Date A Live — Characters & Cast

He starts out wanting to help Kotori and the first Spirit he meets. It grows into a commitment to save every Spirit.

Shido begins as an ordinary student pulled into a strange mission, and he grows into a leader whose compassion carries real weight. Over five seasons he faces bigger threats and starts to understand the cost of his ideals.

She wants to stay with Shido and protect the world he showed her.

Tohka goes from a Spirit who sees the world as an enemy to Shido's closest friend and ally. She stays central through the later, darker seasons and the finale.

Her aims are tied to her own history and to Shido, and become clearer as the series moves along.

Introduced as the most dangerous Spirit, Kurumi gradually becomes one of Shido's most important allies. In Season 5 she leads a war against DEM alongside her clones.

She wants to save the Spirits and protect her brother.

Kotori balances her role as Ratatoskr commander with her role as Shido's sister, and matures into the strategist who keeps the group together.

Her desire for revenge for her parents' deaths and her devotion to Shido drive her.

She starts as an AST soldier hunting Spirits while being fiercely devoted to Shido, and her arc becomes the series' central tragedy in Season 3.