Complete the Mirai Nikki/Future Diary manga in English!


Complete the Mirai Nikki/Future Diary manga in English!
The Issue
According to original publisher Kadokawa, the manga originally titled Mirai Nikki and known in English as Future Diary has sold more than 85 million volumes worldwide. The full run of its 12 collected volumes as well as three additional spinoff books are all available today in Japanese, Spanish, French, German, Polish, Finnish, Portuguese, and Indonesian... but bizarrely this iconic series has never been completely released in ENGLISH.
The original Japanese run of the manga and its various spinoffs lasted from 2006 to 2013. In 2009, TOKYOPOP began publishing the ongoing series into English for the first time. They made it as far as releasing 10 physical volumes and 9 digital volumes before the company ceased all publishing operations.
TOKYOPOP would eventually rise again. However, before they could do so, VIZ MEDIA obtained the license to publish Future Diary. VIZ saw fit to reissue the digital versions of Volumes 1-9 as well as print fresh copies of Volumes 1-10 that are still available today, in 2022.
Unfortunately, Volume 10 has remained exclusively physical ever since. Much worse than that, however, is that Volumes 11-12 have still never seen any English release at all. The story remains unfinished for all English readers.
The hit anime adaption of Future Diary ran a decade ago. To this day, characters such as Yuno Gasai — the so-called "Yandere Queen" — and Aru Akise remain iconic among fans of anime and manga. Great Eastern Entertainment continues to produce and sell official tie-in merchandise. The series and its characters have proven their staying power.
So isn't it time we finally saw the conclusion receive a proper release in the most widely used language on the planet?
We are asking VIZ MEDIA to translate and publish the remaining volumes of Mirai Nikki/Future Diary in any format they can. We're SO close to having the complete series in our hands in North America. Please help us get there.
Digital-only? We'd gladly take it! Physical-only? Sure - very happy to see it! Both formats? Obviously ideal!
And as for the three spinoff books (Future Diary: Mosaic, Future Diary: Paradox, and Future Diary: Redial)... we'd obviously like to see those brought to English, too, but there's no need to get ahead of ourselves. Maybe you could finish the main series up and see how it goes?
Alternatively, VIZ MEDIA, if you are uninterested in or just unwilling to bring us the completion of the run, we hope you'll seriously consider selling the license to another party (perhaps back to the revived TOKYOPOP?) that is interested in providing us with closure.
We've waited 11 years already. Let's bring this story to a close.
299
The Issue
According to original publisher Kadokawa, the manga originally titled Mirai Nikki and known in English as Future Diary has sold more than 85 million volumes worldwide. The full run of its 12 collected volumes as well as three additional spinoff books are all available today in Japanese, Spanish, French, German, Polish, Finnish, Portuguese, and Indonesian... but bizarrely this iconic series has never been completely released in ENGLISH.
The original Japanese run of the manga and its various spinoffs lasted from 2006 to 2013. In 2009, TOKYOPOP began publishing the ongoing series into English for the first time. They made it as far as releasing 10 physical volumes and 9 digital volumes before the company ceased all publishing operations.
TOKYOPOP would eventually rise again. However, before they could do so, VIZ MEDIA obtained the license to publish Future Diary. VIZ saw fit to reissue the digital versions of Volumes 1-9 as well as print fresh copies of Volumes 1-10 that are still available today, in 2022.
Unfortunately, Volume 10 has remained exclusively physical ever since. Much worse than that, however, is that Volumes 11-12 have still never seen any English release at all. The story remains unfinished for all English readers.
The hit anime adaption of Future Diary ran a decade ago. To this day, characters such as Yuno Gasai — the so-called "Yandere Queen" — and Aru Akise remain iconic among fans of anime and manga. Great Eastern Entertainment continues to produce and sell official tie-in merchandise. The series and its characters have proven their staying power.
So isn't it time we finally saw the conclusion receive a proper release in the most widely used language on the planet?
We are asking VIZ MEDIA to translate and publish the remaining volumes of Mirai Nikki/Future Diary in any format they can. We're SO close to having the complete series in our hands in North America. Please help us get there.
Digital-only? We'd gladly take it! Physical-only? Sure - very happy to see it! Both formats? Obviously ideal!
And as for the three spinoff books (Future Diary: Mosaic, Future Diary: Paradox, and Future Diary: Redial)... we'd obviously like to see those brought to English, too, but there's no need to get ahead of ourselves. Maybe you could finish the main series up and see how it goes?
Alternatively, VIZ MEDIA, if you are uninterested in or just unwilling to bring us the completion of the run, we hope you'll seriously consider selling the license to another party (perhaps back to the revived TOKYOPOP?) that is interested in providing us with closure.
We've waited 11 years already. Let's bring this story to a close.
299
Supporter Voices
Petition created on March 25, 2022