Schools regularly have drills in case of a spacequake, evacuations are done swiftly, and a group known as the JSDF disaster response team rebuilds the destroyed areas impossibly quickly. The protagonist, an Ordinary High-School Student by the name of Shido Itsuka, lives in a world where these disasters are common place. The first of these spacequakes devastated thirty years before the time the story takes place, claiming 150 million lives. The story is set in an alternate Earth where phenomena known by the generic term 'Spacequakes' occur. The series was published in Dragon Magazine from 2011 to 2020, with a total of 22 volumes. Date A Live is a Japanese Light Novel series written by Koushi Tachibana, with illustrations by Tsunako and published by Fujimi Shobo under their Fujimi Fantasia Bunko label.
