Arata Hoshino takes Yuki's place, a Lazy Bum of a college student who has no interest in his future. Most are expies of the original characters with some differences. An animated adaptation aired between October 2011 and April 2012 with a pilot OVA released beforehand.Ī 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. 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. The second is an Alternate Timeline spin-off, Mirai Nikki: Paradox, in which Aru Akise replaces Yuki as the main character. The first is Mirai Nikki: Mosaics, focusing on the ninth diary holder Minene Uryu and expounding on several of the minor characters. If it is damaged beyond working order by whatever or whomever, the diary's owner will cease to exist. Most importantly, a diary is its holder's future.In short, the futures set by the diaries are not set in stone. 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.The diaries can take any shape or form, but the most common by far are cellphones.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.'.Each diary does so in a different fashion, based on how the owner used it before they were selected. The common traits of all twelve diaries are as follows: And soon enough, young Yuki finds himself without any true friends or allies aside from the curiously Yuki-obsessed participant, Yuno Gasai. Some of the diary holders have personal reasons to claim the throne others are psychotically insane. 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.Īfter 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 Battle Royale for the position of God.
One day, he finds that his imaginary friend Deus Ex Machina, the lord of time and space, has made his cell phone diary able to predict the future. Mirai Nikki (literally Future Diary) is a dark Manga about the asocial Yukiteru Amano, who obsessively keeps journals.