Date A Live (season 4)

The fourth season of the Date A Live anime series, titled Date A Live IV,[1][2] was produced by Geek Toys and directed by Jun Nakagawa. Like the rest of the series, it follows the adventures of Shido Itsuka and the Spirits, supernatural female entities that have fallen in love with him. The season was scheduled to premiere in October 2021, but was delayed to April 2022 for "various reasons".[3] Fumihiko Shimo wrote the fourth season's scripts, with Naoto Nakamura designing the characters and Go Sakabe returning to compose the series' music.[4] It premiered on April 8, 2022.[5] The opening theme is titled "OveR" performed by Miyu Tomita, and the ending theme is titled "S.O.S" performed by sweet ARMS.[6]

Date A Live
Season 4
Key visual
Country of originJapan
No. of episodes4
Release
Original releaseApril 8, 2022 (2022-04-08) –
present
Season chronology

Episode list
StoryEpisodeTitleDirected by [lower-alpha 1]Written by [lower-alpha 1]Storyboarded by [lower-alpha 1]Original air date [7]Ref.
351"Don't Panic. This is a Spirit Trap"
Transcription: "Awateru na. Kore wa Seirei no Wana da" (Japanese: あわてるな。これは精霊の罠だ)		Norihiko NagahamaFumihiko ShimoIkuo MorimotoApril 8, 2022 (2022-04-08)[8]
Kurumi Tokisaki attacks a D.E.M. facility and finds the captured Spirit Nia Honjou, codenamed "Sister." Sometime after the most recent events, Shido has been receiving medical checkups from Reine to confirm his health after having to seal the Spirits' magical energy in his body for an extended period of time. While Mana Takamiya gets her own checkup from Kotori, Shido returns home when he runs into Nia starving on the streets. He brings her to her workplace, a manga publishing bullpen, where Nia reveals herself both as a Spirit and as a manga artist. She is already aware of Shido's mission thanks to her Angel, Raziel, which gives her almost unlimited knowledge on the world and humanity. For her own amusement, Nia decides to go on a date with Shido, until she reveals that she has never fallen in love with anything other than characters from fiction.
362"So Be It! 2D It Is!"
Transcription: "Yoroshii, Naraba Nijigen da" (Japanese: よろしい、ならば二次元だ)		Yukio KurodaFumihiko ShimoKenichi YatagaiApril 15, 2022 (2022-04-15)[9]
Shido's attempts to win Nia's heart, both by acting like her favorite manga character and communicating with her through a video game demo, fail, which gives Ratatoskr the idea of entering a manga festival and submitting their own amateur manga. If they win, Nia will be forced to read it. While the Spirits work hard at creating the manga, Shido and Kotori visit an old friend of Nia, whom Nia stopped getting into contact, leading her to believe Nia did not like her anymore. This causes Kotori to believe that Raziel made Nia aware of people's hidden dark thoughts, though, Shido believes Nia wouldn't do that and can overcome this problem with the help of the Spirits. Meanwhile, Kurumi visits Nia and asks her if there is a way to destroy the Spirit of Origin, the Spirit responsible for the creation of all Spirits. Nia tells her that the Spirit of Origin is so powerful that defeating her in straight-up combat is impossible, but Kurumi believes she can get around that with time travel. Natsumi does the lion's share of the manga's work and passes out from exhaustion but the Spirits complete their preparations for the festival.
373"What's Yours Is Mine"
Transcription: "Kimi no Mono wa Watashi no Mono" (Japanese: 君のものは私のもの)		Seung Deok Kim
Taiki Nishimura		Fumihiko ShimoIkuo MorimotoApril 22, 2022 (2022-04-22)[10]
The Comico festival begins with the Spirits and Nia setting up their own booths in order to sell their manga. The Spirits ask their friends and colleagues for help in their sales, while Nia gets a surprise visit from her old friend, Takajo, who despite not understanding why Nia stopped being friends with her, still wants to support her work. As the competition heats up, Nia admits that she feels unable to trust people on a personal level because Raziel constantly tempts her to look into people's secrets and violate their privacy, but Shido says that, no matter what happens, he will always trust her. As the festival ends, the competition ends in a draw, but Nia agrees to read the Spirit's manga, an embellished retelling of how Shido saved them, which touches her emotionally. Suddenly, Nia starts to inverse, due to the memories and trauma of being captured and tortured by D.E.M., purposefully re-triggered by Isaac Westcott. With Raziel turned into the Demon King Beelzebub, the Spirits attempt to calm Nia down, until Ellen and Westcott's new Wizard, Artemisia Bell Ashcroft, steal Nia's Qlipha crystal, the source of her power as an Inverted Spirit. Westcott himself assimilates the Qlipha crystal and obtains the power of Beelzebub, ordering a retreat so he can fully assimilate to its power. Fortunately, a fragment of Nia's Sephira crystal still remains within her body, so Shido is able to seal her powers. On the path to recovery, Nia plans to reconnect with Takajo and reveals to the other Spirits that Spirits are all actually former human beings, even the supposed "pure ones".
384"Space Spirit"
Transcription: "Sora no Seirei" (Japanese: 宙（そら）の精霊)		Kōichirō Kuroda
Ryūta Imaizumi		Fumihiko ShimoKōji HōriApril 29, 2022 (2022-04-29)[11]
An asteroid falls right into Shido's school in the middle of class and Ratatoskr reveals this to be caused by a space-bound Spirit fending off attacks by DEM forces. Using a camera to project himself into outer space, Shido attempts to talk to the Spirit, Mukuro Hoshimiya. Mukuro's Angel, Michael, can move objects across long distances, as well as lock and unlock physical skills and memories of objects and people. Mukuro used Michael on herself to seal her emotions, becoming a person of cold, dispassionate logic. Shido's attempts to persuade her to come to Earth with him fail, as she believes that the Spirits' reduced power will not protect them from anyone who would wish harm on them, like DEM. She also threatens to stop the Earth's rotation should anyone interrupt her solitude again, Shido included. Between the threat of DEM successfully capturing Mukuro, and Earth's destruction, Kotori tells Shido Ratatoskr will travel into space with its new spaceship, the Fraxinus Excelsior, in order to save Mukuro. Before liftoff, however, the Spirits receive a visit from Elliot Baldwin Woodman, chairman and founder of Ratatoskr. He reveals that he, alongside Westcott, Ellen, and her sister Karen, founded DEM in an attempt to capture Spirits, but upon realizing the immorality of their actions and falling in love with the Spirit of Origin, Woodman parted ways with Westcott and founded Ratatoskr alongside Karen. As soon as Woodman thanks Shido for keeping the Spirits safe, Westcott finds the Spirits through the power of Beelzebub, trapping them in a dark void while he goes to confront Woodman.
395"Fairy Tale"
Transcription: "Fearī Teiru" (Japanese: フェアリー・テイル)		TBATBATBAMay 6, 2022 (2022-05-06)TBA

Notes
  1. Information is taken from the ending credits of each episode.

References
  1. Harding, Daryl (March 16, 2020). "Season 4 of Date A Live TV Anime Announced to Be in Production". Crunchyroll. Archived from the original on 2020-03-21. Retrieved 2021-03-04.
  2. Hodgkins, Crystalyn (March 16, 2020). "Date A Live Anime Gets 4th Season". Anime News Network. Retrieved March 16, 2020.
  3. Pineda, Rafael Antonio (September 10, 2021). "Date A Live IV Anime's Video Reveals 2022 Delay, More Staff". Anime News Network. Retrieved September 10, 2021.
  4. Hodgkins, Crystalyn (March 7, 2021). "Date A Live IV Anime Debuts in October With New Studio, Staff". Anime News Network. Retrieved March 7, 2021.
  5. Loo, Egan (March 7, 2022). "Date A Live IV Anime Announces April 8 Premiere with Visual". Anime News Network. Retrieved March 7, 2022.
  6. Hodgkins, Crystalyn (January 17, 2022). "Date A Live IV Anime's Promo Video Reveals More Cast, Theme Song Artists, April Debut". Anime News Network. Retrieved January 17, 2022.
  7. "On'ea | Anime "Dēto A Raibu IV" Kōshiki Saito" ONAIR | アニメ『デート・ア・ライブIV』公式サイト [On Air | Anime "Date A Live IV" Official Website]. date-a-live4th-anime.com (in Japanese). Archived from the original on March 18, 2022. Retrieved April 8, 2022.
  8. あわてるな。これは精霊の罠だ. date-a-live4th-anime.com (in Japanese). Retrieved April 8, 2022.
  9. よろしい、ならば二次元だ. date-a-live4th-anime.com (in Japanese). Retrieved April 14, 2022.
  10. 君のものは私のもの. date-a-live4th-anime.com (in Japanese). Retrieved April 20, 2022.
  11. 宙の精霊. date-a-live4th-anime.com (in Japanese). Retrieved April 28, 2022.
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