Steins;Gate just blew my mind. I mean really. Imagine Lelouch Lamperouge waking up in a hospital and marrying Kallen after the events in Code Geass. Also imagine that there were no major plot holes, no feeling of the anime dragging on for far too long, and no feeling that the character designs are just too ridiculous for real life.
That's right, real life. An interesting phrase because science fiction requires a certain suspension of belief in the first place. I feel like the major difference here is that in most cases either it's very difficult to gain a full suspension of belief for the story, or the characters are unbelievable themselves. It's almost always the latter for me. What story can be complete without characters that you can imagine meeting yourself?
Okarin is an absolutely amazing and deep character. From the very start you think he is insane, and then just a strange sc-fi aficionado, and then you realize that there is a lot more to him than you think. And honestly it is only a good bit through the show where you can be completely sure that he isn't really the mad scientist he tries to portray.
Honestly, this show has to be the masterpiece of masterpieces among anime created thus far. It immediately goes on the very top of my list of favorite shows. I don't believe in perfection, but this is as close as I have seen an anime come. It takes the hope I had for Death Note before L died, and through the first season of Geass, and it finishes it like neither of those shows could. And let me just add some more superlatives to it so I can finish gushing and go watch something else for a bit: amazing, incredible, stellar, superior, ultimate, etc.
"Hey Mister! I am mad scientist, its cool!!! Sonuvabitch."
