Saturday, March 24, 2012

Mirai Nikki - weird, eerie, bloody yet interesting find

Mirai Nikki was something I picked up randomly since there were a lot of new anime series back late 2011 but watching the first episode made me want to watch more and see how it unravels. The anime is still ongoing and I am still catching up coz I was all busy from work, reading mangas, watching other anime. Nevertheless, here it is.
Mirai Nikki is all about, as what the name says, future diaries. Here, we are introduced to a world where a select few who are so diligent in keeping records of their daily lives are rewarded with a future diary unique to each owner. Future diary basically is a diary that can tell what happens in the future and the good thing about this series is that the future actually changes based on the owner's actions so he can actually change what happens in the future. Good enough to understand right? The thing is, the "god" who gave them this power actually is pretty cruel since there are 13 future diary owners, he wants all of them to kill each other and whoever emerges as the victor would replace him to become the "god of time". Cliche as it may sound especially since I just watched Hunger Games last night and stuff like this remind me of those battle for survival plots such as Battle Royale but it's actually cool in a way because when future diary owners clash, what happens now? Well, for me - personally, the whole thing actually becomes something that came from predictable to unpredictable. How? Well, if two people have different unique characteristics in their future diaries and they both predict something in the future, whatever they know - they would eventually take advantage of it and if it's gonna bad on their part, they would need to change it to save their life. Both their actions would affect both diaries and in a fast-pacing environment where there are a lot of chasing done, wouldn't it actually be exciting to see how these owners make use of their diary and try to survive this competition?
Anyhow, I missed a lot of stuff up there. The main character is Yuki who was the very first future diary owner and is thought to be the strongest but is actually protected most, if not all, of the time by Yuno - the second diary owner who is obsessively in love with Yuki. They go on a roller-coaster ride of getting rid of diary owners who are trying to get rid of them and along the way they meet people, good and bad.
The anime is promising and I heard the manga is good. I might contemplate on reading it. The seiyuus are great! The soundtrack, not so much. The anime had a good start. I hope it finishes off with a bang!

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