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MIRAI NIKKI: REDIAL

OVA

STATUS
COMPLETE
EPISODES
1
RELEASE
June 19, 2013
LENGTH
29 min

DESCRIPTION

Yuno Gasai lives a normal life as a first-year in high school. She gets along well with her parents and even has a small circle of friends. However, she cannot help but feel as if someone is missing from her life, someone so important to her that it was as if she had lived another life trying desperately to stay with them.

After a class trip to the beach, Yuno returns home; but in the middle of the night, she receives strange messages from a voice only she can hear. The voice informs her of the person she is desperate to meet and that she must find him. Soon, she finds herself in a mysterious realm, her only goal being reunited with the person she cannot remember. Though obstacles stand in her way, Yuno will stop at nothing to meet her beloved once again.

(Source: MAL Rewrite)

CAST

Yuno Gasai
Tomosa Murata
Yukiteru Amano
Misuzu Togashi
Minene Uryuu
Mai Aizawa
Aru Akise
Akira Ishida
Mur Mur
Manami Honda
Yomotsu Hirasaka
Yoshihisa Kawahara
Tsubaki Kasugano
Eri Sendai
Hinata Hino
Yuki Matsuoka
Deus Ex Machina
Norio Wakamoto
Mao Nonosaka
Yukana
Ai Mikami
Natsuko Kuwatani
Reisuke Houjou
Asami Sanada
Keigo Kurusu
Masahiko Tanaka
Orin Miyashiro
Etsuko Kozakura
Ouji Kousaka
Minoru Shiraishi
John Bacchus
Takaya Hashi
Saika Gasai
Kikuko Inoue

EPISODES

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REVIEWS

Deedo
20/100
Did the journey REALLY justify the ending we got? I don't think so.
This is a review based on my own opinon of the Future Diaries (Mirai Nikki) anime. If you agree or disagree with the review and opinions below, please message me or start a thread. I would love to hear all viewpoints and what you liked or didn't like about the OVA or show as a whole.

In my full and honest opinion, from what I got from this show is that as we are following the "protagonists" of the show. We start to see them fall from grace and turn bad.

Before the OVA

Let's start with Yuki: In the beginning, all the diary users they must defeat are murders, terrorists, cult leaders, and genuine sociopaths. But as the show goes on, the people Yuki and Yuno battle are relatable people who are not an antagonist. A cop who wants to bring his son back and even a poor pacifist old lady who just takes care of orphans. But Yuki, under the belief that he can just bring everyone back after he kills them, gains the courage to kill, even more passive and innocent diary users. His ignorance and arrogance gets to the point where he mows down his friends who aren't even trying to kill him and warn him about Yuno.

Now on to Yuno: She is the true antagonist of this show, starting off as the generic crazy girlfriend type, before we learn her backstory and discover that she truly is the victim of unfortunate circumstance. While a victim, the actions she takes from suffering cross the boundaries of what is ok and out of line, as her madness and selfishness boil over, fearing loosing Yuki again.

As the show goes on, it becomes difficult to identify who the protagonist is, and not really providing an easy answer for the who is the enemy. While at the end Yuno and Yuki were able to somewhat redeem themselves, or at least face up to their mistakes, both have committed sins and atrocities that deserve punishment, which I felt the end of Future Diaries gave them. Yuki is forever banished to live with his actions and face the consequences of what he has done, with Yuno will forget all that has happened, and in a way, be reborn, with the old Yuno dying, while her alternate self will live a normal life.

The Impact the OVA has on the story

This OVA seeks to change the end, and give Yuno and Yuki a more happy ending, with them able to reunite finally, and while some may enjoy this end, it can't help but feel my stomach twist and turn doing this special. Yuki does not deserve a happy ending, and Yuno doesn't either, there actions are not noble, and the journey to get to each other with covered with mistakes and actions of a villain. The actions taken in the back of their minds were justified, a means to a greater good. In fact, if in the same circumstance, many of us, may have taken the same actions they did. That's what was great about the show, it made you think: "How far would I go to save a friend? A family member? A lover?" That's what was so interesting (terrifying) about the show, is how it made you realize how far you would go, make you wonder if I saw what I had to do to get back the one I love, could I live with myself or look at myself the same?

I relate this show a lot to the Joker movie, specifically the character Arthur Fleck. Without going into to much detail (or spoilers), Arthur is a character that, while the focus of the movie, is not a hero. We see his life, we understand his actions, we know it is not his fault where he is, and so we do not cheer to see the rise of Joker, but cry at the fall of Arthur. Much like the show, we are not watching the rise of Yuki to be reunited with his lover, we are watching the fall of an innocent boy who lost his way due to terrible circumstance.

Technicals

On the production side: this OVA does not dip in animation, character writing, music, or anything else we are use to in the Future Diaries series, so if you are worried about an OVA that doesn't match the quality of the original show, have no fear, it feels like an episode straight out the anime.

Final Thoughts

The main show isn't a great anime, nor is it one I say is bad and I regret watching, but this OVA to me, destroyed the core message and tone of what the show led to, changing the ending from a bitter sweet end of the death game with no true winner, to a victory for two characters who frankly, did not deserve the win. It is because of this, that I personally did not enjoy this OVA.

If you like the ending to the OVA, that is totally fine. From what I've seen, a lot of people seemed to really enjoy this OVA and ending it brought. I just wanted to provide a different perspective to what someone got out of the Future Diaries OVA.
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