History Manga / FutureDiary

* 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 1st, Yuki, ends up crossing his moral boundaries.

* 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.]]

* SmurfettePrinciple: [[spoiler: when the five Twelfths are show, pink is female]]

* InnocentPanties: There's a still of some seeming random little girl and her mother in the anime ED, with the "camera" at floor level.

* Most importantly, if a diary is damaged beyond working order by whatever or whomever, the diary's owner will die.

* {{Pixellation}}: Used to censor Minene's empty eye socket, and [[spoiler:Yuno's knife wedged into 5th's abdomen and diary]].

* SpoilerOpening: And how! However, it's a case of both straight and subvert, as none of the spoiler are very vague; (almost) all the spoilers require the reader to already know about for it to seem significant, otherwise it just seems like some artistic license.

* SpoilerOpening: And how! Luckily, at the same time it's also very vague; it's (almost) all stuff you'd have to already know about for it to seem significant.

After taking out his would-be murderer, Yuki is invited to a gathering with eleven 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 without any true friends or allies aside from the curiously Yuki-obsessed participant, Yuno Gasai...

Compare and contrast ''DeathNote'', which also features a "[[JustForPun notebook]]" as a centerpiece.

* DeusExMachina: Taken extremely literally, and then played straight. This trope is the name of a God overseeing the game, and he has orchestrated the events leading up to it's execution. This includes selecting the individuals and creating the Diaries that would be used. Deus himself, however, is also the trope given form: he operates the game from within, and his selections all have important personalities given vaguely away extremely early. Even the diaries are DeusExMachina given form.

* InnocentPanties: There's a still of some seeming random little girl and her mother in the anime ED, with the "camera" at floor level.

* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler: Yukki, Yuno, Fourth, Mur Mur.]] Or would it be easier to list the exceptions?

** In Chapter 57, there is [[spoiler:Murmur's]] true form.

* BigBadDuumvirate: [[spoiler:Yuno and Murmur. 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]].

** Akise is shown to act this way towards ''[[HoYay Yuki]]'' in the AlternateUniverse spin-off ''Paradox''. He ''just'' met Yuki, yet quickly decides to use Murmur'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.

* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler: Yukki, Yuno, Fourth, Murmur.]] Or would it be easier to list the exceptions?

* GainaxEnding: The 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 with only Murmur 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.]]

** [[spoiler:Murmur]] however plays it straight.

* GrotesqueCute: Particular mention should be given to Yuno, Reisuke, and [[spoiler:Murmur]].

** The AlternateUniverse spin-off, ''Paradox'' shows outright that he [[LoveAtFirstSight fell in love with Yuki at first sight]], and sort of "replaces" Yuno as being the {{Yandere}} that kills and fights so that Yuki can become God. When asked by Murmur if he's gay, he tells her he's not - he [[SingleTargetSexuality just loves Yuki]].

* [[spoiler: {{KillEmAll}}:In the second world, literally everyone - except Yukiteru (god) and Murmur - dies. Even *after* killing every character with a face (except Minene, who bails out to world#3), the world simply ceases to exist. Which by that stage is probably euthenasia. Of course, in world #3, all the characters live happy lives.]]

* SadisticChoice: In Chapter 55, [[spoiler:Yuno forces one of these on Yuki after they, Minene and Murmur jump back in time. Either Yuki hands over the 3rd world's Yuno to be killed, or 1st world Yuno will kill Yuki's parents]].

* {{Tsundere}}: Murmur 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]].

* AllThereInTheManual: Murmur's [[TheStinger extra segments]].

* ArtShift: Weirdly done with some MediumBlending at the end of episode five in Murmur's ending segment with the 12th; the art is suddenly some crudely made clay figures in stop-motion, with some slightly bizarre 2D animation spliced in between.

* DeathIsCheap: TheStinger for the first episode has Murmur attempt to deliver the 3rd's diary, only for him to err on the side of caution and destroy a phone that seems to be monitoring him in painstaking detail before she can properly explain the natures of the diary or the game. This happens several times and she rewinds time to reverse his death every time.

** In Chapter 57, there is [[spoiler:Muru Muru's]] true form.

* BigBadDuumvirate: [[spoiler:Yuno and Murumuru. 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]].

** Akise is shown to act this way towards ''[[HoYay Yuki]]'' in the AlternateUniverse spin-off ''Paradox''. He ''just'' met Yuki, yet quickly decides to use Muru Muru'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.

* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler: Yukki, Yuno, Fourth, Muru Muru.]] Or would it be easier to list the exceptions?

* GainaxEnding: The 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 vaccuum for 10,000 with only Muru Muru 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.]]

** [[spoiler:Muru Muru]] however plays it straight.

* GrotesqueCute: Particular mention should be given to Yuno, Reisuke, and [[spoiler:Muru Muru]].

** The AlternateUniverse spin-off, ''Paradox'' shows outright that he [[LoveAtFirstSight fell in love with Yuki at first sight]], and sort of "replaces" Yuno as being the {{Yandere}} that kills and fights so that Yuki can become God. When asked by Muru Muru if he's gay, he tells her he's not - he [[SingleTargetSexuality just loves Yuki]].

* [[spoiler: {{KillEmAll}}:In the second world, literally everyone - except Yukiteru (god) and Murumuru - dies. Even *after* killing every character with a face (except Minene, who bails out to world#3), the world simply ceases to exist. Which by that stage is probably euthenasia. Of course, in world #3, all the characters live happy lives.]]

* SadisticChoice: In Chapter 55, [[spoiler:Yuno forces one of these on Yuki after they, Minene and Muru Muru jump back in time. Either Yuki hands over the 3rd world's Yuno to be killed, or 1st world Yuno will kill Yuki's parents]].

* {{Tsundere}}: Murumuru 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]].

* TookALevelInBadass: After [[spoiler:his father is killed,]] Yuki retaliated 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 a MeatShield (another one of his would-be assassins]].

* [[{{TheReasonYouSuckSpeech}} The Reason We Suck Speech]]: In chapter 57, Yuuno tells Yuuki the [[BrutalHonesty reality of their relationship]]

** 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?]

* TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt: [[GodIsEvil Deus X 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.]]

* TookALevelInBadass: After [[spoiler:his father is killed,]] Yuki retaliated 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 a meat shield (another one of his would-be assassins]].

** 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 the background behind her. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murmur_%28demon%29 Any relation?]

* EvolvingCredits: There's a shot near the end of the opening that shows all 12 diary holders during their meeting with Deus. As diary holders die they're replaced with the floating text "DEAD END".

* [[spoiler: {{Kill 'em All}}:In the second world, literally everyone - except Yukiteru (god) and Murumuru - dies. Even *after* killing every character with a face (except Minene, who bails out to world#3), the world simply ceases to exist. Which by that stage is probably euthenasia. Of course, in world #3, all the characters live happy lives.]]