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Future Diary
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Type: Manga
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Status: Publishing
Published: Jan 26, 2006 to ?
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SynopsisHigh school 2nd year, Amano Yukiteru, is a boy who has problem making friends. He thinks of himself as a bystander and will always write down everything he sees in a cell phone diary.
Tormented by solitude, Yukiteru began to imagine things like a friend called Deus X Makina who is apparently the Lord of Time & Space. Seeing Yukiteru's miserable state, Deus gives him a new ability. His diary will now record events that will happen in the near future. Yukiteru is then forced to participate in a game which the winner will become Deus's successor. (Source: B-U Manga) |
Related MangaSide story: Mirai Nikki: Mosaic
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Its a small group of people, the paranoid feeling that everyone is after you, and its generally creepy. There are certain differences tough, but it gives of the same feeling.
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The story aren't that similar, but both stories have this 'killed or be killed' twist to them. The characters have to always be on the lookout for people who try to kill them on daily basis.
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Mar 20, 200826 of ? chapters read 20 of 23 people found this review helpful the irony that could perhaps describe mirai nikki would be when the audience becomes part of the play.
12 diary holders have been chosen to participate in a deadly game in which the one that would become victorious would become god. in order to win, they must fight each other, killing them or destroying their future diaries until only 1 is left.
these diary holders are normally the ones who would record their daily observations in life. some of them are reluctant to... put their shoes on other people's business yet the others are participating on the events that they have seen yet only acting as a minor role, making them very much like audiences of a play. the irony strike when deus, the god of time and space, selected these 12 observers and placed them on the center stage.
it is here that we find out the lifestyle of each participant. yuki, for example, acts like a nonchalant bystander recording his observations on his daily life. he records what he sees, what he experiences in his diary. yuno on the other hand records the actions of her crush on her diary. her thoughts about him when she sees him and her thoughts when he's out of her sight. the other diary holders have their normal diaries related to their liking.
the 4th participant for example writes down his thoughts on his investigation while the 9th writes down how he has escaped the police. the deal is, when deus chose the 12, their diaries have been upgraded, enabling them to read down what they would write after a certain period of time has elapsed.
i think the main premise of the manga would be causality and its effect. how people can change the events that would be and how humans can change the inevitable by willpower. but it also delves on the human psyche. the thoughts of each people written down on their diaries would eventually reflect their inner self but shroud their appearance. not everything seen to the naked eye is what they really seem in their truest form.
a psychological manga that deals with how each of us views our daily life and how one can make change, one way or another, only if we are willing to change ourselves. read more
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Sep 14, 200829 of ? chapters read 23 of 29 people found this review helpful This manga tells the story of Amano Yukiteru, a social outcast who records everything he sees in his cellphone. Out of desperation, he has generated an imaginary friend to accompany him, Deus Ex Makina, the lord of time and space. Deus, who sympathize with the boy decided to give him the his cellphone's an ability to foresee the records that he will make on the future. Little did Yukiteru know, that comes great power, comes another eleven Diary Holders(people who have the ability to predict the ...future) who can do the same thing. To Yukiteru's dismay, this is the beginning of a horrific game.
And to top it all off, each diary holder has a different prediction of the future.
Yuno, Yukiteru's mentally demented stalker, has the prediction to see what happens to Yuki in every ten minutes and the rest(dont wanna spoil it).
If you wanna get a better idea on what Mirai Nikki is, then think of it as the offspring of Battle Royale and Death Note.
Mirai Nikki is a genuinely chilling dissection of how willpower can alter fate itself.
In my opinion, Mirai Nikki emphasises how small the characters are and how oppressed they are within their surroundings. It tells us how trust is even better than predicting the future, as the future is not always what it seems to be.
This is no ordinary shounen, but one that aspires to be an epic, and it definitely is for the genre. It is the overall experience of, Mirai Nikki, however, that makes it such a great manga. The slow pace at the start is actually an asset, because it gradually grows momentum as Yukiteru discovers the real reason behind the future diaries, until the manga totally takes off in it's main premise and turns into a fun house of horrors.
It is deliberately paced, but endlessly creepy, horrifying manga. Suspense is a key element in the manga. There is a sense of walls closing in, something approaching, getting closer and closer. An atmosphere of deep foreboding emanates from each diary holder, unaware of what each identity and motive are, it is disturbingly stirring for both Yuki and the reader.
The art is not really appropriate to the cold and oppressive mood this manga intended it to be but then again, so as most horror manga's. The style is vagrant, it can convey the situation very clearly and the captions are simply oozing with palpable texts. The suffering of each diary holder is also depicted exemplary not to mention the bloody good morbidity.
Mirai Nikki is also very much thought-provoking. It is also a manga not easy to forget, and proves that when done well enough, and with a great deal of care, a horror, psychological manga can rise to a plane all its own. This manga is still publishing and so far, it hasnt lost its touch......yet.
I am deeply impressed with the scare it gave me and even the meticulous but sometimes over the top, psychological warfare of the Diary Holders. I recommend it to anyone who wants either horror or psychological without reservation. read more
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Feb 28, 200825 of ? chapters read 7 of 20 people found this review helpful the 2 main characters are yuki and yuno. the plot is about diaries (usually in the form of hand phones) which can tell the future with each having its own special functions (e.g. yuki can predict what happens around him but not him while yuno can predict what situation yuki is in every 10 minutes).
A great manga to read, yuno is the pyscho girl with the hidden past. yuki is the naive and weak main character but sometimes shows his hidden strength. all the characters are unique and the sto...ry has many people back stabbing each other and using tricks. great story, not bad art and all around interesting series.
Read it to find out for yourself!! read more
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