Mirai Nikki - ANOTHER:WORLD is a live action drama series based of the anime Mirai Nikki, known in English as Future Diary, a key artifact and plot anchor of the series. This can be debatable as either an alternate series or a continuation from the original, as the characters in ANOTHER:WORLD bear similarities to the anime counterparts.
Arata Hoshino is as easy-going as they come. Good or bad, he shrugs off whatever happens to him. This, naturally, comes off as a mixed bag: he is mature enough to not let misfortune befuddle him, but it also means that any aspects of his future is moot, as he puts little to no thought into it. A certain device changes all this dramatically for him, however, since what it can depict can be fatal to whoever holds it. This device is the Chronus Seed: a product made by his father's, that is, Kuro Hoshino's, company. The Chronus Seed is essentially a high-tech mobile phone, similar to the iPhones, Androids, and Windows Phones we use. This hosts a program called Diary that depicts his next thoughts and actions... Even his supposed demise. It is then that the app's true identity is revealed as the Future Dairy, plot device and title to the series, with the AI, Deus, lurking inside of it calling the shots. Meeting an eccentric girl named Yuno Furusaki, who claims to hold his future in her hands, makes him rethink his outlook on life, even at a cost. However, it seems the plot doesn't cease there, for even as he eluded fate, the app, rather, Deus, denied Arata, Yuno, and other owners of the Chronus Seed their futures, pitting them in a Survival Game. Can they make it through alive... rather, WHO will make it?
Having 11 episodes, I found this as less messed up compared to the original anime this was based from. That comparison starts from the character themselves: Arata and Yuno. While the personality and background between Arata and the younger anime counterpart, Yukiteru Amano, differ, Yuno Furusaki seems closely similar to the anime's psychotic counterpart Yuno Gasai. The only contrast being is that Furusaki seems more mentally sound, only going as far as stalker tendencies, plus, she doesn't have a completely tragic backstory compared to Gasai. This aired on Fuji TV, starting and ending in 2012, roughly days after the anime's original run concluded in April of that year. This did not see US localization, compared to the anime Mirai Nikki, which was licensed and dubbed under Funimation. Ayame Gokiri, who is also seen in the Gatchaman (2013) film, plays as Yuno Furusaki, with Arata Hoshino being portrayed by Masaki Okada, who also acted in other works in live-action adaptation, such as Keicho Nijimura from the film JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable - Chapter 1.
While it is what I expected as an adaptation from the anime, it isn't AS violent in comparison. so Mirai Nikki - ANOTHER:WORLD gets an 8 of 10 from me. Not bad at all, but I guess the charm comes from the fact that ANOTHER:WORLD is its own story as opposed to emulating from the original product.
Having 11 episodes, I found this as less messed up compared to the original anime this was based from. That comparison starts from the character themselves: Arata and Yuno. While the personality and background between Arata and the younger anime counterpart, Yukiteru Amano, differ, Yuno Furusaki seems closely similar to the anime's psychotic counterpart Yuno Gasai. The only contrast being is that Furusaki seems more mentally sound, only going as far as stalker tendencies, plus, she doesn't have a completely tragic backstory compared to Gasai. This aired on Fuji TV, starting and ending in 2012, roughly days after the anime's original run concluded in April of that year. This did not see US localization, compared to the anime Mirai Nikki, which was licensed and dubbed under Funimation. Ayame Gokiri, who is also seen in the Gatchaman (2013) film, plays as Yuno Furusaki, with Arata Hoshino being portrayed by Masaki Okada, who also acted in other works in live-action adaptation, such as Keicho Nijimura from the film JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable - Chapter 1.
While it is what I expected as an adaptation from the anime, it isn't AS violent in comparison. so Mirai Nikki - ANOTHER:WORLD gets an 8 of 10 from me. Not bad at all, but I guess the charm comes from the fact that ANOTHER:WORLD is its own story as opposed to emulating from the original product.
Wow! That’s an amazing review and I believe that my kids are also going to like it. They are sad because they finished watching all the shows by Andy Yeatman and now Netflix doesn’t have more. It is because he stopped working with it and they didn’t like the new content on it.
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