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.
Synopsis
Thirty 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
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