Yuno Gasai mouse pads for the desk

Padrift's Yuno Gasai mouse pads and desk mats carry original art inspired by the pink-haired girl at the center of Future Diary, also known as Mirai Nikki, printed edge to edge on 3 mm neoprene with a fabric top, a non-slip base and stitched edges. The sizes go in eight steps, beginning with a compact 11.8″ × 15.7″ (30 × 40 cm) pad and ending with a broad 23.6″ × 47.2″ (60 × 120 cm) mat, and production begins only after you order.

Future Diary has no separate page in the shop, so Yuno's page covers the series around her: Yukiteru Amano, Deus Ex Machina, Murmur and the other diary holders. Other series are on the Anime Mouse Pads page, one level up.

Future Diary is a dark psychological thriller. The designs discussed here focus on Yuno's look, the series' moody art and its sense of tension, never on its violence.

Future Diary in brief

Sakae Esuno's manga ran from 2006 to 2010, and Asread adapted it as a 26-episode anime in 2011. Yukiteru Amano, a lonely middle schooler, records everything he sees in a diary on his cell phone. One day the entries start describing the future. He learns that Deus Ex Machina, the god of time and space, has handed future-telling diaries to twelve people and set them against each other in a contest whose winner will become the next god. Yuno, his classmate, holds one of the other diaries, and she has already decided whose side she is on.

Pink hair and pink eyes

Yuno's look is soft at first glance: long pink hair tied in two tails, pink eyes, a school uniform and a sweet smile. In the art, that pink often sits against dark backgrounds, night skies, deep purples and blacks, and the contrast between gentle color and dark setting gives her images their tension.

That contrast is the key to a Yuno desk. Pink accents on a black setup, a pink mouse, pink keycaps on a black board or a pink cable, echo the art, while the dark parts of the mat blend into the keyboard. On a white desk, choose daylight scenes where the pink sits against a pale sky; the same character becomes much lighter.

The phone diary

Every diary in the series is a cell phone, and Yuno rarely lets hers out of her hand. Her diary, the Yukiteru Diary, does nothing but report on Yuki, with a new entry every ten minutes, which makes her better informed about him than anyone else in the contest.

Phone and diary designs let you show Yuno without a face. A flip phone with a glowing screen, or a column of time-stamped entries in neat type, works as a small-pad symbol or as a graphic on a work desk, and it reads as Future Diary to anyone who knows the series.

Timestamps across the top edge

The ten-minute entries also suggest a layout. A row of times, 08:00, 08:10, 08:20 and onward, set along the top edge of a long mat looks like a planner or a schedule, and it fits a desk where you track your own hours. On the M, 11.8″ × 27.6″ (30 × 70 cm), that row stays visible above a compact keyboard all day.

For students and anyone who works in blocks, it's a clever choice: a desk mat that quietly reminds you how much of the day has gone. Pair it with a pink highlighter, a black notebook and a dark keyboard for the full effect.

Sweet smile, unsettling stare

Yuno's expressions carry her character. In one frame she is blushing and cheerful; in the next her eyes go wide and flat while the smile stays exactly where it was. She is a textbook yandere, a character who is sweet on the surface and dangerously devoted underneath, and the art plays that switch for all it's worth.

Close crops of that stare are the most intense Yuno designs. They belong on a dark desk under dim, cool light, where her pink eyes become the brightest point in front of you. For a shared or family space, a smiling portrait keeps the color without the edge.

Yuki and Yuno

Yuki starts the story frightened of almost everything, Yuno included, and the series is in large part about the strange, uneven partnership between them. Visually they make a clean pair: Yuki in dark colors with his phone held close, Yuno in pink beside him or a step behind.

A pair design suits a long mat with the keyboard between them, or two separate pads for two people who share a room and a dark sense of humor. On an XL, 15.7″ × 35.4″ (40 × 90 cm), each figure gets one end of the mat and neither ends up under the mouse.

Deus Ex Machina and Murmur

The god who runs the contest, Deus Ex Machina, is a towering figure seated in a vast, dim space beyond the ordinary world, and his small, mischievous assistant, Murmur, enjoys the whole affair far more than she should. Scenes in the god's domain are the strangest in the series, all scale and shadow.

That gives designers a surreal backdrop: a void, a throne and a tiny figure perched beside a giant. Art like that suits a deep XXL, 23.6″ × 35.4″ (60 × 90 cm), where the throne can rise above the keyboard and the darkness runs out to the edges. It's a dramatic piece for a horror or thriller game setup.

Twelve diaries

Each diary holder's phone works differently, shaped by whatever its owner pays most attention to. Yuki's Random Diary records whatever happens around him, Yuno's records only him, and the others reflect their owners' own fixations. The idea of a diary as a portrait of its keeper's obsession is one of the more inventive ideas in the series.

It also makes a thoughtful design idea for anyone who keeps a journal or a bullet planner. A diary-page layout with ruled lines, handwritten times and a small pink heart in the margin brings Future Diary to a desk without showing a single character.

Two moods for two desks

Yuno designs fall into two moods, and it helps to decide which you want before choosing. Soft designs, pink hair against a pale sky, a gentle smile and a hint of a phone, suit a light desk, a pastel keyboard and daylight. Dark designs, deep purple, black and a single bright pair of eyes, suit a gaming desk with low light and black peripherals. Mixing the two on one desk rarely works, so pick one and build around it.

Lighting the pink

Pink is sensitive to lighting. Under warm yellow bulbs it turns peach; under cool white LEDs it stays clean; under a purple strip it deepens toward magenta and matches the darker art. If your keyboard has per-key lighting, a slow pink-to-purple gradient across the keys sits naturally beside a Yuno mat, while plain white backlighting keeps the focus on the art itself.

A desk for thrillers

Future Diary's mix of puzzles, prediction and tension suits a desk built for horror games, thrillers and story-driven mysteries. A dark mat with a single pink accent keeps the mood of the room consistent between the game on screen and the desk in front of it.

The construction helps in slow, careful games too. The fabric top keeps mouse movement smooth and even when you inch through a dark corridor, and the non-slip base holds a long mat steady when the tension rises and your grip on the mouse tightens.

The 2011 anime look

Asread's adaptation brought Yuno to the screen in full color, and much of the anime's art pairs her pink with cool blues and deep shadow. Designs drawn from that look sit naturally on a modern gaming desk with strong lighting, while art closer to Esuno's black-and-white manga pages, all ink and screentone, suits a quieter desk and a reading lamp.

Yuno on the smallest pad

For the 11.8″ × 15.7″ (30 × 40 cm) pad, think in single objects: a flip phone with a glowing screen, one timestamp in bold type, a pink heart with a clock face inside it or a strand of pink hair curling in from the edge. Set the shape where your fingertips end rather than where your palm sits, and the pad stays readable while you use it.

Sizes for a Yuno desk

Size availability differs between designs, and you'll see the options on each product page. These are the sizes that suit Yuno and Future Diary art.

Setup	Size	Good for
Mouse only	S, 11.8″ × 15.7″ (30 × 40 cm)	A flip phone with a glowing screen
Laptop desk	TCG Mat, 14″ × 24″ (35.5 × 61 cm)	A diary page with a pink heart in the margin
Compact keyboard	M, 11.8″ × 27.6″ (30 × 70 cm)	Timestamps along the top edge
Keyboard and mouse	XL, 15.7″ × 35.4″ (40 × 90 cm)	Yuki and Yuno at opposite ends
Deep desk	XXL, 23.6″ × 35.4″ (60 × 90 cm)	Deus Ex Machina's throne in the void
The whole desk	4XL, 23.6″ × 47.2″ (60 × 120 cm)	Yuno in pink against a night sky

Where a desk has width to spare but not much depth, the L at 11.8″ × 31.5″ (30 × 80 cm) or the 3XL at 19.7″ × 39.4″ (50 × 100 cm) may fit better.

Gifts for a Future Diary fan

A Yuno pad suits someone who watched the 2011 anime in a weekend, a horror-game player who likes a little menace on the desk or a friend with a dark sense of humor and a soft spot for pink. Choose the timestamps for a planner lover, a smiling portrait for a light desk and the stare for a gamer. If you don't know the desk at all, a small S pad, 11.8″ × 15.7″ (30 × 40 cm), with the phone diary on it can't be the wrong size for anyone who uses a mouse.

It takes us 1–3 business days to print and edge a pad before it ships out of Turkey, and delivery to the US usually needs another 2–5 business days.

Keeping pink clean

Light pink shows grime faster than the dark parts of a design, mostly where your wrist rests. Wipe that patch with a damp cloth once a week. For a full clean, lower the pad into lukewarm water with a little mild soap, rub it gently by hand, rinse it, then roll it in a towel and press to get most of the water out before drying it flat. A washing machine, a dryer and an iron all damage it, so leave them out.

A note on names

Yuno Gasai, Future Diary, Mirai Nikki and the other names on this page serve only to describe the inspiration for our designs. Padrift is not affiliated with, sponsored by or endorsed by Sakae Esuno, Kadokawa or Asread.