At long last, I can finally talk about the manga ending. About damn time. OP: “Kyouki Chinden” by Yousei Teikoku Well, now we know why Asread elected not to animate the epilogue from the manga. It took a while to get here, but this was always the place Mirai Nikki seemed likely […] Read more
In the midst of so many new series of note, one more wistful goodbye… I love Mirai Nikki, and watching an anime of a series you love is always a scary prospect. As odd a series as this is, I really wasn’t sure how it would make the transition to anime. It’s […] Read more
Now that’s what I call a time skip… I’m just going to address the elephant in the room straight ahead – yes, they changed the ending. Except they didn’t, really. But they did. Manga readers will know what I mean. Anime-only viewers – did you understand that ending? Did it make […] Read more
I can already see that this episode has caused probably the widest rift yet among the viewers – both manga readers and anime-only alike. To the former group, I would make this argument in defense of episode 25 – an anime is not a manga. Maybe it’s because we’re so […] Read more
It would have been a lot of fun to watch this episode without knowing beforehand what was going to happen. I wonder if that’s possible, somehow. Perhaps traveling back in time… Gonna have to be careful with the front page caps this week, that’s for sure. Mirai Nikki is one […] Read more
Well, give yourself a cookie if you figured it out… Obviously neither Asread nor P.A. Works planned it this way, but it seems almost a shame that the two big reveals of this anime season should happen within 24 hours of each other – and of course, I get to […] Read more
So there’s your breather episode before the action picks up for the final arc… As usual, it’s dangerous for me to discuss the meaning of events too much in the post (and please, you all know my spoiler rules for the comments by now). Safer ground is talking about the […] Read more
So I guess those cute little omakes with Muru-Muru just wouldn’t feel right anymore, would they? Needless to say, I strongly discourage you from reading any of my posts on the last six episodes of Mirai Nikki until after you’ve seen the eps, because they’re going to be full of spoilers about […] Read more
Speaking as a huge fan of the manga, I’m extremely pleased with what Asread did with the chapters that made up this week’s episode – some of the most important of Mirai Nikki, and among my favorites. I’ve said this before, but I think the breakneck pacing that the […] Read more
I actually enjoy the omakes at the end of Mirai Nikki episodes, but I’ve noticed that their absence tends to be a good sign – it usually means the pacing of the ep was as batcrap crazy as Yuno herself, and that’s the Mirai Nikki I like best. As I […] Read more