Disclaimer: I did not write this review. It's copy pasted. I take no responsibility if you expirience dizzines, nausea or spontaneous combustion as an effect of reading it.
First of all, if you have not seen Steins;Gate yet, I strongly recommend that you stop reading this text, delay any immediate plans that you have such as studying for finals or your grandmother's funeral and go watch Steins;Gate this very instant. All you need to know is it's about a guy who turns his microvawe into a time machine and it's freaking amazing. In fact, I can tell you from reliable sources that it's considered an all-time
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classic in the year of 2050, along shows like Cowboy Bebop, Fullmetal Alchemist, School Days and Nurse Joy's Naughty Adventure (coming out in 2025).
I have rated every aspect of this anime with a perfect 10 because I honestly feel that every aspect of it deserves a perfect score. The story is absolutely amazing, It is going to keep you on the edge of your seat with trilling twists, it is going to make you laugh with excellent humor. It is even going to make you cry your eyes out if you are a little bi...I mean if you are more emotionally sensitive. The artwork is quite unique and outstanding. The soudtrack is awesome, especially the opening intro. The characters are totally stereotypical (a conspiracy theorist and self proclaimed mad scientist, a fat nerd and self proclaimed super hacker, a hot red tsundere) and yet they feel unique and original and will probably grow on you from the very first episode. The character interaction is masterfully executed and at times quite hilarious (especially between Okabe and Christina).
Now with all the important stuff out of the way, I will now have a bit of a rant about one of the central points of this show - time travel. There are many problems associated with time travels that writers tend to ignore. Let me make an example. Let's say we have a story where a hero uses a time machine to prevent a zombie apocalypse caused by a guy in Russia pirating the second season of Game of Thrones. There are two basic models how this could work: one with a single universe and one with infinite parallel universes. The problem with the first one is that our hero is doomed to fail right from the start because the apocalyptic present that our hero comes from is a result of everything that happened in the past, and that includes any meddling from naughty time travelers. So, not only is our hero certain to fail in his quest; he might even end up being responsible for the disaster. Another problem with the first model is something called the grandfather paradox. Say our hero goes back in time and kills his grandfather, thus causing himself to never be born. But if he was never born then how could he kill his grandfather? There were a few episodes of Futurama involving time travel with this single universe model that were really well done and they even included a hilarious twist on the grandfather paradox. The other model, the one with infinite parallel universes, doesn't have any of the described problems. Our hero can simply travel back in time and create a parallel universe where the disaster never occurs. But note that our hero doesn't really save anyone in this model (except himself). He just escapes from his doomed universe into one where everyone is happy, leaving everyone in the original universe to go be eaten by zombies. Dragonball Z hais an example of this kind of time travel.
So, which model does Steins;Gate adopt? The one with a single universe or the one with many parallel universes? Well, a little bit of both actually. There is a single universe, but multiple timelines and it all works pretty well. As I explained in a wall of text above that you probably skipped, both models have some major problems by themselves, but Steins;Gate avoids those problems by combining those two basic models into a new one. Another thing I like about time travel in Steins;Gate is that it is based on and explained by actual science. I know it's not completely realistic but still, it's great that an actual explanation is given for the mechanics of time travel instead of magic or super complicated future alien technology.
Now, as good as Steins;Gate is (and it's bloody good), I still can't say it is absolutely perfect. There were a few plot points that felt very far-fetched and the rules of time travel sometimes felt like they were adjusted to the plot instead of it being the other way around. Still, I stand by my opinion that Steins;Gate is the closest thing to perfection in existence and that it has to be watched by anyone who likes anime enough that he visited this website and read this entire godawful review.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to mail this to myself 15 minutes into the past, because I know from first-hand expirience that that fool is just staring into his computer screen and trying to think of what to type into an empty box and I know that he's not going to think of anything.
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Jul 12, 2014
Steins;Gate
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Disclaimer: I did not write this review. It's copy pasted. I take no responsibility if you expirience dizzines, nausea or spontaneous combustion as an effect of reading it.
First of all, if you have not seen Steins;Gate yet, I strongly recommend that you stop reading this text, delay any immediate plans that you have such as studying for finals or your grandmother's funeral and go watch Steins;Gate this very instant. All you need to know is it's about a guy who turns his microvawe into a time machine and it's freaking amazing. In fact, I can tell you from reliable sources that it's considered an all-time ... 
Apr 4, 2014
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The Future Diary (Mirai Nikki) is one hell of a crazy and entertaining ride. But only as long as you don't look at it too closely, because you'll notice many flaws if you do.
Characters - 7 The main character, 14 year old Yuki, is such a wimp that he makes Shinji Ikari look manly and heroic by comparison. But he's okay otherwise. I can think of a lot more annoying main characters. The real star of the show is Yuki's overly attached girlfriend Yuno. She's smart, resourceful and completely unpredictable. And for some reason, she's madly in love with Yuki (pun intended). The main characters and their relationship ... |
