Awesome Music / Date A Live

Date A Live has plenty of Mood Whiplash moments, so it's fitting that the soundtrack comes equipped with a balance of lighthearted tunes and phantasmal themes.

Credits songs

• The opening songs border on Sweet Dreams Fuel. The lyrics make them even better.
  • "Date A Live" for the first season.
  • "Trust In You" for the second season.
  • "I Swear" for the third season.
  • "OveR", the opening theme for the fourth season, goes beyond just being Sweet Dreams Fuel (though it is still a factor) and delves straight into hype territory.
• Iori Nomizu, on top of voicing Yoshino / Yoshinon and being part of the group that performs the opening songs, sings all three endings of the first season.
  • "Save My Heart", a whimsical tune about Tohka's love for Shido and the hope he brought to her life.
  • "Save The World", with Evolving Credits between each Spirit arc.
  • "Strawberry Rain" at the end of Yoshino's own arc.

• The movie's ending, "Invisible Date". Poignant, when you notice that the lyrics appear to represent Mayuri's thoughts.
• Date A Bullet: Dead or Bullet gives us Infermata as the opening theme. Fresh off of Kamen Rider Zero-One, Go Sakabe is back with more bangers.

Insert Songs

• "monochrome", a catchy pop number by Minori Chihara, who fully gets into her role as pop-singer-turned-Spirit Miku Izayoi.

• "Q&A", co-sung by Marina Inoue and Saeko Zougou ^note Shido's voice actress when he has to crossdress as "Shiori". Doubles as Orchestral Bombing as Origami fends off an army of DEM Wizards with the White Licorice way above the concert hall, on top of being played back-to-back with Miku's "monochrome".
• "Calling" by Nobunaga Shimazaki. The music serves as background song of the final confrontation between Shido and Dark Tohka moments before Tohka Inverse Form be sealed in season 2 Blu-Ray version.
• The beautiful and emotional "Trust In You -Another Version-".

Tracks

• The haunting One-Woman Wail of Seirei, played whenever a Spirit makes her first mystical appearance or during heartfelt moments between Shido and the Spirits (mostly Tohka, though).
• "Duel", one of the prominent pieces used for announcing the start of an epic asskicking.
• "Mission of AST", the main battle theme per excellence.
• "Rain in the Garden", a calm theme that goes well with Shido's first encounter with Yoshino.
• When Yoshino is pushed to her limits, she calls forth her intimidating angel, heralded by the fierce "Zadkiel".
• "Portrait", Kurumi's sexy Leitmotif whenever she appears, trying to seduce Shido. Featuring a trumpet variant of the Sexophone trope!

• "Pride", played when Efreet!Kotori shows what she's made of against Kurumi.

• "Identical Winds", when Shido realizes that both Kaguya and Yuzuru each desire the same thing: for the other to become the one true Yamai, with themselves disappearing.
• "Stormy Date", putting the cherry on top of Season 2 Episode 3's double cliffhanger, where the Yamai twins face off against each other and the Arbatel sets its sights on the Fraxinus.

• Hurricane, where the Yamai twins put their animosity away and proceed to wreck the Arbatel with the combined might of their angel's true form.
• "Gabriel March I", "Gabriel March II" and "Gabriel Rondo", all of which are used when Miku shows off her powers over sound and music.

• "HANTEN Tohka", an ominous Dark Reprise of "Seirei". Used when Touka sinks into the depths of despair and taps into her Inverse Form.

• AHIH plays when Origami crowns herself as a Spirit. In contrast to the soothing "Seirei", "AHIH" is regal yet overbearing.

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