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Steins;Gate
Finished Airing TV PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

Steins;Gate

STEINS;GATE · 2011

A microwave, a time machine, and one huge mistake.

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StatusFinished Airing SeasonSpring 2011 StudioWhite Fox SourceVisual novel
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Self-proclaimed mad scientist Rintarou Okabe and his ragtag lab members accidentally invent a way to send text messages into the past using a modified microwave. Small changes seem harmless: fix a typo, nudge an outcome, whatever. Except every message reshapes the timeline in ways nobody predicted, dragging the group into a deadly conspiracy involving a shadowy organization and the legend of a mysterious time traveler named John Titor. As stakes spiral and Okabe alone retains memories across shifting worldlines, the fun techno-thriller curdles into something far more devastating: a story about loss, choice, and just how much one person can bear to lose.

⚠ Background — may contain spoilers
Steins;Gate is based on the visual novel developed by 5pb. and Nitroplus, animated by White Fox and released in 2011. It is frequently ranked among the best time-travel stories in any medium, praised for treating its science-fiction premise with real rigor while never losing sight of its characters' emotional stakes. The series draws on real scientific ideas and urban legends, most famously the John Titor internet phenomenon, to ground its wilder plot turns. Its critical and commercial success spawned sequels, spin-offs, and a devoted global fanbase that still debates its worldline theory to this day.
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I started watching Science Gate a while back, but then I left it. But then I started watching again, and I found it's quite a hooked-up kind of anime. You would think it is very sort of old in terms of style, but it's a classic, so if you want to watch then it's a good time capsule sort of thing. It has a mind-bending narrative, a sort of storytelling that goes beyond what can pass as a very traditional anime, and there is complexity, and there is a thriller. So if you love a good thriller and love a sort of mystery in your anime, it is somewhere at a level of Death Note, I would presumably say. So if you're coming straight from Death Note, then you will love it.

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