Yuno Gasai is the female lead of the recently acclaimed Manga Future Diary.
The Future Diary tells the story of Yukiteru, a loner, who spends much of his time on his cell phone writing a diary. His only companion is a fictional God named Deus Ex Machina.
However, Deus, who turns out to be real, now wants to play a survival game with Yukiteru. There are twelve contenders in total, with Yukiteru being the first.
The Survival Game winner will succeed Deus Ex Machina as the deity of time and space. The players must use their diaries to kill one another and be the last person standing to win the game. Yukiteru must collaborate with another diary keeper Yuno, in order to survive.
Yuno has a warm persona but there is more to it than meets the eye. Some people just like her for being a yandere and fail to consider her character in any detail.
In this blog, I will describe her character analysis completely.
| Name | Gasai Yuno |
| Age | 16 |
| Race | Former human now a Goddess |
| Occupation | Future diary owner |
What is the story of Future Diary?
Yukiteru, a lonely loner, spends much of his time on his cell phone writing a diary. His lone companion is a fictional god named Deus Ex Machina.
Unfortunately, Deus, who is revealed to be real, now wants to play a survival game with Yukiteru. There are twelve contenders in all, with Yukiteru being the first. The Survival Game winner will succeed Deus Ex Machina as the deity of time and space.
The players must use their diaries to remove one another and be the last guy standing to win the game. Yukiteru must collaborate with another diary keeper, Yuno, in order to survive.
Each participant is given a number depending on the sequence in which Deus altered his or her journal. The diaries now chronicle the future in the same way that their future selves would have written down events that have already occurred; the only exception to this rule is when the bearer reaches a “Dead End,” a point in their lives when their lives would be over without considerable intervention. The qualities and uses of each diary differ based on the holder’s personality, employment, and lifestyle.
All diaries have advantages and disadvantages, some more so than others, and can be used without the diary owner’s permission if they get into the hands of another.
Because the diaries are written from the perspective of the holder’s future self, the future might still be misconstrued, resulting in erroneous diary entries. Each journal has become the holder’s future; therefore, if the diary is destroyed or broken, the holder’s future is also destroyed or shattered, killing them.
Who is Yuno Gasai?
The primary female protagonist of the Future Diary series is Yuno Gasai.
She is the possessor of the “Yukiteru Diary/ Diary of Future Love” and the Second in the Survival Game. She is enamored with Yukiteru Amano, the story’s major male protagonist.
Yuno has an uncertain personality. When she is with Yukiteru, she is mostly gentle, feminine, and bashful. Her dark and sanguinary side, on the other hand, is cruel, cold, and calculated.She has little, if any, qualms about exploiting and exploiting others in order to achieve her and Yukiteru’s survival.
She will turn to nasty and frequently violent means, usually out of nowhere, that usually results in the gruesome deaths of either a Diary Keeper or their followers, thereby making her a Yandere.
Despite her childlike look, Yuno had shown exceptional physical strength, as witnessed when she freed herself from two boys her age who were holding her arms down. Another occasion she escaped from two Omekata Cult members was after Tsubaki kissed Yukiteru. She murdered them as well, despite being badly weakened by the amount of physical activity she was doing at the time, and then sliced off Tsubaki’s right hand with one stroke.
What kind of character is Yuno Gasai?
Yuno is the second contestant in the survival game. She also owns the Yukiteru Diary also known as the diary of Future love.
She is the most loved yandere character that has made it to an Anime. For beginners, a yandere is someone who starts off nice and kind but later transforms into someone entirely unrecognizable and even cruel.
Yuno is obsessed with Yukitero Amano who is also her love interest. She is a complex character who has lived 3 different lifetimes where she only loved Yukitero.
She manipulated time and repeatedly returned to the same life again and again just to be with him.
What mental illness does Yuno Gasai have?
Schizophrenia
Yuno would most likely be diagnosed with various psychological conditions, including schizophrenia, we must see her differently than any other character since her brain works differently.
Yuno’s neurotransmitters in her brain do not function properly, which we see evident in her personality, whether genetic or simply unfortunate (possibly exacerbated by her severe childhood trauma).
Yuno would be an excellent example of this mental disease because severe apathy is one of its key symptoms.
Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)
In BPD a person who shows behavior patterns and sentiments that only appear to them to be legitimate.
Extreme and impulsive emotional reactions, unstable relationships with friends and family, and mood swings are all associated with this.
Yuno Gasai has demonstrated all of them, as her relationship with every character in the story is held together solely by Yuki.
Whenever he puts her relationship in jeopardy, the first thing she thinks of is murdering whoever is in her path.
Yuno is extremely unpredictable and will injure Yuki if it means defending him, as seen by the time she drugged and abducted Yuki to protect him from other diary holders and felt it was alright.
Why is Yuno so obsessed with Yuki?
Yuno Gasai was adopted at an early age by her parents and enjoyed a peaceful life until the financial hardship began to emotionally and mentally damage her parents, especially her mother.
Yuno’s father worked long hours to make ends meet, and her mom began to torture her, wanting her to be the perfect citizen, which finally led to her starving Yuno in a cage.
While Yuno’s father was aware of her mistreatment, he did nothing to rectify the situation. Yuno eventually snapped and imprisoned her parents in a cage as retribution for her maltreatment.
Yuno failed to check in on her parents and accidentally starved them to death, even though this was a non-lethal revenge after weeks and months of torture.
Yuno became dejected and was eager to attach herself to anything that might emotionally support her, which led to her developing an obsession with Yukiteru Amano, who unintentionally offered her a sense of hope by jokingly vowing to marry her one day.
Yuno dedicated most of her time to stalking Yuki in the hopes of becoming closer to him, which happened a few weeks later when the two of them were drafted for a survival game run.
How did Yuno fall in love with Yuki?
Yuno and Yuki met two years after the deaths of her parents when Yuno was at her lowest point. They were both in detention, and their task was to write about their future dreams.
She had no dreams, so she turned to Yuki, the only other person in the room. When she asked him about his dreams, she discovered that he wanted to go stargazing with his recently separated parents.
Yuno volunteered to accompany him stargazing after realizing it wouldn’t happen.
She proposed that she marry him. Yuki assumed she was joking and agreed that when they came of age, they would marry.
In her eyes, he was serious, and this became the center of her life, as it did his. He gave her a sense of purpose and acted as a stabilizing force in her otherwise tumultuous and violent existence.
As a result, she received the Diary, which was entirely focused on him.
It was demonstrated several times during the series how terribly nervous Yuno feels at the thought of no longer being the center of Yuki’s life. Her terrible dread of losing him is the one thing that can make her lose her cool.
Yuno’s Personality
Yuno appears to be a reserved person, quiet yet assertive with others, inexperienced with groups, and hesitant to be a team player.
This qualifies her as an introvert. Gasai makes a judgment based on her feelings and prioritizes emotions above logic.
Despite being popular at school, Yuno had no close friends, and the only other people Saika and Ushio were severely mistreating her.
The only thing keeping Yuno together while they were hurting her was the promise of being with Yuki. Her yearning for someone close to her developed tremendously when her parents died.
She probably opted to stalk him instead of approaching him directly since she didn’t think he’d like her.
Why Yuno is so powerful?
The third Yuno, who has previously survived the game in this life and so has the weapon’s experience that we see her display throughout the series.
Her weapon proficiency and expertise are great, but Yukiteru, being a typical Anime male, is intimidated and, for want of a better phrase, a wimp.
The Future Diary games cause the players to be ruthless, and Yuno begins to perceive the world in black and white. In her opinion, she and Yuki are the only ones who will live even if everyone else is killed.
Even when Yuno commits crimes, she maintains her morals by rationalizing the killing as a means of protecting her loved one.
Conclusion
- Even years after the end of Future Diary, Yuno is still renowned as the yandere queen of Anime.
- Yuno began as an unstable girl who murdered herself in a different timeline to win the affection of the second Yukiteru, who had previously loved her.
- Yuno is shrewd and perceptive, which is most likely due to her mother’s abuse of wanting her to be the perfect citizen.
- She can pick up on small details that others miss and devise fairly creative plans while in dangerous situations.