Line #70 YMMV/FutureDiary


1	* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Does Yuno really love Yukiteru, or is he just a LivingEmotionalCrutch to her? Does Yukiteru really love Yuno, for that matter, or is it AMatchMadeInStockholm?
2	* AluminumChristmasTrees:
3	** "Cell Phone Diaries" are not uncommon at all in Japan, but the practice is nigh-unheard of in the west, leading to the set-up to be a little funky for audiences unfamiliar with the subtler aspects of modern Japanese culture.
4	** It can feel weird for a Westerner reading or watching the first time how they outright call Tsubaki's group a cult and yet the characters treat it rather casually when it is introduced. We find out more about the cult and what goes on behind the scenes, but it can feel weird that it's so matter-of-fact with the police with no one even trying to deny it or pointing out how strange it is for some people to casually start a cult around a little girl. As seen with Shinzo Abe's assassination, Japan has had a problem with cults with the government not doing much about it, but it can still feel weird that the group is not going out it it's way to get it to be referred to as something else and forcing people to refer to it with a different term, or how the police acknowledge that it's a cult but it doesn't seem to be in legal trouble or has had any friction with them.
5	* AngstWhatAngst: In her introduction, Hinata is [[spoiler: manipulated by her father, who uses her desire for his love to do so, into becoming a serial killer, betraying her new friends, having her closest friend almost die, and then having ''herself'' almost die, only for her father to then reveal he was lying to her the whole time, after which he is promptly shot dead.]] ''None'' of this is ''ever'' referenced again, and Hinata carries on as a normal girl who shows no sign of stress or trauma from that experience.
6	* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic:
7	** Many can agree that [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZvJY7_gyfw the first opening song, Kuusou Mesorogiwi by Yousei Teikoku]], is very catchy. It's even more amazing when there are two lyrics that contain nothing but Greek gods' names, while the song overall has three languages sung by the same person: English, Japanese, and German.
8	** While every Diary holder has a catchy ImageSong, special mention must be made for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98rPvXWHQJk "Justice Rangers GO 12th!!"]]. Which suiting a CrazyIsCool character like 12th, is a bombastic, awesome number straight out of a badass Sentai show.
9	** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8Nez3BFzp4 "Upper Class Speed Game"]] is an especially epic track that accompanies some major climactic battle scenes.
10	* BaseBreakingCharacter:
11	** Opinions are split on whether Yukiteru is either a major woobie and realistically-written, relatable TragicHero who deserves a happy ending (and a hug), or a spineless, cowardly and whiny angst-bucket on the level of [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Shinji Ikari]] who is outshone by his more likable supporting cast, while simultaneously also being a DirtyCoward willing to do morally reprehensible things in the name of his goal.
12	** You may think Yuno is a delightful {{Yandere}} as well as the [[JustHereForGodzilla main highlight of the series]], or just an unlikable lunatic [[HypeAversion who hardly deserves the praise she gets]]. Some fans acknowledge that as a person, Yuno is terrible, but as a {{Yandere}} and VillainProtagonist, she's delightful and exciting to watch.
13	* BizarroEpisode: Tsubaki's arc is... out of place in the series (though it's up to the viewer if it is), between the zombies, the GratuitousRape, and the simple existence of Twelfth, and is never mentioned again beyond Reisuke's parents being in the Cult of the 6th and dying being a factor in the following arc, and a brief CallBack at the end of the series where we see [[spoiler: how Tsubaki's fate is changed.]] Some overlap with AngstWhatAngst, given that Yuno should probably be a ''little'' more broken up about being ''[[AttemptedRape almost gang-raped.]]''
14	* BrokenBase:
15	** The English dub voices of Yukiteru and Yuno. Some fans think their English voices are terrible and don't fit their characters, other fans think that not only do the English voices perfectly fit their characters, but also make them a refreshing change of pace from the high-pitched girly voice and shy, insecure, young boy voice that have been overused a lot in anime.
16	** ''Future Diary: Redial''; the continuation of the main series, has two versions: manga and OVA. Some people prefer the manga version while the others like the OVA version better. While both versions lead to the same ending, there are significant differences between the two, such as the addition of BeachEpisode in the OVA. Also, the way [[spoiler:3rd-world Akise]] confronts [[spoiler:3rd-world Yuno]] is totally different in the OVA compared to the original manga version.
17	* CompleteMonster: Funatsu, though a [[SmallRoleBigImpact minor villain]], caused one of the most horrific events of the series. Once a member of a peaceful cult based around a young girl, Tsubaki Kasugano, who allegedly had prophetic powers, Funatsu killed her parents when they planned to disband the cult, fearing losing said powers. Becoming the de facto head of his reformed cult, Funatsu allowed the members to [[RapeAsBackstory rape Tsubaki regularly]], possibly taking part himself, and drugged her to keep her defenseless against their constant assault. So intense was Funatsu's cruelty to Tsubaki that she went insane and began [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds plotting to destroy the world]].
18	* CrazyIsCool:
19	** Yuno, '''in spades'''. In the first world, she attempts to [[TakeAThirdOption get around the whole]] ThereCanBeOnlyOne [[TakeAThirdOption thing]] by forming a SuicidePact with Yukiteru and then resurrecting him when she becomes God. [[CameBackWrong Naturally, this doesn't quite work out,]] prompting her to ''fucking break space-time and go back to the beginning,'' Literature/TheDarkTower style, and this time do whatever it takes to save her Yukiteru. '''[[UnscrupulousHero Whatever.]] [[TheUnfettered It.]] [[BloodKnight Takes.]]'''
20	** Minene Uryu. "Cosplay Bomber" is not her FanNickname for no reason.
21	** Yomotsu Hirasaka, though that's kind of inevitable for a blind insane ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' parody.
22	* CrossesTheLineTwice:
23	** Takao Hiyama appears in a flashback in the middle of one chapter... only to take a spear in the back, courtesy of Yuno. Him being an AssholeVictim is probably what makes it so funny in the first place.
24	** The post-credits short at the end of the first episode, which primarily consists of him [[TheyKilledKennyAgain constantly dying out of sheer paranoia and stupidity]].
25	* DracoInLeatherPants:
26	** The more avid fans of Yuno tend to tone down her more negative and violent qualities in favor of her devotion to Yukiteru.
27	** Similarly, Minene Uryu has some fans who see her as a hero, selectively ignoring the fact that she's a violent terrorist who will kill anyone, even children, with little remorse.
28	* DieForOurShip: Both Yuno and Akise are victims of this, though the latter has it more prominently [[RonTheDeathEater within the fandom]]. Notably, it actually is in-character for Yuno[[note]]the main one from the first world, anyway -- her second and third world counterparts, not so much[[/note]] to kill people that come between her and Yukiteru, though it's more often this trope than MurderTheHypotenuse.
29	* EnsembleDarkhorse: [[DarkActionGirl Minene (Ninth)]], [[BattleCouple Marco and Ai (Seventh)]], and [[CrazyIsCool Yomotsu (Twelfth)]].
30	* FanNickname:
31	** Yuno Gasai is known by many as the Queen of--no, '''''[[Pantheon/InfatuationAndObsession Goddess]]''''' of {{Yandere}}.
32	** Uryuu Minene is called the cosplay bomber, primarily for her first appearance where she bombs Yukiteru's school while wearing a lolita-style outfit.
33	* FashionVictimVillain:
34	** The only defining feature on Twelfth's costume is a giant one-eyed bag with an out-of-place WesternAnimation/CodeLyoko-esque design on it.
35	** Similarly, it's fairly difficult for some viewers to take Marco seriously with his needlessly eccentric [[AnimeHair pompadour]].
36	* FoeYayShipping: Yuno/Akise (''despite'' their mutual hatred) is a popular alternative ship for Yuno fans who dislike Yukki. Zig-zagged after the release of ''Redial'' manga, as Yuno [[spoiler:from the third world]] has no animosity toward Akise.
37	* GrowingTheBeard: Many think that the anime becomes more interesting [[spoiler: after Fourth's death, with Yuno taking on a more antagonistic role and characters such as Aru Akise becoming more prominent and proactive in the story]].
38	* HilariousInHindsight:
39	** One quote associated with Creator/NorioWakamoto is "[[ComicBook/{{Watchmen}} God exists and he is Japanese]]." Guess who voices Deus in the anime adaptation?
40	** [[Anime/CodeGeass Emperor Charles zi Britannia]] overthrew God? ''"All candidates are'' not ''created equal!"''
41	** [[Manga/FullmetalAlchemist Father]] (Creator/KentWilliams) has finally become God.
42	** Who knew that ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' would share a plot point with ''this,'' of all things? [[spoiler: In both, a major character goes into an AlternateTimeline to try and fix a mistake, and ends up killing that timeline's version of themselves to ensure their cover.]]
43	** The [[Film/DeathNote2017 Netflix Death Note film]] also causes some of this; the changes to the protagonists make them more reminiscent of ''Yuki and Yuno'' than of Light and Misa.
44	* HoYay: [[HoYay/FutureDiary Has its own page]].
45	* IKnewIt: [[spoiler:Yuno being from an AlternateUniverse]] had been more or less accepted as a solid theory long before TheReveal confirmed it.
46	* ItWasHisSled: [[spoiler: Yuno's true nature]],[[spoiler:Akise's death]], the ending in general, really.
47	* JustHereForGodzilla: Some people watch the series for the resident {{Yandere}}.
48	* MagnificentBitch: [[BigBad Mur-Mur]] is the [[LaughablyEvil humorous]] minion of Deus Ex Machina, but schemes behind her master's back to continue the survival games for eternity [[ItAmusedMe to amuse herself]]. Convincing [[{{Yandere}} Yuno Gasai]] to travel to the 2nd World and take that Yuno's place so she can still be with protagonist Yukiteru Amano, Mur-Mur would also take her own 2nd world counterpart's place so she can manipulate the people in that world; She tells Keigo Kurusu that he can cure his son's illness if he wins causing him to turn against Yukiteru, and lies to Yukiteru that he can resurrect his dead parents if he becomes god. Mur-Mur also takes direct manners to those that interfere with her plans such as erasing all of Akise's actions in ''Paradox'', abandoning Yukiteru in the 2nd world before traveling to the 3rd world with Yuno, and brutalizing Minene Uryu when she fights her; she would have won if Yuno had not killed herself out love for Yukiteru, leading Mur-Mur to unite Yuno's 3rd world counterpart with Yukiteru.
49	* MemeticMutation:
50	** [[http://cdn.playbuzz.com/cdn/37ef8ebb-ad02-4e24-9650-541a054ad7e4/3c9e9269-d89b-4eb4-a218-c10e7f6bd280.jpg The face that Yuno makes at the end of the first episode]] spread to the point that it's been drawn on several different characters from entirely unrelated series. Known on Pixiv as [[http://bit.ly/s3vQ40 恍惚のヤンデレポーズ]] (lit. "ecstatic {{yandere}} pose") and on [[ImageBooru various *boorus]] as [[http://safebooru.org/index.php?page=post&s=list&tags=yandere_trance yandere trance]].
51	** "...tea, biscuits, biscuits, fuck this tea! Senpai!"[[labelnote:explanation]]A portion of misheard lyrics from the anime's first OP (actually "Thee can't resist this fantasy! Survive!" in {{Engrish}}). [[/labelnote]]
52	* MoralEventHorizon:
53	** Tsubaki crosses this when [[spoiler: she orders her followers to strip off Yuno's clothing... and to gang-rape her, all so she could lure Yukiteru out of his hiding place. This one is a particularly sad example, since given Tsubaki's own RapeAsBackstory, it's clear that she has become so desensitized to sexual violence by this point that she would casually threaten it against someone else.]]
54	** Mur Mur crosses this when [[spoiler: she undoes the positive future in ''Paradox'' by deliberately erasing everyone's memories and goes back in time to make sure that the 2nd is still alive and kills them all. She also uses the wounded Yukiteru to prevent Akise from stopping her plans.]]
55	** Akise in the manga crossed it when [[spoiler: he abandons Yukiteru's friends to let them die by Yukiteru's hands, just so he can get the chance to kill Yuno. Even Yukiteru is disgusted by this. Defied in the anime, where he actually tries to stop Yukiteru.]]
56	* {{Narm}}:
57	** The English covers. "Every text could be your last."
58	** The soundtrack in the anime often uses stock music stings heard in various others shows (such as WesternAnimation/{{Cyberchase}}) for dramatic scenes, torpedoing any tension to oblivion. One such moment is TheReveal in episode 3.
59	** When Yuno and Yukiteru [[spoiler:eventually do fight each other]], the former asks why he always has to interfere in her plans. Yukiteru's response in the original Japanese was, "[[spoiler:Because I love you!]]" The English dub, for whatever reason, opted to expand this into, "[[spoiler:Because I love you, you crazy bitch!]]" Though it also crosses into NarmCharm given that it's completely in-line with the SugarWiki/SuperlativeDubbing and characters at that point.
60	* PeripheryDemographic: There are a significant number of females who [[JustHereForGodzilla watch the series]] just for [[{{Yandere}} Yuno]]. Given that Yuno is one of the relatively few women in {{Shonen}} series of the period to be a proactive ([[DarkActionGirl Dark]]) ActionGirl rather than a DamselInDistress or SatelliteLoveInterest, this probably shouldn't come as a shock to anyone.
61	* RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap:
62	** While originally hated for being a DirtyCoward who allows Yuno to hang around him, [[EasilyForgiven despite all she's done]], for his own protection, Yukiteru Amano TookALevelInBadass and started to stand on his own feet later in the game.
63	** In the main series, Tsubaki earned plenty of ire for her BizarroEpisode arc and MoralEventHorizon crossing, but her depiction in the spinoff manga ''Paradox'' won over some fans, as she's kept a sympathetic character with notable endearing traits without ever crossing any serious lines in her actions.
64	* RootingForTheEmpire: Plenty of fans were rooting for some of the other Diary Holders (like Minene or Yuno) to win instead of Yuki, seeing as how they came off as more sympathetic and likable.
65	* SpiritualLicensee: For the amount of borderline-NC-17-leveled {{Gorn}} and intense violence and each arc being some sort of DieHardOnAnX premise, it can be seen as though this anime and manga was made by action genre filmmaker Creator/RennyHarlin of ''Film/DieHard2'' and ''Film/{{Cliffhanger}}''. Someone on Website/YouTube [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzmWU0do-0U even made a fan trailer inspired by the trailer to the latter]].
66	* SugarWiki/SuperlativeDubbing: It has a rough start, but it gets much better; the {{Woolseyism}} improves as the series goes on.
67	** Even those who don't like the dub version can't help but agree that Creator/KentWilliams as Deus Ex Machina is GLORIOUS.
68	** Notably, the English dub replaces all of Yuno's constant [[SayMyName exclamations of Yuki's name]] with cutesy pet names, which is simultaneously unsettling and [[{{Moe}} absolutely adorable]].
69	* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: [[spoiler:With TheReveal of Yuno being the winner of the original Survival Game and stealing the role of the Yuno native to Yuki's timeline, you can't help wondering how that original Survival Game played out without otherworld "foresight"...]]
70	* TooBleakStoppedCaring: In a similar vein to ''Manga/ElfenLied'', the series has drawn a lot of criticism for its constant barrage of dark backstories for VillainOfTheWeek characters that ultimately get killed off at the end of their arcs and the grimdark storytelling exhausting itself after a while to the point where it's just shock value.
71	* TooCoolToLive: [[spoiler:Marco is the strongest physical combatant, and only dies because [[HonorBeforeReason he promised he'd stay with his lover]].]]
72	%%* UglyCute: The Eighth diary holder, Kamado Ueshita.
73	* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic:
74	** There are some fans who just can't quite get on board when [[spoiler:Minene Uryu becomes portrayed by the narrative as an AntiHero, which expects them to feel sorry for her tragic backstory and root for her and Nishijima. The reasons stem from her introduction having her gleefully bomb a school room full of innocent children and then take the school hostage under the threat of more bombing and not finding the [[CharacterizationMarchesOn drift away from that characterization]] convincing, to feeling like [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything a Middle East-bred terrorist who kills out of hate and intolerance for religion]] is [[RealitySubtext too close to reality for comfort]]. Then there's the matter of her acting as if Yuno is [[EvilerThanThou eviler than her]]; while both she and Yuno are horrible, murderous people, Yuno's the only one between them who would likely get a verdict of "not guilty by reason of insanity" in a court of law, whereas Minene accumulated a higher body count in a (generally speaking) right state of mind]].
75	** Kurou Amano probably is the worst offender of this trope in the series, as after [[spoiler:making a deal with Yuki's enemies to destroy his diary, stealing a parachute and leaving his son to die, and ''stabbing his ex-wife, Yuki's mother, to death'' in order to stop her from alerting the police, the story suddenly has him break down in remorse over it all, with him being EasilyForgiven by Yukiteru. The fandom, on the other hand, was not so forgiving.]]
76	* ViewerGenderConfusion: Orin, the second-in-command of the children in Eighth's orphanage, is confirmed to be a girl in ''Mosaic''.
77	* TheWoobie:
78	** Yuki could be considered this. At the start he is a shy and introverted young boy, and then he gets shoved into a [[ThereCanBeOnlyOne duel to the death]] with a bunch of psychopaths. His only consistant ally is the craziest of them all, the ''biggest'' StalkerWithACrush {{Yandere}} ''ever'', who, at one point, [[spoiler: chains him up and imprisons him, so that no one would get in the way of their love]]. Poor guy.
79	** [[spoiler:Second World Yuno]]. Yes, her [[spoiler:stalking Yukiteru]] is kind of reprehensible, but it's never taken to the extremes that [[spoiler:her First World counterpart]] goes to. Her FreudianExcuse is explored in detail more than [[spoiler:the previous Yuno]], and unlike [[spoiler:the next Yuno]], she doesn't live long enough to see a happy ending, getting killed by [[spoiler:her previous incarnation]] without knowing why.

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