'Date A Live IV' releases 3rd PV of Nia Honjo, airs April 2022
The PV features character Nia Honjo (CV: Hitomi Nabatame), code name Sister. The background song is the ending theme S.O.S. by sweet ARMS.
By: Nicole S. Castro on March 27, 2022 at 11:33 PHT
A third promotional video has been revealed for Date a Live IV, the fourth season TV anime of the Date a Live series by Kōshi Tachibana and Tsunako.
Season 4 is scheduled to air in Japan on April 8, 2022 and is animated by studio Geek Toys.
In this PV, the featured character is Nia Honjo (CV: Hitomi Nabatame), code name Sister, and the background song is the ending theme S.O.S. by sweet ARMS.
Date A Live (Japanese: デート・ア・ライブ) is a Japanese light novel series written by Kōshi Tachibana and illustrated by Tsunako. Fujimi Shobo published 22 volumes from March 2011 to March 2020 under their Fujimi Fantasia Bunko imprint. The English translation is licensed by Yen Press.
The anime television series adaptation was animated by different studios. Season 1 was animated by AIC Plus+ and aired between April and June 2013. Season 2 was produced by Production IMS and aired between April and June 2014. Season 3 was animated by J.C.Staff and aired between January and March 2019. This coming season 4 is by Geek Toys.
Synopsis
Three decades ago, more than a hundred million people fell victim to an unprecedented disaster that came to be known as a "spatial quake." Ever since then, humanity has built countermeasures to mitigate the damage from future catastrophes such as instantaneous evacuation methods and immediate rebuilding of any architectural damage.
At present, 16-year-old Shidou Itsuka lives alone with his sister, Kotori. One day, he gets caught in a spatial quake despite preemptive warnings. Miraculously surviving the blast, he meets a mysterious girl in its wake, who he soon comes to know as a "Spirit"—supernatural beings who are the cause behind these spatial quakes. Coincidentally, he learns of the "Anti-Spirit Team," a specialized military unit tasked with destroying these Spirits with brute force.
As if these revelations weren't shocking enough, Shidou finds himself recruited into working for Ratatoskr, an organization dedicated to peacefully reducing the threat brought by Spirits—with his sister as its commander! As the new weapon of Ratatoskr, Shidou must nullify the Spirits' powers to prevent them from causing more havoc. His line of attack: go on dates with them, sealing the deal with a passionate kiss.
Source: Date a Live official Twitter, official website, Comic Natalie
NICOLE S. CASTRO
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Nicole is based in the Philippines and works as a freelance Japanese Translator/Interpreter and copywriter (English). She is a JLPT N2 passer who watches anime to "study" for N1. She has a long career history on LinkedIn (with primary focus on media and translation), but her anime watchlist is much, much longer.
