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Wow. I somehow managed to complete the first season of this lackluster work. I first questioned how a second season was even green lit, but I gave it a chance anyway. Long story short. I wasted my time on 4 episodes of an anime that got even worse in the second go around. I usually don't write reviews, especially negative ones. But wow, this anime literally has zero redeeming qualities. Visuals, sound, story, characters, its all shallow and boring. I don't see how anyone who has watched literally any other generic isekai would think this is anything but bad. Don't waste your time.

Let me start off by saying I am both a huge fan of Kurumi Tokisaki as well as the entire DAL series. I was extremely excited when they announced an adaptation was coming for Date A Bullet in the form of a movie. Heres where that goes wrong. It's far too short. With the first "movie" part being a limited 25 minutes, it is difficult to introduce the plot, the characters, and show any real progression in such a short amount of time. However, I am genuinely impressed by how well it was handled. Though brief, we were able to grasp what had happened to ... Kurumi, where she had ended up, and what her objective was. We were introduced to all the characters as well. It wasn't perfect by a long shot, but I was genuinely impressed for what it was, although I admit my bias towards this series.
As for the anime, the sound was great, the art was beautiful, the animation was fair for a relatively new studio, being so short the characters could have definitely benefited from an actual length movie, but it is what it is.
Overall, if this simply had a longer runtime to expand on the world, the characters, and the story, I would have rated this a 10/10, however I will have to end this with a 9/10. It was still an exciting watch, any fan of DAL or Kurumi in general will appreciate watching this!