Date A Live fans have been not so patiently waiting for updates on the new season and on Friday, September 10th, two big updates finally hit the internet. Don’t get too excited though, because not all of it is good news.
First up, a brand new promotional video has been uploaded on YouTube, which shows off two new characters: a manga artist named Nia Honjo, who has a phobia of spoilers (… ok, that’s a new one) and Mukuro Hoshimiya who has had her emotions sealed away.
As is usual with Date A Live though, with a new season comes new names and in season four’s case, it’s a lot of new names. Taking over the animation production will be studio Geek Toys with Jun Nakagawa taking over for Keitaro Motonaga as director. Series composition is being handled by Fumihiko Shimo, who is taking over for Hideki Shirane. The good news is that Go Sakabe is returning to compose the background music.
Now, I know I said that not all the news about this season was good news and so I hope that I’ve given you ample bracing time to prepare you for the other shoe to drop. Remember how this season was supposed to air in October 2021? Yeah, that’s not the case anymore. As you probably already saw in the promotional video, season four of Date A Live won’t be airing until some time in 2022 for “various reasons”.
The good news is that there are still tons of different Date A Live content available out there for fans to consume, whether that be the first three seasons of the anime, the spinoff series, the video game, the mobile game, the manga adaptations, or even just the original light novel series (which ended at 22 volumes in Japan back in March 2020). The official English version of the manga is up to two volumes as of May 2021.
Source: Funimation
