For Yukiteru to survive, he must team up with another diary holder, a girl named Yuno.Įach player is assigned a number based on the order that Deus modified his or her diary. In order to win, the contestants must use their diaries of the future to eliminate one another. Each diary holder has a diary with a specific ability that will help them in the survival game(Most in which tell the future in different ways). The winner becomes the next Deus Ex Machina. However, one day Deus asks him to play a survival game along with eleven others. He has what he believes is an imaginary friend called Deus Ex Machina. Yukiteru always rejected any offers to go with friends and just keeps writing a diary on his cell phone.

An 11-episode live-action television drama aired between April and June 2012.Įsuno has also authored three side-story manga, each one spanning five chapters: first Future Diary: Mosaic which focuses on another Diary Holder, Minene Uryu, and tells unrevealed plot points of the main story in 2009-2010, Future Diary: Paradox (published in Young Ace), which tells the exploits of Aru Akise and Murmur set in an alternate timeline, and in 2013, Future Diary: Redial, which serves as an epilogue to the series.

Funimation has licensed the anime for distribution in North America. A 26-episode anime television series produced by Asread aired in Japan between October 2011 and April 2012. A 'pilot anime' DVD was released with the 11th manga volume in December 2010.

The manga has been licensed by Tokyopop, and ten of the English volumes were released, with a release for the last two now uncertain due to Tokyopop ceasing publishing in North America. Twelve tankōbon volumes were released in Japan. The manga was serialized in the Kadokawa Shoten's Shōnen Ace between January 2006 and December 2010. Demographic: Shōnen Genre: Action, Horror, Psychological, Supernatural Tags: Thriller, Yandere Media: Anime, Manga, OVA, Live Action, TV dramaįuture Diary ( 未来日記, Mirai Nikki) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Sakae Esuno.

Future Diary, Volume 01 by Sakae Esuno