Future Diary News

Yukiteru Amano (Yuki) is a loner who never really interact with people and prefers writing a diary on his cell phone with his only companion being an imaginary friend named Deus Ex Machina, the God of Time and Space. However, Yuki soon learns that Deus is not a figment of his imagination but real when Deus makes him a participant in a battle royale with eleven others. Within this "Diary Game", the contestants are given special diaries that can predict the future with each diary having unique features that gives them both advantages and disadvantages.

FUNimation has announced a dub cast for Future Diary:

Cast

• Yuki - Josh Grelle
• Yuno - Brina Palencia
• Deus Ex Machina - Kent Williams
• Murmur - Leah Clark
• Minene Uryuu/9th - Emily Neves
• Aru Akise - Todd Haberkorn
• Takao Hiyama/3rd - Jason Douglas
• Keigo Kurusu/4th - Robert McCollum
• Tsubaki Kasugano/6th - Kate Bristol
• Yomotsu Hirasaka/12th - Ian Sinclair
• Reisuki Houjo/5th - Lindsay Seidel
• Karyuudo Tsukishima/10th - Mark Stoddard
• Marco Ikusaba/7th - Brad Hawkins
• Ai Mikami/7th - Jamie Marchi
• Kamado Ueshita/8th - Monica Rial
• John Balks/11th - Christopher Smith
• Masumi Nishijima - J. Michael Tatum
• Ouji Kosaka - Joel McDonald
• Hinata Hino - Caitlin Glass
• Mao Nonosaka - Ashleigh Domangue
• Orin Miyashiro - Jad Saxton

Staff

• Head Writer - John Burgmeier
• Lead Writer - J. Michael Tatum
• Writer - J. Michael Tatum
• ADR Prep - Beth Featherstone
• ADR Director - Zach Bolton
• ADR Engineer - Peter Hawkinson

Sources

• Crunchyroll

 Future Diary

Sakae Esuno, writer of Future Diary (Mirai Nikki), will launch a new series this summer. Kadokawa Shoten confirmed that a volume of this new manga would be published monthly in Shonen Ace Magazine. Esuno’s Future Diary manga series was first published in 2006 and the final volume of the series will be distributed by the end of this month. The Future Diary anime will premiere in the fall.

Future Diary is one of my personal favorite manga. Therefore, this new series Esuno and Kadokawa Shoten are launching is a book, that I will definitely be looking into. Will you?

-- Geo (sora_thekey) 24/7 geek! -- Follow me on Twitter: @sora_thekey   

   So recently I stopped in at Chapters to buy the last volume of Record of a Fallen Vampire and when I was looking through the rest of the fiction section and spotted some other stuff.

 

Now I haven't read through much of Future Diary yet but based on the Unscripted John did in March I decided to pick up the first two volumes* and it is pretty cool so far. As for the bottom item, I saw it standing out on the sci-fi section and remembered how much fun I had watching the cheesy B-movie film adapation late one night last year with some friends. 
 
I was suprised at how much text was in the original novel though since when I watched Battle Royale I pictured something around maybe 300 pages or so. Now it's not really visible here but the novel is just slightly over 600 pages. What is really cool though is that about 20 of those pages are two interviews the first being with the director of the film on the night before it's Japanese release and the second an interview with the author Koushun Takami conducted by VIZ. (Who published this release of the book last year)
  
 Oh and I stopped by HMV to pick up some new CDs. (and a couple old ones that I lost or just never bought) So if anyone is into music. Personally out of the six Crash Karma's (a super group made from musicians from some of the best Canadian alt-rock bands from the 90s to mid 2000s) recent debut album is my favourite.

 

*I've developed this pattern where if the first two volumes of a manga (or any graphic novel series really) or short novel series (less than 200 pages) that I'm interested in are out I'll buy both of them since usually by than they get the some of the more filler bits out of the way that are mainly there to just introduce the characters.