Is Mirai Nikki good to watch with a friend?
A quiet night. Mirai Nikki (The Future Diary) is a OVA (home-video release) from Fall 2010 by Asread.: 1 episodes, about 6 minutes in total, finished, 6.91/10 across the listing sites.
Watching it together: a quiet night. Tagged horror, psychological, thriller, tragedy and not comedy: this wants attention and the right mood, not background chatter. Rule: heavy drama or psychological tags without comedy → quiet night.
This verdict comes from rules over the title's format, length and tags, not from a review — the rule that fired is named above.
The facts
- Type
- OVA (home-video release)
- Episodes
- 1
- Episode length
- 8 min
- Total time
- about 6 minutes — one evening
- First aired
- Fall 2010
- Status
- Finished
- Studio
- Asread.
- Score
- 6.91/10 across the listing sites
- Tags
- action, manga adaptation, coming of age, urban fantasy, crime, drama, gore, mythology, horror, psychological, school, short episodes, shounen, supernatural, survival, thriller, time travel, tragedy, violence
Data from anime-offline-database (ODbL) as of 2026-07-04; the score is the median of the scores the anime listing sites give it, on a 1–10 scale. Also listed as: Future Diary; The Future Diary OVA; The Future Diary Pilot; Future Diary OVA.
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More like this: action · manga adaptation · coming of age · urban fantasy · crime · drama · mythology · horror · psychological · school · shounen · supernatural · survival · thriller · time travel · tragedy.
Quick answers
- How long does it take to watch all of Mirai Nikki?
- About 6 minutes for all 1 episodes at 8 min each — one evening; at two episodes a night that is 1 evening.
- How many episodes does Mirai Nikki have?
- 1 episode of 8 min.
- Is Mirai Nikki finished?
- Yes, Mirai Nikki is finished (1 episodes), so you can watch the whole thing at your own pace.
- Is Mirai Nikki good for a group?
- Better for two than for a crowd. Mirai Nikki is tagged drama, psychological, tragedy; it rewards paying attention, which a group rarely does.
- Where is Mirai Nikki listed?
- Mirai Nikki is on AniList (id 8460) and MyAnimeList (id 8460); Queue Up keys it by its AniList id and shows it when it is on either of your lists.
Queue Up is a free tool: enter two AniList usernames and it ranks the anime you both want to watch, rolls one for tonight, runs a bracket to settle it and finds new anime that fit both of you. List data from AniList; title data: anime-offline-database (ODbL), dataset of 2026-07-04; page updated 2026-07-04. Not affiliated with AniList or MyAnimeList. Queue Up is a Somebody Decide program. How it works · Legal & privacy · All lists