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Title (English) Steins; Gate

Title (Japanese) Steins; Gate

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Fantasy Novel

Notes SF series inspired by a "real" Internet happening.

Classification SF

Synopsis Rintaro Okabe is a self-proclaimed "mad scientist" who believes that an international scientific organization named SERN is conspiring to reshape the world according to its own interests. He and his friend Itaru Hashida inadvertently create a gadget able to send messages to the past. The discovery and experimentation of this instrument become the catalyst of fundamental alterations to the present. Okabe is the only one aware of these changes because he possesses a Reading Steiner, the ability to retain the memories from previous experienced timelines. Oblivious of the consequences of their actions, Rintaro and his friends end up creating modifications of grievous proportions. He must then try to find a way to return as close as possible to the original timeline in order to save his precious lab partners. (ANN)

Review I found the opening episode of Steins; gate intriguing, but after a few episodes I was struggling as I was not sympathetic to the main character and found the rest of them somewhat uninteresting. A problem I continued to have is that there seemed to be rather too many minor characters and it was difficult to keep track of them week to week. I kept watching because I realised that the present was being altered more and more and wondered if it was just going to contimue like that or would thinks eventually get fixed. The delicious thing about Steins; Gate is that if you search for "John Titor" you'll find that there really was a person using that name posting messages on the Internet in which he claimed to come from the future and made various predictions. Likewise, if you check IBN5100, or rather IBM 5100, you will find that this was an early personal computer with some extra coding power built into it. As for SERN, there is a real research organisation called CERN.

Credits Director: Hiroshi Hamasaki, Takuya Sato
Music: Jun Murakami, Takeshi Abo
Original Character Design: huke
Character Design: Kyuuta Sakai
Art Director: Koji Eto
Chief Animation Director: Kyuuta Sakai

Episodes 24

Release

TV Showing See the whole series for free? This series may be syndicated to regional cable, satellite or terrestial TV stations. For Europe click here.

Date 2011-04-05

Production AT-X, Kadokawa, Frontier Works, etc

Broadcaster AT-X,Chiba TV, Sun TV,Tokyo MX TV +

Animation White Fox

References & Help Look up the latest data on this title at:
Richard Llewellyn's Animated Divots, or
Anime News Network (see Encyclopedia section) ,
or in "The Anime Encyclopedia" (Clements & McCarthy, Stone Bridge Press, 2001).
Help & further information.

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Title (English)	Steins; Gate
Title (Japanese)	Steins; Gate
Advertising Fantasy Novel
Notes	SF series inspired by a "real" Internet happening.
Classification	SF
Synopsis	Rintaro Okabe is a self-proclaimed "mad scientist" who believes that an international scientific organization named SERN is conspiring to reshape the world according to its own interests. He and his friend Itaru Hashida inadvertently create a gadget able to send messages to the past. The discovery and experimentation of this instrument become the catalyst of fundamental alterations to the present. Okabe is the only one aware of these changes because he possesses a Reading Steiner, the ability to retain the memories from previous experienced timelines. Oblivious of the consequences of their actions, Rintaro and his friends end up creating modifications of grievous proportions. He must then try to find a way to return as close as possible to the original timeline in order to save his precious lab partners. (ANN)
Review	I found the opening episode of Steins; gate intriguing, but after a few episodes I was struggling as I was not sympathetic to the main character and found the rest of them somewhat uninteresting. A problem I continued to have is that there seemed to be rather too many minor characters and it was difficult to keep track of them week to week. I kept watching because I realised that the present was being altered more and more and wondered if it was just going to contimue like that or would thinks eventually get fixed. The delicious thing about Steins; Gate is that if you search for "John Titor" you'll find that there really was a person using that name posting messages on the Internet in which he claimed to come from the future and made various predictions. Likewise, if you check IBN5100, or rather IBM 5100, you will find that this was an early personal computer with some extra coding power built into it. As for SERN, there is a real research organisation called CERN.
Credits	Director: Hiroshi Hamasaki, Takuya Sato Music: Jun Murakami, Takeshi Abo Original Character Design: huke Character Design: Kyuuta Sakai Art Director: Koji Eto Chief Animation Director: Kyuuta Sakai
Episodes	24
Release
TV Showing	See the whole series for free? This series may be syndicated to regional cable, satellite or terrestial TV stations. For Europe click here.
Date	2011-04-05
Production	AT-X, Kadokawa, Frontier Works, etc
Broadcaster	AT-X,Chiba TV, Sun TV,Tokyo MX TV +
Animation	White Fox
References & Help	Look up the latest data on this title at: Richard Llewellyn's Animated Divots, or Anime News Network (see Encyclopedia section) , or in "The Anime Encyclopedia" (Clements & McCarthy, Stone Bridge Press, 2001). Help & further information.