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Steins;Gate

Also known as: シュタインズ・ゲートS;G

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What is Steins;Gate about?

Steins;Gate is a TV anime series of 24 episodes animated by WHITE FOX, adapted from a visual novel. It aired from April 6, 2011 to September 14, 2011. AniList classifies it as drama, psychological, science fiction and thriller.

Self-proclaimed mad scientist Okabe Rintarou lives in a small room in Akihabara, where he invents "future gadgets" with fellow lab members Shiina Mayuri, his air-headed childhood friend, and Hashida Itaru, an otaku hacker. The three pass the time by tinkering with their latest creation, a "Phone Microwave" that can be controlled through text messages.

The lab members soon face a string of mysterious incidents that lead to a game-changing discovery: the Phone Microwave can send emails to the past and thus alter history. Adapted from the critically acclaimed visual novel by 5pb. and Nitroplus, Steins;Gate takes Okabe to the depths of scientific theory and human despair as he faces the dire consequences of changing the past.

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Themes AniList users associate with it: Time Loop, Male Protagonist, Urban, Primarily Adult Cast, Chuunibyou, Dissociative Identities, Cosmic Horror, Tsundere, Otaku Culture, Heterosexual.

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Main characters

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  • Rintarou Okabe 岡部倫太郎

    Main character

    Okabe Rintarou is a first-year student attending Tokyo Denki University and calls himself a Crazy Mad Scientist. He acts like a villain​ but is rather immature as he frequently shows traits of Chuunibyou syndrome despite being a grown-up man.

    Japanese voice: Mamoru Miyano

  • Kurisu Makise 牧瀬紅莉栖

    Main character

    Kurisu is a research member in Viktor Chondria University's Brain Research Program. Her age group matches that of third-year high schoolers, but she skipped a grade through America's educational system. She is also famous in America for writing theses papers, part of which is covered in the news.

    Japanese voice: Asami Imai

  • Mayuri Shiina 椎名まゆり

    Main character

    Second year in Kasensou Private Prepatory Academy. Childhood friend of Rintarou's, and slow by nature. Speaks in a very wavy manner, and seems to always be smiling and having fun. She's quite the optimist. She has trouble understanding complicated theories, but doesn't mind as long as it's enjoyable.

    Japanese voice: Kana Hanazawa

  • Itaru Hashida 橋田至

    Main character

    First-year student at Tokyo Denki University. Pro-active otaku, who's got a thing for both 2-D and 3-D girls. Plenty of statements he makes could be taken as sexual harassment. He and Rintarou have known each other since high school.

    Japanese voice: Tomokazu Seki

  • Suzuha Amane 阿万音鈴羽

    Main character

    A girl that really likes riding bicycles, and is quite energetic, though a little crude. If you stick around her, she's surprisingly cautious. Very helpful. A little too familiar with things, but doesn't dig too deep. Not quite comfortable with having other people help her.

    Japanese voice: Yukari Tamura

Supporting characters

  • Luka Urushibara 漆原るか

    Supporting character

    Second year in Kasensou Private Prepatory Academy. Mayuri's classmate. Luka has the personality of a polite, well-groomed, and justified kind of person. Uses honorifics specifically with Rintarou. Luka doesn't push their opinions much upon others, but when they do they become quite bashful and blush quite a bit.

    Japanese voice: Yuu Kobayashi

  • Rumiho Akiha 秋葉留美穂

    Supporting character

    Second year in Kanaria Private Academy. Faris is someone who works part-time at a maid cafe called "MayQueen+Nyan2". Mayuri works with her. She's quite child-like. Acts like a childish devil towards men. Also adds embarrassing "meows" to her speech.

    Japanese voice: Haruko Momoi

  • Moeka Kiryuu 桐生萌郁

    Supporting character

    A tall girl that Rintarou bumps into in Akihabara and is on a search for the IBN 5100 personal computer. Moeka is extremely protective of her mobile phone and becomes agitated if someone tries to take it from her hands. She is very shy and prefers to talk to someone by sending them a text message instead of speaking.

    Japanese voice: Saori Gotou

  • Yuugo Tennouji 天王寺裕吾

    Supporting character

    Owner of the CRT TV Workshop set up in the first floor of the Oohiyama building. Also the landlord. Widower. Has an only daughter by the name of Nae, though he's the only one who loves CRTs. Hates LCDs with a passion, and perhaps anarchic.

    Japanese voice: Masaki Terasoma

  • Nae Tennouji 天王寺綯

    Supporting character

    Tennouji Yuugo's only daughter, in grade school. Really loves her father, and often shows up at the CRT TV Workshop on the way home from school. She's a bit docile. Thinks of Mayuri as her "older sister", but is often frightened by Itaru and Rintarou.

    Japanese voice: Ayano Yamamoto

  • Dr. Nakabachi ドクター中鉢

    Supporting character

    He is the professor who gives the lecture about time travels in Episode 1.

    Japanese voice: Mitsuru Ogata

  • John Titor ジョン・タイター

    Supporting character

    Based on a 'real' person, John Titor is the name used on several bulletin boards during 2000 and 2001 by a poster claiming to be a time traveler from the year 2036. In these posts he made numerous predictions (a number of them vague, some quite specific) about events in the near future, starting with events in 2004.

    Japanese voice: Hiroshi Tsuchida

  • Eisuke Urushibara 漆原栄輔

    Supporting character

    Ruka's father.

    Japanese voice: Mitsuaki Hoshino

  • Yukitaka Akiha 秋葉幸高

    Supporting character

    Feiris's father.

    Japanese voice: Taira Kikumoto

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