Yeah, it really is.. i couldn't get past the first half... No matter how my friend highly recommended it... i just can't get through it.. its so slow and shallow... :( i hope i would be reaaaaly bored soon and give this anime another chance no?
@@kentstark3104 well if you see this please watch it till 12 ep If you don't wanna watch after that it's okay but I would definitely recommend watch till ep 12
Steins;Gate is NOT just my favorite anime but my Favorite fiction of all time. I have watched / read tons of movies, tv shows, anime, manga, comics, books, webtoons etc. And nothing left an impact like Steins;Gate.
One of the odd things is much of the first series is concerned with is the platonic relationship between Okabe and Mayuri. It's fairly unique to have characters bond over the welfare of a third character.
About reading steiner, the headache as a child was never the thing that gave it to him, it was simply the first World line shift in the story resulting from adult suzuha and kagari. He even remembers John titor in the alpha world line from the meme. Have you never questioned why the world line they started the story in was labeled beta and the one where mayuri dies is the alpha? The story always started in the alpha, and okabe telling the story of when kyoma was born when he thought mayuri would disappear directly references this. So mayuri was always fated to die. The headache as a child is the first instance of time travel chronologically and switches them to the beta world line, because he must grow an attachment to kurisu, otherwise he would never be motivated to reach steins gate which is what the universe itself ultimately wants. Okabe is merely a pawn acting out the conditions for the universe to right itself. The time machine would always be created, seen would always create dystopia and mayuri would always die, so the universe as a scientific mechanism provided okabe with the tools, motivation, and ability to act on its behalf and set things right. That's LITERALLY the choice of steins gate. TLDR; everyone has reading steiner, his is just more developed because the universe needed him to act on its behalf. The headache when he was a kid was just him noticing the first world line shift.
This is explored extensively in Steins;Gate Movie. Spoiler alert: One of the characters goes in a time machine all the way back to Okabe's childhood with Mayuri. I think the series leaves open other possibilities that Steins;Gate 0 and the movie expand upon. some people don't like these changes and refuse to accept them as "canon".
@@AnimeInRetrospect True. I actually haven't re-watched Steins;Gate since I watched it for the first time last year. Your video has got me wanting to re-watch it. I still think that what makes the anime really what it had become is the first half (which people rag on for stupid reasons) and Okabe. Who is personally my favorite character of all time.
I feel the same. I’m excited for when, in following decades, I haven’t thought about the show for years it pops into my head. I think that’s the only chance I have to ever relive that experience, so I hope it happens. Idk about steins;gate0 though. I loved it when i first watched it but i rewatched it recently and i’m definitely not a fan anymore, don’t think I ever will be.
@@braydengui6809These reasons are not stupid. The first 11 episodes are just boring casual stuff I can’t care about. I have enough casual stuff in real life to watch several ours of random folks living through casual shit 🥴 But anyway it ended up as my favorite anime. They did overspread first half just to have 24 episodes. It was a standard thing those days
Definitely one of my all time favorites. Okabe at the beginning is presented as a quirky, carefree young man that doesn’t take life or responsibilities very seriously. Seeing him gradually lose his sanity in an attempt to save Mayuri is one of the most heart wrenching bits of character development I have ever seen in fiction. Okabe turning to Kurisu for help across so many world lines just makes it all the more soul crushing when he realizes that she has to die if Mayuri is to live. Kurisu doing the Hououin Kyouma laugh to pull Okabe back to reality is one of my favorite scenes. It’s a small step in Okabe’s overall journey, but it feels so poetic. I love how they are able to talk seriously in their last couple episodes together, and how genuine that bond comes across. And I do like the ending, because I feel like it actually works and resolves the plot threads in a satisfying way. I can overlook some minor plot holes or contrivances if it makes the story more fun as a result. Which it definitely does here imo. One wild ride of a story packed up and neatly resolved with a cool twist at the end. It doesn’t get much better than that. My only major criticism when I think critically about the show is the most common one- it starts kinda slow. After the punch of the first episode, it takes around 8 episodes or so to get going. And while that time is necessary to set up plot elements and characters for later, I can definitely why it would turn some people off from watching the rest. As for 0, I didn’t finish it on my initial watch but I’ll have to give it another go. The plot “twists” in it felt so obviously telegraphed to me compared to the first season that it honestly got kind of boring by halfway in, especially with the lack of real life Kurisu. The Okabe/Kurisu dynamic was by far my favorite part of the original, so having most of those interactions cut out and replaced with less interesting characters was pretty meh. But I do feel like going back to see what else is left in the story to be resolved.
This part right here, officer: "Kurisu doing the Hououin Kyouma laugh to pull Okabe back to reality is one of my favorite scenes. It’s a small step in Okabe’s overall journey, but it feels so poetic. I love how they are able to talk seriously in their last couple episodes together, and how genuine that bond comes across." Working on this video was supposed to make me cry, not this comment.
I highly recommend the source material of 0 that is the Visual Novel instead of the Anime, 0 is such a "mess" chronologically that it's very hard to "adapt" it as an anime i think Not to say that the anime didn't have some other issues like the animation here and there compared to the first one The VN is significantly better (On that note you can check out original Steins;Gate VN as well as it got more content than the Anime Very interesting stuff!)
@@M-yue882 one thing I like about the anime "0" imo, is that it made going back to the original even more interesting to me. Are you aware of Steins;Gate Elite? It uses the animation of the anime to enhance the original VN, which helps avoid eye strain, and is better to start with, imo
You know though, the beginning Okabe struck me less as "carefree" and more outright mentally ill!! I was a little puzzled why other characters brushed off his paranoia so easily, figured it was a Japanese cultural thing. Actually it was after seeing the Movie, I got a new appreciation for why being "crazy" was totally suitable, and may have kept him from really going insane!
The reason that people say the first part of Steins;Gate is slow, I think, is because of the pace shift between episode 1 and 2. Episode 1 was pretty quick in it’s first half, slowing down in the middle, and hooking you with the ending reveal. Episode 2 continues from The Kurisu reveal, but it, along with the following episodes, was at a slower pace. I’m not saying it’s a bad thing, as anyone who powers through it gets to really connect with the characters, and feel for Okabe. Not to mention that everything would feel slow compared to the last few episodes.
I think it’s partly because of visual novels just being that way, and it providing more payoff in the end. The slower pace/build-up or however you want to call it, is just not for everyone unfortunately.
steins gate is and most likely will be the greatest time travel story in fiction. but come on man, I love both the sub and dub for this series, you can't only praise one of them.
2:01 BASED!!! I'm always disappointed when a scientist/science major doesn't find other fields interesting. Something I love about the show is that, while the science doesn't always make sense with real life, the characters are actually doing science with the way that they investigate how time travel works.
This was one of, if not the finest Steins;Gate retrospective that I've had to pleasure to watch. This too is my favorite VN/anime of all time and I applaud your work here. I am envious of you meeting Mamoru Miyano. Although I have met many of the English speaking cast (J Michael Tatum, Trisha Nishimura, Jad Saxton, Lindsay Seidel, and the amazing Cherami Leigh) I have yet to meet any of the original Japanese cast members. I did have the high honor and extreme pleasure of meeting and speaking with Kanako Ito as well as attend her concert at Anime Expo '19 at the Steins;Gate Crash event. It was epic.
This is wild! AX '19 is where I met Miyano. He was part of the In/Spectre world premiere and I ran into him in the building before the panel began. I REALLY wanted to go to that concert but I was WAY too late in getting the tickets online. Congrats =p
jeez, it's already 10 years, a decade ? I feel like I've been watching this show few days ago, the emotion is still as clear as it can be, best scific show of all time.
This is a masterpiece man. I really like how you touch on the fact okabe doesn’t feel like a deus ex machina despite being the literal chosen one that fights against the universe. The chosen one will never feel as if he is special. As well as the fact that as long as the world (which can mean a group of people, or more importantly YOU) believes something it is as good as true. We shape our reality. This anime changed my life, and you did a great job breaking it down.
Damn, its been an entire 10 years! This show could pass as a new show probably even in 10 years! It's amazing in every aspect and I'm surprised its already been 10 years
I just finished my 6th rewatch I watch it almost 1 time every year (first time and 1st rewatch alone and the rest when I recommended to friends and the most recent to my brother). And every time I finish I feel the same I need more content haha so i end up here, great video I liked it
@24:29 The "stupid childhood fever" wasn't when he got Reading Steiner, it was the first time he experienced it. This is either the RS from Part-Time-Warrior's first trip, or maybe it's from the movie they made afterwards... I don't think the movie was based on the VN, though, so I'm leaning towards the former. Either way, it has an explanation!
the best thing about S;G and S:G0 is the fact that i accidentally watched them in reverse the first time i watched them through (S:G0 first and then S;G) and it STILL made sense BACKWARDS.
The Steins;Gate VA cast is very impressive and one of the all-time greats but I still can't believe Tomokazu Seki is Daru. He always pops up in the cast when I least expect it, with a huge range of voices from kids' show characters to neckbeard otaku to effeminate shoujo anime male to fiery shounen anime male to the royal and haughty Gilgamesh. All the voice actors are a blessing.
This was absolutely magnificent. Steins;Gate is a masterpiece, like no other in modern day anime. Yes, there are others AS good, AS cerebral, AS heartbreaking, AS fun, but S;G stands on it own, one rooftop, with nonsensical yelling and a Sawano-level OST blaring in the subconscious. I will ALWAYS watch an essay, retrospective, analysis, or love letter to Steins;Gate, because I will always agree with WHY they made it. Love.
I totally agree with how shit the opinion "Steins;Gate has a slow start" is, it's cerebral to the plot to establish the character interactions, the timetraveling wouldn't mean shit to the audience without it and it would something that just happens to the character, but because we grow to understand and love the characters, it also means so much to us.
It's me Finally it seems the organization has stopped it's movements there's nothing to be afraid of, Steins Gate world line is going very well and we hope it will be the same in future. - El Psy Congroo
In all my viewings of this entire anime, never caught that Okabe sacrifices himself to save Suzuha and Mayuri at the end of 0. I just fell apart!! Thank you for the great analysis.
How dare you end this with "it doesn'tr really mean anything" and give me goosebumps! Such an amazing and pivotal part to all of Steins;Gate. But also how it reminds me of Sena from Chaos;Head after I spent consideral time reading through all it's endings recently. Everything runs on Electricity. Everything in the world can be explained with three numbers, 0, 1 and -1. Her entire outlook on the world and story arc resonates really well with that line of Steins; Gate. Also, you mentioning the centering of the power lines as a symbol of the worldlines was a detail I didn't catch before, but also now hits so different. If you haven't engaged with the Chaos;Head Visual novel yet, I highly recommend it. And then give Steins; Gate another reread and/or rewatch and see how many things ou can spot that suddenly hit just a liiiitle different.
Coming back to Steins;Gate and noticing new stuff (like the power lines) can seem like it should have been more obvious on the other 8 rewatches. I notice a big difference when I’m rewatching for pleasure vs. rewatching with a more academic purpose in mind, like writing this video. I guess the intent behind each rewatch can open you up to new ways of perceiving details which is very fun in its own way. And now you’re totally adding new layers with previous SciADV context! Now I HAVE to sit down and read Chaos;Head.
@@AnimeInRetrospect Have fun! Heard that Chaos;Head Noah is the way to go. Did take me 100 hours to complete though since I didn't want to too much each route.
25:54 LMAO followed up by the frozen one Actual genius meming Overall I think you hit a great balance of entertainment and analysis. I am super excited to see what you have in store next! 29:13 blushing kurisu is a treasure of humanity
Steins Gate was an anime that I tried to watch some years ago and at the time the first episode was such a mind fuck for me that I straight up thought that the series wasn't for me and while I still didn't really understand what was going on for the first couple episodes I'm glad I stuck around with it this time, after the demail concept is established everything just starts falling into place and once they start undoing the messages there's a point before they tell you that you just realize eventually that kurisu will have to die All things in the middle like the identity of john titor, who suzuhara is, who FB is, they are crafted so well that you can decipher them moments before they happen once almost every puzzle piece is in place but just one is missing and looking back at the twists they just make sense The romance between okabe and kurisu is also really subtle in a will they won't they kind of way, but the game actually going through with it and not being stuck in a perpetual state of they clearly like each other but it just isn't the time yet situation
Am i the only one who thought Moeka’s backstory is the most tragic? She felt so useless that she let herself be used as an assassin, that she threw a tantrum when she realized FB abandoned her and that she ultimately took her own life. Her story made me cry. Kurisu is my favorite anime girl of all time, so it can’t be something only I felt
Nearly all of how we see Moeka is through Okabe’s lens; we see her as a ruthless killer. But when viewed from above like you’re saying, it’s hard to say she doesn’t have one of the most tragic backstories. I’d still say that Suzuha gives her a run for her money there, but this is a good observation that not many people realize.
@@AnimeInRetrospect True, I also had similar feelings towards her as I have towards Gabi from AoT, when she killed Mayushii, but my opinion on her did a complete 180 after that scene in her apartment. And, yeah, Suzuha’s story was also really sad, she was my second favorite after Kurisu. Come to think of it, all the characters’ stories have some sort of bittersweetness to them, it’s really well written
@@eliben4066 moeka didnt really earn her respect back from me until steins gate 0 tbh. i was lucky enough to recently watch both, so maybe id have had a different opinion if i watched steins gate before steins gate 0 was a thing, but i swear i didnt like her character and literally gave 0 fucks when she killed herself after being abandoned by mr braun. Hell, i didnt even give a fuck about her tantrum in her apartment. I literally said "Good, cry bitch" when okabe took her phone lmao i didnt even care when mr braun shot her ass. Ok by that point i was starting to see she might have some qualities about her, but truly i didnt give 0 fucks about her and wanted her to suffer because i felt her reasonings were weak as fuck and she was better off purged from existence. after steins gate 0, though, i legit smiled when i went and watched episode 24 again and he gives her the badge. Moeka earned it at that point in my eyes.
I was a bit confused by "samidare" which literally means "early summer rain". I think the art form of sword swinging is Tameshigiri, which is sometimes, but rarely, part of Iaido.
AGreed! I start Stopped took a break for a few months before I really got into it. Once I got about 10 episodes in I was hooked., Its when I started caring about the characters as if I really knew them as real ppl that I start watching it faster.You can only take so many of Mayuri's cute "TU TU RU!"'s before you then approach every new episode with anticipation. Now if you want slow but EPIC and good watch the 74 episode masterpiece "MONSTER" It took me over a year to watch it because you have to get at least 25 episodes in before you get enough background info for the story to start making sense,. On the other hand "Great Teacher Onizuka was about 50 episodes but It starts off fast and doesn't slow down until the end leaving you wanting more. The same with "Black Lagoon" and "Future Diary" P.S.- I actually tried to find and buy an IBM 5100. lol
i have to play the vn in ages, so i don't remember much of the dates, but the very first reading steiner activation might overlap with suzuha's meddling with the y2k stuff
Okabe does actually explain his Reading Steiner ability. In one of the later episodes he tells the group that it's not really anything special, and that everybody has it to one extent or another, and his best guess is the reason why his is so strong is because he is the one activating the time machine devices in the first place. This ends up getting indirectly confirmed in the OVA when Kurisu uses the time leap machine herself and she ends up being the only one retaining memory of it, as even Okabe doesn't sense any change.
25:51 If you haven't watch Fate yet please go watch it now! bellow, the best order Fate/stay night (2006) aka “Fate Route” Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works (2014) (Season 1 & 2) Fate/stay night: Heaven’s Feel I. presage flower (2017) Fate/stay night: Heaven’s Feel II. lost butterfly (2019) Fate/stay night: Heaven’s Feel III. spring song (2020) Fate/Zero (2011) (Season 1 & 2)
I couldn't get immersed into it No wonder! I actually started with Fate Zero Lmao I eventually forgot it in the 1/3 of it when other stuff catched ny attention and then burried in my mind's "list to do"
Really love this video but I do have small nitpick (if you can call it one). It may seem like Asami Imai is only known for voicing Kurisu but actually she had another major voice acting role as Chihaya Kisaragi from the original Idolm@ster All Stars line up, and Chihaya was really one of the most popular Im@s characters out there as well, partly because of her vocals (yes, she actually sings really well) and the standout episode 20 of the anime series where Asami Imai delivered a knockout performance in what was widely regarded as the high point of the show. I also find it really interesting that in both S;G and Im@s, Asami Imai voiced a very driven, talented person (Neuroscientist prodigy and singer respectively) whose passion and kindness shone through a cold and logical demeanor. It really gets to a point that I occasionally see Chihaya in Kurisu and vice versa. It was an inescapable comparison for me, especially with Asami Imai's very distinctive voice.
Actually there was a better time travel anime made afterwards, but I went back in time and prevented it from being made, because it just gave away too much. 😉🤣 I'm glad you pointed out the desert scenes in 8:40, most other YTvids don't. I'm a little disappointed this wasn't more thoroughly explored later, even in Steins;Gate 0. It also opens up the possibility that just about everything from that point on, might have been subtly altered by time travellers, I even wonder if Okabe's "discovery" of microwave;phone time travel device might have been engineered from the start. If they go back to 18000 BC(although it's never clarified if this is really only a dream) and Suzuha, goes back to get the 1975 IBN 5100, everything is up for grabs. Most of the activity starts with Okabe's first D-mail after seeing Kurisu stabbed, but I still question everything before that.
Please make video on steins gate 0. We will love to watch it. It will be great if you can elaborate on the ending and how it played out of Steins gate 0. Untill that video comes out. "EL PSY KONGROO"
i said a whole "Its me, the organization is here." thing in a game i play while waiting for a party to fill and ended it with El. Psy. Congroo. and someone said "Is that a steins gate reference?" and i never seen them again, i dont even remember their name. i didnt think to add them. how fucking rare is that? I was just bored and decided to meme and someone actually got my reference.
I very much think Steins;Gate is slow on a first watch, and I'll defend it til the end as a huge fan. When you go in fresh, the anime presents itself as being very innocent with a lot of quirkiness and wackiness going on. Its when you rewatch it that all of those layers become evident, as you know whats going on behind the scenes. Its what, in my opinion, makes it an AMAZING time travel anime. We, like Okabe, understand more when we go back in time (go back to the beginning of the series). But for that to happen, it has to feel innocent and slower. I've rarely seen it used as criticism and more as a warning to first time viewers. Saying its slow saves the new viewers from spoilers, because their first time is going to feel very slow. You could poetically call it the world being fooled. But really all those events that happen have little consequence or meaning behind them until the end half. Yes a character death happened and then was undone, but it doesnt come with any emotional weight. Hell, even when Makise approaches him and asks him "what he was talking about before, it seemed important," I found it weird but just wrote it off. She was alive again, maybe they had a conversation he doesn't remember. You don't know the true meaning behind it until the end of the season
@@AnimeInRetrospect I think it'S one of the wildest qualities of the Anime, that it can start out in Episode 1 with a bunch of realyl weird things: Characters acting/talkign weird and past each other, a person being murdered. a big crowd of people vanishing in an instant. And then the watcher just forgets about it and moves on. And that's kind of how this goes, isn't it? even if something catches your eyes, you quickly forget as your brain is busy processing more important stuff. I think I've read basically that statement in one of the SciAdv VNs, but I forgot where and when ... Anywho, the story going after that sequence of events into basically another intro, namely introducing the names of the characters, the sillyness that is the future gadget laboraty, and also at the same time an important theme helps with just not bothering with the prior events. And Kurise being alive definitely helps takign away all of the weight until the show is ready to whack your feelings.
I was about to watch this video essay, and then you claimed that this isn’t slow. I absolutely love this show. Just finished it for the first time. Unfortunately, you cannot deny that this show is slow. I appreciate the first 12 episodes for what they are, and you can’t feel the impact off the second part without the setup from the first. Just because the first part is important, that doesn’t mean that it isn’t slow. Watching it again probably feels faster because you actually know what’s going on ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I'm very late, but really well made video! However, you are mistaken in one detail that you noted in your video. Shikamura Chiyomaru, while definitely a great composer for music like you noted, did not actually write Steins;Gate or the other Science Adventure entries that are part of the visual novel series Steins;Gate is a part of. The person who actually penned the direct scenario of Steins;Gate (i.e. the characters, dialogue, plot, etc.) was actually *Naotaka Hayashi. Chiyomaru is the guy who comes up with ideas/concepts for the Science Adventuer series and Hayashi is the guy who directly writes the stories details himself. He's the one that is responsible for all the attention to detail, nuance, great character interaction and emotional beats that make Steins;Gate the masterpiece that it is. >w>b* (He also wrote Chaos;Head NoAH and Robotics;Notes, two amazing visual novel stories that part of the Science Adventure series set in the same world as Steins;Gate with some returning characters. The Science Adventure series is basically a series where several different groups of people in Japan are targeted by the same people who were behind SERN in Steins;Gate, and how they band together to fight this threat to save their world. I'd highly recommend giving those visual novels I mentioned that part of this series a read if you're interested in more of his fantastic work. Don't watch their anime adaptations though, they heavily rush and botch the stories of those entries heavily.)
@@AnimeInRetrospect Anytime! Thanks for this wonderful video by the way, I really loved it. It's always a pleasure to find another Steins;Gate lover! >w>b I would still highly recommend Chaos;Head NoAH (when its' fan translation is finished) and Robotics;Notes if you want more amazing stories from this masterful writer duo. All the heart, insane attention to detail, crazy twists, powerful themes and wonderful characters that Steins;Gate has is just as plentiful and well executed in these two visual novels as well.
@@spiderfreak1011 Thank you! Glad you found it. I have watched all the other SciADV anime... unfortunately. The only other one I like is R;N. Someday I will do the SciADV series justice and play through all the other VNs.
@@AnimeInRetrospect Aw, I'm very sorry to hear that. THe animes really don't do the other VNs justice sadly, but I get why you didn't know ahead of time that they were poor adaptations. I do think you'd like them a lot more via the source material. Regardless, I am glad that you do have interest in the rest of the series, whenever you decide to check them out! I am also curious, do you have a discord by any chance? I wouldn't mind talking with you about S;G or other good anime here and there if you do
steins gate is easily my favorite anime, but something has been bothering me, during the scene where mayuri dies you get a glimpse of kurisu meeting the same fate, so why didn't she consistently die through world lines like mayuri? a small plot hole but the anime is still amazing.
The whole reason for this has to do with the attractor fields concept. An attractor field is a “set” of world lines with a significant enough change to them that history is altered. Kurisu does die consistently in one attractor field (we aren’t shown this but it still happens in theory), while Mayuri dies consistently in another - this is the attractor field we see Okabe suffer through for most of the show. Saving Kurisu by accident (the first D-Mail) is what caused the shift to the other attractor field where Mayuri dies in the first place.
It's a shame that the OVA and film feel like they kind of threw away all the buildup and intentionally rebooted the story in a sense... But I guess it would be hard to figure out where to go once you've saved everyone and no longer need to deal with Mayuri dying every 2 days after going back 2 days in time... or, well, later on, reversing the dmails does change this to a maximum of... 6 days, was it, after reversing Faris's dmail, Lukako's dmail and Moeka's dmail I believe...
I know there is controversy about Attack on Titan’s ending (I’m anime only) but romance? Attack on Titan has never tried to do romance and I hope it doesn’t in the end lol
hello from the future, attack on titan anime ending was great, i never read the manga and managed to avoid spoilers for years, everything came full circle idk what youre talking about, attack on titan was a great story just like how steains gate was. SG is a beautiful, perfect ending. Attack on Titan wasnt a happy ending at all, doesnt mean its inherently bad wtf. Its a tragic ending to a tragic story in a tragic world. It was a great ending, and comparing the two is comparing apples to oranges. Both are great fruit and hit different taste buds.
Spoiler Alert: So, the series starts with Steins; Gate ep 1 where Okabe and Daru trying to build a time machine. They send multiple D-mails in the past to check whether their machine is working or not, but each of them comes with a drastic consequence and in the end, Mayuri dies. So, to save her Okabe time leaps again and again but realizes that all timelines converge into the same end result. He figures out that the only thing that can save Mayuri is to undo the D-mails they sent in the past. So, he starts doing it, but the first D-mail he sent was the reason Kurisu being alive. So undoing it will end up in a world without Kurisu. This world line is called the BETA world line. In Steins; Gate 0 we have shown the Beta world line and how Okabe has the guilt of killing Kurisu and always remains depressed. But later, he realizes that Mayuri dies in this world too and WW3 is inevitable... The only way to achieve Steins; Gate is to save both Kurisu and Mayuri and prevent WW3. Okabe time leaps over 3000 times to reach the state where he had a choice of saving Mayuri and Suzuha from the terrorist attack and they manage to escape into the past where Okabe has a choice of trying again to save Kurisu..... Now, we came to ep 23 of Steins; Gate where he again goes to the crime scene and manages to save Kurisu and achieve Steins; Gate. In the movie, it is shown that in Steins; Gate world line Okabe's mind is not stable and shifts from one world to another because of the continuous journey of time traveling he had been through. As a result, he wiped out of the existence in Steins; Gate but everyone around him stays and has some glimpses of him. Kurisu from the future again built a time machine and send Suzuha to convince the present Kurisu to save Okabe from existence. Kurisu went to the past and kissed a young Okabe and introduce him to the concept of mad scientist Hyouin Kyouma, which had a great impact on his life.... In the end, we see Kurisu meeting Okabe in a new timeline and said she is here to take him to the Steins; Gate and he said who is he to decide now... So, we can assume that she managed to save Okabe from wiping out of existence in the Steins; Gate.. Now, if you want to watch this masterpiece follow this order : Steins; Gate (ep 1-22) Steins; Gate ep 23B (which leads us to Steins; Gate 0) Steins; Gate (ep 23-24) Steins; Gate Movie Steins; Gate OVA.... I personally like OVA to be the ending as it has everyone living happily in the Steins; Gate. So, it can be assumed as the ep after the movie....
@@darkpoisonentertainmentstu2845 Since Sony Music claimed the entire video instead of specific footage or music (I used no copyrighted music), I can’t be sure of what actually caused it.
First part of Steins gate is not slow at all rather it's vital and most important part.
Honestly, I enjoyed the first half of Steins;Gate more than the second half.
Yeah, it really is.. i couldn't get past the first half... No matter how my friend highly recommended it... i just can't get through it.. its so slow and shallow... :(
i hope i would be reaaaaly bored soon and give this anime another chance no?
@@kentstark3104 ??? they said it wasn't slow?
@@jinshim2536 for me it was.. i managed to get to episode 9... And couldn't get through it anymore... 😂 Maybe this anime really isn't for me...
@@kentstark3104 well if you see this please watch it till 12 ep If you don't wanna watch after that it's okay but I would definitely recommend watch till ep 12
I get goosebumps just listening to the word "Steins;Gate" after all these years.
And this series will get sequel 😂
My watch isn't working
i love stein;gate
Steins;Gate is NOT just my favorite anime but my Favorite fiction of all time. I have watched / read tons of movies, tv shows, anime, manga, comics, books, webtoons etc. And nothing left an impact like Steins;Gate.
i respect that, do you still feel this way after 8 months?
@@za420ong Yes!
18:52 I never cared for ships whatsoever, but Okabe and Kurisu are one of those extremely rare exceptions.
Their relationship made me realize, I don’t hate romance, I hate cheap romance
best tsundere waifuu ever!!!
One of the odd things is much of the first series is concerned with is the platonic relationship between Okabe and Mayuri. It's fairly unique to have characters bond over the welfare of a third character.
About reading steiner, the headache as a child was never the thing that gave it to him, it was simply the first World line shift in the story resulting from adult suzuha and kagari. He even remembers John titor in the alpha world line from the meme. Have you never questioned why the world line they started the story in was labeled beta and the one where mayuri dies is the alpha? The story always started in the alpha, and okabe telling the story of when kyoma was born when he thought mayuri would disappear directly references this. So mayuri was always fated to die. The headache as a child is the first instance of time travel chronologically and switches them to the beta world line, because he must grow an attachment to kurisu, otherwise he would never be motivated to reach steins gate which is what the universe itself ultimately wants. Okabe is merely a pawn acting out the conditions for the universe to right itself. The time machine would always be created, seen would always create dystopia and mayuri would always die, so the universe as a scientific mechanism provided okabe with the tools, motivation, and ability to act on its behalf and set things right. That's LITERALLY the choice of steins gate.
TLDR; everyone has reading steiner, his is just more developed because the universe needed him to act on its behalf. The headache when he was a kid was just him noticing the first world line shift.
Are you saying you have reading Steiner as well?
oh shit damn
@@Zrytun you know too much
This is explored extensively in Steins;Gate Movie. Spoiler alert: One of the characters goes in a time machine all the way back to Okabe's childhood with Mayuri. I think the series leaves open other possibilities that Steins;Gate 0 and the movie expand upon. some people don't like these changes and refuse to accept them as "canon".
@@squirlmy I love the movie. That being said it's confirmed to not be canon unfortunately. I think it's a shame but I don't make the rules.
God damn do I love, love, love, love, love Steins;Gate. The fact that I will never be able to watch it for the first time again will always haunt me.
There is beauty in the rewatches at least!
@@AnimeInRetrospect True. I actually haven't re-watched Steins;Gate since I watched it for the first time last year. Your video has got me wanting to re-watch it.
I still think that what makes the anime really what it had become is the first half (which people rag on for stupid reasons) and Okabe. Who is personally my favorite character of all time.
I feel the same. I’m excited for when, in following decades, I haven’t thought about the show for years it pops into my head. I think that’s the only chance I have to ever relive that experience, so I hope it happens. Idk about steins;gate0 though. I loved it when i first watched it but i rewatched it recently and i’m definitely not a fan anymore, don’t think I ever will be.
@@braydengui6809These reasons are not stupid. The first 11 episodes are just boring casual stuff I can’t care about. I have enough casual stuff in real life to watch several ours of random folks living through casual shit 🥴 But anyway it ended up as my favorite anime. They did overspread first half just to have 24 episodes. It was a standard thing those days
Definitely one of my all time favorites. Okabe at the beginning is presented as a quirky, carefree young man that doesn’t take life or responsibilities very seriously. Seeing him gradually lose his sanity in an attempt to save Mayuri is one of the most heart wrenching bits of character development I have ever seen in fiction. Okabe turning to Kurisu for help across so many world lines just makes it all the more soul crushing when he realizes that she has to die if Mayuri is to live.
Kurisu doing the Hououin Kyouma laugh to pull Okabe back to reality is one of my favorite scenes. It’s a small step in Okabe’s overall journey, but it feels so poetic. I love how they are able to talk seriously in their last couple episodes together, and how genuine that bond comes across.
And I do like the ending, because I feel like it actually works and resolves the plot threads in a satisfying way. I can overlook some minor plot holes or contrivances if it makes the story more fun as a result. Which it definitely does here imo. One wild ride of a story packed up and neatly resolved with a cool twist at the end. It doesn’t get much better than that.
My only major criticism when I think critically about the show is the most common one- it starts kinda slow. After the punch of the first episode, it takes around 8 episodes or so to get going. And while that time is necessary to set up plot elements and characters for later, I can definitely why it would turn some people off from watching the rest.
As for 0, I didn’t finish it on my initial watch but I’ll have to give it another go. The plot “twists” in it felt so obviously telegraphed to me compared to the first season that it honestly got kind of boring by halfway in, especially with the lack of real life Kurisu. The Okabe/Kurisu dynamic was by far my favorite part of the original, so having most of those interactions cut out and replaced with less interesting characters was pretty meh. But I do feel like going back to see what else is left in the story to be resolved.
This part right here, officer: "Kurisu doing the Hououin Kyouma laugh to pull Okabe back to reality is one of my favorite scenes. It’s a small step in Okabe’s overall journey, but it feels so poetic. I love how they are able to talk seriously in their last couple episodes together, and how genuine that bond comes across."
Working on this video was supposed to make me cry, not this comment.
aaah 2011 the best year for anime
I highly recommend the source material of 0 that is the Visual Novel instead of the Anime,
0 is such a "mess" chronologically that it's very hard to "adapt" it as an anime i think
Not to say that the anime didn't have some other issues like the animation here and there compared to the first one
The VN is significantly better
(On that note you can check out original Steins;Gate VN as well as it got more content than the Anime
Very interesting stuff!)
@@M-yue882 one thing I like about the anime "0" imo, is that it made going back to the original even more interesting to me. Are you aware of Steins;Gate Elite? It uses the animation of the anime to enhance the original VN, which helps avoid eye strain, and is better to start with, imo
You know though, the beginning Okabe struck me less as "carefree" and more outright mentally ill!! I was a little puzzled why other characters brushed off his paranoia so easily, figured it was a Japanese cultural thing. Actually it was after seeing the Movie, I got a new appreciation for why being "crazy" was totally suitable, and may have kept him from really going insane!
Everything have a meaning in steins gate .....beside stein gate
🥲that hit me right in the heart
The reason that people say the first part of Steins;Gate is slow, I think, is because of the pace shift between episode 1 and 2.
Episode 1 was pretty quick in it’s first half, slowing down in the middle, and hooking you with the ending reveal.
Episode 2 continues from The Kurisu reveal, but it, along with the following episodes, was at a slower pace. I’m not saying it’s a bad thing, as anyone who powers through it gets to really connect with the characters, and feel for Okabe.
Not to mention that everything would feel slow compared to the last few episodes.
I think it’s partly because of visual novels just being that way, and it providing more payoff in the end. The slower pace/build-up or however you want to call it, is just not for everyone unfortunately.
steins gate is and most likely will be the greatest time travel story in fiction. but come on man, I love both the sub and dub for this series, you can't only praise one of them.
The English dub was my initiation to Steins;Gate all those years ago! I have an appreciation for it, too, even if it’s not my preferred version.
2:01 BASED!!!
I'm always disappointed when a scientist/science major doesn't find other fields interesting.
Something I love about the show is that, while the science doesn't always make sense with real life, the characters are actually doing science with the way that they investigate how time travel works.
"as a theme, Time is easy to botch"
Looking at you, Life is Strange
This was one of, if not the finest Steins;Gate retrospective that I've had to pleasure to watch. This too is my favorite VN/anime of all time and I applaud your work here.
I am envious of you meeting Mamoru Miyano. Although I have met many of the English speaking cast (J Michael Tatum, Trisha Nishimura, Jad Saxton, Lindsay Seidel, and the amazing Cherami Leigh) I have yet to meet any of the original Japanese cast members. I did have the high honor and extreme pleasure of meeting and speaking with Kanako Ito as well as attend her concert at Anime Expo '19 at the Steins;Gate Crash event. It was epic.
This is wild! AX '19 is where I met Miyano. He was part of the In/Spectre world premiere and I ran into him in the building before the panel began. I REALLY wanted to go to that concert but I was WAY too late in getting the tickets online. Congrats =p
jeez, it's already 10 years, a decade ? I feel like I've been watching this show few days ago, the emotion is still as clear as it can be, best scific show of all time.
This is a masterpiece man.
I really like how you touch on the fact okabe doesn’t feel like a deus ex machina despite being the literal chosen one that fights against the universe. The chosen one will never feel as if he is special.
As well as the fact that as long as the world (which can mean a group of people, or more importantly YOU) believes something it is as good as true. We shape our reality.
This anime changed my life, and you did a great job breaking it down.
"Tokuni imi wanai" I said it before it played in the video. Im so obsessed with this. My hearth died with that reference. Beautiful video!
Kurisu also says it a couple times! But if I added those in, it would have been too long to really pack the same punch. Thanks for the kind words!
The best Retrospective i have seen and the cherry on top was El Psy Congroo at the end gave the video a perfect ending.
Glad you like it!
ER doctor here ! Huge Anime fan !!!!! This anime is just amazing. One of the best in my opinion and I have watch many !!!!!
Damn, its been an entire 10 years! This show could pass as a new show probably even in 10 years! It's amazing in every aspect and I'm surprised its already been 10 years
In the post credit scene at the end of Steins;gate zero! Man. Tears
I need to re-watch the series, especially watching this
Or, try the VN...
@@maartenboy37 I second that recommendatoin. The additional exploration of Okabes Headspace alone is such a great addition.
I just finished my 6th rewatch I watch it almost 1 time every year (first time and 1st rewatch alone and the rest when I recommended to friends and the most recent to my brother). And every time I finish I feel the same I need more content haha so i end up here, great video I liked it
@24:29 The "stupid childhood fever" wasn't when he got Reading Steiner, it was the first time he experienced it. This is either the RS from Part-Time-Warrior's first trip, or maybe it's from the movie they made afterwards... I don't think the movie was based on the VN, though, so I'm leaning towards the former. Either way, it has an explanation!
That makes sense! It can’t be from the movie but Suzuha’s trip seems to add up. Crazy.
That "Almost imperceptible" moment actually was imperceptible to me. Even having rewatched all of Steins;Gate several times over, I never caught it
the best thing about S;G and S:G0 is the fact that i accidentally watched them in reverse the first time i watched them through (S:G0 first and then S;G) and it STILL made sense BACKWARDS.
This show is just goated man
Steins;Gate is a masterpiece of all time. Props to the creator of the story and to the animation studio, VAs, and staffs.
The Steins;Gate VA cast is very impressive and one of the all-time greats but I still can't believe Tomokazu Seki is Daru. He always pops up in the cast when I least expect it, with a huge range of voices from kids' show characters to neckbeard otaku to effeminate shoujo anime male to fiery shounen anime male to the royal and haughty Gilgamesh. All the voice actors are a blessing.
He’s really had the time to expand his range. Dude is a super veteran of the industry, and it’s fun being able to recognize him in old stuff!
This was absolutely magnificent. Steins;Gate is a masterpiece, like no other in modern day anime. Yes, there are others AS good, AS cerebral, AS heartbreaking, AS fun, but S;G stands on it own, one rooftop, with nonsensical yelling and a Sawano-level OST blaring in the subconscious.
I will ALWAYS watch an essay, retrospective, analysis, or love letter to Steins;Gate, because I will always agree with WHY they made it.
Love.
I owe theflamingshark an applause for having sent me down the path to steins;gate. Steins;gate has CHOSEN!
My top three time stories
1. Back to the future
2. Steins;gate
3. Early Edition (i wish this was a anime)
I totally agree with how shit the opinion "Steins;Gate has a slow start" is, it's cerebral to the plot to establish the character interactions, the timetraveling wouldn't mean shit to the audience without it and it would something that just happens to the character, but because we grow to understand and love the characters, it also means so much to us.
I bought my first anime merch after watching steins gate. I am now the proud owner of a green forest fairy upa!
My fav anime of all time too!
It's me Finally it seems the organization has stopped it's movements there's nothing to be afraid of, Steins Gate world line is going very well and we hope it will be the same in future.
- El Psy Congroo
In all my viewings of this entire anime, never caught that Okabe sacrifices himself to save Suzuha and Mayuri at the end of 0. I just fell apart!! Thank you for the great analysis.
I appreciate your efforts into making these videos! Looking forward to your next project
Just finished watching stems gate 😊
Great video!! Loved your oregairu video as I needed it since I binged the whole thing in two days lmao
Steins Gate is one of my top series and Kurisu is best girl.Okabe is a great protag and the other characters are good. Story was peak.
What a great video made me tear up
How dare you end this with "it doesn'tr really mean anything" and give me goosebumps!
Such an amazing and pivotal part to all of Steins;Gate.
But also how it reminds me of Sena from Chaos;Head after I spent consideral time reading through all it's endings recently.
Everything runs on Electricity. Everything in the world can be explained with three numbers, 0, 1 and -1.
Her entire outlook on the world and story arc resonates really well with that line of Steins; Gate.
Also, you mentioning the centering of the power lines as a symbol of the worldlines was a detail I didn't catch before, but also now hits so different.
If you haven't engaged with the Chaos;Head Visual novel yet, I highly recommend it. And then give Steins; Gate another reread and/or rewatch and see how many things ou can spot that suddenly hit just a liiiitle different.
Coming back to Steins;Gate and noticing new stuff (like the power lines) can seem like it should have been more obvious on the other 8 rewatches. I notice a big difference when I’m rewatching for pleasure vs. rewatching with a more academic purpose in mind, like writing this video. I guess the intent behind each rewatch can open you up to new ways of perceiving details which is very fun in its own way.
And now you’re totally adding new layers with previous SciADV context! Now I HAVE to sit down and read Chaos;Head.
@@AnimeInRetrospect Have fun! Heard that Chaos;Head Noah is the way to go.
Did take me 100 hours to complete though since I didn't want to too much each route.
As someone who recently discovered this series and devoured everything you did this show so much justice. Thanks for this. 💙
And thank you for the niceness!
That fate go reference bro, i feel that pain
hella good video man, you’re underrated asf
What an amazing video. Great job. Seriously. Love your content so far
Beautiful retrospective my man
Probably one of the best videos about Steins;Gate I've watched, and I've watched a lot of them
the GOAT...
25:54 LMAO followed up by the frozen one
Actual genius meming
Overall I think you hit a great balance of entertainment and analysis. I am super excited to see what you have in store next!
29:13 blushing kurisu is a treasure of humanity
After 10 years it is still one of the best.
how the hell do you only have roughly 1000 subs??????? this was great, it made me cry again for S;G
Haha, I get that a lot. I'm glad to know my content is resonating with people, thank you!
Great vid my guy, huge inspiration for the video I’m making rn. Your way of analysis is something I need to learn.
Great video! Keep up the good content, you deserve more attention
Steins Gate was an anime that I tried to watch some years ago and at the time the first episode was such a mind fuck for me that I straight up thought that the series wasn't for me and while I still didn't really understand what was going on for the first couple episodes I'm glad I stuck around with it this time, after the demail concept is established everything just starts falling into place and once they start undoing the messages there's a point before they tell you that you just realize eventually that kurisu will have to die
All things in the middle like the identity of john titor, who suzuhara is, who FB is, they are crafted so well that you can decipher them moments before they happen once almost every puzzle piece is in place but just one is missing and looking back at the twists they just make sense
The romance between okabe and kurisu is also really subtle in a will they won't they kind of way, but the game actually going through with it and not being stuck in a perpetual state of they clearly like each other but it just isn't the time yet situation
Am i the only one who thought Moeka’s backstory is the most tragic? She felt so useless that she let herself be used as an assassin, that she threw a tantrum when she realized FB abandoned her and that she ultimately took her own life. Her story made me cry. Kurisu is my favorite anime girl of all time, so it can’t be something only I felt
Nearly all of how we see Moeka is through Okabe’s lens; we see her as a ruthless killer. But when viewed from above like you’re saying, it’s hard to say she doesn’t have one of the most tragic backstories. I’d still say that Suzuha gives her a run for her money there, but this is a good observation that not many people realize.
@@AnimeInRetrospect True, I also had similar feelings towards her as I have towards Gabi from AoT, when she killed Mayushii, but my opinion on her did a complete 180 after that scene in her apartment.
And, yeah, Suzuha’s story was also really sad, she was my second favorite after Kurisu. Come to think of it, all the characters’ stories have some sort of bittersweetness to them, it’s really well written
I felt sorry for her but my anger for her evened it out. Glad she made good though
@@eliben4066 moeka didnt really earn her respect back from me until steins gate 0 tbh. i was lucky enough to recently watch both, so maybe id have had a different opinion if i watched steins gate before steins gate 0 was a thing, but i swear i didnt like her character and literally gave 0 fucks when she killed herself after being abandoned by mr braun. Hell, i didnt even give a fuck about her tantrum in her apartment. I literally said "Good, cry bitch" when okabe took her phone lmao i didnt even care when mr braun shot her ass. Ok by that point i was starting to see she might have some qualities about her, but truly i didnt give 0 fucks about her and wanted her to suffer because i felt her reasonings were weak as fuck and she was better off purged from existence. after steins gate 0, though, i legit smiled when i went and watched episode 24 again and he gives her the badge. Moeka earned it at that point in my eyes.
great work! gonna head over to crunchyroll now ;)
I love every second of Stein's Gate. I find the first episodes fun and enticing. Calling any part of this series slow is blatant ignorance.
Thank you
I was a bit confused by "samidare" which literally means "early summer rain". I think the art form of sword swinging is Tameshigiri, which is sometimes, but rarely, part of Iaido.
How the hell are you so underrated
5:55 MY THOUGHTS EXACTLY
Great video, and Steins;Gate is one of the GOATs but... it does start slow.
AGreed! I start Stopped took a break for a few months before I really got into it. Once I got about 10 episodes in I was hooked., Its when I started caring about the characters as if I really knew them as real ppl that I start watching it faster.You can only take so many of Mayuri's cute "TU TU RU!"'s before you then approach every new episode with anticipation. Now if you want slow but EPIC and good watch the 74 episode masterpiece "MONSTER" It took me over a year to watch it because you have to get at least 25 episodes in before you get enough background info for the story to start making sense,. On the other hand "Great Teacher Onizuka was about 50 episodes but It starts off fast and doesn't slow down until the end leaving you wanting more. The same with "Black Lagoon" and "Future Diary" P.S.- I actually tried to find and buy an IBM 5100. lol
Brilliant video, deserves many more views!
berenstain , berenstein , steins;gate ... you're welcome
i have to play the vn in ages, so i don't remember much of the dates, but the very first reading steiner activation might overlap with suzuha's meddling with the y2k stuff
Okabe does actually explain his Reading Steiner ability. In one of the later episodes he tells the group that it's not really anything special, and that everybody has it to one extent or another, and his best guess is the reason why his is so strong is because he is the one activating the time machine devices in the first place. This ends up getting indirectly confirmed in the OVA when Kurisu uses the time leap machine herself and she ends up being the only one retaining memory of it, as even Okabe doesn't sense any change.
Beautifully done.
Wish you wouldve pasted Daru’s face over Gilgamesh but I’ll settle for the neck bearded Gilgamesh reference.
widepeepoHappy
25:51 If you haven't watch Fate yet please go watch it now!
bellow, the best order
Fate/stay night (2006) aka “Fate Route”
Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works (2014) (Season 1 & 2)
Fate/stay night: Heaven’s Feel I. presage flower (2017)
Fate/stay night: Heaven’s Feel II. lost butterfly (2019)
Fate/stay night: Heaven’s Feel III. spring song (2020)
Fate/Zero (2011) (Season 1 & 2)
I couldn't get immersed into it
No wonder!
I actually started with Fate Zero
Lmao
I eventually forgot it in the 1/3 of it
when other stuff catched ny attention and then burried in my mind's "list to do"
Amazing video! Steins;Gate is a masterpiece
Thank you for the kind words!
Thank you for this. You did really great, I'll buy the Science Adventure Bundle when it's reduced around Christmas.
11 years now
One of the greatest series of all time.
Really love this video but I do have small nitpick (if you can call it one). It may seem like Asami Imai is only known for voicing Kurisu but actually she had another major voice acting role as Chihaya Kisaragi from the original Idolm@ster All Stars line up, and Chihaya was really one of the most popular Im@s characters out there as well, partly because of her vocals (yes, she actually sings really well) and the standout episode 20 of the anime series where Asami Imai delivered a knockout performance in what was widely regarded as the high point of the show.
I also find it really interesting that in both S;G and Im@s, Asami Imai voiced a very driven, talented person (Neuroscientist prodigy and singer respectively) whose passion and kindness shone through a cold and logical demeanor. It really gets to a point that I occasionally see Chihaya in Kurisu and vice versa. It was an inescapable comparison for me, especially with Asami Imai's very distinctive voice.
That’s a neat thing to point out! Haven’t seen Idolmaster (yet) but I’ve only heard good things.
one day this channel will get big
Thank you. Maybe if I find enough time to make content on a more regular basis.
wild just finished 0 after re watching steins gate for the like 5th time in my life. Good video
Good video!
Actually there was a better time travel anime made afterwards, but I went back in time and prevented it from being made, because it just gave away too much. 😉🤣 I'm glad you pointed out the desert scenes in 8:40, most other YTvids don't. I'm a little disappointed this wasn't more thoroughly explored later, even in Steins;Gate 0. It also opens up the possibility that just about everything from that point on, might have been subtly altered by time travellers, I even wonder if Okabe's "discovery" of microwave;phone time travel device might have been engineered from the start. If they go back to 18000 BC(although it's never clarified if this is really only a dream) and Suzuha, goes back to get the 1975 IBN 5100, everything is up for grabs. Most of the activity starts with Okabe's first D-mail after seeing Kurisu stabbed, but I still question everything before that.
This would add so many layers. 😳
Please make video on steins gate 0. We will love to watch it. It will be great if you can elaborate on the ending and how it played out of Steins gate 0. Untill that video comes out. "EL PSY KONGROO"
i said a whole "Its me, the organization is here." thing in a game i play while waiting for a party to fill and ended it with El. Psy. Congroo. and someone said "Is that a steins gate reference?" and i never seen them again, i dont even remember their name. i didnt think to add them. how fucking rare is that? I was just bored and decided to meme and someone actually got my reference.
10:31 just died here 😂😂😂
It's still the best
Great video
I very much think Steins;Gate is slow on a first watch, and I'll defend it til the end as a huge fan.
When you go in fresh, the anime presents itself as being very innocent with a lot of quirkiness and wackiness going on. Its when you rewatch it that all of those layers become evident, as you know whats going on behind the scenes.
Its what, in my opinion, makes it an AMAZING time travel anime. We, like Okabe, understand more when we go back in time (go back to the beginning of the series). But for that to happen, it has to feel innocent and slower. I've rarely seen it used as criticism and more as a warning to first time viewers.
Saying its slow saves the new viewers from spoilers, because their first time is going to feel very slow. You could poetically call it the world being fooled. But really all those events that happen have little consequence or meaning behind them until the end half. Yes a character death happened and then was undone, but it doesnt come with any emotional weight. Hell, even when Makise approaches him and asks him "what he was talking about before, it seemed important," I found it weird but just wrote it off. She was alive again, maybe they had a conversation he doesn't remember. You don't know the true meaning behind it until the end of the season
Well, this is definitely a way to look at it, and the connections you made are neat. Still think episode 1 goes hard, though!
@@AnimeInRetrospect I think it'S one of the wildest qualities of the Anime, that it can start out in Episode 1 with a bunch of realyl weird things: Characters acting/talkign weird and past each other, a person being murdered. a big crowd of people vanishing in an instant.
And then the watcher just forgets about it and moves on. And that's kind of how this goes, isn't it? even if something catches your eyes, you quickly forget as your brain is busy processing more important stuff.
I think I've read basically that statement in one of the SciAdv VNs, but I forgot where and when ...
Anywho, the story going after that sequence of events into basically another intro, namely introducing the names of the characters, the sillyness that is the future gadget laboraty, and also at the same time an important theme helps with just not bothering with the prior events.
And Kurise being alive definitely helps takign away all of the weight until the show is ready to whack your feelings.
I was about to watch this video essay, and then you claimed that this isn’t slow. I absolutely love this show. Just finished it for the first time. Unfortunately, you cannot deny that this show is slow. I appreciate the first 12 episodes for what they are, and you can’t feel the impact off the second part without the setup from the first. Just because the first part is important, that doesn’t mean that it isn’t slow. Watching it again probably feels faster because you actually know what’s going on ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
"Gomen not sorry" That's a great name.
I'm very late, but really well made video! However, you are mistaken in one detail that you noted in your video. Shikamura Chiyomaru, while definitely a great composer for music like you noted, did not actually write Steins;Gate or the other Science Adventure entries that are part of the visual novel series Steins;Gate is a part of. The person who actually penned the direct scenario of Steins;Gate (i.e. the characters, dialogue, plot, etc.) was actually *Naotaka Hayashi. Chiyomaru is the guy who comes up with ideas/concepts for the Science Adventuer series and Hayashi is the guy who directly writes the stories details himself. He's the one that is responsible for all the attention to detail, nuance, great character interaction and emotional beats that make Steins;Gate the masterpiece that it is. >w>b*
(He also wrote Chaos;Head NoAH and Robotics;Notes, two amazing visual novel stories that part of the Science Adventure series set in the same world as Steins;Gate with some returning characters. The Science Adventure series is basically a series where several different groups of people in Japan are targeted by the same people who were behind SERN in Steins;Gate, and how they band together to fight this threat to save their world. I'd highly recommend giving those visual novels I mentioned that part of this series a read if you're interested in more of his fantastic work. Don't watch their anime adaptations though, they heavily rush and botch the stories of those entries heavily.)
So it’s more like Chiyomaru and Hayashi are a tag-team... I’ve been living a lie lol. Thanks for pointing that out to me!
@@AnimeInRetrospect Anytime! Thanks for this wonderful video by the way, I really loved it. It's always a pleasure to find another Steins;Gate lover! >w>b
I would still highly recommend Chaos;Head NoAH (when its' fan translation is finished) and Robotics;Notes if you want more amazing stories from this masterful writer duo. All the heart, insane attention to detail, crazy twists, powerful themes and wonderful characters that Steins;Gate has is just as plentiful and well executed in these two visual novels as well.
@@spiderfreak1011 Thank you! Glad you found it.
I have watched all the other SciADV anime... unfortunately. The only other one I like is R;N. Someday I will do the SciADV series justice and play through all the other VNs.
@@AnimeInRetrospect Aw, I'm very sorry to hear that. THe animes really don't do the other VNs justice sadly, but I get why you didn't know ahead of time that they were poor adaptations. I do think you'd like them a lot more via the source material. Regardless, I am glad that you do have interest in the rest of the series, whenever you decide to check them out!
I am also curious, do you have a discord by any chance? I wouldn't mind talking with you about S;G or other good anime here and there if you do
@@spiderfreak1011 Sure! Here you go: discord.gg/p57F686
Steins;Gate Pog
I have watched the anime recent in December but I still don't understand what does he mean by " reach the Steins gate".
When Okabe says this, he is referring to a world line where neither Mayuri nor Kurisu have to die. The end goal and the perfect world to live in.
el
psi
congroo
the mind adapts
I hope Nord pays more for the rapping
Y’all ever wish you lived in anime
I mean yeah, but not this one. Something relatively free of suffering like Pokemon for me, please.
steins gate is easily my favorite anime, but something has been bothering me, during the scene where mayuri dies you get a glimpse of kurisu meeting the same fate, so why didn't she consistently die through world lines like mayuri? a small plot hole but the anime is still amazing.
The whole reason for this has to do with the attractor fields concept. An attractor field is a “set” of world lines with a significant enough change to them that history is altered. Kurisu does die consistently in one attractor field (we aren’t shown this but it still happens in theory), while Mayuri dies consistently in another - this is the attractor field we see Okabe suffer through for most of the show. Saving Kurisu by accident (the first D-Mail) is what caused the shift to the other attractor field where Mayuri dies in the first place.
It's a shame that the OVA and film feel like they kind of threw away all the buildup and intentionally rebooted the story in a sense... But I guess it would be hard to figure out where to go once you've saved everyone and no longer need to deal with Mayuri dying every 2 days after going back 2 days in time... or, well, later on, reversing the dmails does change this to a maximum of... 6 days, was it, after reversing Faris's dmail, Lukako's dmail and Moeka's dmail I believe...
Steins Gate has a perfect ending and such a well written romance story.. Attack on Titan couldnt do that
I know there is controversy about Attack on Titan’s ending (I’m anime only) but romance? Attack on Titan has never tried to do romance and I hope it doesn’t in the end lol
hello from the future, attack on titan anime ending was great, i never read the manga and managed to avoid spoilers for years, everything came full circle idk what youre talking about, attack on titan was a great story just like how steains gate was. SG is a beautiful, perfect ending. Attack on Titan wasnt a happy ending at all, doesnt mean its inherently bad wtf. Its a tragic ending to a tragic story in a tragic world. It was a great ending, and comparing the two is comparing apples to oranges. Both are great fruit and hit different taste buds.
I want to know what happens to them until their death.
Also is there an anime similar? Even if it’s 1%
You could check out the rest of the Science Adventure series! They are titles that take place in the same world as Steins;Gate.
Chaos;Child, "RObotic;Notes and Occultic;Nine? They are all in the Steins;Gate universe also "Chaos;Head"@@AnimeInRetrospect
Steins gate meaning is of this work
Spoiler Alert:
So, the series starts with Steins; Gate ep 1 where Okabe and Daru trying to build a time machine. They send multiple D-mails in the past to check whether their machine is working or not, but each of them comes with a drastic consequence and in the end, Mayuri dies. So, to save her Okabe time leaps again and again but realizes that all timelines converge into the same end result. He figures out that the only thing that can save Mayuri is to undo the D-mails they sent in the past. So, he starts doing it, but the first D-mail he sent was the reason Kurisu being alive. So undoing it will end up in a world without Kurisu. This world line is called the BETA world line.
In Steins; Gate 0 we have shown the Beta world line and how Okabe has the guilt of killing Kurisu and always remains depressed. But later, he realizes that Mayuri dies in this world too and WW3 is inevitable...
The only way to achieve Steins; Gate is to save both Kurisu and Mayuri and prevent WW3. Okabe time leaps over 3000 times to reach the state where he had a choice of saving Mayuri and Suzuha from the terrorist attack and they manage to escape into the past where Okabe has a choice of trying again to save Kurisu.....
Now, we came to ep 23 of Steins; Gate where he again goes to the crime scene and manages to save Kurisu and achieve Steins; Gate.
In the movie, it is shown that in Steins; Gate world line Okabe's mind is not stable and shifts from one world to another because of the continuous journey of time traveling he had been through. As a result, he wiped out of the existence in Steins; Gate but everyone around him stays and has some glimpses of him. Kurisu from the future again built a time machine and send Suzuha to convince the present Kurisu to save Okabe from existence. Kurisu went to the past and kissed a young Okabe and introduce him to the concept of mad scientist Hyouin Kyouma, which had a great impact on his life....
In the end, we see Kurisu meeting Okabe in a new timeline and said she is here to take him to the Steins; Gate and he said who is he to decide now...
So, we can assume that she managed to save Okabe from wiping out of existence in the Steins; Gate..
Now, if you want to watch this masterpiece follow this order :
Steins; Gate (ep 1-22)
Steins; Gate ep 23B (which leads us to Steins; Gate 0)
Steins; Gate (ep 23-24)
Steins; Gate Movie
Steins; Gate OVA....
I personally like OVA to be the ending as it has everyone living happily in the Steins; Gate. So, it can be assumed as the ep after the movie....
yo dude where you at
Most recent video had 2 copyright takedowns. So I can’t risk uploading for the moment or I could lose my channel.
@@AnimeInRetrospect oh fair enough,what was it about?
@@darkpoisonentertainmentstu2845 Since Sony Music claimed the entire video instead of specific footage or music (I used no copyrighted music), I can’t be sure of what actually caused it.
Personally, I just found it predictable. I kinda forgot what happened in the show, might rewatch it to see if my opinion changes.