1) Nothing great in terms of animation / artwork. And no, I don’t need a magic cell phone to prophesize the future, nor to read the manga. MINUSES Early on, I found several annoying features which ruin the interesting premise from episode 1. No one else in this show is close to being that interesting they are all a basic stereotype and don’t improve later on. Heck, the very introduction video shows mostly her and barely the protagonist or anyone else they might as well call this show Yuno Diary. To hell with whatever the story is about it has a pink-haired horny yandere in it that keeps doing ecchi stuff with the pussy protagonist! So let’s not kid ourselves she is both the mascot and highlight of the whole series. 99% of the people who liked the manga, it is only because of her. It will require some sort of strategy and mind games to outsmart each other. Another gimmick is that initially nobody seems to know all the identities of the other participants, thus they can’t just gather in a warehouse and finish the whole thing in an hour. This practically makes the story to feel a lot more tactical than it appears to be. So if the holder of a diary makes a wrong assumption about an event, then his entry will also be mistaken. Also, the diaries are NOT really predicting the future but rather mention the future impressions of their owners. Thus nobody actually knows who will survive or not at best they are just prepared to change the future in case someone is ambushed by another player. Every time they change something, which was normally meant to happen, all their diaries are altering their entries to show the new outcome of each action after the change. It does not mean the outcome is foretold because they all know the future. PLUSES 1) The premise is very interesting you have a dozen people who must kill each other for a grand prize. Deus Ex Machina (lol the imaginary friend is like an internet God) prepared an “interesting game” as he calls it and gathered a dozen cell phone owners to participate in a death game where there can be only one remaining alive in the end.
Things get soon out of hand, when he realizes there are more people with similar diaries, and that his imaginary friend is not so imaginary after all. At first he adores how he knows all the answers in the tests at school, or how he can avoid meeting the school bullies since he knows where they will be waiting for him. Thus in effect he knows the future and can be prepared for anything. Mirai Nikki is a supernatural mystery / horror / survival regarding an antisocial boy named Yukiteru (Yuki henceforth) receiving from his imaginary friend a magic cell phone that has a diary with all his future actions.
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