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IT IS REAL!!!!

Thank you so much for alerting us to New merch! And NOT only including Yuno this time!!!!

We got Yuki, Yuno, Minene, Akise, Tbusaki, and uh………. friggin’ Nishijima?!?.

See the link!

Quick emergency post incoming. Y'all have probably already seen the news, but I also wanted to make a short little dedicated post to add to this information. It was recently announced that the plushie line Kurmitapinui will be releasing a Future Diary collection! Which includes not only our titular characters, but others like Nishijima, Tsubaki and Akise (who haven't gotten their own dedicated merch before!)

What possessed them to do this? No idea! Though this plushie company has a lot of different anime franchises under its belt, it's still surprising they'd make merch of an older show with such little attention at the moment. It might have something to do with acquiring the rights... so hopefully, hopefully we get to see more Future Diary merch come out in the next years.

To add to the information that is already going around, these little beans are currently up for preorder (they release on July of this year). A single plushie is 1100 Yen, or around 7 USD, and the full pack is 6600 Yen, which is around 42 USD (see here for more information). An important thing to note is that these are actually blind box keychains, so you don't get to pick the one you actually want:

Here's an example of a collection. The full pack is also made up of six characters (which explains why they chose to include some of the side characters aside from Yuno and Yukki). My advice is that if you want one in particular you should buy the whole pack, since a full unopened pack is guaranteed to come with all six characters.

I'll be honest... I'm really burnt out from the blind box fad, but hey I'll take what I can get. I never thought we'd get new merch of the series, and on top of that to get representation of characters like Nishijima and Akise is making me hopeful we might see more in the future (perhaps not of this brand though, seeing they cap their collections at six characters I don't think they'll make more). Anyway, if you need me I'll be in the corner of my room freaking out about this.

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The site AnimePilgrimage.com purports to share the real-life Japanese locations that were the basis for places in various anime. And that includes 29 locations from Future Diary.

I've shared some info in the past about this kind of thing; specifically, looking at a blog that compared the real-life to Kinugawa Onsen to the resort location where Yuno held Yuki hostage. But AnimePilgrimage claims to have identified many more locations from Mirai Nikki in real life than just Kinugawa Onsen.

(Note: These locations are only from the anime; the original manga does not show the same detailed backgrounds.)

However, these identifications are ultimately performed by fans who simply believe these sites are the real-life inspirations of specific frames by comparing Google Earth images and the online pics to the backgrounds from the anime in question.

For example, get a load of this comparison from Episode 2: Contract Terms. I'd say this is location identification is iffy. The background building definitely looks like a match, but it's hardly a unique piece of architecture. And the railing of the bridge shown does not appear to match.

Then again, some of the claims seem pretty much wrong. Get a load of this comparison from Episode 26: Initialize.

The fan who made this identification was trying to argue that the building ont he right is the same in both images, but... it's not. no. And there's no bridge there. And the street isn't remotely the same width. And the nearby buildings aren't similar, ETC ETC ETC. Absolutely not.

On the other hand, there are some that are certainly at least partially matches. Get a load of these locations that inspired scenes from Episode 3: Initial Failure.

It's safe to say that Yomiuri Land is definitely the inspiration for the amusement park that Yuki and Yuno go to! That rainbow bridge is pretty hard to deny. On the other hand, the skyline actually ISN'T a match; the rides shown in the background of the anime shot don't align with the rides currently visible from the same angle in Yomiuri Land. Of course, it's possible the rollercoaster and other rides were different back when the anime was produced...

Finally, there are the locations that seem pretty definitively accurate, IMO.

In this comparison using Episode 13: Number Withheld, I can't imagine there's any way they got this one wrong. Sure, the plant life on the edges of the parking lot has changed in the interim years, as has the painting of the lines in the lot itself. But come ON - the curvature of the parking lot, the locations of the two outbuildings on the left? It seems like this HAS to be the inspiration.

So yeah, this is a pretty fun little thing to explore! I was originally going to go through every location cited on AnimePilgrimage as being a spot from Future Diary, but there's WAY too many to put into a single post, and for real: Does anyone want my opinion on EVERY SINGLE LOCATION cited? Just click on an anime screenshot on the left, and you'll see a pic of the associated location appear on the bottom-right along with a dot on the map in the middle.

(And my own little anniversary with the show)

On October 10th of 2011, Future Diary aired for the very first time on Japanese TV, making today its 14th anniversary! But this isn't just an important day for Future Diary history, it also holds a very special place in my heart. On this very same day back in 2015 is when I first discovered the show, meaning it's officially been ten years! (I can finally update my blog description lol) And the story behind it is also quite funny, so I thought for this anniversary I'll share a little bit of the lore.

Back in 2015, I used to watch a lot of let's players on Youtube (and I still do, many of the same ones too). This is when the yandere simulator boom happened, so of course I watched a lot of it, rap battles of Akademi and all. However, I didn't really know much about anime back then, nor what a yandere actually was. That is until a classmate of mine found me watching those yan sim videos, and told me to watch Future Diary if I wanted to see a "real yandere." Of course, my curiosity was piqued, so I searched it up on Youtube and watched it that very day (back when Youtube wasn't an ad-ridden hell hole and you could find an entire series in the blink of an eye) Anyway, I got halfway through the first episode and... absolutely hated it.

Yes, there was a period in time when I actually hated Future Diary. You see, ten years ago I thought anime was lame and boring, something only shower-fearing men watched. I also wasn't super impressed when I discovered this show was Japanese and that I had to watch it with subtitles (the horror!). I decided to give episode 2 a chance, only to leave it halfway through, just like the first episode. Nothing made sense and the characters were all just screaming and crying, so I got annoyed and abandoned the show…

Now, if you're familiar with this blog, you know that isn't the end of the story. Despite finding the show annoying, I couldn't help but feel that I was being a little unfair. It kept bothering me the rest of the day, so I decided to give the show one last chance right before going to bed. I didn't find episode 3 as annoying as the last two, but I still wasn't very impressed... until the ending hit.

You see, I've been a horror and thriller enthusiast since I was very little (my favorite channel on TV was Investigation Discovery lmao). So the minute Yukki opened that door and those three corpses flashed on screen, I was hooked. Immediately I could tell two of those were Yuno's parents, but who was that third corpse? Did Yuno kill her? Why? Why is she so obsessed with Yukki? Why does she follow him around? Why is she so goddamn crazy?? And that was the beginning of the end for me. You can't just put a mystery like that on a show and expect me not to watch all of it. By the end of the week I had already finished the show and you could not make me shut up about it, I wonder if my classmate ever regretted it? (lol)

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