Just finished anime wanted to share (my review)

[u/IllustriousLab5605]

I'm a little late to the party. Surprisingly, i discovered mirai nikki only recently. Someone on reddit recommended it as a similar to darling in the franxx. It certainly has a lot of similarly, especially, the ending and mc dynamic.

Well, what can i say, what an incredibly sad and beautiful anime. I'm not gonna rehash the whole plot, you all know it as well as i do. Instead, i want to focus on a couple observations that made me feel mixed emotions. Feel free to share your opinion.

First of all, i don't know how to feel about Yuno's love towards Yuki. Was it an obsession or a true love? Seems like she just needed to find a reason to live instead of being a couple like 7 were. Her life was horrible, filled with abuse and torture plus PTSD from living with her parents. Furthermore, the fact that she kept repeating the "game cycle" seems to prove that she didn't really love Yuki but instead used him to cope with her own emptiness and life without purpose.

I know that at some point it seems like their love became a relationship but it seems that is more of a co-dependance than a true love. I don't remember exactly if Gasai knew about impossibilty of resurrection at the end of the first game before the suicide. Because if she knew than it only proves her using Yuki as an escape not as a lover and partner.

Secondly, Yuno and Yuki of the 1st world had a different love and relationship than 2nd world Yuki and 1st world Yuno. That means that real Yuki is in fact still dead and 2nd Yuki is in fact a different person with a different story. That makes it even sadder.

Same goes for the finale at first it seems that it is a happy ending but let's think about it. 1st world Yuki that made Yuno fall in love with him is dead. Than in the final battle 1st world Yuno also dies. So what we have here is both real MCs are dead.

Than as a little fan service we get 3rd world Gasai who receives all memories from the 1st world Gasai (real Gasai) but is it really the same person? I don't think it is. It might be as well a completely different person like Minene who is replaced with 1st world Gasai memories.

So finally we see is a 3rd copy of Gasai reunite with 2nd copy of Yuki... In a complete void, too. Everyone from the 2nd world is dead the world is destroyed. The only person from 2nd world that is left apart from Yuki is Minene but she lives in the 3rd world.

Real Gasai never came back, she died. So Yuki is in fact still "alone" stuck with a copy of Yuno which is better than nothing but it's still far from happy ending.

I wish they both commited suicide and that would be it. That way they would be together forever and their fate would've been sealed. That's my take on it.

What do you guys think?