if you are an author and writing a story based on time travelling... then congratulations, you are in profit! most of the time, the appeal of the audience for the time travel stories is much more than other genres and that's because time travel also means unexpected! if the show has the concept of time travel, then there will be a variety of unexpected moments! and people watch such contents only to experience the unexpected! so basically, what I meant to say is that make a story and anyhow fit anything about time travelling in that! By that, success will automaticallycome to your feet (life)! isn't that so simple?Wrong! if you try to use this formula,then the final result will be something like this!! When you pick up the concept of time travel, then at first, you get two choices! - first - Either you can make that kind of showwhere the concept of time travel is involved or make that kind of show which is about time travel and Steins Gate goes with the latter option! Not only, Steins Gate accepts the hardest challenge... but with a level of simplicity and grounding,it is putted in a story and then present it to us! and due to the executions of this anime only, I can say"One of the Greatest Time Travel Tale Every Told"! Say it 10 times!
So, let's see what is in the anime! so, when it comes to Science-fiction genre then the first thing which comes to our mind is,a whole new fictional world, giant robots,futuristic technology, etc. which may be thrilling! But we apologise to you, if you are a fan of these! There is nothing like these in Steins Gate! The main character of this anime is a self-proclaimed, 17-years old mad scientist named, Okabe Rintarou who runs a small lab in his rented house in Akihabara District at Tokyo! By seeing Okabe for the first time,it may seem like he is asmart and a intelligent character... and he is! But not only this, he is much more interesting than that! Well now, most of the people says that the first 10 episodes of Steins Gate is too boring! But for me, it was not! Through I don't know about you, but for me I enjoyed the first 10 episodes of Steins Gate and all because of this guy!He is so funny! So, when I saw the poster of this anime, I thought this would be a serious one! So, I thought that I need to have patience while watching! But nothing like that happened! The way they have handled the story board of this anime, is to be well-awarded!
After watching the first two episodes, your mind might go to WTF mode! And after that, the first half field is full of fresh humour and many slice of life moments! Then after that, the second half of the show begins, which we can call as "The real Deal!" We all know that time travel is not real! But, the way they have portrayed the use of time travel, the way they do the time travel is too much realistic! I like the thing that the show is about 24 episodes! But still the makers have devoted the first half in developing the plot! And when we talk about time travel,it looks like it is so easy! But while watching Steins Gate,we feel that time travel is only easy when you say it! Steins Gate shows us that Time Travel is not as easy as moving from one place to another! When you travel in time, it do havemany complications and world changing events! And our main character also goes through these during the show! To make the story more interesting,they have also mentioned about real world references!
For example, John Titor! If you don't know about John Titor, then let me tell you... On November 2, 2000, a fax had beensent to Time Travel Forums! In where, a person claimed that he is a time traveller from 2036 and after two months... on January, 2001,he revealed his name which was John Titor! He used to send faxes time to time! In where he said that he came for a old computer developed in 1975 named IBM 5100! In order to prove that he is a time traveller, he also gave some predictions! In which one of them was, in 2004 there will be an another civil war in USA! Which never happened! And after that, the name and works of John Titor was considered as a hoax! With this, in the Steins Gate Anime, we also heard about CERN and Large Hydron Collider as well! CERN is also an organisation like NASA, which is in Europe, and works on Nuclear Researches and Large Hydron Collider is the world's largest particle accelerator made by them! Before watching the show, you may read all about these in wikipedia! Through, if I talk about animation, it is not that much spectacular! And I don't think the anime needs that! This is not a kind of anime, where we need to fire blasts from here to there! Yes, if we talk about lightning effects and color filter, then it's good! There are already many different takes based on time travel! But the creator of Seins Gate don't care about it at all! They don't leave the things by thinking it's not good! Instead of getting influenced, he develops a new take on the topic which can be too exciting and different! There are three parallels in the Steins Gate Anime Obviously, Science Fiction, Slice of Life and Thriller and this anime justifies all these three things! You may have noticed, whenever there is a science fiction, it do overtakes the other genres! But it is not like that in Steins Gate! All things are perfectly balanced! "Science Fiction, Supernatural and Fantasy" Whether the stories are too good or bad, these genres are highly forgettable! A person remembers only those things from a show, which is humanly possible! For example, Death Note! People don't appreciate the concept of Death Note as much as they appreciate the war between L and Light! A show's supernatural element is only a plot device and the makers should always know how to use that! And to make the Steins Gate Anime memorable, the slice of life part in it is a big help! You may forget the scientific rules and methods, But it's not easy to forget the interaction between characters and emotional moments! And therefore, I think the part,where most of the people think it is boring, is the part which is very necessary!
Again yes, stretching that fortoo long is also unnecessary, which they did in season 01! But they crossed the line in Steins Gate 0! Now, Steins Gate 0 is thecontinuation of Steins Gate Anime only! But, reaching upto this, is a little complicated! Let me explain, why!? First, you watch the 24 episodesof Steins Gate Season 01! Watched!? Awesome! Now, return back to episode 22! Now, watch this episode for another time! Now that's because, between the episode 22 and 23, there is an another episode! For which you have to search on Google! The name of the episode isSteins Gate Episode 23-Beta, which is an event occurred between episode 22 and 23! After watching the episode, you can start watching Steins Gate 0! Let's return back to our topic... I liked the slice of life momentsin the season 01 of Steins Gate! But I have problem with the same in Steins Gate 0! see, Steins Gate 0 continues from theepisode 22 of Steins Gate S01! So, the character building of the anime wasmostly done in Season 01 only! So I think, Steins Gate 0need not had to devote much in that! But where, season 01 has 12 slow episodes Steins Gate Zero has the no. of 16 such episodes! But it's also not that, the episodes are enjoyable! In comparison to season 01, it looks they are dragging the episodes! And after wasting so many episodes, they have only 7 episodes left to continue the story! So, from episode 17, the things started going smooth! By smooth, I didn't mean, things getting better! Apparently we saw that, the major downfall of Steins Gate 0 is episode 17! In this episode, basically our main villain is rebuilt and there is also a fight scene, which is poorly animated and choreographed! Okay, I have no objection with poor animation, I accepted that! But the fight should at least make sense! A girl fighting against 10-15 armed soldiers and those soldiers are literally in every directions! So, when she fires at one angle,then she is wide open from the back! I don't understand, are they seeing circus! Not only this, there were many more stupidity in this episode! And after that, the concept of rushing thing starts! All the episodes continuing from thisare completely rushed! See, I have no problem with Steins Gate 0,but if I talk about Steins Gate Season 01... then it is a masterfully crafted anime which has got the big strength from its storyboard and the entire formation of the episode! And the same thing is a big weakness in the Steins Gate 0! The only thing which is different inSteins Gate 0 is its soundtrack! I have not gave much attention to the soundtrack of season 01 as compared to I gave in Steins Gate 0! So, Steins Gate 0 gets a plus point for its soundtrack! Through, it's totally up to youif you want to watch Steins Gate 0 or not! And Steins Gate Season 01 has its own ending! It's not that after 24 episodes, it get continues in Steins Gate 0! Steins Gate 0 is not a season 02,it is like a longer way to meet the same destination! So, now a question,"is this a good anime for beginners!?" Well, my answer will be mixed!So, I will say "yes" and "no"! "Yes" because, whether you are beginner or pro, you can understand this anime! There is nothing like *that* in here,for which you need enlightment! Only you need to keep focus,as because things are complicated in this anime! Dialogues is also twisted! If you don't understand it, do pause it, read it carefully and then continue! And I prefer to watch this animein original Japanese dubbed with english subtitles! Don't watch the dub, you will miss many good things! Now, lemme tell you why I don'trecommend it for beginners! Well, I have a fear that they might like it! If I remember my beginner days,then my favorite anime was Death Note and Attack on Titan! And I feel that most of the beginners do watch only these! And these two are like those shows, which depends on their visual direction! and why would not they,the director of both the shows are same! Anyone will fall in love with the shows,because of the way the scenes are crafted! No the entire story, just scenes! Contains heavy soundtracks, moments, facial artworks and still artworks which is sufficient to attract beginners' cult! But obviously, Steins Gate does not have all these! That's why at the same time, I don't want a beginner to watch this anime and later, they say this to me... So,
ultimately I want to tell that,it does not matter how much anime you watched! You may not have watched this! Still I will ask you to watch Steins Gate,Who knows you may like it!! And those who still didn't liked the showafter watching the first few episodes! I will say that, please do have patience, maybe you will like it, if you keep on watching! So that's all for today! Do Watch Steins Gate! We will meet you again someday with a new topic!
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