Alternative Titles
Japanese: シュタインズ ゲート
Information
Type: TV
Episodes: 24
Status: Finished Airing
Aired: Apr 6, 2011 to Sep 14, 2011
Producers: Frontier Works,FUNimation EntertainmentL, Media Factory, Movic, AT-X, White Fox,Kadokawa Pictures Japan
Genres: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Duration: 24 min. per episode
Synopsis
Steins;Gate is set in the summer of 2010, approximately one year after the events that took place in Chaos;Head, in Akihabara.
Steins;Gate is about a group of friends who have customized their microwave into a device that can send text messages to the past. As they perform different experiments, an organization named SERN, who has been doing their own research on time travel, tracks them down and now the characters have to find a way to avoid being captured by them.
(Sources: VNDB, Wikipedia)
Review:
Steins;Gate is one of the most interesting and unique TV Anime in the last years. The plot, far from the topics in the Japanese animation industry attracts us from the very beginning and makes us both laugh and suffer during the journey of the self called "Mad Scientist" Rintaro Okabe and his friends in one of most dangerous experiments ever made.
One day a young man called Okabe and his friend Mayuri are going to see a conference about time traveling in Akihabara since Okabe is a scientist. After the conference he finds a girl on the floor covered in blood and sends a message about that to a friend, just right when he is pushing the 'send' button something happens: for a few seconds he feels very strange, alone, stunned just to come back to normal.
Once he goes back to his laboratory with his crew (well, it's not a real laboratory and his crew is just one friend and Mayuri), Okabe discovers that the message he sent few moments ago arrived to his friend a week ago and that girl is currently alive. With this shocking discovery they try to repeat the same experiment again and again until they finally are able to send messages to any mobile phone into the past. Sadly for our friends there's another company called SERN trying to achieve the same success than Okabe and his friends. But SERN has many other secrets and it's not a friendly company.
Every time they send a message to the past something changes in their present but the only one able to remember something is Okabe for unknown reasons. Mayuri and other people can't remember any change because, for them, nothing has changed. But every action has a reaction and at the end Okabe must face the consequences of playing with time lines.
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Animation style is good. Actually is pretty fine with the typical cute and sexy characters and normal and real places since it happens in Akihabara. It's full of the typical stereotypes like cute moe girls wearing maid outfits and cat ears, the scientist with the white lab coat, or the fat with glasses hacker guy, pretty normal. The interesting part of this Anime is not the few action, is the shocking scenes and watching the consequences and changes of sending messages to the past. There are visually great moments in Steins;Gate even when animation is nothing special.
Music isn't anything too special either. Takeshi Abo composed the soundtrack and it follows the line of what we expect. Low and strange themes for shocking moments and funny for the gags or some random conversations. Japanese voices are great (as always) but having to mention something here, the cuteness of Mayuri's voice and the amazing voice action for Okabe Rintaro.
Steins;Gate's story is simply amazing, funny and very very interesting. There are great epic moments during the entire show but also a bit sad when each action has its own tragic consequences and our "Mad Scientist" Okabe Rintaro is the only one guilty and the only one who can save the current present and future.
One of the BESTEST BEST anime in the list of my watched anime list!!!!!!! ^3^
ReplyDeleteI first picked up this series because it was labeled as seinen, which is what I normally watch. I got through the first episode and tossed it aside for a while since I didn't find anything special about it.
ReplyDeleteWhen I picked it back up however my mind had changed. This series may start off a little slow, but aside from that it is damn near perfect.
There is a distinct moment that occurs about a quarter through the series that anyone who has watched it will remember well. Once this point is reached it is hard to stop watching. Steins;Gate does a really good job when it comes to a time travel story and watching how earlier action affected the future was satisfying.