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2[[caption-width-right:300:The rules are simple: Outsmart and kill all the others to become a god.]]
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4->''"What are you scheming?"''
5->''"An interesting game."''
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7''Future Diary'' (known as ''Mirai Nikki'' in UsefulNotes/{{Japan}}) is a dark {{manga}} by Creator/SakaeEsuno about the asocial [[OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent Yukiteru Amano]], who obsessively keeps journals. One day, he finds that his imaginary friend [[MeaningfulName Deus Ex Machina]], the lord of time and space, has made his cell phone diary able to predict the future. After getting over the initial shock of having a supernatural cell phone, Yuki enjoys his newfound powers until he comes across a diary entry stating his exact time of death...
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9After taking out his would-be murderer, Yuki is invited to a gathering with ten other people, where Deus explains that they are now in a [[ThereCanBeOnlyOne Battle Royale]] for the position of {{God}}. Some of the diary holders have personal reasons to claim the throne; others are psychotically insane. And soon enough, young Yuki finds himself struggling to stay alive without any true friends or allies aside from Yuno Gasai, a classmate who has been [[StalkerWithACrush obsessively following him around]] without him realizing...
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11The common traits of all twelve diaries are as follows:
12* All diaries predict the future. Each diary does so in a different fashion, based on how the owner used it before they were selected.
13* Each owner is assigned a number from 1 to 12, and until their identity is discovered by the other owners, is only referred to by that number, Yukiteru, for example, being called the 'First.'
14* The diaries can take any shape or form, but the most common by far are cellphones.
15* Should a diary owner do something differently or influence events so that the results turn out differently from a diary prediction, the diary changes accordingly. These changes can also influence other diaries should their owner be involved. In short, the futures shown by the diaries are not set in stone.
16* In particular, if a diary owner's current path leads to their death (usually at the hands of another diary owner), the diary's entry will contain the words "DEAD END" to warn the owner is at risk and therefore ''must'' change the future if they can.
17* Most importantly, a diary ''is'' its holder's future. If it is damaged beyond working order by whatever or whomever, the diary's owner will cease to exist.
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19''Future Diary'' also has two spin-off manga. The first is ''Future Diary: Mosaics'', [[HeroOfAnotherStory focusing on the ninth diary holder Minene Uryuu]] and [[LowerDeckEpisode expounding on several of the minor characters]]. The second is an AlternateTimeline spin-off, ''Future Diary: Paradox'', [[WhatIf in which]] [[GreatDetective Aru Akise]] replaces Yuki as the main character.
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21The manga was serialized in ''Monthly Shonen Ace'' from 2006 to 2010, and compiled into 12 volumes. It was licensed in English by Creator/{{Tokyopop}}; 10 of its 12 volumes were released before the US branch of the company went under. Creator/VizMedia currently holds the license as of 2014 and has rereleased the volumes digitally. An animated adaptation aired between October 2011 and April 2012 with a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pi6xpn2fc3c pilot OVA]] released beforehand.
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23An AlternateContinuity live action drama called ''Future Diary: Another World'' began airing in Japan on April 1st, 2012, based in an alternate world featuring a familiar plot but with a new cast of characters, of which some (but not all) strongly resemble the anime cast. Arata Hoshino takes Yuki's place, a LazyBum of a college student who has no interest in his future. That is until he receives a limited release cell phone from his friend Rui Moriguchi which happens to have the Future Diary's powers. Now stuck in his own survival game, with his own version of Yuno for company. The plot however develops into a very different direction from the anime.
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25An expanded epilogue, titled ''Future Diary Redial'', has been released, featuring a similar ending to that of the manga.
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27''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvC9cRAyJX8 The Future Diary]]'' is licensed by Creator/FUNimation, and ''Redial'''s license was announced in August 2017.
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29Compare and contrast ''Manga/DeathNote'', which also features a "notebook" as a centerpiece, although in that case the diary ''[[RewritingReality controls]]'' the future rather than predicts it. Also compare and contrast ''Series/KamenRiderRyuki'', which also features a "ThereCanBeOnlyOne" style royale amongst 13 individuals; also compare ''Series/KamenRiderGaim'' which features a similar style as ''Ryuki'' where the winner would also potentially become god''; also compare {{Franchise/Danganronpa}}'', which features a similar Battle Royale setup. See also ''VideoGame/DevilSurvivor'', for the counterpart "[[MeaningfulName Laplace Mail]]".
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31'''Definitely''' [[JustForFun/IThoughtThatWas not to be confused with]] ''VideoGame/YumeNikki'', [[NightmareFuel/FutureDiary although there may be some connection in there somewhere]].
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35!!The manga features the following tropes:
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37* TwoDVisualsThreeDEffects:
38** A two-second appearance in the first opening is pretty much the only time Deus is hand-drawn. There are some bits of architecture and a few objects in the opening credits as well.
39** The ferris wheel scene in Episode 3 switches jarringly from CGI to traditional animation depending on whether the audience is viewing the car from the outside or inside.
40** Tenth's dogs are CG in several shots.
41** Episode 19 also has CG cars.
42* AbsurdlySharpBlade: Yuno is typically armed with a variety of kitchen implements, but the damage she does with them is out of this world.
43* AbusiveParents: [[spoiler:Yuno Gasai]]'s parents were originally nice to her, but soon gave her only enough food to barely survive to condition her into an "elite" person and imprisoned her in a small cage at the tiniest infraction. The depths of their insanity are particularly exemplified in how they kept and posted for her view detailed statistics on each such infraction, from talking back to coming in late, which is why she eventually [[spoiler:reversed the situation and kept them captive in the cage in an attempt to show them the error of their ways, waiting for them to turn back into doting parents. They never did, so she never let them out.]]
44** It's revealed later on however that her mother was the abusive one while her father wasn't around to stop it making it ParentalNeglect in his case. The anime also [[spoiler:portrays her mom as being not all there and mentally unstable like Yuno as well]].
45%%** Tsubaki's [[RapeAsBackstory backstory]] can hit too close for comfort for victims of rape.
46%%* AkashicRecords: One of the tools used by Deus.
47* AlasPoorVillain:
48** [[spoiler:Tsubaki]]'s death, which is notably portrayed as far more sympathetic in the anime than in the manga.
49** Although most of the fandom hated him for being a DirtyCoward, [[spoiler:Kurou]] has his death treated with sympathy.
50** [[spoiler:Yuno gets one of these when she kills herself to allow Yukki to be god.]]
51* AllDeathsFinal: [[spoiler:Not even gods can bring back a deceased's soul]]. However, this can still be worked around [[spoiler:-- and eventually is -- by going to an AlternateTimeline where they are still alive]].
52* AlternateTimeline: ''Paradox''. Eventually, [[spoiler:the entire plot of the main series moves to one.]]
53** It's shown that [[spoiler:the 3rd world is less of a CrapsackWorld than the 1st world because all of the events that made the main characters' lives crap and motivated them to turn evil never happened. Almost everybody (including Yuno) lives happy, normal lives.]]
54*** Note that this is mostly because [[spoiler: the game was scrapped once the Mayor read Second World!Yuki's diary and talked with Deus to forget about it. Since the game, and thus the diary creations did not happen, the Twelfth, Eighth, Sevenths, and Third did not die due to the events that occurred because of them. The commotion stopped the Sixth's parents from dying, which prevented the Ometaka cult from degrading, and consequently prevented the corruption and death of the Fifth's parents, which also led to him being a normal little boy. Minene got Kurusu (the Fourth) to check his son ahead of time, so his son was saved, eliminating his reason for his Face Heel Turn IF the diaries had been made. God!Yuno's death ended the struggle, which caused Third World!Yuno's mother to show she still loved her family. This led to Third World!Yuno being a normal girl. The rest is inherent to the world however, as Hinata and her father (the Tenth) reconciled, Yuki's parents never divorced and thus, he did not grow up thinking himself a failure. This ostensibly led to him developing the confidence to becoming a couple with his original crush. The only thing that didn't change was that Third World!Minene was still a terrorist at large.]]
55* AlwaysInClassOne: {{Averted}}. Yukiteru and Yuno are both in class 2-B initially, and they end up in 2-C and 2-D respectively in their new school. While that can still be considered somewhat lazy, it looks like this was a deliberate aversion.
56* AmericanKirbyIsHardcore: The American release of the manga changes the cover of the volumes from white to black, adds a skull to the title, and throws in the tagline "[[{{Narm}} Every Text Could Be Your Last]]".
57* AnyoneCanDie: Given that it is a battle royale for godhood, this is to be expected.
58%%* ArtEvolution
59%%* ArtificialHuman: [[spoiler:Akise.]]
60* AttemptedRape: [[spoiler:Tsubaki orders her servants to gang rape Yuno, the same way they did to her for years, as a way to draw out Yuki and kill them both. Yuki manages to destroy her diary before anything happens.]]
61%%* AxCrazy:
62%%** Yuno, literally.
63%%** This pretty much sums up the majority of the cast, really.
64%%** In Chapter 57, there is [[spoiler:Mur Mur's]] true form.
65* BabiesEverAfter: The epilogue depicts [[spoiler:3rd-world Ai (Seventh) and 2nd-world Minene (Ninth); the first of which is pregnant and the second of which has two babies... who have apparently inherited part of Deus's power which was in her.]]
66* BadassNormal: [[GuileHero Aru Akise]] manages to outwit a number of journal holders.
67** He definitely earned his title of the strongest non-Diary holder in his spin-off, ''Paradox'', where in one fell swoop, he [[spoiler:seduces the Sixth, befriends the Fifth, and allies himself with one half of the Seventh and one of the Eighth's followers, all without use of a diary]]. This because he got bored of following Yuki's path, and so decided to ScrewDestiny.
68** Later, [[spoiler:he obtains a secondary diary from the Eighth, allowing him to scry the actions of diary holders and fool ''their'' predictions. He ends up losing it in the chapter following its debut, however.]]
69* BarbieDollAnatomy: Averted in Chapter 52 after being played straight for the rest of the series.
70* BatmanGambit: Given that it's a series about [[ScryVsScry people who can predict the future]] [[IKnowYouKnowIKnow trying to out manipulate each other]], this is bound to show up.
71* BattleCouple: The Seventh. Yes, the Seventh is two people. Yuki and Yuno gradually become this as well.
72* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Yuno's devotion to Yukiteru stems from him jokingly making a marriage proposal to her [[spoiler:shortly after she accidentally killed her AbusiveParents. She had been all alone and unable to imagine any kind of future for herself, but the thought of marrying Yuki gave her something solid to fixate on, and focusing on that kept her from completely giving in to despair]].
73%%* BewareTheNiceOnes
74* BigBadDuumvirate: [[spoiler:Yuno and Mur Mur. They have been scheming to ensure Yuno wins the game and goes back in time to do it over again infinitely, though they have different motives for doing so.]]
75* BigBadEnsemble: [[spoiler:There's the BigBadDuumvirate Yuno and Mur Mur and all the other Diary Holders including [[VillainProtagonist Yuki]] himself and the [[OnlySaneMan Only Sane People]] [[HeroAntagonist Ai, Marco and Kamado]]]].
76* BigBadWannabe: All the other Diary Holders who are not [[spoiler:Yuno and Mur Mur]] are [[SmugSnake in over their heads if they're confident on winning the game]].
77* BigDamnHeroes: Yuki pulls this off early on against [[spoiler:Sixth, when she was about to [[AttemptedRape have her minions gang-rape Yuno]]]].
78** In Chapter 54 [[spoiler:[[BackFromTheDead Minene]] saves Yuki from falling off a cliff he was climbing]].
79* BigEntrance: Twelfth (Yomotsu Hirasaka) does this when introducing himself to the First, Second, and Sixth in a manner that imitates the Power Rangers thanks to giant explosions going off in the background, a deranged entrance speech, and a five man group colored in 5 different colors doing a SuperSentaiStance.
80* BlackComedy: All over the place, but the opening of episode 3 where Yukiteru is waiting for Yuno at an amusement park shows [[TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior that he has a morbid sense of humor]].
81-->'''Yukiteru''': (''monotone to himself observing a sudden drop ride'') Waah, help. The parachute won't open. I think the string is stuck. Splat.
82* BodyguardCrush: Both Akise and Yuno towards Yuki.
83* BodyHorror: If your diary is destroyed, you die in a manner that appears as though a black hole spontaneously generates in your chest. It's much more noticeable in the anime.
84* BookEnds:
85** In the first chapter, when Yuki almost stabs Yuno, she tells him "You didn't stab me, that's not the future." In the final chapter, [[spoiler:Yuno considers stabbing Yuki, but stabs herself instead, saying "I can't stab you, that's not the kind of future it'll be."]]
86** Also, in the first episode, Yuki is wrapped up in his blanket, back when he was still a loner, looking at his cellphone diary. [[spoiler: In the very end, once he becomes a god, he's seen [[LonelyAtTheTop sulking in the void that the 2nd world has become... until the post credits scene, where Yuno recovers from the suicide and they both set about learning how to build a new universe.]], [[FateWorseThanDeath staring his last diary entry]], [[TearJerker which reads that Yuno committed suicide]]. The cloak he wears as God is draped about him in much the same way as the blanket from the beginning.]]
87* BreadEggsMilkSquick: At the end of Chapter 23 when Yuki asks Yuno why she can't leave some luggage. She says she can't because of important things like "underwear, towels, meds, and a bunch of other stuff". The "other stuff" is shown to the viewer as [[spoiler: her parents' skulls]].
88* BreakTheCutie:
89** A rare male example when it happens to Yuki after [[spoiler:both his parents die]]. He breaks even further and ends up [[spoiler:killing most of his friends himself]].
90** Just about any flashback involving [[spoiler:Yuno]].
91* BullyingADragon: [[spoiler:Tsubaki and Akise]] each plant a TakeThatKiss on Yuki to spite the notoriously AxCrazy Yuno. [[TooDumbToLive Neither one survives.]]
92* CameBackWrong / SoullessShell: The reason why [[spoiler:bringing people back after being God doesn't work. See SuicidePact on this page for more details]].
93* CastFullOfCrazy: Either God is a bastard or has a sick sense of humor, because most of the candidates he chooses for his successor shouldn't be allowed to operate a lawnmower, let alone the universe. [[spoiler:By the end, every single candidate succumbs to this madness, as the loss of his parents sends Yukiteru down a dark path.]]
94* ChekhovsGunman: Remember that Ai girl at Tsubaki's temple? She shows up later [[spoiler:as the female half of the Seventh]].
95* ChessMotifs: Only in the beginning, when a DEAD END is compared to a Checkmate. This is why it was such a big deal that Yuki survived; [[{{Unwinnable}} it wasn't meant to be possible]].
96%%* ClingyJealousGirl: Yuno towards Yuki.
97* CrapsackWorld: God arranges [[ThereCanBeOnlyOne Battles Royale]] for kicks. The hero is apparently the only nice journal holder. A terrorist who blows up schools is one of the more sympathetic characters.
98%%* CrazyJealousGuy: Akise towards Yuki.
99* CreepyChild: The Fifth diary owner, Reisuke "Let the massacre begin!" Houjou.
100* DatingCatwoman: Nishijima and Minene in ''Mosaic'', though the criminal is the main character.
101* DeadMansSwitch: Minene rigs one of these up to herself when she holds the school hostage, so the entire school will explode if her heart stops. This prevents the police from sniping her, as she knows one of the detectives is a diary holder. Later, during the final confrontation with the Eleventh, it's revealed that she's wearing another bomb rigged to go off if she dies. [[spoiler: After being shot, she tries to use this bomb to penetrate the bank vault where the Eleventh is hiding.]]
102* DeadPersonImpersonation: [[spoiler:Yuno is impersonating ''herself''. As if that isn't strange enough, when some people start getting uncomfortably close to the truth, she actually goes out of her way to hide the fact that she's not the real Yuno from this universe.]]
103** Minene does this as well, killing a rookie police officer and taking her place so she could get close to her target.
104* DeathOfAChild: [[spoiler:Reisuke Houjou, [[{{Tykebomb}} the four-year-old fifth diary holder]], dies horribly.]]
105* {{Deconstruction}}:
106** Who wouldn't want the smartest, coolest, most beautiful girl in town to be [[{{Yandere}} madly, unconditionally in love]] with them? Right? Right...?
107** Also what [[FaceHeelTurn consequently happens to the morals]] of TheHero after experiencing DieHardOnAnX almost everyday and having TookALevelInBadass after starting out as TheEveryman.
108* DepartmentOfChildDisservices: Several years after [[spoiler:Yuno]] was adopted, her mother began abusing her to the extreme of locking her in a cage. Somehow, this information never got back to the child services agency, which one would imagine would still be checking in from time to time to make sure the parents were treating her well, as no one from there ever intervenes.
109* DieHardOnAnX: Each certain arc of the anime and manga is set in this scenario whenever the protagonists are pitted against an antagonist with the OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent as the John [=McClane=]. For the amount of borderline-NC-17-leveled {{Gorn}} and intense violence, it's up to par with Creator/RennyHarlin's approach to this trope, ''Film/DieHard2'' and ''Film/{{Cliffhanger}}'':
110** For Third, it's ''Die Hard'' with a SerialKiller.
111** For Minene's introduction, it's ''Die Hard'' in school.
112** For Sixth and Twelfth, it's ''Die Hard'' at a temple.
113** For Fifth, it's ''Die Hard'' in TheHero's home with an EnfantTerrible CreepyChild running amok.
114** For Tenth, it's ''Die Hard'' in a park.
115** For Fourth, it's ''Die Hard'' in a police station and a hospital.
116** From the Apprentice Diary Holders' perspective, it's ''Die Hard'' in an abandoned hotel with a {{Yandere}} holding her love hostage.
117** For Seventh, it's ''Die Hard'' inside a skyscraper.
118** For Eleventh, it's ''Die Hard'' in a bank.
119** For [[spoiler:the final arcs, it's ''Die Hard'' in alternate dimensions and the space time continuum.]]
120* DisappearedDad:
121** Yuki's dad, as his parents are divorced.
122** Hinata's dad is mostly absent from her life due to [[spoiler:his obsession with his dogs]] and disappears altogether when [[spoiler:he's killed]].
123* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: When Yuno [[spoiler:chains Yuki up and feeds him herself, Yuki refuses to eat]]. It doesn't help that she's in her underwear and sitting on his lap. The following conversation occurs:
124-->'''Hinata:''' He doesn't want it!\
125'''Yuno:''' Nah, he's pleased with it.
126* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Subverted at the very end of the manga.]] The series ends with [[spoiler:Yuno dead and Yukiteru moping about it for 10,000 years, not even bothering trying to recreate his own world]]. Then you reach the epilogue which [[spoiler:goes full reverse into an EarnYourHappyEnding. The anime plays it straight until TheStinger and ''Redial'' OVA]].
127* DragonInChief: Yuno is this for Yuki.
128** [[spoiler: TheStarscream: In the last few chapters, Yuno becomes Yukiteru's final enemy after he refuses to kill her and he discovers she is actually the Yuno from an AlternateTimeline.]]
129* TheDulcineaEffect:
130** Yuki is shown to act this way towards Tsubaki, quickly trusting her and wanting to protect her. Granted, some of this is probably due to the fact that she looked to him like a beautiful DamselInDistress that is one of the few ''sane'' people he had seen recently. [[spoiler:Too bad he's very wrong.]]
131** Akise is shown to act this way towards ''Yuki'' in the AlternateTimeline spin-off ''Paradox''. He ''just'' met Yuki, yet quickly decides to use Mur Mur's wish she promised him to save Yuki and comes to the conclusion that he's going to fight in Yuki's place, allowing Yuki to become God.
132* DistressedDude: Yukiteru spends the better portion of an entire issue chained to a wall.
133* DrumBathing: Near the end, Yukiteru and Yuno take a bath in a oil drum together.
134* DyingMomentOfAwesome: [[spoiler:Akise texts a message to Yuki ''even though Yuno just cut off his head.'']]
135%%* DysfunctionJunction: The whole cast.
136* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler: All the diary holders, prior to participating in the game, end up living their lives happily in the new timeline. Additionally, in the post credits scene in the final episode, 2nd universe god-Yuno respawns and she and Yuki begin working together to build a new universe. At the very end, everyone has their happy ending.]]
137* EasilyForgiven:
138** Yuki forgives people a little too easily, especially his crazy girlfriend.
139*** Taken up to eleven when he forgives his own scumbag father for [[spoiler: killing his mom]] in the span of one episode.
140** There are several examples of this throughout the story. [[spoiler: Yuki being forgiven by the police, even though he accidentally shot one of them in the stomach. But particularly Yuno, who killed and dismembered several police officers but was allowed to walk free after it's revealed that the police chief orchestrated things in an attempt to get the police to kill the couple. There's also how Minene kills many of Yuki's schoolmates, and this is apparently forgotten soon afterwords until near the end on the series when Kosaka mentions it.]]
141* TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt: [[GodIsEvil Deus Ex Machina]] threatens this if Yuki doesn't buck up and start killing people. [[spoiler:Though since he's [[TheLastDance on his way to a deific grave]] and the condition for saving the world is "get me replaced before I die", he may or may not have an actual choice in the matter.]]
142* EnfanteTerrible: A 4-year-old child with a picture journal comes to kill the main characters.
143* ExpendableAlternateUniverse: Discussed by Minene and Yuki when [[spoiler: they both travel to the third AlternateTimeline. Minene says Yuki must invoke this trope if he wishes to succeed. Yuki insists on protecting the third Yuno from the second Yuno, and that enables EarnYourHappyEnding.]]
144* {{Expy}}: From ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'', both in the characters themselves and the relationships between them.
145** Yuki shares a number of character traits with Shinji, especially in the beginning. Both are timid and lonely but unable to connect with the people around them even if they really want to, and forced to fight even though they really don't want to. Both seem to want their father back in their lives, but both end up betrayed. The main difference seems to be that Yuki has his mother and Yuno, the latter being something of a mixed blessing.
146** Deus himself looks a bit like an Eva in some panels of the manga.
147** Akise is a close expy of Kaworu from the same series, and the Japanese dub even gives him the same seiyuu. The parallel is at the same time taken further than expected with the revelation that [[spoiler:Akise is an ArtificialHuman created by Deus, just like Kaworu is an Angel]], and harshly subverted [[spoiler:when Deus denies that Akise's love for Yuki is genuine and an example of Akise's "free will", while it's commonly accepted that Kaworu's love for Shinji, born from his free will, was what made him disobey his orders]].
148** Minene can also be considered as an expy of Misato.
149** Kurusu seems to be modeled after Kaji in his first appearance [[spoiler:but his willingness to perform a FaceHeelTurn in order to become God for his family, specifically to save his dying son make him more similar to ''Gendo'' in personality]]. 5[[spoiler:/6]] expies!
150* EvenTheGuysWantHim: Yuki, as far as Akise is concerned.
151* [[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep Everyone Calls Him "First"]]: The diary owners are all referred to by the order in which they were given their diaries. Most of the diary holders [[NoNameGiven don't even get any other name]] most of the time they are mentioned. Particular mention goes to [[TheBeastmaster Tenth]] [[spoiler:(not called by his real name until his murder is being investigated)]] and [[VigilanteMan Twelfth]] [[spoiler:(his real name isn't even mentioned until his diary states his death)]].
152* EvilAllAlong: In Chapter 50, Akise claims that [[spoiler:Yuno is the actual villain, who used Yukiteru, and plans to drive him to the brink of despair and kill him in order for her to become God. Of course, [[SingleTargetSexuality Akise]] is the one who said it, so who knows if it's actually true]]. [[spoiler:As of Chapter 53, it seems that Akise was right and wrong at the same time. [[{{Yandere}} Yuno wants to kill him, but only so they can be]] ''[[{{Yandere}} together forever]]'' via an endless time loop.]]
153* EvilVersusEvil: The series originally began as a BlackAndGrayMorality, but once Yukiteru [[FaceHeelTurn becomes just as bad as the others]], it becomes this.
154* EyeScream: [[spoiler:Minene]] gets a dart through the eye [[EyepatchOfPower and then receives a cool eyepatch!]]
155** GoryDiscretionShot: The anime shows [[spoiler:Twelfth]] reaching in to pull the eyeball out...
156*** In the DVD release, we see more of it.
157* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler: Yuki, Yuno, Fourth, Mur Mur.]] Considering the very nature of the survival game, it would probably be wiser to list the exceptions.
158%%* TheFaceless: Twelfth.
159* {{Fanservice}}: Primarily of Minene and Yuno, although warrants honorable mentions, though the [[LoveMakesYouCrazy contexts for those two]] are [[RapeAsBackstory disturbing enough]] to barrel straight through to FanDisservice territory.
160* FoodAsBribe: In the last chapter of ''Mosaic'', Akise uses Minene's hunger to get her to compete in a beauty pageant with the incentive that she can use the prize money to buy herself food. He keeps it up by [[YankTheDogsChain deliberately eating food in front of her]] as a constant reminder to why she's competing.
161* FourPhilosophyEnsemble:
162** The Cynic: Minene.
163** The Optimist: Yukiteru.
164** The Realist: Yuno.
165** The Apathetic: Akise.
166* GainaxEnding: The manga epilogue most certainly counts. [[spoiler:1st-world Yuno commits suicide because she can't hurt Yuki. This leaves Yuki as God of the 2nd-world, only he's so depressed about it he doesn't do anything and lives in a vacuum for 10,000 years with only Mur Mur for company. Then Yuno breaks the walls of time and space with a hammer. It turns out 3rd-world Yuno inherited 1st-world Yuno's memories. Then, 3rd-world Deus invites the two to become his successor -- presumably this is because they've both already won the game once each. Both get a Happy End from this.]]
167%%* GambitPileup: ScryVsScry [[JustForFun/XMeetsY meets]] IKnowYouKnowIKnow meets ''Manga/DeathNote''.
168* GirlWithPsychoWeapon: Yuno and her blades are perhaps the most noticeable part of the promotional material.
169%%* AGodAmI: [[spoiler:Mur Mur]] has this complex.
170* GodhoodSeeker: The characters are competing for his position, but each has their own, unique, reason for wanting the position and power, very little to do with their ego. Not to say the reasons are good.
171* GodIsEvil: Deus may have [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt some damn significant justification]], but any God that tells a 4-year-old to kill (semi)-innocent people earns this title.
172** Furthermore, the whole backstory behind ''Future Diary'' is that Deus, who to all practical purposes ''is'' God, considers the best solution to the problem "[[spoiler:I'm dying and]] I need to choose a replacement" to be "pick a dozen deeply deranged and often violent individuals and incite them to kill each other until only one survives, and never mind how many innocent bystanders die along the way!"
173** Not to mention it's hinted in the first two versions of the game he set up each diary user to be mentally broken so they'd kill each other off quicker and it would be more entertaining.
174%%* GodivaHair: Minene.
175* GratuitousEnglish:
176** Akise agrees to give Hinata his diary provided she can guess which hand he's holding a coin in. LEFT OR RIGHT?
177** The 2nd OP is entirely in ENGRISH.
178* GrotesqueCute: Particular mention should be given to Yuno, Reisuke, and [[spoiler:Mur Mur]].
179* HeelFaceDoorSlam: [[spoiler:Remember Yuki's father? The guy that only came back into Yuki's life to steal and then break his cellphone so that his debt will get paid off? Remember how he took Yuki's parachute to escape, leaving his son to die? Remember when he stabbed and murdered his ex-wife to avoid going to the police? Well, he had just spent the entire day praying for forgiveness and buying a telescope to watch the stars with his son. He promises Yuki to turn himself in...right before he gets stabbed in the stomach, while his son watches. Door slam, indeed.]]
180%%* HeroicBSOD: Yuki suffers a pretty nasty one complete with paranoia fuel, [[spoiler:of the variety]].
181* HeroicResolve: [[spoiler:Yuki demonstrates via a speech to Yuno, telling her [[ThePowerOfLove he loves her]] and that she is irreplaceable to him. He vows to save her, all while climbing up a sheer cliff with his bare hands.]]
182%%* HiddenEyes
183* HopeSpot: [[spoiler:Minene]] [[HeroicSacrifice blows herself up]] to open an armored door. [[spoiler:It doesn't work.]] It's not all bad though, since [[spoiler:she secretly survives thanks to [[MeaningfulName Deus Ex Machina]]]]. [[spoiler: In a blink and you’ll miss it moment: for a series that has no problem showing blood, Minene’s ‘suicide’ room is significantly cleaner than it should be.]]
184* IDidWhatIHadToDo: An unfortunate byproduct of Yuki's [[TookALevelInBadass taking a level in badass]].
185* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Yuno. In later arcs, after Yuki swears to avenge the deaths of his parents, Yuno offers to ''die for him'' when the time comes.
186* IfItsYouItsOkay:
187** In the AlternateTimeline spin-off ''Paradox'', Akise maintains that he isn't gay -- he only feels this way about [[EvenTheGuysWantHim Yuki]]. This is also Akise's reason to [[spoiler:ScrewDestiny in Chapter 48 of the main storyline]]. He states directly to Deus's face that he loves Yuki, which is why [[spoiler:he meddles with others' plans beyond the will of Deus]].
188** In the main storyline there's Mao, who's not-so-secretly in love with Hinata -- she can't stop looking at/thinking about/lusting after/recording in a diary Hinata's impressive bust (for a 14 year old).
189%% Administrivia/ZeroContextExample entries are not allowed on wiki pages, so this entry has been commented out. Add context before uncommenting. * ImpersonationExclusiveCharacter: [[spoiler:After being unable to revive Yukiteru when she wins the Survival Game, Yuno travels back in time and kills the current timeline's version of herself so she can be with Yukiteru.]]
190* ImprobableAimingSkills:
191** Yuki and his darts.
192*** Possible justification. He ''was'' a social outcast who had nothing better to do, and owned at least four dart boards which can be seen hanging on his wall. Practice makes perfect.
193** Yuno is also ridiculously accurate, managing to shoot six policemen in the neck while running with a revolver.
194* IronicEcho: In the manga, Minene outs Yukiteru as The First by reading the look in his eyes when she pieces together the clues leading to his identity. Later on, Yukiteru manages to avoid running on one of her landmines by reading her in the same way.
195-->'''Yukiteru:''' You said it yourself! ''The eyes have it!'' *cue EyeScream*
196* JustHitHim: DoubleSubverted in Chapter 23. [[spoiler:After the flash grenade explosion, when Yukiteru and Kurusu regain consciousness, Kurusu grabs Yukiteru and actually starts to beat him up... but then either throws him or lets him fall down, with Yukiteru conveniently landing right next to the dropped gun.]]
197%%* KarmaHoudini: Several throughout the series.
198%%* LamarckWasRight: [[spoiler:Minene's children can fly.]]
199* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler: Yuno's mother dies slowly in the very cage she used to imprison her daughter. Said daughter wanted her to know how it felt.]]
200* LonelyAtTheTop: [[spoiler:Yuki wins the survival game and spends 10,000 years as the god of the empty space of the 2nd-world]].
201* LotusEaterMachine: [[spoiler:Yuno traps Yuki in one because she can't kill him in the 3rd-world.]]
202** This was more of a subversion or playing with the idea of a Lotus Eater Machine used as Fridge Horror. While the Machine is utilized, [[spoiler: Yukiteru is VERY aware he's in one as he's flat out told so and Yuno does nothing to mess with his mind or memories. So it's more like a very pleasant jail in which he can have anything he wants than a true Lotus Eater Machine.]]
203* LoveAtFirstSight: In ''Paradox'', Akise falls in love with the [[DistressedDude wounded Yuki]] at first sight.
204* LoveMakesYouCrazy:
205** Yuno. She was sort of crazy already though, given how [[spoiler:she killed her adoptive parents]]. It's also likely that [[spoiler:her non-biological parents]] were the ones who drove her insane in the first place.
206** Later on Yuki gets a little crazy for Yuno.
207%%* LoveMakesYouEvil: Yuno.
208%%* MadBomber: Minene.
209* MadLove: The only plausible relationship you can have with an utterly AxCrazy {{Yandere}} like Yuno.
210* MadeOfPlasticine: People are often sliced completely in two with absurd ease.
211* ManipulativeBastard: Happens with almost ''Manga/DeathNote''-esque frequency. A particularly disturbing mention must be given to Yuno in Chapter 49. [[spoiler:Akise has stabbed Yuno and left her for dead and is trying to reach Yuki before he kills the Eighth and Hinata/Mao/Kosaka. Yuno, bleeding to death on the ground, calls Yuki and tells him that her diary told her that they were going to betray and kill him. Yuki, in the middle of a [[HeroicBSOD mental breakdown]] at the time, believes her and shoots Hinata.]] Yuno, on the other line, starts ''laughing her butt off'', while a shot of her diary reveals that Yuki's friends weren't lying. She [[IfICantHaveYou didn't want them to have him]].
212%%* MasterOfDisguise
213* MeaningfulName:
214** The kanji for "Gasai" means "my wife".
215** Not to mention Juno "the goddess of marriage" which according to [[Website/{{Wikipedia}} the Master Wiki]] is pronounced "Yuno". Coincidence?
216*** The fact that Juno was the most possessively jealous {{yandere}} goddess helps a lot. Also, Yukiteru's own name is a corruption of "Jupiter".
217** Heck, all the diary holders have names that associate them with some Roman god or goddess.
218** Each Diary has an identifier attached to it, reflecting how each diary was used before the game and thus how each diary reflects future entries in the game. For example, Yuno's is the Love Diary; her entries always center around Yuki. Yuki's is the Random (or Indiscriminate) Diary; the fact he took note of ''everything'' around him (though notably not ''of'' him) means his Diary is one of the most powerful in terms of sheer information.
219** Listen to Deus Ex Machina's {{leitmotif}} ("Egoist"). The choir in the background constantly chants the names of Roman gods.
220* AMillionIsAStatistic: The conflict between the diary holders has resulted in a total body count that numbers somewhere in the hundreds. Most of the diary holders have no reservations against killing countless innocent bystanders in pursuit of each other, and even the First, Yuki, ends up crossing his moral boundaries.
221* MomentKiller:
222** Nothing gets in the way of a [[spoiler:marriage proposal]] like learning that the BigBad has succeeded in his plan when you thought you'd foiled it.
223** Yuno invariably kills her own moments. Usually by doing something completely insane.
224* MoodWhiplash: The relationship between Yuki and Yuno constantly and abruptly switches between "Aww aren't they such a cute couple" and "What the hell is wrong with that girl?!"
225* MoralityKitchenSink: The two main protagonists consist of a ClassicalAntiHero [[spoiler:who later devolves into an AntiVillain]] and an AxCrazy DarkActionGirl. Meanwhile, the antagonists can range from AntiVillain or even HeroAntagonist to crazed serial killer or OmnicidalManiac.
226* MsFanservice:
227** Yuno, throughout the whole series.
228*** Early on, she and Yukiteru [[BeachEpisode visit a water park]] where Yuno loses her swimsuit.
229*** Later on, Yuno [[ChainsOfLove chains Yukiteru]] to a chair so [[IfICantHaveYou he can't leave her]]. This requires her to attend to all his, ahem, "duties", including feeding him and letting him pee. And on top of all that, she spends the entire time in nothing but a bra and panties.
230*** Near the end of the series, Yuno starts wearing an black lacy dress with ZettaiRyouiki boots and straps all over. Add in the fact that she's [[KatanasAreJustBetter wielding a katana the whole time]], she basically turns into a LadyOfWar sprinkled with AxeCrazy.
231*** Yuno went from having an appropriately-sized chest for a middle schooler (fairly small in the beginning) to having large breasts in the course of about two chapters.
232*** In one of the last few chapters, [[spoiler:she gets her [[UnusualEuphemism HAPPY END]] sans censoring]].
233** Minene also gets in on the action occasionally. At one point, Twelfth chains her up in her underwear sans bra, with only GodivaHair to protect her naughty bits. Oh, and she gets a gratuitous ShowerScene [[NippleAndDimed without censoring]] twice in the series.
234* MummiesAtTheDinnerTable: Yuno [[spoiler:keeps her parents' corpses in a cage and talks with them]]. Later, [[spoiler:she chops off their heads and carries the decayed skulls around with her.]]
235* MundaneUtility: In the grace period between Yukiteru getting his diary and Deus announcing the game, Yukiteru uses it for things like cheating on a test.
236* MurderTheHypotenuse: Both Yuno and Akise (in ''Paradox'') are willing to do this and ''much'' more in order to keep Yuki for themselves.
237* MustNotDieAVirgin: [[spoiler:Yuki and Yuno]], who are both virgins before Chapter 52.
238* [[ReligiousAndMythologicalThemeNaming Mythological Theme Naming]]: Each of the Diary Holders' names have some connection to a Roman god/goddess (with Minene being connected to two). Most of the gods or goddesses that they're associated with are a part of the Dii Consentes, the twelve gods and goddesses that were held in the highest regard, [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg but we also have John Balks (Bacchus) and Yomotsu Hirasaka (Pluto)]].
239** Also, the three "main" characters (Yukiteru, Yuno, and Minene) intentionally form the Capitoline Triad (Jupiter, Juno, and Minerva).
240** For reference, the diary holders are associated as follows:
241*** Yukiteru -> Jupiter
242*** Yuno -> Juno
243*** Hiyama -> Vulcan
244*** Kurusu -> Mercurius
245*** Houjou -> Ceres
246*** Kasugano -> Proserpina (Kasugano also shares properties with Apollo. Along with being believed to be clairvoyant by her followers, her family name has the Kanji for "Sun" (æ—¥).)
247*** Marco/Ai -> Mars/Venus
248*** Kamado -> Vesta
249*** Minene -> Minerva ([[MyFriendsAndZoidberg and Neptune]])
250*** Tsukishima -> Diana
251*** Balks -> Bacchus
252*** Yomotsu -> Pluto
253** In addition, Akise -> Apollo
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255
256[[folder:N-Z]]
257* NayTheist: Minene. Until she became a diary holder she only attacked religious targets, due to losing her parents who were viciously killed in the crossfire of a religious conflict in the Middle East when she was a child, which was heavily implied to be in Palestine between the Arabs and the Israelis ("I lost my folks in the Middle East, thanks to a 1600-year-old-fight about three takes on the same damn God"). Because of this, she grew up to have extreme contempt for organized religion and the concept of God in general - which is partly why [[spoiler:Deus chose her to be the one he would give half of his divine power to in order to be ready for Mur Mur's imminet betrayal.]]
258* {{Necromantic}}: Yuki becomes a rare protagonist version after [[spoiler:his parents]] die. He decides to win the game to bring them back to life. [[spoiler:It won't work.]]
259* NobodyPoops: Subverted in that Yuno mentions taking care of Yuki's "potty breaks" [[spoiler:when she kidnaps and holds him hostage]] and she later has to pee in a corner in front of Yuki while they are hiding out.
260* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: [[spoiler: Yuki's friends try to warn him that not even God could bring back the dead. They get killed by Yuki for their efforts.]]
261* NoOneShouldSurviveThat: Downplayed in most cases. Several characters manage to survive some gruesome injuries (having their throat slit, getting shot in the head, ''decapitation'', etc.), but they usually die not long after, either by letting the injuries take their time or getting killed in a different manner.
262* NonActionGuy: Until he TookALevelInBadass, Yuki didn't do much fighting. Yuno was usually the one to kill their enemies. The Seventh diary holders eventually [[WhatTheHellHero call him out on it]].
263%%* OffWithHisHead: [[spoiler:It's how Akise dies.]]
264* OfficialCouple: Yukiteru/Yuno, Marco/Ai, [[spoiler:Nishjima/Minene]], and a bit surprisingly, [[spoiler:3rd-world Yukiteru/Wakaba. Also, in the anime Kamado Ueshita and John Balks are unambiguously shown to be a couple in the 3rd-world.]]
265* OffscreenVillainDarkMatter: The Fifth is ''four years old'', but somehow he's able to acquire a gas mask, poison gas, and a syringe of poison to use against Yuki and Yuno.
266* OnceMoreWithClarity: [[spoiler:When Minene was asking for info about how Eleventh's diary works. Deus runs his arm through her though it was dismissed as an illusion and was never mentioned again.]] Later [[spoiler:it was revealed that Deus had transferred half of his powers to her to combat a threat which is threatening the flow of the game and [[LaserGuidedAmnesia makes her forget about it for a while]] until the right time.]]
267* OnlySaneMan:
268** Yuki starts off as this, but then loses it [[spoiler:when his parents die]].
269** The Eighth is relatively sane -- she doesn't have the will to kill. [[spoiler:Her children, on the other hand, do. The only reason why the kids are fighting though is because they want to protect the woman who raised them from the other diary holders.]]
270* {{OVA}}: The manga was given an 8-minute one in September 2010 that rapidly covers the first several chapters.
271* PersonalityPowers: Each one of the diaries reads the future in a different way, this as a result that each Diary reflects its Holders, in terms of personality, traits, desires, etc. Thus, each has a name.
272** The First's diary (Random/Indiscriminate) reflects on him being an indifferent, reclusive bystander.
273** The Second's diary (Love) reflects her [[StalkerWithAcrush obsessive love towards the First]].
274** The Third's diary (Murder) reflects his [[SerialKiller murderous tendencies]].
275** The Fourth's diary (Case/Investigation) reflects his job as the police chief.
276** The Fifth's diary (Hyper Vision) reflects his childish impatience.
277** The Sixth's diary (Clairvoyance) reflects her role as the leader of a cult.
278** The Seventh's diaries (Exchange) reflect their mutual love as a couple.
279** The Eighth's diary (Server) reflects her kind and giving personality.
280** The Ninth's diary (Escape) reflects her survivalist nature. [[spoiler: It also reflects [[BrokenBird her desire to escape from all the hardships she endured since childhood, and to be saved from it]].]]
281** The Tenth's diary (Breeder) reflects his obsession with his dogs.
282** The Eleventh's diary (Watcher) reflects his megalomania [[spoiler: as well as his status as the creator of all diaries]].
283** The Twelfth's diary (Justice) reflects his justice seeking outlook.
284* PinkGirlBlueBoy: Yuno has pink hair (in the anime her eyes are sometimes pink as well instead of red) while Yuki has blue eyes.
285* ThePlan: In a series about dueling future readers with magical diaries, you need to do this to get anything done. Thankfully, due to the... unstable nature of the future (with up to 12 people actively changing and screwing with it), there are no plans which are durable enough to get to the Roulette stage of gambitting.
286* PlotInducedStupidity: Without this, the plot would be stupifyingly complicated. As it is, though, the main character often only checks his diary just before or after an event. Even though it is initially described as being able to see ''90 days'' into the future, it is very rare for anyone to even bother to read more than a little bit ahead. Vaguely justified in that the future is constantly changing whenever any of the diary holders does anything at all while knowing the future, so anything more than the immediate future would be pretty useless.
287* PleaseDumpMe: Chapter 56 has [[spoiler:Yuno]] doing everything she can to get [[spoiler:Yukiteru]] to hate her.
288* PottyEmergency: Yuno is forced to relieve herself on the floor of the supply closet she and Yuki are hiding in.
289%%* POVBoyPosterGirl
290%%* PreClimaxClimax: [[spoiler:Yuno and Yuki.]]
291* PropertyOfLove: Yuno labels Yuki as her property that she won't let anyone take away from her. She also proclaims herself as belonging only to Yuki and she will let him use her for whatever he wants.
292* ProtagonistCenteredMorality: [[spoiler:Yuki's SlowlySlippingIntoEvil leads him into doing the very things he feared when the death game started, thinking he can resurrect everyone when he is the last man standing. Unfortunately, he's been duped into thinking that way after both of his parents died.]]
293%%* PsychoticLoveTriangle
294* QuitYourWhining: Kosaka [[spoiler:calls out Yuki after he murders his friends]].
295* RapeAsBackstory: [[spoiler:Tsubaki.]] Also [[spoiler: Ai and Marco's backstory in the anime; he interrupts an attack on Ai]].
296* RealityWritingBook: ''Future Diary'' features journals which contain the future entries of characters, allowing them to see what they'll experience in the future, and react to them. The journals change as they do things. Most of these journals take the form of diaries entered into cellphones. However, Sixth has hers on a scroll, Fifth's on a picture book, Twelfth's on a voice recorder, and Eleventh's on a tablet.
297* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech:
298** Marco gives Yukiteru a healthy dose of this during every encounter they have. He says that Yuki and Yuno will never beat him and Ai simply because Yuki is a coward that lets Yuno fight all of his battles and never gets his own hands dirty. This occurs the first time after they have just knocked Yuno down and right before Mar throws Yuki from a balcony.
299** Even after Yuki tries to change his ways, he is still given one of these in the form of a [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech The Reason We Suck Speech]] by Yuno in Chapter 57 as she tells Yuki the [[BrutalHonesty reality of their relationship]].
300--->'''Yuno:''' [[spoiler: What we did… was pretend love. Both of us were only using each other. You were using me to survive. And I was content letting myself being used… [[{{Yandere}} I would’ve been fine with anyone as long as I could emotionally depend on them]]. [[UselessProtagonist And you were fine with anyone as long as he or she would protect you]].]]
301** Which would make both Yuki and Yuno a case of [[spoiler: BecomingTheMask as their experiences together sparked genuine and mutual love]].
302* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:Yuki believes so, and as he asks Yuno to kill him and become God he thinks to himself that it's his atonement for killing all those people. In response, Yuno from the first world stabs herself and dies. Her memories are transferred to the third world Yuno.]]
303%%* RedShirt: The policemen [[spoiler:and the orphans]].
304* RelationshipSalvagingDisaster: [[spoiler:A few days after the confinement incident, the attacks of Seventh forces Yuki and Yuno to come back together to beat Seventh. It helps that after this Yuki was convinced by Seventh to reevaluate their relationship and give Yuno an important ArmorPiercingQuestion about her love for him.]]
305* ResetButtonEnding: [[spoiler: An inversion on the usual good-to-bad, in that the '2nd-world', in which the story takes place, ends, and they create the '3rd-world', in which everyone -- including most of the diary holders -- live happily ever after. In fact, thanks to time travel, Yuki's actions help undo several tragic backstories, so most of the named characters are better off than they were when the series began.]]
306* RoaringRampageOfRomance: By the end of the series, [[spoiler:we learn that [[{{Yandere}} Yuno]] and [[KidWithTheLeash Yukiteru]] were once this in another world. When Yuno won the right to succeed [[MeaningfulName Deus Ex Machina]] in the first world, her first act as the new God was to attempt to resurrect Yukiteru. Needless to say, it did not go well. Everything we know of her in the series is the Yuno who has already long since crossed the MoralEventHorizon by abandoning the first world and creating a second just so she could spend more time with Yukiteru. It is heavily implied though that they fit this trope very well in the first world, before the events of the series and the original Yukiteru's death.]]
307* SadisticChoice: In Chapter 55, [[spoiler:Yuno forces one of these on Yuki after they, Minene, and Mur Mur jump back in time. Either Yuki hands over the third world's Yuno to be killed, or first world Yuno will kill Yuki's parents.]]
308* [[TokyoIsTheCenterOfTheUniverse Sakurami Is The Center Of The Universe]]: Almost every diary holder, who are destined to rule over all of space and reality (and the 6 billion people on this planet in that regard), live in Sakurami.
309** [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] -- [[AWizardDidIt Deus Did It]]. [[spoiler:He chose Sakurami because John Balks, its mayor, and Eleventh Diary Holder, asked him to]].
310** Also justified that the game has to finish in 90 days, or else [[spoiler: Deus dies, and the universe with him]]. Stretching out even a fraction of the twelve across the globe would likely guarantee a longer game than that.
311* ScrewDestiny: These are people with future-predicting diaries fighting to become a god. ''Of course'' this is going to happen.
312* ScryVsScry: The entire premise. The diaries of the Diary Holders tell them the future in their own unique ways, and the Holders use the information to one-up each other.
313* SelfFulfillingProphecy: Averted. All diary owners can change their future as well as others' futures.
314* SelfMadeOrphan: [[spoiler:Yuno. Subverted by the revelation that she was actually adopted, so it wasn't her biological parents she killed.]]
315* ShadesOfConflict: A combination of BlackAndGrayMorality and EvilVersusEvil.
316* ShipperOnDeck: Yuki's mom seems absolutely intent on getting Yuno "closer" to her son. Chalk it up to ValuesDissonance.
317* SingleTargetSexuality: Yuno's crush on Yuki. Also Akise, both in the spinoff ''Paradox'' as well as in the MAIN storyline.
318* SleuthDatesCop: Uryuu (9th) has Detective Nijishima, who swings between wanting to help her and wanting to help someone else in favor of her throughout the series. [[spoiler: Near the end, he decides he wants to help her because he has fallen for her. He proposes about ten minutes screen time before his death.]] At the end, [[spoiler:she goes back in time and marries him before he was supposed to die, and averts his death.]]
319* SlidingScaleOfComedyAndHorror: Yuno's {{Yandere}} behavior can be this at times, especially when combined with Yuki's facial reactions.
320* SnicketWarningLabel: Inverted. [[spoiler:The series ends on a downer note with Yuki sulking in a void of nothingness and 2nd-world Mur Mur reading the same manga for the ten millionth time. 3rd-world Yuno, while now well-adjusted, still feels that there is something missing.]] The manga lists some credits, and cuts to a black double-page spread. Then comes Future Chapter One -- [[spoiler:1st-world Yuno has managed to sync her memories with 3rd-world Yuno and smashes the time-space continuum open with the [[Manga/TheLuciferAndBiscuitHammer Biscuit Hammer]], allowing her and Yuki to reunite. 3rd-world Deus decides to not hold a game and instead appoints Yuki and Yuno as the new gods of the 3rd-world automatically, and everyone lives more-or-less happily ever after]].
321* SpellMyNameWithAnS:
322** Yuno's nickname for Yuki should be written as "Yukii" if you go off the katakana for it, though Tokyopop writes it as "Yuki" instead. Most scanlations stick to the former.
323** More notably, the Eleventh's name is romanized as John Balks in most of the scanlations and the dub, but Tokyopop and the Niconico subs romanize it as John Bacchus.
324** That cute little girl in the Causality Hall, ムルムル? Most translations and webpages romanize it as "Muru Muru" or "Murumuru", but the opening for the series reads clearly "Mur mur" (in two lines) in the background behind her. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murmur_%28demon%29 Any relation?]].
325%%* SpannerInTheWorks: [[spoiler:Minene near the end of the manga, by Deus's own intervention.]]
326* StabTheScorpion: Happens a ridiculous amount of times in the series.
327** One chapter ends with Yuki looking as if he's going to abandon Yuno when Akise reveals that [[spoiler:she's not the real Yuno]]. Next chapter reveals that he let go of her hand so that he could push to the ground to avoid gunfire from the Eleventh Diary Holder.
328** {{Subverted}} later in the twin towers when [[spoiler:Minene]] points her gun at Yuki. Turns out there was just a mook behind him. She then explains that she ''will'' kill him if the plan fails, and nearly does. Ends up truly being {{Double Subver|sion}}ted once she doesn't go through with shooting him and instead helps him to reach Eleventh.
329* StalkerWithACrush: '''Yuno'''. In one of the more disturbing chapters, right after the hero and audience think she's not so bad, the girl [[spoiler:drugs the hero and chains him to a chair]]. Of course, this is after we learn that [[spoiler:she killed her parents]].
330* StalkingIsLove:
331** This series loves playing ping-pong with this trope. The status of it by the end seems to be "Stalking is love, but only because [[spoiler:you're as crazy as her now]]."
332** In Chapter 57, Yuki states that he fell in love with Yuno because "she was always by his side".
333* StarCrossedLovers: Yuki and Yuno have no future together, since one of them needs to die to complete the Survival Game and prevent the world from ending. At the end, [[spoiler:Yuno kills herself to ensure Yuki lives, but her memories are given to an alternate version of herself from the third world, and she becomes a god and reunites with Yuki.]]
334* StealthInsult: Yuno does this during the second fight with Sevenths [[spoiler:after recovering her and Yukiteru's diaries. She comments that the diaries that were put on display by Sevenths were obviously fakes and that only an idiot would mistake them for the real ones. Yukiteru's father made that exact mistake moments earlier.]]
335* SuicidePact: [[spoiler:[[TimeyWimeyBall 1st-world Yuki and Yuno]] decide to do this, as neither could stand the thought of killing the other to become god. {{Subverted|Trope}} in that Yuno [[FakingTheDead fakes her death]], attempting to [[ResetButton bring Yuki back to life]] by becoming god. Unfortunately, in the ''Future Diary'' universe, it is possible to bring a person back from death but the god's power can only bring back the body, [[AllDeathsFinal not the soul of the person]]. [[SoullessShell All the god gets is an empty shell should they attempt it.]] Yuno is not pleased at this last bit of news, [[StartOfDarkness to say the least]].]]
336* SupernaturalPhone: The series has almost every major character having and using a supernatural cellphone or similar device that can tell the future in various ways.
337* SuperpowerLottery: The Future Diaries. There are vast differences in their ability to predict, each with its own weaknesses.
338** The First's is one of the strongest but still has the weakness that it doesn't predict his own actions.
339** On the other hand, Second has the weakest diary, only predicting one person's actions. [[spoiler:But she ''links up'' with said person — First. Their diaries complement each other and together are much more powerful than either one individually.]]
340** Then there is Fifth who can only [[spoiler:make three predictions a day]].
341** Fourth's can only predict crime cases.
342** Let's not even get into the Eighth's Diary and what it does [[spoiler:and gives to Akise]].
343** Ninth's is constantly updated with escape routes. It fits well with her survivalist personality.
344** The undeniable winner of the lottery is [[spoiler: Eleventh, who [[AllYourPowersCombined can see other diary users' diaries]]]].
345* TacticalRockPaperScissors: Each diary has its own strengths and weaknesses, thus, one diary's strength can be another's weakness and similarly, a diary strength can balance another's weakness. An example is how Yukiteru's diary predicts things around him, but does not predict things about him. Coupled with Yuno's diary (which predicts everything Yukiteru does), the two diaries make a near perfect prediction of future events. Another example is when Twelfth pointed out that Tsubaki's Clairvoyance Diary trumps Minene's Escape Diary, since Tsubaki's diary predicts a wider scope than Minene's.
346* TakeThatKiss: [[spoiler:Tsubaki and later Akise]] plant one of these on Yuki when they think they have Yuno cornered. Unfortunately for them, Yuno doesn't like that one bit.
347* TakingTheBullet: [[spoiler:Nishijima takes a grand total of eight bullets for Minene and dies.]] If both of them had survived, [[spoiler:Minene would have married Nishijima and gave up being a terrorist.]] Tear drops...
348* TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler:How Twelfth wants to finish Sixth. Yuno kills him.]]
349** [[spoiler:Also when Yuno was fighting Kurusu and his goons in the hospital.]]
350*** Subverted in the fact that [[spoiler:Yuno probably didn't know that the grenade she used was only a flash bang. Nobody ended up dying.]]
351* TalkingIsAFreeAction:
352** Oh, so much. "Yuki! There's a mine one meter in front of you! Go to the left!" Doesn't sound ridiculous, until you realize that he's sprinting forward, and Yuno's shouting directions to him. And it's commented that he's a good runner, too.
353*** The anime makes this more believable: "Yuki! To the left! ... Now the right!"
354** Texting is also a free action. Most of the diary holders have lightning-fast thumbs.
355** Reading seems to be a free action too, since in various occasions characters are shown being able to predict their opponent's moves by reading their diaries. During fist-fights. Between one blow and the next one. Yes, characters close in on their opponent, then, while the opponent is dealing a blow, look at the diary, read the next move and dodge accordingly. They are able to do all this in the time a punch takes to be dealt.
356%%* TearsOfFear: Yuki, especially in the beginning.
357%%* TeensAreMonsters: The protagonists, hands down.
358* TheirFirstTime: [[spoiler:Chapter 52, the long-awaited HAPPY END. Twisted later, as Yuki confronts Yuno on Akise's message and she goes AxCrazy, ''literally'' trying to kill him with an axe while still dressed only in underwear.]]
359* ThereAreNoAdults: Vastly averted. Although the two main characters are school age, others are not, and the school-aged kids' parents end up central to the plot. [[spoiler:That is to say, dead most of the time.]]
360* ThereAreNoTherapists: Considering most of, if not all the characters, can be classified as mentally unstable if not outright insane, you think half the cast would be in an asylum by now.
361* ThereCanBeOnlyOne: God has apparently decided that if [[spoiler:he's going to die anyway]], he might as well see people fight to the death first. And what better way to chose a successor? [[spoiler:Subverted in the end, as 3rd-world Deus permits ''both'' 2nd-world Yukiteru and 3rd-world Yuno to succeed him.]]
362%%* TogetherInDeath: [[spoiler: The Seventh.]]
363* TooDumbToLive:
364** Tsubaki, did you just [[spoiler:kiss Yuki in front of [[{{Yandere}} Yuno]]]]?
365** [[spoiler: The police officer who got shot by Yuki. He confronted an extremely frightened teen with a gun in an enclosed staircase. So what does he do? Fires a warning shot.]]
366%%** According to Mur Mur, Third is seen as this.
367* TookALevelInBadass: After [[spoiler:his father is killed]], Yuki retaliates against his would-be assassins [[spoiler:using the knife which took his father's life, his darts, and blocking gunfire directed at him by using one of the assassins as a [[BulletProofHumanShield meat shield]]]].
368** Yuno takes a level during the fight with the Sevenths, when [[spoiler:Yuki's praise gives her the motivation to block half a dozen thrown knives in an instant]].
369* {{Tsundere}}: Mur Mur pegs Minene as one as she watches the DatingCatwoman antics between her and Nishijima. While Minene insists that she's not going to follow some "shojo manga formula", she can't seem to shake Nishijima off of her, culminating with [[spoiler:him proposing, getting her uncharacteristically flustered]].
370** In Chapter 56, Yuno's feelings for [[spoiler: the 2nd-world]] Yuki are very confusing, so she plays this trope with her unique style:
371-->'''Yuno:''' ''No, no no no! I've already abandoned this Yukki!'' '''I don't like him or anything.''' Not only that, [[BreadEggsMilkSquick I'm the one trying to kill him right now!]]\
372'''Yuno's phone screen:''' ''Yukki said that he'd even die for me. I'm so happy!''
373* UnbuiltTrope: While Yuno is the TropeCodifier for [[{{Yandere}} yanderes]] in anime, she's also not really a straight example of one. Rather than being driven to insanity by lovesickness for Yukki, her mental illness exists entirely separately from her relation to him and is the result of a ''really particularly awful'' TraumaCongaLine; Yukki is the target of her obsession because he's the one stable influence in her life and [[BecauseYouWereNiceToMe the only person to show her any real kindness,]] not as a direct result of said mental illness, and the show creates a constant tension between her genuine love for him and her AxCrazy tendencies rather than directly tying the two together. If it weren't for the fact that this is the show that popularized the trope, it would qualify as an outright [[DeconstructedTrope deconstruction]] of the idea.
374* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Eighth. She is a gigantic, Pillsbury Doughboy-like woman roughly three times the size of the children she takes care of. No one seems to notice this, beyond a one-shot joke.
375* VillainProtagonist: Oh, and how. The female lead would kill anyone, [[spoiler:as would the male lead, later]].
376* WellIntentionedExtremist: Given the nature of the game, every diary holder must be willing to kill in order to survive. If they win, they gain godlike powers. It's easy for them to justify some pretty extreme behavior with the knowledge that they'll be able to reshape reality afterward. Of course, not every diary holder necessarily has good intentions...
377* WhatTheHellHero:
378** Yuki calls Yuno on her claim that she [[spoiler:locked and chained him up in her room]] and tried to kill his friends because she [[LoveMakesYouEvil loved]] him.
379** In Chapter 50, Kosaka calls out [[spoiler:Yuki on his cowardly decision to kill all of his friends]] rather than face the AwfulTruth they were trying to tell him. He is later called out on this again, this time by [[spoiler:''Yuno'' of all people]]. This time it sinks in.
380* WhyCantIHateYou:
381** Chapter 56 has an inversion. [[spoiler:Yuno desperately tries to get Yuki to hate her so that she can kill him with no regrets, up to and including [[YouKilledMyFather killing his parents]] in front of him]].
382** Played straight [[spoiler:when she finds out that she still loves him. She goes even crazier than before.]]
383* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds:
384** Yuno Gasai. By the time [[spoiler:the 3rd-world]] rolls around, people will want to give her a big hug.
385** Tsubaki becomes one of these when her tragic past in revealed.
386%%* {{Yandere}}: Yuno is the TropeCodifier.
387* YearX: The series is set in 20XX.
388* YouAreNumberSix: At the beginning of the game, the diary holders are aware of each other, but their identities are obscured, so it's easier to refer to one another by the order in which they received their diaries.
389* YoungerThanTheyLook: Other than Yuki, none of the middle school characters actually look like they're in middle school. Particularly the girls.
390%%* YourDaysAreNumbered: [[spoiler:Deus.]]
391* YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle: Chapter 54 comes across as an epilogue, until the last two pages in which [[spoiler:Minene comes back to save Yuki]].
392[[/folder]]
393
394!!The anime features the following tropes:
395[[folder:Anime Tropes]]
396%%* ActionPrologue: Kinda. "Horror Prologue" would be more accurate.
397* AdaptationExpansion:
398** The anime includes some parts of the ''Mosaic'' spin-off.
399** Takao Hiyama (The Third) also got a bit more screentime to better illustrate his presence in the first episode.
400** Some things from the manga are reworked to make more sense (such as averting the TalkingIsAFreeAction described above, and changing a room filling up with concrete into a room filling with gas).
401** Some content is added between scenes from the manga (such as Yukiteru's futile attempts to inform Kurusu about the dead bodies in Yuno's house).
402** [[spoiler:In the anime adaptation of Yukiteru's and Yuno's second battle with Seventh, there is an added scene of Yukiteru's father asking Yukiteru to give him his cellphone and promising to buy him a new one after his debts are erased, indicating that he didn't know that breaking the phone would kill Yukiteru. In the manga it wasn't made clear whether he knew this or not.]]
403** [[spoiler:Also expanded is the Seventh's past together, with a story from their high school days, leading to RapeAsBackstory for Ai and InterruptedSuicide for Marco. It also adds more to Marco's reason for not leaving Ai in the tower, despite him also being injured.]]
404** The anime also expands on [[spoiler:Yuno's family situation and the reason why her mother's depression led her to take such abusive measures. Apparently Saika felt she couldn't fulfill her role as a wife to her husband for being unable to conceive a child, and felt neglected herself as she had trouble dealing with his long work hours and business trips. He also either missed or ignored her phone calls to him while he was away. Coupled with this was the fact that she also felt like a terrible mother to her adoptive daughter as well; she believed that neither of them loved her or wanted her in their lives. She demanded so much of herself that she started pushing equally high demands on Yuno as well, taking out her own feelings of inadequacy on Yuno in the form of abuse.]]
405** [[spoiler:The time spent in the 3rd-world in general, from the other characters' lives to the fight scenes between the last survivors of the second world, is expanded upon.]]
406** [[spoiler:The ''Redial'' OVA shows what happened leading up to Yuno finally reuniting with Yuki.]]
407%%* AllThereInTheManual: Mur Mur's [[TheStinger extra segments]].
408* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: A new scene is added with Yukiteru's mom bonding with Yuno over naked baby pictures.
409* ArtShift: Weirdly done with some MediumBlending at the end of Episode 5 in Mur Mur's ending segment with Twelfth; the art is suddenly some crudely made clay figures in stop-motion, with some slightly bizarre 2D animation spliced in between. [[spoiler: It's because Twelfth is blind.]]
410* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: As opposed to the manga's ending, the anime doesn't explicitly show Yuki and Yuno ever reuniting (at least until the ''Redial'' OVA). But it still shows the repaired lives of the 3rd-world characters]].
411* BlandNameProduct:
412** Kosaka's phone, which is shaped like and obviously is an iPhone, is apparently an iBone.
413** In a scene where Yuki is buying drinks, he attempts to get some Dr. Papper.
414* CensorShadow:
415** A fairly obvious one once Yuno starts smashing heads in Episode 4.
416** There's also censor steam in Episode 20 when Minene showers.
417** Of course, the DVD release totally averts this with all gore and boobs visible. [[note]]Save for when Hinata and Mao have their Mur Mur segment, which still removes the censor bars covering their breasts (the ones covering their vaginas are left in, and even then that was more than likely due to Japanese censorship laws).[[/note]]
418* CueTheRain: It begins to rain right after [[spoiler:Yuki's father Kurou dies]] in episode 18.
419* DeathIsCheap: TheStinger for the first episode has Mur Mur attempt to deliver Third's diary, only for him to err on the side of caution and destroy the phone (which seems to be monitoring his criminal activities in painstaking detail) before she can properly explain the natures of the diary or the game. This happens several times and she [[{{Foreshadowing}} keeps rewinding time to reverse his death]].
420* DependingOnTheArtist: The anime features a noticeably different artstyle than the manga's, the characters look slightly older than their manga counterparts, also many expressions taken directly from the manga are more extreme: Yuno's shots in particular got a tad more lustful towards Yukiteru, and crazier towards everyone else.
421* EarlyBirdCameo: The anime shows Third carrying out one of his murders and teaching Yuki and Yuno's class before the point at which he was originally introduced in the manga. Minene also shows up early [[spoiler:in her disguise from ''Mosaic'']].
422* EvolvingCredits: Combined with FreezeFrameBonus, the end of the first opening with all the diary users rotated will show Dead End labels for those that recieved them at that point.
423* ExpendableAlternateUniverse: Discussed by Minene and Yuki when [[spoiler: they both travel to the third AlternateTimeline. Minene says Yuki must invoke this trope if he wishes to succeed. Yuki insists on protecting the third Yuno from the second Yuno, and that enables EarnYourHappyEnding.]]
424* FootFocus: The first opening contains a shot of someone walking toward the camera, leaving a trail of bloody footprints in their wake.
425* FreezeFrameBonus: In the anime a lot of diary entries can only be read if you pause. The more important ones are usually read out or explained by the characters, but there are some funny unmentioned ones.
426* GasChamber: In a surprising change from the manga, Yuno traps Akise, Mao, and Kosaka in a room which is filling with gas. In the manga, she filled it with concrete.
427%%* GratuitousEnglish: Pretty much all of the second opening is this.
428* GratuitousGerman: The opening song's chorus has "Ein, zwei, drei".
429* GratuitousJapanese: The end sketch at the end of episode 23 in the English dub has Yuno engaging in this.
430-->'''Yuno:''' It's so nice to see you, Yukki-san. Do I look... sugoi?
431* GratuitousLatin: The first opening features a rapid firing-off of the names of the Dii Consentes, the twelve Roman gods and goddesses that were considered to be the highest deities. In the manga, the twelve diary holders (each already a potential god) are named and themed after one of the gods with Bacchus added and Neptune replaced with Pluto (then again, Minene Uryuu also references Neptune).
432* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness Disregarding the first few episodes]], the episode titles all seem to be related to the natures of the different diaries -- so generally cell phone-themed, but "Handwritten Input" for the Sixth and "Voice Memo" for Twelfth also appear.
433* IfJesusThenAliens: When Mur Mur tells Reisuke that he's been chosen for a Future Diary, Reisuke says to her "If there's a God, it's not strange for there to be aliens, right?" and refuses to participate in the game until she shows him an alien.
434* KarmaHoudini: The girls who arranged for [[spoiler: Ai to be gang raped]] simply because they didn't like her and thought she was pretentious.
435* LethalChef: In the first [[TheStinger Stinger]] of the anime not taken from the manga, Murmur manages to send Yukiteru and his mother to the hospital with her miso soup.
436* MagicalSecurityCam: {{Justified|Trope}} in that it's employed by [[DeusExMachina the universe's god]]. The bigger mystery is why he's watching Yukiteru sitting on the toilet.
437* MeetCute: Minene and Nishijima in the tenth episode in the anime version, which only vaguely alludes to their true first meeting.
438* MoodWhiplash: Each episode has a comedic [[TheStinger stinger]] after the credits. This makes for quite a contrast compared to the often shocking and disturbing endings that episodes can have.
439* NobodyPoops: Averted even earlier than the manga.
440** Yukiteru is shown on the toilet in one episode. He is being filmed by the god's security cam.
441** Minene is also shown using the toilet. She keeps calling Nishijima, who is cleaning the room, a pervert.
442* OminousLatinChanting: There is a little in the OVA ending music. It's also applied liberally to the series' opening song.
443* OutOfGenreExperience: The episode where Yuno meets Yukki's mom is a BreatherEpisode and an example of this, because it mostly plays out as a lighthearted comedy episode.
444* {{Pixellation}}: Used to censor any outstanding examples of gore. The DVD[=/=]Blu-Ray releases, however, remove this. It's ''not'' pretty.
445* PottyDance: In Episode 10, Minene does a [[ChainedHeat one-handed]] version of this.
446%%* PragmaticAdaptation
447* PrecisionFStrike:
448** Ninth screams "FUCK YOU!" to Fourth in the English dub during episode 11.
449** Later on, Yukiteru gets one towards Yuno in the English dub, when [[spoiler:he's trying to stop First Yuno from killing Third Yuno and repeating the cycle. She asks him why he keeps [[SpannerInTheWorks interfering with her plan,]] to which]] he yells "BECAUSE I LOVE YOU, YOU CRAZY BITCH!"
450* ShoutOut: Strangely, the second opening seems to reference Music/TheSmiths. Part of the lyrics go "The girl with the sharp thorn in her flesh/I meet you at your story/Behind the hatred there lies/a murderous love". This would appear to be a reference to the opening lines of "The Boy With The Thorn In His Side", which go, "The boy with the thorn in his side/Behind there hatred lies a murderous desire/for love". It's really odd.
451* SmurfettePrinciple: When [[spoiler:the five Twelfths]] are shown, there is only one female -- who wears [[PinkMeansFeminine pink]]. She also happens to be the most muscularly built, for some odd reason.
452* SpitTrailKiss: [[spoiler:Tsubaki]]'s ForcefulKiss got upgraded to this just for extra levels of {{Squick}}.
453* SpoilerOpening:
454** Strongly so, but at the same time it's very vague and you might only see the importance on hindsight. [[spoiler:Yuno killing a copy of herself and then the two joining hints at her origin in this world.]] The first opening also foreshadows every diary owner, shown in shadow with a sequence of items relating to each one.
455** The second opening is also very much a spoiler, but for a slightly different reason: [[spoiler:Faylan's lyrics are absolutely filled with huge spoilers of the story.]]
456*** [[spoiler: And anything colored blue (after the title card) in the second opening is destined to die/cease to exist. It includes most of the diary owners (except First, Second, and Ninth), Yukiteru's four friends, explosion flames that represent Ninth's terrorism, and the candle flames that represent the Eighth's foster children. By contrast, Ninth is grey-colored, Yuno has her hair tinted with real color, and Yukiteru who is the nominal winner, is the only fully colored one at all.]]
457* TheStinger: Comedic sketches and [[AllThereInTheManual bits of trivia not shown in the show proper]] close episodes of the anime.
458** [[spoiler:Also, the final scene of the anime after the credits, which leaves the whole ending rather ambiguous. Rather than include the whole epilogue where Yuno manages to break through the wall of space-time to see Yukiteru, the last message on Yukiteru's phone changes from "Yuno died." to "Yuno came to see me." This is followed by an announcement of another new project for ''Future Diary'', which turned out to be an AdaptationExpansion of the Happy End.]]
459%%* SurrealThemeTune
460%%* TearsOfBlood: The first visual of the opening credits.
461* TeensAreMonsters: Apart from the already messed-up protagonists, there is [[spoiler:Ai's [[RapeAsBackstory backstory]]: some of her female classmates set her up to be gang-raped. For no real reason other than the fact that they didn't like her]].
462* TotallyRadical: The English dub can sound like this sometimes. For example, in Episode 12, Minene holds a hospital hostage, and just before she lists her demands, she says...
463--> '''Minene:''' Give me swag, you get hostages.
464** Another episode has Yuki say "fail", outdated internet slang that has largely fallen out of use in TheNewTens.
465* WrongfulAccusationInsurance: Yukitero and Yuno end up shooting policemen during their escape after Fourth frames them for murder, has them arrested, and tries to kill them at the police station. When the situation is resolved, their role in the chaos that ensued isn't revealed to the media and they aren't charged with any crimes. (The policeman Yuki shoots is stated to have survived, but no such revelation is given for the ones Yuno had shot.)
466[[/folder]]
467
468!!The live action drama features the following tropes
469[[folder: Mirai Nikki: Another World tropes ]]
470%%* AGodAmI: Deus.
471%%* AlternateUniverse: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Hence the title.]]
472%%* AllDeathsFinal
473%%* AxCrazy: The new Yuno, although not as much as her other self. That could change, though.
474* ChekhovsGun: Haruna has a tazer which she uses to defend herself and Arata during their visit to Chronus. [[spoiler:This tazer also leads to the death of Rui.]]
475* ChekhovsGunman: Whoever locked Arata, Megumi and Yuno into the warehouse disappears without a trace. [[spoiler:It's Haruna.]]
476%%* ClingyJealousGirl: Yuno.
477%%* CreepyBasement: Yuno has one in her house. [[spoiler:She keeps someone trapped there.]]
478* DeathByIrony: [[spoiler:Megumi]] death is caused by their inability to trust another player
479* DreamingTheTruth: [[spoiler:Arata eventually starts remembering how he and Yuno met.]]
480* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Kibe]] decides that they won't be anyone's pawn. They then destroy their diary, rather than be subject to the rules of the game.
481* {{Expy}}: Most of the characters are expies of the manga cast, most notably Yuno is pretty much the same characters minus the pink hair and now nineteen.
482** Averted in Arata's case. He is meant to be like Yuki, but actually has friends, is very apathetic, takes a surprising interest in Yuno and takes a stand against the serial killer.
483* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Arata's father Kurou, a fellow diary holder, is stabbed by the serial killer, to save his son.]]
484** [[spoiler:Rui]] runs in front of [[spoiler:Haruna]] to prevent them from killing Arata. Unfortunately, Arata's savior is forced off of the bridge they were all on in the process.
485* InsaneTrollLogic: Kurou's diary shows him that [[spoiler:his wife would be killed by a burglar soon. So what does he do to save her life? DIVORCE HER AND ABANDON HIS FAMILY! Instead of, say, just telling her to stay inside the house that night. That'd have been too easy.]]
486%%* LazyBum: Arata.
487* LoveMakesYouCrazy: Episode 2 has shown Yuno has these traits, forcing Arata to tie her up temporarily.
488%%* StalkerWithACrush: Yuno, as expected.
489* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Haruna gives this to Arata, claiming that he sacrifices everyone else, rather than take responsibility for his actions and his status as a player in the game.
490* ThereCanOnlyBeOne: It has not been said how many diary holders there are in the drama but the rule still stands that the last person standing shall be the winner.
491* YouDontLookLikeYou: Deus appears in the show as a talking, purple, sun-shaped emoticon. Although this may be a mere representation since he is {{God}}.
492[[/folder]]

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