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Steins Gate

“Steins Gate” is an anime TV show adapted from an Xbox 360 game of the same name. It is made by White Fox Studio.

Plot(Include Spoilers)

The story begins from 2010/07/28, one year after the event in Chaos Head(Another game made by 5pb). Rintaro Okabe and his childhood friend Mayuri Shiina, two members of “Future Gadget Lab” went to a scientific conference in a building in Akiba about time travel. In the conference, they met Kuriso Makise, who is a genius girl in Science. However, after the conference ended, they found out that Kuriso was killed. They left the building and texted Itaru Hashiba, another member of their lab about this. When the text was sent, all the pedestrians in Akiba suddenly disappeared. On the building that the conference supposed to held stood a broken satellite. When they got in the building, Okabe saw Kuriso standing in the center of the room. He got really confused and talked to Kuriso although all he said was considered nonsense.

After Okabe and Mayuri got back, Itaru told them that Future Gadget No.8 was done, which is a microwave operated by a mobile phone. Okabe took a banana from a table and put it in the microwave and started the microwave with his phone. The microwave was keep leaking electricity shot and after it stops the banana disappeared from the microwave and went back to the table and become like a green jelly. Kuriso also saw that because she was curious about what Okabe told her about her death. Kuriso didn’t believe in time travel, but she got really curious about what just happened to the banana, so she stayed and did couple more experiments about the phone trigger system. Within the experiments they found out that Future Gadget No.8(Phone triggered microwave) have the ability to send mails to the past. Later, they improved the machine so that it can send people’s memory to the past in order to complete human time travel. This is an exciting invention. However it also brings danger to Future Gadget Lab. Sern, which is an organization in Europe, studies time travel secretly. When Sern found out that Future Gadget Lab is also working on time machine, they decided to attack them. Mayuri died in the conflict and Kuriso was seriously injured. To save Mayuri, Okabe got on the time travel machine and went to the past…

Character List

Rintaro Okabe: Future Gadget Lab Member No.1. A daydreamer who always have a lot of unrealistic ideas. He calls himself Mad Scientist Kyoma Hooin. He is the only one known who has the ability that he refers to “Reading Steiners”, which allows him to keep the memory in different timelines. He likes to drink Dr.Pepper. He calls De.Pepper the drink of science. Mayuri is his most important person. He went through a lot of timelines to find the way to save Mayuri.He has a pet phrase “El Psy Congroo”. It has no meaning but it performs like a secret signal when he talks to himself on phone about “Organization” following him.

Okabe has the ability of “Reading Steiners” because of a serious illness so there is no distinction between Okabe in different timelines. In Movie: Steins Gate, Okabe suffered from memory of other timelines. He could not keep himself on “Steins Gate” Timelines and went to timeline γ. Kuriso went to the past and helped Okabe to come back by giving him a deep impression about the current timeline.

Mayuri Shiina: Future Gadget Lab Member No.2. Okabe’s childhood friend. She is not a science person but she joined the lab for fun. She got really depressed for half a year when her grandma passed away. Influenced by her grandma, she loves to watch the sky. She is the person that Okabe believes he should protect.

Timeline α: Mayuri died in all Timeline α.

Timeline β: She went to the conference with Okabe and found out Kuriso was dead.

Kuriso Makise: Future Gadget Lab Member No.4. Kuriso is a genius in science. She graduated from college at the age of 18. Her paper was published in a famous science magazine at the same year. She joined Future Gadget Lab because she noticed timetravel phenomenon in Phone Triggered Microwave experiment by accident. She was called by Okabe in different ways including Christina(Kuriso’s name pronounced as Chris and Okabe add “tina” into it), assisstant, The Zombie(She was dead then alive in Okabe’s perspective). She is a typical Tsundere(A person who always shows her cold and hostile side to others but actually warm and gentle). She helped Okabe a lot in different timelines. To save Mayuri, she ask Okabe to go back to timeline β which Mayuri is alive but she was killed.

Timeline α: The conference was canceled so Kuriso was not killed. She joined Future Gadget Lab.

Timeline β: She was killed in timeline β

Itaru Hashida: Future Gadget Lab Member No.3. Okabe’s friend since high school. He is a skilled hacker. He hacked Sern’s official site and get some key information about time travel from Sern. He connected the Phone Triggered Microwave with LHC which make it into a really timetravel machine. He is a typical Otaku(People obsessed with anime and computer game)

Itaru’s experience does not change a lot with the change of Timelines.

World View

The worldview of Steins Gate is Parallel Timeline. It is different from Many-World Interpretation[1]. In Many-World Interpretation, there exists multiple universes. For example, in Schrodinger’s Cat experiment, when opening the box, the current world splits into two different worlds. In one world the cat is alive and in another it is dead. In the worldview of Steins Gate, there is only one world, but there are multiple timelines. Before Okabe send the first D-mail, the world was in timeline β. The first D-mail stopped the conference and kept Kuriso alive, so the world jumped to timeline α. Other D-mails are sent later that make the world to jump to other α timelines.