Reviews

To put it roughly “Stein;s Gate” is about a man being driven mad by having to choose between saving his friends, the love of his life and the world using time-travel. If the premise isn’t good enough to put you onto this show, then you’d be hooked either way because everything else about it is just so masterfully made; by that I mean the characters, the animation, the story progression and most importantly the screenplay.

This anime is a fine cocktail of traits, that on paper don’t seem to mix well together but still end up blowing the viewers away. There are characters that feel generic and kiddish contrasted by characters that you wanna strangle to death because they’re just plain flawed human beings. There are segments of this story that are as light-hearted as a hot spring arc in a slice of life anime contrasted by brutally honest segments that make you hyperventilate.

What I’ve grown to admire the most is the screenplay. The events that transpire in Stein;s Gate have a gargantuan presence in the world. They make or break the future of 7 billion people, yet the anime is paced in a way that it feels as though what happens to the world is secondary to what the main character perceives. The protagonist’s personal interests seem to be of focus despite them in the grander scheme of things not being significant yet this doesn’t come off as a flaw in the show but the key element in what makes it soo god-damn relatable.