Mirai Nikki

Mirai Nikki, or Future Diary by Sakae Esuno, is a pretty interesting concept for a manga, its got the sense of a novel but you know, with pictures :} so it revolves around Yukiteru who would rather write down every little thing that goes on around him/to him in a cell phone diary then hang out or make any friends but besides not being interested in having any friends hes a pretty normal high school student. His cell phone diary’s name(imaginary friend) is Deus Ex Machina, yea hella complicated, but one day Deus asks Yukiteru if he’d like to play a survival game with eleven other players where the winner becomes the next Deus, who is kind of like God. In order to win all the players need to be eliminated or their phone needs to be destroyed, the last one standing wins! To make this all possible each player has some sort of phone(or communication device) in which the future is somehow told. With Yukiteru, his phone ’random diary’ tells him what will happen to him every minute or so; each players phone/diary tells a different type of future. When all the players are assembled by Deus he announces that player One, Yukiteru, is who he believes to be the strongest player, and from that point on he is the biggest threat and most targeted and in order for him to win the game he must team up with another player. Player two, Yuno, is a popular pretty girl who is in love with Yukiteru, she stalks him constantly and partners up with Yukiteru. Her phone is a ‘Yukiteru Diary’ telling her everything that happens to Yukiteru every few minutes, which is completely useless to just Yuno by herself but teaming up with Yukiteru and his ‘random make them a very unbeatable duo. Yuno is a fearless and clever character who would do anything to protect Yukiteru, while in the beginning hes a huge wimp that always needs to be saved by Yuno, as we get further into the series we see Yukiteru grows more courageous and starts to realize that his life is really on the line in this game and also that Yuno is all that she seems to be, with secrets leaking out ever crack she missed.

I’m sorry the summary is so long but with Mirai Nikki I just want to get it right, there are a lot of little details I had to sneak in there because the main points wouldn’t make sense without them!

This series is pretty interesting(I know I said that in the beginning too) and a little confusing, you have to make sure to keep up, it’s got the cover of a cute uncomplicated manga but its nothing like haha I’d say this is on of the cooler manga I’ve read, I haven’t stuck with it because I started it sometime last year and kinda stopped for a little bit and when I was craving it again OneManga.com had gone down(the manga part at least) and my current site doesn’t have as much as a variety as OM did, but I’ll hit it up again soon, reviewing it and reading about it again is really sparking my interest all over!


If your looking for a manga that is pretty much completely different than anything you’ve ever read with a good read along with it this is it, and it also has two side stories, Mirai Nikki: Mosaic, and more recently Paradox, where in Mosaic the story follows two other Diary Holders and helps fill in some plot holes in the main story line, while Paradox is a bit more confusing focusing on Aru, who is a non diary holder a classmate of the two main characters and a clever boy who has a likeing for Yukiteru obviously causing Yuno to hate him and Murumuru who is Deus Ex Machina’s second in command and both of their intentions on going to the alternate universe. I don’t want to spoil anything… so I cant exactly explain Paradox into full depth haha
Grade=B- (because its so darn confusing)