[51], Santos called the character designs memorable, and found it refreshing that the anime featured an overweight person as one of its main characters. Santos enjoyed how Steins;Gate misleads the viewer by spending the first half of the series on comedy before turning into a thriller for the second half, and how the finale revisits the events of the first episode, making for a "rock-solid climax". She tells him that he will slowly "die" on the inside, and the world's set divergence will continue as planned. Steins;Gate[a] is a science fiction visual novel video game developed by 5pb. MAGES has announced a new Science Adventure series project teased as Steins; and it will be connected to the Steins;Gate subseries.The new project announcement comes from … The series has also spawned four original net animation episodes and a film sequel, and Steins;Gate 0, an anime adaptation of the Steins;Gate game's sequel, premiered in 2018. Steins;Gate (Japanese: シュタインズゲート, Hepburn: Shutainzu Gēto) is a seinen manga series created by Yomi Sarachi based on 5pb. The Tweet includes a hashtag for Steins;Gate, and it reads “Worldline divergence ‘0.210317%’.Hououin Kyouma: ‘That’s right. Anime Reviews said that the first half, while entertaining, is lacking in direction. He instead sends a different D-Mail in an attempt to convince Faris' father to not part with the IBN computer. STEINS;GATE is the second collaborative work between 5pb and Nitroplus with a science-fiction/adventure theme. [49] Eisenbeis noted the rules for how time travel works as well defined, which he called among the hardest things to do when writing time travel fiction. [3] Silverman thought that the series' visuals were uneven for the first half, having some "nice visual flair" at some points, such as a black-and-white scene in episode 11, and some fan-service shots that she found ill-fitting. He also eventually becomes the husband of Yuki Amane and the father of Suzuha Amane. A 25th episode was later included with the DVD and Blu-ray releases; these releases were handled by Funimation in North America and by Manga Entertainment in the United Kingdom. In the Suzuha Amane Ending, Okabe decides to not send the D-Mail that would prevent him from pursuing Suzuha. This page was last edited on 19 May 2021, at 19:44. She herself eventually joins the Lab as Lab Mem 008. The official Twitter account of the Science Adventure franchise posted an image invoking Steins;Gate on Twitter on Thursday.The Tweet includes a hashtag for Steins;Gate, and it reads "Worldline divergence '0.210317%' The story is 'reproduced.'" Steins;Gate Sequel Announced; Anonymous;Code Delayed and Loses PS Vita Version. In the Luka Urushibara Ending, Okabe decides to not send the D-Mail that reverts Luka to a guy. Suzuha and Okabe travel back in time, but Okabe accidentally kills Kurisu himself. [45] IGN listed Steins;Gate among the best anime series of the 2010s. [13] It aired for 24 episodes from April 6 to September 14, 2011,[14] and was released on DVD and Blu-ray in nine volumes from June 22, 2011 to February 22, 2012 in Japan; the ninth and final volume included a 25th "special episode" not included in the broadcast. Steins;Gate is a science fiction visual novel game developed by 5pb. and Nitroplus. MAGES. The laboratory members learn that the cell phone–operated microwave oven they are developing can send text messages back in time; they are joined by Kurisu, and investigate it, sending text messages – referred to as "D-mails" – to the past to change the present. He noted that the backgrounds, while making use of muted and grayish tones, still had enough color to be visually appealing. Steins;Gate is a 2011 anime television series created by the animation studio White Fox based on 5pb. The gameplay in Steins;Gate includes branching scenarios with courses of interaction. [17] The episodes were released from October to November 2014 on IBM's Mugendai website in Japanese, and on IBM Japan's YouTube channel in Japanese with English subtitles. [36][37][38] At the end of 2012, volume 9, 8, and 7 were the 44th, 46th, and 49th best selling animation Blu-rays of the year in Japan. and Nitroplus, Steins;Gate takes Okabe through the depths of scientific theory and practicality. Catch the show everyone's talking about! I will admit that people have been recommending Steins;Gate to me since I started doing anime science themed panels way back at Katsucon 8 years ago. Forced across the diverging threads of past and present, Okabe must shoulder the burdens that come with holding the key to the realm of time. [47] For the second half, she found the visuals and audio design to have improved, with a focus on visual themes such as clasped hands, and the use of highly detailed and more realistic art during stressful moments in the story. Returning to the present, Okabe receives a message from his future self telling him that to escape the current timeline, he needs to save Kurisu while recreating the vision of the dead Kurisu that his past self saw. The (performance) program… is the Stairs of Heaven.” The official Twitter account of the Science Adventure franchise posted a teaser image invoking Steins;Gate and the Shōjo☆Kageki Revue Starlight series. Advertisement I … Steins;Gate is an adaptation of the visual novel of the same name. Steins;Gate is the only anime adaptation that's good enough to mostly replace the visual novel experience. [46], Critics have enjoyed the series' story and writing. In a post-credit scene they are revealed to now have a child together. A picture of a clock set to a worldline divergence along with the hashtag #Steins;Gate. Steins;Gate was well received by critics: several reviewers liked the story and writing, although some criticized the pacing of the first half. MAGES. It went on to spark an anime series in 2011, followed by a film adaption as well as a second anime, Stein;Gate 0. [12], The anime adaptation was announced in July 2010 by Chiyomaru Shikura, the head of 5pb. Crunchyroll simulcast the series in North and South America, Scandinavia, the Netherlands, the Middle East, and Africa;[26] Anime on Demand did the same in the United Kingdom. Mages appears to be teasing something new for the Science Adventure franchise’s Steins;Gate series, with an announcement possibly coming on … The sequel to Chaos;Head and the second entry in the Science Adventure Series, Steins;Gate is set roughly one year after the events of the previous game. To achieve this ending, one must have had several conversations with Kurisu throughout the game. [VN] Dream Summer Jumbo It is the Steins;Gate equivalent of Summer Jumbo which is one of the four draws per year from Japan Jumbo Draw. He learns that he needs to undo all the changes their D-mails have caused, and does so until he realizes that undoing the first D-mail would return him to the timeline where Kurisu was found dead. and Nitroplus's 2009 visual novel of the same name, and is part of the Science Adventure franchise along with Chaos;Head and Robotics;Notes. It is set in 2010 in Akihabara, Tokyo, and follows Rintaro Okabe, a self-proclaimed "mad scientist", who runs the "Future Gadget Laboratory" in an apartment together with his friends Mayuri Shiina and Itaru "Daru" Hashida. STEINS;GATE follows a rag-tag band of tech-savvy young students who discover the means of changing the past via mail, using a modified microwave. STEINS;GATE ELITE follows a rag-tag band of tech-savvy young students who discover the means of changing the past via e-mail using a modified microwave. Unlike the True End, Kurisu's death is not prevented after the credits. Beyond 1% divergence is achieved, but the divergence meter gives a strange output and none of Okabe's friends have any memories of him. and Nitroplus. At this point you might have thought we were done getting new titles in the Steins;Gate series, but thankfully it looks like that might not be the case! The series was directed by Hiroshi Hamasaki and Takuya Satō, and written by Jukki Hanada, with animation direction and character design by Kyuuta Sakai, and music by Takeshi Abo. Both of them decide to travel to the past together and vow to stop SERN's dystopian future, despite the possibility of both losing their memories on arrival. [48] Foote enjoyed the visual presentation of Akihabara, which he described as "lifeless but ever moving, like sand in the desert wind"; he called it evocative of morning street scenes in the directors' earlier work Serial Experiments Lain (1998), and proof that they had not lost their touch since then. ュタインズゲート」OPテーマソング", "そして、FES降臨!!これは、抗える者たちに対する、神からの最後通告!!!", "STEINS;GATE Future Gadget Compact Disc 2 Soundtrack "Butterfly Effect, "STEINS;GATE Future Gadget Compact Disc 8 Soundtrack II "Event Horizon, "Steins;Gate's In-Story Rai-Net Game Gets Retail Release", "Steins;Gate Gets a Live-Action Play and It's Terrific", "Steins;Gate Game Gets Hollywood Live-Action Show", "PQube website for the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita versions", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Steins;Gate&oldid=1024044068, Articles with dead external links from March 2018, Articles with permanently dead external links, Pages using collapsible list with both background and text-align in titlestyle, Articles using Infobox video game using locally defined parameters, Articles using Wikidata infoboxes with locally defined images, Articles containing Japanese-language text, Articles with unsourced statements from May 2018, Articles using Video game reviews template in single platform mode, Articles with Japanese-language sources (ja), Official website different in Wikidata and Wikipedia, CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. Traveling back in time again, he provokes Nakabachi into stabbing him, knocks Kurisu unconscious, and puts her in his pool of blood for his past self to see, causing the timeline to diverge into one where Kurisu lives and World War III does not occur. Steins;Gate started out as a science fiction visual novel game released in 2009. While attending a conference about time travel, Okabe finds the dead body of Kurisu Makise, a neuroscience researcher; he sends a text message about it to Daru, and later discovers that Kurisu is alive, and that the message arrived before he sent it. and Nitroplus. Adapted from the critically acclaimed visual novel by 5pb. The story follows a group of students as they discover and develop technology that gives them the means to change the past. Instead of the "delusion trigger" system introduced in Chaos;Head, Steins;Gate uses the similar "phone trigger": whenever somebody calls Okabe, he can choose whether or not to answer. SERN, a fictional organization based on CERN[4] that is secretly researching time travel, learns of the time machine and sends people to the laboratory to retrieve it, killing Mayuri in the process. What this is pertaining to […] He is a member of the Future Gadget Lab and a close friend of Rintaro Okabe. It is the second game in the Science Adventure series, following Chaos;Head. There may be a potential new entry in the “Science Adventure” franchise, the umbrella brand that covers Steins;Gate and related works from developer Mages. Okabe goes back in time multiple times to prevent Mayuri's death, but fails each time. and Nitroplus's 2009 visual novel of the same name, and is part of the Science Adventure franchise along with Chaos;Head and Robotics;Notes. Looking for information on the anime Steins;Gate? After countless leaps, Okabe loses all emotion and personality due to re-living the same two days for all eternity. Later, Suzuha Amane, Daru's future daughter, arrives in a time machine to tell Okabe that the only way to prevent a time-travel arms race leading to World War III is to prevent Kurisu's father Nakabachi from killing her and stealing her time travel theories. Released on October 2009 for the Xbox 360, it won the highest Famitsu Award (Japanese video game magazine). He found the music to set the mood well, but also that "nothing particularly stands out". Daru hacks into SERN's database, and they delete the record of the D-mail, returning them to the original timeline. In the Mayuri Shiina Ending, Okabe must choose between saving Mayuri or Kurisu. It is widely considered to be one of the finest Visual Novels ever made. He fully accepts Mayuri's expected death and makes no more attempts to save her and they spend the last two days together before she dies of a heart attack. It is set in 2010, and follows Rintaro Okabe, who together with his friends accidentally discovers a method of time travel through which they can send text messages to the past, thereby changing the present. Suzuha Amane (阿万音 鈴羽, Amane Suzuha) is a supporting character of Steins;Gate. One area he was disappointed with was how the series often makes use of "talking head" shots with little animation and low framerates. On October 25, Mages held a live stream and talk show event for the Science Adventure Series, with most notably Mages President Chiyomaru Shikura revealing a Steins;Gate … Of course, realism isn't something that is the primary premise of Steins; Gate with time travel being the center of the… It also appears that the post is tagged with a Steins;Gate-specific hashtag. Made by 5pb Games and Nitroplus, the Science Adventure is a series of five core games: Chaos;Head, Steins;Gate, Steins;Gate 0, Chaos;Child, and Robotics;Notes. 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To prevent Mayuri's death, he re-lives the final two days before her murder through constant time-leaping. [11] While Takeshi Abo, the composer for the Science Adventure games, only had a small role in the previous anime adaptation of the series, he was appointed to compose for the Steins;Gate anime together with his coworker Jun Murakami. Eventually, Suzuha notices Okabe's behavior. RELATED: The Many Worlds of Science in Anime The string of numbers—0.210317—seem to be the same string of numbers that can be found on the Divergence Meter in the acclaimed sci-fi series. [50], This article is about the 2011 animated television series. [39] The Japanese DVD and Blu-ray boxes that collect the whole series also charted: the DVD box, which was released in March 2013, was the 26th best selling animation DVD of the week,[40] and the Blu-ray box, which was released in February 2016, premiered on fourth place and charted for two weeks. [18][19][20][21] The anime series has also received an animated film sequel, Steins;Gate: The Movie − Load Region of Déjà Vu, which premiered on April 20, 2013,[22] and an anime adaptation of Steins;Gate 0 premiered in 2018. Find out more with MyAnimeList, the world's most active online anime and manga community and database. [34], The first Japanese Blu-ray volume opened as the week's fourth best selling animation Blu-ray and the seventh best selling Blu-ray overall, with 11,802 copies sold according to Oricon,[35] and remained on the sales charts for an additional three weeks, selling 14,921 copies in total. The self-proclaimed mad scientist Rintarou Okabe rents out a room in a rickety old building in Akihabara, where he indulges himself in his hobby of inventing prospective "future gadgets" with fellow lab members: Mayuri Shiina, his air … [32] Manga Entertainment waited to acquire the license for the United Kingdom rights until Funimation had completed the English dub,[33] and released it in two volumes on DVD and Blu-ray in 2013. It has since been ported to a wide range of platforms, including (but not limited to) the PlayStation Portable, PlayStation Vita, Microsoft Windows via Steam, and more. Today in a tweet, the official Twitter account for the Science Adventure franchise gave us a sweet new teaser image. [15] For the series' rebroadcast in 2015, an alternate version of episode 23 where Okabe does not save Kurisu was aired to promote the Steins;Gate game's sequel Steins;Gate 0. [44] In 2011 it won a Newtype Anime Award for the best male anime character of the year, for Rintaro Okabe. In the Faris NyanNyan Ending, Okabe decides to not send the D-Mail that results in the death of Faris' father to try to stop the loss of the IBN 5100 computer. [50] Patrick of Cedar Mill & Bethany Community Libraries called it a "brilliant mash-up of hard science fiction, comedy, romance and drama". It is the second game in the Science Adventure series, following Chaos;Head. Realizing that he harbors romantic feelings for Mayuri, Okabe and Kurisu decide to return to the Beta worldline in which Kurisu's murder continues as planned. After discovering time travel, a university student and his colleagues must use their knowledge of it to stop an evil organization and their diabolical plans. Steins;Gate is a 2011 anime television series created by the animation studio White Fox based on 5pb. The Steins;Gate game is inspiring a live-action television adaptation in Hollywood. Took me like an hour. Put this one together with leftover footage from my other video. [29][30] Madman Entertainment acquired the license for the Australian rights,[31] and streamed the series on their website. Steins;Gate was created at the animation studio White Fox, and was produced by Mika Nomura and Yoshinao Doi,[7][8] directed by Hiroshi Hamasaki and Takuya Satō,[9][10] and written by Jukki Hanada, with Kyuuta Sakai serving as character designer and chief animation director. In my case he recommended Steins;Gate the second of 5pb., Nitroplus, and Chiyomaru Studios Science Adventure trilogy. After hacking into SERN's database with the IBN computer, a 1% divergence is achieved. The divergence can be interpreted as the date March 17, 2021. Premiering in 2011, Steins;Gate is based off of the 2009 visual novel of the same name, which itself was part of a series that also included Chaos;Head and Robotics;Notes.The series follows Rintaro Okabe, a scientific guru who runs a laboratory in his apartment devoted to … Get the Part One - Limited Edition Boxed Set. The story follows a group of students as they discover and develop technology that gives them the means to change the past. Itaru Hashida (橋田至, Hashida Itaru), also known by his nickname Daru, his online handle DaSH ("Daru the Super Hacker"), and Barrel Titor, is an experienced hacker and a hardcore otaku. It is set in 2010, and follows Rintaro Okabe, who together with his friends accidentally discovers a method of time travel through which they can send text messages to the past, thereby changing the present. She applies and becomes a part-time employee at the Braun Tube Workshop over the summer break, becoming close friends with most of the members in the Future Gadget Lab. [16] Steins;Gate: Sōmei Eichi no Cognitive Computing, a series of four original net animation shorts based on the series focusing on how computers could improve people's lives in the future, was made in a collaboration with IBM following a talk between Shikura and representatives from IBM Japan.