History Manga / FutureDiary

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[[caption-width-right:350:The rules are simple: Outsmart and kill all the others to become a god.]]

* GratuitousJapanese: In the English dub, one of the end sketches has Yuno doing this.

* DeadManSwitch: 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 12th, 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 12th is hiding.]]

* CameBackWrong / SoulessShell: The reason why [[spoiler:bringing people back after being God doesn't work. See SuicidePact on this page for more details]].

* CameBackWrong/SoulessShell: The reason why [[spoiler:bringing people back after being God doesn't work. See SuicidePact on this page for more details]].

* CameBackWrong: The reason why [[spoiler:bringing people back after being God doesn't work. See SuicidePact on this page for more details]].

* 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.

* ScryVsScry: The entire premise. The protagonist Yukiteru and tritagonist Minene are [[{{Pantheon/Prophecy}} co gods of this trope]].[[note]]Originally Yukiteru alone was supposed to have this position, but due to Yuno keeping him from having free range of movement which prevents him from fulfilling his responsibilities. His way of resolving this was to give part of the position to someone else more available and he decided it would be Minene.[[/note]]

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* EarnYourHappyEnding

* {{Ecchi}}: The series occasionally delves into this, mostly with Yuno.

* ArsGoetia: Mur Mur and [[spoiler: Gremory from the manga adaptation of ''Redial'']] appear in the story.

''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvC9cRAyJX8 The Future Diary]]'' is licensed by Creator/FUNimation, and all but ''Redial'' has been released.

* MadLove: The only plausible relationship you can have with an utterly AxCrazy {{Yandere}}. Yuno and Yukiteru are [[{{Pantheon/Love}} the gods of this trope]].

* {{Yandere}}: Yuno isn't just an example, she's the ''poster girl'' [[Pantheon/{{Emotion}} and goddess]].
** In case we haven't hammered it home that Yuno is the mascot of this trope, it's now become a rather large trend to copy other characters, Yandere or not, onto Yuno's face from the first episode in the anime. You probably know it as 'The Yandere Face.' meme. They sell posters of her making said face at some Hot Topics, even though the anime had just finished airing in Japan. Poster girl indeed.

* GambitPileup: ScryVsScry [[XMeetsY meets]] IKnowYouKnowIKnow meets ''Manga/DeathNote''.

*** Near the end of the series, Yuno starts wearing an [[ElegantGothicLolita 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.

** Not to mention Juno "the goddess of marrige" which according to [[TheOtherWiki the Master Wiki]] is pronounced "Yuno". Coincidence?

* PrecisionFStrike: Ninth screams "FUCK YOU!" to Fourth in the English dub during episode 11.

* 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 Cairvoyance Diary trumps Minene's Escape Diary, since Tsubaki's diary predicts a wider scope than Minene's.

* MoralDissonance: In the later chapters, [[spoiler:Yuki's plans to win the game involve having Yuno murder the Eighth's children so they can seize her diary, and later, ''murder innocent bystanders'' in order to cause a huge stir and put the Eleventh and his diary at a disadvantage. Somewhat justified by Yuki's desire to become a god at all costs after having had his parents killed.]] In his defense, [[spoiler:he did keep a list of the people he killed so that he could remember to resurrect them all later. Of course, that would only work if he was truly able to bring them back.]]

* {{Badass}}: Yuno without a doubt. Naturally smart and cunning, she's also deadly with just about any weapon from melee weapons to guns; a true armsmaster.

* 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.

* 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 a phone that 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}} rewinds time to reverse his death]] every time.

* ExpendableAlternateUniverse: Discussed by Minene and Yuki when [[spoiler: they both travel to the AlternateTimeline]]. Minene insists Yuki must invoke this trope if he wishes to succeed. Yuki defies it and that enables EarnYourHappyEnding.

** [[spoiler: And anything colored blue (after the title card) in the second opening is destined to die/cease to exist. It includes all 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.]]
* 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 raped. For no real reason other than the fact that they didn't like her]].

* TheirFirstTime: [[spoiler:Chapter 52. Twisted later, as Yuki confronts Yuno on Akise's message and she goes AxCrazy.]]

* 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 a lot of awful behavior with the knowledge that they'll be able to reshape reality afterward.

* YouAreNumberSix

* WellIntentionedExtremist

* StarCrossedLovers: Yuki and Yuno will never be together, since one of them needs to die to complete the Survival Game. At the end, [[spoiler:Yuno dies to ensure Yuki lives, but her memories are given to her third world self and she becomes god to be with Yuki.]]

* 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.]]
* 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 where she could replay her day 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.]]

* 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 survives and saves Yuki later]].