The Inauthenticity of Nerd Appearances - All of Us Are Slaves, And Most of Us Are Liars

Anime fans and nerds in general have a tendency to obfuscate the difference between what they ‘don’t care’ about, and what they ‘don’t mind,’ both to other people and to themselves. They may say something along the lines of ‘I don’t care how I look!’ and this, my friends, is a bold-faced lie. We live in a society that has pressured us from an early age to look nice, and no matter how much you place yourself into a counter-cultural position, it is still ingrained into your mind that appearances do matter. And why does our society do that? Because our base instincts as human beings inspired it. Every human has the drive to procreate, and we know that the likelihood of procreation in our society increases the closer we get to looking like what our minds have set as the ideal body. These are just facts.

Future Diary (Mirai Nikki) Volume One Review – Sick, Breakneck, Modern Psychological Fun

Yukiteru, the main character, is a middle school student who is fine with being a loner. He considers himself merely a spectator to the world and takes logs of everything he sees around him in a diary on his cell phone. He enjoys talking with his imaginary friend, Deus ex Machina (pictured above) who is essentially god, and visits him in his room alongside his loli servant Muru Muru. Deus randomly decides one day that he wants to create a fun gave in which he will collect 12 people who like to keep cell phone diaries and change those diaries into ‘future diaries’. Each of the future diary holders must seek out and kill the others by destroying their phones, thereby destroying them, and the last person standing will take Deus’ throne as god.