Funimation has licensed the anime for distribution in North America. A 26-episode anime television series produced by Asread, aired in Japan between October 2011 and April 2012. A ' pilot anime' DVD was released with the 11th manga volume in December 2010. 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.
The plot depicts the Diary Game, a deadly battle royal 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 his heir. It was serialized in Kadokawa Shoten's Shōnen Ace between January 2006 and December 2010, and has been collected into 12 tankōbon volumes.
Future Diary ( Japanese: 未来日記, Hepburn: Mirai Nikki) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Sakae Esuno.
