Date A Live V

Shidou Itsuka faces greater peril than ever due to his continued involvement with Ratatoskr. He has already sealed 10 Spirits, and Isaac Westcott, leader of Deus Ex Machina Industries, has finally decided to kill Shidou and plunder the Spirits' powers for himself.

To achieve his goal, Isaac declares an all-out war against Ratatoskr, forcing the organization to exhaust its resources to ensure Shidou's survival. Despite being severely outnumbered and outmatched, a glimmer of hope exists in the form of the Spirit of Time, Kurumi Tokisaki. Shidou must seal and acquire Kurumi's power to travel to the past and confront the Spirit of Origin—the catalyst that started it all.

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Yatogami, Tooka Main

Inoue, Marina Japanese

Tobiichi, Origami Main

Togashi, Misuzu Japanese

Itsuka, Kotori Main

Taketatsu, Ayana Japanese

Itsuka, Shidou Main

Shimazaki, Nobunaga Japanese

Tokisaki, Kurumi Supporting

Sanada, Asami Japanese

Himekawa, Yoshino Supporting

Nomizu, Iori Japanese

Izayoi, Miku Supporting

Chihara, Minori Japanese

Kyouno, Natsumi Supporting

Mano, Ayumi Japanese

Yamai, Yuzuru Supporting

Bridcutt, Sarah Emi Japanese

Murasame, Reine Supporting

Endou, Aya Japanese

Iizuka, Aya Producer

Umeda, Masakatsu Producer

Matsuda, Taiyou Producer

Takagi, Junichi Producer

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Jan 6, 2026

maya_kotori

Recommended

This honestly surprised me in the best way. I’ll admit it, I wasn’t a big fan of the new animation style at first. It felt different, and I was worried it wouldn’t live up to the previous seasons. I went into it a little scared that the magic might be gone. But in the end, it turned out really good. The story delivered, the characters were still amazing, and the emotional moments hit just as hard as before. I actually ended up enjoying it way more than I expected. And now… I’m just hoping we get another season, please. After everything that happened, it feels ... like there’s still so much more to explore, and I’m not ready to say goodbye to this series yet. For a show that’s been with me for years, Season 5 was a great continuation,even with the animation shift, and I’m crossing my fingers for more.

Reviewer’s Rating: 10

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Oct 12, 2025

Valkay

Mixed Feelings

I don't remember Kurumi having such big tits that they could milk her for 4 sessions straight.

I need to add some more trash before it lets me publish so here comes nothing:
The visuals have greatly improved since the first sessions which gave us very epic fight scenes but the 2D and 3D animation changes don't always mesh well together and there are some noticeable out of place animations. Though overall visuals are actually a big strength of this session and Date a Live in general.

The story arcs run simultaneously which makes following the story difficult and the constant cliff hangers are very annoying. There are ... people who can't bing watch anime so it's a nightmare to keep track of everything that is going on with a day or two intervals between the episodes.

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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Dec 9, 2025

uchicchi

Not Recommended

Date A Live has always been about the comedy that comes from facing down supernatural forces with an ordinary high school boy. While governments are sending top military forces to fight the mystical spirit beings, our powerless protagonist is forced to approach the spirits completely unarmed, and simply try to chat them out of fighting, eventually trying to date them to seal their powers peacefully. That has always been the core of Date A Live.

So why does this season have the protagonist flying through the air, blowing kisses at hordes of cloned enemies, because apparently that disintegrates them?

It's so hard to tell what this ... show is even about anymore. Characters split their minds into pieces, leading to intense conflicts between the characters and... themselves? There's so much time travel and re-writing realities that it's impossible to tell who came from which timeline and what memories they have. This season is all about alternate futures, sharing memories between different versions of characters from those alternate futures, and fragmenting characters' beings to send them to parallel realities. Instead of fighting these fantastical things with the (lack of) powers of regular high schooler, and defying expectations by showing how effective a bit of chit-chat can be against a magical being, Date a Live V has the protagonist utilizing every spirit power in existence, usually at the same time, turning the whole season into one big magic-fight. There isn't even any dating anymore.

Aside from the fact that the series went full-fantastical, the worst part of this season is is definitely the ending. It's so brief, with the final battle ending less than 2 minutes before the end of the final episode. Then, there's a quick slideshow with pictures of the characters doing daily-life things like shopping and going to school, which plays during the 90 second outro. That's it. What happens to all the surviving antagonists? Who has spirit powers anymore? What happens to the massive organizations that were fighting the antagonists? Why is there no mention of any of the side characters in the last 3 episodes? It doesn't feel like this would be the end of the overarching conflicts whatsoever, but the series just ends and shows some still images of the characters having fun around the city once a single battle is finished.

Another issue is that there are so many characters, that nobody gets enough time to even make an impact anymore. The worst part is when they have all 9 spirit girls standing in a horde, just off to the side of the main conversation, reminding you of just how many once-important characters are throwaways now. Remember when Yoshino got half a season where she was the most important character? Well, now she stands off to the side in a crowd of 9 people, hoping to get more than 1 line per episode just like everyone else.

This season has 2 main antagonists. There's the big bad Isaac Westcott, who has been sadistically hunting down spirits as the overarching antagonist since the start of the series, and the new "Origin Spirit", whose identity was revealed at the end of season 4.
Westcott is one of the most underdeveloped antagonists I have seen in a long time. Despite being unrelentingly evil, torturing spirits every chance he gets, it's never explained why he's evil in the first place. He actually gets his own backstory episode, but the most he ever says is, "When I was 4 years old, I realized that I am evil. I felt happy whenever everyone else was sad", and that's it! He was able to kill entire rooms of people with no hesitation back in season 3, but why? Guess he's just evil, no more to it than that.

As for the other antagonist, it really feels like they picked the name of a side character out of a hat, and went with it. There's no way anyone would have ever surmised that this character would turn out to be the most important in the whole series. It was a jarring and sudden promotion of a random character from barely relevant to main plot device.

Overall, if you liked watching the protagonist try to have real-world conversations with magical spirit-girls, then get them to adapt to human life through taking them on completely normal dates, you won't enjoy this season. This season is about leaping through timelines and realities, splitting yourself into several different people with different memories, then realizing that you're actually a completely different person, and you've been time-travelled into a different period. Then, there's a big fight with someone who we don't know anything about, and when that singular battle ends, the series ends. I understand that the series couldn't just keep playing the same gags that it did in the first two seasons, but it's disappointing to see this show drifted across genres, never figuring out what it wanted to be until the final episode came to a close.

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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