I got into Anime thanks to my mother, who is part Japanese. When I was little, we watched quite a few of Hayao Miyazaki films of which she grew up with when she lived in Japan. Being that I am also part Japanese, I have kin interest to learn certain aspects of the culture, and no shocker, I choose to do by watching various Anime TV shows. For awhile though, I did not really indulge myself into Anime much until last year of 2012.
So far, I am more inclined to watch Anime shows lasting about 24 episodes a pop, as I cannot commit to a series that has 100+ episodes when there is so much out there, and I plan to immerse myself in a multitude of different Anime shows before considering to watch long drawn out series, obviously that will be far down the road.
All in all, I don't consider myself a harsh critic, generally speaking, whatever has a convincing plot with characters that are easy to connect with, I favor those in high regard, but I am almost willingly to watch anything.
MAL Rating Graph
Also to note, I'm not really going to accept an out of the blue friend request. If I talked to you in a thread, exchanged some words, went back and forth in comments, that's enough for me to click "accept" :)
Wish I could make use of After Effects, but I'm doing things on the 32-bit system, a three-year-old Core i5 processor, and less than 2GB of RAM. Not the best laptop for video editing, but I can make do with Pro 10.
Not that I'm advertizing, but here's the best of what I can do with Vegas as of now. It's currently a work in progress. [Link]
Also, I heard it was your birthday? Joyeux anniversaire ! if it's true
No but seriously, about Evangelion 4.0: Final. I'm pretty sure Shinji will be so damn depressed.
Great man, let's chat secretly in Skype so the KIKAN won't follow our steps.
I know Japanese fluently when they only speak and I can't read or write, look:
'Ah, Niisan, Okaerinasai.'
Thanks man, with this long-ass profile I feel I have grown as a person.
Why google when you click on my new eternal first favorite characters slot, in a click of a button you can find about the woman I fell in love with without using google!
The synopsis doesn't make it sound as great as it is. Believe me, if it's my favorite VN ever, it has to be the best VN ever in the universe!
Regarding what that guy said in his revised first post, I only agree with one minor discrepancy throughout the whole series, that being Suzuha's disappearance at the end. But that really is minor, and it's the only time I felt they used any sort of plot device. Everything else he makes a remark on, he basically is contradicting himself.
(I have replaced the original post with something that is more accurate. I have also deleted all non-relevant posts. All my previous results were accurate for a fixed-history model, but that wasn't the model Steins;Gate used.)
So it seems I made a critical error in my calculations. I knew that a new timeline was brought into existence if a change to the past had been made, but I didn't realize at the time, that the catalyst of this change came from the original world line. Let's use the murder analogy to demonstrate.
Ex. 1) Murder Analogy: Time traveler from the future stops a murder.
World line A - No time traveler arrives-> murdered -> always murdered -> time traveler goes to the past
World line B - Time traveler arrives from future-> not murdered -> never murdered -> time traveler doesn't go back
My error was thinking that the time traveler will come from world line B, when he actually came from world line A. The time traveler shows up in the past in world line B, but in the current world line HE won't travel back in time. I suppose I mistook causality as a sign that the events had to be predetermined. I assumed that the time traveler never left from world line A, so the only logical conclusion was that the time traveler must come from the future of B, hence predestination.
This fixes some of the issues I had, but some things stay the same. I also want to discuss how D-Mail has to work now, it's different than I previously thought. As an example, let's use the first D-Mail Okabe sends. These actions alter his past, leading to a world line where Okabe has a different future. The D-Mail never comes from this future however, and so this new Okabe is not linked to the original Okabe at all. Okabe just assumes the identity of his alternate, essentially overwriting him due to his Reading Steiner.
It's definitely possible that in the first episode Okabe's future self could be there. I do still have a problem with the video mail though. He sends the video back to the past on that day, having to fail, to unlock it, is just an interesting plot-device. Also, the origins of the video still don't really add up, but I didn't expect them to. One last problem, if this video did lead Okabe to reaching Steins;Gate, then old Okabe is going to overwrite our Okabe in the future of Steins;Gate. He would be his normal self, then 15 years later he would just "poof" into the Okabe from the video mail.
I also still think going back the second time, under the right circumstances, would have still led to him becoming Okabe 3. He could have stopped his past self and fixed everything too. As long as the paper is destroyed, Kurisu saved, and Okabe 2 goes back, then when Okabe 3 goes back also, he should overwrite his past self in Steins;Gate. Now if we follow the plot, assuming the first trip is overwritten, Okabe won't have changed his past that day, and will travel into the future of Steins;Gate also.
I don't believe there will be any problems getting to Steins;Gate now, other than the fact it's doubtful it may have existed. One small difference is that both Suzuha and the time machine wouldn't have disappeared. Neither the time machine or Suzuha ever came from the future of Steins;Gate. So therefore, even though it's slightly problematic, they would all have arrived in a future that was saved from time travel, in a time machine. They should probably destroy the machine though, or the future might not be so safe after all.
I also agree now that he needed to keep everything else the same for the plan to work. He wouldn't have lost any of his memories or anything like that, but the plan wouldn't have worked if he didn't trick has past self. If he had done anything at all to alter his past, then he would have assumed the altered future on a different world line. All in all I'm happy with the results, it would seem it wasn't completely illogical after all. Aside from the addition of a few plot related time-travel elements, it mostly checks out.
First: a major part of the show involved the fact that Okabe's Reading Steiner existed. Therefore, D-mails, time-leaping, anything outside of physical transportation of a future Okabe to the current world line would not overwrite his existence, only his memories.
Second: the video mail he received works slightly different than the D-mail (the VN explains this), so it isn't subject to the same criticism as the D-mails. Also, the fact that the mission at the end called for him to fail once was necessary in order to prove a couple key points, not just to Okabe, but to the viewers themselves. If he changed the past where he saw Kurisu dead to one where he saw her alive, he wouldn't be trying to save her in the beginning, and nothing we saw in the series would have ever taken place. Now, his future self in the video he received is the self in which he sacrificed Kurisu to thwart Sern and save Mayuri. An occupant of that world line. That future self has no connection to the Okabe he sends the video mail to, so that Okabe watching it would not just "poof" into the future Okabe on the video, as this guy suggests. They're from different world lines.
Then this guy goes on to contradict that point. His thoughts are all over the place and are inconsistent. And after reading this guy's original supposed problems with the series because someone had quoted it in a post before he revised it, I don't even wanna touch that. Just reading it made my head hurt. Granted, some points he makes are valid arguments towards classic time travel plots. But this is NOT a classic time travel plot. Quantum Theory clearly dictates that infinite alternate realities can exist, and this fact, along with other fundamental laws, completely allow for time travel w/o any paradoxes resulting. I'll say this again...This series has flawlessly taken into account how time travel can really exist and builds the story w/o violating those principles.
Look, nothing is perfect, and that includes our understanding of time and space. But from our current understanding, with the addition of some dramatic and romantic elements, Steins;Gate is God among gods.
Don't worry, I can be very corny sometimes, so your jokes and puns made me laugh (and I hope that's not an insult?) :P I definitely intend on returning to watch Serial Experiments Lain, I just needed time to rid myself of the connection it had to THAT person.
I guess I'll go with Ergo Proxy then. It's fun to torture people when you have to make them choose among favorites. I know, I've been tortured myself. Hopefully I can find something worthy of downloading.
It appears it was your birthday the other day, so...HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
Since I'm pretty good with Photoshop and Vegas Pro, I have a tendency to make fun of my favorite shows or use them to make fun of people. Used to do that a fair amount on another forum years ago.
Stalking Hata-tan also made me realize you have Skype. May I ask you for your Skype because I LOVE SKYPE to DEATH or are we not in that intimate loving relationship yet?
Just wanted to ask you if there is a romance sub-plot in Ergo proxy, I know I will probably find Ergo boring but if there is some romance it can motivate me because I really like Mayer's character design =w=.
Yo Tavor, AndyRav knew of a code, he posted how to get to it on the similar site to MAL page. I used it and it worked. It's (ANICHARTNET), I believe. If you try it out it should tell you if it worked, you use it on the page where it tells you where you lie in the queue.
