Steins;Gate

Movie will be.. available for us within the next 24 hours, maybe even 12 hours.

edited 12th Dec '13 9:39:16 PM by tvsgood

Good quality BD rip of the movie is now out.

Also, the people who released it have this to say:

"Officially, Okabe’s saying is 'El Psy Kongroo' not 'El Psy Congroo.' This was a mistake in CR’s translation of the TV series. Steiner has confirmed this and the official English release of the VN will be consistent."

edited 14th Dec '13 11:03:56 AM by tvsgood

Steins;Gate: The Movie: wherein the forces of time and space personally arrange an intervention to make Kurisu stop being so damn tsundere.

It wasn't bad, but it was very much a case of, "Okay, sequel to this complete story. Uh, shit. What do we do...?" The impact was pretty minimal beyond the above.

Yeah, I don't really like the movie. They got the characters right and I liked that there was so much time for them to just do stuff, but it doesn't build. They don't create tension. The plot is also a contrivance, so in this case it's a problem.

That said they completely managed to avoid the problem I thought they'd have, where Kurisu would change the past and Okabe's Reading Steiner wouldn't activate. While creating numerous other problems and questionably logical additions to the time travel mechanics.

And as I said, I liked the parts about the characters having fun.

When the beer came out I was fully hoping they would construct the time machine while drunk XD. And there was some nice fanservice with the bike riding scene and psychotic-Nae-from-the-future which didn't make it into the original anime.

Haven't seen the movie yet, but I'm glad the Nae bit didn't make it into the anime. That kinda came out of nowhere.

Perhaps I should clarify then that it's not really in this anime either, it's just a glimpse of another world line. It's so brief you wouldn't know what was happenning if you hadn't read the VN.

Saw the movie....eh, I don't like it that much. In the first place I feel the VN(and to an extent, the anime) ended perfectly. Really should've just left it like that. Then there was that extra episode which I definitely have icky feelings for, and now this...

Kurisu's an interesting combination with Okarin, but alone she's kinda meh personally. The conflict is also kinda meh. On one hand I'm glad the conflict isn't so big as to make the conflict back in the VN/anime pointless, so that's good. But again, I'd rather there not be a conflict, and no continuation in the first place. Lastly, my biggest complaint though, the new Kanako Itou song really is kinda average. It's not bad, but I find it more boring than the older songs she did for Chaos;Head. I enjoyed Sky Clad Observer, I enjoyed Hacking to the Gate slightly, and here I'm kinda meh on the new song. Still er, to try and look into the positives...Amane ending and Nae animated was pure gold, awesome. Even if it's a short tidbit.

So, I just watched Steins;Gate, and I have to say that I enjoyed it. It didn't have quite the Time-Screw that I like, but it was a pretty good Time Travel story.

Though I do agree that the movie was meh. It wasn't about time travel, more about the effects and results thereof.

I too felt the movie was pretty melodramatic. It's thesis seems to be that even after 30 years! Kurisu cant live without Okabe. It would have been interesting if it had ended with her accepting his sacrifice and actually moving on. But for some reason Suzuka thinks that it's important that she doesn't , and apparently in her future Kurisu never actually does move on. I wonder if it had anything to do with Suzuka?

edited 28th Mar '14 6:17:48 AM by Xopher001

The obvious, if Doylist, conclusion from that line of reasoning is that whoever wrote the movie couldn't bring themselves to think far past current events, and thus while logically Kurisu having attachment issues makes sense, it is in actual fact just self-indulgent time travel writing.

tldr: I don't like it either.

There is a new visual novel. It'll also get an adaptation:

here

For anyone still using this thread, I have a question:

At the end of the series, when Okabe switches to the Steins Gate timeline due to receiving the video message from his beta timeline future self, wouldn't that delete the events that led to him sending the video in the first place?

Yeah, so? He jumped the entire worldline; it negates a lot more than just that.

Zero might be more somber in tone than SG, but it is quite similar in its pacing ultimately… The first ten or so episodes felt like a slow burn, deceptively uneventful (except not really), and then around halfway through, BLAM.

The hints that Yuki might be a traitor are a bit too obvious not to be a Red Herring, but then again maybe the writers try to make us think that so that we leave our guard down?

About episode 14… That room at the end was creepy as fuck… was Kagari actually locked in there for twelve years…?

Edited by Lyendith on Jul 10th 2018 at 12:32:53 PM

I'm very interested in seeing where things go in the anime from this point, especially given that they managed to work the Recursive Mother Goose ending in and go into what happened in the most recent episode.

Wait, the events of episode 13 were an ending in the VN?

Anyway, episode 14. Sooo… the biker girl was Kagari. Except it was not, so Yuki's still suspicious. But Kagari was apparently brainwashed way before she travelled to the past. What the heck are the "Valkyrie" though? Were they mentionned before?

A pretty thrilling episode. Only meh thing is the new ending… the song's okay, but both visually and musically the first was way better.

PS: A minor detail but… damn, Suzuha in a short tank top is sexy.

Yeah, the events of episode 13 were an ending in the VN. There's more beyond what was seen in the episode, but that's because going further than the episode gets into spoilers for the ending.

As far as the Valkyrie thing, they're the rebel group Suzuha's a part of in the future. I forget if that's been mentioned yet in the anime

Overall I thought the episode was pretty good, there's a few things different from the sections of the VN that were shown, but I can think of a few reasons why they changed it. One of them being that Suzuha's fight with Kagari originally happens while she's fresh out of the shower. Naturally, they can't exactly show a naked person fighting easily in a TV anime so the fake shower happened. Personally I think this change was for the better, less fanservice-y.

Edited by strawberryflavored on Jul 18th 2018 at 9:49:46 AM

Ah, thanks. I don't think they've been mentioned in the anime before, no.

Episode 15: Everyone plays matchmaker for Daru and it… works? In a way. "KIMI TO ISSHO NI MOE MOE KYUN DA OOOO!!!" Welp, this is it. This is the best love confession ever bar none, no one can beat that. That was a pretty sweet execution of the "be yourself" message.

It made me laugh that they spotted Maho in the airport when they saw a seemingly-self-moving suitcase.

Episode 16: Holy crap, Daru. ô.Ô The VA really gave his all there. "That one hit hard" indeed. Between that, Maho and Mayuri, it was a pretty emotional episode overall. It's almost weird to have the music be so prominent in SG. It's a good episode to set up the big come back of the Maddo Scientist.

Edited by Lyendith on Aug 7th 2018 at 11:13:27 AM

Episode 18: I knew what was coming and yet still got hit by the feels. Overall, the rooftop scene played out better than in the VN except for a few instances where soldiers weren't shooting because reasons.

Yeah, I felt a bad case of Mook Chivalry there… the very clunky animation during the action scenes didn't help either.

I couldn't completely enjoy this episode honestly… It had the feels, but it also had a metric ton of clichés per minute, from "Leskinen is a bad guy" being the biggest untwist ever to Kagari's death in her mother's arms… although I did feel horrible for the poor girl.

Still, the end of the episode at least, is definitely not the direction I expected things to go.

I also do like how both the original and Zero use the "power shortage" flag to announce that something horrible's gonna happen.

Edited by Lyendith on Aug 16th 2018 at 6:26:13 PM

In the VN Kagari dies in Okabe's arms IIRC. By then Mayuri was over by the time machine.

Episode 19… here we go again. Not sure why everyone arrived so much earlier the second time around though. Or maybe there were all here from the start but only intervene when the time machine is about to be activated? Or maybe Okabe should try to stop Leskinen before he arrives at the Radi-kan…

Also, who the fuck is Reyes? >.> I can't seem to remember her…

Edited by Lyendith on Aug 29th 2018 at 10:24:06 AM

Reyes is the female professor from Viktor Chondria University. She's the woman next to Leskinen in the intro. She doesn't show up much in the anime outside of some of the early episodes and the shot of her on the plane when she leaves.

The VN has her play a somewhat bigger role but only in the Maho ending and the bad ending(somewhat). Everything else is more or less the same.

Episode 20 preview is up