Date A Live V Episode 5 Discussion

Okay… is there anyone at Crunchyroll checking these very obviously AI translated subtitles? Because if there is they are doing an absolute shit job… there’s no way that mistranslation of Mikie’s name should have gotten past you.

Great episode as expected but the animation leaves a lot to be desired they are gonna go all cgi next ep aren't they?

Also for LN readers correct me if I am wrong but shouldn't Ein Sof Ohr have in the middle of the flower?

At first catching up from 3-5 I was like huh those is cool Mio details, the Shin part/Mana part.

I assume Kurumi and more will come back not just be sacrificed. They wouldn't just kill a favourite character off or if they do not without good reason which I mean her appearing sure was good.

Some parts I was like yeah makes sense others I was like ok then.

Reina just being consumed makes sense but they just don't address the why she is so tired. I know S1 sure but they didn't expand it to be oh she was the other side of Mio so she is exhausted due to something else but I guess she just is what she is the can't keep up with the real world. Rather than say the 2 halves of Yamai with two different personalities. She is but just the more weak one? Or the modern life lived one then the spirit one. Huh.

Maybe the light novel and xplains that or maybe it doesn't as no need it isn't a worthy detail. Who knows.

Shido kissing Marina I mean Nibelcole (episode 4) sure. It has it's funny moments still inbetween some good touching ones but not just because the adaptation is trying very hard to include what it can besides a battle (not read these parts of the light novel before so new to me), besides side details that are relevant and all this stuff from each character to Kurumi. So much back and forth.

The CGI in battles hasn't bothered me but I've noticed it.

A lot of whiplash is happening for so many characters details.

A fair amount of answers but more questions to pile on.

RIP the state of spirits right now.

I assume Mio wants all the crystals back? Did they split them/birth the spirits intentionally and went nah I want them back or is it because they were taken and used by the 3 of Elliot, Westcott, Ellen. But maybe to expand on those they lose in their backstory ? I have no idea again I haven't read the light novel only speculating.

This series is easy enough to guess things for sometimes. Until Milo and then a lot of what further we don't know moments.

Compared to the oh Origami arc when author is ready kind of pacing.

I assume yes but then again they have their backstory to come.

Special crystals and yet Mio wants to go and make herself more powerful? Or give it to Shido or something like just take them back and recent the 3 of them in their backstory have to bring their village back or recreate that with the spirits?

As the spirits are her un-intended daughters because of them and experiments.

But I mean. Some deeper more then modern day stuff. Like Why? This is just like S2 with the start of Westcott for me going 'I had deeper plans' the author tells the reader but on a scale of 'there are other worlds' (in other series to expand the universe and draw people in and it's like no you didn't stop lying you just want this nonsense of scale that wasn't there alongside it in a way the original intentions maybe of Mio moments but this crystal and the 3 of them backstory.


Like come on what a load of overcomplicating to impress. It's just silly. Drags out the story, pushes a lot of ideas to drag it out, mess with things and push a nice 20+ novels or exhausted all ideas or mixes with others besides the encores or the 'fun' side tracking like the fairy tale world which they did more in aide stories as well)

Like.... in we have the regular/spirit sure but some fantasy past and the 3 of them HAPPENED to get to the present to blend in nonsense.

The author is just throwing anything at the wall.

I'm still enjoying it but it's still a load of nonsense.

The Mio stuff and the 3Ellen/Elliott of them seeing different sides is fine but the backstory to come I mean. Seriously this series is just trying so hard to have too much depth and it's a bit excessive.

It keeps getting bloated. We just needed some crystal to be mined, used for an experiment or something else and they used it for experiments to make spirits and the rest makes sense but a fantasy past. XD I get it it works it's just a bit too much.

I mean if Shido lost his confidence to date sure he already struggled before but from that and the Elliot let's her go of Ep4 to this. Even.

I wondered if he got his spirit powers from her or Tohka but the whole thing in Episode 4 sure makes sense and from a spirit of origin makes sense. It's weird the other details but sure. We don't or do have the Kotori's family details (other than just we know they don't need to show us) of how they took him in too?

Also Takamoya and Itsuka parents busy hmm.

The Mio moments make sense this fantasy element to the other 3 is a joke.

It makes sense kind of to further expand then just oh and experiment because well how else do they have the crystals then just mining some per chance level story telling but this expansion is kind of silly for scale to expand on.

So all the spirits are just tools made by Mio to gradually give Shido spirit powers so he can remember her? Damn. But now I'm wondering how he ended up as Kotori's sister. Also Kotori was Homura Haruko in the past? *goes to the wiki to read about that* *gets a ton of spoilers* Okay yeah, that was dumb af of me, don't do that.

13:04 So I was wondering if "Ein Sof Ohr" means anything and found this:
村雨 令音 (Murasame Reine). If you combine the first kanji of her name (令) plus the second kanji of her surname (雨) you get the kanji for "zero" (零), which is a part of the character Mio (澪) (see previous episode for how Shido came up with her name and the kanji). In the Kabbalah, Zero stands for the three mysterious forces located above, and said to be the origin of, the Kabbalah's Tree of Life, "En" (Nothingness), "En Sof" (The Infinite), and "Ohr En Sof" (The Infinite Light). I also found that it can be spelled as "Ain Soph Aur". Also in Japanese it's written as 万象聖堂 - "Sanctuary of All Things In Creation".


13:51 Deus is Latin for "god" or "deity"


With Kurumi and Kaguya dying just like that, I'm expecting a huge time reset or something by the end of the season/series.
And again, the title of this episode is "Mother zero", not "Mother Mio"

Really good episode! This season has been crazy so far, I love it.
We're finally getting Westcott's backstory next episode, I've been wondering what's his deal the whole series.

Wouldn't be "a lot of spoilers" if the season 3 director didn't cut vol 11.5 and 99% of Itsuka Disaster btw. I still wonder how the j.c staff people thought that adapt a whole volume in just 20 minutes + delete a whole sidestory would be a good idea

Just consider what you read as an extra info, cuz it will probably never be shown in the anime xd

If you want to, you can go to the volume 12 (Itsuka Disaster) wiki and see the story notes to see what the season 3 finale excluded

Too much usage of "cringe" is cringe ngl

1. Good question. Shido being Mio's "son" and lover (or maybe not both?) is a plot point actually.

2. Well comedy has it's timing, I guess? The crew had their fun through most seasons, regardless of cut material. The so called "pervert blond" has a serious and badass history behind him, which makes his superficial behavior irrelevant in the main storytelling. Glad someone likes those goofballs.

3. Without Maria, Fraxinus crew would be crippled. She's the one coming up with the date options in the first place. And no, she isn't just relevant because of some game. You'll soon see anyway.

4. Mio appearing directly in front of him has a bigger stimuli to Shido than Kurumi dying. If anime showed properly how Shido's childhood was like, maybe it would have been better conveyed how much her appearance means to him.