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Future Diary #12

by Sakae Esuno, えすの サカエ

Rare book

Genres: Manga, Horror, Comics, Fantasy, Shonen, Romance, Thriller

219 pages, Paperback

First published April 26, 2011

About the author

Japanese mangaka.

Reviews

[Grace, Queen of Crows and Tomes · Rating 5 out of 5]

After having watched the anime two times, I've finally gotten around to reading the manga! I must say, I liked the manga better than the anime and I liked the manga ending way better too!! Not as good as Deadman Wonderland, but still highly enjoyable!

[Nərmin · Rating 1 out of 5]

Wow, it has been a while I have given 1 star. But it is what this volume gets. Now I have a perfect reason to write my review of how bad this manga was:
1. Let's begin with the plot. Which begins really simple, and then gets messy and stupid. I haven't read a lot of manga, but I already know this is one of the worsts. The idea was great at first: diaries that predict future! I got my hopes and expectations high, believing one of a hell psychologically and mind-bending great adventure it would be. I was wrong. There were more than a future diaries: there was actually a "god" who can DIE and need to have a successor. Well, it goes against my believes about "gods" in general. Gods shouldn't die and if he can, he shouldn't need a human being for his throne. Maybe a chosen one, but all the diary owners were stupids who can't turn the world into a better place. ALSO, gods shouldn't choose successors in a killing game. Then this "god" is a horrible one. Additionally, this also gets boring, repetitive. All around there were plot holes! I can't even count them.

2. Characters that I don't care about. This happened for the first time in manga that I was shocked:I didn't connect to the characters! They get stupid and cliche backgrounds, tragic pasts with abuses and rapes which became disgusting. I didn't shed a tear when they all died. The only noticeable ones were Yuno, Yukiteru and Minene, Akise which again, despite being noticeable among others, were unsympathetic ones. Yuno were a great psycho killer, I admit. She was a driving force to this story. Minene was a terrorist who then given tragic childhood, some good sides to, but still I can't connect. Akise was a great detective with actual ambition, which I liked. Yukiteru, the main character was boring to read about. I don't even care about him being a crybaby, pathetic and without ambition. He is 14 years old still. However, if you are gonna write a story, make the main character with AMBITION, with something to do. And one thing more, I don't like killer characaters. Yes, it is a survival game, but killing civilians, innocents, killing themso EASILY made me hate them even more.

3. The art: okay, the art was average. I am not talking about drawing here. I am talking about fanservice. There were nude characters, sex scene between 14 YEAR OLD KIDS! And a MOTHER who is content with it. What? Also romance between Yukki and Yuno was too early! I didn't feel the subtle sweetness of child romance. Not working...

But why I read it till the end? Not because I am a masochist. Because, I wondered about Yuno's identity all along. She was a mad murderer and I wondered what made her like this. She got some crazy plot twists too, which was plus.

So, I round up the stars I gave to other volumes and this manga got 3.3 stars . I adress to people who wants to read this: save yourselves!

PS: The ending sucks.

[Gustavo · Rating 3 out of 5]

Me costó terminar este tomo, me pareció bastante malo, predecible y el final super forzado, como si Sakae Esuno no se decidiera y terminara dandole muchos finales distintos, o como si alguien lo hubiera obligado a cambiar el final. En general, creo que aunque es entretenido es un manga bastante genérico y olvidable.

[Armando Hernández · Rating 4 out of 5]

The ending was very wierd, I didn't expect what happened, finally Yuki and Yuno gets their happy ending. But again the ending was very wierd.

[Chris · Rating 3 out of 5]

This series was all over the place.

[Michael Sorbello · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is a review of the entire series!

I debated between giving this 2 or 3 stars, and would lean more toward 2.5. There were a couple of things I really liked about it, but many more things I really didn't like about it.

High schooler Yukiteru Amano is a socially awkward loner who considers himself a bystander. He'd rather mind his own business instead of getting involved with other people, writing every mundane activity of his life in a cellphone diary. Secretly tormented by his solitude, he invents an imagery friend called Deus Ex Machina who claims to be the Lord of Time & Space. Taking pity on the lonesome Yuki, Deus grants his diary the ability to record future events. After learning that 11 other people with unique future diaries show up around Japan, Yuki learns that Deus is not a product of his imagination, and he has been selected to take part in a death game that involves fighting to become the next ruler of causality by outsmarting each other with their new prophetic devices. Luckily for Yuki, one of the death game's participants is his fellow classmate Yuno Gasai, the prettiest girl in his school who happens to love him so much that she would put her life on the line to protect him.

Speaking of Yuno, she's where most of the fun comes from. She's a severely unstable, possessive sociopath that will happily slaughter anyone and anything that get in the way of her selfish romantic fantasies. She's famous for inventing the infamous yandere trope (psycho/killer/stalker love interest) While she can technically be seen as the villain of the series and it's hard to fully sympathize with her because of how violent, impulsive and controlling she is, all of the other characters are so unlikable and bland that I often found myself rooting for her to just rip everyone else in the story to shreds.

Yuki is the main character, but he's such a whiny and idiotic pushover that I couldn't connect with the unhealthy relationship brewing between him and Yuno. I understand it's supposed to be a psychological thriller, but the story seemed to romanticize their relationship rather than portraying it for what it really was: predatory, abusive and horribly toxic. I would've rather had Yuno as the main protagonist and explore her tragic and demented backstory through much more intriguing characters to bounce off of rather than through a relationship with one of the lamest dudes in manga history.

The plot jumps around way too fast. None of the competitors have interesting personalities or motives so I didn't really feel any stakes or tension in the action. The only side character I somewhat liked is (funnily enough) another batshit crazy girl who plays the role of a cosplaying terrorist named Uryuu Minene. The dialogue could get really bad as the characters never reacted to death, betrayal or horrifying situations realistically. There's a point where a character discovers three dead bodies in his girlfriend's house, runs away in fear, then casually remains her partner for the rest of the series like nothing ever happened. There are many more scenes exactly like this where characters don't react and process things in remotely realistic or believable ways.

Some of the twists in the later parts of the series involving time and causality were admittedly cool, but they're introduced in a rushed and convoluted way which makes it feel messy overall. The action was good, there were a few emotional moments and the absolute chaotic nature of Yuno and Uryuu were exciting to watch unfold, but everything else about the characters, story and conflict of the narrative fall apart at the seams.

[Lady Nefilim · Rating 2 out of 5]

Este es el último libro del manga, en general la trama es divertida pero muchos problemas no se desarrollan de forma extensa "se solucionan magicamente" y personalmente eso no me gusta.
- No es apropiado para niños
- muchas veces me aburrí,
- termine el manga solo para no dejar a medias.

[Isabella · Rating 5 out of 5]

There were very little differences, in the end lol
but I thought the manga ending was cuter ❤

[Lee · Rating 2 out of 5]

actually sometimes you don't need time travel to end a series. food for thought :D

[Sarna na Kiju · Rating 3 out of 5]

Ok, lemme just tell ya. Was this series good? No xD Was it somewhat pleasant to read? Yeah, kinda. I'm sure I'd love it if I had a chance to read it earlier than I did, but as I have developed brain and some critical thinking, I had to turn it off.
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WHY IS EVERY STORY THEMED 'KILL THE REST, THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE' ALWAYS CONTAINS THE TIMELINES PLOTTWIST. WHY???????????? There was only one series so far that didn't have this kind of plottwist even though it did give lots of red herrings hinting at the different timelines or universes, but it wasn't a good series either.
W h y???

Well, I did almost cry at this book, but I'm very strongly emotional.

There were way too many plotholes that I could easily pinpoint and whine over, but as I'm writing this I'm realising I'm not really having the time to do that. Be it because there were too many or be it because I really appreciate my time. I'm sure there are others who have pinpointed them already.
I'm just going to say that I question how their future diaries work at all. If owners were to really think, all this series would be just people standing around, looking at their phones, wondering what to do/talking with people. That moment when Yukki got the PIN code to open the safe to 11th guy? That should be the whole series. :I
Thank you and bye, I'm off to better series, hopefully...

EDIT: ok, just so it doesn't look like I'm just thinking trash about it...
As much as I hate that it was another timeline story, I think it actually made more sense here than in the others? Let me just tell you that it made me 'understand' Yuno more. I remember I watched a famous anime series about some magical girls and the plottwist there didn't make me like the traveler from that series any more or less.
I really actually like the 'you can't ressurect the dead' plottwist and the way Yukki got tricked, as well as just simply his denial. It makes for a perfect story. Is killing alright because you're aiming to get *Magical*Powers* and ressurect everyone? What if you've been lied to and you can't? What if you fail?... this motive alone is great, but even that wasn't really fully explored in this manga. They still got to the third world and ~*~Everything was alright. =^.^= ~*~ .
I ended up whining again. xD oops. Anyway, enjoy your day.

[Brina · Rating 4 out of 5]

Ich nach 12 Bänden sagen, dass ich die Reihe wirklich mochte - es war spannend, mysteriös, psycho und es war sehr interessant die verschiedenen Akteure in diesem Spiel miteinander interagieren zu sehen.
Wie aus Verbündeten Feinde und aus Feinden Verbündete werden.
Wer welche Rolle spielt und was wirklich hinter diesen Rollen steckt.
Hat mir wirklich sehr gut gefallen.
Zum Ende muss ich sagen: es ist nicht das Überzeugendste.
Ohne zu spoilern kann ich sagen, dass es (so wie ich es verstanden habe) wohl zwei Enden gibt.
Zumindest gibt es etwas, was sich liest wie ein Ende, dann so eine Art Abspann und dann geht es nochmal ca. 15 Seiten weiter.
Schlussendlich kann also jeder selbst entscheiden, ob er lieber mit Ende 1 oder mit Ende 2 aus der Geschichte gehen möchte.
Ich für meinen Teil war nach Ende 1 natürlich viel zu neugierig, als dass ich auf die letzten 15 Seiten hätte verzichten können.
Nachdem ich die allerdings gelesen hatte, habe ich tatsächlich nochmal zu Ende 1 zurückgeblättert und versuchte, mir einzureden, die letzten 15 Seiten seien nicht passiert.
Denn obwohl Ende 1 ziemlich fatalistisch und auch irgendwie offen ist, hat mir das als Schluss ganz gut gefallen, weil es für mich zur Geschichte passte und auch erklärbar war.
Das zweite Ende dagegen war für mich völlig an den Haaren herbeigezogen und unlogisch und ebenfalls sehr offen, allerdings auf eine unbefriedigendere Weise als Ende 1.
Allerdings gibt es einen Aspekt in Ende 2, das eine Nebenfigur betrifft, den ich sehr gelungen fand, weil es auch sehr gut zur Figur passte.
Was allerdings die Protagonisten angeht, so bevorzuge ich Ende 1.
Aber das darf wohl jeder für sich entscheiden.

[Katja · Rating 3 out of 5]

Hmm. Mirai Nikki had lots of interesting twists and many of them were executed quite well but I don't know what to think about the ending. It felt just messy.
Some spoiler-ish thoughts ahead:

I liked that Yuno finally realized some things but I don't think Yuno and Yuki deserved the ending they got. The series was pretty brutal before so I think more bleak ending would've been appropriate.
Some of the parts in the end weren't given enough time, like third Yuno's family and Minene and Nishijima (well, and Minene in general). But some of the scenes were composed well, looking and feeling nicely dramatic and showy, for example the stuff on the rooftop (or whatever floor without a ceiling that was...) with second Yuno and third Yuno & her family.
I just think too much was crammed into the last volume, lesser scenarios in the earlier volumes were given more time or at least were more evenly paced than this grand finale. It was entertaining but I expected a bit more.

[Vincent · Rating 2 out of 5]

J'aurai lu cette série étant adolescent, j'aurai (peut-être) apprécié : c'est totalement barré, super rythmé avec des retournements de situations sur la fin du manga et c'est violent. Le graphisme, sans être novateur, porte le récit de manière satisfaisante.
Mais je ne pense plus du tout être la cible de ce type de manga (si jamais je l'avais été un jour). J'ai l'impression de lire de la violence pour de la violence, des retournements de situations beaucoup trop rapides pour être crédibles, et des personnages très clivants (et intéressants en surface) mais qui se résument beaucoup trop à un seul trait de personnalité. J'attendais sûrement simplement autre chose d'un pitch similaire, mais c'est plus à un "genre" de manga que je fais des reproches qu'à cette œuvre en particulier.

[L.ivresse.des.mots · Rating 3 out of 5]

Journal du futur.

Ça été un peu long j'ai accroché à la première mais la seconde partie fût plus longue avec des rebondissements parfois flou et imprévisible ^^ L'idée de base était plutôt tordue d'ailleurs mais ce que je peux vous dire avec certitude c'est que je ne me suis pas ennuyée.

Quelques défauts comme l'agacement constant du personnage de Yukiteru, des raccourcis scenaristique liés à la fin.. J'aurai aimé en apprendre plus sur le jeu et ses deux dirigeants. Si vous cherchez un casse tête indéchiffrable aux multiples victimes avec happy end, vous trouverez votre bonheur dans cette série.

[kris · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not sure I love how this completed the series. These last 2 volumes seemed to get progressively more and more convoluted. It almost felt like the author wasn't sure how to end the series & just threw a bunch of things at the wall and was like "maybe if I make this as convoluted and confusing as possible, they'll just go along with it because they have no idea what's going on!" Or perhaps they thought that a "normal" ending wouldn't be a big enough of a bang on the way out. I'm interested to see how this ending is depicted in the anime, though. Because I've found myself enjoying the anime more than the manga because the manga can sometimes be a bit difficult to follow.

[Amara · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another classic manga series under my belt.
I loved the story. It was a real page turner, exciting all the way through. It featured some great characters. Great allies and villains, and mostly grey people, which is always appreciated. I also love the panelling in this manga, for maximum impact. The only thing is that most female faces look alike, so at one point I thought Yuno had dressed up as Yuki's mom, haha. Also the nudity was too much, since they're onky fourteen years old. But despite these flaws, the series still deserves 5 stars in my opinion.

[JuanmaSumi · Rating 2 out of 5]

Le iba a dar 3 estrellas, pero es que es un sinsentido. ¿Tan difícil es hacer un manga que no tenga fallos de guion tan bestiales? Una historia que no tiene ni pies ni cabeza, las normas de los poderes de los personajes cambia a conveniencia del guion y los propios personajes tienen comportamientos que no se justifican, simplemente hacen lo que la autora quiere para conveniencia de donde por donde quiere que vaya la historia. Tiene un par de cosas originales como los roles de los dos protagonistas, pero fuera de esto el resto es un sinsentido.

[Lea · Rating 3 out of 5]

İ started this series when İ was 16, got to Vol.11 & then never finished bc they didn't have Vol.12 at my local book store, and after a while İ forgot about it 😔
Now, almost 10 years later, İ decided to finish this series & realised İ feel differently about many things now than İ did back then. For one, İ actually liked Yunos character now. Unfortunately the last volume felt very rushed & not exactly thought through, making this ending somewhat less fulfilling than İ had hoped.

[Pearl Martinez · Rating 4 out of 5]

This manga taught me of what yandere is which basically is Yuno. Though I can't entirely blame her with her obsessive affection to Yukiteru, I still find it wrong what she did in the previous world and to the future world. But then love transcend everything. This is another wonderful manga that will show you the ugliness of a human heart.

[Seshastet · Rating 5 out of 5]

Esta saga me encanta de principio a fin

El final es maravilloso, me gusta mucho cómo el autor cierra toda la historia y el final que le da a Yuno y a Yuki

Creo que es una de las mejores sagas mangas que hay actualmente y aunque tenga ya unos años, merece la pena leerla

[Yoss · Rating 3 out of 5]

Yo creí que sí me leía el manga ahora si le iba a entender mejor a lo que ocurrió al final, pero no... Me quedé igual que cuando vi el anime ._.
Aunque la serie en general está muy buena, creo que en general son 4 estrellas, tal vez.

[Veera-Kristiina Pirilä · Rating 5 out of 5]

Happy end?

[Lou · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really enjoyed and liked the series overall; however, I couldn’t stand Yuno and Yuki. They’re unrelatable characters and because of them I couldn’t give this series a higher rating.

[Rikku · Rating 1 out of 5]

Mirai Nikki is a huge disappointment. Its messy story and weak characters are simply not fit for the genre it belongs to.
The ending doesn’t make sense!

[Iris · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love Future Diary. That is all.

[diana]

I remembered it being less nonsensical ngl. also why the fuck was Yuno so sexualised and had a full on naked panel. overall, I don't think it's worth the read.

[Sroka · Rating 2 out of 5]

Yuki, to się chyba nazywa syndrom sztoholmski

[kuristina- tabreez · Rating 4 out of 5]

As the game comes to a close, Yukiteru, with the return and help of Ninth, Minene Uryuu, leap across time to save Yuno Gasai's alternate self... from herself! But in the third realm, Yukiteru receives a Dead End, his impending demise to be carried out by none other than the original Yuno Gasai. How will Yukiteru overturn his Dead End and save both alternate Yunos, when the Yuno he loves can only see death, murder, and a clean restart before her eyes?


Well... I'd be lying if I said that ending didn't surprise me. There were so many twists, turns, plot holes, happy endings, change of characters, and conflicted feelings that I don't even know where to start. So, pretty much, Yukiteru did end up getting exactly what he wanted and more. Much more. And as did everyone else get what they had always wanted. However, this was only in the third world, made by two repeated divergences/time leaps made by the previous worlds' God, Yuno Gasai (and the first Muru-muru). But I still don't understand what Muru-muru wanted out of all this. She just wanted to make the game more interesting? That's it? Did I miss something? Oh, whatever. So nobody, not even Third, are dead in the third world. Well, that is, the significant deceased persons from the first and second worlds. Yuno also finally got her happy ending, however, the Yuno Gasai we knew through the entire story ending up killing herself at the end of the game, making Yukiteru the God of the second realm. 10,000 years later, the third Yuno Gasai returns to the empty realm that belongs to the God Yukiteru Amano. She reveals that one of the Muru-murus had kept the original Yuno Gasai's memories and gave them back to her (the third Yuno Gasai), thus melding both the first and third Yuno Gasai into one complete (or maybe a little too jumbled) person. Wouldn't she have some conflicting memories? How would she be able to tell which were hers, which were the real ones, when neither were fake? Ah, and it seems that Nishijima really truly did love Minene Uryuu. Their (re)meeting was almost like that of a fairy tale. Somehow, he could even faintly remember her, even though he should have only been a Nishijima from a completely different realm. However... Considering the fact that Nishijima of the second realm was killed before the third realm was even created, could the second Nishijima's soul have inhabited the third Nishijima's body? So that must mean that Nishijima loved Minene with all of his soul... How precious. And the two even got married and had two little quarter-god babies~. Oh, yes. the second Minene Uryuu is a half-god. I guess that's what Deus was up to... Heh. Yet, she still can't get her right hand back, or even a prosthetic. That makes me quite uncomfortable. Ahh, and the credits on the last three pages or so remind me of the ending to Arina Tanemura's Full Moon wo Sagashite. Haha, I wonder which one of them ended first? Likely Mirai Nikki. But anyway, that was a satisfactory ending. I only wish it were in paperback (the English version). It felt strange finishing the series in such a different format. Oh well. I'm glad that it had a 'Happy End', even though it was the farthest from how I had presumed the ending would be, or was even told.

[Mercy Martinez · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fue un lindo final, por como termino en el anime (que daba a "desear" una segunda temporada.
Debo decir que no esperaba mucho de estos tomos desde el principio, ya que había visto el anime y sabia que exactamente iba a pasar. Aunque sinseramente me quedo con el anime,
Por que?
Porque a pesar de que los tomos lo tienen todo, les falto ese no se que... En cuanto a los personajes secundarios y principales. Estuvieron mas desarrollados que en el propio manga, del que o porque son asi dándonos personajes realistas que podemos conseguirnos dia a dia (claro, si tanto rollo del juego y las muertes, creo xD)
Aunque siendo sincera en la parte de fantasía, me gusto mas el final del manga que del anime :P

Para los que no hayan visto el anime, lean los tomos como si fueran introductorio a una manita que nos dejara con mas y mas ganas de acción y suspenso ;)

[Iman Eyitayo · Rating 3 out of 5]

En gros, un manga à l'aspect psychologique si développé (si tordu aussi!) qu'on se demande qui est l'auteur dans la "vraie" vie, un battle royale qui mélange action, suspens et addictivité, une histoire d'amour qui sort des sentiers battus. Bref, un manga qui aurait mérité un point de plus si je n'avais pas été un peu perplexe devant les 2 derniers tomes, mais que je recommande tout de même pour son côté "décalé". Je ne l'oublierais pas de sitôt !

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