Do I watch this?

Frogdude59 said:

Just quoting my friend. Thats how he phrased it and it worked. I don't see what the problem is as it makes sense to me chronologically. Mayuri was the guide at the fork in the road. Her action or inaction decided which path Okabe travels. If she did nothing, the SG0 timeline begins. And I obviously disagree. Why else would they include the part from SG in SG0 after Mayuri does her thing?

PikaboyTK said:


The reason why it doesn't make sense to insert S;G 0 in between S;G is because it doesn't take place in between S;G. S;G 0 is pretty much a prequel as it follows the Okabe who has already failed to save Kurisu and couldn't watch the video from his future self. That's why they probably named it 0 as well, 0 is the past and 1 is the future.

If one is really hell-bent at watching entirety of Steins;Gate in "chronological" order, then the best order would probably be S;G upto ep 22, Missing Link, S;G 0, S;G again all the way to the end.

Regardless, Steins;Gate 0 is supposed to be watched in its entirety after finishing all of Steins;Gate.

Taidus said:
It's like the ending to Erased, It gets crazy but it's still worth the watch!

oddeyez said:
Like the title says. I've heard people say that this ruins the original anime and the characters, but I've also heard people say it's as good as the original. As someone who loved the original I just want to hear everyone else's takes on this

Frogdude59 said:


The "Milky-way Crossing" ending causes the divergence into the Steins Gate as Okabe instructs himself how to do what he did after he failed. Same as the games. This divergence SG0 Okabe creates is what allows SG Okabe to enter the Steins Gate. SG0 starts as if he hadn't been told how to save Kurisu and ends with the divergence back into the Steins Gate timeline

nishiziq0 said:
Steins; Gate has a loophole...that's why Steins; Gate 0 was released..sorry my bad english

SciADV_Maniac said:


What you fail to understand that Okabe gets the video message in Ep1, meaning that 0 already happened when S;G starts (a D-Mail can only come from a previous worldline)

Frogdude59 said:


No I get that. Time is linear where you follow one line from the past travelling to the present, but not travelling from the present to the future because it diverges. Episode 23β best explains the divergence and my episode ordering. I believe it is a full length episode, but 23β explains what I'm trying to explain here as it serves as the prequel to SG0. It takes the events of ep23 and shows how SG0 was made possible. Then, as I explained before, SG0 loops back to SG and finishes with SG ep 25. Loop complete

oddeyez said:
Like the title says. I've heard people say that this ruins the original anime and the characters, but I've also heard people say it's as good as the original. As someone who loved the original I just want to hear everyone else's takes on this

SciADV_Maniac said:


But that's not how chronologically goes. That's why the order makes no sense. 0 doesn't "loops back" to SG, at the end there is still a few iterations away when S;G Okabe reaches SG

23b is also not a prequel to 0 anime, even the dates are contradicting each other (23b: Okabe meets Amadeus on Nov 28th, 0 anime: Dec 11th). 23b was purely a marketing to Steins;Gate 0 VN.

And 0 anime is also a sequel to 0 VN, not its adaptation

Frogdude59 said:


The SG wiki says otherwise on 23β being a prequel for SG0. Along with how we start SG0 on the rooftop and return to that point in ep24 I'm going to agree to disagree on that point. For the dates, its been a while since I played either VN, but I remember SG happened in the summer and ended in the summer. The entire ordeal happened over two or three weeks, but still remained in summer. SG0 I think began in the last few days of November, first few days of December. Suzuha also clearly is anxious with Okabe not wanting to time travel because she can only travel so far back with the amount of fuel she has. With Okabe vowing to never time travel, that date is reaching the outer limits of her travel capabilities, but she can still get back to that flashpoint of where Okabe has to make a decision

SciADV_Maniac said:


Wiki is not an official source. 23b was purely made for marketing reasons back in 2015 to promote the release of the VN.

S;G0 VN begins at the end of November, that's correct, and that is aligned with 23b where there is an after credits scene Okabe meeting Amadeus on Nov 28.

I'm talking about the anime, which starts on Dec 10th. That's clearly a contradiction with 23b, so 23b can't be a prequel to 0 anime.

Darkdaxter said:
Honestly. I hated this show. I wanted to love it. I kept waiting for it to get good. I'd say the thing that holds it back the most structurally is that it's designed to be an interquel where everything must be self-contained. Honestly, if this anime were completely stand-alone with original characters, I would rate it more highly. But unfortunately, it's distinctly tied with the original. The movie, while screwing around with the laws of the universe, was much better imo.

For a more in-depth breakdown of why I dislike the show.