A simple school trip to a prison goes horribly wrong when a mysterious man in red massacred Ganta Igarashi's class. Now, Ganta is sentenced to the same prison that he was supposed to visit. Young Ganta must live amongst the sadistic and criminally insane. He lives his life bind to a collar that is lethal. As he tries to uncover the identity of the red man, Ganta must also discern his friends from his foes in this harsh, new environment. 

Both Mirai Nikki and Deadman Wonderland share the same atmosphere of despair. Where death and killings looms in the air every single day, it provides for a very depressing anime. Essentially, it boils down to the simple rule of survival in both animes. Both animes feature the protagonist fighting in order to survive. As a viewer, you will also be placed in a situation where you will not know what will happen next. As an objective person, you can share and sympathize with the protagonist's despair and helplessness similar to Mirai Nikki in which you can never be too sure on who will die next.

Maebara Keiichi moves into the quaint town of Hinamizawa. There he met some new classmates whom all became quick friends. However, a series of strange murders and incidents puts the lives of these friends in danger. As the town is shrouded in a mystery of darkness, Keiichi resolves to get to the bottom of the true nature of Hinamizawa together with his friends. However, can his friends really be trusted at all? 

As panic ensues, an individual will often be driven to take drastic measures. Both Mirai Nikki and Higurashi explore what it takes to drive an individual to undertake severe measures to the point of being psychotic. Both share the same level of bloodshed. However, Higurashi focuses more on its mystery theme than of an action theme like Mirai Nikki. However, you can be assured that both animes feature at least one psychotic character. If you think the cover art for Higurashi is all about cute characters going about their daily school lives, you can’t be more wrong. Higurashi features psychotic and crazy characters that are simply unfathomable. Some of the characters even share traits with the characters of Mirai Nikki such as being delusional, crazy, jealous and even merciless.

Ever since the mysterious death of a Yomiyama student, the town of Yomiyama was enveloped with an aura of fear. What's even more mysterious for transfer student Kouichi Sakakibara is the existence of Mei Misaki. Everyone is distancing themselves away from her as though as she doesn't exist at all. Disregarding the advice of others to stay away from her, he starts being close to her. What he does not know is that he is now ever closer to the grisly truth behind Yomiyama. 

Another also features plenty of deaths in a gruesome manner. Both anime discusses on the topic of death and its effects it has on others. Generally, both anime has dark themes around them. Identically, both also features twisted ends to characters; you'll never know who is going to die next. The manner in which the characters die off are equally as gruesome as Mirai Nikki so for people who enjoy blood and gore or sick, twisted ends for whatever reasons, Another provides the same level of gory deaths as Mirai Nikki. It should come as no surprise that both ends in a way that is simply unimaginable, providing closure that you did not ask for from the beginning. 

Makoto Itou was travelling to school one day when he happened to gaze upon the beautiful Kotonoha Katsura. Since then, he has been riding the same train as her every day. He snaps a screenshot of her in the hope that his wallpaper charm will allow interaction between the both of them. His friend Sekai Saionji chances upon this wallpaper. Being the good friend that she is, she sets him up with Kotonoha. The trouble soon starts when Sekai starts having feelings for Makoto as well.

If you think this is going to be a high school romance anime, you can think again. There’s a reason why School Days has an infamous reputation. For starters, both animes feature yandere characters that will go to the ends of the world to secure their love – including murder. School Days is a representation of what will happen to the relationship between Yuno and Yukiteru. Most prominent of all, it displays what a true yandere is capable of just to protect their relationship. So for you Mirai Nikki fans out there who is focused on the romance portion of Mirai Nikki, give School Days a try!

Megumi Shizumu was born in a simple village. However, her extravagant ideals give her the urge and desire to move out into the city. Unfortunately, her untimely demise puts a stop to her plans leaving family members not only devastated but baffled as well. All of a sudden, numerous villagers started dying off one by one as well. A young doctor, Toshio Ozaki and a city teenager Natsuno Yuki teamed up in order to unravel the dark truth of the mysterious truths. At the end of their search, can they take in the reality of the true reason for the dying villagers?

Similar to Mirai Nikki, Shiki has the same undertones of darkness and survival. At the climax of the story of Shiki, an all-out war was staged with many deaths as well. With death and despair being the common themes between this two anime, both animes have the same persistent emotions of melancholy and desolation as every character in both animes more or less has their own background and circumstances. Similarly, in both animes, the survivors will have to seek out the truth of their situation while surviving amidst depraved conditions. Likewise, both stories develops in a manner such that it is easy to understand but ends off unexpectedly. Sometimes, the truth really does hurt...

A zombie outbreak has happened in Japan. High schooler Takashi Kimuro was forced to kill his best friend and swore to protect his girlfriend Rei Miyamoto. As they tried to leave the school, they realise that the whole of Japan was plunged into chaos. Along the way, they met with more students and together, they journeyed to find their family members and find the cause of the outbreak. Will the fate of the world lie in these high-school students?

Survival is the main theme for the HOTD. Both animes share the same premise of fighting to survive. Whereas Mirai Nikki structures it in the form of a battle royale game, HOTD is situational. However, the main goal for both animes is to fight it out and survive for as long as possible. In survival animes, the well-being of every character is tested to its limits. Some characters will be able to withstand the pressure and some will finally snap, driving them to insanity. Further, both animes also features fast paced action sequences and plenty of bloodshed. HOTD is basically Mirai Nikki in the form of an apocalypse.