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''"An interesting game."'' }}
''Mirai Nikki'' (literally '''''Future Diary''''') is a dark [[Manga]] about the asocial [[Ordinary High School Student|Yukiteru Amano]], who obsessively keeps journals. One day, he finds that his imaginary friend [[Meaningful Name|Deus Ex Machina]], the lord of time and space, has made his cell phone diary able to predict the future. After getting over the initial shock of having a supernatural cell phone, Yuki enjoys his
After taking out his would-be murderer, Yuki is invited to a gathering with ten other people, where Deus explains that they are now in a [[There Can Be Only One|Battle Royale]] for the position of [[God]]. Some of the diary holders have personal reasons to claim the throne; others are psychotically insane. And soon enough, young Yuki finds himself without any true friends or allies aside from the curiously Yuki-obsessed participant, Yuno Gasai...
The common traits of all twelve diaries are as follows:
* All diaries predict the future. Each diary does so in a different fashion, based on how the owner used it before they were selected.
* Each owner is assigned a number from 1 to 12, and until their identity is discovered by the other owners, is only referred to by that number, Yukiteru, for example, being called the '1st.'
* The diaries can take any shape or form, but the most common by far are cellphones.
* Should a diary owner do something differently or influence events so that the results turn out differently from a diary prediction, the diary changes accordingly. In short, the futures set by the diaries are not set in stone.
* Most importantly, a diary ''is'' its holder's future. If it is damaged beyond working order by whatever or whomever, the diary's owner will cease to exist.
''Mirai Nikki'' also has two spin-off manga. The first is ''Mirai Nikki: Mosaics'', focusing on the ninth diary holder Minene Uryu and expounding on several of the minor characters. The second is an [[Alternate Timeline]] spin-off, ''Mirai Nikki: Paradox'', in which [[Meitantei|Aru Akise]] replaces Yuki as the main character.
The manga was licensed by Tokyopop, and released in the United States as ''Future Diary''; 10 of its 12 volumes were released before the US branch of the company went under. An animated adaptation aired between October 2011 and April 2012 with a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pi6xpn2fc3c pilot OVA] released beforehand.
A new live action drama called ''Mirai Nikki: Another World'' began airing in Japan on April
Compare and contrast ''[[
Definitely not to be confused with [[Yume Nikki]].
Character sheet for this series is now [[Mirai Nikki
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* [[The Abridged Series]]: by the guy who brought you the [[Higurashi Parody Fandub]], found [http://www.youtube.com/user/YunoInbox here].
* [[Absurdly Sharp Blade]]: Yuno is typically armed with a variety of kitchen implements, but the damage she does with them is out of this world.
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* [[Akashic Records]]: One of the tools used by Deus.
* [[All Deaths Final]]: However, this can still be worked around {{spoiler|-- and eventually is -- by going to an [[Alternate Timeline]] where they are still alive}}.
* [[All There Is to Know About "The Crying Game"]]: Actually an in-universe example: since the diaries all give the DEAD END of the user, it forces the user to change tactics in order to avoid it. However, there are ''unwritten'' portions that are found within the diary, and, when given the option, the user can take that hidden option, such as when Yukiteru decides to {{spoiler|open a suspicious door in Yuno's house that causes ''every Diary to be rewritten''}} and even surprises Deus.
* [[Alternate Timeline]]: ''Paradox''. Eventually, {{spoiler|the entire plot of the main series moves to one.}}
** It's shown that {{spoiler|the 3rd world is less of a [[Crapsack World]] than the 1st world because all of the events that made the main characters' lives crap and motivated them to turn evil never happened. Almost everybody (including Yuno) lives happy, normal lives.}}
*** Note that this is mostly because {{spoiler|the game was scrapped once the Mayor read 2ndWorld!Yuki's diary and talked with Deus to forget about it. Since the game, and thus the diary creations did not happen, the 12th, 8th, 7ths and 3rd did not die due to the events that ocurred because of them. The commotion stopped the 6th's parents from dying, which prevented the Ometaka cult from degrading, and consequently prevented the corruption and death of the 5th's parents, which also led to him being a normal person. Minene got Kurusu (the 4th) to check his son ahead of time, so his son was saved, eliminating his reason for his Face Heel Turn IF the diaries had been made. God!Yuno's death ended the struggle, which caused 3rdWorld!Yuno's mother to show she still loved her family. This led to 3rdWorld!Yuno being a normal girl. The rest is inherent to the world however, as Hinata and her father (the 10th) reconciled, Yuki's parents never divorced and thusly, he did not grow up thinking himself a failure. This ostensibly led to him developing the confidence to becoming a couple with his original crush. The only thing that didn't change was that 3rdWorld!Minene was still a terrorist at large.}}
* [[American Kirby Is Hardcore]]: The American release changes the cover of the volumes from white to black, adds a skull to the title, and throws in the tagline "[[Narm|Every Text Could Be Your Last]]".
* [[Anti
* [[Anyone Can Die]]: Given that it is a battle royale for godhood, this is to be expected.
* [[Apotheosis]]: ''Somebody'' will becomes Deus' successor.
* [[Art Evolution]]
* [[Artificial Human]]: {{spoiler|Akise.}}
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** In Chapter 57, there is {{spoiler|Mur Mur's}} true form.
* [[Babies Ever After]]: The epilogue depicts {{spoiler|3rd World Ai (7th) and 2nd world Minene (9th); the first of which is pregnant and the second of which has two babies... who have apparently inherited part of Deus' power which was in her.}}
* [[Back
* [[Badass Normal]]: [[Guile Hero|Akise Aru]] manages to outwit a number of journal holders.
** He definitely earned his title of the strongest Non-Diary holder in his Spin-off, ''Paradox'', where in one fell swoop, he {{spoiler|seduces the 6th, befriends the 5th, and allies himself with one half of the 7th and one of the 8th's followers, all without use of a diary.}} This because he got bored of following Yuki's path, and so decided to [[Screw Destiny]].
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* [[Big Bad Duumvirate]]: {{spoiler|Yuno and Mur Mur. They have been scheming to ensure Yuno wins the game and goes back in time to do it over again infinitely, though they have different motives for doing so}}.
* [[Big Damn Heroes]]: Yuki pulls this off early on against {{spoiler|The 6th, when she was about to [[Attempted Rape|have her minions gang-rape Yuno]]}}.
** In Chapter 54 {{spoiler|[[Back
* [[Big Entrance]] 12th (Yomotsu Hirasaka) does this when introducing himself to the 1st, 2nd, and Sixth in a manner that imitates the Power Rangers thanks to giant explosions going off in the background, a derranged entrance speech, and a five man group colored in 5 different colors doing a .
* [[Bishonen]]: Yuki and Akise.
* [[Bodyguard Crush]]: Both Akise and Yuno towards Yuki.
* [[Body Horror]]: If your diary is destroyed, you die in a manner that appears as though a black hole spontaneously generates in your chest. It's much more noticeable in the anime.
* [[Book Ends]]: In the first chapter, when Yuki almost stabs Yuno, she tells him "You didn't stab me, that's not the future." In the final chapter, {{spoiler|Yuno considers stabbing Yuki, but stabs herself instead, saying "I can't stab you, that's not the kind of future it'll be."}}
* [[Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick]]: At the [http://www.mangareader.net/384-26042-34/mirai-nikki/chapter-23.html end of chapter 23] when Yuki asks Yuno why she can't leave some luggage. She says she can't because of important things like "underwear, towels, meds, and a bunch of other stuff". The "other stuff" is shown to the viewer as {{spoiler|the skeletal heads of her parents}}.
* [[Break the Cutie]]:
** A rare male example when it happens to Yuki after {{spoiler|both his parents die}}. He breaks even further and ends up {{spoiler|killing most of his friends himself}}.
** Just about any flashback involving {{spoiler|Yuno}}.
* [[Bullying a Dragon]]: {{spoiler|Tsubaki and Akise}} each plant a [["Take That!" Kiss]] on Yuki to spite the notoriously [[Ax Crazy]] Yuno. [[Too Dumb to Live|Neither one survives]].
* [[Came Back Wrong]]: The reason why {{spoiler|bringing people back after being God doesn't work. See [[Suicide Pact]] on this page for more details}}.
* [[Cell Phone]]: Apparently many Japanese keep their diaries on cell phones; a usage not followed elsewhere.
* [[Chekhov's Gunman]]: Remember that Ai girl at Tsubaki's temple? She shows up later {{spoiler|as the female half of the 7th.}}
* [[Chess Motifs]]: Only in the beginning, when a DEAD END is compared to a Checkmate. This is why it was such a big deal that Yuki survived; [[Unwinnable|it wasn't meant to be possible.]]
* [[Class Is in Room X
* [[Clingy Jealous Girl]]: Yuno towards Yuki, and Akise towards Yuki in a male version.
* [[Crapsack World]]: God arranges [[There Can Be Only One|Battles Royale]] for kicks. The hero is apparently the only nice journal holder. A terrorist who blows up schools is one of the more sympathetic characters.
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* [[Cry Cute]]: Whenever Minene's childhood and her parents' death is brought up, expect the terrorist bomber to at least shed a few tears.
* [[Dating Catwoman]]: Nishijima and Minene in ''Mosaics'', though the criminal is the main character.
* [[Dead
* [[Dead Person Impersonation]]: {{spoiler|Yuno is impersonating ''herself''}}.
** Minene does this as well, killing a rookie police officer and taking her place so she could get close to her target
* [[Disappeared Dad]]:
** Yuki's dad, as his parents are divorced.
** Hinata's dad is mostly absent from her life due to {{spoiler|his obsession with his dogs}} and disappears altogether when {{spoiler|he's killed}}.
* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]: When Yuno {{spoiler|chains Yuki up and feeds him herself, Yuki refuses to eat}}. It doesn't help that she's in her underwear and sitting on his lap. The following conversation occurs:
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'''Yuno:''' Nah, he's pleased with it. }}
* [[The Dulcinea Effect]]:
** Yuki is shown to act this way towards Tsubaki, quickly trusting her and wanting to protect her. Granted, some of this is probably due to the fact that she looked to him like a beautiful [[Damsel in Distress]] that is one of the few ''sane'' people he had seen recently. {{spoiler|Too bad he's very wrong}}.
** Akise is shown to act this way towards ''[[Ho Yay|Yuki]]'' in the [[Alternate Timeline]] spin-off ''Paradox''. He ''just'' met Yuki, yet quickly decides to use Mur Mur's wish she promised him to save Yuki and comes to the conclusion that he's going to fight in Yuki's place, allowing Yuki to become God.
* [[
* [[Drum Bathing]]: Near the end, Yukiteru and Yuno take a bath in a oil drum together.
* [[Dying Moment of Awesome]]: {{spoiler|Akise texts a message to Yuki ''even though Yuno just cut off his head.''}} [http://www.mangareader.net/384-51161-25/mirai-nikki/chapter-51.html See] [http://www.mangareader.net/384-51161-26/mirai-nikki/chapter-51.html the] [http://www.mangareader.net/384-51161-27/mirai-nikki/chapter-51.html whole] [http://www.mangareader.net/384-51161-28/mirai-nikki/chapter-51.html scene] [http://www.mangareader.net/384-51161-29/mirai-nikki/chapter-51.html here.]
** The anime makes it a bit less awesome but a lot more realistic by {{spoiler|having her just slash his neck instead of decapitating him}}.
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* [[Easily Forgiven]]: Yuki forgives people a little too easily, especially his crazy girlfriend.
* [[Ecchi]]: The series occasionally delves into this, mostly with Yuno.
* [[The End of the World
* [[Enfante Terrible]]: A 4-year-old child with a picture journal comes to kill the main characters.
* [[Expy]]:
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** Deus himself looks a bit like an Eva in some panels of the manga.
** Akise is an expy of Kaworu from the same series. The parallel is at the same time taken further than expected with the revelation that {{spoiler|Akise is an [[Artificial Human]] created by Deus, just like Kaworu is an Angel}}, and harshly subverted {{spoiler|when Deus denies that Akise's love for Yuki is genuine and an example of Akise's "free will", while it's commonly accepted that Kaworu's love for Shinji, born from his free will, was what made him disobey his orders}}.
*** Ironically, Akise's voice actor in the anime is the same Kaworu's.
** Minene can also be considered as an expy of Misato from Evangelion -so that makes a total of 4 expy. Huh.
* [[Exty Years From Now]]
* [[Even the Guys Want Him]]: Yuki, as far as Akise is concerned.
* [[Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"|Everyone Calls Him "1st"]]: The diary owners are all referred to by the order in which they were given their diaries. Most of the diary holders [[No Name Given|don't even get any other name]] most of the time they are mentioned. Particular mention goes to [[The Beast Master|The 10th]] {{spoiler|(not called by his real name until his murder is being investigated)}} and [[Vigilante Man|The 12th]] {{spoiler|(his real name isn't even mentioned until his diary states his death).}}
* [[Evil All Along]]: In chapter 50 Akise claims that {{spoiler|Yuno is the actual villain, who used Yuki, and plans to drive him to the brink of despair and kill him in order for her to become God.}}
* [[Eye Scream]]: {{spoiler|Minene}} gets a dart through the eye [[Eyepatch of Power|and then receives a cool eyepatch!]]
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* [[Face Heel Turn]]: {{spoiler|Yukki, Yuno, Fourth, Mur Mur.}} Considering the very nature of the survival game, it would probably be wiser to list the exceptions.
* [[The Faceless]]: Twelfth
* [[Fan Service]]: Primarily of Minene, although Yuno and Tsubaki warrant honorable mentions, though the [[Love Makes You Crazy|contexts for those two]] are [[Rape
* [[Food
* [[Four
** The Cynic: Minene
** The Optimist: Yukiteru
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** The Apathetic: Akise
* [[Gainax Ending]]: The epilogue most certainly counts. {{spoiler|1st world Yuno commits suicide because she can't hurt Yuki. This leaves Yuki as God of the 2nd world, only he's so depressed about it he doesn't do anything and lives in a vacuum for 10,000 with only Mur Mur for company. Then Yuno breaks the walls of time and space with a hammer. It turns out 3rd world Yuno inherited 1st world Yuno's memories. Then, 3rd world Deus invites the two to become his successor. Presumably this is because they've both already won the game once each. Both get a Happy End from this.}}
* [[Gambit Pileup]]: [[Scry vs. Scry]] [[X Meets Y|meets]] [[I Know You Know I Know]] meets [[
* [[Girl
* [[A God Am I]]:
** Played with - despite all appearances, none of the characters believe themselves to be God or have Godlike powers. They are competing for his position, but each has their own, unique, reason for wanting the position and power, very little to do with their ego. Not to say the reasons are good...
** {{spoiler|Mur Mur}} however plays it straight.
* [[God Is Evil]]: He may have [[The End of the World
* [[Godiva Hair]]: Minene
* [[Gratuitous English]]: Akise agrees to give Hinata his diary provided she can guess which hand he's holding a coin in. LEFT OR RIGHT?
* [[Grotesque Cute]]: Particular mention should be given to Yuno, Reisuke, and {{spoiler|Mur Mur}}.
* [[Heel Face Turn]]
** {{spoiler|[[
* [[Heroic BSOD]]: Yuki suffers a pretty nasty one complete with paranoia fuel, {{spoiler|of the [[Kill Them All]] variety}}.
* [[Hidden Eyes]]
* [[Hope Spot]]: {{spoiler|Minene}} [[Heroic Sacrifice|blows herself up]] to open an armored door. {{spoiler|It doesn't work.}} It's not all bad though, since {{spoiler|she survives and saves Yuki later}}.
* [[I Did What I Had to Do]]: An unfortunate byproduct of Yuki's [[Took a Level
* [[I Want My Beloved to Be Happy]]: Yuno. In later arcs, after Yuki swears to avenge the deaths of his parents, Yuno offers to ''die for him'' when the time comes.
* [[If
** In the [[Alternate Timeline]] spin-off ''Paradox'', Akise maintains that he isn't gay - he only feels this way about [[Ho Yay|Yuki]]. This is also Akise's reason to {{spoiler|[[Screw Destiny]] in chapter 48 of the main storyline}}. He states directly to Deus' face that he loves Yuki which is why {{spoiler|he meddles with others' plans beyond the will of Deus}}.
** In the main storyline there's Mao, who's not-so-secretly in love with Hinata - she can't stop looking at/thinking about/lusting after/recording in a diary Hinata's impressive bust (for a 14-year-old).
* [[Improbable Aiming Skills]]: Yuki and his darts.
* [[Infant Immortality]]: Averted. {{spoiler|Reisuke Houjou, [[Tyke Bomb|the four-year-old fifth diary holder]], dies horribly.}}
* [[Ironic Echo]]: In the manga, Minene outs Yukiteru as The First by reading the look in his eyes when she pieces together the clues leading to his identity. Later on, Yukiteru manages to avoid running on one of her landmines by reading her in the same way.
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* [[Just Hit Him]]: [[Double Subverted]] in chapter 23 of the manga and episode 12 of the anime. {{spoiler|After the flash grenade explosion, when Yukiteru and Kurusu regain consciousness, Kurusu grabs Yukiteru and actually starts to beat him up... but then either throws him or lets him fall down, with Yukiteru conveniently landing right next to the dropped gun.}}
* {{spoiler|[[Kill
* [[Knife Nut]]: Yuno prefers the [[Ax Crazy|ax]], but she knows her way around knives too.
** Yuno wanted to meet Yuki's mother but she was worried that him mom wouldn't like her. So she brought some tools with her just in case, and by tools she meant a duffel bag filled with knives.
* [[Lamarck Was Right]]: {{spoiler|Minene's children can fly}}.
* [[Lonely
* [[Lotus Eater Machine]]: {{spoiler|Yuno traps Yuki in one because she can't kill him in the 3rd world}}.
** This was more of a subversion or playing with the idea of a Lotus Eater Machine used as Fridge Horror. While the Machine is utilized, {{spoiler|Yukiteru is VERY aware he's in one as he's flat out told so and Yuno does nothing to mess with his mind or memories. So it's more like a very pleasant jail in which he can have anything he wants than a true Lotus Eater Machine.}}
* [[Love At First Sight]]:
** Yuno fell in love after her first conversation with him.
** In ''Paradox'', Akise falls in love with the [[
* [[Love Makes You Crazy]]/[[Love Makes You Evil]]:
** Yuno. She was sort of crazy/evil already though, given how {{spoiler|she killed her parents}}. It's also likely that {{spoiler|her non-biological parents}} were the ones who drove her insane in the first place.
** Later on Yuki gets a little crazy for Yuno.
* [[Mad Bomber]]: Minene.
* [[Mad Love]]: The only plausible relationship you can have with an utterly [[Ax Crazy]] [[Yandere]].
* [[Made of Plasticine]]: People are often sliced completely in two with absurd ease.
* [[Manipulative Bastard]]: Happens with almost [[
* [[Master of Disguise]]: {{context}}
* [[Meaningful Name]]: The kanji for "Gasai" (seen [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/mirai_nikki/v08/c034/4.html here]) means "my wife".
** Not to mention Juno "the goddess of marrige" which according to [[The Other Wiki|the Master Wiki]] is pronounced "Yuno." Coincidence?
*** The fact that Juno was the most possessively jealous [[Yandere]] goddess helps a lot. Also, Yukiteru's own name is a corruption of "Jupiter".
** Heck, all the diary holders have names that associate them with some Roman god or goddess.
* [[A Million Is a Statistic]]: The conflict between the diary holders has resulted in a total body count that numbers somewhere in the hundreds. Most of the diary holders have no reservations against killing countless innocent bystanders in pursuit of each other, and even the 1st, Yuki, ends up crossing his moral boundaries.
* [[Moment Killer]]: Nothing gets in the way of a {{spoiler|marriage proposal}} like learning that the [[Big Bad]] has succeeded in his plan when you thought you'd foiled it.
** Yuno invariably kills her own moments. Usually by doing something completely insane.
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*** Balks -> Bacchus
*** Yomotsu -> Pluto
* [[Nay Theist]]: Minene. Until she became a diary holder she only attacked religious targets, due to losing her parents in a religious struggle as a child. Her attitude comes off as justified, in a [[Straw Man Has a Point]] kind of way, when you think about it. Her beliefs are basically that if there is a God, he is unworthy of reverence because he is clearly indifferent to human
* [[Necromantic]]: Yuki becomes a rare protagonist version after {{spoiler|his parents}} die. He decides to win the game to bring them back to life. {{spoiler|It won't work.}}
* [[Nobody Poops]]: Subverted in that Yuno mentions taking care of Yuki's "potty breaks" {{spoiler|when she kidnaps and holds him hostage}} and she later has to pee in a corner in front of Yuki while they are hiding out.
* [[Non
* [[Off
* [[Official Couple]]: Yukiteru/Yuno, Marco/Ai, {{spoiler|1=Nishjima/Minene}}, & a bit surprisingly, {{spoiler|1=3rdWorld!Yukiteru/Wakaba. Also, in the anime Kamado Ueshita and John Balks are unambiguously shown to be a couple in the 3rd World.}}
* [[Only Sane Man]]:
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** The 8th is relatively sane. She doesn't have the will to kill. {{spoiler|Her children, on the other hand, do. The only reason why the kids are fighting though is because they want to protect the woman who raised them from the other diary holders.}}
* [[OVA]]: The manga was given an 8-minute one in September 2010 that rapidly covers the first several chapters.
* [[Paper-Thin Disguise]]: Muru Muru disguises as Yuno to steal a family recipe in a Stinger. While the disguise is somewhat convincing there is a few things off. Firstly, she is much shorter than Yuno. Also Muru Muru skin is orange which she didn't disguise with make up or anything.
* [[The Plan]]: In a series about dueling future readers with magical diaries, you need to do this to get anything done. Thankfully, due to the... unstable nature of the future(With up to 12 people actively changing and screwing with it), there are no plans which are durable enough to get to the Roulette stage of gambitting.
* [[Plot Induced Stupidity]]: Without this, the plot would be stupifyingly complicated. As it is, though, the main character often only checks his diary just before or after an event. Even though it is initially described as being able to see ''90 days'' into the future, it is very rare for anyone to even bother to read more than a little bit ahead. Vaguely justified in that the future is constantly changing whenever any of the diary holders does anything at all while knowing the future, so anything more than the immediate future would be pretty useless.
* [[Please Dump Me]]: Chapter 56 has {{spoiler|Yuno}} doing everything she can to get {{spoiler|Yukiteru}} to hate her.
* [[Poisonous Friend]]: Yuno is about as poisonous a friend as her body's volume of plutonium.
* [[Pre
* [[Protagonist
* [[Quit Your Whining]]: Kousaka {{spoiler|calls out Yuki after he murders his friends}}.
* [[Rape
* [[Reality Writing Book]]: ''Mirai Nikki'' features journals which contain the future entries of characters, allowing them to see what they'll experience in the future, and react to them. The journals change as they do things. Most of these journals take the form of diaries entered into cellphones, though one woman has hers on a scroll.
* [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]]: Mar gives Yukiteru a healthy dose of this during every encounter they have. He says that Yukkii and Yuno will never beat him and Ai simply because Yukkii is a coward that let's Yuno fight all of his battles and never gets his own hands dirty. This occurs the first time after they haveki just knocked Yuno down and right before Mar throws Yuki from a balcony.
** Even after Yukkii tries to change his ways, he is still given one of these in the form of a[["The Reason You Suck" Speech|"The Reason We Suck Speech"]] by Yuno in chapter 57 as she tells Yukkii the [[Brutal Honesty|reality of their relationship]]
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** Which would make both Yukkii and Yuno a case of {{spoiler|[[Becoming the Mask]] as their experiences together sparked genuine and mutual love.}}
* [[Redemption Equals Death]]:
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* {{spoiler|[[Reset Button Ending]] An inversion on the usual good-to-bad, in that the 'second world', in which the story takes place, ends, and they create the 'third world', in which everyone - including most of the diary holders - live happily ever after.}}
* [[Sadistic Choice]]: In Chapter 55, {{spoiler|Yuno forces one of these on Yuki after they, Minene and Mur Mur jump back in time. Either Yuki hands over the 3rd world's Yuno to be killed, or 1st world Yuno will kill Yuki's parents}}.
* [[Tokyo Is the Center of
* [[Screw Destiny]]: These are people with future-predicting diaries fighting to become a god. ''Of course'' this is going to happen.
* [[Scry vs. Scry]]: The entire premise.
* [[Self
* [[Shades of Conflict]]: A combination of [[Black and Gray Morality]] And [[Evil Versus Evil]]
* [[Shipper
* [[Single
* [[Sliding Scale of Comedy and Horror]]: Yuno's Yandere behavior can be this at times, especially when combined with Yuki's facial reactions.
* [[Spell My Name
** More notably, the Eleventh's name is romanized as John Balks in most of the scanlations, but Tokyopop romanizes it as John Bacchus.
** That cute little girl in the Causality Hall, ムルムル? Most translations and webpages romanize it as "Muru Muru" or "Murumuru", but the opening for the series reads clearly "Mur mur" (in two lines) in the background behind her. [[
* [[Spanner in
* [[Stalker
* [[Stab the Scorpion]]: Happens a ridiculous amount of times in the series.
** One chapter ends with Yuki looking as if he's going to abandon Yuno when Akise reveals that {{spoiler|she's not the real Yuno}}. Next chapter reveals that he let go of her hand so that he could push to the ground to avoid gunfire from the 11th Diary Holder.
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** This series loves playing ping-pong with this trope. The current status of it seems to be "Stalking is love, but only because {{spoiler|you're as crazy as her now}}."
** In chapter 57, Yuki states that he fell in love with Yuno because "she was always by his side."
* [[Suicide Pact]]: {{spoiler|[[Timey
* [[Superpower Lottery]]: The Future Diaries. There are vast differences in their ability to predict, each with its own weaknesses.
** The 1st's is one of the strongest but still has the weakness that it doesn't predict his own actions.
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** Let's not even get into the 8th's Diary and what it does {{spoiler|and gives to Akise}}.
** The undeniable winner of the lottery is {{spoiler|The 11th who [[All Your Powers Combined|can see other diary users' diaries]]}}.
* [["Take That!" Kiss]]: {{spoiler|Tsubaki}} plants one of these on Yuki when she thinks she's defeated him and Yuno. Unfortunately for her, Yuno doesn't like that one bit.
* [[Taking the Bullet]]: {{spoiler|Nishijima takes a grand total of eight bullets for Minene and dies.}} If both of them had survived, {{spoiler|Minene would have married Nishijima and gave up being a terrorist.}} Tear drops...
* [[Taking You
** {{spoiler|Also when Yuno was fighting Kurusu and his goons in the hospital.}}
*** Subverted in the fact that {{spoiler|Yuno probably didn't know that the grenade she used was only a flash bang. Nobody ended up dying.}}
* [[Talking Is a Free Action]]: Oh, so much. "Yuki! There's a mine 1 meter in front of you! Go to the left!" Doesn't sound ridiculous, until you realize that he's sprinting forward, and Yuno's shouting directions to him. And it's commented that he's a good runner, too.
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* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: Tsubaki, did you just {{spoiler|kiss Yuki in front of [[Yandere|Yuno]]?}}
* [[Too Soon]]: Tokyopop changed the name of the Twin Towers to "The Double Tower Building" in volume 9. {{spoiler|It doesn't help that it is attacked by the series' resident terrorist bomber}}.
* [[Took a Level
** Yuno takes a level during the fight with the 7th, when {{spoiler|Yuki's praise gives her the motivation to block half a dozen thrown knives in an instant}}.
* [[Tsundere]]: Mur Mur pegs Minene as one as she watches the [[Dating Catwoman]] antics between her and Nishijima. While Minene insists that she's not going to follow some "shojo manga formula", she can't seem to shake Nishijima off of her, culminating with {{spoiler|him proposing, getting her uncharacteristically flustered}}.
* [[Unusually Uninteresting Sight]]: The 8th. She is a gigantic, Pillsbury Doughboy-like woman roughly three times the size of the children she takes care of. [http://media.1000manga.com/mangas/00000118/000144842/16-17.jpg No one seems to notice this]{{Dead link}}, [http://www.1000manga.com/Mirai_Nikki_-_Mosaic/5/10-11/ beyond a one-shot joke]{{Dead link}}.
* [[Villain Protagonist]]: Oh, and how. The female lead would kill anyone, {{spoiler|as would the male lead, later}}.
* [[Well
* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]:
** Yuki calls Yuno on her claim that she {{spoiler|locked and chained him up in her room}} and tried to kill his friends because she [[Love Makes You Evil|loved]] him.
** In Chapter 50, Kousaka calls out {{spoiler|Yuki on his cowardly decision to [[Kill
* [[Why Can't I Hate You?]]:
** Chapter 56 has an inversion. {{spoiler|Yuno desperately tries to get Yuki to hate her so that she can kill him with no regrets, up to and including [[You Killed My Father|killing his parents]] in front of him}}.
** Played straight {{spoiler|when she finds out that she still loves him. [[Up to Eleven|She goes even crazier than before.]]}}
* [[World of Cardboard Speech]]: {{spoiler|Yuki gives one of these speeches to Yuno, telling her [[The Power of Love|he loves her]] and that she is irreplaceable to him. He vows to save her, all while climbing up a sheer cliff with his bare hands}}.
* [[Yandere]]: Yuno isn't just an example, she's the ''
* [[You Are Number Six]]
* [[You Don't Want to Die
* [[Your Days Are Numbered]]: {{spoiler|Deus}}.
* [[Your Princess Is in Another Castle]]: Chapter 54 comes across as an epilogue, until the last two pages in which {{spoiler|Minene comes back to save Yuki.}}
* [[Action Prologue]]: Kinda. "Horror Prologue" would be more accurate.
* [[Adaptation Expansion]]: The anime has been adding in scenes from ''Mosaic''.
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** More of the eliminated [[Fridge Logic]] also includes changing a room filling up with concrete into a room filling with gas.
** {{spoiler|In the anime adaptation of Yukiteru's and Yuno's second battle with 7th there is an added scene of Yukiteru's father asking Yukiteru to give him his cellphone and promising to buy him a new one after his debts are erased, indicating that he didn't know that breaking the phone would kill Yukiteru. In the manga it wasn't made clear whether he knew this or not.}}
** {{spoiler|Also expanded is the 7th's past together, with a story from their high school days, leading to [[Rape
** The anime also expands on {{spoiler|Yuno's family situation and the reason why her mother's depression led her to take such abusive measures. Apparently Saika felt she couldn't fulfill her role as a wife to her husband for being unable to conceive a child, and felt neglected herself as she had trouble dealing with his long work hours and business trips. He also either missed or ignored her phone calls to him while he was away. Coupled with this was the fact that she also felt like a terrible mother to her adoptive daughter as well; she believed that neither of them loved her or wanted her in their lives. She demanded so much of herself that she started pushing equally high demands on Yuno as well, taking out her own feelings of inadequacy on Yuno in the form of abuse.}}
** {{spoiler|The time spent in the third world in general, from the other characters' lives to the fight scenes between the last survivors of the second world, is expanded upon.}}
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* [[Amazingly Embarrassing Parents]]: A new scene is added with Yukiteru's mom bonding with Yuno over naked baby pictures.
* [[Art Shift]]: Weirdly done with some [[Medium Blending]] at the end of episode five in Mur Mur's ending segment with the 12th; the art is suddenly some crudely made clay figures in stop-motion, with some slightly bizarre 2D animation spliced in between.
* [[Bland
** In a scene where Yuki is buying drinks, he attempts to get some Dr. Papper.
* [[Censor Shadow]]: A fairly obvious one once Yuno starts smashing heads in the fourth episode.
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** The ferris wheel scene in episode 3 switches jarringly from CGI to traditional animation depending on whether the audience is viewing the car from the outside or inside.
** 10th's dogs are CG in several shots.
** Episode 19 also has CG cars.
* [[Death Is Cheap]]: [[The Stinger]] for the first episode has Mur Mur attempt to deliver the 3rd's diary, only for him to err on the side of caution and destroy a phone that seems to be monitoring his criminal activites in painstaking detail before she can properly explain the natures of the diary or the game. This happens several times and she rewinds time to reverse his death every time.
* [[Depending
* [[Early
* [[Gainaxing]]: There's a lot of attention paid to Yuno's chest in Episode 3.
* [[Gratuitous English]]: Pretty much all of the second opening is this.
* [[Gratuitous German]]: The opening song's chorus has "Ein, zwei, drei".
* [[Idiosyncratic Episode Naming]]: [[Early Installment Weirdness|Disregarding the first few episodes]], the episode titles all seem to be related to the natures of the different
* [[If Jesus, Then Aliens]]: When Mur Mur tells Reisuke that he's been chosen for a Future Diary, Reisuke says to her "If there's a God, it's not strange for there to be aliens, right?" and refuses to participate in the game until she shows him an alien.
* [[Lethal Chef]]: In the first [[The Stinger|Stinger]] of the anime not taken from the manga, Murmur manages to send Yukiteru and his mother to the hospital with her miso soup. However presumably not everything she makes is poison. In a different stinger she made Yuki corn and he suffered no apparent ill effects.
* [[Magical Security Cam]]: [[Justified]] in that it's employed by [[Deus Ex Machina|the universe's god]]. The bigger mystery is why he's watching Yukiteru sitting on the toilet.
* [[Meet Cute]]: Minene and Nishijima in the tenth episode in the anime version, which only vaguely alludes to their true first meeting.
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* [[Surreal Theme Tune]]
* [[Tears of Blood]]: The first visual of the opening credits.
* [[Terms of Endangerment]]: In the Japanese dub Yuno regularly calls Yukiteru Amano "Yuki" without an honorific. In the english dub she still pretty much never calls him by his full given or sur- name. But instead of saying "Yuki" pretty much every time, she sometimes uses a diverse affectionate vocabulary including: "Pookie", "Sugar Bear", and "Sweetie".
* [[A God I Am]]: Deus.
* [[Alternate Universe]]: [[Exactly What It Says
* [[All Deaths Final]]
* [[Ax Crazy]]: The new Yuno, although not as much as her other self. That could change, though.
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* [[Lazy Bum]]: Arata.
* [[Love Makes You Crazy]]: Episode 2 has shown Yuno has these traits, forcing Arata to tie her up temporarily.
* [[
* [[Stalker with a Crush]]: Yuno, as expected.
* [[There Can Only Be One]]: It has not been said how many diary holders there are in the drama but the rule still stands that the last person standing shall be the winner.
* [[You Don't Look Like You]]: Deus appears in the show as a talking, purple, sun-shaped emoticon. Although this may be a mere representation since he is [[God]].
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