She is the quintessential yandere character in anime today, yandere being a character who is madly in love, to the point of going homicidal to protect that love. I don’t think I’m blowing any minds when I say the appeal of Future Diary lies almost entirely in its yandere female lead, Yuno Gasai.
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He does grow throughout the show, and his transition from observer to actual force for change in the series does have its payoff, but nobody watches Future Diary for Yuki, and even from the perspective of the other characters, his significance is thrust upon him by the real start of the show… I’ll get to my issues with the dub later. Going by the sub, he’s your typical, emo, Shinji Ikari clone teenager, just without the daddy issues, but the dub seems to try to make him “cool”. He’s always stood back from everything and just observed because, by his own admission, he is too scared to get himself involved. Yuki himself is not a particularly noteworthy main character. All the diary holders have their motivations to become god, and for most of them it is to repair something that they’ve lost. They are broken to different extents though, and by the end of it all, the wanted terrorist comes off as the most well-adjusted of the bunch, while Yuno gets to claim the throne of crazy. In choosing candidates to replace him, he placed emphases on uniqueness of personality, meaning that the next god would assuredly be a weirdo/homicidal killing machine. For me, the show was pretty much constantly walking on the boundary of just how much disbelief I can suspend it wasn’t enough to keep me away by any means, but it was certainly a weak point.Īlmost all of the characters are emotionally broken in some way, and this is by Dues’s design. Well, Death Note this is not, and you just sorta have to role with what the show gives you, even towards the end when the plots holes get quite large.
Now, you might think a premise like this must be really hard to keep together, avoid plot holes, and give some explanation of freewill playing to the dilemma of both having a written-in-stone future, and the ability to change it. There’s a lot of fun to be had in just seeing the strengths of weakness of each diary, and the ways to get around them. Another character, only know as Third, is a murder, and keep a diary about his kills, so his diary helps him track his future victims.Īll twelve diary holders are in a last-man-standing style competition, where whoever doesn’t get killed gets to become the next god. For example, Yuno Gasai, our female lead who is madly, yanderely in love with Yuki, would write exclusively about things happening to Yuki, so her diary tell her all about him. Other diary holders get their future sight in ways specific to diaries they kept. His works by giving him the when and where of things he observes day to day, because that is exactly the type of diary he kept up until divine intervention. Yuki is one of twelve people (all of whom are conveniently located within murdering distance of one another) gifted with a cellphone diary that tells the future. Unfortunately, god doesn’t play favourites, and his gifts are really more of a danger than anything. The show centres on our main character, Yukiteru Amano, and the powers bestowed upon him by the god of all space and time, Deus Ex Machina. Future Diary is a twenty-six episode 2011 show, form the studio that brought us… well, actually, I’m not familiar with any of Studio Asread’s other five shows.
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