Future Diary

Future Diary
Cover of Future Diary volume 1 featuring Yukiteru Amano and Yuno Gasai
未来日記 (Mirai Nikki)
Genre	Mystery[1][2] Psychological thriller[1][2] Romance[1]
Manga
Written by	Sakae Esuno
Published by	Kadokawa Shoten
English publisher	NA: Tokyopop (former) Viz Media
Magazine	Monthly Shōnen Ace
Demographic	Shōnen
Original run	January 26, 2006 – December 25, 2010
Volumes	12 (List of volumes)
Manga
Future Diary: Mosaic/Paradox/Redial
Written by	Sakae Esuno
Published by	Kadokawa Shoten
Magazine	Monthly Shōnen Ace
Demographic	Shōnen
Original run	November 26, 2008 – July 26, 2013
Volumes	3 (List of volumes)
Anime television series
Directed by	Naoto Hosoda
Written by	Katsuhiko Takayama
Music by	Tatsuya Kato
Studio	Asread
Licensed by	AUS: Madman Entertainment NA: Crunchyroll UK: Anime Limited
Original network	Chiba TV, TV Saitama
Original run	October 10, 2011 – April 16, 2012
Episodes	26 + OVA (List of episodes)
Television drama
Future Diary: Another:World
Directed by	Michiko Namiki, Shogo Miyaki
Produced by	Ryota Fujino
Written by	Sayaka Kuwamura, Kaeko Hayafune
Music by	Shuichiro Fukuhiro
Original network	Fuji TV
Original run	April 21, 2012 – June 30, 2012
Episodes	11

Future Diary (Japanese: 未来日記, Hepburn: Mirai Nikki) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Sakae Esuno. It was serialized in Kadokawa Shoten's Shōnen Ace between January 2006 and December 2010, and has been collected into 12 tankōbon volumes. The plot depicts the Diary Game, a deadly battle royale between 12 different individuals who are given "Future Diaries", special diaries that can predict the future, by Deus Ex Machina, the God of Time and Space, with the last survivor becoming heir to the universe.

The manga has been licensed by Tokyopop, and ten of the English volumes were released, with a release for the last two now uncertain due to Tokyopop ceasing publishing in North America. A "pilot anime" DVD was released with the 11th manga volume in December 2010. A 26-episode anime television series (produced by Asread) aired in Japan between October 2011 and April 2012. Crunchyroll has licensed the anime for distribution in North America. An 11-episode live-action television drama aired between April and June 2012.

Esuno has also authored three side-story manga, each one spanning five chapters: first Future Diary: Mosaic which focuses on another Diary Holder, Minene Uryu, and tells unrevealed plot points of the main story; in 2009–2010, Future Diary: Paradox (published in Young Ace), which tells the exploits of Aru Akise and Muru Muru set in an alternate timeline, and in 2013, Future Diary: Redial, which serves as an epilogue to the series.