Anime 8460 Mirai Nikki Reviews

This OVA isn't as bad as people are making out to be. In fact this is less of an OVA and more of a trailer presenting some scenes from the first volume of the manga and showing what it would look like in anime form.

After watching this I can say that it looks fantastic.

From a story perspective this OVA was really confusing. A first timer may understand about the future diary and not a whole lot else. However this OVA were different scenes made to sorta tell a story, not really the whole thing. If an actual anime was made it would be ... much more coherent. Speaking of which, the parts that were shown were faithful to the manga almost perfectly. Once you realize which scenes they are animating, they are all pretty much identical word for word.

Art and coloring was very good as well. What I saw was animation that was on par with Highschool of the Dead and The World Only God Knows. Yuki looked fine and they did a good job with his facial expressions. Yuno did look a bit strange but we barely got to see her. People complain that her breasts are too small but if you compare the scenes from the anime to the manga she's about the same. The only real trouble spot was the CGI used for Deus. It's clear they didn't have the budget to do better but if this series got turned into a full project it would get a bigger budget and in the process look much better. In other words this can be fixed.

Voices were alright. I personally have no problem with Yuno's voice. Honestly we saw too little of her to really tell but in the end if she really is that bad they can hire a different actor if they make it into a full series. Other voices were fine and most characters sounded how I expected them to.

Overall the OVA gave me the feeling that Mirai Nikki should give. It was a little creepy with action and suspense.There is definite potential for an excellent anime here, no questions asked. All the flaws are easy to fix. Once they iron out the kinks this will be a masterpiece. Asread has made good anime before like Shuffle!, and Ga-Rei-Zero. Both series were good. Have some faith. These guys know how to make a good anime.

The Mirai Nikki OVA is a short, eight minute OVA that was bundled with the eleventh volume of the manga on December 9th, 2010. (My birthday – a coincidence? Hahah! …Not the year, of course.) It basically takes a bunch of random scenes from the first volume of the manga and shows how they would look in animation form. I was actually rather pleased with the scenes they depicted, since they were very accurate (almost word-for-word) with the manga.

For those of you who don’t know what Mirai Nikki is, it means “Future Diary” in English. It’s about a boy, Amano Yukiteru, who isn’t very interested ... in many things. The one thing he does like to do is record daily events in his diary in his cell phone – he calls himself an “observer”. He also has an imaginary friend, aptly named Deus Ex Machina. One day, Deus decides to make Yuki’s cell phone into a “Future Diary” (Mirai Nikki) which records his future for the next consecutive ninety days, as if Yuki had already made entries for them. At first, Yuki thinks he is the only one with this mysterious diary, until he has a near-freakish encounter with Gasai Yuno, the most popular girl in his school. Suddenly, Yukiteru is plunged into a dangerous survival game where having your cell phone broken or destroyed means that you yourself will die as well.

Getting back to the OVA, it’s quite obviously aimed at people who actually read Mirai Nikki, which makes sense considering that it was bundled with volume eleven. As stated before, I was pleased with the OVA in general – the scenes were adapted accurately, the animation was pretty good, and the seiyuu were good as well. I’ve always imagined Yuno’s voice a little deeper for some reason, but it’s passable as well. The only thing I’ll nitpick at is that Deus’ CGI looked a bit weird, but that’s really all. All in all it is a good OVA for the manga, although I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone who hasn’t actually read it before. In all honesty, it seems more like a long trailer than an actual anime episode (which is what it was probably meant to be, anyway). I really do hope that Mirai Nikki gets a chance to become a full-fledged anime series, since it has a lot of potential and, judging by the OVA, it’d look pretty good, too. And with the manga having just ended, I hope that an anime series is in order.

(Coincidentally, as I post this review, the anime is nearing its end.)

I'm going to say what everyone already knows. This looked like an animation and concept test. Much like how marvel studios leaked a concept animation for Deadpool.

So when I watched this particular OVA I was doing it to clean up loose ends with the series. (Like I do with all series).

Watching it right off the back I could tell it was a trailer or a concept test footage.

However if you are wanting to get into the series I would suggest watching this first, (there are spoilers, but they are very mediocre and don't really ruin anything).

It was also a reminder about ... how much I love Yuno Gasai as a character.

I am giving it a lower score because of the fact that it is a concept trailer, and doesn't seem to flow correctly

So after having watched 12 episodes of Mirai Nikki (TV) and being thoroughly impressed by it, I decided it would be worth spending the 8 minutes it takes to watch the Mirai Nikki OVA.

In my honest opinion this is more of a preview or a commercial than anything else. Scenes switch so fast without any explanation that it is next to impossible to tell what is happening unless you have watched the show like I have. In fact, it appears they squeezed the first 2 episodes into this 8 minute long ova. So if you think about it this is just pretty much an 8 ... minute long trailer.

So overall I rate this trailer a 3, simply because I feel this wasn't meant to be watched as anything other than a preview; if it was the actual anime adaptation I would have given it a 1. It does serve its purpose as a preview though and I'm sure if you were a Mirai Nikki fan before October 9, 2011 this might have been cool to see, but today it serves no real purpose.

I'm not a very good reviewer and I never always have been. but the best I can do is wrap up my favorite series.

I'm to lazy to even write the story plot but its already written in myanimelist to that's taken care of. anyways lets begin my crappy review shall we?

Mirai Nikki or (Future Dairy) in English is one of my most favorite mangas in the series if you haven't ever read the original manga then, you'll be confused as hell on whats going on. first of all its not really of much an OVA most OVAs are usually at least 20-30 minutes long ... but for the Mirai nikki OVA its more like a really long trailer. Even though there wasn't much music I already can say its well orchestrated. They, even had a ending song and its very excellent! they should use the song for ED If Mirai Nikki gets turned into an Anime. The characters are what I expected to act like Yuki always acts nervous and intimidated and for Yuno we haven't get to see her yandere side of the trailer. All we could really see is that she loves him but I still realizes its her. And like the two people below me say, Deus looks like crap I mean I can tell its him but the CG is pretty bad, a little to much CG is perhaps correct. If the studio had the budget and time I bet they could make Zeus look good but as for now, no. The voices suit all the characters just fine except for Yuki's while it is acceptable I just can't help but think his voice sounds to young I kinda expected him to have a much more deeper voice but, meh. But overall I really liked the OVA to all the Mirai Nikki fans out there I know you crave more of the series and this OVA may not satisfy all of you but has sure has for me. Its so powerful that it just draws you even more of the series to be turned into a official Anime. I have been a Mirai nikki fan for sometime now. If you want to support the series I suggest you buy the Manga that's been published by TOKYOPOP it well probably bring it closer to be turned into an Anime series.

I do have a suggestion on the off-topic note Mirai Nikki has a game for the PSP
its basically a visual novel with a original character exclusivity for the PSP unfortunately everything is in Japanese and is mostly text based so it will be hard to enjoy the game but if you are really good in Japanese and can read it then you'll probably get a full enjoyment of playing the game. It has a original character and a original story or so the trailer claims if you are a die hard fan of the series then buy the game!

this has been my crappy review thank for reading.

Well... After reading the manga I was really looking forward to this. I was a bit disappointed though for a few reasons. This was more of a trailer. It started by speeding through the intro to the manga not even giving a chance to anyone who hasn't seen the manga to understand the plot. Then, all of a sudden it jumps to what happens a few chapters later giving no context.

It feels really rushed. Almost no time is given to get to know the characters, (that goes double for Yuno who I was looking foward to seeing). All of a sudden things are happening and ... anyone who hasn't read the manga (which is awesome!) is left in the dust.

If they intended to make an anime out of this I hope the pace is slowed down a lot. In my opinion this story should be told in about 50-80 episodes.

If your looking for a good troll of a OVA, go ahead and watch. If your looking for a trailer for Mirai Nikki a.k.a. Future Diary before it airs in the fall, go ahead and watch. If you expect content and such, then don't bother. The only reason that i even scored it a 5 is because it got me exited about the fact that it was obvious that it would be made into a tv show. Other then that it was a waste even calling it a OVA. To those who haven't caught on yet, its nothing more then some clips of what ... is obviously going to be a tv show. I can't wait till i see the real show but the fact that everyone even gives this a tittle of OVA is just pathetic. I was expecting something like a short from Mirai Nikki: Mosaic since it would make for a good OVA short to kick off the TV version. It didn't even have to be where it started off from for all i cared. In fact i would have even prefer seeing the start where the third and gets his phone since he is the only one we don't really know much about except that he is a mad man.

In summery don't bother watching it because this "OVA" is basically a redundant trailer for the real thing. Watch the real TV show not this because the real series is good for all its worth.A good OVA would be the Mirai Nikki: Mosaic or even Pandora for that matter.

When I went into this I was hoping to get more story and/or something extra to add on to the series but instead its just like a basic trailer or a summery of what happened the first few episodes kinda disappointing
although the animation characters and sound had decent a quality like in the original the fact that it didn't add anything to the story made me give it a 6 out of 10
I hope that mire nikki will soon get another ova series or even a new season so they can add on to what happened at the end

This is my first review.

Mirai Nikki OVA is essentially a preview/condensed version of the first episodes of the TV series. In short it was suppose to serve as the introduction to one of the best series of last year.

I say suppose to as it did not do a good job.

What it managed to do in eight minutes was introduce the protagonist Amano Yukiteru, the basis of the story and give us a peek of what was to come.

Normally that would be fine but it lacked what made Mirai Nikki such a big hit. Killing, blood, mystery and the Queen of Yanderes, Yuno.

Yes, as intricate ... and interesting as the story goes it is incomplete without Yuno. With little about her in this OVA, viewers are either misled, unconvinced or oblivious to Yuno's murderous and insane antics.

It's just not right to start the series believing Yuno as "normal".

Now the OVA did show off the stellar animation and the perfect backdrop of music but being as condensed as it is, it's hard to follow and even confusing.

If you really want a taste of Mirai Nikki just watch the first episode of the series. However if you're like me up at four in the morning with nothing better to do but to watch the OVA of a series you've already seen and loved, then by all means watch this OVA.

Not sure, but I think this is a 8 minutes long wannabe trailer pretending to be an OVA. It's like the creators were like "Hey lets try to turn this manga into an anime and see if people like it... and then get them all hyped and make the full anime!"

It's literally just parts from the Anime. Can't say i enjoyed it watching it after i finnished the anime, it would have been better to watch it before, as a trailer. So if you're thinking of watching Mirai Nikki, watch this "teaser OVA" first to get teased or something.

So watch this as ... trailer. But the anime is good so 10/10. (Jk, i actually rated it 7, it's a nice teaser.)

Having watched the whole Mirai Nikki series before this, this OVA is merely a trailer - it captures the first few episodes, picks out the key and most suspenseful scenes, and made into a beautiful short introduction or taster video. I believe that watching this really isn't needed, but if you do decide to watch it, it will either be a waste of your time if you've watched the whole TV version before it, or give you a great taster into the TV series. There really isn't much more to it. I don't believe it spoils anything - all the plot revelations and explanations ... come at the end of the series anyway.

I only rated it 10 in every aspect because there was no fault for the way it has been created. The faults (if any) come from the TV version itself, and this does not deserve to be discredited because of that.

In short, if you have already seen Future Diary, you do not need to watch this. However, if you haven't seen it, this is something you may want to watch.

This was a trailer of manga scenes released before the series, so if you’re not sure whether you would want to watch future diary, this would be a good fit for you. It covers basic plot points for the story and and the death game, as well as some key character traits for both Yuki and Yuno.

Some of the art is strange, and since I watched it after already being familiar with the anime, I ... was a little thrown off by some bits because it was a little different than what I was used to, but it’s a good lead it. It summarizes pretty much everything in the first episode too.

There was nothing special about the sound, though some of the voices didn't seem to quite fit and felt very odd for the characters. The background music also felt a little unfitting at times to me.

Most of the characters were pretty true to themselves, so it wasn't bad.

All in all, it's a good trailer, and if you don't know if you want to watch this series, I would definitely recommend trying this out.

I would recommend this if you: like violent/ kinda sexual anime, like death games, like yandere chicks, like twisted romances, like crazy characters

I would NOT recommend if you: can't can't stomach violence/rape/sex, don't like unconventional characters, don't like fights to the death, like regular/real romances

Have a great day everyone!

Mirai Nikki OVA (2010)

Not an OVA but a trailer with an extended time preparing you for what is coming.

I think it is actually pretty great considering the animation is spot on and also the storyline is explained pretty well too. It serves as a great way to decide if you really want to watch the show and to be honest shows to me that you should definitely not let young children watch the show. I get that it is R17+ but when has that stopped anyone before.

Honestly, give it a watch BEFORE the main series as a great insight. If you watch it ... after then it may be a little bit lacklustre.

For those that slate it as not an OVA please remember this came out prior to the main release.

The first OVA for Mirai Nikki, with a paltry runtime of just over eight minutes, is utterly pointless. There is no reason to watch this OVA as it serves little more than promotional material for the series. The scenes are mostly shot-for-shot identical to the anime, and there is no extra material included. It does move rather quickly and encapsulates the first several episodes, so it is a good refresher, but it leaves out too much detail to be heavily relied on. There is just no reason to watch this. Unless you are a die-hard Mirai Nikki completionist, it is best to skip this entry ... in the series.