Steins;Gate, a generic visual novel adaptation that everyone loves to circle jerk. The characters are contrived and irritating, the pacing is inconsistent, the story is mediocre. I don't see how people can look past these flaws and still like this anime.
The first half was terrible and everyone knows it, yet various opinions on the internet tell you push through and it gets good, but it doesn't. How can a show with a crappy first half and OK second half be considered good? My guess would be because everyone wants to think they understand time travel and this show helps the stroke their own ego. Other reasons would probably be the chuunibyou trope main character that weeaboos love, Hanakana forcing out a catch phrase that would probably sound like rusty metal scraping together if it wasn't her saying it, and pervert jokes that only cherry-boys find clever.
I watched this show when it came out, and again recently- it's still meh. 2/5
Except for that trap. Saving grace of the show. 2.5/5