Date A Live
デート・ア・ライブ
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. Shidou 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. (Source: Anime News Network)
Date A Live is a tv with 12 episodes, from Spring 2013, produced by AIC Plus+, rated 6.8/10 on AniList.
Synopsis
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. Shidou 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. (Source: Anime News Network)
Main Characters
Tags
- Heterosexual — Prominently features a romance between a man and a woman, not inherently sexual.
- Female Harem — Main cast features the protagonist plus several female characters who are romantically interested in them.
- Henshin — Prominently features character or costume transformations which often grant special abilities.
- Male Protagonist — Main character is male.
- Super Power — Prominently features characters with special abilities that allow them to do what would normally be physically or logically impossible.
- Urban Fantasy — Set in a world similar to the real world, but with the existence of magic or other supernatural elements.
- Primarily Teen Cast — Main cast is mostly composed of teen characters.
- Urban — Partly or completely set in a city.
- Primarily Female Cast — Main cast is mostly composed of female characters.
- Time Manipulation — Prominently features time-traveling or other time-warping phenomena.
- Slapstick — Prominently features comedy based on deliberately clumsy actions or embarrassing events.
- Yandere — Prominently features a character who is obsessively in love with another, to the point of acting deranged or violent.