Date A Live IV

 The dating of spirits is back, and that means also more Kurumi!

So after a couple of years of waiting, season 3 being from 2019, it's time for the antics of Shidou in trying to seal potentially world destroying spirits away by making them falling in love with him.

 

And a new season of course means new spirits as well!  And it begins with Shidou meeting otaku and mangaka Nia Hounjou, who reveals herself as a spirit.  She is not against being sealed away, but she can only seemingly love 2D figures.  They decide to make a manga to have Nia fall for him, and sell it at Comico.  But just as Nia opens up to Shido, she inverts.  This is a result of the manipulations by Westcott, who had held her captive, and he swoops in to steal her demon king energy crystal.  But a bit of spirit remains, allowing Shido to seal her.  Nia is suprised when they tell her not all spirits where once humans...

When they prepare themselves to seal a spirit lingering in space, codenamed Zodiac, they are visited by their chairman.  But as he explains the origin of the organisation, the base comes under attack by Westcott, who traps Shidou and the spirits in a fairy tail realm.  They escape and head to space to try and free Mukumo, but come under attack there by an enemy fleet. A space battle ensues, but Shido manages to unlock her heart with the help of the other Spirits, and she whisks him away to go on a date after he protects her from falling to Earth.

But after the date, everybody seems to have forgotten who Shido is.  Only Origami remebers, and Tohka who inverts as a result.  Shido manages with the help of the others to get the crisis in check and restore their memory locks, but then Kurumi appears at his school.  She challenges him, either she kills him, or he seals her.  They unravel her goal, as she wants to travel back 30 years in time with the power she can get from Shido.  That way, she can stop and destroy the Spirit of Origin.

It turns out Shido actually died 204 times in these days of the date so far, but Kurumi keeps sending her mind back to try and protect him over and over again.  Phantom appears before her, but she manages to paralyse her and reveal her identity... which is no one other then Reine!  On board Fraxinus, Shido vows to now help Kurumi in return.

A very good season of this charming and hooking series, and I for one cannot wait for season 5 to hit, which probably be again in a year or two.