John Bacchus

John Balks is the Eleventh diary owner, and the final owner introduced in the series. The Mayor of Sakurami City, John Balks is actually the creator of the Future Diaries technology and suggested the survival game to Deus Ex Machina. He fused the first Future Diaries together to create his "Watcher Diary".

Personality
Balks is a middle-aged spectacled gentleman dressed in fine clothes and wears a hat resembling a Jewish kippah. Using his position as mayor of Sakurami City, Balks is the most powerful man in the city and his influence is very strong. In his opening scene, Balks convinces the entire city council to agree to shut down Kamado Ueshita's orphanage by crying crocodile tears and blubbering about how he adores every child in the city as if they were his own. Balks is obviously intelligent and manipulative, but can be just as honest.

He is very polite and acts like a gentleman towards Kamado. However, he is perhaps one of the more ruthless of the twelve diary owners, being strategic and using his intelligence to make any situation's outcome be in his advantage.