Date a Live

>Another movie
People hyped up Mayuri but it wasn't all too great.

I want a new opening by Sweet Arms, and anime means more doujins.

New season by JC Staff

Watch your fucking mouth

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More importantly why is Tohkas hair purple when the light novel says its brack as fuck?

part of me hopes it will be a redone version of the last episode like a movie version for it which would expand the possible other spirit with the book power.

Didn't they learn their lesson with season 2? Or season 3?

clock whore a CUTE!

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every day until you like it

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Probably an OVA or another movie.

Probably a movie, it takes more than 1 year to produce an entire season and the novel is ending this October or March of next year.

>anime means more doujins
What? Season 3 didn't produce a single doujin. Japan doesn't care about the series, China does but they don't make doujins that often especially when these last two seasons have been terrible looking.

COOMing to Kurumi in Koikatsu rn

>he doesn't know
Oh, the irony.

>00
Nice, but check google mate. You will be surprised

Tails or hair covering clock eye Kurumi?

>anime means more doujins.
Season 3 didn't give us shit though.

>animated
If you consider slideshows animation then good for you, also enjoy your off model girl.

I wish clock doujins were as abundant as the figures made for her

Even S2 only gave us like two shitty looking doujins. This series isn't popular enough in Japan to get doujins.

We have to blame Fate/Grand Order for that

? Shit like this has been the case since Touhou, then it was Kancolle getting everything however even series airing this season managed to get doujins. DAL is just not that popular enough in Japan and the anime also looks like shit.

Retard.

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Why did they turn a whole volume into a single episode at the end of s3, anyway?

Because the director is a dumbass.

Because they have this thing of always animating a filler episode in every season and volume 12 also happens to be a filler volume.

Because even JC Staff knew how pointless volume 12 was.

Please no more butchering, fuck that director. Get rid of him.

It's probably just a movie. They don't have enough time to produce a full season before the anime ends.

Only thing I'm looking forward in case this is season 4 is Mukuro and Shido. Nothing else matters.

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>looking forward to how they butcher her arc
I don't understand. I'd rather not have anime if that is the case.

Best girl.

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Was she the manifestation of the ship's main computer or was that a different game character I'm thinking of?

She is the Fraxinas AI but not the same character from the game, Tachibana simply decided to recycle her design.

Who knows, they could have been working on it since S3 ended but they didn't say anything.

A study by Yale says anons who bully retarded anime girls are mentally disturbed

So you do admit she is a retard.

There was a field study done by Harvard which had all the faculty fuck your mom.

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Well, don't you love Mukuro? It's gonna get butchered anyway so I'll take whatever's worth it it which is Mukuro.

It's not even confirmed there will be a new season, they didn't show anything at the end of the season 3 and they need at least 1 year to make a new season but the LN will be over by then. It's much safer to make a new movie.

tohkas verifiably on the same intelligence scale as everyone else in this light novel

What will the movie even be about? If it's another season and if they have brains, they could calmly air it even after the novel is finished.

youtube.com/watch?v=fC0HuPd163U

youtube.com/watch?v=OxvlqOUUbAo

youtube.com/watch?v=gHTqQSW_g4k

What is your favorite OP? Imo all three are god tier, even the JC Staff one, but if I had to rank them it would be 1 > 3 > 2

The third even if it has little going on in it.

>What will the movie even be about?
About a new girl? Mayuri Judgement is a carbon copy of Rinne Utopia, the new movie can also be a copy of existing games or about some random girl, it's not like the plot matters int those. An anime season requires a lot more of time and investment. It took JC Staff to produce season 3 around 1 year and three months after the new season was announced and remember the aired it 3 months the usual date which was supposed to be April. Now they are announcing a new project and the novel is probably ending next month, even assuming there are two volumes left that still means the last volume would be released in March, but if you are not satisfied let's say they delay that volume as well. That still only gives them roughly 1 year to produce a new season.

If it's getting more animation it's popular enough somewhere else.

Are you kidding? OP 3 is so bland.

2 > 3 > 1
None of the OPs are good but 3 was just so lifeless.

It's popular in China but that is not the reason series get an anime adaptations nowadays. If the series has the potential to sell merchandise then it will get an anime season. That is the only reason DAL got a season 3, they knew even with the pisspoor production values, the would make a lot more of profit selling merchandise.

If it's season 4 then it instantly debunks what you're saying though. I think a movie is the worst thing they could do right now, DAL is barely a thing in Japan now.

I like two the best, it was the only thing season 2 did right.

How does that debunk anything? If it gets another season it's because they want to sell more merch considering season 3 bombed with only 2k average. S4 should sell even less but BD sales is not what they are aiming for.

>DAL is barely a thing in Japan now
Then why would they make a new anime season since it requires a bigger production time than a movie. The DAL movie proved that fans would watch a movie featuring a literal who as long as she is cute and the animation is consistent.

Why would they make a movie user? Think about it, they would barely sell tickets. A new TV series would be licensed by streaming companies wich pay for it and sell more merchandise and it will have a wider audience. Also, why create another pointless character when you can just continue adapting novels?

I'd be really surprised it was S4, I liked the first two seasons but S3 was fucking Zzzzz.

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It was the best season story-wise. Everything else was ok to mediocre.

So it was true what we were discussing in the other threads. They're really trying to milk it dry now of all times.

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waifubait like miku

Because they already did it with the movie and they were somewhat successful. However, the key point is that the series will be over by the time they release a new season, and that point merch sales would drop a lot. The best thing they can do is release any kind of material that would advertise the series in the form of OVAs, games, or even a movie. Why do you think they released season 3 in January instead of the usual release in April? They thought volume 20 was the final of the series.

>liking S2
Holy shit, holy shit you must have some really shit taste to consider S2 good but S3 boring.

Your only point stands beuase you think they have to air this new anime project before the LN ends. A lot of other adaptations have been aired on TV even after the source material was done. Take for instance Full Metal Panic.

Thanks for making it clear you don't know Mukuro.

Fuck you guys. When last season ended, ya'll told me. that this was gonna be the last season. That there will never be more DAL. And now, it's happening again. I knew there was hope.

>Take for instance Full Metal Panic
Are you kiddin me? DAL is not nearly as popular as FMP. DAL is a series that will be quickly forgotten after the novel ends, it doesn't have cult following or a legacy, hell even now it's barely relevant in Japan and more popular in China.

That was obvious bait user. Would would even consider Miku to be waifubait? She is the second least popular spirit for good reason.

This has been the case since season 3 was announced.

DAL has kind of a legacy in China.

? Nothing has been confirmed and it's probably an OVA or a movie, even if it was a new season it would have poor production values like previous two seasons so there is not point in getting excited.

I doubt Japan cares about what China likes.

If it was an OVA, then they would have just announced that ''a new DAL OVA has just been greenlit''.

They're putting out more DAL anime though. China is making money for the series with the mobile game so it's obvious Kadokawa cares enough.

If it was a new season they would have announced two seasons ago when season 3 ended. They are half year later to start a full fledged season but if it is indeed a new season then this is pretty much a confirmation is going to be a rushed job.

user, season 3 had the exact same wording. "New anime project is on the works", the same as this one.

What does that have to do with China? The anime is mainly made to sell more merchandise and Japan buys that, China has restrictions thanks to its goverment and the chinese game they developed is where most of their money goes.

How many more novels are there gonna be? One?

Then prepare for an even worse looking season than S2 and 3. I'm actually curious to see how they can accomplish that, maybe if they go full CGI?

Previous seasons covered 3 to 4 volumes, season 3 covered 5 volumes.

You don't ned to make it even more scary than neccesary, user.

This is how it's gonna go down if it is a cour long season.

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Probably. This makes so much sense it's fucking disgusting. I really don't want that director fucking thing sup again.

Kurumi as the MC when? She has the most popular merchandise for a reason.

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she's literally the joker of anime

Being this ignorant must be a bless.

Are you an animeonly?

Did any of you guys buy the Date a live rio reincarnation visual novel? If you did, do you guys also think Rinne Utopia is vastly better than Arusu Install?

Isn't there going to be one more novel? Also, an alternative would be that season 4 goes up to Mukuro family, a potential season 5 goes up to Mio true end, and the show ends there. Maybe Tohka world will be done as 1 episode (like Itsuka disaster).

Yes.
Yes.

That Kurumi "arc" is two volumes long. They only have enough episode to adapt vol 13-15.

I own all the light novels *******, you're vastly overstating her character quality

>season 4
Is this a threat?

According to the nips the final arc is split into to two volumes.

If you mean the translation no, a friend of mine got me the original Japanese version and yes RU is vastly superior to the other two games.

>*******
This isn't Facebook or AS.

So next volume is going to be the last one.

They can also adapt half and leave it off on a cliffhanger. Or they can make Nia Creation into a one episode rush-job and cover 4 novels in 11 episodes.

>Dead a Live
Kek, do people even remember this franchise for anything other than having the same character designer as Nep?

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Well, here's to another trainwreck, anons!

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It basically is
>>>/global/rules/3

Why would anyone remember this when the only popular shows in the west are shonen shit?

No, they can't. The series will be forgotten by the time it anime ends. They either adapt 3 volumes or 5 but if they do the latter then it's going to be a worse mess than season 3 since there is not filler volume this time.

?

I'll be honest with you guys. I liked season 3. I expected it to suck, but the story got me through it. I have seen worse rape jobs done to the franchises I love. This is mediocre but watchable. And I really wanna see how this series ends.

based underage retard

Not in Japan, they only release shitty looking seasons to sell merchandise to losers who are willing to waste money for low quality figs.

>193298051
You are just shitposting at this point, okay no more (You)'s for you.

It's looking like it will finish at 22. Volume 21 title is "Tohka Good End (First half)"

You are wasting your time then, they would need another 3 seasons to adapt everything.

Then that would make this arc three volumes long, last volume was the beginning of the arc even if it was just filler.

Kadokawa have been producing shitty anime adaptation for a while now, not only DAL.

Not sure why they even bother with this series, it's not like the merch available sells a lot compared to actual popular series. I guess they just want to milk it dry before it dies.

Just look at how much effort they're putting into shows like Shield Hero and its sales were even les than DAL. In the long run DAL made more money.

You are talking about BDs but what about merchandise. How well does the LN sell, didn't they also announce like two seasons being in production or was that fake? If it's true then the merch should sell really well.

Holy shit. There was a foreign animator saying on twitter that DAL had a new season months ago and that he wa working on it too. I thought it was bullshit but now I'm not sure about it.
twitter.com/HachiKirra/status/1147174519464968192

Not that user, but I personally find Origami the most boring in the cast, so S3 kind of fell off after Natsumi's arc ended. All the still frames and lackluster animation didn't help things either.

S2's animation was better and Miku's arc was more entertaining than Origami's. I rather enjoyed watching her and the MC argue. Kind of wish Miku would have stayed a bitch instead of joining the harem (and becoming boring asf) but I guess one can't have everything.

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Don't forget that we live in the streming era now. In the last few years, many shows have sold like shit in the BD department, but got new seasons greenlit because of big streaming numbers. Streaming is the future, while BD sales is slowly becoming obsolete.

Japan seems to think is a movie for now.

Which spirit would you want as a sex slave?

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I've seen a lot of comments. Nobody knows what it is.

I agree the animation was somehow even worse than in S2 but Miku was a shitty character that non one liked, even the staff hated her. The first half of her arc was also really boring to watch. The main difference between these two awful seasons is that the QUALITY in S2 was "so bad it's good" whereas S3 QUALITY was just terrible to look at and not even funny, it also covered a genuinely good arc which only pissed off people who reads the novel.

Ironically, episode 5 was hilarious for the wrong reasons thanks to the terrible animation that reached slideshow levels.

Depends on what you find entertaining I guess. Miku arc was only good at the end and the Natsumi arc was the most boring for me. The Origami arc was much better than both from a story stand point and lays groundwork for more plot later in the series.

>Update
DAL got a nice share of views and got licensed by a bunch of streaming companies as well while S1 and S2 only were licensed by funimation. S3 while it was mediocre, it got a lot of viewership, especially in China.

Sure, but it seems like a movie has the higher chance so far, even they believe they don't have enough time to produce a new season in less than a year.

I dont get how terrible quality is considered normal and acceptable in Japanese animation.

I mean, lets say you have a printing company or something, and the stuff you print keeps coming out with errors, is printed on low quality material that falls apart quickly, etc, etc...once word gets around, customers will avoid you right? Because why the fuck would anyone waste time with a company that keeps producing defective goods right?

But in the animation industry, you can have a anime company well known for having terrible animation qualtiy, and NOBODY FUCKING CARES...people keep lining up and knocking on your door to offer you contracts...how the fuck does that work?

And I thought the elevens were obsessed with making high quality stuff unlike the chinese?

Well user, we'll have to wait yet again for the Fantasia Festival to learn about what it is.

>especially in China
It doesn't really matter if each episode has millions of views in China. Kadokawa mostly cares about the people who buys the merchandise and they are the ones who live in japan.

Yeah it is. The routes were better, more developed, and it had actual endings. AI's "ending" don't even feel like endings; the story just randomly stops. The overall plot was also better.

yoshinon

She's the best reason not to watch the show.
Kurimi a fucking shit.

That's a good question. I think the source material is the key to something selling rather than how well it's animated, at least for cases like this series. If a series is an anime original and/or a standalone, it better have good animation because it has nothing else to fall back on. In other words, LN (and some manga) adaptations can get away with shittier animation because the anime is more or less an advert for the source material. Also, if the source material isn't stellar, you can't really expect the anime to be much better (if at all).

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Because they have to produce as much anime as possible with little to no effort to maximize profit.. Who do you think CG looks so bad in anime? If given time it could actually look decent but CG is mostly used since it's cheap and quick to make. You see these same practices in other industries, in movies, videogames, food, etc.

Well, let's hope that they at least won't make the same mistake of copying and pasting the same faces on every spirit in the key visual again and go with the recent good looking promotional art they've been putting out.

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Because they are literally just throwing shit and seeing if something sticks, of course this is not always the case when the series is actually massively popular or if the studio makes decent/good looking adaptations.

It seems like it could be a movie, or at least that is what most nips think.

Well yes, in every industry you get the bottom of the barrel that produces "discount goods" but with the animation industry, its like the low qualtiy is the norm and you dont have anyone that makes consistently good animation quality.

And in most other industries, if you went to a top company known for making quality products and told them to make some really shitty stuff, they would probably refuse because they wouldnt want to lower their standards and damage their reputation. That doesnt seem to happen in anime, you have companies that can make good animation qualtiy, but will gladly make awful shit if asked, without caring about their reputation at all.

When it comes time to pick a studio for an anime, you would think that the author, publisher, or whoever is involved would be discussing it like :

A : Should we pick studio X?

B : The one responsible for making that low quality shit last season? No way!

None, because slavery is for chumps.

Berserk was and still is one of the most popular series, and the anime it got had awful animation quality.

I dont even get how that was approved. Berserk has a near legendary status in Japan, Miura can bully his editors in letting him take 4 months to release one chapter, but he couldn't demand that an anime studio produce decent animation?

I would say it's more so the case if the series is popular. I mean, just look at One Piece, which has had notoriously horrid animation (for years) until just recently. Toei can only get away with that shit because it's one of the most popular manga. In contrast, they tend to animate Precure exponentially better.

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Because unlike food, animation isn't indispensable for us, it's even worse in the videogame industry. Imagine if they sold you only the first 10 episodes of a seaon and you would have to buy some addition material to get the remaining two. In the anime industry you get the abuse of CGI.

In Berserk's case that only means Miura doesn't actually care if the series gets a good anime adaptation or not. As long as he has idol games to play it shouldn't matter.

>another season
After the previous seasons were so badly run? Is DAL made to suffer? Please employ some studio which actually gives a shit.

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One Piece has always had a particular artsyle that made it look cheap since the beginning and just like Pierrot with Naruto and Bleach, they know fans would watch the anime no matter how shitty it looks since the merchandise sells crazy well. I guess they need to make shows like Precure, Aikatsu or any other girly show look decent since it's aimed to little girls.

It's not a new season. Nothing is confirmed yet but Japan thinks is probably a movie.

>more DAL anime
This pic tells how I feel.

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I don't really understand how little girls being the demographic has anything to do with the quality of the animation, and besides Precure has a pretty large male demographic as well.

this poster secretly commissions every kotori doujin

Because little girls need things to look cute to be interested in them. You can't achieve that if it looks bad, and the male audience wasn't even part of the original demographic. They, mostly otakus, just watch these series since it has cute girls.

Based Kotoribro

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I think it does matter. Streaming is the name of the game now, and if a show is popular in china, it will get more views there than in most places.

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> Rem first
> Math first
> Big Nep, Noire, Nep first
good taste

Logical fallacies aside, do you even watch Precure? It has better fighting scenes than most series in general, and one can easily achieve cute and/or moe with average to lackluster animation. It happens all the time.

Haven't watch since KiraKira but it's not like every season has consistent good looking animation but it is indeed much better than what One Piece gets in daily basis. However, this also seems to be the case because it's a manga adaptation and Toei has to extend things to avoid catching up to the manga, this of course means they have to invent their own filler or just reuse as many scenes as possible. It's so bad they even found a way to animate only like 10 pages of a single chapter per episode.

I know you're trying to act tough, but deep down you're happy you may have a chance of seeing animated Mukuro.

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I don't think Kadokawa cares that much about views or else they would be pandering to China a lot more since you can find way more fans over there.

If you've seen it then I don't understand why you're disagreeing with me. I don't think you follow One Piece either, if you truly believe the animation for the last few years looks anything like manga.

No. This is the same like saying, and pardon for the non-Yea Forums comparison, Bethesda would announce a new Fallout game. I wouldn't be happy at all knowing those incompetent fucks are developing yet another dumbed down and buggy mess just for profits. I feel the same here, if you are going to make a terrible job then don't bother at all.

? I'm not disagreeing with anything, the original post was saying how some popular series look bad while others look good and I was stating what I thought was the reason. Even with One Piece having a new artstyle still didn't change the fact the pacing is atrocious, if anything is even worse. Dressrosa also started looking good but it ended up looking terrible by the end. The same could happen to this current arc depending on how long it is and so far it seems to be like it would be a long one so you can expect a drastic drop in quality.

Honestly user, as long as Kadokawa has the animation rights to DAL, it will always be butchered.

It could either be a movie, a new season(unlikely) or a DAB adaptation this one also seems unlikely since it's not very popular but it has a big cast of cute girls so it could probably be popular among animeonlys and otakus.

>DAB adaptation this one also seems unlikely since it's not very popular
Well, they've adapted eve less popular works to anime before so it's possible.

But it would be a bad decision to adapt something that has even less chance to become popular than the main series, even if it manages to become popular it would be short lived since the novel is ending in less than a year.

Maybe a Kotori Birthday OVA?

They only need a studio that doesn't do make shit looking adaptations, forget the big studios better go for the medium or small ones.

Apparently, the author of DAB is somewhat involved in this "project" alongside Tachibana. They may actually adapt a S4 and an adaptation of DAB as well. AN anime adaptation of DAB wouldn't work without having a S4 of DAL first either way.

>better go for the medium or small ones
This went to AIC and Production IMS before and we all know what happened to those and the studios themselves

>forget the big studios better go for the medium or small ones.
That's what I said back when they announced season 3. I wanted Lerche to animate or studio Nut for DAL 3.

But AIC did a good job with season 1 but then they went bankrupt and IMS was created. IMS was a literal who studio who never recovered and was on life support during its short life.

They won't adapt two different seasons, they lack the time. I wouldn't mind if they make a DAB adaptation, with the little time they have it's guaranteed to be a rushed job so there goes the only chance to make DAB relevant.

So, we're gonna get armless Shidou and 204 deaths?

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I only read up to green haired chick and maybe spoilers of Origami time travel spirit stuff (short hair is better, should have stayed with that)
Has he made love to /clock/ yet?

I doubt it's going to be a new season and they would need to cut a lot if they decided to adapt 5 volumes so I wouldn't expect those scenes to be well adapted assuming they are not skipped.

Assuming they start from volume 13, it's only 4 volumes.

Nothing has been confirmed but so far it seems like it could be a movie or DAB adaptation.

what? Nia, Mukuro and finaly Kurumi "arc". That makes it 5 volumes.

They won't adapt only half of an arc. It's either 3 volumes or 5.

Well, you're forgetting that if they adapt volume 17, the anime would end right when Mio appears which would be the worst possible clifhanger they could have.

That is not nearly as bad as ending the seaons in the middle of the arc, that would be anticlimatic as hell. They can also end it in an original ending since they have skipped almost every scene that includes Mio.

Not really, if they end the season in volume 16, they would end it with the Reine reveal which isn't that anticlimatic if you ask me.

It would be anticlimatic since the arc has a lot of plot points other than just Phantom's identity and again they can just skip those scenes. They already skipped the scene where Reine reacts to Shidou's comment about her making a good mother. There is zero foreshadowing and they can easily just ignore Phantom is a thing like they did in previous seasons.

swap kurumi and kotori, as well as empress and miko + pink and silver

You can thank the fucking director for skipping plot points and foreshadowing.

>Danganronpa 3
>the new kino no tabi anime
I'm not sure I would want them for a new season.

claire > restia > est > rinslet > ellis > fianna

julis > rmc > sylvia > saya > genki > irene > claudia > chinese loli > priscilla > kirin

tohka > stella > shizuku > ayase > nene

yukino > iroha > komachi > sensei > tsurumi > yui > sakiwho > ebina > miura > haruno > meguri > kaori

emilia > claire > sakura > reitia > liddy > karen

la folia > asagi > astarte > avrora > sayaka > yukina > natsuki > nagisa > reina > yuuma

lisha > krul >yoruka > celistia > phi-chan > airi > tilfarr > nokuto > relie > sharis

aika > tail red > phoenix guildy > dragon guildy > twril > anko > erina

kotori > clock > tohka > miku > natsumi > mayuri > yoshino > nia > origami mk II > origami mk 1 > kaguya > yuzuru

haruna > kanami > eu > chris > seraphim > maelstrom > naegleria > kyouko > ariel

ling > laura > houki > charlotte > cecilia > chifuyu > tatenashi

eriri > utaha > megumi > michiru

pink > orange > black > silver

useless bunny > pest > leticia > asuka > (You) > shiroyasha >lily

chitoge > marika > tsugumi > onodera imouto > ruri > paula > onodera

echidna > ram > crusch > felt > satella > emilia > reinhardt > reinhardt's grandmother > aldebaran > beako > priscilla > jew > BOWEL HUNTER > rem

hifumi > kou > aoba > yun > hajime > nene > shizuku > umiko

noire > uni > iris heart > blanc > nepgear > big nep > nep > vert > pururut > IF > compa > peashy

misora > yuri > freon > rico > lecty

reatier > CLOSED CLOCK > chifuyu chifuyu chifuyu > sayumi > hatoko > kuki > hitomi > mirei > SYSTEM

purple > red > yellow > peterhausen > blue > dark green > green

mari > lapis > kanaria > ouka > kiseki > usagi > ikagura > nagaru

umi > maki > eri > *

aine > hayuru > scarlette > reiri > nayuta > yurishia

lilith > hijiri > liselotte > arin > selina > yui > mira > levi > sora > akio

shironeko > mom > jp > rumia > crazy meido > riel

sagiri > elf > bookstore girl > muramasa > power gap > shit > power gap > riajuu

frenchie > empress > HYO HYO HYO > oni > morgan freeman > murasaki pantsu > notram > miko

gabbu > sawashiro > vigne = raphi > class prez > crying retard satan > tapris

red kutori > kutori > ren > pannibal > historia > nygglatho > limescale > tiat > *

chuuni > yuya > rui > red > meguca > infodump > A LIE WITHIN A LIE > shit > lancer

ayase = kirino > kanako > mom > sayuri > fujo > kuroneko > shit > manami

fighter senpai > pink retard > tendou > chiaki

That is why I doubt a new season would cover Kurumi's arc. They even benefit from adapting only 3 volumes since that means the new season would only have 10 episodes, meaning less time in production.

Mukuro>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Rest.

>replying

>studio Nut
Who?

>Anime is dead.
>They announce another animated project.
The irony.

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I can imagine the scene, the action is terriblly animated probably a slideshow again and Shidou loses a badly drawn arm making the whole thing a hilarious shitshow.

They are like two seasons late to be announcing a new project, even the movie was announced at the end of season 2 so it's highly likely they will have some serious issue during production. OVA would be the safest choice, but it's probably a movie, if they adapt DAB then it should be a QUALITYfest.

We don't know what the hell is going on in there. I just really want them to tell that director to fuck off.

Miku is worst girl.

Shit list.
Is better.

Don't forget what they did to Gekkou Gurashi.

It seems like the author of DAB has something to do with it so I would expect an adaptation or maybe an OVA of the first volume but It wouldn't make sense to do this now the series is ending

wtf bro

user, stop it. It's obvious they're trying to do something with the series even if the LN is ending soon.

Oh, they were in charge of that too?

Is S3 worth it?

I lost all interest in the series shortly after Nia's volume came out and whatnot.

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They already stated it was an animated project so that much is obvious. I just don't see a full season being a smart choice, a movie would be the best but why would the DAB author be involved? unless it has something to do with the spin-off but again, that would be a terrible idea.

No, it's somehow even worse looking than S2.

It's exactly after Nia's volume that the story picks up. You dropped it right when it was about to get good.

It's just DAL II 2.0, probably even worse.

It just felt me to like the story should've been mostly over after Nepgears arc was done. I liked Nia's design, those thighs and DFC, but yeah the story just kind of started wandering around without a clue of what to do with her and Mukuro

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>Nepgears arc
You mean Origami? Also how do you know about Mukuro if you supposedly stopped shortly after Nia's volume came out?

Because I drop by in the threads every now and then? Come on

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But why would you make such a claim about a character whose arc you never read? Especially when most if not all people who read her arc talk nothing but good things about Mukuro.

Imagine fucking Yoshino and hearing Yoshinon comment on every thing you do. I can't see it being possible to keep it up with that going on.

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Literally just a female Shidou. It's not a surprise she is even less popular than Miku since she has no body.

>the story just kind of started wandering around without a clue of what to do with her and Mukuro
How can you claim something of a character you don't know about?

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>the story just kind of started wandering around without a clue of what to do with her and Mukuro
That would be the case with Nia since she was only introduced as a plot device to give Westcott an inverse crystal but Mukuro is not like that at all.

>those comments
Holy shit, what a bunch of brainless idiots.

I want Mukuro.

Too bad, you are getting something like this or maybe even worse.

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Or maybe something like this.

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Maybe only during the first episode, most of the time the anime looked like this.

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If they have a decent schedule at least, they could at the bare minimum put out episodes with characters on-model.

Not even Index and OPM got such treatment. If there is another season then it should be another shitshow, it it's DAB adaptation it would be fun to see how they ruin a spin-off, if there is a movie well I don't think they can fuck this one up, even IMS did a decent job with the first movie.

That is the average nip for you. It's not a surprise Tohka is still the most popular girl with fans like these.

Tohka will always remain 1st for them.

Are they really happy it could be a new season? I guess is true Japan doesn't care about quality and prefers quantity.

There are a few of them who want a new studio but yeah most of them are acting like if these are good news. With braindead fans like these is not a surprise they keep making shitty looking seasons.

At least it'll have more budget than cop craft

Budget is irrelevant if you don't have enough time to properly draw the characters. S3 looks even worse than S2 and IMS had no budget at the time. JC Staff really knows how to achieve the impossible.

Cute user.

For the love of God, just let it die. Stop torturing me. I don't want Mukuro to be ruined.
I'd be okay with it if it was handled by a competent studio.

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I think all anons agree on that, user. I want that incompetent director to fuck off already.

>Restia > Est > Rinslet > Fianna > Ellis > Claire
>not Restia = Est

After going through three studios, do you really think a fourth one would make any difference?

Most shows always are animated by the same studio so the quality remains mostly the same. DAL just had to have bad luck.

Restia is better than Est.

First studio and first season were good. So if by some miracle it landed on the hands of a good one again, I guess I'd be on board.

> Math > Snake > Bat > Snail > Cat > Doll > Phoenix > Bee > Crab > Monkey
What about Vamp? Or is she Bat?

I don't see Daimaou on there.

But IMS is literally the first studio with no money. The new studio would have to be one who is known for its good animation or good adaptations. Hell, I don't even care about the animation being decent at best as long as they do justice to the source material. The problem is that Japan is the opposite, they only want to see cute girls, just reading those comments make me believe there will never be a good adaptation.

>IMS
>Good.
user.

There's a lot of series you don't see there due to lack of character space.

>she Bat
Yes.

AIC.

I miss AIC. They did good stuff.

With DALs luck it would probably end up with whoever is doing Arifureta.

IMS is just AIC with no budget. It still says a lot when they managed to do a better job than what JC Staff did.

Come on user, don't.

>Arifureta
That was the author's fault tho. Ironic an author who actually cared about its series and wanted the best for it ended up making the adaptation worse than it could have been.

Context?

Whatever happened to this studio?

They died, like Xebec did more recently.

Also like Gonzo.

Fuck.

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I don't know the details but he asked for the script, character designs and other stuff regarding the production. He didn't like it so he delayed the anime, asking to redo the entire thing. You know well what happens next, the anime airs and it's a disaster.

Imagine fucking Yoshinon and hearing Yoshino be silent on every thing you do. I can't see it being possible to keep it up with that going on.

It will be a power point presentation

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>when the coordinator blew your entire budget on hookers and cocaine and also owes his wife's boyfriend money

lmao what the fuck

Imagine her getting confused about whether it should be her speaking or Yoshinon speaking.

JC Staff.

This is JC Staff when they are trying to make a shittier job than OPM and Index. I'm still amazed at the fact they managed to do worse animation than a studio with no budget.

At this point they can just take LN illustrations and try to pass it as animation.

Bankruptcy for huge debt or something.

I don't see any chink commenting, without them a new season is doomed to fail even harder than S3.

Delayed and completely scrapped because the author didn't like what they were doing with the adaptation. I guess the staff must hate him now.

It's like that one arc in Shirobako, only without a happy ending.

That is the difference betwen reality and fiction, well in DAL's case Tachibana doesn't care about the anime in the slightest.

Is it legal to air something so obviously unfinished like this?

Didn't this sell like shit? Or did I hear wrong?

Watch Daishogun, it's an entire show with animation of that quality. And it was also made by J.C. Staff.

Weirdly enough, the cast and designs were fantastic.

Yes, it sold like 2k average but the only reason they keep making seasons is because the merchandise sells well enough and they are aware the "fans" are okay even with poor production values. Basically they found a gold mine in these idiotic fans. Minimum effort for maximum profit.

>the cast and designs were fantastic
Can't say the same about DAL III. I wouldn't mind a mediocre animation if the artstyle is good and consistent.

BDs sales are irrelevant, most of the sales come from selling shit like figs, nendos, keychains, mousepads, dakis, etc.

The hole is too big.

Won't stop me

I bet is going to be a DAB adaptation. It's so disconnected from the main series that it wouldn't affect it at all if it happens to fail, on the other hand it has massive cast of disposable girls for otakus.

They need to adapt Mio killing Kurumi first since that is the only reason DAB exists and for that to happen they need to reveal Mio.

Not really. DAB is so different and irrelevant to the main series that they can adapt it and fans would actually believe it's part of Kurumi's backstory unless they are told is supposed to happen later in the novels in a different timeline.

Why not just sell the rights to China once the LN ends. Kadokwa did a terrible job handling this series.

Have they finally gave up on the anime? Well, at least the guys who made that one chink game must be happy there is going to be a new movie or adaptation.

I keep hearing China likes this series but why is that the case? Only season 1 looked good, season was terrible and S3 managed to be even worse.

It's hard to say they are genuine fans or LNfags but they liked the first four spirits and Origami that much.

Meant for

Yoshinon can't even be used like that.

Okay but even if that is the case is not like the novels actually focus on them once their arcs end. I really don't understand why they would be such big fans of series just because they liked the first season that much.

Shut up Yoshinon

It's probably thanks to the designs. Like I said before, I wouldn't call chinks LNfags.

Whats up with the Rio Reincarnation visual novel? The CG and event gallery is really small compared to Rinne Utopia and Arusu Install.

You would have to turn it into an onahole first but the puppet is too big.

Rio Reincarnation isn't a full game like previous two. It's actually just a new route included in a bundle with the first two game, basically it's a glorified DLC route.

The "third" game is just the first two games plus a new route, if you thought EA was bad then I present to you Compile Heart or whoever thought of this idea.

Miku is worst girl.

So they are more like diehard anime fans of the first season.

Yeah, it's more of an alternate what if story/epilogue in a lot of respects than a full game. like the others. That's why it's so short and doesn't really have routes like the earlier two games did.

Have they release any fig for Natsumi or did the anime actually ruined her debut and killed her chances to become popular?

You won't stop me, Yoshinon, your ass is mine

The anime butchered her arc pretty bad and that finale was just a complete shitshow with the worst animation in all of the three seaons.

I don't get it, if they want to sell shit why not put effort into making the product look good. I'm sure the anime only managed to make more and more people drop the series.

This is just Kadokawa and JC Staff being incompetent.

JC Staff has an extremely cynical view of the anime industry. When JC Staff gets a popular series, they tend to cut a lot of corners on the animation, gambling that the series will still sell well and they'll be able to pull in bigger profits that way. Sure they could spend more time and money making the show look nice, but that wouldn't necessarily translate into better sales for a show that's already got a core audience. They also do this for long running shows where the customers are primarily going to be people who have been buying the series for some time. They figure that even if they spent time and effort to make season 3 of something look good, there probably won't be very many people who decide to buy if they haven't already bought earlier seasons. And if they did buy earlier seasons, most of them will probably grit their teeth and buy the newer season even if it looks like crap.

Meanwhile when they get a new series or one that isn't all that popular or doesn't already have a large built-in fanbase, they're a bit more willing to make it look nice since the animation quality will be a lot more important when it comes to hooking people in to buying copies. And when they try they can make acceptable shows. But unfortunately since it's their big, popular shows or long running franchises that tend to look the worst, they have a pretty bad reputation among most anime fans.

I seriously hated the colors used in this season, it looks so simple, the character look like they are shining and the hairs were affected the most by it.

I still don't understand how they managed to make a season even worse looking than S2. Okay, I get it, they knew DAL had some following and thought there would be some fans buying the BDs, that still doesn't explain how it looks worse than a season made with no budget. Like, you have to try really hard, or better said, not try at all to accomplish that.

They didn't really give a fuck. Look at how fucking awful Index Season 3 was. Or shit, how terrible One Punch Man was. That was a show they should have gone all in on to make look as good as possible, but they made it look bad too. I think they were just doing too many shows and didn't have enough budget to make any of them look good.

OPM 2 wasn't a good adaptation but its animation and artstyle are still much better than what DAL got, hell even Index had the characters staying on compared to DAL. Seriously, at that point even a cancellation would have been a better alternative than a shitty looking season but Kadokawa only cared about selling merchandise. I mean, it's not like they are idiots, well they are incompetent, but just reading those comments on twitter stating how happy they are for the possible new season despite previous seasons being absolutely terrible, tells me Kadokawa knows they can get away with treating the series like this.

She’s wielding a Keyblade, automatic 10/10

Reine end is true end. It will happen. You just have to keep the hope going.

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and it fuctions like a keyblade too.

Ded

Shin...

It's a shame she was too mature and complex for the target audience of the novel.

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How? She is literally the best girl in the series.

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Because she actually behaved like a realistic mature woman. When nips watch a harem series and they see a cake what they want it's the cliche depiction of a woman who probably smokes, drinks a lot, acts immature or seductive, etc. Tama-chan would be an example, the AST commander is another.

That's dumb and lame. Dammit Japan, why do you have to have shit taste for this instance.

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Sometimes the anime is okay

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They want girls who would love them unconditionally, waifubait characters. Why do you think so many harem series have the MC being dense but still loved by every girl just for being nice, pervert or even a piece of shit? Because that is the fantasy they want to live in.

This could have been better if the anatomy wasn't so weird.

What a slut.

I think she and Shidou along with their relationship was a bit too serious for the reader to handle, especially when you have characters like Tohka who can achieve anything with no effort while having the mental maturity of a 5 year old.

Maybe I should make them next.

She was so beautiful. What a waste.

Yoshino best girl

Isn't Reine Shido's girlfriend/mother?

Kind of sort of.

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user.

[x] Touch Tohka's tohkas

You're always late, retard.

>S1 was quite good
>S2 was trash
>S3 was slightly better than trash
>S4 will be?

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S3 had the source material to be great but animation and episode 12 ruined it.
S4 would also adapt nice arcs, but JC Staff will for sure make the same mistake and animate it like shit again so it will be like S3 more or less.

This is just Tachibana being Tachibana.

Not a single doujin was released after season 3, and it will likely not change even if they get another season.

It's crystal clear they're not producing more of this for doujins.

Danmachi II didn't meet this tragic end. I wonder why Danmachi looks decent compared to DAL, Index and OPM.

As shitty as season 3 was, the colors at least were better to me than season 2.

>Mayuri > Miku
Nice shit taste

Would Mukuro's date rival Yuzuru's in sweetness?

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YES I NEED MORE LOLI ELLEN

They did more than just talk, so I think so.

3, especially the orchestra Instrumental.

I would like a Season 4, but not QUALITY. Even nothing is better.

I still remember the scene where they're sitting on a bench and Mukuro'd humming, leaning on Shido's shoulder while holding a fan on her hand.

I think this is pretty much a given, user.

No but seriously, how can they fuck up even more than they already have? If they have anything to go by, S3 should be a great example of how things shouldn't be done. The huge backlash they got must have at the very least made them be more aware of how much they fucked up.

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Should include Nia and Mukuro.

She's a hag though.

>how can they fuck up even more than they already have
Next season is full CGI.

user.

QUALITY is to expected, that's why i'd rather have a movie or a OVA instead. I'd rather watch filler than see Nia and Mukuro arcs butchered.

user, we know it's most likely another season.

Just let me stay in denial until it's confirmed.

Wat

Volume 13 is the last volume where Ellen can be considered a threat, ever since Mukuro was introduced she has lost relevance.

>slightly better than trash
I know is an opinion but I consider S3 to be worse than trash, S2 at least had the decency of having its first arc well adapted and with consistent animation and art. The action scenes were animated as well. S3 has none of that, the animation is terrible, both arcs were rushed, there is only a single episode that looks good and maybe two above average.

I'm pretty sure you were one of the anons who claimed that the announcement of S3 was a movie and it wasn't that. It's happening again, just accept it already.

That is what happens when the series looks like shit.

Eh, I thought DAL III was worse than S2. The QUALITY is not even hilarious except for ep 5.

Yuzuru was lucky they adapted her date well. I wouldn't expect the same luck again.

Not him but it seems like the DAB is involved somehow so that means it could an adaptation of the spin-off.

JC staff is a big studio and they now own much bigger series than DAL. They don't have any reason to put effot into this series when not even the author and the fans care about the shit quality.

Each adaptation is worse than the last, I genuinely think next season will have greater amounts of CGI on top of the usual QUALITY.

It was the opposite to me, it looked too oversaturated and almost cartoonish. In some scenes every character looks like they have some kind of weird filter around them probably to hide a little the fact it looks cheap. I mean just look at this this or this and compare those to this

DAL just won't die

But it's actually dying and the series is near its end. This is just Kadokawa milking the dying cow.

I wouldn't mind if they actually adapted the whole novel

Nah, the novel drops the ball really bad after Mio is introduced, after that it's just the author throwing whatever idea he can come up with.

I don't want them ruining another adaptation, at this point they will ruin every arc until they reach the final arc which has been awful so far but at that point it wouldn't make any difference since every other arc would be just as bad.

Yes, but the question is if they would have the animation, art, direction to do it justice.

TSUNAKOOOOO

? Tsunako doesn't even work in the anime.

I didn't said that dumbo

Why would say her name then? This is just another shitty anime project, if Tsunako was the desginer it would have been much better.

Why is the DAL fanbase on Yea Forums so autistic?

They didn't even give a shit about OPM. Every show is equal to them.

There was an animator that actually cared but one person alone can save a season. OPM still doesn't look nearly as bad as DAL or Index but you can tell it still was affected by the amount of series they were working at the time.

?

I'd say is the opposite, the series didn't get an anime over 6 years but now all of sudden is getting a new animated project? S3 was even a failure in BDs sales, Japan didn't like it and chinks hated it. However, they are aware the average anime fan of this series would still watch and buy the merchandise. All this is just a last effort to get as much money as possible before the series ends.

So was DAL.

DAL wasn't jusut affected by it, they pretty much neglected the adaptatation probably to focus on Index at the time and OPM next season.

They neglected everything. Index and OPM looked as bad as DAL at times too.

>new animated project
It must be a movie. A new season would be just another disaster like S2 and 3, changing of studios isn't an option. I don't think a studio that takes harem series seriously exists unless it's for the fanservice.

Dead.

That is false, it's obvious they couldn't keep the consistency at all times but Index looks better than DAL and OPM is still average in terms of animation with some pretty good animation when that one guy was in charge. DAL had unfinished episodes, slideshows, only like two episodes with characters staying on model and a single episode that you can claim is actually good.

user, stop.

I know it hurts but is the truth and unless something changes next volume it will stay that way.

Add 5toubun to this pasta list.

S4 means we get to see cool Shido!
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That is exactly why sometimes I wish this was a series with harem elements and not an actual harem. In fact, this is hardly a harem series at this point with "harem members" that don't actually like the MC, little to no harem antics, bland fanservice, etc.

Well, Tachibana probably wanted to make a more action focused series. Tohka is literally a shonen MC in every way.

Tachibana doesn't know how to write harem series and he didn't think he would be working on this one for such a long time. He probably wanted to change the setting of the series after it was extended.

>He probably wanted to change the setting of the series after it was extended.
And he did.

You mean like S3 did? Without a good animator and designer the action is going to look awful and unless the change the director the narrative is fucked too.

Wasn't he originally planning to end it by volume 10?

Only in this last arc it seems like the series has nothing to do with sealing spirits, dating girls or Mio who is the cause of the series happening in the first place.

Yeah, that is why I mentioned it was extended. Ironically, the series was a genuine harem series in its original length with Miku becoming a lovable girl who actually like Shidou, it helps she was supposed to be the last spirit to be introduced as harem member with Origami and Kurumi arcs coming next and finally Mio in the last one.

What happened to the JC Staff that was putting out good shows years ago? Why are they so mediocre now?

They are not fit to make action focused series or series with plot. They should stick to comedies or SoLs like Dogakobo.

Miku is worst girl.

They were 5 years ago. What happened to them?

Change of staff? New recruits not being talented enough? Change in policies? Shorter deadlines? Who knows, whatever the reason is clear they are worse now than the were years ago.

Too many projects at once, it feels like.

Yoshinon best girl

Who wears a swimsuit under their swimsuit, anyway?

I doubt that is the only reason. Shokugeki no Soma has also suffered from their incompetence, Hi Score girl is 3D shit, Wixoss has been bad for a while, Milkie Holmes too, even series like Accelerator and Danmachi seems to have a few bumps here and there. I think the staff is just not as experienced as it used to be, if you add the excessive amount of series to produce then you have a recipe for disaster.

WIXOSS's and Milky Holmes' problems have more to do with the writers than the animation.

>Danmachi
The second season is pretty nice so far, no shitty animation as far as I'm concerned.

I wasn't talking only about the animators but the staff overall.

It's not bad is not as good as S1 either.

She was expecting her first swimsuit to be destroyed.

Seeing DAL characters in that style is weird to me, also that evil expression seems a bit too cartoonish.

>Seeing DAL characters in that style is weird to me
They look pretty nice to me.

I guess I'm too used to the shitty designs of these last two seasons but the designs are still inferior to S1.

Please don't butcher this.

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I don't think is going to be a season 4. It's probably a movie or DAB adaptation.

If it is a new season then you know they are going to butcher it, they can't animate action series and the director doesn't know a thing about directing.

If it is then we're fucked.

Better pray is not, the DAB author is going to be there along with the illustrator of the spin-off for some reason. They don't work in the games and I don't see why they would be involved with a movie so it must be a DAB adaptation.

Remember when barely 2days ago, another DAL anime adaptation was close to 0% likely to happen. Anons were happy Mukuro wasn't going to suffer the same fate as her other sisters.

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I can see a DAB anime happening. JC Staff is not stranger to animating spin-offs and just like Railgun has a female MC with a female cast DAB is the same. The only problem, at least for them, is that is a bit too late to animate something new so I'm expecting a massive failure.

I've been reading DAB and it's somewhat tied to the main LN. It's said volume 18 is where the split happens and DAB starts.

That is because Tachibana set up the whole nonsense with impure crystals and quasi spirits to make DAB possible, other than that there is not relation. DAB is supposed to happen in an old timeline that is not even relevant to the current series, even less now that the new volume is happening in some kind of world where the girls never became spirits. It doesn't tie to the main story at all unlike Railgun which is a side story that actually happens as parallel to the main one.

>the new volume is happening in some kind of world where the girls never became spirits
Volume 21 is set a year after volume 20 though.

The most likely options so far are a movie or a DAB adaptation.

>One year and one day after the disappearance of the Spirit Powers, Shido Itsuka meets a girl with a strange sense of loss. "?! You are ..." "... A name, ... I have forgotten such a thing"
>What is the identity of a girl who destroys the world ... ?
The way I understood this is that Shidou did something and now spirits don't even exist probably because a reset happen and now we are in a new timeline or something, a year later after Shidou used Mio's crystal. It wouldn't make sense for Shidou to just erase the powers and expect that would bring Tohka back.

I'm gonna make a bold statement and say they're gonna go with a S4 and a DAB adaptation becuase DAB as anime really can't work without getting to volume 18 first.

I read the synopsis was "after the disappearance of that Spirit".

You don't need to set up anything since the spin-off barely references the novels, no to mention is irrelevant to what is currently happening. It could be a simple series with Kurumi as main girl and an all cast of girls like many of her fans probably wanted.

The synopsis mentions he already found that spirit meaning everything he did to make that possible happened off-screen, I seriously doubt Tachibana would do that.

>the spin-off barely references the novels
user, I read the first and second volumes. We literally get a scene of Kurumi seeing through Tohka's eyes when she first met Shido in the classroom.

How does that create any contradiction or conflict to make the series possible? DAB is entirely different with a new cast of girls. You don't need require to have indepth knowledge of the series to watch it and again it's irrelevant to what is currently happening in the novels. I think Tachibana decided to make the spin off in such way for anyone who simply likes Kurumi.

I'm not saying it's a contradiction. It's literally Kurumi trying to get back to Earth but along the way, there's a lot of references to events of the main LN.

The plot is exactly why you don't need to adapt volume 13-15 to somehow set things up. No to mention Shidou rewinding time pretty much changed the timelines so whatever happens in DAB is only relevant to the spin off. Tachibana didn't really thought things through when he decided to start the spin-off. I mean, even if she comes back she will simply find herself in a world where all the spirits are dead but Mio is still alive and without Shidou being there.

>two seasons
Yeah sure, two different seasons at the same in less than a year. Even those idiots should know they can't achieve something like that unless they make every episode look like DAL III ep 5.

DAB is actually quite a pain to explain. There's a lot of shit going on in it.

Who said DAB needed to be adapted by JC Staff? No one.

Yeah because they are going to get a different studio to animate it. That is stupid, if they can do that then why not give the main series to another studio instead?

But whatever happens in DAB is not relevant to the main novel. At this point the spin-off could be its own standalone story. This is why I think they can make an adaptation without worrying about having to animate volume 13 to 17. It's not like they even care about the main plot in the main series after they removed every bit of foreshadowing for Phantom's identity and the first two seasons cut most of her scenes.

Maybe there's a chance for DAL of a new studio if DAB is getting another studio.

>they removed every bit of foreshadowing for Phantom's identity
Not everything. They kept the dream at the very start.

Come on, that is just wishful thinking. There is no way they will change of studios now that JC Staff is in charge of it. They would need to go bankrupt for that to happen.

Actually, DAB is supposed to be set after whatever volume the split happened in, since it's stated Kurumi fell for Shido for the "second time".

It's just a mouth, that's hardly foreshadowing since it could be pretty much anyone. For animeonlys, Rinne is Phantom.

> Shido has dream about someone saying they'll never leave him again
> Wakes up and Reine is right there

>For animeonlys, Rinne is Phantom.
Yeah and they must be missing some neurons if they missed the part where she says that's not her real form.

? Kurumi is supposed to be dead in DAB whereas she is alive in the current timeline, no to mention Shidou already made another big change in the last volume.

That is not foreshadowing since it doesn't imply she could be Phantom. They had the perfect chance in season 3 with the scene commenting about Reine being like a mother but they skipped it, even in the anime the converstation between Kotori and Reine about Shidou being adopted is given no major relevance unlike in the manga where Reine is seen reacting.

No major time changes were made in the last volume. They're still in the same timeline.

How so? Spirits powers probably don't exist anymore, who knows what even happened to the spirit world or the quasi spirits. Assuming nothing happened, Shidou still has to fix what he promised to Kurumi but if he already did it during that year that means some big changes actually happened.

You are talking about the same people who think Kurumi is a Yandere for some reason.

God I want to fuck loli Natsumi so much

Fuck off, Miku.

Tohka!

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Retard.

Retard.

Retard.

I don't think so, the Neighboring World was always really vague in the main series and it's only in DAB that we get to learn about it.

Everything is connected to the spirit world, if Mio dies then it should disappear alon with everything that depends on it, that includes the abyss and the world in DAB too. However, erasing the powers should also do the same since you are removing the very source that sustains these spiritual worlds which probably are just part of the spirit world anyway and again this is assuming that nohing happened and Shidou didn't change time to fix Kurumi's mess in the whole year of the time skip. On top of that, the timelines changed and Kurumi is currently alive, whatever happens in the previous timeline and DAB has nothing to do with the main novel anymore.

Why does it matter whether DAB occurs in the previous timeline? That makes it even more interesting honestly.

Because it happens in a timeline where the spirits are dead and Mio is alive, even if Kurumi comes back to life Mio is going to kill her again and Shidou wouldn't be there to help. Don't you see the issue here? Kurumi must either remain forever dead or die in the real world again but whatever happens is unrelated to the main novel since it follows a different continuity. The story itself is also pretty self contained so they don't need to adapt previous volumes to make an adaptation. That is what I originally stated.

This is almost like a Fate spin-off. But honestly, I don't see the problem with it, Tachibana and Higashide are suckers for bittersweet things.

This is hardly bittersweet since the other world doesn't seem to be so bad, it's not like the abyss where no one remembers you since you are not supposed to exist and I doubt Tachibana thought about the ending when he decided to make the spin-off. So far it feels like an excuse to make a series that focus on an all female cast which is probably what he wanted to do with DAL.

>the other world doesn't seem to be so bad
You should get to know a bit more about this spin-off first then. There's also plenty of fuckery going on there too.

Kurumi already created 200 timelines where the world ends and everyone is dead, not to mention of the timeline where inverse Origami did that. Regardless of what happens, it's clear Tachibana doesn't have any intention to incorporate the spin off into the main novel. If JC Staff wants to make a new anime project that doesn't require to know a lot about the main series then DAB is what they are looking for.

Well honestly user, it could whatever at this point. S4, DAB, movie, these are all possibilities. In the end it's already being produced as we speak so it doesn't really matter, it'll get butchered if they don't tell that director to fuck off too.

A full season sounds to risky, it took them like 1 year and a few months to release a shitty looking season that managed to be worse than S2 and now they want to make a new one? They have to finish it before the LN ends so that means there is less than 1 year to do it. A new movie would be the safest choice.

I'm gonna tell you a prediction. DAL will end on march 2021 on volume 24. I have a basis for that which is solid. The Tree of Life has 24 paths, that's all. People were already saying, volume 19 is the last, then volume 20 is the last, now volume 21 is split in two and I can tell you with certainty, there's gonna be a volume 23 and a volume 24 which will be about Shido. Just a hunch.

I love DAL!

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That is ridiculous. People thought the novel was going to end in volume 19 because it was Mio's arc and she was pretty much foreshadowed to be the main antagonist but now it seems like this arc is going to have another two volumes, add the filler volume to that and you have three volumes for a single arc that probably have nothing to do with the original plot of the series. 3 volumes just to focus on Tohka, not sure what Tachibana is trying to accomplish because it's already too late to make her an interesting and compelling character.

The only reason I can think of for all this pointless dragging is that Tachibana wanted to release exactly an Encore per spirit.

It's just a hunch so don't take it too seriously. The Tree of Life also has 22 paths if we ignore Daath so Tachibana is probably not considering to take Uriel into consideration for Shido so it's most likely it'll end in volume 22.

So many harems and no Trinity Seven.

There's no more character room for the post.

It's going to end in volume 22 now that this arc was confirmed to have another two volumes. I doubt Tachibana's intention is to mirror the tree of life because at this point even that is irrelevant. No enemies to defeat, the series never went too deep into religous terms, meanings, cosmologies, etc and the readers of this series probably don't even care about that stuff anyway.

Busty twin and ninja are best girls anyway.

She is ugly.

Fuck off bully.

>bully
But that is canon and even Natsumi thinks the same.

Only Tohka can be bullied.

That's just because of her lack of self-esteem. She looks great when she actually takes care of herself or has other people to look after her.

A girl needing to use make up to look pretty at such young age is not a good thing. She will look hideous once she gets old.

Mean user. She looks fine.

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I thought spirits were supposed to look like natural beauties. Does that mean Natsumi looked even uglier in-universe before turning into a spirit?

That Natsumi after she went through the beautification process. This is what she naturally looks like

Natsumi's problem is that she just doesn't take care of herself due to thinking there's no way she can look pretty, so it's a self-fulfilling prophesy. Not trimming off split ends, not getting enough sleep, etc.

That's every character after JC Staff took over.

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But there must be a reason for her to think like that and the fact she was still described as sickly looking even as spirit tells me she might not be that pretty in-universe.

> there must be a reason for her to think like that
Likely trauma from her time before being a spirit. Or she was just fucked up mentally from the start.

Wasn't it implied she was bullied at school? I seem to remember something along those lines.

>Likely trauma from her time before being a spirit
I wouldn't call it trauma, she just has some issues with her look but that being the case it means she wasn't exactly very good looking as human. Turning into a spirit is supposed to increase your attractivenes but it wasn't enough for Natsumi.

I don't remember something specific being mentioned since she suffered from the same problem that Shidou had every time he tried to remember something about the past.

The characters also looked bad during S2, especially during Miku's arc.

Well, now that we're close to bump limit, let me express my grief that if this is S4, Mukuro will be butchered.

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> she just has some issues with her look
It's way more than that. Back during her arc she thought the worst of any good intentions directed towards her; whenever Shidou tried to be nice to her she thought it was just him getting into her good graces so he could make fun of her later, etc. Even after she figured out that Shidou was telling the truth about caring for her she still had a bit of that to her.

It might have just been part of her delusions, then, but her attitude during her arc definitely gave the impression of someone who either was bullied or thought they had been bullied in the past.

I hope it's season 4 because I like Date A Live. Fuck all of you.

Do you like seeing the plot get butchered and terribly animated just to hear the later girls voiced?

Not by JC Staff.

user, you might find it hard to believe but those anons love DAL which is why they don't want to see it get any more butchered it than it already is.

>It's way more than that
That is just ususal spirit shenanigans for you. Remember when Kaguya and Yuzuru were willing to die for the other just because they didn't think about the simple solution of living together? or when Miku decided to hate all men in the world just because one of them tried to ruin her career to the point she brainwashed the city to kill a single man? Mukuro was also pretty dangerous with her methods all because she locked her emotions. Mio selected mentally unstable girls because she knew they would make ideal hosts for the crystals.

I love DAL and I love you anons. Never change.

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Miku is worst girl.

S4 by Lercher
Another director

I don't get this mentality. It's not like it will make the LN's worse.

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>I like Date A Live.
No, you don't. You are one of those idiots who can themselves fans but don't give a fuck if the source material is completely butchered because at the end of the day they only thing you care about is have more anime.

>I don't get this mentality
Not them but what is so hard to understand? People who like something would obviously want the best for the thing they like.

See what I mean

You mean Lerche. Also, where's the source. This info will be revealed in a month.

Yeah, be happy you get more anime, nevermind the fact they are forever destroying the main reason that made you like the series to begin with. If it was a spin off It wouldn't matter but the anime is supposed to advertise the novels and these last two seasons only managed to get people to drop the series.

People usually like to see everything in anime format nowadays.

>Lercher
Who

Because they always hope for the best or think an anime series equals good.

Is this a shop or something?

Most normalfags think like that. The ones who know more know when an adaptation is going to be bad or good by looking at the studio in charge. The more enthusiastic fans can tell by looking at the staff in charge.

Usually, it is.

Pray and hope it's just a movie.

I only see that happening when the series has a massive following, it's a gamble with lesser known series but it also depends on the studio in charge.

Three awful season in a row. I wonder if that would set some kind of record.

It's gonna be S4.

I would say is a movie, not enough time for a new season and S3 also flopped.

Even S4 is bad as many would expect, the voice acting and whatever few decent action sequences animated are still something to look forward to. Also, more merchandise is welcome.

To that end, it also mean a possibility of seeing Kotori's birthday OVA happen. Nothing would please me more than to see that.

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S3 didn't have decent action so I wouldn't expect any different this new season.

There's always hope. Just....hope.

I love these comfy threads. Guess DAL will stay here a little longer.

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If they didn't announce an OVA now they won't announce a new one later.