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In Future Diary, the justification for the game was that Deus was dying and
looking for a successor. That's an easy enough premise to understand.

But then it turns out that this is not the first time that this has happened.
Yuno had previously won the game and used her powers to enter the reality that
we observe so that she can be with Yuki. That is a little complicated but
still relatively easy to follow.

Then when Yuki wins he ends up in his own reality, and we see that Deus is
alive and well and it is around here that I begin to lose the plot.

What is the point of the game? It shows absolutely no evidence of achieving
it's stated goal, and by all appearances the stated justification for the game
itself is false.

I realize that this question may seem confusing, but that is only because the
subject matter is immensely confusing.

So, in short, what was the point of the game?


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What was the point of the game in Future Diary?


You're completely right in the reasoning that Deus is looking for a successor,
and that is what happens in each case of the game playing out.

The survival game the anime covers is that of the second reality, which Yuki
ends up winning. What isn't revealed until near the end of the story is that
there was initially a first reality with it's own survival game, which Yuno
won.

In the first reality, Yuno becomes so close to Yuki that after he dies and she
wins, she can't bear being alone without him, so abuses the powers of the
first reality's Murmur to enter the second reality to be with Yuki once again.
Her plan was to do this repeatedly, winning the game in multiple iterations
over numerous realities to be with Yuki for, essentially, eternity. Of course,
this comes to a halt after the initial victory, as Yuki wins the second game.


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