Diary Holders (Yuno Gasai) | Supporting Characters | Another World
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Arata Hoshino
Arata Hoshino
The main protagonist of the drama. A slacker of a college student, Arata has no interest in looking ahead to his future. Given a Future Diary by his friend Rui Moriguchi, Arata finds himself in a future he does not want, accompanied by his own stalker Yuno Furusaki.
- Brilliant, but Lazy: Quite smart, self-sacrificing and chivalrous, but too lazy to claim his future.
- The Chosen One: Chosen by Deus to complete Olympia.
- With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility: Shortly after Arata gets his Future Diary, he spends a night gambling and partying with friends following his diary's predictions.
- Expy: Of Yukiteru, although there's little to compare between the two other than being stalked by Yuno. Arata is very brave, independent, and dislikes using Yuno as a weapon.
- Heroic Sacrifice: Gave up the chance to return to the real world in order to please Deus, but is able to send Yuno and the other diary owners home. Implied he may awaken from his coma some day.
- Knight in Shining Armor: Despite his objectivity, he is a very kind and caring person, refusing to kill anyone (unless having no other choice).
- Laser-Guided Amnesia: Arata forgot Yuno before the survival game after her apparent death in a fire. He remembers his time with her by the series' end.
- Necessarily Evil: He is forced to break Megumi's diary to save Yuno.
- Ordinary College Student: Just a normal guy in college who has little ambitions in life til he gains his Future Diary.
- Selfless Wish: His only reason to win the game would be to revive everyone who died.
- The Slacker: Not the most enthusiastic guy about seeking a future, but this changes as the survival game goes on.
- Thou Shalt Not Kill: Unless he has no other option. He is forced to break Megumi's diary to save Yuno, and then Haruna's, although the latter asks him to.
Yuno Furusaki
Yuno Furusaki
Arata's personal stalker and love interest. Yuno is devoted to Arata and has Yandere qualities to her, but maintains a more subtle sense of madness to her. She refers to Arata as "A-kun", her diary able predicting everything Arata does or even feels. Like the original Yuno, she is implied to have had a troubled childhood and may have one or two secrets hidden in her house.
- Abusive Parents: Her mother is implied to have locked her in a closet countless times. Both of her parents are dead by the time the series starts.
- Action Girlfriend:
- Always Save The Guy: Subverted, Arata has saved Yuno from death several times.
- Ax-Crazy: Not as much as her manga counterpart, but it is still there. However, it turns out she is completely sane, just desperate to protect Arata, after failing to care for him during the fateful fire.
- Broken Bird: Implied to have been abused by her parents, and when they died, she was left broken until meeting Arata.
- Clingy Jealous Girl: Seems to have hostility towards Haruna, likely because she knows she is a diary holder.
- Expy: Of Yuno, minus the pink hair and miraculously sane.
- Girl with Psycho Weapon: Only used a knife on occasion, but tried to use a broken jar to kill Megumi.
- Go Through Me: To protect Arata.
- Good All Along: Despite the belief she was behind the whole game and secretly wanted to win it, it turns out Yuno was sent into Olympia to protect Arata from Deus.
- Lack of Empathy: Subverted, as she actually sympathises with both Yousuke and Kinjiro.
- Room Full of Crazy: Two rooms in her house. The closet where she was trapped by her mother, and the basement where someone is trapped behind a metal door. Revealed to be a secondary Yuno who seems more crazier than the first. It then turns out the trapped Yuno is merely an NPC of the virtual survival game and stabbed Arata as payback. The digital Yuno is freed in the second round of the game, armed with a diary, and tries to kill Arata and the real Yuno. In the end, Arata ends up approaching her in Olympia post-game, implied to pursue a relationship with her, real or not.
- Stalker with a Crush: Averted. Yuno was Arata's actual girlfriend before the survival game, but he forgot about her in Olympia.
- Tragic Keepsake: A small ball Arata won for her when they were dating.
- Undying Loyalty: To Arata.
- Yandere: To a lesser extent than her manga counterpart. Loses this completely by the end of the show.
Rui Moriguchi
Rui Moriguchi
Arata's college friend. He gives Arata, Yuno, Kinjiro and Megumi their Future Diaries in order to find his kidnapped sister Haruna. To atone, he helps Arata and Kinjiro in the survival game.
- Amateur Sleuth: Wants to be a great detective. It also helps his cousin Kinjiro is a cop.
- Artificial Human: Revealed to be a minion of Deus to give the characters their Future Diaries. He is installed as a relative of both Haruna and Kinjiro, as Arata's friend, and as Megumi's tutor.
- Assist Character: Initially for Deus, but he defies his programming to aid his friends.
- The Atoner: After giving his friends Future Diaries and forced to watch them fight for their lives, he decides to help end the game and confront Deus.
- Brother–Sister Team: With Haruna.
- Dropped a Bridge on Him: In a rather unexpected move, Rui is abruptly killed off halfway through the series when he takes a taser attack for Arata from his own sister, falls off a bridge and dies. It turns out he was a programme in the virtual reality survival game and broke his original programming.
- Expy: Of Akise. His role as distributor of the diaries is taken from Muru Muru.
- Face–Heel Turn: Deus gives him a Future Diary and reveals his true existence in order to kill Arata. Rui refuses to kill Arata and is executed by Deus.
- Muggle Best Friend: To Arata.
- Necessarily Evil: Had to put his friends in the survival game to save Haruna, even though she is a diary owner herself.
Haruna Okie
Haruna Okie
Rui's sister. She is an ill girl and hospitalised repeatedly. Like Rui, she feels guilty for playing a part in setting up the survival game and aids Arata. She is later revealed to be a diary owner.
- Anguished Declaration of Love: Gives one to Arata.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: She is revealed to have been playing the game since the start, intending to be the last man standing, posing as a hooded figure who locked Arata, Yuno and Megumi away to face a Dead End.
- Brother–Sister Team: With Rui.
- Canon Foreigner: The only character in Another World not based on one from the manga.
- Damsel in Distress: Kidnapped by Yousuke in order for the survival game to begin.
- Driven to Suicide: Subverted. Haruna is crushed under rubble and asks Arata to break her diary.
- Ship Tease: She has a crush on Arata.
- Totalitarian Utilitarian: Haruna's plan to win is to turn the whole world into a place where she has control over everyone's future, in order to make herself and everyone else happy. However, she also plans to force Arata to love her and remove Yuno from the picture. Averted by the end of the series, thanks to Yuno's desire to save everyone.
- Wham Line: "Did I ever have a brother?"
Kinjiro Hagino
Kinjiro Hagino
A 33-year old police officer who receives a Future Diary from Rui. Becoming an ally to Rui and Arata, Kinjiro uses his diary's ability to predict crimes to identify the other diary owners. He acts quite laidback and detached, but is quite smart and resourceful.
- Deathbed Confession: In the romantic sense.
- Dogged Nice Guy: He's head over heels for Rinko Uehara.
- Dying Smirk: Though betraying his friends and having his diary destroyed, Kinjiro simply smiles as he dies.
- Expy: A cross between Kurusu and Nishijima.
- Face–Heel Turn: Forced to by Kibe to save his lover, although it turns out to be a trap so Kibe can escape a Dead End.
- Fair Cop: A friendly, reasonable guy to have around.
- Friend on the Force: He and Rui are identified as cousins, but this turns out to be a lie supplanted by Rui.
- Knight In Shining Armour: Treats Rinko with the upmost courtesy and care, personally visiting her in hospital even when she does not recognise him.
- The Slacker: His fellow police officers think he is slacking off, but it turns out he is often just off investigating other crimes.
Rinko Uehara
Rinko Uehara
A woman of Kinjiro's age who first appears in hospital, but is later kidnapped by Tohru Kibe. She met Kinjiro six months prior to the survival game, unsure of her dreams and was abused by her husband. After her husband dies by her hand, Rinko ends up in hospital with Laser-Guided Amnesia.
- Damsel in Distress: Kidnapped by Tohru Kibe.
- Laser-Guided Amnesia: When her abusive husband tried to commit a double suicide with her, she refused and pushed him off a balcony to his death, realising the enormity of what she had done and gained amnesia.
- Turns out to be Plausible Deniability. Rinko was just hiding her fears and guilt through her fake amnesia.
- Star-Crossed Lovers: With Kinjiro.
Yousuka Okuda / Southpaw
Yousuke Okuda
Also known as "Southpaw", Yousuke Okuda is a Serial Killer who has a Future Diary. He targets anyone who possesses one of the limited release cell phones, eventually attacking Arata and Yuno. He is very tactical, his diary giving him numerous strategies to kill his targets. However, he is shown to be a troubled man, caring for a comatose mother.
- Abusive Parents: His ill, comatose mother treated him like garbage and is very strict and demanding. But, Yousuke is devoted to her.
- Crazy-Prepared: His diary has countless strategies on how to catch and kill his victims. However, each strategy has a probability factor for success and the highest is 85%.
- Driven to Suicide: Stabs his own diary when he realises Deus and Kibe manipulated him into killing.
- Expy: Of Takao Hiyama, but actually gets development. Some of his tactical methods reflect those of Reisuke.
- In the Hood: Wears a hooded, military jacket.
- Malevolent Masked Man: Disguies himself with a hood and face mask, and is hellbent on murdering the other diary owners.
- Momma's Boy: Even though she treated him poorly.
- Serial Killer: Appears to have murdered other people carrying the Chronus phones. This is subverted due to being in a simulation, Yousuke having never killed anyone after all.
- A Sinister Clue: "Southpaw" is a term referring to left-handed people.
- Villainous Breakdown: After learning Deus merely used him to start the survival game, and finding he has an inescapable Dead End, Yousuke has one hell of a breakdown.
Megumi Fuwa
Megumi Fuwa
A 17-year old high school student who studied under Rui, and was given a Future Diary by him. Living a reasonably unfair life, Megumi is at the end of her rope and considers playing the game or not. But unforeseen events end up making the choice for her. Megumi is a skilled archer, and lives with her mother and step-father who are expecting a baby.
- Angry Tears: After Arata destroys her diary, realising he betrayed her trust even though she provoked him.
- Broken Bird: Tired of her parents' negligence and being betrayed by everyone, Megumi can take no more.
- Damsel in Distress: Captured by Haruna, and faces a Dead End.
- Driven to Villainy: Pushed by a neglectful family, and then the stress of facing death, Megumi tries murdering Yuno to escape her Dead End. Arata reluctantly breaks her diary.
- Expy: Of Tsubaki Kasugano.
- Ordinary High-School Student: Thrown into a game and life she did not want.
- Parental Neglect: Her mother scolds her all the time, her step-father seems well-meaning but Megumi refuses to call him "Dad", and they both have a child coming, likely meaning Megumi will be neglected even more so.
- The Power of Trust: Megumi has tried to revitalise her trust in others, but after saving a girl who ended up bullying her, she has given up all hope. Also puts her trust in Arata to save her from the survival game, only to snap, and her diary is destroyed.
Kurou Hoshino
Kurou Hoshino
Arata's father who helped develop the Future Diaries. He works for the Chronus Seed Corporation in the development department. He abruptly divorces his wife, but his reasons are later revealed.
- Badass Normal: Protects his son from Yousuke.
- The Man Behind the Man: Revealed to be the director of the Olympia program and designed Deus.
- Papa Wolf: To his son and to Yuno.
- Passing the Torch: Gives it to his son shortly after divorcing his wife, telling him to embrace his future.
- The Reveal: Kurou did not actually die in the first episode, but was alive all along, revealing to Arata that he and the other diary owners are in a simulation. The Kurou who died was an AI.
- Video Wills: Initially, Kurou's message to Arata was to explain why he divorced his mother, but it turns into this when he receives his Dead End at the end of the recording.
Tohru Kibe
Tohru Kibe
The CEO of Chronus Seed Corporation which developed the Future Diaries. His goals are ambiguous but it seems he wishes to make a better future.
- Affably Evil: He believes the deaths of the diary owners are worthy sacrifices to make the future better.
- Big Brother Is Watching: His diary works the same as John Bacchus'.
- Corrupt Corporate Executive: Runs a company that designs phones that can predict the future, and has no trouble blackmailing and murder to secure his own survival.
- Expy: Of John Bacchus, though not a mayor, instead a businessman.
- A God Am I: Averted. Kinjiro believes he is Deus, but it turns out he is a diary owner and hates Deus.
- Red Herring: Believed to be Deus.
- You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Pulls this on both Yousuke and Kinjiro.
Deus
Deus
An alternate version of Deus Ex Machina, this Deus initiated the survival game with the winner getting a better future.
- A.I. Is a Crapshoot: Deus is actually the computer program responsible for overseeing the Olympia virtual reality/medical support system which the comatose diary owners are hooked up to but turned against his masters and is now a literal cyber terrorist.
- Driven to Suicide: Upon realising he cannot make anyone happy, Deus destroys himself using the deactivation code.
- Expy: Of Deus Ex Machina, obviously, although with Muru Muru's personality.
- Jerkass: Comes across as this regarding his players. Even Kibe hates him.
- Physical God: Averted. Actually a rogue computer programme controlling a simulation.
- Sadistic Choice: Seems to love these. She gives Arata the choice to give the release codes or remain in Olympia; forces the six other diary owners into a Mexican Standoff; and forces Rui to either shoot Arata or die.
- Samus Is a Girl: Deus' in-game avatar is oddly enough a woman named "Jingu-ji".
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: Deus does not want Olympia to collapse and wants someone to help complete the programme by remaining behind.
- You Don't Look Like You: Deus appears as a purple, sun-shaped, smiling emoticon, and later a female avatar.
