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Title (English) Future Diary
Title (Japanese) Mirai Nikki
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Fantasy Novel

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Synopsis In the opening scenes, we see the hero wandering around school, obsessively texting a diary of trivia into his mobile phone, and evading the attention of bullies who dislike him partly because he doesn't mix with his classmates. He has a rich fantasy life in which he talks to an all-powerful God in his bedroom. Unfortunately, a serial killer starts knifing people near the school, and then the God turns out to be real, and hands our hero a smartphone that predicts the future.
Review I agree that the hero clearly needs psychiatric help, but one can empathise with his fear of the bullies. The bully mentality (needing somebody they can feel superior to, and getting annoyed when the victim doesn't follow the script) is depicted quite accurately here. This develops into one of the most riveting anime episodes I've seen for ages. For this guy, having that girl take an interest in him would be enough to scare him witless, but she keeps appearing in front of him as he tries to run away. What does she want? Is she connected to the serial killer? He dosn't want to die horribly just yet. We suspect that in fact she just wants to talk to him, but it's still thrilling. Actually she has a future diary too, and she wants to save him.

It turns out that the future diaries predict deaths, and in the God's deadly game, the last player to foil the predictions and survive, will gain supreme power.
Sure, it's about as plausible as a political party manifesto, but it's an exciting entertainment. Contrary to what one might expect, it doesn't follow a killer-of-the-week formula in the first few episodes, but introduces our hero to several diary-holders, some of them being possible allies, some definitely not. In particular he's not sure if his distinctly psycho pink-haired girlfriend is a soulmate or a threat.

Credits Director: Naoto Hosoda
Original creator: Sakae Esuno
Character Design: Eiji Hirayama
Episodes 26
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Date 2011-10-09
Production various
Broadcaster various
Animation Asread
References & Help Look up the latest data on this title at:
Richard Llewellyn's Animated Divots, or
Anime News Network (see Encyclopedia section) ,
or in "The Anime Encyclopedia" (Clements & McCarthy, Stone Bridge Press, 2001).
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