Date A Live

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A 2013 AIC Plus+ series in which student Shidou must make dangerous Spirits fall for him so he can seal their spacequake-causing powers.

Synopsis

The Anime Lad

Spacequakes have struck the world for thirty years. Shidou Itsuka meets a mysterious girl at the center of one and learns that she is a Spirit whose arrival can cause the disaster. His sister Kotori commands the airship Ratatoskr and recruits him. His assignment is to make a Spirit fall in love with him. Standard training may not apply.

Super Eyepatch Fox

A Spirit appears at the center of a spacequake. Shidou learns from his sister Kotori that he has an ability that can seal a Spirit’s power. The condition is personal: she must fall for him first. An airship crew waits while a high schooler becomes the proposed alternative to destruction.

Gigguku

Date A Live takes a world-threatening spacequake and gives the solution to one apparently ordinary high schooler’s love life. Shidou meets a Spirit, discovers his sister commands an airship, and gets the least normal assignment imaginable. Make the Spirit fall for him, then seal her power. Romance has become disaster management, and the escalation is immediate!

Father's Basement

The premise reverse engineers a harem from a disaster manual, and subtlety never enters the room. Still, the central contradiction has comic bite. Spirits are treated as threats because their appearances cause spacequakes, while Shidou is asked to approach rather than destroy them. The method is absurd and ethically messy enough to create real friction.

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 an irregular basis.

What defines it

Shidou is recruited by an organization that treats romantic connection as disaster response. Each Spirit arrives with distinct fears and abilities, making empathy tactically useful while placing sincere emotion inside a deliberately managed dating scenario.

Watch path

Watch the numbered main seasons in order. Announced continuations follow the released entries. Optional titles are not included in this main-series path.

Main storyMain seasons

Recommendation shape

MoodMostly bright

BrightBleak

PaceBrisk

UnhurriedPropulsive

StoryBalanced

DirectIntricate

ActionFrequent

SparseFrequent

Moral framingMixed

Clear-sidedMorally tangled

Cast focusBroad ensemble

Tight focusBroad ensemble