Mirai Nikki (Future Diary) Images

Original character design by Esuno Sakae
Anime character design by Hirayama Eiji



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Mirai Nikki (未来日記- Mirai Nikki or Future Diary) was originally a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Sakae Esuno. It was initially serialized in the Kadokawa Shoten’s Shounen Ace magazine on the26th of January 2006 having 12 volumes and ended on December 27th 2010. It was then adapted into an anime series and produced by Asread production studios and was directed by Naoto Hosoda and written by Katsuhiko Takayama. The anime had 26 episodes and had an OVA with its first episode airing on October 10th, 2011 and the last episode being televised on April 16th, 2012.

Plot:
Amano Yukiteru (also known as “Yuki”) is a junior high school student who has difficulty making friends and prefers to be a spectator than get involved with anyone. He often writes down his daily experiences via his mobile phone in some form of a diary. Due to his life of solitude, he interacts with his imaginary friend whom he refers to as “Deux ex Machina”, the God of Time and Space, and Muru Muru, Deus’ Servant.

One day, Deus grants Yuki’s mobile phone the ability to pre-record what will happen in the future for the next 90 days. Brushing it off and treating it like a dream, Yuki proceeds to school only to realize that his mobile phone really is able to predict what is going to happen in the future. He later finds himself involved in a game that Deus Ex Machina established, denouncing the idea of being an imaginary friend.

In addition, he finds twelve other people who own their own future diaries in the form of mobile phones as participants of the game with only one rule: Kill each other before the world ends on the 90th day. The game ends when only one remains standing and will be rewarded the ability to stop the world’s destruction and become the successor of the God of Time and Space.

Characters:
Amano Yukiteru (天野 雪輝 Amano Yukiteru) – The main male protagonist of the story. He is considered as the first diary user and is also known as Yuki (ユッキー Yukkī) and is 14 years old. He is shown in the anime as someone who does not speak much who prefers to observe than mingle with other people and writes down what is happening around him on his mobile phone diary. He often interacts with his imaginary friend Deus ex Machina and Muru Muru only to eventually find out that they are not imaginary beings but real beings that at the same time brought him in a battle royale kind of game.

Gasai Yuno (我妻 由乃 Gasai Yuno) – She is the female main protagonist of the story and is the second diary user. She is smart, beautiful and diligent and is perceived as a model student but the truth is that she is secretly obsessed with Amano Yukiteru and has yandere tendencies. She is willing to kill anyone who tries to harm Amano Yukiteru and will go as far as sacrificing herself just for Yukiteru to live.

Similar Series: The theme of the anime was originally from an old Japanese live-action classic movie entitled Battle Royale wherein students of a single class were forced to kill each other to survive.

Source: Zerochan; written by l_i_z