During the AnimeJapan
2024 event , a new promotional video was revealed for the fifth season
of the anime adaptation of the light novels written by Koshi Tachibana and
illustrated by Tsunako , “ Date A Live .” The
video confirms that the premiere is scheduled for April 10 in Japan ,
and shows a fragment of the opening musical theme titled “ Paradoxes ”
and performed by Miyu Tomita .
The fourth season was
scheduled to premiere for the Fall-2021 season (October-December) ,
but was delayed until Spring-2022 (April-June) due to “various
production circumstances.” For their part, Koushi Tachibana and Tsunako published
the original light novels through the Fujimi Fantasia Bunko publishing
label of the Fujimi
Shobo publishing house between March 2011 and March 2020, with a
total of twenty-two volumes.
Sinopsis
of Date A Live
Thirty
years ago, a strange phenomenon called the Space Earthquake devastated central
Eurasia, taking the lives of more than 150 million people. Since then, smaller
space earthquakes have been occurring around the world. Shidou Itsuka, a seemingly
normal high school student, meets a girl at the epicenter of a space
earthquake.
He is
informed by his sister Kotori that this girl is one of the spirits that, upon
making an appearance in the world, are the cause of said space earthquakes. He
also learns that his sister is the captain of the ship Ratatoskr. She recruits
him in order to make use of her mysterious ability to seal the powers of
spirits. In order to prevent them from becoming a threat to humanity. However,
there is a drawback. To seal the powers of a Spirit, Shidou must make it fall
in love with him.
Source: Comic Natalie
(c) Tachibana Koushi,
Tsunako/KADOKAWA/"Date A Live V" Production Committee
