Steins;Gate

A slow-building puzzle box that starts as quirky comedy and tightens into a tense, heartbreaking struggle against fate.

Created by

Kanji Wakabayashi, Kazuhiro Ozawa

Genres

Animation, Sci-fi & fantasy, Mystery

Starring

Mamoru Miyano, Asami Imai, Kana Hanazawa

Tagline

Changing the past only makes the future worse.

Overview

A group of friends have customized their microwave so that it can send text messages to the past. As they perform different experiments, an organization named SERN who has been doing their own research on time travel tracks them down and now the characters have to find a way to avoid being captured by them.

How it feels

Tense, melancholic, dark and whimsical. Slow-burning and demanding.

About

Fate, obsession, grief, love

Content

Mild violence, gore, sexual content and language.

Note

Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown

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