The Future Diary
未来日記
This psychological thriller, based on the manga written and illustrated by Sakae Esuno, is about Yuki, a loner who's not very good with people. He prefers to write a diary on his cell phone and talk to his imaginary friend, Deus Ex Machina – The God of Time and Space. However, Yuki soon learns that Deus is more than a figment of his imagination when he makes Yuki participate in a battle royale with eleven others. The contestants are given special diaries that can predict the future, each diary possessing unique features that give it both advantages and disadvantages. Within the next 90 days, the contestants must try to survive until there is only one left standing. The winner will become the new God of Time and Space. (Source: FUNimation)
The Future Diary is a tv with 26 episodes, from Fall 2011, produced by Asread, rated 6.9/10 on AniList.
Synopsis
This psychological thriller, based on the manga written and illustrated by Sakae Esuno, is about Yuki, a loner who's not very good with people. He prefers to write a diary on his cell phone and talk to his imaginary friend, Deus Ex Machina – The God of Time and Space. However, Yuki soon learns that Deus is more than a figment of his imagination when he makes Yuki participate in a battle royale with eleven others. The contestants are given special diaries that can predict the future, each diary possessing unique features that give it both advantages and disadvantages. Within the next 90 days, the contestants must try to survive until there is only one left standing. The winner will become the new God of Time and Space. (Source: FUNimation)
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Tags
- Battle Royale — Centers around a fierce group competition, often violent and with only one winner.
- Death Game — Features characters participating in a game, where failure results in death.
- Survival — Centers around the struggle to live in spite of extreme obstacles.
- Yandere — Prominently features a character who is obsessively in love with another, to the point of acting deranged or violent.
- Tragedy — Centers around tragic events and unhappy endings.
- Alternate Universe — Features multiple alternate universes in the same series.
- Psychosexual — Work that involves the psychological aspects of sexual impulses.
- Body Horror — Features characters who undergo horrific transformations or disfigurement, often to their own detriment.
- Gore — Prominently features graphic bloodshed and violence.
- Gods — Prominently features a character of divine or religious nature.
- Male Protagonist — Main character is male.
- Suicide — The act or an instance of taking or attempting to take one's own life voluntarily and intentionally.