Is Date A Live super popular in japan?

Oct 20, 2019 4:21 PM

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Date A Live is popular in Asia, especially in China. In the west it's barely talked about becuase harem, but the anime industry and publishers don't need the approval of the west to produce more anime of a certain series. So long there's enough support in their home country and nearby countries, such as China which is actually where Date A Live really excels, then they don't need anything else.

Oct 20, 2019 4:24 PM

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JonasDown said:
Date A Live is popular in Asia, especially in China. In the west it's barely talked about becuase harem, but the anime industry and publishers don't need the approval of the west to produce more anime of a certain series. So long there's enough support in their home country and nearby countries, such as China which is actually where Date A Live really excels, then they don't need anything else.

Yeah true. Just adding this to fill up the word count

Oct 20, 2019 4:29 PM

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SlayerOfWaifus69 said:

JonasDown said:
Date A Live is popular in Asia, especially in China. In the west it's barely talked about becuase harem, but the anime industry and publishers don't need the approval of the west to produce more anime of a certain series. So long there's enough support in their home country and nearby countries, such as China which is actually where Date A Live really excels, then they don't need anything else.

Yeah true. Just adding this to fill up the word count

Yeah, so it's actually getting two anime this time. This spin-off and season 4. They're really going all out.

Oct 23, 2019 5:23 AM

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JonasDown said:
Date A Live is popular in Asia, especially in China. In the west it's barely talked about becuase harem, but the anime industry and publishers don't need the approval of the west to produce more anime of a certain series. So long there's enough support in their home country and nearby countries, such as China which is actually where Date A Live really excels, then they don't need anything else.

That's interesting. Aside from first hand knowledge, where do you get information like that? I'm interested to know more information about where and how anime are received by other parts of the world. The English anime community has some pretty annoying bullshit.

Oct 23, 2019 7:21 AM

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It's not that popular in Japan nowadays. The only character you still see sometimes in stores and conventions is Kurumi, and even then the series has been long overtaken by Gotoubun no Hanayome in the harem genre.

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Oct 23, 2019 5:50 PM

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TCTriangle said:
It's not that popular in Japan nowadays. The only character you still see sometimes in stores and conventions is Kurumi, and even then the series has been long overtaken by Gotoubun no Hanayome in the harem genre.

Japan couldn't care less about Date A Live at this point, that's why I said China. Hell, even it's more popular in Korea, Vietnam and some parts of America than in Japan itself. But it's in China where they really have a grip of the series. They're making more anime for the chinese especially, Japan is only a minor extra cash to the producers by now becuase the target audience of Date A Live is China now.
Gotoubun is riding on the popularity wave so it's understandable.

Oct 23, 2019 5:56 PM

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Zei33 said:

JonasDown said:
Date A Live is popular in Asia, especially in China. In the west it's barely talked about becuase harem, but the anime industry and publishers don't need the approval of the west to produce more anime of a certain series. So long there's enough support in their home country and nearby countries, such as China which is actually where Date A Live really excels, then they don't need anything else.

That's interesting. Aside from first hand knowledge, where do you get information like that? I'm interested to know more information about where and how anime are received by other parts of the world. The English anime community has some pretty annoying bullshit.

It's not difficult to guess, mainly becuase Date A Live is non-existent in the west but the fact that is keeps getting more anime has to mean it has to be popular elsewhere. Also, since I'm a fan of the series, I follow it closely and I pretty much read every news related to it. Date A Live is really popular in China and they're the main reason it's getting more anime adaptations.

Oct 26, 2019 5:59 PM

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JonasDown said:

Zei33 said:

That's interesting. Aside from first hand knowledge, where do you get information like that? I'm interested to know more information about where and how anime are received by other parts of the world. The English anime community has some pretty annoying bullshit.

It's not difficult to guess, mainly becuase Date A Live is non-existent in the west but the fact that is keeps getting more anime has to mean it has to be popular elsewhere. Also, since I'm a fan of the series, I follow it closely and I pretty much read every news related to it. Date A Live is really popular in China and they're the main reason it's getting more anime adaptations.

What you’re saying is correct. However, here’s my concern. Who’s going to continue the season?

Nov 11, 2019 11:44 AM

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So is Date A Live more popular than Highschool DxD as well ??
Because I know Highschool DxD is one of the popular Light Novel Series out there

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Dec 12, 2019 12:51 AM

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Imo, Date A Bullet will be more popular than Date A Live. Takes out the Harem aspect that detracts it from gaining a true worldwide audience, and also has the most popular and best character in Kurumi as the protagonist.

Date A Bullet seems to take the best parts of Date A Live and put them into their own series. If it's done well, I predict it will gain a much bigger following in North America than DAL ever has.

Mar 17, 2020 9:23 AM

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SlayerOfWaifus69 said:
Is Date A Live super popular in japan? It has received more anime adaptations in a short span of time than most other harem anime. I don't think anyone outside of Japan even talks about this anime but it keeps receiving anime.

There’s so many more harems I’d give a new season to over this and ofc I biased like a MF but smartphone, 100, new devil sister, Campione for sure, Vanadis, trinity seven, dxd, and I wouldn’t mind death march to name a few but maybe 3 of those even has a 10% chance

Mar 17, 2020 9:26 AM

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randumo24 said:
Imo, Date A Bullet will be more popular than Date A Live. Takes out the Harem aspect that detracts it from gaining a true worldwide audience, and also has the most popular and best character in Kurumi as the protagonist.

Date A Bullet seems to take the best parts of Date A Live and put them into their own series. If it's done well, I predict it will gain a much bigger following in North America than DAL ever has.

Now that I read a little ahead for the protagonist bc I thought the series was over idc about this show anymore unless they skip to the end bc the fillers will be BS

Mar 18, 2020 4:40 PM

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L-Mo-Reppin said:

randumo24 said:
Imo, Date A Bullet will be more popular than Date A Live. Takes out the Harem aspect that detracts it from gaining a true worldwide audience, and also has the most popular and best character in Kurumi as the protagonist.

Date A Bullet seems to take the best parts of Date A Live and put them into their own series. If it's done well, I predict it will gain a much bigger following in North America than DAL ever has.

Now that I read a little ahead for the protagonist bc I thought the series was over idc about this show anymore unless they skip to the end bc the fillers will be BS

Why would there be fillers? DAL is ridiculously far ahead of the anime, and DAB has enough for 2 seasons right now.

Mar 20, 2020 11:08 AM

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It's pretty popular everywhere... If you look for Kurumi Tokisaki (or variations on Steam for people who have the pfp/name/themed profiles in some way), you'll find over 9000 profiles, which beats out pretty much every major non dragonball character, and even stuff like Light Yagami from Death Note by far... People are also still finding out about it from the games that release, such as Ren Dystopia coming pretty soon.

shameless self promotion, I even own the KurumiTokisaki profile URL on Steam, XD https://steamcommunity.com/id/KurumiTokisaki/

And that's just one character, there's still like 1400+ Tohka profiles and what not.

Sep 28, 2020 12:01 PM

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L-Mo-Reppin said:

SlayerOfWaifus69 said:
Is Date A Live super popular in japan? It has received more anime adaptations in a short span of time than most other harem anime. I don't think anyone outside of Japan even talks about this anime but it keeps receiving anime.

There’s so many more harems I’d give a new season to over this and ofc I biased like a MF but smartphone, 100, new devil sister, Campione for sure, Vanadis, trinity seven, dxd, and I wouldn’t mind death march to name a few but maybe 3 of those even has a 10% chance

Date a live is 10 times better than half of the series you named here lol

Sep 29, 2020 12:36 AM

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swinger235 said:

L-Mo-Reppin said:

There’s so many more harems I’d give a new season to over this and ofc I biased like a MF but smartphone, 100, new devil sister, Campione for sure, Vanadis, trinity seven, dxd, and I wouldn’t mind death march to name a few but maybe 3 of those even has a 10% chance

Date a live is 10 times better than half of the series you named here lol

If u say so but I’d rather there be actual development in the relationship department

Sep 30, 2020 10:11 PM

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The Light novel was still selling well in Japan when it was over, and so were the spinoffs. It's a very popular story all over the world

Oct 2, 2020 10:21 PM

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SlayerOfWaifus69 said:
Is Date A Live super popular in japan? It has received more anime adaptations in a short span of time than most other harem anime. I don't think anyone outside of Japan even talks about this anime but it keeps receiving anime.

The Date A Live gatcha game is big in China. They basically funded this so that they could introduce more characters in the game. Hence you see the ad for the game at the end of DAB part 1.

Nov 14, 2020 9:04 AM

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The last time I checked the DAL LN was still selling pretty decent before it ended

Nov 14, 2020 9:21 AM

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date a live has its popularity in Asia certainly and it does have its following in otaku circles in Japan

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DAL has a very strong following especially among those who have read the last volumes of the novel. Characters like Kurumi are even known to people who haven't heard of DAL. So SEA and Japan have a dedicated fanbase. Also the attractive character art (Thanks, Tsunako!) demands attention.

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Mar 31, 2022 7:44 PM

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Dal iv is already the 6th most anticipated anime for the spring 2022 on MAL,5 on other sites, and has a far bigger footprint on the anime industry than any of the currently airing spring 2022 anime.

Dal got a huge jump in merchandise after dal iii with more consistent animes and merchandise in between than konosuba and overlord. It was the only 3 animes with exclusive panels at the kadokawa light novel expo. It is pretty clear dal will go down as the most well received and successful harem of all time.

Only thing that can really hurt is if tachibana chooses to end the anime. But he wont since he is barely far in kings proposal and dal is very close to a conclusion.

Mar 31, 2022 8:29 PM

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i dunno about japan, but i'm pretty sure it's huge on spanish speaking country, since whenever i watch a video about Date a Live there's many spanish user out there, but it's kinda interesting tho and i thought Date a Live was banned in China in 2015

Apr 4, 2022 8:05 PM

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Ban got lifted.

Date a live is one of the only few series that is making kadokawa money at this point. It has exceeded like 90%+ of animes in merchandise especially high end. If date a live fails, fantasia bunko fails, and kadokawa will axe a bunch of smaller series. It is considered a phenomenally rare series that has high viewership and insane merchandising deals. And date a live is fundemntally a harem. Kurumi may surpass rem in number of high end figure variants. Tsunako's designs make the figures highly desireable.

Even big anime fail hard when it comes to merchandising which is like 2nd in importance to success. Shows like blue exorcist may have high viewership and attract shonen viewers but aniplex ultimately dropped them since they were expensive and failed to make merchandising moneu.

Relatively, series was always bigger outside japan. If you check sanada, nomizu, and togashi's social media, many comments are from outside japan. Even jp viewers are shocked how big dal is outside japan.

The big issue is that harem anime has not been doing well recently in japan. Dxd lost a lot of sales and may have its anime cancelled. Jump's bokuben barely made headlines. Gotouben will probably crash in popularity after the movie. Fantasia rebuild got cancelled. All these harems failed to move successfully migrate to merchandise since streaming killed disc sales. Date a live defied this trend.

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Jun 5, 2022 7:40 AM

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"Kurumi may surpass rem in number of high end figure variants. "

I've seen this claim elsewhere but find no support for it, at least in the U.S.

I attended one of the country's largest anime conventions (Anime Central) just a couple of weeks ago and looked at basically every figure anyone had for sale in the huge dealer's room. I found the reverse to be the case: Rem figma outnumbered Kurumi figma at least 10-1 in variety and way, way more than that in volume. (In fact, only a couple of dealers had any Kurumi figma at all, whereas nearly every dealer with a decent-sized inventory had Rem figma.) The comparison was, admittedly, closer on high-end figma (which I define as over $100), but Kurumi had basically no lower-end stuff. Saw little to no representation of her in the rather large Artist's Alley, either. A handful of other DAL characters - Tohka, Shido, Yoshino, and maybe one other - had one-shot appearances, so Kurumi is the clearly the one from the series that people care about. However, she's nowhere near in Rem's league yet.

Jul 13, 2022 3:49 AM

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I read a forum people talking about Date a live is not popular in japan anymore but in china is huge popular with date a live. I heard from the forum they said in japan the popular harem now is The Quintessential Quintuplet.

Jul 13, 2022 3:50 AM

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by the way, is harem no longer popular or something?

edited: anime harem back in old day is pretty much dead. I'm so glad that date a live is still live until now and upcoming S5. harem anime I used to like back in old day like high school dxd, infinite stratos, heaven lost properties, sekirei are all dead and doesn't seem like anyone is reviving it.

Aug 3, 2022 2:28 PM

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Considering it topped anime cornee which is most north maerica audience and the apirit pledge page for jp is at half a million followers, and still lots of scales announced, popular worldwide

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