Future Diary, Volume 1

Future Diary, Volume 1 (Future Diary #1 )

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High school 2nd year, Amano Yukiteru, is a boy who has problem making friends. He thinks of himself as a bystander and will always write down everything he sees in a cell phone diary. Tormented by solitude, Yukiteru began to imagine things like a friend called Deus Ex Machina who is apparently the Lord of Time & Space. Seeing Yukiteru's miserable state, Deus gives him...more
Paperback, 195 pages
Published May 12th 2009 by TokyoPop (first published January 1st 2006)
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D.M. Dutcher
This is a review of the series, I've read up to volume 8 or so.

Yuki is a slacker who keeps a diary on his cell phone. One day he is selected by a godlike being called Deus to take part in a game. In this game everyone has a diary, and that diary can predict the future in some way. It's pretty cool, except for one thing.

All the diary holders must fight to the death. Last man standing becomes God.

But Yuki isn't alone. A pretty, cheerful girl named Yuno Gasai who has a crush on him. She will help h...more
Osvaldo Bautista
Amano Yukkiteru a 14 year old 2nd year middle school student who has problems making friends, he keeps a diary on his phone believing himself to be a bystander of the world happenings he writes whatever happens around him. His only friends are imaginary one of the is Deus Ex Machina the lord of space and time who turns out to be not so imaginary. Deus tells Yukkiteru of a game he's planing after gifting his phone with the ability to tell the future. Yukkiteru's joy is quickly brought to an end...more
Anne
May 14, 2013 Anne rated it 4 of 5 stars
Shelves: manga
I have read half of the whole manga volumes and I have watched the anime version. The anime adaptation stuck faithfully to the manga, but I would note that the latter is more extreme in most aspects. Made-up gods aren't new in the manga scene, but still Mirai Nikki managed to pull it off quite well, even portraying the deity as weak and vulnerable.

Amano Yukiteru held traces of the usual shounen male leads in terms of characterization. While Gasai Yuno as well is similar to a few heroines, she i...more
Osvaldo Bautista
Amano Yukkiteru a 14 year old 2nd year middle school student who has problems making friends, he keeps a diary on his phone believing himself to be a bystander of the world happenings he writes whatever happens around him. His only friends are imaginary one of the is Deus Ex Machina the lord of space and time who turns out to be not so imaginary. Deus tells Yukkiteru of a game he's planing after gifting his phone with the ability to tell the future. Yukkiteru's joy is quickly brought to an end...more
Zack
Apr 18, 2013 Zack rated it 2 of 5 stars
Shelves: manga
I've read all 10 volumes.

Deus ex machina controls time. He is dying. He needs a successor. 12 Players get a diary that predict the future and use them to kill each other. At a point each gets a "dead end" notice. A check-mate. Theoretically the one who should survive is the one who is most skilled in controlling time or cause and effect by doing what he can in his human form. When he gets the god-Power he should do a good job.

Main character: desperately wants friends but avoids people and declin...more
Radek
Why do people keep forcing me to read these stories for kids which aren't for kids and even for adults but for teenagers when they already know that I don't read these titles? Who knows, most likely because they find them good or even great and want to share it with more readers... Well, I'm not happy about that.

Don't get me wrong. I was a kid and I enjoy reading stories for children if they're good. But in fact today is pretty (seriously) hard to find some good story for kids in form of manga....more
Brendan
Future Diary tells the story of Yuki, a young boy with a strong imagination but no friends. He's got an imaginary friend named Deus (as in deus ex machina) who turns out not to be imaginary. Instead, he's a trickster who has created a killing game in which various people in the Tokyo (?) area are given special cell phones with magical txt feeds. And then they have to kill one another. Boy, it didn't seem so convoluted when I was reading it. Some thoughts:

* I can't help but think of Highlander,*...more
Susan
Still on that elusive search for a Deathnote read-alike? You can add this series to your short list. If you were to mix up Deathnote and Hunger Games in a pot, you'd come up with Future Diary. Instead of Shinigamis (death gods) wreaking havoc in the human world, the tangled web of is spun by Deus Ex Machina, the god of Time. He targets 12 cell phone diarists and gives them a tech upgrade they never saw coming. Their diaries now tell the future--up to 90 days ahead of time, and each diary has its...more
Lottie Eve
Future Diary is a manga that I doubt I will be forgetting anytime soon. The combination of future telling, cellphones, and death is an unforgettable one. The idea of the story is original and a breath of fresh air. The first volume of Future Diary is definitely not perfect but I enjoyed reading it.

Volume one is an introduction to the game and the two main characters Yukiteru “Yuki” Amano and Yuno Gasai. Yuki is not an impressive character. He can not fight, he is not smart, and he is not brave e...more
Devyn
Okay so the manga was even better than the anime but im extremely tired of people trying to compare it with deathnote. first off its not a rip off from death note because this is an entirely different plot story just everything. death note is one of those main stream stories that became really old really quick all it is is about a kid with the power to kill people by writing their names in a notebook..... on the other hand you have The Future diary which in turn is more complex by a long shot wh...more
Eleonore Rigby
In der Welt von Mirrai Nikki geht es um die Zukunft. Um die Zukunft, die man mittels Tagebüchern beeinflussen kann, die von japanischen Jugendlichen gerne auf dem Handy verfasst werden. So macht es auch der Schuljunge Yukiteru Amano, den von allen Dingen eigentlich nur eines interessiert: sein Tagebuch. Die anderen finden das natürlich reichlich komisch und es wird über Yuki getratscht, weil er sich ganz offensichtlich von ihnen zurück hält. Das er dadurch langsam aber sicher zum Außenseiter wir...more
Jacqui Geisel
Note: review is for the series up to where I've read (volume 9).

I don't think I've ever read a series with as high a volume of insane characters as this one. And yet I still find myself unable to completely dislike any of them. Even Yuno. I usually hate yandere characters like her, but the few times when she ISN'T being crazy, she's just so darn cute, I can't help but like her.

The fact that all of the diary holders can predict the future, but each in a different way, makes for some neat confront...more
Jj Le
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Laura Ashlee
This is such a fun manga. It's not quite what I'm used to because it's shonen, rather than shoujo. I really enjoyed it though and I'm looking forward to reading the rest of the series.

Yukiteru is kind of a cry baby, but I think he'll get over it. Yuno is pretty cool. She's very energetic and set on making sure no harm comes to Yuki. I like how all the diary holders have different diaries based on their personalities and lives. It makes that aspect of the story really interesting. I can't wait to...more
Luis Ontiveros
I wasn't expecting to find this here, but I at least watched the entire series and it is also terrific. I need to thank my girlfriend Alba for showing this amazing anime to me. It's filled with suspense, mystery, madness, murder and an apocalypse setting that by the end yu can't stop watching to find out what happens next. The plot twist is pretty good, but the consequences of it are friggin' insane! Yuki and Yuno are helluva characters and together they go all wild, creepy, messed up, lovable,...more
Victor Lin
This is about a 15 year old high school student who one day had to fight for survival. The main character's name is Yuki, and he doesn't have any friends at all. He was then transported to a different dimension and participated in a real life survival game. There are 12 contestants and the last man standing gets to become the God of Time and Space. Each person receives a cellphone that tells you your future of the next ten days. Their cellphones are really important because if they get destroyed...more
Barry
For those that think mangas are simply glorified comics, they have not actually pick one up and read it. I picked up Future Diary on a whim, and I'm glad I did. It fits into the story line of a survival game where the plays have to kill each other. This time though the players have diaries that tell them the future. So far, it is a interesting concept, since each characters diary has a different perspective of the future and different information, and the characters themselves, fitting into the...more
*Glamazon*
I think this is going to be a really great series and I really don't know why I agreed to read it... published by Tokyopop, this manga series is currently still ongoing in Japan, which means I will never get to read the end of this series. I know once I reach the 10th volume (the last available volume in the US) I'm going to be raging so hard because I won't be able to find out what happens next... I knew this before I started this book and I know it even more now that I actually dig the storyli...more
bakanekonomama
Another survival games story. But this time, u won't get a lot money or wealth. U'd be God. Sounds tempting, huh?

Masih terpengaruh dengan animenya nih. Sejak awal Yuno emang udah bakatnya jadi psycho deh.. Nih salah satu buktinya..

Gambar dari: otakuzone.com

Dan si Yukiteru. Idih najong amit-amit jabang bayi. Nggak demen banget deh sama cowok begitu. Lembek. Cengeng. Pengecut. Anti sosial. -___- Nggak ada bagus-bagusnya sama sekali. Ffuhh

Baca manganya murni karena penasaran abis nonton animenya sampe beres. Endingnya masi...more
Franco Facchini
Future Diary, o Mirai Nikki, es un muy buen manga, resulta algo difícil seguirle el paso, o comprender como se desenvuelve al instante, pero la forma en que se desarrolla la historia y en como se aclaran y surgen nuevos misterios es increible.

Mi crítica es al manga completo, y no solo al vol. 1.

A diferencia de otros mangas, su animé es bastante fiel a la historia original, y presenta una vividéz única en su estilo.

El final no fue un final que me agradara, pero es un final razonable, aunque si un...more
Talyn
I really don't see what the big deal is about this manga. It's just..meh for me. I tried reading it after this sociopathic, misanthropic, dry, sardonic, assholeish senior in my AP US History class was heard by me talking and discussing about it. Usually people who watch anime or read manga talk about stuff I know a little bit about, or whatever. But I wanted to see what this was about.

Meh. Who cares? Really, it doesn't...I don't like it. At all. To me it's subpar on my scale of "Interestingness...more
Thea Emily
4.5 stars

So one of my friends told me to read this and I have to say I really enjoyed this.

This manga is really fast paced, exciting and cute (Yuno is the cutest thing ever). The plot is really interesting and I like the way it's described as a survival game and just how they all got involved.

I don't know how else to describe the characters than by using the word adorable, because they mostly are, especially Yuki and Yuno. Yuno is my favourite person ever, however Yuki can get kind of annoying,...more
Miss
I picked this up because of the Death Note comparisons but they really aren't very similar at all. The tone is extremely juvenile, the characters might as well be playing video games for all the complexity the premise is played for. I don't exactly dislike it but I won't be putting any effort into finding more volumes either. 2.5 stars
Joseph Young
A little bit cliched, but with a possibly interesting idea, depending on how they move it forward. Intend to read the next volume and see if it's worthwhile.

Since it deals with a death game, it does seem a little casual with death; eg hundreds of bystanders are killed while the main characters somehow survive.
Drucilla
Apr 05, 2012 Drucilla rated it 2 of 5 stars
Shelves: e
Actual rating: 2.5 stars. I've read about half of this series. The idea is very cool. However, I was under the impression that it was a middle school age manga. It is most definitely NOT. It gets very violent, very fast. I think this unexpectedness (not the violence) is why I didn't give it three stars.
Ashley
I enjoyed it very much. It drew you in because it's so different from many other manga's out there and i can't wait to see the movie they make out of the series. You just had to keep reading to find out what new twist was going to take place. I liked it much better then death note.
Andy Trinh
What if you can predict your future and change it the way you want ? What if you just realize that you had been pull into a death match game. But you have your reward: becoming a god. Yup. This is about Yukki, the boy owns a future diary.
The story is pretty unmoral and creepy. The artist had done a great job to show his message.
For people who love "yandere", fiction, i recommend this book.
Cindy
Dec 18, 2011 Cindy added it
I think this is the best manga anyone should read who like mild physcological things, mystery, horror, paranormal, and slice of life genres, this manga became my favorite.
Nícia
I read in two hours or so. The concept is interesting and the development of the story is fun spiced up with some romance. The drawings are beautiful!
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