Will there be anymore Date A Live?

Yes. Every year since Date a Live ended in 2020, a new volume has been released: Encore 10 and 11, Majutsu Tantei Tokisaki Kurumi no Jikenbo and Another Route.
And there are often SS that come out in Japan, they should probably be compiled into an Encore 12 or something.
I don't think it will end anytime soon.

@MaouHero the main story actually ended in volume 19. Which is what season 5 is covering. That is when all the major conflicts get resolved. https://youtu.be/wgU7Ae1cQro?si=E0exc_hZINX2Xk91

Ever since then, it has been in post game story. An analogy is like in a pokemon game, you get the gym badges and beat the elite four for main story. After that you do other quests, go places, catch pokemon.

Main reason there has been new volumes is to coincide with seasons 4, 5, and dab. Dab, iv, and v were financed by a game studio. Effectively kadokawa didn't spend a nickel financing them. This kept the franchise alive well after the expiry date of when season 3 ended or when volume 22 released.

The chances of another light novel series getting close to complete adaptation is close to none. So I do hope they push further. Please help support https://www.cdjapan.co.jp/product/KAXA-87611

@SpiderMiles3523 Nah, the story really ends in volume 22. Yes, volume 19 ends almost everything from the "main story". But by volume 22 everything is properly wrapped up and the background of all the girls is explained.
After that, yes, there is what I would call an "after story". There are 3 volumes (encore 10 and 11, and Kurumi's LN) and I think this year there were some SS in a magazine.

I don't think the game studio financed this season, I have no information about that.
But the game being successful in China certainly influenced new seasons.

@MaouHero the game studio financed the entirety of dab, iv, and v. https://www.bilibili.com/read/cv33573733/

Even if you ignore the article, there is big evidence that kadokawa didn't spend a nickel on dal since dal iii.

1. Mayuri completely omitted from season v. In the ln she appears. Mayuri is a character original to the movie. They couldn't obtain the rights to mayuri for dal v.

2. No rebroadcast of dal i-ii and mayuri judgment. They have rebroadcasted dab and iv. Indicates shift in rights.

3. Lack of tie in books. Season v would almost completely adapt the ln series. Yet we don't have a 2nd tsunako artbook. Either ln series release a ton of books with a new seasons. Iv, v, Dab only had encore 10, 11, dab artbook, kurumi case files. But actually really just kurumi case files and since 10 and 11 continued from prior encore series. And dab began in 2017 before the game.


4. High production values. Production values for iv and v especially are way too high for a ln series. You can look at the trailer for re zero season 3 and the production values look simplified and weak and comparison. Kadokawa cannot produce high end TV anime too much. They did for eminence in shadow but that was new. They won't for a older show let alone push that far ahead. Index new testament never got adapted.

5. Lack of marketing in japan. Kadokawa couldn't advertise dal v in anime Japan 2024. They didn't have rights to it. Also cannot include dal v in fiscal reports. Cuz they didn't fund it.

@SpiderMiles3523

1 - I don't know if this means they don't have the right, the anime made a lot of questionable choices.

2 - https://x.com/date_a_info/status/1488802545208553473 there was this one

3 - There is fanbook 2 which was released shortly before S4 https://date-a-live.fandom.com/wiki/Date_A_Live_Material_2. Date a Live has already ended and yet every year there are at least 1 or 2 new volumes.

4 - Honestly, here I completely disagree. Date a Live by GeekToys is a low-budget anime. Any complex animation is done in CG. In Rezero only in the trailer there is a very animated fight between Emilia and Sirius, this is not seen in DaL without the use of CG.

5 - https://x.com/date_a_info/status/1714923997786501163/photo/1 there are events to promote date a live in Japan.

Finally, Kadokawa is always designated as producer. It is on their YouTube channel that DaL's videos are distributed

@SpiderMiles3523
1 - There is nowhere that states this. If that were true, it would already be news.

2 - Rebroadcast and re-releases of Blu-rays are very rare. Even more Blu-ray these days

3- There have been 8 volumes since Date a Live ended. This is not little by any means.

4 - CG is not always more expensive. Only if you mean the one used by Hollywood blockbusters. Which is not the case here, obviously. Every low budget anime uses CG in complex scenes, why does this happen if it's more expensive?
Yes, Chainsawman needed CG because it would be much more complex to do everything in 2D, this just proves my point.
Konosuba has incredible animation, including huge monsters and armies.
Are you telling me that DaL's CG, which look like plastic dolls, are better than good 2d fights? This is insane
And I just watched the trailer for the Overlord movie, and although a film generally has better animation, there's nothing special about this trailer. There are no complex scenes.

@MaouHero cg is more expensive period. It requires more frames, and every second of cg is vfx artists getting paid. By your logic, gundam seed freedom has the same budget as a romance movie. Sunrise uses cg in all their movie productions. Ufotable is basically just cg. Wit had to drop aot because they cannot handle cg for the rumbling.

konosuba's animation is not incredible. Nowhere near movie quality. Dont be like tensura fans coping their yapfests are still peak when they bandai is just grifing off easy views. https://www.reddit.com/r/Konosuba/s/0J7XGHfmzN
https://www.reddit.com/r/Konosuba/s/m5FtUSNGQq

Look at what incredible animation really is. Find me one konosuba or rezero scene that matches this. And this is just an average fight.
https://youtu.be/RQ6_JH4TwDI?si=hxpFGT50GChyRg64


The scale of between dal and everything else airing this season is enormous. Since you are working with large worships, large armies, huge sceneries, many special effects. Also they chose to animate fights vs skip out.

https://youtu.be/1YiGd9-9Ifo?si=fs_Oud-bDHr4N-Eo


https://youtu.be/fNVP-HlCT54?si=VSZ3qYFOcB7ZQ7HE is not comparable to the climate fights

@SpiderMiles3523
Yes, Ex-arm which is a completely CG anime has a bigger budget than Windbreaker. Yes, the producers spent money for nothing.
It doesn't make sense to compare a movie that uses CG. With a romance. The right thing to do would be to compare it to another action anime.
Ufotable became a CG studio? Do you know what CG? What Ufotable uses digital filters. Although in certain complex scenes sometimes uses CG, and it's terrible.

Re:zero only has a trailer, so I can't choose any scene and konosuba... it would be work, so I'll pass. As far as this Gundam scene goes, it's no big deal. And much better than the CG of 99% of animes because it's a movie.

Anyway, if you believe that Date a Live is a high-budget anime, congratulations. ExArm must be the peak of animation for you.


But whatever. This won't go anywhere and the topic isn't even about that

@MaouHero https://animegalaxyofficial.com/attack-on-titan-season-4-can-be-the-next-expensive-anime-series/

https://animegalaxyofficial.com/misfit-of-demon-king-academys-ugly-cgi/
https://twitter.com/edeniaspride/status/1660738498993823744/video/1
https://animegalaxyofficial.com/demon-slayer-season-2-budget-for-the-making-of-single-episode-is-way-more-expensive/
https://animegalaxyofficial.com/attack-on-titan-season-4-can-be-the-next-expensive-anime-series/

There are many articles that show cg doubles the cost of anime. Cheap cg is usually done for crowd scenes andnsome rando monsters. Viewership skews bias like tensura which is like the worst anime airing yet viewers think it is better than jjk.

You defeated your own argument. You failed to find a re zero or konosuba scene comparable to a single gundam fight. Wake up, companies don't blow their budgets on cg fights for TV anime. Unless it is a high end studio like ufotable, mappa. Kadokawa did it overlord because they were building to a movie. Bit re zero animation in general animation looks cheap compared to higher end production. Their 2d fights are not comparable to wit's.


You can even go behind the scenes of uforable demon slayer fights and it is all cgi. Dal's cg is far better than ex arm since it is far far better layered and more fluid than ex arm. I haven't seen the internet erupt in laughter like they did for nier or even blue lock. So your arguments are pure larping.

@SpiderMiles3523 You're right. ExArm is an anime with a bigger budget than any 2D anime. Date a Live has the best animation in the world.
Kimetsu no Yaiba is a 3D anime. And the Date a Live anime is made by Chinese.

see ya.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zgo97j9Kh9Q (Kurumi x Kotori S1)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUpEQ8ro8hw&t=118s&pp=ygUbVGVua2EgdnMgbXVrdXJvIGRhdGUgYSBsaXZl (Tenka x Mukuro S4)

Certainly this all mechanical fight, which looks like robots, is better than the one in S1

@MaouHero https://youtu.be/QQD6VbQtego?si=e7hl6vuoT8cTpetL

https://youtu.be/hcdfbJjrbg0?si=6ENRCyg8O8O8Iimf

Videos prove that ufotable excels because it is a cg studio.

Dal anime is heavily funded by the Chinese studio goodshow. The 3d cg was meant to be implemented in a cancelled game. A movie was originally planned after this but rn scrapped. Kadokawa would never blow that money on cg for a tv anime. They can for a movie like overlord or eminence in shadow. Reason less eyes are on it is because kadokawa funded the first 3 seasons and they went the 2d route except for some of the ships. The route doesn't work in the long run for a show like dal that a lot of armies, complex character designs. Also show is old.

Also kadokawa cannot sustain high level of 2d sakuga for a long period of time. Look at tanmoshi. Re zero season 2 was poorly received as admitted by the producers. They could not sustain something like a1 2d animation for 2 cours.

Quality =/= profit. Eureka seven by bones flopped. Most studios don't want to blow money on TV anime because they don't see it as profitable. This is why tensura s3 is a literal slide show with voice acting. Yet still gets views despite regarded as the worst thing on television rn.

Ex arm was an experimental show.

@SpiderMiles3523
These are the producers of Date a Live, there is nothing Chinese involved.
China is only involved with the game, nothing more.

Kodokawa doesn't do the animation itself, it's the studios that do it. In some rare cases, the anime is in charge of its studios.

Re:zero S2 had production problems due to covid 19 and the problems that the studio was having. This has nothing to do with kadokawa.