Steins Gate

If you’ve spent any real time with Steins;Gate, you already know that an Okabe Rintaro character analysis is no small undertaking. He’s the kind of protagonist who rewards multiple rewatches — the kind where you catch a flicker of genuine grief behind a theatrical villain monologue and realize the show was hiding it in plain … Read more

The Premise and the Patience It Demands If you dropped into a Steins Gate review looking for instant validation of this show’s reputation, here’s your first data point: the first eight episodes are deliberately, almost stubbornly slow. That’s not a bug. It’s the entire architecture. Steins;Gate, the 2011 anime adaptation of 5pb. and Nitroplus’s visual … Read more