Steins;Gate

[ibabrak]

What is the best show of all times? Don't be stupid, you already know that.
I personally loved this series from the bottom of my heart and I believe there can be no show that would out best this one. For me that is.

Spoiler :

I was really shocked when Okabe discovered that the red liquid in that toy dried up, but I was also really glad it did, because using his blood for Kurisu was really touching. Also, as he with his hardest breath teasered her while saying "I told you I'd save you"

I also think that this show should get public holiday or at least nobel price or something.

[ZephyrStar]

That was freaking awesome. So freaking awesome. Can't wait for the movie.

[EvaFan]

Been a while since I seen an anime I enjoyed this much. I'ma miss it, hope there will be a show that replaces this one for winter season.

[Emong]

I had a day off today and thought I would edit for hours today. Deciding to watch a couple episodes of Steins;Gate totally killed that intention though because I ended up marathoning the whole series

It wasn't perfect but insanely addicting and

Spoiler :

getting caught in a desperate time loop was delivered very well.

Ofcourse, if you intend to enjoy this series you need to forget about logical coherence and pinpointing all the scifi science. But if you just leave all the paradoxes aside and focus on the story you'll most likely get a lot out of it. As I said I really liked the time loop episodes. A way to keep your adrenaline level up! Every episode ended in some kind of a fatal cliffhanger. One could also feel Okabe's desperation and when it was revealed that Mayuri had a vague memory of every one of her deaths the emotional impact reached its peak. I also liked the little insight of one the dialogues when Okabe and Kurisu were talking about Okabe's numbness towards Mayuri's repeated deaths.

All that being said, I think the show could have spent more time on the story and the characters and less on pleasing its nerdy male audience with all the fanservice and harem stupidity. Some of it was amusing but playing around with Ruka's sex for the sake of some hentai fantasy was just mean Also, are anime cliches and all the typical fanservice really getting so old and obvious that you need to add these ridiculous comical self-referential comments on them? It's as if they're trying to cover up the fact that they're just doing the same thing as everyone else, recycling the same stuff and just for the sake of it At least offer fanservice for the female audience as well!

It's really a shame that the show merely duplicated the same characters that are reproduced over and over again because there was a lot of potential here. Basically all the female characters were some kind of projections of male fantasy, in other words they were flat and boring, but I guess the show was otherwise good enough to cover my irritation.

[ZephyrStar]

Yeah, I tend to agree with you on the male pandering thing, I prefer good character development any day. I'm kinda torn on the fact that we didn't actually get a beach episode though, I can think of all kinds of hilarious shennanigans that would occur...like insisting on wearing a labcoat over your bathing suit.

One thing I actually really enjoyed was that Kurisu was not the stereotypical tsundere. That trope is so overdone in everything these days, but Kurisu is a fine example of tsundere done right. She has just enough of those qualities to make her endearing and smartass, but she's likable.

[ibabrak]

I'm kinda torn on the fact that we didn't actually get a beach episode though

I didn't read anything about the movie yet but I am afraid that is what it's gonna be about/echci shit.. Or is it gonna be going to follow up with the story? I'm reading the manga but I'm just in the middle but it seems that the anime ended by the manga since it's really short manga.

[[madaraxD]]

Been a while since I seen an anime I enjoyed this much. I'ma miss it, hope there will be a show that replaces this one for winter season.

I expect the same

[Warlike Swans]

I really enjoyed it, though I could have done without Feyris.

I also feel a strong need to re-read "The End of Eternity" (Isaac Azimov.)

[ZephyrStar]

Yeah, I wasn't a Feyris fan either.

I also kinda twitched in annoyance every time I heard "TUTURUUUUUU"

[ibabrak]

I also kinda twitched in annoyance every time I heard "TUTURUUUUUU"

This

but Mayuri was necessery as childhood friend he

Spoiler :

choose over Kurisu