Mirai Nikki

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Type: Manga

Volumes: 12

Chapters: 59

Status: Finished

Published: Jan 26, 2006 to Dec 25, 2010

Genres: Action, Supernatural, Suspense

Themes: Gore, High Stakes Game, Psychological, Survival

Demographic: Shounen

Serialization: Shounen Ace

Authors: Esuno, Sakae (Story & Art)

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Score: 7.64¹ (scored by 55,458 users)

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Ranked: #2019²

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Popularity: #133

Members: 106,531

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Ranked #2019Popularity #133Members 106,531

MangaShounen AceEsuno, Sakae (Story & Art)

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The reclusive middle school student Yukiteru Amano finds himself whisked into a fierce game of survival by the god of space and time, Deus Ex Machina, in which the victor shall inherit Deus' unlimited power. All 12 contestants, including Amano, are composed of people who regularly keep diaries, but there is a twist: each person's diary has been turned into a "Future Diary," making it capable of telling the future to various degrees.

Amano possesses a "Random Diary" on his cellphone, which gives him accurate descriptions of his surroundings. He is reluctant to fight but his desperation to survive leads to him teaming up with fellow classmate and diary holder Yuno Gasai, an attractive girl who has a strange obsession with Amano.

But as this bloody battle royale plays out, shocking revelations are brought to light, changing the very nature of this twisted game.

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The first 10 volumes of Mirai Nikki were published in English as Future Diary by Tokyopop from May 12, 2009, to April 12, 2011, before the publisher went defunct. VIZ Media rereleased the first nine volumes digitally under the VIZ Select imprint from May 27, 2014, to December 16, 2014. The manga was also published in Italian by Edizioni Star Comics from December 10, 2011, to September 14, 2013; in Spain by Editorial Ivrea from June 15, 2012, to June 28, 2013; in Mexico by Editorial Kamite from May 28, 2015, to December 29, 2016; in Polish by Waneko from November 3, 2014, to September 1, 2016; and in Brazilian Portuguese by Editora JBC from January 2013 to January 2014.

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Gasai, Yuno

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Amano, Yukiteru

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Uryuu, Minene

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Akise, Aru

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Hirasaka, Yomotsu

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Mur Mur

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Deus Ex Machina

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Kasugano, Tsubaki

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Houjou, Reisuke

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Ikusaba, Marco

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Mar 19, 2011

Meerkat

Recommended

To me Mirai Nikki is a truly unique manga. It's the only work of fiction that I've come across that somehow manages to be "so bad it's good" while also being damn good! Sometimes it comes of as so silly that I laugh at it, but still I find myself genuinely interested in what will happen next. I don't know how it manages to pull this off, usually when I laugh at how a plot twist or element is stupid (in some other manga) I would begin to feel that the entire manga is stupid and bad. But not with Mirai Nikki! This paradoxical quality ...

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Jul 16, 2013

NuclearNecro-42

Mixed Feelings

Okay, now, I know I'll certainly get a lot of people who'll dislike this right now only for the low rating. But holy potatoes, this manga is one of the most overrateds I've ever seen. And with this I hope I can get someone not to waste their time reading the manga Mirai Nikki (or Future Diary, whatever you want to call it).

Now, let's begin the review. Well, first of course I'm going to say what I think about the story, and there's not much to say about it really. It isn't good, it's far from that. The manga had everything to be very good, ...

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Mar 12, 2015

AriaFlame

Not Recommended

Why did we decide to call it a spoon? Does the breakfast club exist? Is this intro eye catching enough or should I just cut this grandiose intro crap everyone does go back to straight out harassment of the manga?

How on earth does this manga have a fanbase?

This manga is so, so terrible. I do not understand at all the high rating. Is...is this like a troll rating thing? If so, please tell me and restore some of my faith in humanity

Please.

but more than likely, and sadly, this doesn't appear to be a troll fanbase. People actually think this...this thing is good for some ... inexplicable reason

This mangaka has no concept of transitions - we are quite literally thrown from arc to arc without a care in the world. It got to the point where I actually thought I was missing pages or chapters.

Arcs are thrown into your face without any explanation, characters appear out of nowhere - there is no foreshadowing nor people actually lurking in the shadows; one moment you will be looking at a shrine, and on the next page you'll be in a cave with some random person for one panel, and thats the last you see of them for the chapter, so when they get hurled into your face again, it immediately jerks a "who the fuck is that?" response over and over.

And dear fuck, the deus ex machina.

Yeah, yeah, I know what you might be thinking - "OH TEE HEE DEUX EX MACHINE THATS THE NAME OF THAT GOD PERSON IN THE MANGA HES DOING IT ON PURPOSE!!!"

No. If the mangaka is doing this on purpose, hes a moron. If he's not, hes still a moron. There is absolutely no meaning whatsoever to the plot-deux-ex-machina. At all. It's not satire on other mangas, its not some game changing plot device abuse, its not the breakfast club, its just total shit.

This manga actually appears to only annoy the living fuck out of people with its inconsistencies. And I don't mean a kind of minor annoyance, like the inconsistency of a pudding. This level of inconsistency is like being hurled around in a plane that drops to ground level about 50 times from 10 thousand feet up in 1 minute.

That's not even possible.

At many points throughout the manga I felt that it would've been better if the characters did not speak. Not for dramatic effect, but just because all the characters are fucking morons and should keep their mouths shut the hell up. This is most prominent in the "transition" page we get every few chapters. Completely full of shit that makes no sense. It might seem like I'm being dismissive here - and that's because I am. This manga should simply have been dismissed from the editing office, but instead, we're here and I have to write this review to sate my massive why-the-fuck-who-the-fuck-where-the-fuck headache.

The sole redeeming point of this manga, aside from it having a yandere, is how the main character changed at the end of the series. He actually became a pretty cool guy, and made the last few chapters actually enjoyable.

Unfortunately that does not change the fact that this manga is shit. What I would compare this to is you being force fed shit, literally, for the majority of your life, but for the last few days, you get pudding. Just a normal pudding, ya know? But compared to the shit you've been fed, that pudding is god. It also helps that your tongue is probably numb from all the shit

I actually recommend you read SOME of this manga, especially if any of you are interested in writing. This manga will provide a perfect example of what not to do for transitions, storyline, and will make sure you thoroughly check your work for swiss cheese.

If you choose to read the entirety of this manga, please: remember what you've been fed for the majority of your life.

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