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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) 
Genres: comedy , romance , science fiction 
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: 33 ratings have been given [details]
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Seen in part or in whole by 203 users, rank: #2409 (of 5563)
Median rating: Decent
Arithmetic mean: 6.303 (Decent+), std. dev.: 2.4922, rank: #3611 (of 5553)
Weighted mean: 5.773 (Decent−), rank: #4428 (of 5553) (seen all: 5.55 / seen some: 6.63 / won't finish: 4.10)
Bayesian estimate: 6.217 (Decent+), rank: #3370 (of 4225)
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
Director: Keitaro Motonaga 
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 
2nd Key Animation:
Aiko Utsumi (ep 6) 
Ayumi Abe (ep 5) 
Daisuke Ishibashi (ep 4) 
Hiroyuki Kaji (ep 5) 
Kasumi Hagiwara (ep 3) 
Keisuke Ishikawa (ep 4) 
Kenji Hashimoto (ep 4) 
Lee Si Eun (ep 1) 
Maiko Akasaki (ep 5) 
Makito Uehara (ep 1) 
Masaya Ozaki (ep 2) 
Miho Hanada (ep 6) 
Miho Yoshioka (ep 4) 
Misako Yamaguchi (ep 4) 
Miyako Ohta (ep 2) 
Naoya Hoshino (eps 3, 5) 
Natsumi Hara (ep 6) 
Rie Omori (ep 6) 
Ryōsuke Terasako (ep 1) 
Satomi Arayama (ep 7) 
Satomi Yamanaka (ep 6) 
Shinya Sugata (ep 4) 
Shūhei Yasuda (ep 1) 
Shunji Maki (ep 4) 
Sun Mi Oh (ep 7) 
Takahiro Tajima (ep 7) 
Teruyo Katō (ep 3) 
Tetsuya Matsumoto (ep 4) 
Tomoya Kosakai (ep 2) 
Yooko Kadokura (eps 1-2) 
Young Yu (ep 7) 
Yu Matsuno (eps 2, 5-6) 
Yūji Katō (eps 3, 6) 
Yukiko Shimizu (eps 1-2) 
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:
Hieu N (Nam Hai) 
Huang Son 
Hung M (Nam Hai) 
Huy Viet (Nam Hai) 
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 
Cooperation:
Isao Ishikawa (Quaras) 
Jōtarō Ishigami 
Mari Sakai 
Mitsuhiro Ogata (Kadokawa Media House) 
Naotomo Kaneko 
Shunji Matsuda 
Yoshimi Nakajima (Quaras) 
Editing: Takashi Sakurai 
Effects Director: Jouji Sawada 
Finish Check Assistance: Shinya Nakano 
Format Editing: Yoshiaki Kimura 
Game CG: Mitsutaka Iguchi 
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 
Publicity Manager:
Masahiro Inoue 
Tetsuro Shimizu 
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) 
Video Editing:
Ichiro Chaen 
Shun Tokuda 
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: 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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