There are an awful lot of revelations in this episode, some more obvious than others, but I suspect it will mostly be remembered as the one where Yuki finally “manned up”. I doubt that will satisfy the legions of haters out there, but at least the specifics of the complaints […] Read more
Sometimes in an anime, a character will say something that’s been obvious to the reader all along, but never muttered aloud on screen. The interesting part comes in seeing how the characters react to it. I’d say that Marco has the honesty of the doomed, but he was pretty much […] Read more
“Nothing good comes from digging up the past.” – Uryuu Minene If you’ll forgive the hyperbole, I think that was the best Mirai Nikki episode for quite a while, and one of the best of the series so far. For the first time in several weeks everything was firing on […] Read more
The pacing was pretty breakneck in episode 15 of Mirai Nikki, along with episode 5 maybe the fastest yet. OP2: “Dead END” by 飛蘭 (Faylan) With three chapters to cover and a new OP and ED to highlight, it’s no wonder the omake was skipped this week. It’s probably a […] Read more
It’s good to be the King. Apart from the whole crossbow bolt in the thigh thing… This is one of those Mirai Nikki episodes that’s a little hard to talk about, because most of it doesn’t make a whole lot of sense yet and that’s actually on purpose. While I won’t try […] Read more
There now, Asread – you didn’t need luminescent pink eyes to show that Yuno was batcrap insane this week, did you? The pieces are slowly but surely starting to come together on Mirai Nikki as we close out the first half of its run. Despite the fact that the break […] Read more
“Thanks for the investigation diary. I’m sure it’ll help me beat the shit out of someone.” I see an interesting dichotomy developing in the reactions to Mirai Nikki. Some viewers are enjoying the series pretty unreservedly for it’s intensity, absurdity and complete lack of restraint. Others are genuinely bothered […] Read more
This episode of Mirai Nikki was a bit of a roller-coaster, quality-wise, but it was so exhilaratingly paced that I can overlook some of the deficiencies in deference to the sheer entertainment value. I’ll get the gripes out of the way first, and I do have a couple. The first […] Read more
Don’t get too comfortable, because just when you figure you have Mirai Nikki figured out, the game changes. This episode is proof for me that a director doesn’t have to make a word-for-word adaptation of a manga for it to be a good adaptation – or a faithful one. Manga […] Read more
Tons of interesting stuff this week, but first things first – who would have thought it was actually the good Yuno we’ve been watching until this week? On balance I think this is a very compact, lean episode of Mirai Nikki. This conclusion to the arc fit perfectly into the […] Read more