In fact, all of the 12 now have diaries that tell the future. Yuki’s phone diary now tells the future, THE NAME OF THE SHOW KLAXON. Some of the characters display their god’s temperament, others, not even close. They’re not all as obvious as Jupiter and Juno but they’re there. Now if you’re thinking that Yukiteru and Yuno sound like familiar names, you’re paying attention, each one of these 12 is named after a god in the Roman pantheon in some fashion. Last one left standing becomes the new god of the universe. They don’t know the identity of the others, but they must all try to kill each other. He chooses 12 people, in which Yuki and Yuno are both included, as the ‘First’ and ‘Second’ (codenames). But weirdly for an omnipotent being, he’s dying and so a successor must be chosen. One day he finds that Deus isn’t actually imaginary but is actually the GOD OF THIS UNIVERSE (a name like Deus, who’d have thought, eh?). Except the other contender for weirdest (and she outstrips him) in his school, Yuno, who is always staring at him because she loves him because of one thing he said to her one time and now she’s crazy in love with him. He has an imaginary friend called Deus who he talks to and everyone just thinks he’s really very weird. Yukiteru is a wimpy boy who never really talks and just writes everything he sees into his flip-phone’s diary (this is from 2011, so a bit of a mishmash between that era and the smartphone era). Plus I think if it did somehow pull it off perfectly this wouldn’t be as interesting, there was a lot of me doubled over thinking ‘they didn’t actually just think that was a good idea did they?’. Mirai Nikki is BRAVE and though it doesn’t always work, it works enough times that I have a lot of respect for it for trying.
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And that is a theme with my anime watching, I’m partly into the medium because it gives me these TV shows that I’d never get from watching a Western show, as it seems like anime is never afraid to shy away from an interesting or audacious premise just because of the tiny problem that there’d be a lot of issues with the writer pulling things out of his arse in order to get some semblance of a plot going. And though I noticed all of these things that would give it a low score instantly and recognised them as being bad things to do in a piece of media, I admire this for its audacity. But I’m not a serious anime critic and I’m ranking these on enjoyment factor alone and I was completely gripped, enjoyably so, by Mirai Nikki when I watched it in the summer. It’s derivative of about five other well-regarded shows mashed together in an unholy mess and it’s got plot holes large enough to pilot a plane through. Speaking entirely objectively, there is no way that Mirai Nikki (I prefer the Japanese name, it means the exact same but it just flows better) deserves to be up this high. Tentacle Rating: 6/10 but this is a good show for angsty teens no matter what their cultural background. ‘Everything in this world is just a game and we are merely the pawns’