While I didn’t finish the serious I didn’t acknowledge the show’s bad writing until that how the hell do you forgive your dad killing your mom like that? They treated it as small as him stealing from but no he stole her life and he’s just gonna forgive him for that??? What the hell???
Here's what happened: The author had like, 6 really good scenes that they just had to write. And everything else just serves to reach those scenes. It's like a fan fiction, but serialized, animated, and extremely popular.
Yuno is the only reason people even watched this show. There aren’t that many yandere characters before or since that exemplified the archetype like Yuno Gasai.
I'm glad you said, "There aren't that many" instead of "There aren't any". Because I was just about to bring up the OG of the yandere archetype and then a yandere who actually scares people (despite not killing anyone in the anime she was in) and not only because the anime she was in was rather prophetic for it's time. Pretty sure you know which two I mean. Just in case you don't know, they're Yukako Yamagishi and Anna Nishikinomiya
Haven't even started the video yet but ive got a funny story about Mirai Nikki. Ive tried to watch this show on 3 separate occasions several years apart. Without fail, every time i get to episode 8, i get the most sickening and painful migraine. I have absolutely no clue why. Theres nothing in the episode that would trigger such a physical reaction, but having it happen 3 different times has to be more than a coincidence. This show has actually cursed me, and i dont think i will ever get to finish watching it.
Some of it is cultural. Japanese storytelling differs from Western storytelling. It's more about the interaction between characters and a clashing of ideals, and is less concerned with consistent story tone and things like a "hero's journey" in favor of debates taking the form of soliloquies between two opposing figures. It's why there tends to be a discussion going on during a fight so often in anime. It's more about personalities interacting than reaching a narrative end. Western stories tend to be more rigid about tone and having a consistent narrative arc. I don't disagree that Anime has a lot of awful writing though. Even if you consider this cultural difference, there's a ton of just plain bad writing. Though, you could really say the same about western writing as well to be fair. Still, at least some of those who complain about "bad writing" in anime are at least partially due to some degree of culture shock and not understanding how Eastern storytelling differs from Western storytelling.
What's especially odd about this is that you would think Yuno's Japanese VA would have been catapulted into stardom, being given a shitload of roles left and right Nope! Last I checked, she had like 3 roles to her name. Like, she showed up to voice one of the most popular characters of 2012, realized that she had peaked, and just stopped
I like this show but OH MY GOD…Yukiteru Amano is one of the if not THE most unlikable protagonists I have ever seen in any anime. There is nothing about him that makes him relatable and someone you want to root for. And when the crazy yandere girl is a more entertaining and likable character than your main character, something is very VERY wrong. But Yuki has no personality, no charisma, no intelligence or agility, or even an understandable reason as why he needs to win the game over the majority of the other players. He doesn’t even have any believable romantic chemistry with Yuno. Yuki is supposed to be the one we want to root for over everyone else winning and yet all I wanted the entire show was for Yuki to die. And honestly, it would have improved the show immensely.
You hate protagonists that aren't somehow "cool" because you need to project into or fantasize about him. It's how Levi from AoT is worse than Yuki because he has nothing going for him except how he has a sad little backstory which is shallow and generic compared to Mikasa's. People literally only like Levi because he's a generic badass with a sad backstory, but hate protags like Takemichi or Yuki because they are special badasses and people want to feel like the protagonist whenever they consume media. I guess one's life has to be very mediocre if you care enough about a character in fiction not embodying your fantasies.
Me: Gives multiple reasons I don't like Yuki as a protagonist. You: You don't like he doesn't appeal to your fantasy or is cool. Lol. Okay. Sure Jan. And by the way, you don't need to be cool or have a tragic backstory to be a compelling protagonist. Yeah sometimes it definitely can help but it's not the cardinal rule. But the most important thing is that you can emotionally invest in them and their journey and in the case of Yuki, the story does a very bad job at doing that.
@@sophieamandaleitontoomey9343 Still a better protagonist than Naruto, Luffy, or Ichigo. I don't understand how self-proclaimed critics declare an anime being "bad" because it is "trashy" or "generic". I generally don't like criticizing anime anymore cause it is the most weeaboo thing to do, and I have a life now, but I will say, in MY opinion Future Diary is a decent anime. Yuki is wimpy, sure, but that's the point. He's a mediocre 14 year old teen who wants to live a simple mediocre but happy life. Everything he does is what most 14 year olds would do if forced to fight a battle royal and stuck with a girl who is psycho as his only form of survival (unfortunately the "stuck with a psycho girl" part is no longer true because we are stuck in an age of down-bad teens who can't get some). I personally like Yuki since he isn't a self-insert protag, but more of a "LOL this wimp is YOU" which subconciously pissed people off. Overall, I think this anime is decent, but not amazing like Attack on Titan.
@@thevigilant6884Bro the only person here who thinks they're cooler than they really are is you with your "I'm gonna do the thing I claim I have too much of a life for" nonsense. Naruto, Luffy, and Ichigo have actual goals and aspirations that make them not just relatable but people you wanna see succeed.
@@Thund3rDrag0n12 I don't think that... I literally am better than 99 percent of you crybabies. Only people who complain about "wimpy characters" (like Takemichi and Yukiteru), but drool over "badass" characters (like Gojo and Levi) are those who use anime to cope with their shitty/mediocre lives. I literally did not have time to reply to you until now, and did so because it is funny to make fun of you guys.
He didn’t even mention the white haired boy(Akise) literally staring at Yuno dead in the face and then aggressively making out with Yuki which pisses her off so much she decapitates him😭💀
@@cyberpsychgreen Legit, akise(?) is the only well written character there. I legit was rooting for akise and yuki to get together and kill yuno at the end, but no, akise's head just go bye bye.
@@WhoAmI-hq6zm Exactly! I thought the same thing, that's what should have happened, Akise even made him separate from Yuno but she manipulated Yuki again and shitty things happened 🙄
My only problem with this anime is how, out of the six women that are shown naked, 5 are 14-15 age range, 3 of them were during sex scenes, and two of those sex scenes were non-consensual. I dont judge but damn it seems like the author had a weird fetish or two
The show really does make more sense when Yuki is shinji and Yuno is asuka. They’re both Whiny bitches that have something deeply wrong with them (the hospital scene for shinji and using yuno for Yuki) and yuno has the badassery of asuka
@@mlgwolvesmeepeven tho your statement is kinda true I wouldnt really say they are alike, theres a reasoning why shinji is like that since childhood he was shown stuff that he never meant to see and always seen as a failure his entire his life and at the end he losses everything he loves while yuki is a insecure scumkid that is terrifed of everything so they arent really alike the comparing yuno to asuka is like comparing a girl that would do everything for u to a girl that cant let go being a bitch, asuka is just a person that pushes people away and overestimates her ablities and doesn't even want help so shinji>yuki yuno>asuka
This show is a shining example that you don’t need good writing and story that makes sense. You just need to have enough confidence and you’ll bullshit your way into success.
What honestly carried me through this show was just how bonkers insane it was. Every episode felt like a fever dream of logic that you were just so curious where it was going.
I used to LOVE this show as a young teen and I remember tearing up bc of the music and shit and now I'm completely baffled, shocked by how batshit insane this anime is
Bro, I’ve actually never seen the ‘true’ ending of future diary, this whole time I deadass thought that it ended with piddles just sitting in the void depressed for all eternity, and that honestly carried the whole show for me 💀
i mean it technically was the true ending as the alt ending isnt apart of the original season and is an OVA, prolly added it because the OG ending was too depressing considering all the shit that happened up until this point.
@@deseanlothian well, thats not canon tho, the manga ends when yuki becomes god and is left alone in the void, that true ending is just bullshit made by the studio that adapted the anime because they couldnt handle the story ending in such a depressing way.
I got myself the pink hair crazy lady, she doesnt wanna kill me or anything but she does own multiple cats, has dabbled in taxidermy and watches teleshopping for fun. Shes great.
Mirai Nikki is unironically a fantastic viewing experience. I watched it with my roommate and we debated and discussed the mysteries the whole way through. It's so bad it's perfect
@@edgelord121 tbf, domestic girlfriend is unironically good, right up until that horrendous deus ex machina ending. It went from a dumpster fire you can't look away from, to just a regular dumpster fire, where you can smell and hear the burning raccoons.
I like how the girl who murdered children gets to be happily married while the guy who was indecisive and passive is banished to a realm of emptiness and eternal despair 😭
He put himself in a realm of emptiness and despair. And what are you fucking talking about. All the adults were raping and killing teens just so they could be God. That was the point of it. But sure she’s the evil one.
He wasn't "banished" he just had 0 will to create after what he's been through. The punishment is self-imposed because clearly he is still indecisive and passive. And he's gonna stay like that forever. It wasn't a "heaven or hell" scenario.
I kinda liked how Yuki had what may be the most understandable reactions to being a 14-year-old placed into a death game with 12 psychopaths. He kinda made sense. The only thing that would have made more sense is if he asked Deus if he could just non-lethally bow out of the game since he, clearly and understandably so, didn’t seem to want to be there.
This anime is the definition of "this is so bad it's actually good?" like there are moments where everything happening on the screen is utterly obnoxious yet you can't help yourself finding it entertaining because it's ridiculous in its own way, and that's where the show truly shines.
Yeah there's a point before rockbottom where its so rediculous its funny and this show Is far beyond it, this was an excruciating experience for me I want to KILL every character on screen, who actually approved this show? Like actually wtf think about how many good shows get turned down and then this garbage makes it out most of the time.
Finished this show the other day. I agree fully. There is some good (not a lot but like Yunos plot twist somewhat imo) and a lot of bad but the bad is really entertaining. This show is the furthest thing from forgettable and I will always have fond memories of it. The good and the bad that is good.
@@brighteur exactly what I think. Mirai Nikki had a lot of flaws but they contributed to make that show memorable. I watched a lot of show before and after but exept for exeptionnal Animes, I remember very few of them unlike Mirai Nikki.
Although I don't watch anime, this seems like someone ran a D&D campaign, where everyone broke the rules and were drunk for most of it, but it was recorded. So they turned it into a show to see what happens.
Damn, the joke about the police letting 400 kids die before going into the school being the only accurate bit of writing in the show was cold af, and absolutely hilarious. Nicely done.
i mean... the definitition of joke is making fun of a situation that is weird and depicting something as exagerated or isnt actually real... so i would not clasify it as joke but as funny... cause i dont see it being it unrealistic...
@@criticalrevel actually the definition of joke is "a thing that someone says to cause amusement or laughter, especially a story with a funny punchline." Often the funniest jokes are about real, normal, every day situations. I understand the point you're making, but it's not accurate to say that it can't be a joke if its true.
not gonna mention the disappointment of you not mentioning white haired boy (akise) aggressively making out with yuki while watching yuno right in the eye and how that awakened thousands of 11yos across the globe....
I think a portion to Future Diary's success was its release date. It came out during the perfect time for "battle royales." Every middle schooler has read hunger games at that point. To see an anime pit characters to the death in such a manner was appealing.
Kind of a wild take, but I think the fact that Yukki never really changed throughout the show and never redeemed himself is sort of true to life. You can't expect a character like him to really "grow" anymore than we could expect Yuno to suddenly grow a conscience about killing everyone in her way. We love Yuno for not changing and hate Yukki for not changing, which is interesting.
Major Spoilers: *** The best part is he and Yuno did change, and he became a manly badass with him and Yuno mutually falling in love and becoming a power couple... in the first world... But because of that, Yuno's crazier, is even more Yandere, and loves him even more making her protect, baby, and do everything for him in this world so he just stays a useless little bitch boy for our story instead. The better story is literally just the twist backstory you barely hear about from world 1 that's actually the prolouge for the main story in world 2.
@@astr4ll141 i just think a "normal" person like yukki will change after so many stuff like he could be matured or a bit edgy but we didnt get that, you cannot expect a phycokiller like yuno to change into good...
@@destroyallfurries major spoilers ahead . . . . . . . . basically, the yuno in the show is actually a yuno from a past world. she won the game and became god but yuki died, so she used her powers to reset the world to meet yuki again.
@@destroyallfurries with the multiple worlds and many versions of yuno and stuff,just a bunch of messy shit that the show threw out of nowhere when realizing they need more filler. you're lucky you didn't finish it, this anime ages like milk, lol.
@@destroyallfurries Yuno actually won the death game in Timeline 1 and became a god, but her crush died so she used her god powers to restart the world and play the death game again so she could be with her crush until he died again. She also killed the Timeline 2 version of herself along with her parents so she wouldn't interfere with herself, which is where the third unidentified body alongside her parents comes from. (Also I never actually watched the show either, just a plot summary of it lol)
One thing I kinda find interesting about the story is what makes each future diary unique. Your notetaking style prior to receiving the device determines what notes you get back to you. Piddles takes notes on random shit so the phone tells him random shit in turn, just nothing about himself cause he's apparently humble like that. Yuno's notetaking is stalkerish, so her phone tells her Piddles' next moves which can help Piddles out when she works with him. Third's phone tells him about people to kill and where the are, just not their actions. With those examples in mind, I figure that if Kira was in the Survival Game, he'd be the Holder of the Vigilante Diary which would tell him the names of criminals to kill while requiring him to find out for himself what they look like.
Kirito casually hacking an admin console that's IN the game for an AI daughter when THE WORLD is trying to get the source code of the game to bail everyone out just kills me everytime.
Lol anime logic is weird. One punch man is literally a normal dude who just has an insane workout regimen. The dude is better than people with esp. why? Cuz anime logic
@@krystaldragons6040 why, yes, that's the entire premise of the show, saitama is the strongest², meaning that as long as there is someone or something strong, he will always be insanely more strong, in that sense, the logic in OPM is pretty solid, and has only ever been contradicted once, with a moskito
@@krystaldragons6040 lol the one punch man routine is supposed to be a joke, even the other character's don't believe it. Do we even need a real explanation for it?
The dub actor for Yuki Josh Grelle has an amazing talent to sound absolutely terrified at every moment his voice is perfect for someone who literally doesn't know how to wipe his own ass
In my country there's a politician who got into a big scandal for plagiarizing his thesis. His answer to the accusations? "It's not plagiarism, it's copy" You can't make this shit up
My biggest gripe was all the SA. Like some anime pull it off and you feel the impact. But this anime throws it on us TWICE and it's such HORRIFIC scenes both times. I still gag thinking of this anime because of it. The entire anime leaves me feeling disgusted and lacking
Okay, but isn't that the point of SA scenes in media? They aren't really supposed to make you say "wow, what a well pulled off scene", they're supposed to make you feel uncomfortable and horrified. SA in real life is horrific and awful, so why do SA scenes in media need to be 'well done' in order to be impactful? Because it sure isn't 'impactful' in real life.
@snowysoniccbecause when you throw it in for no reason, it’s distasteful. As a victim, my trauma isn’t something you need for shock value. Or to get yourself off. It should be done respectfully. You don’t just throw in racism because it’s surprising.
I watched this show during Covid and I must defend its popularity: It was so absurd that I could not help but feel extremely entertained since it felt like a show written by Aliens trying to produce something that would please humanity.
@@Z0Z33KY she is blind and basically forced to be this cults leader after someone assassinated her parents and all the men raped her, then she became traumatized
You know one is in trouble when the characters one is probably most likely to like(at least in my kid/teen-memory) are: -A terrorist who blew up how many teens and had fun doing so -A funny superhero-knock off who dies basically right away(though at least there is some epilogue-attention) I remember really liking the anime because the sheer entertainment factor somehow tied the plot together in my head. Kinda like how we eat junk food because it tastes good, even if it is horrendous and may just kill you. Though even me in "brain off"-mode realized that it is the most random thing to suddenly have an episode be "Yuno snapped and kidnapped MC. We gotta save him" or that one time when MC was literally confronted about Yuno being a sham of some kind an hour ago, yet randomly is driving a car on the highway with her in the seat. 20:41 The floating godbaby, lmao. 22:30 That whole arc is just so incredibly hilarious. Bro is essencially ending the world and goes:"Yeah, this is fine."
People watched the show to have stupid entertainment. Hence why the child-killing terrorist, the superhero knockoff, the psycho with the axe and the saw-trap making kid tend to be favourite characters. It's farcically over the top, laughably edgy, stupid as hell and not serious. Hence why any time the show tried playing something "straight" or "subversive", it doesn't work. Oh, now her being obsessed and whatnot is suddenly played straight and as bad and oh so dark? Doesn't work, you never primed us to take it seriously and barely do it again, it just comes over as badly-placed mood whiplash. Same reason why Yuki doesn't work at all as a protagonist. He's a spineless dweeby Shinji-knockoff in a setting that isn't Evangelion. In evangelion, the dark atmosphere, the bleak setting, the realistic characters and brutality of it all are all used to examine how a normal kid thrown into it and to subvert the shounen hero, it makes sense to have a frightened teen act "spinelessly" and "Overwhelmed" there. In Mirai Nikki, every shounen trope is played straight and the show isn't serious at all... except Yuki, who clashes heavily with the show and just isn't entertaining and and annoying in a show where it's supposed to be mindless entertainment. You can't have a "realistic depiction of a 14 year old thrown into a death game" when literally every other character isn't realistically depicted that way, the setting isn't realistic, and the tone is comedic at best. He needed to either have competency to the point of at least not being annoying, or be over-the-top comedically spineless and useless by basically making comedic quips pointing out all the insanity Gintama style.
You obviously haven't watched a sci-fi thriller before huh the story and everything for this anime is crazy it is everywhere at the end but it's cool af
I think you need to point out that the concept of the show is based on the japanese trend back in day to keep a diary on your phone. Since it's your own diary, it is limited to your own inputs so it doesnt always show everything that happens in the future. This will explain some of the plothole points you mentioned. The MC got an advantage because he records everything he does so his diary is extremely detailed compared to others.
@@realshmo yeah the skirt rockets into motorcycle, motion sensor bombs, obliteration of children without remorse, the diary mechanic not making sense or working properly for 85% of the show , the first killer contradicting his diary, the cop being stupid asf and literally everything about the main character definitely falls if u pay attention. Lmao f off
This was an era where an anime could come out, have a pretty damn bad season 1, then mediocre season 2, and still get a chance for a third season, which is suddenly fucking incredible. Highschool DxD is one of those shows, but by no means the only one. Nowadays, even if season 1 of any given show is good, or even great, and it's relatively popular, it might never get a chance for season 2.
love how you didnt mention that piddles thinks the god of time and space is just like. a normal imaginary friend of his at the start. like until he gets the diary he thinks he isn't real
@@mysmallnoman He thinks that he is imagining things because he is alone and doesnt have friends so he thought he is just imaginry friend the show is good but people shitting on it for many reasons when it came in 2012 and until 2017 was loved I mean alot of people put it in their best 50 animes honestly this is an example of anime was loved ino hated Also the OP is one of the best ever
The Yuki/Yuno dynamic is one of the best dynamics in anime, fun on the surface but really deep the more you dig into it. The random and wild plot is fun. The big thing I wish the show did was actually play with the Future Diary concept more. And the ending I get, but it always feel cheap doing a reset in a show (even if it kinda technically kinda didn’t happen)
You can enjoy something bad, doesn’t mean it was good, just means it was entertaining as hell. And there’s nothing wrong with that from time to time Edit: just realized that’d be the perfect tagline for this show.
ya i like alot of 1970s Italian horror movies those are mainly B and Z movies but i enjoy them. they get so bad that they're funny at times. i've seen a few B animes like galaxy of oz and toei's 1980 dracula movie they had to be drunk when they made those.
I think about Mirai Nikki the same way i think about The Room or YIIK. It tries to tell a complex smart story full of complex themes only to fumble it so fucking hard, but you can't help but admire how earnest the attempt was and how fucking goofy the final product ended up being.
Exactly. It's one of those try hard edgy shows that's wants to be taken seriously but ends up being funny as hell once you turn your brain off. It's basically a 12 year old edgy fanfic
it's almost impressive just how terribly written yukiteru is. i don't think there's a single moment in future diary where he isn't doing what other people tell him to do. i don't mean he has very little agency. i mean im pretty sure he literally doesn't make his own decisions even once. the only times you'd think he is he's just following the script written either by the diary or by yuno. it's insane.
seems to me that he DOES have agency...in the sense that he makes conscious decisions not to do anything for himself and just let others do the dirty work, which actually makes it worse when you think about it because now he's a wimp AND a sociopath!
If I remember correctly. Even in the last episode he still was a simp. Considering everything that yuno and yuki went through. There was no reason at all for them being together other than being horny. Even at the last episode that at the end he had to wait for yuno to go to him. In the entire show, there was not a moment where yukiteru wanted to do something regardless of what others think of him. The best example of an empty husk of a character.
Fun fact! This was my second anime! I watched it all in one day when I was 9 because when I saw yuno’s pink hair it reminded me of my first anime, tokyo mew mew. I… don’t know why I kept watching when I realized it very much wasn’t like tokyo mew mew lol
@@MouseGoati forgot her name but i think one of the first yanderes (or maybe even the first in anime/manga) was that girl from jjba pt4 that loved koichi.
The MC and the yandere bitch r what is stopping me from watching this anime. I might be able to withstand a beta MC but I can't stand yanderes. I despise them.
@@janisir4529 kazuya is basically a retord but subaru is hardworking and not stupid (most of the time) the only problem with him is that he is bad at social interations because of his father
Actually to this day I really like the plot twist, when Yuno was actually from an alternate dimension and had murdered this universe's Gasai family. I was deadass expecting a secret twin, but the plot twist made me go "holy shit, what!?" It truly is a series with an interesting concept, an unexpected plot twist, and ZERO sense in the middle lmfao
@@mysmallnomanfor some reason i couldn't find your comment, but, is there any explanation for the lack of causality and the fact everyone has some type of short term memories loss to the level you can shoot the police and be on the streets unrecognized on the next morning? Those were the points that bothered me the most
I distinctly remember my sister letting me watch this with her (and her boyfriend) when she was babysitting me, in spite of our mother's rules. I think her boyfriend had seen it before and wanted her to watch it? Its a core memory in my brain because part way through my sister said "Oh this is a BAD show show in every logical sense of the word. But fun." and her boyfriend *immediately* broke up with her. Heaven forbid a real-life girl get in the way of his pink-haired yandere waifu.
I think it was Yuno’s yandere personality that carried the show, and you kind of enjoy Yuki being helpless, like honesty of the whole show was just about that dynamic without the whole battle royale it’d likely be more enjoyable, like a weird edgy romance comedy.
It was both the yandere and the battle royale that carried the show. Yuno 100% popularized the yandere character, but at the time when this show aired, the whole battle royale genre was still pretty fresh and new.
@Calliforniaz Same, because "Piddles" is one of the most FRUSTRATING protagonists I have ever seen in an anime... I'm certain Shinji would smack this kid upside the head and tell him to man up.
Something occurs to me three months later. Why is Yuno competing at all? She could have waited for the game to start so this reality's Yuno has a diary, killed her, taken the new diary (if it is still functional), and then made sure this reality's Yuki wins. Then she can continue to be a god, he can be a god, and they can rule over a not-destroyed universe.
Right? Also what's the point because they all destroy their worlds after winning so why does the cycle continue? The end, the ova really didn't make sense. Might just be me tho. Also Akise, what happened to him in the end? I think he was in the ova? But didn't he die in the series? Is Deux making himself N a new universe after each game including Akise n that little toddler girl with Deux because I think Yuki had the previous one trapped in his dark remnant of the previous universe/timeline? Years later I still think about it.... 🤔🫠
I'm pretty certain the diary doesn't function after the owner dies, but to the same extent Yuno can still be literally God outside of her own world. Why did she lock away her godhood? Who knows.
One might think that a 14 years old girl who went through the horrors of this game and has her mind broken does not have the cold logic of a 30+ anime weeb thinking about the story for months. But no, every time a character is not making a perfectly reasonable all-knowing choice it must be a plot hole. Also, we don't know which diary old Yuno had, but she specifically wrote a Yuki diary to make the game plus easier.
@@Chraan “But no, every time a character is not making a perfectly reasonable all-knowing choice it must be a plot hole.” Yes, because we see characters with inhuman abilities to gather resources for their schemes make inhumanly dumb decisions. Plothole.
God, Mirai Nikki. It was one of those early anime I watched online back in my old days. Even though it was a mess, it holds a special place in my heart.
Honestly this show is a lot better when you accept Yuno is the main character. And yeah I remember wondering wtf was happening a few times as a kid watching it.
I remember this anime had gotten some hashtags like “intellectually taxing” and “Another Death Note” back in 2013, but after watched two episodes, I felt “intellectually insulting” may be a more precise tag.
It is important to mention that all of the characters assume from the beginning that, as God, they can just undo all their actions and spawn a new timeline. This makes most of the "nonsensical" things you mention actually make sense, such as why Yuki is willing to forgive his father for ending his mother - he plans to undo it all, so in the end, it will never have happened in the first place. Most of the characters directly base their actions around this idea: What I do has no consequences, because I can just erase what I've done.
I feel like this show perfectly represents how bad stories can still be very entertaining. The worst thing any form of media can be is boring, which could still happen even if a it does everything right on a technical level.
Yeah but I would be lying if I hadn’t urge to skip few minutes ahead when watching this for first time but after rewatching this anime I have grown to appreciate what is was trying to show. Mirai Nikki has special place in my heart despite its hiccups.
This is still one of my favorite show, the only problem I have with this show is.... WHY THE HELL DO EVERYONE (beside 3rd and 11th) TELL THEIR ENEMIES WHAT POWER THEIR FUTURE DAIRY HAVE?!?!
Like with Jojo's a major part of each encounter is trying to figure out what the fuck kinda power the enemy stand user has. But here the fuckers just scream their powers at the top of their lungs.
The same reason people in shonen tell each other how their powers or special moves work. It's not about being plot/story consistent...it's for the audience. Whether something makes logical sense in a real world setting and whether it works in an entertainment piece are often two very different things.
@@mr.stuffdoer8483 LMAO This is why I love that Jujutsu Kaisen has a specific rule to their magic system making this trope necessary, yet also thematically consistent. FYI: Curses, Sorcerers, and Curse Users often have to explain their particular contract in order to activate the full limits of their powers.
Okay one gripe I have on this take: The amount of notes you get and how detailed they are, are directly linked to how many notes you take on a given day. Yuno and piddles have that many notes because yuno documents everything about piddles and piddles documents everything about himself. So nobody else wouldn't have as many notes as them and to the same detail they have them. So the episode one guy not knowing where they are actually does make sense.
His diary will tell him where his victims are located, as well as how he kills them. But it doesn't tell him very many details aside from that, so it's really only useful in tracking down his prey. When it comes to making the kill happen, he seems to be on his own. He was in fact killed the first time in his attempt to use his diary to pinpoint where they were, though really he probably should have checked before standing out in the open.
Yeah he probably did not expect two highschool kids to off him, as he was seeing himself as the predator. Which is kinda dumb considering he was in a death game to become god. Never underestimate your opponents. Journals have also been shown as unreliable anyway. All the journal holders had the ability to alter the future. So they were more of an help than an actual guide.
As I was a 13 year old watching this show who was thoroughly depressed, it did not bring me many good memories lol. I was SHAKING afterwards...mainly because I watched almost all of the episodes in one day after I went home from school early that day. And, watching this video reminded me of how much I had a love hate relationship with it. I was into yanderes at the time and I partially thought Yuno looked kinda badass but I also f*cking hated her at the same time. I will never forget what she did to Akise😤lol
I used to be obsessed with Yuno and this anime when I was around 14. I’m 18 now and have kinda grown to hate Yuno 😭 I used to have the edgy Yandere middle school phase oh God It makes me cringe so hard
@@kimi_ro8811 I cringe at nothing. Just enjoy what you like, if you don't like it anymore for your reasons then that's good. If you are just taking opinions of others to change your view on something, then that's more cringe imo. Yuno was a fun character to watch. Talking bad about this anime and it's plot is fine...but then you have to remember, shows like "The Walking Dead" had just as much of a sh*tty plot and it's characters are more hated and annoying than anything I ever felt when watching this anime.
I watched this when I was 12, it was the second anime I ever watched and it made me so mad that I watched it sped up so I could finish faster, by the end it was a hate watch. I mainly remember hating Yuno (but loving her character design and badass moments) because she simply killed all of Yuki’s friends and isolated him, but I also hated him because he was a weak bitch who was unable to impose himself. Really, there was no saving these two, they were a trash fire of a relationship of the two most annoying people I’ve ever seen in an anime.
This anime is one of those that make itself seem "deep" with random mumbo jumbo. Like how I feel with the classroom of the elite series, bunch of convoluted problems and scenarios that get perfectly solved by the plot for the MC
Kinda felt the same with parts in Stone Ocean. Why do all these prison convicts know everything about anything to a molecular level ? Still enjoyed it tho.
Well no Cote honestly has a good story with diverse characters in the light novel, the anime was just made to promote it. And overall, it’s a 4/10 adaptation.
I remember loving this show when I was like 12, went back to watch it recently and received the rudest awakening. To this day, my mind cannot understand how a single show can be so bad on so many levels.
I rewatched it last year and I liked it. Sure, every criticism here is valid, but you dont watch this show for the well written story and character motivation. You watch it because its an interesting premise, has the most iconic yandere ever created and overall its really fun ride.
I think what made it so good to us when we weren't looking with a discerning eye is that the moment to moment writing is very fluent. Like if you have constant amnesia of what happened before, the writing *feels* correct.
@@Crispy1961 I liked it as well. I did like some of the characters as well, Minene, Nishijima, Kurosou, etc. I did think Yuno’s background was interesting, the show has a lot of interesting premises, and if I’m being honest with you.
I only remembered I had watched this when I saw this video. Sitting on your ass doing oxy and watching anime all day for a year was a shameful decision but im glad the pills delete the embarrassment of having to say that I sat through all this garbage completely sober
I hate how writers write villains and then give them “deep emotional” baggage and a “broken” past just for the sake of story. It would be nice just to see a bad guy be bad for no reason at all or if there is a reason make sure it’s internal struggles not an external source.
@@toxpov3612 Villians can have sad back stories but when every single villain has a sad back story then it becomes repetitive and also expected. “oh this villain is a villain because he stubbed his toe… just like 50 other villians”. I think a good example of a balance is joker. Joker fell in acid and went insane. He had a bad backstory but he was an okay guy before falling into the acid.
i remember the joy i felt seeing yuki finally acting like the alpha male i hoped to see him become and how immediately it was taken away from me. the way it was edited here brought me back to those same feelings.
by that point in the show i remember having just completely given up so nothing that happened on screen mattered anymore, i was pretty much watching just because watching yuno do crazy shit was funny and i was like 15 at the time lol. Like, I didn't realize it at the time because i was an unaware kid, but this show is the textbook definition of cringe, like the whole thing, it's literally how i learned what the word truly meant because every episode i just felt this deep embarrassment for the main character and i didn't know what the feeling meant, i just knew i wanted it to stop lol. Also felt it for the other characters as well who were constantly dropping the ball the whole time and making dumb decisions, letting the main cast do whatever they want basically. Nothing made sense, and the part where he became "badass" is actually where i went from "uncaring" to hating the show because it's like "where was THIS the whole time?... ohhh it's a script.. BRUH"
@@thekamotodragon It's a relatively accurate depiction of what a teenage boy would react like when thrown into a cat and mouse death game to be god lol what did you expect? A stoic shounen protag that conquers all through the power of optimism and friendship?
@@alexanderorr2528 I think that’s what they’re used to, to be honest. Yuki constantly making excuses for Yuno, and having to suck up to her simply because he relied on her for survival. The weird thing is, I do like the anime, actually. But, it definitely has it’s problems, I don’t think the characters were meant to be good people or people with morals, it was meant to represent a tragedy.
Honestly, I was so caught up in the constant cycle of action and tragedy that I barely noticed half of this stuff. Like, by the time Yuno's plot twist is revealed, it didn't even feel like it came out of the blue because everything seemed to happen that spontaneously. Honestly, Yuno's relationship with Yuki always felt kinda off, considering he's a worthless coward for most of the show and she's an absolute psychopath, but I think it was probably the best written part of the show. She's psychotic. That's well established. She's in love with him, partially because she's psychotic. She wants to keep him safe, and is really good at killing anyone who she deems unsafe. He doesn't want to die, or be alone. He recognizes that she's psychotic but needs her to stay alive, and even if he didn't she's too insane to go away. What started as trying to keep her under control and making the best of a terrible situation became a genuine relationship. Too bad the entire thing was based on codependency and neither character changed at all throughout the show until one of them died.
youre definitely not saying you just realized that right?? oh my god. the show has, while not entirely focused on, good themes about bad relationships and codependency, and they build up through the entire show like a ticking time bomb. not every story has to resolve its faults, they just need to be recognized as faults, and thats exactly what Mirai Nikki does. if Yuno's relationship with Yuki always ""felt kinda off", you missed the entire fucking how, and might as well have just turned your useless fucking brain off. I dont understand how someone can stumble through a show like this, end then call it bad. What. Im wondering if we watched the same thing. Yuki and yuno through the entire show are built up as a terrible "couple" only sticking to eachother because of circumstance. Even at the end, Yuno literally admits that she would "love anybody who let her cling to them"; the entire show is about 2 people running from their problems in a relationship thats slowly counting down its days until it's crumble. Yuno herself is a time bomb as her /mind/ begins to crumble. Im not sayng the show is shakespeare levels of immaculate, but you honestly walked up to the show and took a shit on its face with your observations. How much more obvious does it have to be that, the viewer being uncomfortable and recognizing that there is something wrong here, is *entirely the point?* YUKI is SUPPOSED TO BE A COWARD. GOD FUCKING DAMNIT THE SHOW WOULDNT WORK IF HE WASNT A COWARD. Their whole dynamic is that they need eachother, but not in a healthy way; Yuki needs Yuno to keep his stupid ass alive, an Yuno needs Yuki to be a fake boyfriend. Its completely erratic and built entirely on impulses and blind eyes, but that's the FUCKING POINT. its not a "AND THE MORAL IS" story. Holy shit.
@@TheSundayShooter He does DEFINITELY need to calm down, but watching the show unironically has nothing to do with it. In fact, I would suggest watching anything "ironically" indicates a lack of intellect, since you would be voluntarily spending time doing something that you consider to be a waste of time and nothing more
Every important character in this show is absolutely insane. Every single one of them. No exceptions. The only thing that could be argued as a bad plot point that is not explained by mental issues is the fact that the main duo pretty much fights all the other diary owner by sheer coincidence and no one else is eliminated without them getting involved.
@@1001011011010 yeah that sounds right, the boy's diary covers the most ground cuz he records everything, and the girl records what the boy does, so they have the most information
That's probably more the sentiment among people who still enjoy it today. I'm not big on anime, but my friends were. Around late middle school early high school someone recommended it to me, I immediately loved it for ya know, dumb fun. Other people around me were not thrilled with me saying "I liked it because it was so stupid and insane that it was entertaining as hell." And then I went on the internet hoping to have someone back me up on it, only to get flamed lmao. At the time a lot of people definitely thought this was an intellectual master piece.
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Makes me think of when kids tell stories where the general structure is a string of unrelated events connected by the phrase “and then”
S-tier analogy
That's a joke from the hit movie dude where's my car
"Me, you, gas station."
@@fanciullo4047 What are we getting for dinner?
@@NogoodKookno it’s making fun of south parks writing method as stated by trey Parker
this entire show is the definition of someone coming up with a cool idea in the shower and then making an entire anime without any more planning.
These days, People use AI story generator to solve that problem.
@@sholandosmiguelito6508hell this anime’s plot seems AI generated
shower planning
@@sholandosmiguelito6508 AI story generator is really generic, so no.
Tbf this blew up the yandere concept not the 1st but def brought it to the west
"You let 400 students get eviscerated before sending in the police?... That's actually quite accurate." I love that in such a messed up way.
God bless america
@@sirdeezvii2505 🦅
@@somedudeawakeatlike1am801RAAAHHHH
The police here in america can be massive dumbasses sometimes or all the time.
@@somedudeawakeatlike1am801 WHAT THE FUCK IS A KILOMETER! 🦅🦅🦅🦅
“DAD WHY THE FUCK DID YOU STAB MOM”
“Son, I don’t know. But I bought you this cool telescope. Will you forgive me?”
Boom Character development
I imagine that line in some emo song and it kills me everytime 😂
🎵Father~, why have you forsaken me?🎵
"Son, I don't know"
That shi pissed me off, Yuki forgave his dad and was looking forward to plans for when his dead beat dad got out😂😂
While I didn’t finish the serious I didn’t acknowledge the show’s bad writing until that how the hell do you forgive your dad killing your mom like that? They treated it as small as him stealing from but no he stole her life and he’s just gonna forgive him for that??? What the hell???
I love how the main villain of an entire episodes entire reasoning to try and kill children is just "I like dogs.". Best written character of all time
As a cat supremacist myself, I'd say it's 100% accurate and we should get rid of all dog owners before they feed their families to their pets.😅
honestly he was too based for this anime
@@VixYW you are talking about bulldogs
@@makarov2582 you mean cute lil ol princess? he would never!!!
@@8Tibbles Yeah i jumped on a conclusion abruptly Timmy never got bitten by Princess, Just look at her!!
Here's what happened: The author had like, 6 really good scenes that they just had to write. And everything else just serves to reach those scenes. It's like a fan fiction, but serialized, animated, and extremely popular.
Very good insight Koichi. It really was just a bunch of cool ideas thrown together without any logic.
What were the 6 scenes?
nah bro calling future diary a serialized & animated fan fiction is an insult to fan fiction
@@milkkkkkkks9803 How could anyone slander Sonic High School?
@@CODA96 he really is a reliable guy
Yuno is the only reason people even watched this show. There aren’t that many yandere characters before or since that exemplified the archetype like Yuno Gasai.
I'm glad you said, "There aren't that many" instead of "There aren't any". Because I was just about to bring up the OG of the yandere archetype and then a yandere who actually scares people (despite not killing anyone in the anime she was in) and not only because the anime she was in was rather prophetic for it's time. Pretty sure you know which two I mean. Just in case you don't know, they're Yukako Yamagishi and Anna Nishikinomiya
@@WeaponXSigma omg I was just thinking about Yukako when reading this comment
Yeah unfortunely she is mid and minene is just a better girl lead
I only watched it because of Aki lmao
@@WeaponXSigma Dunno if this is relevant, but Shion Sonozaki from When They Cry exists too.
Haven't even started the video yet but ive got a funny story about Mirai Nikki. Ive tried to watch this show on 3 separate occasions several years apart. Without fail, every time i get to episode 8, i get the most sickening and painful migraine. I have absolutely no clue why. Theres nothing in the episode that would trigger such a physical reaction, but having it happen 3 different times has to be more than a coincidence. This show has actually cursed me, and i dont think i will ever get to finish watching it.
Your stand is preventing you from watching this garbage, be sure to thank it
@@taepyeoon8245 Was that a JoJo’s reference?
You're physically inmune to watching bad shit. How can I obtain that power?
Just watch episode 9 🧠🧠🧠
@@aauok His head would just straight up explode if he did that. It's a sign from the devil.
Awful writing is so common in anime that I've become immune to it. Now, enjoyability is often just about how fun the story concept / characters are.
That’s end-game weeb shit
Weeb-nirvana
The worse it is. The more I can laugh at/with it.
This is why Miyazaki lamented the absolute state of modern anime. Bad writing and one dimensional characters.
Some of it is cultural. Japanese storytelling differs from Western storytelling. It's more about the interaction between characters and a clashing of ideals, and is less concerned with consistent story tone and things like a "hero's journey" in favor of debates taking the form of soliloquies between two opposing figures. It's why there tends to be a discussion going on during a fight so often in anime.
It's more about personalities interacting than reaching a narrative end. Western stories tend to be more rigid about tone and having a consistent narrative arc.
I don't disagree that Anime has a lot of awful writing though. Even if you consider this cultural difference, there's a ton of just plain bad writing. Though, you could really say the same about western writing as well to be fair.
Still, at least some of those who complain about "bad writing" in anime are at least partially due to some degree of culture shock and not understanding how Eastern storytelling differs from Western storytelling.
What's especially odd about this is that you would think Yuno's Japanese VA would have been catapulted into stardom, being given a shitload of roles left and right
Nope! Last I checked, she had like 3 roles to her name. Like, she showed up to voice one of the most popular characters of 2012, realized that she had peaked, and just stopped
slay tbh
quit while she was ahead, i can respect it
Not a bad move. Good for her.
Respect the hustle
@@concept5631 why good for her?
Honestly, without a character like Yuno's memorability, the show would likely not be as fondly remembered today.
Yuno hard carrying everything.
@@MrSupersonic2012 and yet somehow the voice actress for yuno would go on to do literally no other notable roles
@@HearMeLearn Which is sad because she did great Yuno.
@@MrSupersonic2012 ik after I finished the anime I looked her up to see what else she had done since then and I found crickets
@@HearMeLearn Are we talking about the sub or dub actress?
I like this show but OH MY GOD…Yukiteru Amano is one of the if not THE most unlikable protagonists I have ever seen in any anime. There is nothing about him that makes him relatable and someone you want to root for. And when the crazy yandere girl is a more entertaining and likable character than your main character, something is very VERY wrong. But Yuki has no personality, no charisma, no intelligence or agility, or even an understandable reason as why he needs to win the game over the majority of the other players. He doesn’t even have any believable romantic chemistry with Yuno. Yuki is supposed to be the one we want to root for over everyone else winning and yet all I wanted the entire show was for Yuki to die.
And honestly, it would have improved the show immensely.
You hate protagonists that aren't somehow "cool" because you need to project into or fantasize about him. It's how Levi from AoT is worse than Yuki because he has nothing going for him except how he has a sad little backstory which is shallow and generic compared to Mikasa's. People literally only like Levi because he's a generic badass with a sad backstory, but hate protags like Takemichi or Yuki because they are special badasses and people want to feel like the protagonist whenever they consume media. I guess one's life has to be very mediocre if you care enough about a character in fiction not embodying your fantasies.
Me: Gives multiple reasons I don't like Yuki as a protagonist.
You: You don't like he doesn't appeal to your fantasy or is cool.
Lol. Okay. Sure Jan. And by the way, you don't need to be cool or have a tragic backstory to be a compelling protagonist. Yeah sometimes it definitely can help but it's not the cardinal rule. But the most important thing is that you can emotionally invest in them and their journey and in the case of Yuki, the story does a very bad job at doing that.
@@sophieamandaleitontoomey9343 Still a better protagonist than Naruto, Luffy, or Ichigo. I don't understand how self-proclaimed critics declare an anime being "bad" because it is "trashy" or "generic".
I generally don't like criticizing anime anymore cause it is the most weeaboo thing to do, and I have a life now, but I will say, in MY opinion Future Diary is a decent anime. Yuki is wimpy, sure, but that's the point. He's a mediocre 14 year old teen who wants to live a simple mediocre but happy life.
Everything he does is what most 14 year olds would do if forced to fight a battle royal and stuck with a girl who is psycho as his only form of survival (unfortunately the "stuck with a psycho girl" part is no longer true because we are stuck in an age of down-bad teens who can't get some).
I personally like Yuki since he isn't a self-insert protag, but more of a "LOL this wimp is YOU" which subconciously pissed people off. Overall, I think this anime is decent, but not amazing like Attack on Titan.
@@thevigilant6884Bro the only person here who thinks they're cooler than they really are is you with your "I'm gonna do the thing I claim I have too much of a life for" nonsense. Naruto, Luffy, and Ichigo have actual goals and aspirations that make them not just relatable but people you wanna see succeed.
@@Thund3rDrag0n12 I don't think that... I literally am better than 99 percent of you crybabies. Only people who complain about "wimpy characters" (like Takemichi and Yukiteru), but drool over "badass" characters (like Gojo and Levi) are those who use anime to cope with their shitty/mediocre lives. I literally did not have time to reply to you until now, and did so because it is funny to make fun of you guys.
“They didn’t draw these characters well…which means they’re all FILLER!”
Life motto.
oh god I'm filler
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@@getyogoofyahh222 😭😭😭
Boruto is a filler frfr
@@getyogoofyahh222 Relatable DX
This is my "Im 13 years old and this is deep" anime. Always have a special place in my heart.
SAME HAHA
Oh god same lmao
I was 12 or 13 when I first saw the show so that sounds about right, lol.
Yeah
Mine was Fairy Tail.
He didn’t even mention the white haired boy(Akise) literally staring at Yuno dead in the face and then aggressively making out with Yuki which pisses her off so much she decapitates him😭💀
The only good character out there lol
@@cyberpsychgreen literally
@@magicshruums1014 should've won tho, he was genuinely smarter than yuno but nah
@@cyberpsychgreen Legit, akise(?) is the only well written character there. I legit was rooting for akise and yuki to get together and kill yuno at the end, but no, akise's head just go bye bye.
@@WhoAmI-hq6zm Exactly! I thought the same thing, that's what should have happened, Akise even made him separate from Yuno but she manipulated Yuki again and shitty things happened 🙄
My only problem with this anime is how, out of the six women that are shown naked, 5 are 14-15 age range, 3 of them were during sex scenes, and two of those sex scenes were non-consensual. I dont judge but damn it seems like the author had a weird fetish or two
either that or its "people think sexual assualt is disturbing right? lets use that as a plot device"
That’s… actually very disgusting. Like, those are minors and the non-consensual part just… makes me want to puke.
Japan have the highest percentage of pedophiles in the entire world so that's not surprising
Fetish? Nah, he has a felonious hard drive
You do know all the characters are all psychotic and mentally messed up, that thing is probably the most tame thing from the show.
Bro that random dude in episode 8 is definitely a reincarnation of Kaworu Nagisa from Neon Genesis Evangelion
The show really does make more sense when Yuki is shinji and Yuno is asuka. They’re both Whiny bitches that have something deeply wrong with them (the hospital scene for shinji and using yuno for Yuki) and yuno has the badassery of asuka
@@mlgwolvesmeepeven tho your statement is kinda true I wouldnt really say they are alike, theres a reasoning why shinji is like that since childhood he was shown stuff that he never meant to see and always seen as a failure his entire his life and at the end he losses everything he loves while yuki is a insecure scumkid that is terrifed of everything so they arent really alike the comparing yuno to asuka is like comparing a girl that would do everything for u to a girl that cant let go being a bitch, asuka is just a person that pushes people away and overestimates her ablities and doesn't even want help so shinji>yuki yuno>asuka
There's a whole thing about the white haired guys in anime being more likely to be gay. I'm not even kidding lol
REYAL
@@dankim7831 *a million gojo fangirls start to cry*
This show is a shining example that you don’t need good writing and story that makes sense. You just need to have enough confidence and you’ll bullshit your way into success.
Weebs have the lowest standards I can’t blame them
Idiotic weaboos that hunt for Yandere tags and call utter garbage "good"
My channel in a nutshell
@@ScamboliReviews damn
@@ScamboliReviews that's not true you actually put effort in your videos.
What honestly carried me through this show was just how bonkers insane it was. Every episode felt like a fever dream of logic that you were just so curious where it was going.
i watched it bc i like watching "its so bad its good" and this was so accurate lol
same
@@luvforhui That's called ironic value, but you must take caution as sarcastic viewing is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural
I read the manga after watching Mirai Nikki. (Manga's better.)
Loved the anime's OP and ED songs.
Yeah
Dammit. I can never unsee ”Piddles”.
There is no Yuki in Furure Diary anymore, only Piddles and Gasai Yuno
I used to LOVE this show as a young teen and I remember tearing up bc of the music and shit and now I'm completely baffled, shocked by how batshit insane this anime is
Same. At 12 years old I thought this series was genius 😂. The music still slaps though, especially the second ending!
same lmfao
@@wild5571 I remember the second opening because it's fully in english. _Somehow_
My stupid 16 year old self thought this show was deep.
@Kaznor ah yes, I recall. The first opening and second ending are much better than their counterpart for sure.
Bro, I’ve actually never seen the ‘true’ ending of future diary, this whole time I deadass thought that it ended with piddles just sitting in the void depressed for all eternity, and that honestly carried the whole show for me 💀
i mean it technically was the true ending as the alt ending isnt apart of the original season and is an OVA, prolly added it because the OG ending was too depressing considering all the shit that happened up until this point.
At the end of that same episode though, he claimed to go on to make a new universe anyway
@@infamousdrunk I think I heard it was in the manga
Well this is news to me. That depressed stuff carried it for me too.
@@deseanlothian well, thats not canon tho, the manga ends when yuki becomes god and is left alone in the void, that true ending is just bullshit made by the studio that adapted the anime because they couldnt handle the story ending in such a depressing way.
Renaming the main character to "Piddles" is the most accurate and best part of this video. Lmao
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Honestly 😂 at 21:01 “I feel like if I talk about piddles I will snap” the name change just kills me
Also Pickles. I think.
I swear I heard him say that a couple times
Did people forget he becomes a serial killer later on in the show?
And Yuno can be called the cotton-candy haired demon. 😅
"I want one. Give me a crazy pink haired girl" every 11 yr old mf in 2011 💀
I got myself the pink hair crazy lady, she doesnt wanna kill me or anything but she does own multiple cats, has dabbled in taxidermy and watches teleshopping for fun. Shes great.
My 14 year old self saw nothing wrong with this anime and I forgot how batshit insane it really was.
Bro my 15 year old self thought the same thing and I still do
My 16 old thought the same
I still love it
this but i was 11
I still think there’s nothing wrong with it
Mirai Nikki is unironically a fantastic viewing experience. I watched it with my roommate and we debated and discussed the mysteries the whole way through. It's so bad it's perfect
Just like domestic girlfriend last quarter. It was so bad, that it was funny even when it wasn't trying to be. I'm talking about the manga btw.
It really keeps you guessing because it doesn’t know it wants to do it self. Yup a So bad it’s enjoyable deal
@@edgelord121 that manga crashed and burned so hard
@@edgelord121 God, I'm getting flashbacks from the drama on the manga ending 😞
@@edgelord121 tbf, domestic girlfriend is unironically good, right up until that horrendous deus ex machina ending. It went from a dumpster fire you can't look away from, to just a regular dumpster fire, where you can smell and hear the burning raccoons.
Every time you said "anime from our childhood" for an anime that came out when I was 26, I felt my bones crumbling from old age.
I feel so old whenever my younger brothers are talking about videos or shows that came out when I was a child.
soon, people will refer to jujutsu kaisen and bnha as the anime of their childhood.
hows it feel to be ancient geezer
when u were born was the world in black and white or color
@@tomie5937 that was slightly before my time, but it sure wasn't as high definition as it is now
"watchout fiddles, the diary-holder could be anyone"
I like how the girl who murdered children gets to be happily married while the guy who was indecisive and passive is banished to a realm of emptiness and eternal despair 😭
He put himself in a realm of emptiness and despair. And what are you fucking talking about. All the adults were raping and killing teens just so they could be God. That was the point of it. But sure she’s the evil one.
He wasn't "banished" he just had 0 will to create after what he's been through. The punishment is self-imposed because clearly he is still indecisive and passive. And he's gonna stay like that forever. It wasn't a "heaven or hell" scenario.
@@phoboszelus I don’t really give a fuck about this shitty anime so I don’t feel like writing my joke to be 100% accurate to the story, mkay? 🤗
@morijin6903 I don't think that's cannon but I could be wrong
Actually based though. Reality doesn't always favor the virtuous.
I kinda liked how Yuki had what may be the most understandable reactions to being a 14-year-old placed into a death game with 12 psychopaths. He kinda made sense. The only thing that would have made more sense is if he asked Deus if he could just non-lethally bow out of the game since he, clearly and understandably so, didn’t seem to want to be there.
Yeah some of his actions are understandable, but ppl don't like him is cause dude didn't learn anything 😂
from start to end, dude learned fuck all
Totally agree to a certain extent. The only problem is half the characters including Yuki are fucking stupid.
Kinda, but I was 14 just half a month ago so can't relate.
@@Hivatel bro what are you doing being 14 is cringe stop it.
All people who cry about it are the same people who would hate Shinji. Guess they want some seemingly badass 14 year old like in Death Note.
This anime is the definition of "this is so bad it's actually good?" like there are moments where everything happening on the screen is utterly obnoxious yet you can't help yourself finding it entertaining because it's ridiculous in its own way, and that's where the show truly shines.
Yeah there's a point before rockbottom where its so rediculous its funny and this show
Is far beyond it, this was an excruciating experience for me I want to KILL every character on screen, who actually approved this show? Like actually wtf think about how many good shows get turned down and then this garbage makes it out most of the time.
Yes! I agree! This anime was one of the first anime I watched and as much as I think now how bad it is, it’s still so bad that it is kinda good. Lol
Finished this show the other day. I agree fully. There is some good (not a lot but like Yunos plot twist somewhat imo) and a lot of bad but the bad is really entertaining. This show is the furthest thing from forgettable and I will always have fond memories of it. The good and the bad that is good.
@@brighteur agreed.
@@brighteur exactly what I think. Mirai Nikki had a lot of flaws but they contributed to make that show memorable. I watched a lot of show before and after but exept for exeptionnal Animes, I remember very few of them unlike Mirai Nikki.
The idea of a Yandere started from JJBA so this show owes a lot to it technically
True
So the show is a jojo reference then?
*Y E S*
I think there was a yuri manga before jjba that had a yandere in it, I forgot the name of it though.
Who was a yandere in jojo?
Although I don't watch anime, this seems like someone ran a D&D campaign, where everyone broke the rules and were drunk for most of it, but it was recorded.
So they turned it into a show to see what happens.
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Fox machina except fucking bonkers
Yeah
No, this is pretty much just a dnd session
tbh this is just a normal dnd session, and i say that after i completed my first campaign as a dungeon master
Damn, the joke about the police letting 400 kids die before going into the school being the only accurate bit of writing in the show was cold af, and absolutely hilarious. Nicely done.
i mean... the definitition of joke is making fun of a situation that is weird and depicting something as exagerated or isnt actually real...
so i would not clasify it as joke but as funny... cause i dont see it being it unrealistic...
Uvalde PD is calling, they’re not happy about being called out like that.
@@criticalrevel actually the definition of joke is "a thing that someone says to cause amusement or laughter, especially a story with a funny punchline." Often the funniest jokes are about real, normal, every day situations. I understand the point you're making, but it's not accurate to say that it can't be a joke if its true.
But what if one of those cops got a boo boo 🥺
ah yes... the "joke"
jk
Yukiteru: “I’m not using her…I’m utilizing her.”
Jada Pinkett Smith: “Let him cook, let him cook 🗣️.”
Lol 😆
only real ones would understand
Who the fuck made the translation?
KEEP MY WIFES NAME OUT OF YOUR FKING MOUTH!
From the creators of ''people only die when they're killed'' and ''panzer vor means panzer vor''
not gonna mention the disappointment of you not mentioning white haired boy (akise) aggressively making out with yuki while watching yuno right in the eye and how that awakened thousands of 11yos across the globe....
I think a portion to Future Diary's success was its release date. It came out during the perfect time for "battle royales." Every middle schooler has read hunger games at that point. To see an anime pit characters to the death in such a manner was appealing.
Let’s not kid ourselves Yandare genre would be different if it wasn’t for Yuno.
@@normaaliihminen722 different how?
Kind of a wild take, but I think the fact that Yukki never really changed throughout the show and never redeemed himself is sort of true to life. You can't expect a character like him to really "grow" anymore than we could expect Yuno to suddenly grow a conscience about killing everyone in her way. We love Yuno for not changing and hate Yukki for not changing, which is interesting.
You love Yuno?
you can certainly expect him to grow after soooo many things that happened lol
I think people hate Yukki for not changing because he's insufferable, and don't hate Yuno for not changing because she's a sexy pink haired anime gf
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The best part is he and Yuno did change, and he became a manly badass with him and Yuno mutually falling in love and becoming a power couple... in the first world...
But because of that, Yuno's crazier, is even more Yandere, and loves him even more making her protect, baby, and do everything for him in this world so he just stays a useless little bitch boy for our story instead.
The better story is literally just the twist backstory you barely hear about from world 1 that's actually the prolouge for the main story in world 2.
@@astr4ll141 i just think a "normal" person like yukki will change after so many stuff like he could be matured or a bit edgy but we didnt get that, you cannot expect a phycokiller like yuno to change into good...
It's a shame this show was such a mess, because the overall plot is really cool, and the twist at the end about Yuno is one of my favorites.
The plot is rather basic, it's just a battle royal style anime. Decent for its time though.
What's the twist? I couldn't sit through the whole show.
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basically, the yuno in the show is actually a yuno from a past world. she won the game and became god but yuki died, so she used her powers to reset the world to meet yuki again.
@@destroyallfurries with the multiple worlds and many versions of yuno and stuff,just a bunch of messy shit that the show threw out of nowhere when realizing they need more filler. you're lucky you didn't finish it, this anime ages like milk, lol.
@@destroyallfurries Yuno actually won the death game in Timeline 1 and became a god, but her crush died so she used her god powers to restart the world and play the death game again so she could be with her crush until he died again. She also killed the Timeline 2 version of herself along with her parents so she wouldn't interfere with herself, which is where the third unidentified body alongside her parents comes from.
(Also I never actually watched the show either, just a plot summary of it lol)
One thing I kinda find interesting about the story is what makes each future diary unique. Your notetaking style prior to receiving the device determines what notes you get back to you. Piddles takes notes on random shit so the phone tells him random shit in turn, just nothing about himself cause he's apparently humble like that. Yuno's notetaking is stalkerish, so her phone tells her Piddles' next moves which can help Piddles out when she works with him. Third's phone tells him about people to kill and where the are, just not their actions. With those examples in mind, I figure that if Kira was in the Survival Game, he'd be the Holder of the Vigilante Diary which would tell him the names of criminals to kill while requiring him to find out for himself what they look like.
Kirito casually hacking an admin console that's IN the game for an AI daughter when THE WORLD is trying to get the source code of the game to bail everyone out just kills me everytime.
average tf2 dev:
Lol anime logic is weird. One punch man is literally a normal dude who just has an insane workout regimen. The dude is better than people with esp. why? Cuz anime logic
@@krystaldragons6040 why, yes, that's the entire premise of the show, saitama is the strongest², meaning that as long as there is someone or something strong, he will always be insanely more strong, in that sense, the logic in OPM is pretty solid, and has only ever been contradicted once, with a moskito
@@brunogamesbr1 lmao I totally forgot about that. This is why I love anime.
@@krystaldragons6040 lol the one punch man routine is supposed to be a joke, even the other character's don't believe it. Do we even need a real explanation for it?
The dub actor for Yuki Josh Grelle has an amazing talent to sound absolutely terrified at every moment his voice is perfect for someone who literally doesn't know how to wipe his own ass
Lmao
He's a she now lol
japanese voice actor is good
@@timothyfinch7295 Colour me surprised
@@mariuspoppFM All anime VAs either end up as trans or pedophiles
"I'm not using her, I'm utlising" is the greatest cope I've ever heard in my life, this anime is a 10/10 fr fr
In my country there's a politician who got into a big scandal for plagiarizing his thesis. His answer to the accusations? "It's not plagiarism, it's copy"
You can't make this shit up
Then in a later episode he said "She told me i could use her." This shit is goldm, 10/10 indeed lmao
To be fair, she is his best shot to survive.
It’s one of the most reddit excuses I’ve ever heard, that’s the only way I can describe it 😭
Using and utilizing LITERALLY mean the same thing. This anime is so bad, but on such a good way I can't.
My biggest gripe was all the SA. Like some anime pull it off and you feel the impact. But this anime throws it on us TWICE and it's such HORRIFIC scenes both times. I still gag thinking of this anime because of it. The entire anime leaves me feeling disgusted and lacking
Okay, but isn't that the point of SA scenes in media? They aren't really supposed to make you say "wow, what a well pulled off scene", they're supposed to make you feel uncomfortable and horrified. SA in real life is horrific and awful, so why do SA scenes in media need to be 'well done' in order to be impactful? Because it sure isn't 'impactful' in real life.
@snowysoniccbecause when you throw it in for no reason, it’s distasteful. As a victim, my trauma isn’t something you need for shock value. Or to get yourself off. It should be done respectfully. You don’t just throw in racism because it’s surprising.
I watched this show during Covid and I must defend its popularity: It was so absurd that I could not help but feel extremely entertained since it felt like a show written by Aliens trying to produce something that would please humanity.
It was fun!
I mean, if the internet, tv, pop culture, and mass media are your research material for human interaction...well...probably about right.
So what you are saying is that this anime was written by a proto AI? a form of AI that is the precursor of current AI like ChatGPT?
@yungtrashfire Don't worry, we apparently have low standards.
@@deadbeef576 no, only that it felt like it. Because of all the scenes that were slapped together and that had very senseless elements to them
The kimono girl wanting to erase the world after what happened to her makes sense to me lmao
he's saying it makes no sense for the other guy to help her after hearing her plan, esp since he's probably one of the rapists
What happened it’s been ages since I actually watched
@@Z0Z33KY She was used as a sex slave for 2 years for her followers
@@a37984 damn wtf well I’d definitely agree that’s justified. this show is wild
@@Z0Z33KY she is blind and basically forced to be this cults leader after someone assassinated her parents and all the men raped her, then she became traumatized
I think the most Iconic thing about this show is the Japanese Voiceacting and Yuno saying "Yuki"
lol yeah
@@thabokgwele5268 Somone made a houre long video of her just syaing that, and i lerned from this show that Yuki means snow.
So yeah XD
You know one is in trouble when the characters one is probably most likely to like(at least in my kid/teen-memory) are:
-A terrorist who blew up how many teens and had fun doing so
-A funny superhero-knock off who dies basically right away(though at least there is some epilogue-attention)
I remember really liking the anime because the sheer entertainment factor somehow tied the plot together in my head. Kinda like how we eat junk food because it tastes good, even if it is horrendous and may just kill you. Though even me in "brain off"-mode realized that it is the most random thing to suddenly have an episode be "Yuno snapped and kidnapped MC. We gotta save him" or that one time when MC was literally confronted about Yuno being a sham of some kind an hour ago, yet randomly is driving a car on the highway with her in the seat.
20:41 The floating godbaby, lmao.
22:30 That whole arc is just so incredibly hilarious. Bro is essencially ending the world and goes:"Yeah, this is fine."
People watched the show to have stupid entertainment. Hence why the child-killing terrorist, the superhero knockoff, the psycho with the axe and the saw-trap making kid tend to be favourite characters. It's farcically over the top, laughably edgy, stupid as hell and not serious. Hence why any time the show tried playing something "straight" or "subversive", it doesn't work. Oh, now her being obsessed and whatnot is suddenly played straight and as bad and oh so dark? Doesn't work, you never primed us to take it seriously and barely do it again, it just comes over as badly-placed mood whiplash.
Same reason why Yuki doesn't work at all as a protagonist. He's a spineless dweeby Shinji-knockoff in a setting that isn't Evangelion. In evangelion, the dark atmosphere, the bleak setting, the realistic characters and brutality of it all are all used to examine how a normal kid thrown into it and to subvert the shounen hero, it makes sense to have a frightened teen act "spinelessly" and "Overwhelmed" there. In Mirai Nikki, every shounen trope is played straight and the show isn't serious at all... except Yuki, who clashes heavily with the show and just isn't entertaining and and annoying in a show where it's supposed to be mindless entertainment. You can't have a "realistic depiction of a 14 year old thrown into a death game" when literally every other character isn't realistically depicted that way, the setting isn't realistic, and the tone is comedic at best. He needed to either have competency to the point of at least not being annoying, or be over-the-top comedically spineless and useless by basically making comedic quips pointing out all the insanity Gintama style.
The line of scamboli going "RAGHH! IM A SOFTWARE ENGINEER NOW!" needs to be preserved.
"What is- What is this shit I can't read it!? But I can read loading bar!"
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Remember, guys. If you watch terribly written shows through a comedic lens, they become hilarious.
And I love that
You obviously haven't watched a sci-fi thriller before huh the story and everything for this anime is crazy it is everywhere at the end but it's cool af
Neo Yokio is the prime example - it looks like a parody of a real show.
Guess I am not wrong calling Mirai Nikki as the "The Room" of anime
Steven Seagal says hello
I think you need to point out that the concept of the show is based on the japanese trend back in day to keep a diary on your phone. Since it's your own diary, it is limited to your own inputs so it doesnt always show everything that happens in the future. This will explain some of the plothole points you mentioned. The MC got an advantage because he records everything he does so his diary is extremely detailed compared to others.
While that certainly doesn't even come close to excusing this glorious abomination, it's still really cool to know.
@@FormlessDuck have u watched the anime? most the points before episode 8 fall out really quickly if you actually pay attention
@@realshmo Hahaha, no
@@realshmo yeah the skirt rockets into motorcycle, motion sensor bombs, obliteration of children without remorse, the diary mechanic not making sense or working properly for 85% of the show , the first killer contradicting his diary, the cop being stupid asf and literally everything about the main character definitely falls if u pay attention.
Lmao f off
And in the beginning I thought that was a plot point. Like thats why he has an advantage
This was an era where an anime could come out, have a pretty damn bad season 1, then mediocre season 2, and still get a chance for a third season, which is suddenly fucking incredible. Highschool DxD is one of those shows, but by no means the only one.
Nowadays, even if season 1 of any given show is good, or even great, and it's relatively popular, it might never get a chance for season 2.
Scamboli on his way to post the most insane anime review I’ve ever seen and still have me fully into whatever is going on
How is this even insane?
@@itsblitz4437 Yuki
THANK YOU
@@ScamboliReviews your videos somehow get better every time
@@Dokgo22 really? Not Yuno?
Bro those transitions were the most fire thing I’ve ever seen in my entire life please continue to make them
I loved making them, I definitely will
Agreed. The ones with the frogs are the best ones
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@@ScamboliReviews agreed asf. and if you could add the names of the music you use that would be amazing
love how you didnt mention that piddles thinks the god of time and space is just like. a normal imaginary friend of his at the start. like until he gets the diary he thinks he isn't real
So ?
What, you aren’t friends with a imaginary all powerful entity? Shame.
Didn't believe hard enough@@dustydd
Well, he seems so disconnected from regular life that this seems plausible. As someone who used to MD, this really isn't far-fetched.
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He thinks that he is imagining things
because he is alone and doesnt have friends
so he thought he is just imaginry friend
the show is good
but people shitting on it for many reasons
when it came in 2012 and until 2017
was loved
I mean alot of people put it in their best 50 animes
honestly this is an example of anime was loved ino hated
Also the OP is one of the best ever
The Yuki/Yuno dynamic is one of the best dynamics in anime, fun on the surface but really deep the more you dig into it. The random and wild plot is fun. The big thing I wish the show did was actually play with the Future Diary concept more. And the ending I get, but it always feel cheap doing a reset in a show (even if it kinda technically kinda didn’t happen)
You can enjoy something bad, doesn’t mean it was good, just means it was entertaining as hell. And there’s nothing wrong with that from time to time
Edit: just realized that’d be the perfect tagline for this show.
Like trash talk shows
Like the Kardashians... scratch that
ya i like alot of 1970s Italian horror movies those are mainly B and Z movies but i enjoy them. they get so bad that they're funny at times. i've seen a few B animes like galaxy of oz and toei's 1980 dracula movie they had to be drunk when they made those.
Yeah like Eminence in the shadow, its enjoyable as fuck
Yeah, like trainwreck.
I think about Mirai Nikki the same way i think about The Room or YIIK. It tries to tell a complex smart story full of complex themes only to fumble it so fucking hard, but you can't help but admire how earnest the attempt was and how fucking goofy the final product ended up being.
Exactly. It's one of those try hard edgy shows that's wants to be taken seriously but ends up being funny as hell once you turn your brain off. It's basically a 12 year old edgy fanfic
@@xblade149 For me it’s just pain because I was the 12 year old who actually thought the fanfic was good.
Good connection
Oh god YIIK is so awful
Nah yiik meanders for so long it becomes annoying and boring. Nobody should play yiik, just watch the funny clips since the combat is atrocious
it's almost impressive just how terribly written yukiteru is. i don't think there's a single moment in future diary where he isn't doing what other people tell him to do.
i don't mean he has very little agency. i mean im pretty sure he literally doesn't make his own decisions even once. the only times you'd think he is he's just following the script written either by the diary or by yuno. it's insane.
seems to me that he DOES have agency...in the sense that he makes conscious decisions not to do anything for himself and just let others do the dirty work, which actually makes it worse when you think about it because now he's a wimp AND a sociopath!
@@erubin100 So a perfect match for Yuno then
@@tramachi7027 touche
If I remember correctly. Even in the last episode he still was a simp. Considering everything that yuno and yuki went through. There was no reason at all for them being together other than being horny.
Even at the last episode that at the end he had to wait for yuno to go to him. In the entire show, there was not a moment where yukiteru wanted to do something regardless of what others think of him. The best example of an empty husk of a character.
Well, obviously. Anyone who'd act any other way wouldn't be picked by either.
Fun fact! This was my second anime! I watched it all in one day when I was 9 because when I saw yuno’s pink hair it reminded me of my first anime, tokyo mew mew. I… don’t know why I kept watching when I realized it very much wasn’t like tokyo mew mew lol
thats such a huge contrast omg hahahahahaha
Probably the piles of shock value they shoved into every scene, even if its poorly written its still hard to look away from at a young age
Yuno carries the show tremendously. She was literally the personification of yandere. I think her plot twist holds up teally well even till now.
"personification" pretty sure she was the inventor,
plot twist?
@@MouseGoati forgot her name but i think one of the first yanderes (or maybe even the first in anime/manga) was that girl from jjba pt4 that loved koichi.
@@willowait yukako
@@MouseGoat I don't believe she was the first, but she is one of the most prominent and influential to the archetype.
This show is so fun in a “turn your brain off and just go along for the ride” kinda way
You can use this argument against any " fun " show, it means absolutely nothing
@@mysmallnoman Well, this is more fun than some other “turn your brain off shows” because it has good animation and Yuno in it.
@@Seissmo " turn your brain off " is a shitty statement that doesn't mean anything
@@mysmallnoman meaning to ignore all the plot points and not read too far into it? lol.. yes it means something, not hard to tell dumbass
If the only way I can enjoy it is to turn off my brain then you’re basically admitting that it’s an inferior product in the first place…
I genuinely love it for how bad it is, I’ve never wanted to bludgeon an MC with a brick so hard they become a vegetable until I discovered Yuki
I'm so disappointed in anime, that I've actually found worse protagonists.
The MC and the yandere bitch r what is stopping me from watching this anime. I might be able to withstand a beta MC but I can't stand yanderes. I despise them.
@@janisir4529 Bruh, who??
@@dynamight_chaos-king
Kazuya from Rent-a-Grilfriend
Subaru from Re:zero
Riko and Reg from Made in abyss
@@janisir4529 kazuya is basically a retord but subaru is hardworking and not stupid (most of the time) the only problem with him is that he is bad at social interations because of his father
"do you wanna do a tarot reading" had me SCREAMING at my job omg
Actually to this day I really like the plot twist, when Yuno was actually from an alternate dimension and had murdered this universe's Gasai family. I was deadass expecting a secret twin, but the plot twist made me go "holy shit, what!?"
It truly is a series with an interesting concept, an unexpected plot twist, and ZERO sense in the middle lmfao
It does make sense
A lot of stuff he complains about makes sense, he's literally just nitpicking shit
shows a banger I love it
@@mysmallnomandoes it make sense, or are you forcing round pegs into a square hole?
@@mysmallnomanfor some reason i couldn't find your comment, but, is there any explanation for the lack of causality and the fact everyone has some type of short term memories loss to the level you can shoot the police and be on the streets unrecognized on the next morning? Those were the points that bothered me the most
@@STarredNIght that's like literally every anime ever
"I am not using her"
"I am utilizing"
That cracked me up bad.
You can’t forget about the scene where yuno pulls an axe out of thin air after smashing
All women do that
@@ScamboliReviews i wouldnt know cuz ive never seen a "woman" 😎
@@BernardWhy woman aren't real, bro. It's all a conspiracy to take you away from your pc and go out to touch grass or something
"Are you yanking my chain" is crazy
I distinctly remember my sister letting me watch this with her (and her boyfriend) when she was babysitting me, in spite of our mother's rules. I think her boyfriend had seen it before and wanted her to watch it? Its a core memory in my brain because part way through my sister said "Oh this is a BAD show show in every logical sense of the word. But fun." and her boyfriend *immediately* broke up with her. Heaven forbid a real-life girl get in the way of his pink-haired yandere waifu.
I'd break up with her, too
Insane memory
That dude was a moron. All I have to say
brother i think he wanted a yuno
Lmfao
I think it was Yuno’s yandere personality that carried the show, and you kind of enjoy Yuki being helpless, like honesty of the whole show was just about that dynamic without the whole battle royale it’d likely be more enjoyable, like a weird edgy romance comedy.
She is considered queen of yandera for a reason
It was both the yandere and the battle royale that carried the show. Yuno 100% popularized the yandere character, but at the time when this show aired, the whole battle royale genre was still pretty fresh and new.
@@TheAluvisify wut?
@@1WEareBUFO1 Not sure what part of my comment was confusing to you...
literally the 2 reasons i hate this the most
“I fear that if I talk about Piddles I will snap” summarizes my mindset rewatching future diary
@Calliforniaz
Same, because "Piddles" is one of the most FRUSTRATING protagonists I have ever seen in an anime... I'm certain Shinji would smack this kid upside the head and tell him to man up.
@DemonicRemption actually no way you just said that one of the most insufferable and poorly written protagonists would tell this guy to man up
@@uselesswasteofhumanflesh Shinji can be insufferable but definitely not poorly written, he is definitly much less of a wimp though
@UselessWasteOfHumanFlesh Nah, Shinji is a decent Protagonist
@Mecha Jay right, a decent protagonist is someone who whines non stop and sexually assaults girls in comas
15:06 bro why is one of the dogs a human
Thanks youtube for timestamp comments I would have definitely missed that 🤣🤣
wtf I saw that too lmaoooooo
It's been a while since I watched this show but isn't that meant to be Murmur or whatever her name was
Saw that and suddenly got skeptical of the other dogs
Something occurs to me three months later. Why is Yuno competing at all? She could have waited for the game to start so this reality's Yuno has a diary, killed her, taken the new diary (if it is still functional), and then made sure this reality's Yuki wins. Then she can continue to be a god, he can be a god, and they can rule over a not-destroyed universe.
Right? Also what's the point because they all destroy their worlds after winning so why does the cycle continue? The end, the ova really didn't make sense. Might just be me tho.
Also Akise, what happened to him in the end? I think he was in the ova? But didn't he die in the series? Is Deux making himself N a new universe after each game including Akise n that little toddler girl with Deux because I think Yuki had the previous one trapped in his dark remnant of the previous universe/timeline? Years later I still think about it.... 🤔🫠
biggest fukin plot hole ever
I'm pretty certain the diary doesn't function after the owner dies, but to the same extent Yuno can still be literally God outside of her own world. Why did she lock away her godhood? Who knows.
One might think that a 14 years old girl who went through the horrors of this game and has her mind broken does not have the cold logic of a 30+ anime weeb thinking about the story for months. But no, every time a character is not making a perfectly reasonable all-knowing choice it must be a plot hole.
Also, we don't know which diary old Yuno had, but she specifically wrote a Yuki diary to make the game plus easier.
@@Chraan “But no, every time a character is not making a perfectly reasonable all-knowing choice it must be a plot hole.” Yes, because we see characters with inhuman abilities to gather resources for their schemes make inhumanly dumb decisions. Plothole.
IT MAY BE BECAUSE I'M ON SHROOM BUT YOU CALLING HIM PIDDLES FOR HALF AN HOUR HAS ME CRYING FROM LAUGHTER
its even better since he sometimes changes it to pickles
@@Anthony_WPLMAO
Bro is on shrooms watching this😭
PICKLES!
@@yalihirshfeld3666fr I wouldn't be able to understand shit lmao
my friends and i watched this in 2013 and we made a drinking game out of every time piddles cries. a friend blacked out
🪦🫡🥃
Were they okay?
Yeah that's bullshit
I call bull, there's no shot anybody's liver is strong enough.
Same brother, SAME
“Piddles. You were writing dumb shit in your Samsung Raspberry again.”
Best line I have ever heard
God, Mirai Nikki.
It was one of those early anime I watched online back in my old days. Even though it was a mess, it holds a special place in my heart.
same, I remember I watched alongside akame ga kill and a few other super edgy anime and it was my first real encounter with stuff like this.
@@mistared4021 My God, same goes for me. Although my real first might of been gundam g along with dragon ball z.
Well, atleast for it's time it wasn't recycled garbage.
Dude same, I loved this anime haha
@@lordlopikong6940 recycle garbage as in having put in waifu or overpowered protagonist.
Honestly this show is a lot better when you accept Yuno is the main character. And yeah I remember wondering wtf was happening a few times as a kid watching it.
I had a part of the script where I say it’s really “the yuno show” but I ended up scrapping it
I remember this anime had gotten some hashtags like “intellectually taxing” and “Another Death Note” back in 2013, but after watched two episodes, I felt “intellectually insulting” may be a more precise tag.
To be fair it's intellectually taxing, just not in a good way
Maybe by “intellectually taxing” they meant it was making them lose brain cells
Not like Death Note was nonsense-free, either.
people would do anything to ignore black lagoon
Intellectually taxing because if you think about it for a second then you're completely exhausted.
It is important to mention that all of the characters assume from the beginning that, as God, they can just undo all their actions and spawn a new timeline. This makes most of the "nonsensical" things you mention actually make sense, such as why Yuki is willing to forgive his father for ending his mother - he plans to undo it all, so in the end, it will never have happened in the first place. Most of the characters directly base their actions around this idea: What I do has no consequences, because I can just erase what I've done.
"I fear that if i talk about piddles i will snap" is a beautiful sentence that i love with all my heart
Same😭😭😭
This man's transitions are just god-tier 👌
Frog-tier
I loved the dead rising mall music alongside the roblox lil nas x avatar spinning
I feel like this show perfectly represents how bad stories can still be very entertaining.
The worst thing any form of media can be is boring, which could still happen even if a it does everything right on a technical level.
Yeah but I would be lying if I hadn’t urge to skip few minutes ahead when watching this for first time but after rewatching this anime I have grown to appreciate what is was trying to show. Mirai Nikki has special place in my heart despite its hiccups.
For me, this show was so much all over the place that it became boring to watch.
The best part of this summary was the persona music for 10 seconds.
This is still one of my favorite show, the only problem I have with this show is.... WHY THE HELL DO EVERYONE (beside 3rd and 11th) TELL THEIR ENEMIES WHAT POWER THEIR FUTURE DAIRY HAVE?!?!
My dude it’s a fucking anime
Because one of the most important parts of any villain or hero is the grandstanding and the drama! Also the gloating.
Like with Jojo's a major part of each encounter is trying to figure out what the fuck kinda power the enemy stand user has. But here the fuckers just scream their powers at the top of their lungs.
The same reason people in shonen tell each other how their powers or special moves work. It's not about being plot/story consistent...it's for the audience. Whether something makes logical sense in a real world setting and whether it works in an entertainment piece are often two very different things.
@@mr.stuffdoer8483 LMAO This is why I love that Jujutsu Kaisen has a specific rule to their magic system making this trope necessary, yet also thematically consistent.
FYI: Curses, Sorcerers, and Curse Users often have to explain their particular contract in order to activate the full limits of their powers.
Okay one gripe I have on this take: The amount of notes you get and how detailed they are, are directly linked to how many notes you take on a given day. Yuno and piddles have that many notes because yuno documents everything about piddles and piddles documents everything about himself. So nobody else wouldn't have as many notes as them and to the same detail they have them. So the episode one guy not knowing where they are actually does make sense.
but didnt the serial killer keep track of all his murders like how he killed them so it should have told him were yukki was
@@silvally5464pretty sure there was never any confirmation of exactly what his diary does
His diary will tell him where his victims are located, as well as how he kills them. But it doesn't tell him very many details aside from that, so it's really only useful in tracking down his prey. When it comes to making the kill happen, he seems to be on his own. He was in fact killed the first time in his attempt to use his diary to pinpoint where they were, though really he probably should have checked before standing out in the open.
Yeah he probably did not expect two highschool kids to off him, as he was seeing himself as the predator. Which is kinda dumb considering he was in a death game to become god. Never underestimate your opponents.
Journals have also been shown as unreliable anyway. All the journal holders had the ability to alter the future. So they were more of an help than an actual guide.
As I was a 13 year old watching this show who was thoroughly depressed, it did not bring me many good memories lol. I was SHAKING afterwards...mainly because I watched almost all of the episodes in one day after I went home from school early that day. And, watching this video reminded me of how much I had a love hate relationship with it. I was into yanderes at the time and I partially thought Yuno looked kinda badass but I also f*cking hated her at the same time. I will never forget what she did to Akise😤lol
I used to be obsessed with Yuno and this anime when I was around 14. I’m 18 now and have kinda grown to hate Yuno 😭 I used to have the edgy Yandere middle school phase oh God It makes me cringe so hard
@@kimi_ro8811 I cringe at nothing. Just enjoy what you like, if you don't like it anymore for your reasons then that's good. If you are just taking opinions of others to change your view on something, then that's more cringe imo. Yuno was a fun character to watch. Talking bad about this anime and it's plot is fine...but then you have to remember, shows like "The Walking Dead" had just as much of a sh*tty plot and it's characters are more hated and annoying than anything I ever felt when watching this anime.
I USED TO BE OBSESSED WITH AKISE
@@EmoLover43SAME lmao
I watched this when I was 12, it was the second anime I ever watched and it made me so mad that I watched it sped up so I could finish faster, by the end it was a hate watch. I mainly remember hating Yuno (but loving her character design and badass moments) because she simply killed all of Yuki’s friends and isolated him, but I also hated him because he was a weak bitch who was unable to impose himself. Really, there was no saving these two, they were a trash fire of a relationship of the two most annoying people I’ve ever seen in an anime.
4:07 "i need you to break my diary" has me dead 😂😂😂❤
This anime is one of those that make itself seem "deep" with random mumbo jumbo. Like how I feel with the classroom of the elite series, bunch of convoluted problems and scenarios that get perfectly solved by the plot for the MC
Kinda felt the same with parts in Stone Ocean. Why do all these prison convicts know everything about anything to a molecular level ?
Still enjoyed it tho.
And all of them have to have tons of detailed depictions of every kind of abuse you can imagine to make it seem dark.
well with cote the entire point is that the mc perfectly solves them
Well no Cote honestly has a good story with diverse characters in the light novel, the anime was just made to promote it. And overall, it’s a 4/10 adaptation.
@@XCOLEXful hey listen that's Jojo, that's a completely different rabbit hole
I remember loving this show when I was like 12, went back to watch it recently and received the rudest awakening. To this day, my mind cannot understand how a single show can be so bad on so many levels.
Damn I watched it when I was about 14 or 15 I’m finna go back and watch it again lol
I rewatched it last year and I liked it. Sure, every criticism here is valid, but you dont watch this show for the well written story and character motivation. You watch it because its an interesting premise, has the most iconic yandere ever created and overall its really fun ride.
I think what made it so good to us when we weren't looking with a discerning eye is that the moment to moment writing is very fluent. Like if you have constant amnesia of what happened before, the writing *feels* correct.
@@Crispy1961 I liked it as well. I did like some of the characters as well, Minene, Nishijima, Kurosou, etc. I did think Yuno’s background was interesting, the show has a lot of interesting premises, and if I’m being honest with you.
I only remembered I had watched this when I saw this video. Sitting on your ass doing oxy and watching anime all day for a year was a shameful decision but im glad the pills delete the embarrassment of having to say that I sat through all this garbage completely sober
I hate how writers write villains and then give them “deep emotional” baggage and a “broken” past just for the sake of story. It would be nice just to see a bad guy be bad for no reason at all or if there is a reason make sure it’s internal struggles not an external source.
Not an anime but lord dominator from wonder over yonder
sympathy for the villain can be great but just a villain who is just fucking cool and evil can be just as good
Then people will complain about a plain, shallow villain. That doesn't work no matter what way you look at it.
Kotomine Kirei from fate stay night is my favorite example of that. Sadly the heavens feel adaptation doesn’t do him justice imo
@@toxpov3612 Villians can have sad back stories but when every single villain has a sad back story then it becomes repetitive and also expected. “oh this villain is a villain because he stubbed his toe… just like 50 other villians”. I think a good example of a balance is joker. Joker fell in acid and went insane. He had a bad backstory but he was an okay guy before falling into the acid.
even after watching this im still "what the fuck am i watching."
i remember the joy i felt seeing yuki finally acting like the alpha male i hoped to see him become and how immediately it was taken away from me. the way it was edited here brought me back to those same feelings.
Ong.
@@user153xhzbso8e unrelated but ong fr fr?
by that point in the show i remember having just completely given up so nothing that happened on screen mattered anymore, i was pretty much watching just because watching yuno do crazy shit was funny and i was like 15 at the time lol. Like, I didn't realize it at the time because i was an unaware kid, but this show is the textbook definition of cringe, like the whole thing, it's literally how i learned what the word truly meant because every episode i just felt this deep embarrassment for the main character and i didn't know what the feeling meant, i just knew i wanted it to stop lol. Also felt it for the other characters as well who were constantly dropping the ball the whole time and making dumb decisions, letting the main cast do whatever they want basically. Nothing made sense, and the part where he became "badass" is actually where i went from "uncaring" to hating the show because it's like "where was THIS the whole time?... ohhh it's a script.. BRUH"
@@thekamotodragon It's a relatively accurate depiction of what a teenage boy would react like when thrown into a cat and mouse death game to be god lol what did you expect? A stoic shounen protag that conquers all through the power of optimism and friendship?
@@alexanderorr2528 I think that’s what they’re used to, to be honest. Yuki constantly making excuses for Yuno, and having to suck up to her simply because he relied on her for survival. The weird thing is, I do like the anime, actually. But, it definitely has it’s problems, I don’t think the characters were meant to be good people or people with morals, it was meant to represent a tragedy.
Honestly, I was so caught up in the constant cycle of action and tragedy that I barely noticed half of this stuff. Like, by the time Yuno's plot twist is revealed, it didn't even feel like it came out of the blue because everything seemed to happen that spontaneously.
Honestly, Yuno's relationship with Yuki always felt kinda off, considering he's a worthless coward for most of the show and she's an absolute psychopath, but I think it was probably the best written part of the show.
She's psychotic. That's well established. She's in love with him, partially because she's psychotic. She wants to keep him safe, and is really good at killing anyone who she deems unsafe.
He doesn't want to die, or be alone. He recognizes that she's psychotic but needs her to stay alive, and even if he didn't she's too insane to go away. What started as trying to keep her under control and making the best of a terrible situation became a genuine relationship.
Too bad the entire thing was based on codependency and neither character changed at all throughout the show until one of them died.
youre definitely not saying you just realized that right??
oh my god. the show has, while not entirely focused on, good themes about bad relationships and codependency, and they build up through the entire show like a ticking time bomb. not every story has to resolve its faults, they just need to be recognized as faults, and thats exactly what Mirai Nikki does.
if Yuno's relationship with Yuki always ""felt kinda off", you missed the entire fucking how, and might as well have just turned your useless fucking brain off. I dont understand how someone can stumble through a show like this, end then call it bad. What. Im wondering if we watched the same thing.
Yuki and yuno through the entire show are built up as a terrible "couple" only sticking to eachother because of circumstance. Even at the end, Yuno literally admits that she would "love anybody who let her cling to them"; the entire show is about 2 people running from their problems in a relationship thats slowly counting down its days until it's crumble. Yuno herself is a time bomb as her /mind/ begins to crumble. Im not sayng the show is shakespeare levels of immaculate, but you honestly walked up to the show and took a shit on its face with your observations. How much more obvious does it have to be that, the viewer being uncomfortable and recognizing that there is something wrong here, is *entirely the point?*
YUKI is SUPPOSED TO BE A COWARD. GOD FUCKING DAMNIT THE SHOW WOULDNT WORK IF HE WASNT A COWARD. Their whole dynamic is that they need eachother, but not in a healthy way; Yuki needs Yuno to keep his stupid ass alive, an Yuno needs Yuki to be a fake boyfriend. Its completely erratic and built entirely on impulses and blind eyes, but that's the FUCKING POINT. its not a "AND THE MORAL IS" story. Holy shit.
@@3u-n3ma_r1-c0 Its still a shitty written anime
@@3u-n3ma_r1-c0 Whoa, calm down there, bucko- watching Mirai Nikki _unironically_ in the first place signals a lack of intellect or maturity
@@3u-n3ma_r1-c0 please calm down
@@TheSundayShooter He does DEFINITELY need to calm down, but watching the show unironically has nothing to do with it.
In fact, I would suggest watching anything "ironically" indicates a lack of intellect, since you would be voluntarily spending time doing something that you consider to be a waste of time and nothing more
Mirai Nikki being simultaneously praised and slandered, love to see it 😌
GOD I LOVED being a teenager during the 2010s and be this stupid to think this was a good show
that police joke of waiting around for children to get killed before entering was too real lmao
Every important character in this show is absolutely insane. Every single one of them. No exceptions. The only thing that could be argued as a bad plot point that is not explained by mental issues is the fact that the main duo pretty much fights all the other diary owner by sheer coincidence and no one else is eliminated without them getting involved.
Iirc they were actually being targeted because their diary combo was too strong which can go some way to explaining it.
@@1001011011010 yeah that sounds right, the boy's diary covers the most ground cuz he records everything, and the girl records what the boy does, so they have the most information
Nah wasn’t that white hair boy kinda cool? I liked him when I watched this as a kid I dunno
The problem is, it’s doing that typical anime thing where the author thinks that “insane = evil mastermind” with absolutely no other explanation.
@@Z0Z33KY He was. But he was also crazy af, in a different way than the rest.
I think most people do enjoy this one because of how ridiculous it is tbh. That's why I enjoyed it. Everyone was absolutely mental.
That's probably more the sentiment among people who still enjoy it today. I'm not big on anime, but my friends were. Around late middle school early high school someone recommended it to me, I immediately loved it for ya know, dumb fun. Other people around me were not thrilled with me saying "I liked it because it was so stupid and insane that it was entertaining as hell." And then I went on the internet hoping to have someone back me up on it, only to get flamed lmao. At the time a lot of people definitely thought this was an intellectual master piece.
The soundtrack is amazing though
This exactly. Just about everything in this video is a good point, but sometimes I want to watch a mindnumbing and fun show
Same here. I don't know why people trash on it. It's not bad entertainment, or a bad anime.
This. It wasn't bad and if someone asks me about what's yandere, then I'll tell them to check this anime or its manga.