Each diary varies in its properties and functions depending on the owner's personality, occupation and lifestyle and they all have their shortcomings. The diaries begin to record the future in the same manner their future selves would have written down events, with some even being able to influence the beings whose future they divulge to the owner the only exception to this rule is when the holder reaches a Dead End, a time when their lives would be finished without significant intervention. For Yukiteru to survive, he must team up with another diary holder, a girl named Yuno.Įach player is assigned a number based on the order that Deus modified his or her diary. In order to win, the contestants must use their diaries of the future to eliminate one another. Each diary holder has a diary with a specific ability that will help them in the survival game(Most in which tell the future in different ways). The winner becomes the next Deus Ex Machina. However, one day Deus asks him to play a survival game along with eleven others. He has what he believes is an imaginary friend called Deus Ex Machina. Yukiteru always rejected any offers to go with friends and just keeps writing a diary on his cell phone. An 11-episode live-action television drama aired between April and June 2012.Įsuno has also authored three side-story manga, each one spanning five chapters: first Future Diary: Mosaic which focuses on another Diary Holder, Minene Uryu, and tells unrevealed plot points of the main story in 2009-2010, Future Diary: Paradox (published in Young Ace), which tells the exploits of Aru Akise and Murmur set in an alternate timeline, and in 2013, Future Diary: Redial, which serves as an epilogue to the series. Funimation has licensed the anime for distribution in North America.
A 26-episode anime television series produced by Asread aired in Japan between October 2011 and April 2012. A "pilot anime" DVD was released with the 11th manga volume in December 2010. The manga has been licensed by Tokyopop, and ten of the English volumes were released, with a release for the last two now uncertain due to Tokyopop ceasing publishing in North America. Twelve tankōbon volumes were released in Japan. The manga was serialized in the Kadokawa Shoten's Shōnen Ace between January 2006 and December 2010.
Maybe in the future I'll watch the anime, or perhaps one day they'll make a remake that will enhance the show and make it the masterpiece that it certainly could be.Demographic: Shōnen Genre: Action, Horror, Psychological, Supernatural Tags: Thriller, Yandere Media: Anime, Manga, OVA, Live Action, TV dramaįuture Diary ( 未来日記, Mirai Nikki) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Sakae Esuno. Overall I would say that Mirai Nikki is worth watching, but you're going to have to be a little forgiving while watching it. But I do feel like the acting would have appeared better if the show would have been produced better. Gouriki Ayame was so freaking cute as Yuno though. The acting wasn't bad, but it could have been better. That aside, 65% of the way through, the show changed course in a way that made me put most of my criticism on the back burner, and from then on the overall story continued to boost my approval of the show. It feels like I'm listening to someone trying to play a beautiful song but they're just not hitting all the right keys at all the right times.
It's a lack of professionalism, or perhaps movie magic that makes you feel like the fantasy movie world is real. There has been a few other Japanese suspense shows that I've watched that have this same problem.
I'm not sure if this is due to the cinematography, the directing, or the production, but something just felt a little cheap about it. The story is awesome, however the show itself lacks a certain flow. Unfortunately it's not a masterpiece, which really sucks because it definitely had the potential to be. In fact, it seemed to be a combination of a few of my favorite movies, but I won't tell you which ones because that would be a major spoiler.
This review may contain spoilers Let me start off by saying that Mirai Nikki has more than one amazing concept.