Should you watch Steins;Gate?
Who it’s good for, who it isn’t, and what’s in it. No ratings, no scores.
Steins;Gate
Anime · 2011
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.
The sides of Steins;Gate
- A microwave that sends texts to the past
- A self-styled mad scientist in Akihabara
- A friend who keeps dying in every new timeline
Steins;Gate is good for you if…
- you want to keep track of which message changed which world line.
- you want time travel with rules the story never breaks for convenience.
- you like a hero forced to choose which friend he gets to save.
Steins;Gate is bad for you if…
- you don't watch anime.
- you need momentum, and the first stretch is lab banter in a rented room.
- you can't watch the same friend die again and again.
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