Date A Live II

デート・ア・ライブⅡ

8.0(1)

OtakuDen

7.2(422,503)

MAL Score

Ranked #3829

Popularity #354

Action
Fantasy
Romance
Sci-Fi
Harem
School
Urban Fantasy

Episodes: 10
Duration: 28 min per ep
Aired: Apr 12, 2014 to Jun 14, 2014
Status: Finished Airing

Synopsis

Spirits are mysterious beings from beyond, wielding overwhelming power that can trigger devastating spatial quakes whenever they manifest. Humanity can respond with force and elimination—or by having them fall in love, allowing their abilities to be sealed away.

After successfully sealing three Spirits, Shidou Itsuka carries on working with Ratatoskr, tracking down newly appearing Spirits and courting them to prevent further catastrophe. As his unusual mission continues, the danger expands beyond the Spirits themselves when a more formidable presence begins to take notice of what Shidou and his allies have been doing.

Otaku Consensus

Date A Live II is a narrower, more fan-service-forward sequel whose best material comes when the Miku Izayoi and DEM Industries material pushes the series beyond routine harem resets. Keitarou Motonaga’s direction keeps the slapstick, command-room absurdity, and action beats readable across a compressed 10-episode run, but critics consistently mark it below the first season for thinner emotional depth, a front-loaded indulgence in service comedy, and an ending that leaves too much unresolved.

Why You Should Watch

Watch Date A Live II if you want battle-harem chaos that moves fast, adds a real corporate enemy, and still treats romantic absurdity like a tactical operation. It scratches the same itch as High School DxD’s genre escalation and The World God Only Knows’ romance-as-mission setup, but with more urban sci-fi flavor, idol-show theatrics, and sudden tonal pivots from slapstick to supernatural danger. The 10-episode length makes it a brisk sequel rather than a sprawling reset, and Miku Izayoi’s arrival gives the season a sharper pop-idol identity than the first. If you like your harem anime loud, self-aware, lightly risqué, and willing to turn affection into battlefield logic, this is the franchise’s most concentrated dose of that formula.

Key Characters

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Shidou Itsuka(VA: Nobunaga Shimazaki)
Shidou remains interesting because the series frames him less as a passive harem lead and more as a pressured negotiator forced to perform sincerity under absurd tactical supervision.
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Kotori Itsuka(VA: Ayana Taketatsu)
Kotori’s appeal comes from the whiplash between little-sister familiarity and command authority, a duality that gives the comedy and mission-room scenes their sharpest rhythm.
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Miku Izayoi(VA: Minori Chihara)
Miku gives the sequel its most distinct new texture, folding idol charisma, performance culture, and supernatural intimidation into a character built to dominate every scene she enters.
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Tooka Yatogami(VA: Marina Inoue)
Tooka is the emotional baseline of the ensemble, prized by fans for mixing battle-princess intensity with direct, easily flustered romantic reactions.

What Makes It Stand Out

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Production IMS handled this second season as a compact 10-episode television run, giving it a noticeably tighter and more compressed structure than a standard full cour.
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The sequel’s most important expansion is DEM Industries, a corporate antagonist force that shifts the conflict away from only Spirit encounters and gives Ratatoskr an organized human opposition.
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Miku Izayoi’s material brings the idol tag to the front of the season, using performance and public persona as more than decoration within the harem-action framework.
4
The writing credits split in a clear pattern: Hideki Shirane handled series composition and scripted episodes 1-4 and 8-10, while Jin Tanaka wrote episodes 5-7, marking the midseason block as a distinct scripted stretch.
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AniList’s tag profile captures the sequel’s identity with unusual precision: Female Harem at 99%, Super Power at 90%, Slapstick at 79%, Urban Fantasy at 79%, and Idol at 60%.

Fun Facts & Trivia

Fun fact 1: Date A Live II aired from April 12 to June 14, 2014, making it a spring 2014 sequel with only 10 broadcast episodes.
Fun fact 2: The opening theme was performed by sweet ARMS, the same vocal unit strongly associated with the franchise’s anime identity.
Fun fact 3: Hideki Shirane had a particularly large writing footprint on the season, serving as series composition writer while also scripting seven of the ten episodes.
Fun fact 4: Episode-level direction credits in the available staff data include Kaoru Suzuki on episode 2 and Tooru Kitahata on episode 6.
Fun fact 5: Despite a moderate MAL score of 7.18 and rank of #3814, the season remains highly visible in database terms, with over 422,000 MAL votes and a popularity rank of #354.