Yuno Gasai
is a fictional character and the main female protagonist of the manga series Future Diary, created by Sakae Esuno. In the series, Yuno pretends to be a perfect model student on the surface, but is actually a borderline yandere who is obsessed with the main male protagonist Yukiteru Amano, and kills unhesitatingly to protect him. Both she and Yuki are chosen by Deus Ex Machina, the God of Time and Space, as participants of the Diary Game, a deadly battle royal between them and ten other individuals who are given Future Diaries, special diaries that can predict the future, with the last survivor becoming Deus' heir. As the Second Diary Holder, Yuno's Future Diary is the , a stalker diary that gives her explicit details on whatever Yuki is doing in the present 10 minutes. By working together with his Random Diary, they are able to solve their diaries' weaknesses. In the anime adaptation, Yuno is voiced by Tomosa Murata in Japanese, and by Brina Palencia in the English version. In the live-action adaptation, Ayame Goriki portrays a different, reimagined version of Yuno. Concept and creation Development Yuno is named after Juno, the ancient Roman goddess of love and marriage. In 2009, during an interview, Sakae Esuno, the author of Future Diary, revealed that he chose to make Yuno a yandere character so that it would be more difficult for her and Yuki to work together as a team, saying that Yuno is one of the problems he would eventually have to face. In another interview, Esuno stated that Yuno is a character whose development of some facets and elements of her past would explain how she conditioned her current psychotic self. Esuno was also questioned if Yuno, who is "ready to sacrifice everything out of love for the hero [Yuki]", was his type of an ideal girl and he simply answered no, saying that "meeting such a girl in reality would still be scary". Characterization Yuno is a young girl with pink eyes and long pink hair styled in pigtails, two hanging as frontal locks featuring a pair of red bows, and the back pigtails left bare. Her most common attire consists of a blue shirt with a ribbon on her chest accompanied by a blue skirt with high socks, although her wardrobe changes occasionally throughout the series. Yuno's personality is ambiguous. For the most part she is a sweet, feminine, and sometimes shy girl when around Yuki. But, this masks her dark and sanguinary side — a ruthless, cold and calculating psychopath who has little, if any, problem in using others for her ends: her and Yuki's survival. She will resort to cruel and usually violent methods, most of the time coming out of nowhere, that generally end in bloody deaths, of either the Diary Holder or any respective follower, effectively making her a yandere. Yuno possesses divine powers from winning the first Diary Game. An example of such powers is moving enormous structures through her will alone,