(L) Mirai Nikki (Series)

[Hiroi Sekai]

Murmur unleashed was the scariest thing...ever. xD

[Master_Yoma]

Well there goes that school again

[rafael1932]

Would be funny to see another season with yuki running away with the small yuno from all the players and old yuno.

Hey there is not 2 yuki this time ? anyone wants a sandwich

[Mr.Raw]

Originally Posted by Flawnalyst

Spoiler for Space:

I thought that too, but mostly related to characters. There's a lot of things you see in other anime that gets turned on its ass in relation to them. Like Yuki getting a magical girlfriend, only that girlfriend is pretty much poison. Or the fact that Yuki is one of those wimps who grows for the worse instead of for the better. And the relationship between them is so good (because honestly, I don't think they work on their own very well) due how twisted, sycophantic, and tongue-in-cheek it is. For people who want to see a badass teamed up with a psycho, go read the author's other manga, Big Order.

And who can forget the fact that every time a new diary owner appears, they always prove Yuki wrong. When he tried to be the coward and run away from Ninth, she made them practically impossible by cornering him. When he tried to be the nice guy and help Tsubaki (forgot her number), it ends up backfiring. When he tries to distance himself from Yuno, Seventh puts an end to that plan. When he tries to be the bad guy, his opponent becomes Eighth, who is a genuinely good person.

Of course, whether or not it's a good satire is up for debate, but it definitely improved the show for me.

I must say, I never looked at the anime like that. Very well observed sir
I also must say that whole show is just awesomely put together, though I still don't like the wimpy Yukiteru.

As for episode 25: I loved the action and you won't hear me complaining about the whole shounen thing I like it. Minene has a bad habit of losing her limps, may it her arms/hands or just her eye

Oh and the scene when Yuno was holding bashed-up Minene made a great impression on me , sorry Minene - fans don't get me wrong, I love her as well D:
I liked it so much I made a gif out of it ;D

Spoiler for Muhahahhhahahahaah:

[Kismet-chan]

Spoiler for Newtype scan:

[Guido]

I got myself addicted playing a certain videogame that ended neglecting the reviews for Mirai Nikki the following three weeks in a row, hence, I decided to watch a marathon of episodes 23 to 25 to be ready for the final episode which is due very, very soon.

For the twenty-third episode it does again what's so delightful of Mirai Nikki changing the moods to something sweet, as Yuki chose to be one together with Yuno one day before the end of the world and consummate both their love. However, the moment Yuki asked the question he shouldn't asked then everything went downhill to hell in classic Yuno psychopath mode.

Murumuru's actions up to now are cleared, and she only spiced things up not only to keep herself entertained with the game but to progress it to seemingly its last stage.

Spoiler:

She confirmed for real what Akise desperately attempted to convey to Yukiteru:

about the Game of the First World, and how the current Yuno became the Goddess of Time and Space from the first world and made critical mistakes that prevented him permanently from reviving her world's Yuki, therefore, she travelled back in time creating unexpectedly the second world.

Yuno became the Goddess of Time and Space not simply the Goddess of Time. A debatable point is that by travelling into the past she created an alternate reality world which was the same as her world, in other world's current Yuki's world (the second world) and quickly kill her other self from the second world with little regards so as to enter the game to repeat her cycle in an attempt to spend as much possible time with Yukki, as possible.

Deus said that Murumuru's his servant, but since Yuno from the first world won the Game and became the Goddess, then Murumuru's ownership passed to Yuno, hence, the current Murumuru as well comes from the first world.

Please no spoiling me; my review for episode twenty-fourth soon will come.

[Arya]

Uuh, with the new season starting I forgot about MN for a moment.

Spoiler for ep. 25:

At first I said, what? and I was tempted to drop the episode, but when cutie Murmur was upgraded by Yuno to that mini-monster (not cute at all) I started waiting Minene dropping her eye-patch saying something like, "You made me use both my eyes, your ass is doomed now" :mahou-shoujo-trasforming:
So, the fighting parts were a bit ridiculous. Except for the ending.

On the other hand I liked the rest of the episode and how Yuno finally spoke the truth about them and their supposed love. To me this could have been a good end for MN, a bitter and fair ending for Yuno and Yuki, with him accepting his golden-box, finally reunited with his beloved parents; and Yuno stepping forward into her insanity and to another, hopefully more supportive, Yuki.
I'm curious how they will set the mess.

[serenade_beta]

Ah~ Ah~ ah...

Spoiler for last episode:

I feared that they would do the same epilogue as the manga, which would suck, but they decided to not do the epilogue, but only HINT at it AND THEN announce a new project!
What?!
That sucks even more.
Just end it before or after, not half-way.

Spoiler for final thoughts:

Well, in general, my thoughts are the same as the manga. Interesting to the half-way mark and then slowly falls... falls... falls... until the last arc, which was watching some boring supernatural battle. I can't really blame the anime staff, since they were following the manga, but still, geez, it got boring as it neared the end.
The epilogue of the 3rd world itself and the chain reaction was pretty nice and kind of makes you feel the long road walked throughout the story, but that is the only thing near the end that really felt well done.

Comparing to the manga, the staff animated it fairly well on parts, but not so well on others. For instance, (thankfully) Tsubaki's arc was improved from the manga, but on the other hand, Ai's arc gets her raped for no needed reason.
Animation/Character designs were definitely prettier than the manga, but the manga's artwork fit the atmosphere of the story better.
The abuse of using Murumuru for the after-ED extras was pretty bad too, seemingly put there just to use up the rest of the episode that the staff couldn't fill in with actual story.

OP/ED... Not so impressive. The first ED was REALLY cool, but that was the only good one. The second ED was Yuno acting like the tragic heroine (right...) and the second ED was fairly bad Engrish.

[miketyson]

Episode 26 was a fitting end to this adaption.

Spoiler for Details:

I think this has a much better epilogue than the manga had, same general idea but much better in all the little details. The manga's infamous ending got left out...perhaps as an OVA special? Really disappointing not to see that animated, because as much of a head-scratcher as it is it makes the story feel like less of a pointless waste.

Overall I think watching this adaptation has made me appreciate how hard it is to improve on Mirai Nikki. I'm not saying Mirai Nikki's perfect -- very, very far from it, actually -- but over these 26 episodes there've been a lot of attempts from Asread to patch up the manga's weaker aspects, with very mixed results. Some of Asread's changes have been unambiguous improvements, but most of them have been "one step forward, two steps back" type changes...improving one thing or closing one plot hole, but at the cost of making other aspects worse or opening new plot holes.

I'm sure there's a much better "story that's like Mirai Nikki", but especially after seeing how this adaption turned out I think to be much better it'd have to be radically different. Perhaps the live-action drama will improve on it?

[konart]

Damn, I was waiting to see manga end animated -_-'

[miketyson]

konart: yeah, I think we all were...OVA if you buy the blu-rays maybe?

[konart]

Originally Posted by miketyson

konart: yeah, I think we all were...OVA if you buy the blu-rays maybe?

An OVA 5 minutes long?

[KoiYuki]

Aw.. I guess I don't get to listen to MC Hammer.

Spoiler for after the credits:

Did not like the long hair Yukki had.. he looked kinda like Minene.

[Flawfinder]

I prefer the anime ending because turning Yuki into an empty self-obsessed shell was the only direction I could see the story taking his character when I first read it. Pathetic wimp whose inability to mature ends up making his new powers backfire on him? Tragic hero, he is not.

[Guido]

I think it was inappropriate to include another of Murumuru's corner editions right after the end of the twenty-fourth episode given I'm almost reaching the end.

Now, the interesting concept about Yuki traveling into the third world or learning from the first world by Murumuru is that the travellers are referred to as copies.
This is a natural reaction of our psyche trying to process things that we would be able to digest them. However, I want to interject the best term to use would be "invader" though not exactly as in the traditional context that we know.

Spoiler:

"Doppelganger" could be another term, but I'll stick to "invader" to make things for me smoothily to understand. The first Yuno became God in her world, realizing she couldn't resurrect her Yuki, she travel back in time creating a paradox resulting in the second world (current Yuki's world). She traversed to the second world as an "invader" to kill and replace nishume (second world) Yuno and participating in the game to spend more time with the current Yuki.

Question here is if first Yuno had Murumuru rigged the second world's Game, in order for her to make things go smoothily between her or Yuki, of if the first Murumuru took her own creative liberties with the game of the second world?

Another important concept is the title of Godhood referring to "Time and Space", because if it was God of Time alone, and alone, then Yuno going into the past and killing her own self would mean the end and destruction of her existence, referring to the "Grandfather's Paradox".
Although the time travelling issue has debatable points that can be argued and counter-argued over and over in an infinite loop.

The writers were likely washing off their hands from possible brain-wrecking and deconstruction plot-holes by reading literally into God of Time and Space, proposing that first Yuno travelling into her world of the past created a paradox that allowed the existance of her world into alternate realities or worlds, though it's never specified if said worlds are linear or multiple.
Given that parallel worlds come to exist with Yuno's crazed time & space travels, her existence as well as everyone is sustained at a universal level where her killing her other selves from the alternate worlds won't threaten the continuum of her own existence.

Of course those are my own plethorra of wild and crazy theories, and anyone else have their bunch to throw to enjoy the discussion or clearing the truth facts about the aspects and theme this show that enjoys.

What's clear is that:

Spoiler:

Ninth survived, and she kicked ass particularly with that cool background music playing when she engaged Murumuru at the Continuum Cathedral.

Glad she survived thanks to Deus, which explains Deus putting himself in isolation void and stabbing Ninth; Minene became his failsafe and card of triumph to play in case he was no longer around by the time that Murumuru attempted to make Yuno the winner of the Game.


Now they space & time warped two years back prior to the start of the game in the third world, and things are more shed into light as to the origin of the Game.

Likely, it was Eleventh's proposal to Deus given that at that time period he's already manufacturing the original five Diaries using his infamous super-computer, the question is how Eleventh managed to contact or just to trespass into Deus' realm?
Probably, that could have been worked out with the Murumuru of the third world, but a little question begs to answer as to what happened to the Murumuru of the second world?
Did she also suffered the same fate as the Yuno of the second world?

[thundrakkon]

Just a thought, but couldn't Yuno have taken Yuki to the first world and live together for all of eternity?

Also, wouldn't ninth's survival negate Yuki winning in the second world?

As for the third world changes to all the diary holders, why did they change at that time? I understand 4th's change with saving his child by Minene's call. However, how did they find the bomb for Tsubaki's, 6th, parents? Also, it does not look like Minene's future change.

Well, we do know that in the 3rd world, Deus changes the game around to find a successor. A few things I notice, like Yuno 1 did not disappear when she stabbed herself. She is a god, so doesn't that mean that she can't die? Also, with the 3rd world changed around, and Yuno longing unknowingly for Yuki, could she have ended up as Deus 3's successor as well?

As for the ending, with Yuno coming to Yuki in world 2, we do not know which Yuno that is, and after 10,000 years to boot. Well, I guess as a god of space and time, you could jump to the future and the past. I'm going to hope for the best that Yuno comes and spends a lovely, dovey eternity with Yuki.

[FlareKnight]

Spoiler for Ep26:

So they decided to go with some vague ending instead . Can't say I didn't want the ending changed a bit from the manga, but this is even worse. All you get is some random entry saying Yuno came to see him. Way too many details left to the imagination.

The real tragic person in this story is the second Murmur. I mean she gets captured for the entire series and then has to spent 10,000 years alone with Yuki and an old manga....my god the horror! Congrats to the second world which went through Armageddon and had nothing to replace it since Yuki couldn't be bothered to do anything for 10,000 years! It's great that he loved Yuno that much, but come on man at least make a universe or something.

Congrats to Minene who now has become the mother of the next generation of super heroes ! The kids can float! Now we now the mother of the third world's superman !

It really was a stretch as to how the lives of some of the diary users were changed. The change for Tsubaki was great considering what she had gone through, but made very little sense.

They really could have made the ending smoother. But hey we can at least assume the change over for the third world goes pretty well. No killing games please Deus.

In the end I enjoyed the series. But once more I'm left blinking at the ending.

[Randrak42]

Spoiler for ep26:

Eh...well the original manga ending was always too moochy and sweet for me. It's not that I don't like happy endings but it, for me at least, didn't match well with the rest of the series. Having a bad or at least not "Everything is ok!" ending isn't always a bad choice, especially in a dark and psychological series like this.

I'll just say that I liked the anime ending more, they did basically the same thing as the manga only instead of the overly sweet scene where Yuno meets up with Yuki along with all their friends (I gagged a bit at that scene in the manga) it was just a simple message that could be interpreted in a number of ways.

Was it the best ending for the series? Well it was better than the manga, but it could be better.
Was the ending enough to satisfy me? Yes, especially compared to the manga ending.

I cannot emphasise enough how much the last couple of pages annoyed me in the manga. I actually did my best to forget the ending, leaving Yuki drifting in the void alone as the true ending in my mind. Sadly it's hard for me to forget it so having this ending in the anime helps.

PS: Before people start going on about how ridiculous it is for Yuki to go full emo mode for 10,000 years...just remember this, he became immortal, time means nothing to him so 10,000 years or a 10 minutes...to someone that doesn't age, it becomes the same thing. True the level of emo he went on was stupid but then again Yuki was always a weak minded brat and you had 26 episodes to get used to him being like that...

[Sides]

Final episode wasn't too bad.
Overall I enjoyed the ride. The animation saw ups and downs throughout the series, which was kind of disappointing, but considering that we did get 26 episodes, i wont judge it to harshly. Voice acting was alright, think the Yuno's voice actress did a good job, you can hear her character in different mood stages just from the audio tracks, which I can only applaud.
To be honest, even if it was an adaptation from a manga, it was one of the better series last season. It is more accessible and inviting than other shows, that started at the same time. I can really recommend this show.

[KoiYuki]

Originally Posted by FlareKnight

Spoiler for Ep26:

It really was a stretch as to how the lives of some of the diary users were changed. The change for Tsubaki was great considering what she had gone through, but made very little sense.

Spoiler for ep 26:

To be fair, Tsubaki had her parents delayed because of all the stuff Yukki/Yuno/Minene/Murmur were doing.. so that gave them time to find the car bomb or whatever the hell that was. Since Funatsu put it there, and since he was the one that caused all the terrible things to happen to her after her parents were killed, since he was caught.. it makes sense that that wouldn't happen.