| Date A Live Episode 6 | ||
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| 恋する温泉 | ||
| Koi-suru Onsen | ||
| May 4, 2013 (Premiere Airing) May 11, 2013 (Scheduled Airing) | ||
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Hot Springs of Love (恋する温泉, Koi-suru Onsen?) is the sixth episode of Date A Live.
Synopsis[]
Ryouko and her AST squad are under attack by a mysterious group, and she complains about how this could happen.
Earlier that day, Kotori is contacted by Shido about going to the hot springs, since Tohka and Yoshino wanted to check out one as soon as possible. Kotori agrees to the idea and decides to make arrangements for it. When asked where they should go, Shido suggests the nearby hot springs in the city, Tengu Paradise Hot Springs. Kannazuki agrees on the destination and recommends that Kotori take a break. After she immediately rejects the idea, Kannazuki argues that they won't be able to function properly as a crew if she overworks herself too much. However, Kotori suspects an ulterior motive behind Kannazuki's suggestion and questions him about his true motives. Kannazuki responds with his usual perverted behavior, which prompts Kotori to have him taken away again. Kotori then has Kannazuki dig up a hole non-stop for the entire day. After which, it will be filled up again and he needs to repeat the process for a week as punishment.
At the Camp Tengu Military Base, Ryouko is being briefed by one of her superiors that a group from DEM will be deployed for her team to observe and follow their techniques on how to deal with the Spirits. Later at her office, after letting out a fit of anger, she is asked by one of her subordinates about the trip this weekend. After expressing her delight over the vacation, Ryouko is unfortunately given a report about the sudden rise in alert levels due to the frequent appearances of Spirits recently, thus resulting in their trip being canceled, much to Ryouko's frustration toward the Spirits. However, Ryouko's subordinate suggests that they go to the local hot springs as an alternative, citing it as their way of showing their gratitude for her. Excited, Ryouko thanks her for the offer. Elsewhere, Origami is with the rest of her group. Ryouko's subordinate from earlier happily reports back to the rest of their squad that their captain has accepted their invitation. Origami, however, disapproves of the idea, reasoning that they could use their time to train instead. But at that moment, Shido calls her and asks if he could return the book he borrowed from her the day after tomorrow. As Origami asks him for the reason why, she hears Tohka's voice in the background of the phone call, accidentally revealing the location of where they are going. Origami's jealousy and anger at the reveal cause her to quickly change her mind and gladly accept the relaxation offer.
Yoshino, Yoshinon, and Tohka are looking at the view from the window in the car they, Shido and Reine are in. As the three happily enjoy the scenery, Shido comments that it is the first time the two have actually ridden in a car.
Sitting positions on the way to the hot spring.
As Shido pets Yoshino on the head, Tohka takes notice of this and asks Shido to pet her as well. Shido is unable to do so due to him being in the backseat and Tohka is seated at the front. As Tohka complains about this, Shido reasons that she was the one who chose to take the front seat. Yoshinon then asks Shido to pet her as well, which causes Tohka to become even more jealous. When Shido explains to Yoshino what a barber pole is, Tohka becomes overly frustrated with the situation and accidentally breaks a hole into the car's floor, causing her foot to go through and the road below them to give way. Meanwhile, Ryouko and her squad are taking the deployment train to the hot springs. Suddenly, a cave-in occurs in the tunnels which forces the train to stop due to an emergency shutdown, forcing the group to walk the rest of the way instead. Back with Shido's group, they are also forced to continue on foot after their incident, with Tohka begging Shido to forgive her. He reassures Tohka that it's fine and tells her that he isn't mad at her. He then cheers Tohka up by petting her head. Behind the group, something resembling a pod opens up to reveal AST team. The crew onboard <Fraxinus> spots them and, after a discussion on how to proceed, they decide to launch a preempted attack on the AST before they spot their group and plan.
A moment later, the AST are blocked in all of their possible routes, with Fraxinus being the cause. Ryouko orders Origami to take watch from above for any other routes they can take. Origami spots a side road that connects to the main road that they can take, and Ryouko immediately orders her group to march toward it. Meanwhile with Tohka's group, as they walk through a street, Shido spots someone familiar from behind a stand and goes to check. To his surprise, he finds Kotori at the store and asks what she is doing there. Kotori responds that she was only making sure Shido was doing his job properly, but Shido quickly catches on that Kotori just wanted to tag along with them. Despite Kotori denying this, Shido offers to Kotori to just join them at the hot springs, to which Kotori happily accepts. However, at that moment, she receives a sudden alert from her crew and tells Shido and the others to go on without her as she will catch up later. Ryouko and her squad find another dead end on the road that they were taking. Frustrated, she uses an explosive to clear the blockade, which Kotori takes notice of and orders her crew to take action to stop them by whatever means necessary. The crew then launches a missile toward the AST and, upon exploding, captures some of the group in their traps.
The AST squad members then face a ridiculous amount of non-lethal traps deployed at them by <Fraxinus>. Ryouko orders her troops to launch their suppression attack and to engage immediately. Having had enough of this, Ryouko retaliates on her own and destroys most of the traps, which annoys Kotori who was viewing the activities from her location. With Shido and the others, as they peacefully continue walking to the hot springs, he sees a missile dropping and exploding directly near them, with the ensuing explosion causing Yoshinon to blast off and making Yoshino upset and cry. This causes the area to rain and freeze up due to her current mental state. Shido tries to calm her down, but Reine reminds Shido that reuniting with Yoshinon is the only way Yoshino will calm down completely. Shido reassures Yoshino that he will get Yoshinon back, and they will be reunited again soon as he goes off to find the puppet. With the Fraxinus crew, Mikimoto asks what they should do now. Kotori asks if the AST have opened up a Territory yet, to which Nakatsugawa confirms that they haven't. Kotori then gives the crew permission to use "Destroy Mode". The crew then follows the command and has each of their traps simultaneously open fire on the AST, with some squad members being captured but quickly broken free by Ryouko. She then asks herself why this is all happening and remembers the amount of stress she has endured today and eventually snaps, ordering her troops to return fire with everything they have and to not stop, completely having lost her mind.
From afar, Shido sees the mayhem that is occurring. He then continues onward to look for Yoshinon through the chaos that Ryouko is causing. Shido is able to find Yoshinon, but looks up to see a giant bomb descending down on him. Kotori sees this and immediately orders her crew to stop the attack at once. Origami looks around and sees Shido as the bomb detonates. The Fraxinus crew's transmission is broken off due to the explosion. On the ground, Shido is luckily saved by Tohka, who had cast a barrier around them before the bomb exploded. Outside the shield, three of Ryouko's troops spot Tohka, causing Origami to advance and attack the moment the barrier is lifted. But before she can do so, the shield, along with Shido and Tohka, disappear from their sight. The three troops then wonder if all that happened today was because of the Spirits. A while later, Ryouko happily announces that she now feels better after all that happened, standing on the wreckage of the incident as her troops tiredly comment about this. Shido's group finally reaches the hot springs, but then Yoshinon's head falls off and into the water, much to Yoshino's horror. Meanwhile, Ryouko and her troops also finally reach the hot springs. As they are about to begin their relaxing time, the water of the hot springs freezes up, which is triggered by Yoshino's reaction to what happened to Yoshinon.
With the hot springs temporarily unusable, Kotori is suddenly contacted by Kannazuki who reports that while he was tunneling during his punishment, he was somehow able to dig up a hot springs. Shido, Tohka, Yoshino, Yoshinon, and Kotori then use the new hot springs Kannazuki dug up instead. As they all relax in it, Kotori tells Shido that she will have something for him to do soon, with Shido sarcastically commenting on how good the day has been.
Characters[]
By order of appearance
- The AST
- Ryouko Kusakabe
- Shido Itsuka
- Kotori Itsuka
- Kyouhei Kannazuki
- Origami Tobiichi
- Tohka Yatogami
- Yoshino Himekawa
- Reine Murasame
- Kyouji Kawagoe
- Kozue Minowa
- Munechika Nakatsugawa
- Masaomi Mikimoto
- Hinako Shiizaki
Trivia[]
- This episode features anime original content that doesn’t use the light novel as source material.