1)
Yuki Kinoshita (ep 6)
Yuki Toki (ep 4)
Yukie Ōhashi (ep 7)
Yukiko Shimizu (eps 3, 6)
Yuu Sano (ep 4)
Yuuhei Ueda (ep 2)
Yuuko Ikezoe (ep 7)
Yuya Kawamura (ep 4)
Music producer:
Masakazu Satoh (Flying Dog)
Shunichi Uemura (Nippon Columbia)
Planning: Takeshi Yasuda
Planning Assistant:
Kimiro Hosono (Fantasia Bunko Editorial Dept.)
Kotaro Kobayashi (Fantasia Bunko Editorial Dept.)
Production Advisor: Yuma Takahashi
Production Desk: Hideki Takahashi
Production manager:
Atsuko Tonomizu (ep 3)
Haruko Yamazaki (ep 7)
Kenta Nagumo (ep 4)
Yoshimasa Harada (eps 1, 5)
Yumeno Miyashiro (eps 2, 6)
Program Manager: Takayuki Watanabe
Prop Design: Goichi Iwahata
Public Design: Tsuyoshi Kusano
Public Writer: Hisashi Morimiya
Recording Adjustment: Yūichirō Koyama
Recording Assistant: Naoko Higashida
Setting Production: Ken Mochimaru
Sound Effects: Kiyotaka Kawada
Sound Production Manager: Eri Ito
Special Effects: Toshio Hasegawa (Studio Ray Art)
Storyboard Assistant: Goichi Iwahata (ep 1)
Technical Engineer: Yuta Matsuda
Theme Song Performance: Iori Nomizu (ED)
Visual Director: Hisashi Saito
World Setting: Takaaki Suzuki
Marina Inoue as Tohka Yatogami/Princess
Nobunaga Shimazaki as Shido Itsuka

Anri Katsu as Hiroto Tonomachi
Asami Sanada as Kurumi Tokisaki/Nightmare
Aya Endo as Reine Murasame
Ayana Taketatsu as Kotori Itsuka
Iori Nomizu as Yoshino/Hermit
Kaori Sadohara as Tamae Okamine
Misato as Mana Takimiya
Misuzu Togashi as Origami Tobiichi
Takehito Koyasu as Kyōhei Kannazuki

Ao Takahashi as Ryōko Kusakabe
Kotono Mitsuishi as Narration
Japanese companies
Animation Production: AIC PLUS+
Background Assistance:
Cosmo Arts
Nam Hai
Backgrounds: Kusanagi
Casting Management: Production Ace
Format Editing: Imagica
Internet Streaming: Niconico
Key Animation:
AI (ep 6)
Kureai (ep 6)
Line Photography Assistance:
Asura Film
Passione Naha
Music Production:
Flying Dog
Nippon Columbia
Production Assistance:
Advance Shakujii (ep 4)
Jumondo (ep 7)
Recording Studio: Glovision
Sound Effects: Suwara Production
Sound Production: Glovision
special effects: Ray Art
Video Editing: AIC Eastside Studio
Visual Cooperation:
Asura Film
Passione Naha
Web Design: ROM Sharing Inc.
English staff
English companies
(none)
Internet Streaming:
FUNimation Entertainment
Hulu
English cast
(none)
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