Steins;Gate (anime)
| Steins;Gate | |
Cover art for the home media release, featuring the main cast
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シュタインズ・ゲート (Shutainzu Gēto) |
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| Genre | Science fiction, thriller |
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by | Hiroshi Hamasaki Takuya Satō |
| Produced by | Mika Nomura Yoshinao Doi |
| Written by | Jukki Hanada |
| Music by | Jun Murakami Takeshi Abo |
| Studio | White Fox |
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| Original run | April 6, 2011 – September 14, 2011 |
| Episodes | 24 + 1 OVA |
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| Steins;Gate: Sōmei Eichi no Cognitive Computing | |
| Directed by | Kenichirou Murakawa |
| Written by | Naotaka Hayashi |
| Studio | White Fox |
| Released | October 14, 2014 – November 11, 2014 |
| Episodes | 4 |
Steins;Gate (Japanese: シュタインズ・ゲート Hepburn: Shutainzu Gēto?) is a 2011 anime series created by the animation studio White Fox, based on 5pb. and Nitroplus's video game of the same name. It is set in 2010, and follows Rintaro Okabe, who together with his friends accidentally discovers a method of time travel through which they can send text messages to the past, changing the present.
The series was produced by Mika Nomura and Yoshinao Doi, directed by Hiroshi Hamasaki and Takuya Satō, and written by Jukki Hanada, with animation direction and character design by Kyuuta Sakai, and music by Takeshi Abo. It aired for 24 episodes, and was simulcast in North and South America, Africa, the Middle East and parts of Europe by Crunchyroll and in the United Kingdom by Anime on Demand. A 25th episode was later included with the DVD and Blu-ray releases; these releases were handled by Funimation in North America and by Manga Entertainment in the United Kingdom. The series has also spawned four original net animation episodes and a film sequel. The show was well received by critics: several reviewers liked its story and writing, although some of them criticized the pacing of the first half.
Steins;Gate is an adaptation of the video game of the same name. It is set in 2010 in Akihabara, Tokyo, and follows Rintaro Okabe, a self-proclaimed "mad scientist", who runs the "Future Gadget Laboratory" in an apartment together with his friends Mayuri Shiina and Itaru "Daru" Hashida. While attending a conference about time travel, Okabe finds the dead body of Kurisu Makise, a neuroscience researcher; he sends a text message about it to Daru, and later discovers that Kurisu is alive, and that the message arrived before he sent it. The laboratory members learn that the cell phone-operated microwave oven they are developing can send text messages back in time; they are joined by Kurisu, and investigate it, sending text messages – referred to as "D-mails" – to the past to change the present. Kurisu eventually creates a device that can send memories through the microwave oven, effectively allowing the user to time travel.
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