Recommended anime: Mirai Nikki

Mirai Nikki, also known as Future Diary, is an ongoing anime directed by Naoto Hosoda and written by Katsuhiko Takayama. The first episode was released the 10th October.

Genre: Thriller, supernatural, horror

Yukiteru Amano is an outsider who never interacts with other people and spends most of his day writing a diary on his cell phone with his only companion being an imaginary friend named Deus Ex Machina, the God of Time and Space. Soon Yukiteru finds out that Deus is not a just his imagination but real when Deus makes him a participant in a survival battle among eleven others. Within this game, the contestants are given special diaries that can predict the future. Within the next 90 days, the contestants must try to kill each other and survive until there is only one alive who becomes the new God of Time and Space.

Finally this is not another highschool-drama and I am happy about that. This anime seems like a real deal with a thoughtful plot and theme. The art is also fantastic and can not be complained on.

I am not sure if I'm too fond of the protagonist. Yukiteru seems like a powerless, scared and dumb child. I would rather prefer the more intelligent and tough bad-guy-hero type like Light from Death Note (Not that he's the good-guy). As a contrast, Yuno Gasai is an interesting, mysterious and tough girl who really freaks me out!

Anyway, this is an anime I strongly recommend and is definitely on my watching-list.

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