Anti Spirit Team (Date A Live)

"A good spirit is a dead spirit."

- Anti Spirit Team Oath

The Anti-Spirit Team is the main branch of the Japan Self Ground-Defense Forces responsible for the land-based military operations. It is the de facto army of Japan.

Anti Spirit Team - AST
The Anti-Spirit Team is a special unit within the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force (Japan's army) that is designed to suppress and ultimately eliminate the threat posed by Spirits. They utilize Combat Realizer units (CR Units) layered on top of combat wiring suits to enhance normal human capabilities while providing offensive and defensive combat capabilities.

The CR-Units are based upon equipment that utilizes technology recovered by humans after the first spacequake that have been described as "magic through science". The CR Units of the AST have an operating area otherwise known as the operator's "personal territory" that can be expanded or contracted at the will of the operator, thus leading to a decrease or an increase in the territory's effective capability. In this personal territory, the impossible can occur thus leading to the description of "magic through science".

Foundation and History
Japan Ground Self Defenses, commonly known simply as Anti-Spirit Team, was a front organization founded by wealthy Minister of Defense Saeki. The Minister Saeki, purportedly a passionate environmentalist, founded Japan Ground Self Defenses Forces in order to legally obtain materials from deactivated nuclear and astronautic facilities, while secretly developing them into weapons and military magi-tech technologies.

When the first spacequake happened, after that the DEM Industries  was founded as well as the Anti Spirits Teams in the all countries of the world. The Minister Saeki was a highly corrupt politician who used the AST to boot taxes that the government of Japan invested in military weaponsand he was already the target of death of many rebel groups, after that it was as director of AST in Japan was Kawashida its predecessor. He directed and coordinated the Japan AST, despite its soldiers are not trained for the task. Most soldiers AST are poorly trained and incompetents, thanks to this the Japanese AST lost a lot of money from these failures and especially with Wescott who had to send one of its wizards only to capture a spirit that AST could not.

Notable AST Members

 * Ryouko Kusakabe - The current captain of the squad AST.
 * Origami Tobiichi - Wizard (Formely)Date A Live Ost - AST Theme Song
 * Kyouhei Kannazuki - Wizard (Formely)


 * Tomonara 


 * Kagaya 


 * Takamine Mikie 


 * Sakatamoto 


 * Tsukamoto Sansa 


 * Mirie


 * General Kritani 


 * Mikie Okamine 


 * Kiriya

Trivia

 * Tohka originally Referred to the AST's the "mecha mecha squad."
 * Based on Episode 06, it can be Concluded que there are at least 20 wizards in the AST.
 * Some members of the AST Also are members of DEM.