Date A Bullet: Nightmare or Queen

Cinephile deep dive

The take

Jun Nakagawa directs. Go Sakabe scores. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Produced in Japan. Dialogue in Japanese.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

• 1Tight 29-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.
• 2Released 6 years ago.
• 3Part of the "Date A Bullet Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
• 4Original score by Go Sakabe. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
• 5Asami Sanada and Saori Onishi and Kaede Hondo carry the top of the cast.
• 6IMDB entry: tt13308788 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
• 7Only 65 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.

The technical file

Original score

Go Sakabe

Runtime

29 min · 0h 29m

Status

Released

Original language

JA

IMDB

Date A Bullet: Nightmare or Queen (2020) ↗

Part of

Date A Bullet Collection

Collection of Date A Bullet movies, a spin-off from Date A Live focusing on the character Kurumi Tokisaki.

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  Date A Bullet: Dead or Bullet

  2020
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  Date A Bullet: Nightmare or Queen

  2020 · this one

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Trailers & featurettes

Watch the pieces

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  Date a Bullet: Nightmare or Queen Trailer English Subs

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Production companies

Who made it

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  GEEKTOYS

  JP

Key crew

• Animation DirectorMichiyo Sugawara
• Supervising Animation DirectorYoshiaki Tsubata
• Supervising Animation DirectorNaoto Nakamura
• Key AnimationErika Tsutsumi
• Supervising Animation DirectorSatoru Koshiishi
• Animation DirectorMayumi Fujita
• Key AnimationMegumi Yoshimura
• Key AnimationJun Onouchi
• Animation DirectorHitomi Kaiho
• Key AnimationTomokazu Sugimura
• Key AnimationShiori Shirasaki
• Animation DirectorSayaka Ueno
• Animation DirectorMasayoshi Kikuchi
• Key AnimationYuuko Ikezoe
• Animation DirectorTeruhiko Yamazaki
• Key AnimationMasaki Hosoyama
• Animation DirectorHajime Hatakeyama
• Key AnimationSawa Fukami
• Supervising Animation DirectorNanako Tatsu
• Animation DirectorTakeshi Miyano
• Key AnimationMiki Matsuo
• Key AnimationHajime Umeki
• Key AnimationNayu Tanaka
• Key AnimationNami Inoue

Themes & keywords

What it's about, really

• sequel
• romance
• school
• spin off
• ecchi
• anime
• based on light novel

Release history · US

When it landed

• Digital2020-12-20

Also known as

International titles

• 约会大作战 赤黑新章：红与白CN
• 约战狂三外传 后篇CN
• デート・ア・バレット 後編「ナイトメア・オア・クイーン」JP
• Date A Bullet: Nightmare or QueenJP
• Date A Bullet Part 2: Nightmare or QueenUS
• Date A Live Fragment: Date A BulletJP
• 约战狂三外传：红或白篇CN