- This is my first review. If I don't make any kind of sense, that's why.
- I loved and hated this anime.
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Generally, a story's premisse is maintained by the things that one allows himself to know before actually reading or watching said story starting, developing and finishing. You automatically create an expectation and you end up thinking that you will love whatever you're about to read or watch due to believing that your prediction is right. "Mirai Nikki" or "The Future Diary" in english, was the very first anime that completely fooled me. I'll explain why.
THE STORY: 5 out of 10
The story goes all over the place in this anime, but it never forgets to highlight what it actually wants highlighted. If you're planing to watch this anime like I was until yesterday, you must already have seen its main male and female protagonists. 50% of the core of this plot is completely centered in these too, you have been warned.
The other half of the core is what the premisse promised: action, blood, future prediction and many time-space related twists and a survival game in which 99% of the involved will die.
I read reviews and noticed that many people thought that the story is pathetic and ended up a total shit, but I don't agree with that. The story delivered what it promised to deliver. Watching the first 5 episodes of the anime, it's completely possible to break down the story's structure, and you'll be completely able to notice that it barely lets the main characters give other characters a chance to be developed.
The anime gives us heads rolling, tears, blood, a little bit of comedy, among with some other things. The flaws start here.
The biggest flaw of the anime for me was that it had many sexual tension, which may or may not be explained by the fact that I'm 15 years old as of the time I'm writing this. I just thought that many scenes were kinda ruined and didn't achieve greatness because of said thing. Regardless, even though I predict that many will find many things in this show offensive, I didn't.
Concluding this part of the review, I couldn't predict any twist (which is good), but only because I didn't allow myself to do so.
THE CHARACTERS: 6 out of 10
In this part I'll just be repetitive. The main characteristic that is common for all characters is that all the relevant ones have are completely insane and broken, with some slight differences that makes all of them unique.
The male protagonist, Amano Yukiteru does everything that is expected from him: he cries, thinks he's the victim, etc. One could say he's just annoying, but I'm just like him, that's why I predicted some of his minor decisions. Beware that he isn't as predictable as he seems though.
The female protagonist, Gasai Yuno, is probably the character that made this anime what it is. Without her, this would be completely different. I think that you'll love her, doubt her decisions and sometimes be extremely frustrated because of her actions - at least that happened to me.
Other flaw of the show is that it didn't give much room to give more depth and highlighting to Akise Aru and Uryuu Minene. They deserved more.
ANIMATION AND SOUND: 9 out of 10
Not much to say because I don't give much attention to the sound and animation. I enjoyed very much, that's it.
I give it a nine just because of Yuno's voice acting.
ENJOYMENT - 5 out of 10:
Before I even decided I was going to watch the show, I already was aware of a character's death, and regardless of knowing said character would die, I wanted to watch the show to watch that character. Just for that, I won't reveal which one it is because it would be a spoiler. However, I could say that my expectations for this character were completely fulfilled.
From this I just read the show's synopsis and I believed that what I had in front of me was just a survival game. I was half right.
In my idea, all the characters that I knew and would meet in the show were just rivals in this survival game. Main goal: being the last one standing. Once again: half right.
If you think that "Mirai Nikki" will only deliver what I said previously, you're completely wrong. "Mirai Nikki" deserves any hype that it gets and it is pretty addicting, but it's not (at all) an anime that you will unconditionally love. Even if you love it for one reason, there will always be a reason to hate it. Watch it and find out if you love it, hate it or hate it and love it like myself.
FINAL RATING: 6/10
