| Simply: It appeals to a huge majority of anime fans. About the rating, it's not a typical kind of appeal like most other shows.. it's THRILLING. The plot twists/sudden revelations killed, if not you, most of us. Well, that's just my thoughts. But anyway.. maybe because its use of sci-fi is a bit unique? |
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| Why does a piece of litmus paper turn red or blue? The way you respond to the show is different from the majority. Simple as that. For me, I felt that the scenario was the most important factor in liking the show. It was hard to go through the first episode, but I definitely felt like I wanted to know more. That's probably what most people felt while watching. It's not a ridiculously complicated story if you take a step back from it. A man discovers a time machine, and fate conspires against him for coming in contact with a conspiracy. The characters are very flavourful if you do not have much prior experience with modern character archetypes. Despite that, the show does not need much more than simple empathy to watch, because what you are experiencing is the thoughts and feelings of a man who managed to get himself trapped in a paradoxical situation. This is similar to stories like Death Note, where the main character is not exactly one you agree with entirely, but you still want to find out what happens in the end. The atmosphere itself seems to have been lost on you, if you believe the tempo was a bit hot and cold. Until the midway point of the show, it was supposed to be a balance of mystery behind the experiments, with a side of innocence and naivity. The characters do some things that are very ignorant of the big picture, which adds to the realism. Think of Shinji from Evangelion, where we all want him to get into the robot, but he is responding to the situation like a realistic teenager. It's pretty much like that. I think the ultimate deciding factor on the show is whether or not you are able to suspend your disbelief in the characters and get sucked into the atmosphere of the show. Time travel is ultimately something that cannot exist, and the original material from the VN goes at great lengths to tell you this as a way of showing you that the story is not supposed to be scrutinized by the rules of reality too much. As a Sci;Adv fan, I see Steins;Gate for what it is. I don't really care to convince anyone to like it if they don't already. Chaos;Head and Robotics;Notes aren't well received, so it's safe to say that not everyone is going to like Steins;Gate either. If you didn't like it, that's okay. |
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imeli said: The side material is largely irrelevant to Steins;Gate itself. In the first place, Steins;Gate 0 is comprised from the side stories such as the drama cds, some of the mangas, etc. One could literally only watch Steins;gate and get a complete experience. Everything else is just fluff.it's amazing how many times this has been brought back from the dead. i still haven't finished steins gate because I haven't read all of the manga and side stories from the other divergences and to add to that, Steins;Gate 0 still hasn't came out yet which leaves this story incomplete. For now it will be on hold. |
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imeli said: it's amazing how many times this has been brought back from the dead. i still haven't finished steins gate because I haven't read all of the manga and side stories from the other divergences and to add to that, Steins;Gate 0 still hasn't came out yet which leaves this story incomplete. For now it will be on hold. Steins;Gate 0 already got an english release for consoles. You can even apply the translation from there onto a Japanese PC release trough a patch. And no, the original Steins;Gate is more than enough to tell you everything you need to understand the story. Almost all other side material is non-canon, S;G and S;G 0 are the only things that matter. |
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imeli said: Aquamirror said: Steins;Gate 0 already got an english release for consoles. You can even apply the translation from there onto a Japanese PC release trough a patch. And no, the original Steins;Gate is more than enough to tell you everything you need to understand the story. Almost all other side material is non-canon, S;G and S;G 0 are the only things that matter. so you're telling me that "The Braunian Motion of Love and Hate", The Steins Gate OVA, The Distant Valhalla and Episode 23b aren't canon to the story? What's the point then? Well, "Braunian motion" and "Distant Valhalla" are canon, as they are things that happened and are mentioned in the original story but follow Suzuha's point of view. They might provide more insight, but aren't exactly something we didn't know from the anime. Episode 23b is Steins;Gate 0's beginning, so it's canon. Movie and OVA are most likely not canon, as they contradict some stuff from the original story (especially the movie) and aren't made by the same authors. Also, while Steins;Gate 0 is based on the Epigraph Trilogy, there were also a lot of retcons/changes, so the trilogy isn't considered the official canon anymore. And there are many other alternative divergence stories that aren't linked with the main one, so they aren't canon either. They might still refer to facts that are canonically correct and known from the main story though. |
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| Dragon ball Z time traveling arc thing with Trunks had the same kind of mindfuck and science as Steins Gate. |
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| Wanted to low-key argue, but when I read " the same kind of mindfuck and science" as DBZ you just got me sighing. |
| eh well both series are highly regarded so saying DBZ had it is relevant how? Aren't most time travel series highly regarded on MAL now that I think about it |
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| you're questioning a lot of things today. Steins;Gate is a masterpiece only intellectuals understand. |
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| Is popular because of the red haired tsundere Like toradora popular because of taiga |
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PO1SON said: Not really. Any idiot with the command of the English language canyou're questioning a lot of things today. Steins;Gate is a masterpiece only intellectuals understand. |
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tragedydesu said: I normally hate tsunderes but the red head is quite good. She's not abusive like the other bitches Is popular because of the red haired tsundere Like toradora popular because of taiga PS Taiga is shit |
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| That red haired bitch made people wet, also well umm everything is garbage and overrated these days |
| I don't know. I once watched till episode 9 and then dropped it. I can't remember why since it's been longer than a year. Might try it again sometime soon..? |
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PO1SON said: you're questioning a lot of things today. Steins;Gate is a masterpiece only intellectuals understand. what? you don't have to be intellectual to understand steins;gate. you'd need to be a complete brain dead retard to NOT understand it, everything is explained in anime itself. |
PO1SON said: you're questioning a lot of things today. Steins;Gate is a masterpiece only intellectuals understand. This, I don't care what anyone else says. I mean, it is easy to understand but still, this is the truth right here. That and drinking Dr.P of course. |
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| It's not the same! The way time travel was handlled in Steins;Gate was brilliant! He made what other anime and american series did wrong like parallel earth and mental breakdowns! If you want other good anime about time travel watch Re:Zero. It's more harcore about the time travel and mental breakdowns but has some flaws along the way that made in not as much enjoyable as Steins;Gate. In Dragon Ball Z, the Future Trunks Arc or Cell Arc or whatever, they made a mix of jumping between parallel earths with time travel but it's wasn't even at the level of Steins;Gate due to the different objectives of both series. |
tragedydesu said: Is popular because of the red haired tsundere Like toradora popular because of taiga t's not just because of that. But she is best girl in the show. I know you hate tsunderes, but she isn't abusive like Taiga, Louise or majority of today's tsunderes. |
| To simply put it. Steins;Gate is time travel done right. |
Darek said: In Erased they debate between the childhood friend that cucked him and the contemporary girl that got the development of their relation cut pretty hard in the anime.Deknijff said: Not really, at least not on a "critical" level. When it comes to time travel I only hear people praise S;G. Sure thing there are other shows that include time travel in some form but mostly people talk about other aspects rather than the tie travel itself. See re;zero for example, no one is talking about the (kinda)time travel in the show. Most people argue who the better waifu is. Other anime with time travel, ehh, Erased, I dunno about that one tbh, the only reoccurring thing in erased debates I noticed is Digibro but I doubt that counts for anything.eh well both series are highly regarded so saying DBZ had it is relevant how? Aren't most time travel series highly regarded on MAL now that I think about it |
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Vlad4o said: To simply put it. Steins;Gate is time travel done right. Time travel done right. I can't say better than that. The "Red Hair" girl is just a bonus. |
Chikipichi said: Dragon ball Z time traveling arc thing with Trunks had the same kind of mindfuck and science as Steins Gate. I love this statement with all my heart. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- more seriousness note. The reason we like dbz and steins gate has nothing to do with them involving time travel. Time travel doesn't even make sense in either series. DBZ is the actionfest of a generation, steins gate is really about the protagonist, his relationships and the mystery at hand. |
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| Dunno, the first and second half of the anime are completely different levels of entertainment. I considered not finishing because the early anime was so slow but the plot decided to happen at episode 14. Also Kurisu is in it, so I can't hate it. |
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| Hmm the plot picked up for me at ep 5 this anime really did have a very slow start tho. |
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Darek said: Personally I wouldn't even praise S;G's time travel as it was more about being convenient in an enjoyable way than actually believable (like many other shows with time travel, not only anime) but Erased's time travel is one of the worst ones I've ever seen.zal said: So waifu wars again. I really can't think of any time travel anime praised for the time travel (aside from S;g obviously, tho that one has waifu wars too), partially because I do not recall many popular ones that even do that. Whether I seen them or not.In Erased they debate between the childhood friend that cucked him and the contemporary girl that got the development of their relation cut pretty hard in the anime. |
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| I don't know either. Contrary to what most people who saw it felt, I found the first half really interesting, captivating and hooking. It had an amazing worldbuilding. I was hoping for some big time-travel mess involving this future authoritarian world-dominant organization, but in the end it was all about a immature guy refusing to accept the consequences of messing with time and playing his mad-scientist games. It was so expectation-subversive. In the process, this made many of the presented characters in the beginning somehow...irrelevant, it made them just tools, and some of them even felt fillerish, in the sense that they were only there just to make the show have some more episodes or get to the 24 episodes line. Besides, the show has an excess of plot-conveniences. For an adult-oriented show, this comes as something truly annoying. |
| People complain about how the start of Steins;Gate is slow and disappointing. But without it, there wouldn't be enough development for the viewers to actually start caring about the characters. Time travel aspect was also done better than most. |
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| People giving out 9's/10's for S;G just have selective and short memory. They forgot how ordinary the first 6 or 7 episodes were and only remember the last half when they get around to scoring. When I watched it it was #2; something that high should be very good start to finish; maybe one or two subpar episodes at most. |
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