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''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 new-found powers until he comes across a diary entry stating his exact time of death...
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:
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* 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 1, based in alternate world featuring a familiar plot but with a new cast of characters. Most are expies of the original characters with some differences. Arata Hoshino takes Yuki's place, a [[Lazy Bum]] of a college student who has no interest in his future. That is until he receives a limited release cell phone from his friend Rui Moriguchi which happens to have the Future Diary's powers. Now stuck in his own survival game, with his own version of Yuno for company.
Compare and contrast ''[[Death Note]]'', which also features a "[[Just for Pun|notebook]]" as a centerpiece. Also compare and contrast "[[Kamen Rider Ryuki]]" which also features a "[[There Can Be Only One]]" style royale amongst 13 individuals. See also ''[[Devil Survivor]]'', for the counterpart "[[Meaningful Name|Laplace Mail]]".
Definitely not to be confused with [[Yume Nikki]].
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*** 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-Hero]]: Yuki. He starts out as a [[Sliding Scale of Anti-Heroes|type 1]] but {{spoiler|eventually evolves into a type 5}}.
* [[Anyone Can Die]]: Given that it is a battle royale for godhood, this is to be expected.
* [[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.
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* [[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:
{{quote|'''Hinata:''' He doesn't want it!
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** 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.
* [[Dude in Distress]]: Yukiteru spends the better portion of an entire issue chained to a wall.
* [[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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** 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]]
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* [[Fan Service]]: Primarily of Minene, although Yuno and Tsubaki warrant honorable mentions, though the [[Love Makes You Crazy|contexts for those two]] are [[Rape as Backstory|disturbing enough]] to barrel straight through to [[Fan Disservice]] territory.
* [[Food as Bribe]]: In the last chapter of ''Mosaic'' Akise uses Minene's hunger to get her to compete in a beauty pageant with the incentive that she can use the prize money to buy herself food. He keeps it up by [[Yank the Dog's Chain|deliberately eating food in front of her]] as a constant reminder to why she's competing.
* [[Four
** The Cynic: Minene
** The Optimist: Yukiteru
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* [[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 It's You It's Okay]]:
** 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'Em All]]:In the second world, literally everyone - except Yukiteru (god) and Mur Mur - dies. Even *after* killing every character with a face (except Minene, who bails out to world#3), the world simply ceases to exist. Which by that stage is probably euthenasia. Of course, in world #3, all the characters live happy lives.}}
* [[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.}}
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** 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.
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*** 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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* [[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-Action Guy]]: Until he [[Took a Level
* [[Off with His Head]]: {{spoiler|It's how Akise dies in the manga.}}
* [[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.}}
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* [[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.
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* [[Protagonist-Centered Morality]]
* [[Quit Your Whining]]: Kousaka {{spoiler|calls out Yuki after he murders his friends}}.
* [[Rape as Backstory]]: {{spoiler|Tsubaki}}. Also {{spoiler|Ai and Marco's backstory, He interrupts an attack on Ai}}
* [[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.
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* [[Single-Target Sexuality]]: Yuno's crush with Yuki. Also Akise, both in the spinoff ''Paradox'' as well as in the MAIN storyline.
* [[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 with an "S"]]: Yuno's nickname for Yuki should be written as "Yukkii" if you go off the katakana for it, though Tokyopop writes it as "Yuki" instead. Most scanlations stick to the former.
** 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. [[wikipedia:Murmur (demon)|Any relation?]].
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* [[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 with Me]]: {{spoiler|How the 12th wants to finish the 6th. Yuno kills him.}}
** {{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}}.
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** 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'Em All|kill all of his friends]]}} rather than face the [[Awful Truth]] they were trying to tell him. He is later called out on this again, this time by {{spoiler|''Yuno'' of all people}}. This time it sinks in.
* [[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.]]}}
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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 on the Artist]]: The anime features a noticeable different artstyle than the manga's, the characters look slightly older than their manga counterparts, also many expressions taken directly from the manga are more extreme: Yuno's shots in particular got a tad more lustful towards Yukiteru, and crazier towards everyone else.
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