Heads up, Date A Live fans! A new anime project for the franchise has just been announced this Wednesday. According to the series’s official website, planning is underway for a new anime. However, it was not specified what form the project will take.
To tide over fans who will be eagerly awaiting more details, Kadokawa’s Dragon Magazine has prepared special Date A Live content in its November issue. This includes an exclusive interview with the series’ author Koushi Tachibana and illustrator Tsunako, as well as the writer and illustrator of Date A Live Fragment: Date A Bullet side-story light novels, Yuichirou Higashide and Noco respectively.
Date A Live started out as a light novel series written by Koushi Tachibana, with illustrations by Tsunako. It was first published in March 2011 and has been serialized in Dragon Magazine up to present. In 2013 it was adapted into an anime series by AIC Plus+, which was broadcasted on channel AT-X and on streaming website Niconico. A second anime adaptation soon followed, which was produced by Production IMS and was aired from April to June 2014. It also received an anime film adaptation which was released in 2015. The latest anime project for the franchise is the third TV season produced by JC Staff which aired from January to March 2019.
Streaming site Crunchyroll aired the series outside of Japan. The site describes the anime’s story as such:
“Shido is just an ordinary school boy, but, he’s been recruited to help seal Spirits—the mystical creatures responsible for the spacequakes that threaten mankind. There’s just one catch: the only way to seal a Spirit is to make her fall in love with him. Now that he’s saved the world once or twice, more trouble is headed his way, and there’s only so much one boy can handle.”
Source: Crunchyroll News