I won't post any spoilers here, feel free to read it if you aren't sure whether to watch it or not.
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Introduction
"Doesn't matter if you're weak. If you struggle hard enough, you can make a miracle happen." — Minene Uryuu, Mirai Nikki, 9th Diary Holder.
Yukiteru Amano (Better known as Yuki) is a loner who never really interact with people and prefers writing a diary on his cell phone with his only companion being an imaginary friend named Deus Ex Machina, the God of Time and Space. However, Yuki soon learns that Deus is not a figment of his imagination but real when Deus makes him a participant in a battle royale with eleven others. Within this "Diary Game", the contestants are given special diaries that can predict the future with each diary having unique features that gives them both advantages and disadvantages, whoever wins the battle royale is crowned the successor of Deus as the God of Time and Space.
Story
Although I really enjoyed the anime, it's one of those animes where you can't tell too much about it without spoiling it, I'll do my best to summarize it without spoiling anything for you.
The plot happens around the Main characters, Yukki and Yuno, as mentioned before, Deus Ex Machina, The God of Time and Space, invented a game to choose his successor as God, Yukki had been chosen as one of the players, although against his will he was forced to participate in this game, Yuno was also a player of this game, funny enough, it was a girl from Yukki's own class in school, which then becomes friends with Yukki, in this Kill or be Killed game.
The first episode features Yukki's daily life and his relationship with Deus, along with how he reacted to discovering that his cellphone now was a diary that predicted the future and how Yuno became his "friend".
The story although I loved it, is a bit repetitive and both Yukki and Yuno join forces to defeat the other 10 players, so it's a bit repetitive as they face a new player every second episode.
Although it's repetitive, there's many plot twists, early in the story, half way the story and especially at the end of the story, which in my opinion is what made this such a great anime.
If you aren't much of a philosophical person I don't recommend this anime, this anime can be pretty bland if you don't take your time to think about the characters, how they felt, why they did the things they did, and how would you feel and do in their situation, if you do these things you'll have a greater understanding of how this story was supposed to be watched/read as, a tragedy,romance and action.
Story wise, although it had one or two plotholes from what I've noticed, I really enjoyed the story, which you can only understand completely after watching the end because it's when all the mystery's in the show are resolved, but since it was pretty weak at the start and it took 20's episodes for us to understand the whole story, I give this a 7/10
Characters
Although many people say the characters were pretty badly written, it isn't entirely true, there were bad characters, not gonna deny it, but most people judge Yukki and Yuno just for their initial appearence without disregarding the ending and the story behind them, nor the character progression throughout the story.
Each and every character has a backstory on why they are like they are and some of them are very interesting, I personally enjoyed Yuno's backstory, Minene's character progression and the 7th's backstory..
Although I personally find Yuno's character a perfect 10/10, there are a few characters who were completely ridiculous which created the plotholes in this anime, so I give characters and average of 7/10.
Animation
Mirai Nikki was produced by Asread, which had at most a couple of famous series under their belts but nothing extraordinary, although the studio wasn't that great, the animation wasn't bad, again, nothing extraordinary either but I enjoyed the character designs and some of the scenes. I give it a 7.5/10
Sound
Although I'm not the kind of person who watches the openings and endings, the first Mirai Nikki opening was pretty damn good, so good that I watched it all the time until it was switched for the second opening.
The other openings and endings were alright, I watched them all before writing this review and they were fine. I give it a 8/10
Conclusion
Although this is my favorite all time anime and I rated it a 10/10 in MAL, I can't bias or this review is useless, as such I give this anime 2 different ratings.
If you aren't a psychological person and aren't able to get into the characters shoes and understand them then I would rate this anime 6/10.
If you are indeed a psychological person and you take your time to understand everything the anime tells you about the characters and why they did what they did in the anime and why they acted like that, this can potentially be a 10/10 Romance/Tragedy anime, however basing myself on the not so good characters and not the perfect animation, I would say it's a 8.5/10
I recommend this show as it's my favorite show, there are many people who didn't completely understand the story or didn't take time to think about the story and the characters like the writer intended the viewers to and as such they have bad opinions about the show (which is totally fine) as long as you keep an open mind you'll have one hell of a ride.
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Introduction
"Doesn't matter if you're weak. If you struggle hard enough, you can make a miracle happen." — Minene Uryuu, Mirai Nikki, 9th Diary Holder.
Yukiteru Amano (Better known as Yuki) is a loner who never really interact with people and prefers writing a diary on his cell phone with his only companion being an imaginary friend named Deus Ex Machina, the God of Time and Space. However, Yuki soon learns that Deus is not a figment of his imagination but real when Deus makes him a participant in a battle royale with eleven others. Within this "Diary Game", the contestants are given special diaries that can predict the future with each diary having unique features that gives them both advantages and disadvantages, whoever wins the battle royale is crowned the successor of Deus as the God of Time and Space.
Story
Although I really enjoyed the anime, it's one of those animes where you can't tell too much about it without spoiling it, I'll do my best to summarize it without spoiling anything for you.
The plot happens around the Main characters, Yukki and Yuno, as mentioned before, Deus Ex Machina, The God of Time and Space, invented a game to choose his successor as God, Yukki had been chosen as one of the players, although against his will he was forced to participate in this game, Yuno was also a player of this game, funny enough, it was a girl from Yukki's own class in school, which then becomes friends with Yukki, in this Kill or be Killed game.
The first episode features Yukki's daily life and his relationship with Deus, along with how he reacted to discovering that his cellphone now was a diary that predicted the future and how Yuno became his "friend".
The story although I loved it, is a bit repetitive and both Yukki and Yuno join forces to defeat the other 10 players, so it's a bit repetitive as they face a new player every second episode.
Although it's repetitive, there's many plot twists, early in the story, half way the story and especially at the end of the story, which in my opinion is what made this such a great anime.
If you aren't much of a philosophical person I don't recommend this anime, this anime can be pretty bland if you don't take your time to think about the characters, how they felt, why they did the things they did, and how would you feel and do in their situation, if you do these things you'll have a greater understanding of how this story was supposed to be watched/read as, a tragedy,romance and action.
Story wise, although it had one or two plotholes from what I've noticed, I really enjoyed the story, which you can only understand completely after watching the end because it's when all the mystery's in the show are resolved, but since it was pretty weak at the start and it took 20's episodes for us to understand the whole story, I give this a 7/10
Characters
Although many people say the characters were pretty badly written, it isn't entirely true, there were bad characters, not gonna deny it, but most people judge Yukki and Yuno just for their initial appearence without disregarding the ending and the story behind them, nor the character progression throughout the story.
Each and every character has a backstory on why they are like they are and some of them are very interesting, I personally enjoyed Yuno's backstory, Minene's character progression and the 7th's backstory..
Although I personally find Yuno's character a perfect 10/10, there are a few characters who were completely ridiculous which created the plotholes in this anime, so I give characters and average of 7/10.
Animation
Mirai Nikki was produced by Asread, which had at most a couple of famous series under their belts but nothing extraordinary, although the studio wasn't that great, the animation wasn't bad, again, nothing extraordinary either but I enjoyed the character designs and some of the scenes. I give it a 7.5/10
Sound
Although I'm not the kind of person who watches the openings and endings, the first Mirai Nikki opening was pretty damn good, so good that I watched it all the time until it was switched for the second opening.
The other openings and endings were alright, I watched them all before writing this review and they were fine. I give it a 8/10
Conclusion
Although this is my favorite all time anime and I rated it a 10/10 in MAL, I can't bias or this review is useless, as such I give this anime 2 different ratings.
If you aren't a psychological person and aren't able to get into the characters shoes and understand them then I would rate this anime 6/10.
If you are indeed a psychological person and you take your time to understand everything the anime tells you about the characters and why they did what they did in the anime and why they acted like that, this can potentially be a 10/10 Romance/Tragedy anime, however basing myself on the not so good characters and not the perfect animation, I would say it's a 8.5/10
I recommend this show as it's my favorite show, there are many people who didn't completely understand the story or didn't take time to think about the story and the characters like the writer intended the viewers to and as such they have bad opinions about the show (which is totally fine) as long as you keep an open mind you'll have one hell of a ride.
Utsuro no Hako to Zero no Maria is a masterpiece 10/10
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