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Steins;Gate

Steins;Gate

STEINS;GATE
9.07
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Drama Sci-Fi Suspense

📚 Series Information

Type
TV
Episodes
24
Status
Finished Airing
Aired
2011-04-06 to 2011-09-14
Studio
White Fox
Source
Visual novel
Duration
24 min per ep
Rating
PG-13 - Teens 13 or older
Popularity Rank
#14
Members
2,737,980
Producers
Frontier Works, Media Factory, Kadokawa Shoten, Movic, AT-X, Kadokawa Pictures Japan, Nitroplus
Themes
Psychological, Time Travel
Scored By
1,467,570 users
Favorites
198,296

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💬 Comments (4)

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PhoneWaveUser
The phone microwave sending D-mails that alter the past by tiny amounts is the most realistic time travel mechanic in fiction. It doesn't change everything—it shifts the worldline by fractions of a percent. Butterfly effects from text messages is somehow both absurd and completely believable.
RoundersAgent
SERN's existence as the shadow organization monitoring time travel research is chilling because it's plausible. A government agency that suppresses technology that could threaten the status quo? That's not science fiction—that's every classified research program in history.
WorldlineShift
The 1.048596% divergence number being the exact worldline where both Mayuri and Kurisu survive isn't random—it's the result of Okabe's entire journey compressed into a number. He had to experience every failed timeline, every death, every impossible choice to arrive at that specific probability. The number IS the story.
TimeLeapBeta
Steins;Gate's first half isn't slow—it's a 12-episode investment in characters so that when everything goes wrong, the emotional devastation is proportional to how much you care. The 'boring' episodes are the ones that make you cry later. That's not bad pacing; that's narrative engineering.