Juggling all of these elements is Future Diary’s greatest failing. Each diary is different and creates a 12-pointed rock-paper-scissors game. Not that it couldn’t have succeeded, but the writer evidently could not handle the complexity of a story with so many possible outcomes and 12 time altering powers to track. The battle royale turned this into generic shounen horror, pointless ecchi included. I had hoped for a smaller scale story with the duo avoiding one fatality after the other, delaying the inevitable, akin to The Time Machine and Steins Gate. I was disappointed when they introduced the battle royale angle. When paired with his diary, it makes her the perfect guardian in this battle. He teams up with his stalker Yuno, who also possesses a “future diary”, except hers only reports on Yuki’s status every ten minutes. However, it doesn’t reveal his future unless tied to someone else. Yuki has a cellphone diary that tells him the future, forewarning him of the many possible eventualities from his competitors in the battle royale. There is far more to the story than that, though not necessarily to its benefit. I always thought it was about an obsessive girl (Yuno) trying to kill the guy she loved. What I didn’t know, despite having heard of this series in 2011, was the premise of Future Diary. Genre: Psychological Supernatural Action Horror ThrillerĮveryone knows of Mirai Nikki, or Future Diary in English, if not by name then by the yandere character of Yuno and her repeated pronouncements of “ Yuki”.
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