Kurisu even says that the worldline shift is probably due to a time machine. Setting up a mystery and then explaining it later sounds good in theory, but the show has dropped so many plot points before now you that it is perfectly likely you will chalk all this up to yet another dead end, and fail to bother trying to understand the seemingly impossible circumstances behind the call and the shift. Regardless, its not clear yet if Russia was behind the hack of Amadeus from last episode, but even if they were, why does answering the phone change anything? The reason this doesn’t make sense yet is because it is actually a mystery the show has set up and will be explaining later. She does not say this as a warning to stop the second group, because nobody knows there is a second group yet we haven’t even confirmed the identity of the first group and if they did the hack or not.Īlso, why does Amadeus calling have anything to do with the worldline shifting in the first place? What does a Russian time travel experiment have to do with Amadeus, who they don’t even need? Why does answering Amadeus’ call shift the timeline? This is actually does get explained, but if you have been paying attention to the poor writing in Steins Gate 0 to this point, you will correctly assume that the answer the show gives is not satisfactory. The only reason this line is here is because Kurisu read ahead in the script, and saw that next episode would introduce a second group trying to build a time machine. So, Kurisu’s warning about Amadeus is moot because the Russians already have time travel now without any involvement from Amadeus. The only way that the Russians could have performed time travel is if they advanced the theory themselves, which is perfectly reasonable considering the fact they would surely assign the brightest minds in the country to this task, and they already have been working on this for months before the hack occurs. Okabe has said nothing important about time travel to Amadeus to this point yet all he did was ask if time machines were possible. What is she even talking about? The only reason we are here in this new world line is because Nakabachi and the Russians have already solved time travel they don’t need Amadeus for any reason. Fine, but Kurisu tells Okabe to stay away from Amadeus to prevent Amadeus from completing the theory this is a preventative measure to stop time travel from being invented and leaking in to the wrong hands. Okay, that time machine thesis from 23b was incomplete. How did they achieve this? Well, we already know that Nakabachi brought Kurisu’s time travel paper with him when he defected. Its not clear that this is the case yet, but this meta knowledge from camera cuts (which removes us from Okabe’s point of view) is all we have to go on until its confirmed later. We are going to operate off the assumption that Russia has caused this shift with a time machine experiment. I am assuming that though, the only information to go on is the fact that Russia appears on the news at the end of last episode, and that newscast appears again for about 2 frames when Okabe is in the park. So, we learn at the end of last episode that Russia is performing a time travel experiment this is what causes the world line to shift. What’s the problem? Well, lets take a look. Before we get to that I want to really dig in to the writing of this episode.
We are going to switch up the format here and postpone the chronological breakdown of the episode.
Steins gate anime episodes series#
The world of anime certainly is no stranger to live-action adaptations, with Netflix recently releasing the live-action Cowboy Bebop series and set to launch similar projects for One Piece, Avatar The Last Airbender, and Yu Yu Hakusho to name a few.I do not think there is a single person on the planet who understands what actually happened in this episode myself included. Steins Gate was announced to be receiving a Hollywood adaptation in early 2020 that was set to be adapted by Skydance Television, which oversaw the likes of Grace & Frankie and Altered Carbon for Netflix, but details regarding the series have been few and far between since. Steins Gate alone has had some wild adventures over the course of the series, but perhaps nothing was as wild as when it crossed over with the Sanrio property, Hello Kitty, as a part of its anniversary celebration. It turns out that Okabe’s phone is part of a time-traveling project which worked, giving him the ability to send texts through time. He gets in contact with a colleague about the incident only to discover that his message reached his friend before the murder took place.
The man’s world turns upside down after he stumbles across the dead body of a well-known scientist named Kurisu Makise.
The anime adaptation of Steins Gate was produced by White Fox in 2011, and follows a so-called ‘mad scientist’ named Rintaro Okabe who runs a laboratory in Tokyo.