Date A Live’s best girl is finally getting her own anime!
In an announcement posted to the official Twitter account on September 23rd, it was revealed that the Kurumi Tokisaki centric series, Date A Bullet, will be getting its own anime at an undisclosed later date. The only other information about the series that was confirmed was that actress Asami Sanada will be reprising her role as Kurumi.
The Date A Live franchise launched as a light novel series in 2011 written by Kōshi Tachibana and illustrated by Tsunako. To date, it has twenty volumes published, with the most recent shipping in Japan back in March 2019. In 2013, the series received its first TV anime adaptation with animation produced by AIC Plus+. Since that time it has received a second season (with animation produced by Production IMS) in April 2014, an animated movie in August 2015, and a third television anime (with animation produced by J.C. Staff) in January 2019.
The Date A Bullet spinoff series began publication in March 2017. What’s interesting about this series is that it’s not written by the original author but rather another writer, Yuichiro Higashide, who works under the supervision of Tachibana. The series focuses on the yandere character Kurumi. The description on the Date A Live wiki describes the story as:
The amnesiac young girl, Empty, who woke up in the neighboring world encounters Tokisaki Kurumi. Led by her, the place she arrived at was the school’s classroom. In order to kill each other, the girls known as semi-Spirits gathered. Now then—Let’s begin our battle (date).
The Date A Bullet series currently has five volumes published with no word on when the sixth will be hitting store shelves. Neither of the light novel series has been officially published in English, but all of the anime series is available to stream on both Crunchyroll and Funimation.
Source: Comic Natalie
