Steins;Gate

Steins;Gate is a Japanese anime that was made in 2011. It was produced by the studio White Fox, based on the visual novel of the same name from 2009; its "VN" was made by 5pb. and Nitroplus.

Airing 24 episodes, the show ran from April to September of 2011. It is set in 2010 and follows an 18-year-old college student named Okabe Rintaro and his friends, who manage to accidentally end up inventing a form of time travel through a machine that can send messages to the past. The present changes accordingly.

It is part of a franchise called Science Adventure franchise, along with Chaos;Head and Robotic;Notes. It was directed by Hiroshi Hamasaki and Takuya Sato. It was written by Jukki Hanada. Its characters were designed and its animation was directed by Kyuuta Sakai, and the music in it was written by Takeshi Abo.


Steins;Gate was highly praised for its characters, themes of time travel and human nature, and how it portrays post-traumatic stress disorder(PTSD) in a very realistic way. Both fans and critics alike consider it as one of the best anime series of all time. The series led to one original video animation(OVA) episode, four original net animation(ONA) episodes, and a follow-up film in 2013. A sequel anime series called Steins;Gate 0., which is based on the 2015 video game with the same name, started airing in 2018.

 Plot 
As mentioned earlier, the show is an adaption of the 2009 visual novel with the same name. The show is set in Akihabara in the year 2010. Each part happens in a different "worldline", which represent many different realities that branch off when a specific event, called a convergence point, happens.

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