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A Certain Magical Index

Toaru Majutsu no Index

2004, Light novel, 22 vol, 83%

Recommended by 11 Date A Live fans on AniList. The same kind of story: superpowered shounen battle hits.

Set in a city of not only scientifically advanced superhuman students, but in a world where magic is also real. Kamijyo Touma's right hand, the Imagine Breaker, will negate all magic, psychic, or divine powers, as well as his own luck. One day he finds a young girl hanging on…

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    2015, Light novel, 14 vol, 85%

    Loved by 52 Date A Live fans who read novels. Both have Tragedy, Female Harem.

  3. Cover of I’m in Love with the Villainess

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    Loved by 19 Date A Live fans who read novels. Both have Otaku Culture.

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    2009, Light novel, ongoing, 78%

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    2012, Light novel, 13 vol, 74%

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  9. Cover of Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation

    Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation

    2014, Light novel, 26 vol, 86%

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    Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World-

    2014, Light novel, ongoing, 89%

    Loved by 27 Date A Live fans who read novels. Both have Tragedy.

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About Date A Live

2011, Light novel, 22 vol, 81%

Shidou Itsuka has a problem. The world has been racked by massive quakes of an unknown source for years now, though life goes on. Then one day, Shidou's calm life ends forever when in the middle of a quake in his city, he meets a girl who's apparently a spirit-and the cause of all the destruction! When a team arrives to eliminate the threat, Shidou becomes embroiled in a war to protect these spirits-by making them fall in love with him?!

(Source: Yen Press)

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