Steins;Gate
シュタインズ・ゲート
Self-proclaimed mad scientist Okabe Rintarou lives in a small room in Akihabara, where he invents "future gadgets" with fellow lab members Shiina Mayuri, his air-headed childhood friend, and Hashida Itaru, an otaku hacker. The three pass the time by tinkering with their latest creation, a "Phone Microwave" that can be controlled through text messages. The lab members soon face a string of mysterious incidents that lead to a game-changing discovery: the Phone Microwave can send emails to the past and thus alter history. Adapted from the critically acclaimed visual novel by 5pb. and Nitroplus, Steins;Gate takes Okabe to the depths of scientific theory and human despair as he faces the dire consequences of changing the past.
Steins;Gate is a tv with 24 episodes, from Spring 2011, produced by WHITE FOX, rated 8.9/10 on AniList.
Synopsis
Self-proclaimed mad scientist Okabe Rintarou lives in a small room in Akihabara, where he invents "future gadgets" with fellow lab members Shiina Mayuri, his air-headed childhood friend, and Hashida Itaru, an otaku hacker. The three pass the time by tinkering with their latest creation, a "Phone Microwave" that can be controlled through text messages. The lab members soon face a string of mysterious incidents that lead to a game-changing discovery: the Phone Microwave can send emails to the past and thus alter history. Adapted from the critically acclaimed visual novel by 5pb. and Nitroplus, Steins;Gate takes Okabe to the depths of scientific theory and human despair as he faces the dire consequences of changing the past.
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- Time Manipulation — Prominently features time-traveling or other time-warping phenomena.
- Alternate Universe — Features multiple alternate universes in the same series.
- Time Loop — A character is stuck in a repetitive cycle that they are attempting to break out of. This is distinct from a manipulating time of their own choice.
- Conspiracy — Contains one or more factions controlling or attempting to control the world from the shadows.
- Tragedy — Centers around tragic events and unhappy endings.
- Memory Manipulation — Prominently features a character(s) who has had their memories altered.
- Male Protagonist — Main character is male.
- Denpa — Works that feature themes of social dissociation, delusions, and other issues like suicide, bullying, self-isolation, paranoia, and technological necessity in daily lives. Classic iconography: telephone poles, rooftops, and trains.
- Urban — Partly or completely set in a city.
- Dystopian — Partly or completely set in a society characterized by poverty, squalor or oppression.
- Primarily Adult Cast — Main cast is mostly composed of characters above a high school age.
- Philosophy — Relating or devoted to the study of the fundamental nature of knowledge, reality, and existence.