The concept of the story is the basis for the most if not the entirety of the show, and it keeps up to the mark. Mirai Nikki depicts a really interesting concept of 'Future Diaries; that predict the timeline of the show, mixed with a Battle Royale between the users of the said abilities.
The limelight of the story belongs to the eccentric Yuno Gasai (you'll know what I mean eccentric), the co-protagonist who plays an equivalent role if not more than the other co-protagonist, Yukiteru Amano, a stereotypical shy guy character, an often character-trope of modern anime. Despite the mundane expected characteristics of Yukitaro, he indeed develops through the story, which leads to a justified ending of the entire plot.
The side-characters play a fundamental role of in the climbing-up of the protagonists in the Battle Royale genre, but it is not linear to the audience's expectations. That's where the elements of gore and psychological thriller comes in, the latter overlapping with romance. The said elements provide an uncertainty to the flow of the story to audience, bringing in wild and bizarre changes in the storyline, which makes things interesting.
The pacing of the 26-episode seemed pretty okay until the story in the later episodes take an out-of-the-world turn of events, often a reason disappointed in anime nowadays. Similar occurrences were observed in anime like the recent DARLING IN THE FRANXX (which is a really good example of the folly in context), or GURREN LAGANN. The story goes linear in development until things jump beyond comprehension from the expected storyline to make things complicated. In the circumstance, the writers simply doesn't want to keep things simple anymore, but put in some other worldly desires to make things sci-fi beyond common scene. An unusual exception to this folly is the story of STEINS;GATE, which maintains control over the plot and development despite the said show being pretty sci-fi from the beginning.
Enough with the ranting, MIRAI NIKKI has a decent ending justified to the consequences (not inclusive of any dark side) of the storyline. It will pique interest for gore and psycho-thriller lovers and I'll recommend anime/manga enthusiasts to give the story a shot, to whoever haven't viewed it.
The limelight of the story belongs to the eccentric Yuno Gasai (you'll know what I mean eccentric), the co-protagonist who plays an equivalent role if not more than the other co-protagonist, Yukiteru Amano, a stereotypical shy guy character, an often character-trope of modern anime. Despite the mundane expected characteristics of Yukitaro, he indeed develops through the story, which leads to a justified ending of the entire plot.
The side-characters play a fundamental role of in the climbing-up of the protagonists in the Battle Royale genre, but it is not linear to the audience's expectations. That's where the elements of gore and psychological thriller comes in, the latter overlapping with romance. The said elements provide an uncertainty to the flow of the story to audience, bringing in wild and bizarre changes in the storyline, which makes things interesting.
The pacing of the 26-episode seemed pretty okay until the story in the later episodes take an out-of-the-world turn of events, often a reason disappointed in anime nowadays. Similar occurrences were observed in anime like the recent DARLING IN THE FRANXX (which is a really good example of the folly in context), or GURREN LAGANN. The story goes linear in development until things jump beyond comprehension from the expected storyline to make things complicated. In the circumstance, the writers simply doesn't want to keep things simple anymore, but put in some other worldly desires to make things sci-fi beyond common scene. An unusual exception to this folly is the story of STEINS;GATE, which maintains control over the plot and development despite the said show being pretty sci-fi from the beginning.
Enough with the ranting, MIRAI NIKKI has a decent ending justified to the consequences (not inclusive of any dark side) of the storyline. It will pique interest for gore and psycho-thriller lovers and I'll recommend anime/manga enthusiasts to give the story a shot, to whoever haven't viewed it.