40 Fun Facts About Future Diary

Before the Diary Game begins in Future Diary, what does lonely Yukiteru Amano believe the god Deus Ex Machina to be?

A pretend friend is all Yuki takes Deus for, until the god proves real and turns his everyday journal into one that predicts the future.

Which hobby gives Yukiteru Amano his weapon of choice against rival diary holders in Future Diary?

Darts is the pastime Yuki practises alone, and a well-aimed throw later stops the Fifth from injecting Yuno with poison.

Which outing did Yukiteru once promise Yuno Gasai, a pledge the pair prepare to keep as Future Diary ends?

Stargazing was the promise that set off Yuno's fixation a year before the game, and she has followed Yuki everywhere since.

In a BIGLOBE poll, Yuno Gasai of Future Diary was voted the most popular character of which anime archetype?

Yandere describes a sweetheart whose devotion turns violent, and the face Yuno pulls at the end of the first episode became a meme named for it.

Every Future Diary anime episode title, from Sign Up to Silent Mode, borrows a term from which everyday technology?

Mobile phones supply every title because most Future Diaries are the handsets their holders carry; later episodes include Family Plan and Blocking Calls.

Future Diary's Japanese title, Mirai Nikki, lent its first word to which kind of malicious software discovered in 2016?

A botnet called Mirai hijacked home routers and cameras to flood websites with traffic, and its author named it after the anime.

Yuno Gasai of Future Diary is named after Juno, the Roman goddess who presided over which part of life?

Marriage was Juno's domain, a pointed choice for a girl set on wedding Yuki, and the other diary holders echo Roman gods as well.

The masked serial killer who is the first diary holder eliminated in Future Diary turns out to be whom to Yukiteru?

His teacher, Takao Hiyama, holds the Third diary, which names his next victims but never warns him when one will fight back.

Why does Deus Ex Machina stage the Diary Game to choose a successor in Future Diary?

He is dying, and with his powers fading, all of existence will collapse unless an heir to his throne is found soon.

The Tenth diary holder in Future Diary, a wealthy breeder, uses his diary to command which animals in attacks?

Dogs obey Karyuudo Tsukishima's voice commands, but the more of them he directs at once, the more concentration it costs him.

Deus Ex Machina, whose throne the winner of Future Diary's Diary Game inherits, is the god of which two things?

Time and space fall under Deus, and whoever takes his throne must also head off an apocalypse that is already looming.

Under the rules Deus sets out in Future Diary, what happens when a contestant's Future Diary is destroyed?

Its user dies on the spot, which is why holders guard their diaries closely and why a decoy handset fools more than one attacker.

With which weapon does Yuno Gasai cut down hypnotised Omekata cultists in Future Diary, telling Yuki to join her or die?

An axe is what she swings in the cult's shrine, one of many weapons Yuno handles with ease, from knives and pistols to submachine guns.

Terrorist Minene Uryu, orphaned in a Middle East battle, joins Future Diary's game hoping to destroy what worldwide?

Religion is her target because she blames God for her parents' deaths, yet she ends the story carrying half of a god's power herself.

Which manga artist, a prize-winner with the story Railroad Angel, went on to create Future Diary?

Sakae Esuno started drawing at 15 as an admirer of Rumiko Takahashi's horror manga, then spent years as an assistant before his own debut.

Which animation studio, founded by former Xebec staff, produced the Future Diary television anime?

Asread, set up in 2003, had already worked with Future Diary's director, Naoto Hosoda, on the earlier series Shuffle!, a visual-novel adaptation.

Which company licensed the Future Diary anime for North America, simulcasting it on Niconico before a disc release?

Funimation streamed the series as it aired in Japan and later gave it an English dub; the show moved to Crunchyroll after a corporate takeover.

Which publisher issued ten Future Diary volumes in English before closing its North American operation in 2011?

Tokyopop stopped two volumes short of the ending, stranding English readers until Viz Media picked up the licence for a digital release.

Which gothic metal band performed the first opening theme of the Future Diary anime?

Yousei Teikoku also supplied the anime's second ending theme, Filament, trading places with the singer of the first ending.

Which manga magazine, once home to the Neon Genesis Evangelion manga, serialized all of Future Diary?

Shōnen Ace is a Kadokawa monthly with an emphasis on anime tie-ins; it ran the Evangelion manga until that series moved to Young Ace in 2009.

John Bacchus, the Eleventh diary holder who helped Deus design the Future Diary game, holds which public office?

Mayor of Sakurami City, he plans to hand every resident a diary of their own, while his own diary lets him read everyone else's entries.

Why does police officer Keigo Kurusu, at first Yuki's ally in Future Diary, turn on him?

To save his son, who is terminally ill, he murders the Tenth and frames Yuki and Yuno, then breaks his own diary once he is caught.

What does terrorist Minene Uryu lose in Future Diary when Yuki fights back during her bomb siege of his school?

Her left eye is blinded in the school siege, yet she later treats Yuki like a little brother and holds no grudge over it.

Which children's game does Future Diary's Fifth diary holder, a small boy, play with Yuno for a poison antidote?

Hide-and-seek through a gas-filled house is Reisuke Houjou's trap, sprung after he posts his diary to himself to keep it out of reach.

Reisuke Houjou, the small boy who is Future Diary's Fifth diary holder, reads three predictions a day from what?

A coloring book serves as his diary, showing entries for morning, noon and night all at once so he can plan a whole day's traps.

Tsubaki Kasugano, the cult priestess who is Future Diary's Sixth diary holder, reads what her followers see on what?

A scroll is her diary, and after Yuno cuts off her right hand she cannot roll it shut one-handed before Yuki pierces it.

Which pair of lovers share the position of Seventh diary holder in Future Diary?

Marco and Ai carry paired Exchange Diaries that report each other's immediate future, and Marco chooses to die beside her as a tower falls.

Kamado Ueshita, the pacifist Eighth diary holder in Future Diary, runs which kind of institution called Mother's Home?

An orphanage is her whole world: her diary is a server that hands the children she raised apprentice diaries of their own.

Which police detective does terrorist Minene Uryu fall for in Future Diary and raise children with in the Third World?

Masumi Nishijima keeps courting her even after learning who she is, and their Third World children inherit her godly gift of flight.

Which teenage detective in Future Diary, a schoolmate devoted to Yuki, learns that Deus created him to observe the game?

Aru Akise proves his free will by acquiring a diary of his own, and with his last act he shows Yuki the truth about Yuno.

What act by Yuno Gasai ends Future Diary's final showdown and makes Yukiteru the winner of the Diary Game?

Her suicide comes when she finds she cannot kill Yuki, and it leaves him a god too grief-stricken to create anything.

In Future Diary's big twist, what did Yuno Gasai find lay beyond even a god's power after her first victory?

Resurrection proved impossible, so the grieving Yuno went back in time, killed her other self and took her place to meet Yuki again.

After winning the Diary Game in Future Diary, a grieving Yukiteru sits idle in an empty universe for how long?

10,000 years pass before the walls between worlds break and a Yuno carrying her old memories arrives to rejoin him.

In Future Diary, which two-word phrase appears in a diary when its holder's coming death has become fixed?

Dead End marks a fate that is almost impossible to dodge, so when Yuki overturns his in the first episode every rival makes him a target.

Which later manga by Future Diary's creator, about powers tied to wishes, also became an anime at the same studio?

Big Order follows a boy who believes his childhood wish caused a global catastrophe, and it ran in the same magazine for five years.

Which singer performed Blood Teller, the Future Diary anime's first ending theme, before moving to the opening slot?

Faylan, a singer from Saitama, handled the first ending and the second opening, swapping duties midway with the band from the first opening.

Which voice actor, also Tony Tony Chopper in One Piece, plays Yuno Gasai in the English dub of Future Diary?

Brina Palencia took the part for the English dub announced in 2013, while Tomosa Murata voices Yuno in the original Japanese.

Which voice actor, also Emperor Charles in Code Geass, voices Deus Ex Machina in Future Diary's Japanese version?

Norio Wakamoto gives the god his voice in Japanese, and Kent Williams takes over the part in the English dub.

Which keepsake from her mother does Yuki toss in the air to distract Tsubaki Kasugano's cult in Future Diary?

A ball that had kept Tsubaki sane draws every follower's gaze upward, blanking the diary that shows her what they see.

Future Diary: The 13th Diary Owner, a visual novel with a new contestant, ran on a handheld from which company?

Sony's PlayStation Portable hosted the game, whose Thirteenth diary holder films the future with a video camera.