Is it normal to find this anime to be really slow at the beginning? I'm currently on episode 4 but does it get better later?
>>286644820It becomes a masterpiece by episode 12 or so
Just be patient and watch it newfag.
>>286644949No it doesn't.
>>286644820No, it feels much slower in the second half.
>>286644820>he didn't immediately wife kurisu the moment he laid eyes on herSkill issue I'm afraid.
>>286644820It does actually get better later on but it's like going from a 4/10 to a 7/10. It just didn't feel like it was worth the time to get there.
>>286644820its a character driven show where all the characters are completely insufferable and one note
>>286645065>tfw no kurisu gfIt hurts
>>286645123>all the characters are completely insufferable and one noteThis is not true and never has been true. The characters have a lot of depth to them but contrarians always try to claim otherwise even though their favorite anime would never have an mc as good as okabe.
If you need explosions happening to be engaged I suggest you find your entertainment elsewhere.Just drop it now.If you are not intrigued by the mystery of the setting, just drop it.
>>286645204S;G really isn't as interesting as you're pretending it is. A lack of explosions isn't the problem
>>286645165yeah man daru saying meme shit and mayuri being retarded and confused by every word is actually genius
>>286645254Just drop it then. Why bother making yet another useless shits;gay thread instead of just dropping it and going on with your life?If you need attention, go seek it elsewhere.
>>286645297I'm not OP
>>286644820SG actually peaks in the first part and then gets worse from there.
>>286645204But the 2nd half is full of explosions and the 2nd half is the only reason why people like it
>>286644820How's that ADHD working out for you op?
>>286645350The second half only works if you like and pay attention to the first half.The payoff only works because of the foreshadowing. If you don't have the patience to enjoy the process, you won't like the result.
Mayuri getting blown up with explosions would have improved the show
>>286645350No one likes the second half, they like the last episode.
>watch a great anime>get bored after a few episodes, stop watching and complain like a bitchThe modern anime audience in a nutshell.
>>286645165okabe and christina are basically the only characters
>>286644820I think it's only worth pushing through if you really like the characters. I didn't really like any of the cast but I made myself keep watching because everyone said it would get good and ended up a bit let down because i wasn't invested in the story. So I think if you aren't liking the cast don't bother.
>>286645491You say this but the truth is you just weren't paying enough attention to everyone else in the story. Everyone else has something going on in their storyline.
>>286645491That's strange because Mayuri is the best character in the whole story.
There still isn't any main character in anime as good as Okabe.
>>286644820Yeah, the game is the same way. It needs to set everything up for the second act.
>>286645580Aside from Mayuri, all of them only exist for the middle pointless filler to let you get more attached to Kurisu and Mayuri before getting back to the actual plot. Their stories can only be appreciated by the kinds of people who buy fan discs.
>>286645646https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSGofD_BuH4
>>286644820>does it get better later?No.
>>286644820>he got filtered
>>286644820Is it bad that I was unable to finish Stein Gate’s 0? I really loved this one though
>>286644820drop it and read the vn. SGfags are retarded who pretend the anime isn't one of the most boring thing ever.
>>286645954SG0 is way too fucking long to suffer through for the payoff that woah it's a zero. Everything else about it is shit.
>>286645954Not really, S;G0 is awful.
>>286645994>>286646008I never got this meme. SG 0 is great and adds a lot to Okabe's story and the alternate timeline.
>>286645646There are many main characters better than Okabe. Lelouch and Kaiji just off the top of my head and I'm sure there are plenty of others.
Why was Daru such a fat fuck
>>286645994And for that matter, the rest of SciADV is garbage. Chaos;Head is the best setup and atmosphere of all, and it really holds up for a while, but ultimately doesn't go anywhere. Chaos;Child is higher budget but much much worse. Robotics;Notes not only goes nowhere but this time it also starts nowhere. I'd be shocked if Occultic;Nine or Anonymous;Code aren't shit.It sure would be tragic if any of these got adaptations, right?
>>2866459540 got a shit adaptation. The different routes feed into the overall plot as you unlock more endings, so you really do have to go through the source material to appreciate it.
>>286644820Unironically it gets better in the last 1-2 episodes only. Everything else was average quality at most.
>>286644820No, the first 11 episodes are the best.
>>286646291It amazes me some of you even made it that far when all you know how to do is complain.
>>286646343And then all the rest of you know how to do is act contrarian on literally everything. Fuck all of you are retarded.
>>286646287The problem with the zero VN is the big nothing ending. It basically ends on "you know how this ended in the original" rather than having a satisfying conclusion of its own.
>>286646191Chaos;Child is pretty decent though. It's the closest thing to a return to form for the series before things just got bad again.
>>286644820The slow start rewards you more than probably any anime I've ever seen that had a slow start. The final 12 episodes make it a 9/10 for me despite the slow start. It's fucking worth it.
>>286646421>It basically ends on "you know how this ended in the original" rather than having a satisfying conclusion of its own.That's called being a time travel story.
>>286646421It ended as well as it possibly could have as a prequel and it's got 0 in the title so you know what you're getting into. What did you expect?
>>286646191Anonymous;Code is fairly different from the others. It's very plot focused. No slice of life there (or routes for the girls), it's from the start running on the conspiracy train, with a secret organization trying to kill the main cast, and referencing stuff from the other VNs and just goes up from there.But... it's really the true definition of a cast that feels worth nothing. I really wonder what people who complain about the cast of the other SciADV VNs would say about A;C's cast.
>>286644820it’s insanely overrated as babby’s first animu, and very dated not in the good sense either. Time travel is an automatic red flag.also very telling that real vnfags never mention this MALge in discussions, if there was any anime that could rightfully be called “reddit” steins gate would be the sole posterchild, if not for gintama and brotherhood existing
>>286646494SG is full of non characters who are also annoying so the other cast should be better if they aren't annoying
>>286646460I thought it at least would have followed the stuff with Okabe going to time travel after Mayuri. I thought they were setting that up exactly to have some kind of climax in Zero that wouldn't just be repeating the original climax. But then that's all left to happen off-screen, and it just ends telling you that the ending of the original Steins;Gate was about to happen. It felt really underwhelming when I was finishing it.
>>286646551>SG is full of non charactersI don't even know what to say to this. You're just retarded or not even paying attention to the story.
>>286646595steins;tards are the most pathetic fanbase on the site, potentially rivaling dragonknight07 cultists in sheer delusion
>>286646565Anon, the game starts right at the end of the original except without a magic d-mail from 20 years in the future and takes place in the months and years ahead. Hell, that elapsed time becomes a plot point iirc.
>>286646595hating every character in the show besides 1-2 doesnt seem like an unpopular opinion
>>286646191Underrating Robotics Notes a bit there.
>>286646647>doesnt seem like an unpopular opinionBut it certainly is a stupid one, and continues to be stupid no matter how many or how few people say it.
hamasaki is probably the greatest anime director
>>286646678Never heard of him.
>>286646675seems to be pretty true though
>>286646535>Big Bang Theory comparisonYikes.
>>286644820Keep going, by the end it will likely be a top 5 anime of all time for you.
>>286645065This, Kurisu is peak waifu.
>>286646825That would be true if Suzuha didn't exist
>>286644820S;G is not a bad show, but I didn't care for it much at all. It doesn't have the spark for me even when it got more into the thriller parts later on.
>>286646636I was talking about the end of Zero there, where Zero Mayuri was lost in the past due to a malfunctioning time machine. And Okabe was setting up a way to go after her while also sending the message to his younger self that sets up the original Steins Gate finale. I thought the stuff was with Mayuri was being done to give Zero a climax of its own, but then that's left to be solved off-screen (although they do mention Okabe has a time machine and would go after her, after sending the message to the past).It wouldn't really matter in practical terms since that worldline would change, but it'd allow Zero to have a real ending, rather than just saying it's over and you should go back to the original.
>>286646940Oh yeah, fair point. I don't that invalidates anything else about 0 but that totally should've gotten more focus with how esoteric it was in the original and showing the cause.
>>286644820It doesn't get better.
>>286644820How about you watch it first and then you can make a thread about it?
>>286646647That's me, I really only liked Faris and hated everyone else.
>>286647342If you don't get Okabe you don't get the story.
>>286644820You're already at the best part of the show, it's only going to get more and more retarded the more the time travel plot gets revealed
>>286644820Yes, its a slow burn but if you don’t like the characters and their relationships with each other at this point then you could drop it.
>>286644820Reddit series.
>>286644820Some people like the twist and you could do that but then other people don't like it after the twist they're fagsALL of them are mechafags angry that patricians prefer a good time travel story
>>286644820The first half is a slog. You can push through to the end but I don't think it's worth it.
>>286645603>generic moeblob>best character And the other aren't much better.
>>286644820It gets worse when you get to Steins Gate 0.
>>286647768It's such a shame how far the series has gone downhill. So many shit spinoffs and sidequels just to milk the series as much as possible.
>>286644949No that's when the story goes full retard
>>286644820It doesn't stop being boring
>>286644820You'll want a Christina gf by the end
>>286644820It stays bad throughout, the reason it's bad just changes.
The beginning is unironically the best part.It doesn't get better.
>>286644820Why don't you watch it and find out?
>>286644820Steins;Gate? More likeShits;GayReddit;GateDog;ShitBoring;&LameForced;DramaFor;Gays
>>286644820It's great from the very beginning. Only low IQ retards and normalfags hate the first half.
>>286645065Kurisu really is the pinnacle of anime hotties.
>>286645065She is so fucking cute
>>286644820No, it sometimes gets even worse
>>286649261It’s shits;gay not a Mallarme poem. Low IQ retards and normalfags swarm to this slop, hell, even the VN which is better in every conceivable way is slop.
>>286644820Keep watching.
>>286644820Rintaro and Kurisu replaces the main couple of the last non-Science Adventure series you watched.What kind of hilarity would ensue?
>>286653001>Kurisu gets raped by wormsCool very cool
>>286644820It's not the worst thing ever but I don't think S;G ever becomes better than mid at any point.
>>286644820You are 15 years too late for this train OP
If you aren't entranced by Okabe saying a bunch of chuuni sounding shit then S;G becomes so fucking boring to watch.
>>286645204N-no -LOSION?
>>286646191>Chaos;Head is the best setup and atmosphere of all, and it really holds up for a while, but ultimately doesn't go anywhere.This is objectively false as the game neatly ties up all plot threads by the end and it is thematically consistent.>Chaos;Child is higher budget but much worseI am inclined to agree simply for the fact that the character routes add nothing of value. But the true end is good enough to make up for it.Chaos;Child just doesn't know how to properly use the delusion triggers and its unique map mechanic is completely underutilized to the point it might as well not exist. It's completely wasted potential.The great thing about C;H was that you really couldn't tell when you were looking at "reality" and when you were looking at a delusion. Sometimes you did not realize when the delusion branch rejoined the common path and you were left wondering how much was actually real and how much was actually just in your head.Chaos;Child never had any of those delusion triggers even though that was the strongest point of Chaos;Head's common route.You can also tell that C;H was written by one writer while C;C had multiple writers who went off to do their own thing. Most of the character routes in C;C are completely inconsequential, and if you look closely, are just imitations of C;H's concepts. There is no originality in it.I still like C;C though. The common and true end are amazing.
>>286646940>It wouldn't really matter in practical terms since that worldline would changeIt does matter because if Okabe is alive on 0's world line, his Reading Steiner would be the point of view for the story.Which means that he would suddenly find himself on the Steins Gate Word Line without memory of how things played out between 2010 and the future.He removed himself from the world by going into the past so that Okabe in 2010 would be the one whose point of view the Reading Steiner follows.
>>286644820S;G is legitimately awful, the people who shill it are delusional and easily charmed by otaku pandering and the characters going to maid cafes.
Steins;Gate 0 is probably the biggest mistake this series could've ever made.
>>286655525It's a shameless cashgrab. The novels were enough to cover the story, there was no need to make a game out of it. It doesn't even really work as a game. And the anime is even worse.It's an adaption (anime) of an adaption (game) of a novel.And I'm still mad they canceled the manga after announcing the game.
>>286644820S;G is overhyped imo. It's okay but not great.
>>286655525The spinoffs have all been really bad. At this point I honestly think the creators are not good writers, anything good that they have written was basically by accident and luck.
Chaos;Head is still better.
>>286657750That's because Chaos;Head was a do-or-die gamble for all involved.It's a bunch of guys who got together after their previous company went under. They had to do something great to survive.MAGES. should just implode at this point so they're forced to make something good again.
>>286644820Suzuha is best girl and I don't think you've seen too much of her yet.
>>286644820>Reddit Gate
>>286657904That's really just how it works, you can only be truly inspired under pressure I guess.
>>286644820Personally I dropped it because the MC was too frustrating. I feel like the writer intended him to be charismatic but he came off as so hateable instead.
>>286644820>does it get better later?No
>>286659144>I feel like the writer intended him to be charismaticThat's not the intention. Okabe is meant to contrast with Takumi, the protagonist of 5pb.'s previous work.They're both chuuni but in different directions. Whereas Takumi's delusions go inwards, Okabe's go outwards. Takumi is a loner who has nobody but online friends, whereas Okabe has a solid friend circle.You have to keep in mind that the S;G anime is just a (bad) adaption of a game and that the game itself is part of a series.And the protagonists of this series are abnormal on purpose.
>>286644820It´s called build up and yes, it´s absolutely essential for the show to work because of how world line switching works.
>>286645065>generic boring tsunderePass.
>>286645065>tfw no channer gf to partake in synchronized shitposting with
>>286644820It gets better but the payoff wasn't good enough to make up for the slowness and weaknesses in the story.
EL
>>286645646Okabe is garbage as a main character, he actively makes the show worse at every turn.
Where did this stupid idea that the first episodes are slow even come from? Episode 1 sprints through the prologue loop with all sorts of details that confirm time travel is already happening before even getting to the big reveals of shifting world lines, noticing the mail was sent back in time, and seeing Kurisu at the end of the episode. The next few episodes are equally fast paced, introducing most of the cast and locations before spinning off down the path of the Titor-hacking-zellyman report plot that contains within it a complete foreshadowing of the suffering Okabe will face in the specific form of Mayuri being cut out, as is made clear by the framing of the scene where they first open the human is dead message, a moment that had been built up throughout the episode as a turning point about which Mayuri felt uncomfortable while emphasizing her importance to Okabe. There are all the clues about Suzuha's identity, the introduction of Okabe meddling in Kurisu's daddy issue, and all the other scenes that fill out the main plot of each episode.
>>286644820>does it get better later?Not really.
>>286644820I can't get over how ugly Daru is.
>>286644820It only gets better if you like the characters, I didn't like them and finishing the show was a waste of time
>>286664459For a character who is central to the plot they really should've done more than just make Mayuri into an empty moeblob character.
>>286665234Her and Daru are just plot devices
>>286644820Steins;Gate isn't a bad show but the fanbase is full of genuinely insufferable people.
>>286645065Too bad there are no redheads like this in real life.
>>286665417>Steins;Gate isn't a bad showThis is the only part of your post that's wrong
>>286644820It starts slow and then gets better
>>286665234Most of the characters were garbage, for 12 episodes of only buildup they could've done a lot more.
>>286644820>does it get better later?It gets worse unironically once you start getting into the weeds of the time travel plot. which ends up being kind of a contrived mess.
It's a show that is good from the first episodeHamasaki's directing immediately hooked me, and I liked it so much that it led me to his other show Texhnolyze which became my fave anime
>>286665632I don't understand why Kurisu Mayuri and Daru got no character development after all that time spent on slice of life hijinks. It seems like an oversight.
>>286665801
>>286665801Texhnolyze is a way better anime than this.
>>286644820It's a top tier anime by the end, why can't you people just be patient for once?
>>286644820I'm not a fan of Steins;Gate at all but you could do to give it a few more episodes. At that point drop it if it isn't catching you, despite what fans say the story is not a guaranteed hit, it wasn't for me.
>>286665925There's no need to be patient, the first episode is great and incredibly fast paced. It's like if someone complained about NGE starting slow...that's just a hopeless retard.
>>286644820I bought this last Christmas but I haven't got the chance to play it.What am I in for?
>>286666190>What am I in for?Depends entirely on your attention span and IQ
>Chaos;Head is goodCan someone tell me what the fuck is going on here?I remember that the general consensus back in the 2010s was endless praise for Steins;Gate while Chaos;Head was reviled, more often than not completely ignored like some embarrassing past gaffe.Personally I loved the concept but hated the execution (Takumi is literally me) but that's just me.Are we seeing a critical re-evaluation of the works? What is going on here?
>>286666389I don't think 4chan is representative of the visual novel/anime fanbase as a whole so it's probably your imagination. Personally though I always liked Chaos;Head and thought it was a lot better than Steins;Gate.
>>286666235I dropped Danganronpa V3, does that make me high IQ or low IQ? I did enjoy D1 and D2 but V3 for some reason bored me
>>286665925>It's a top tier anime by the endThis is just not true, S;G gets better later on for sure but it's no masterpiece by any means.
>>286666389He had a perfect real imaginary girlfriend and he just threw her away.
>>286644820Steins;Gate is overrated.
>>286665632And every character who isn't one dimensional is annoying as sin. I don't know how people stand it.
>>286666529Low IQ
>>286644820It's a good show because my wife Suzuha is in it.
>>286666839I stuck with S;G because I liked Faris and to this day she is the only redeeming thing about the story.
>>286644820I don't know why people always hype this dogshit series when the plot is so stupid it's frustrating. It has probably the most contrived timeloop I've ever seen.
>>286666529High IQ
>>286667182It's because they like the transgender representation and finally feel included since that character is just like them.
>>286645204>Implying a lack of explosions is the only reason why S;G is boring
>>286644820Drop it and go watch something good instead.
>>286667375Something good like what, contrarian?
>>286667445Frieren mogs this
>>286667488lol
>>286644820Keep watching
>>286667299There is no trans character in Steins;Gate.The character in question is male or female in different timelines. They are not trans.
Okay but Mayuri is very cute and good with cuddles. Have any of you ever thought about that?
>>286666190>Spending money on visual novels
>>286667553>A rose by any other nameExactly, they are trans.
Okabe is one of the most annoying protagonists of all time
>>286667445Re:Zero > Steins;Gate
>>286644820Am I the only one that liked Moeka?
>>286644820Surprisingly, it gets worse instead.
>>286662857People who complain about the S;G anime being slow aren't comparing it with the VN, they're complaining about the lack of deaths/direct visible threat in the early episodes. Character introduction is obviously considered "slow" content in this case.
>>286662857If this is supposed to be fast I shudder to think of what a slog the s;g visual novel must be.
>>286667840>>286667882You people just have too low attention span to get it. That's common these days.
>>286668034Or maybe it's a real flaw with this show and not just something you can easily wave off?
>>286667699Subaru for all his flaws is a way more interesting character than anyone in s;g so I agree with this.
>>286668296I could forgive s;g if the slow buildup led towards something interesting but it just becomes the most straightforward time loop plot possible.
>>286668296Steins;Gate fags are just embarrassing with how elitist they act all the time
>>286668683Or the real issue is you refusing the give the show a fair chance and being too quick to complain and lose your patience with everything?
>>286668746Maybe one of you can admit that the show isn't perfect instead of complaining about IQ and attention spans in some attempt to dismiss everything anyone says?
>>286668746Don't be so quick to complain about people complaining.
>>286644820It gets good maybe around episode 12 or 14 or so
>>286668296It's something only the dumbest subhumans think is a flaw
>>286668927S;G spends 12 episodes on tiresome build up and it doesn't even lead to anything that amazing. Yes that's a flaw.
>>286669026No you're just a contrarian retard
>>286669068>retardThat's Steins;Gate fans.
>>286669143That's you which is why you're a friendless cunt that clings to life by trolling
>>286644820You got filtered by the part where the plot and character development are happening
The Luka plotline is so weird in the context of 2026 now.
>>286644820It never stops being boring if you've already watched a time travel show before this one.
>>286669203While you're all clinging to a mid at best anime from 15 years ago? As if that's not just sad.
>>286669266Another S;G arc that aged badly
Steins;Gate is boring as fuck. I don't get why it became so popular.
>>286669744Otaku pandering and cute girls. Those are the only good things I see about it.
>>286666389People have always loved Chaos;Head and actively encouraged everyone interested to play the game.That's how I remember it being in 2012 at least, it's when the Robotics;Notes anime came out and I first got into Science Adventure.
>>286666583Thankfully Love Chu Chu is canon and reconciles this into endless delusional threesomes between his real and imaginary girlfriend.Also cosplay sex with the little sister barging in.
So did they do it or not?
>>286672096>kissanime
>>286644820The show is shit
>>286644820The slow first half makes it good unless you got spoiled. Watching up to episode 13 is amazing if you don't know anything.
>>286661358PSY
>>286672596KONG
>>286646053SG;0 fucking sucks, beyond the adaptation being shit the base narrative itself is also terribad, and for some fucking reason one of the MOST successful and popular anime OF ALL TIME gets an anime sequel that looked THAT SHIT?
>>286644820the beginning is kind of shit as well as the middle, and the end is a bit bad but the rest is good
I liked S;G overall, but I can't understand why the fuck they didn't just write it so the mail was sent to Luka's mom before she got pregnantcause holy shit, vegetable sex change is an awful plot point
>>286662857zoomers are unable to grasp that a mystery show builds up the mystery (before it becomes a drama)
>>286667773Moeka sucks, never liked her.
>>286673985It's not much of a mystery
>>286674112still is one is the thingif anything buildup is a good thing for the adaptation's pacing
I want to fuck Moeka
>>286644949This, ignore the brainlet seethers
>Epigraph of the Closed Curve was beloved>S;G0 is reviledWhat happened?
>>286644820Steins gate is shit.
Okabe is too annoying, his attitude ruins the whole show for me
>>286644820S;G is only good because of the hot girls. There isn't really anything else remarkable about it.
>>286644820It gets better. The anime is pretty good, it's just the fanbase that sucks and ruins everything for others.
>>286644820Watch it for kurisu at least.
>>286675619Epigraph was part of a trilogy of a linear story, the 0 VN rewrote everything to be branching paths.Then the 0 anime came and somehow mixed those branching paths into one story and completely destroyed it in the process.
>>286667699Based opinion
>>286665801>his other show that has the slowest pace of any anime ever
>>286678102Kurisu's character design is the only redeeming thing about the show.
>>286644820>Is it normal to find this anime to be really slow at the beginning?This is normal yes.>I'm currently on episode 4 but does it get better later?That depends on the person. Usually it does. But for me it didn't get better.
>>286644820I was getting bored of SG early on too and I wish I'd just dropped it.
>>286649645Her shorts are too short.And her stockings are always sweaty.
>>286644820Drop it and watch Tatami Galaxy instead.
>>286667773Yes, S;G has maybe 1 good character and that's it. And it's not fucking Moeka.
>>286644820Why were the characters in this show all so retarded? Is it really that hard to not do stupid things with a time machine?
>>286644820It depends on how much you end up liking Okabe. He does go through a bit of change for whatever it's worth.
They don't even do anything that intresting with the time machine. >Go to the past, to another era? No>Meet a historical figure from JapanNo>Change someone's sex, YesMessed up priorities.
>>286644820Sex with Mayuri
>2+ day old S;G ritualthreadEnglish mystery VNs on Steam from the past few years:>Beyond R: Rule Ripper>Birth ME Code >Blankspace>Bound Between Desks>Clean Slate>CORPSE FACTORY>Decide 4 God (Out now in full 1.0)>Detective Instinct: Farewell, My Beloved>The Divine Deception>Entropic Float: This World Will Decay And Disappear>The Game of Fourtune>Head AS Code (remake)>Look Inside>Methods: The Canada Files>Methods: The Detective Competition>The Price of Flesh>Quantum Suicide>Reaplaced>Shards of Chaos>The Specters Desire>SYNESTHESIA>Thief's Roulette>Whispering Memories>The Zodiac TrialEnglish mystery VNs on Steam that are to-be-released:>The Lost Delinquents of Rollings High>NO MORE WORK FOR ITO>Ubel>Underground22>The Wonderland Killings
>>286684550no one cares about vns
>>286683354He becomes a bit more self aware but I still disliked Okabe and most of the other characters by the end.
>>286685367Okabe learns basically nothing from his ordeal and doesn't even stop being a chuuni retard.
>>286644820Yes, keep watching
>>286685516>noo you can't be a chuuni retard you need to be a normalfagdeal with it normie
>>286681266>Her shorts are too short.Never in my life have I seen a more outrageous lie.
>>286644820It started out OK but soon I felt like I was watching something that went like:"Fuck ! I'll have to go back in time to the time before I went back in time to that reality where I stop myself from stopping myself from going back in time to go back in time into THAT reality!...and all the while, he had a dead girl decomposing on his floor...The good stuff: Some of it was genuinely funny when required and it was also one of the first sources of any kind if critical examination into the activies of CERN (who are now viewed with the deepest suspicion even by normies, but at this point, the mainstream media thought they could do no wrong) albeit in the form of satire.Proceed with caution as it may test your patience.
>>286644820If you're expecting them to do anything interesting with the time travel you'll be disappointed
It's just a time loop with chunni trope characters, i dont get why it's so beloved and in high regard.
>>286667445Watch any other kind of sci-fi other than time travel slop and it will be better than SG.
>>286644820If you aren't an easily filtered idiot like some of the posters here, it starts getting really good in the second half.
>>286677402PSY
>>286644820It's hard to sympathize with what happens in the story because it's basically caused by the main character doing really stupid things with the time machine (or more accurately letting other people do really stupid things with it)
>>286645983>drop it and read the vn.He's going to drop it faster than the anime
>>286645954At least you didn't waste time reading the VN. One of those works that retroactively denigrates the previous product.
>accidentally watched steins gate 0 instead of steins gate thinking it was the latter>found it incredibly gay and retardedAlmost ruined the whole thing for me
>>286689943>found it incredibly gay and retardedThat's the whole series to be honest
>>286644820I love Mayuri
>>286644820For some reason fans of this show act really obnoxious.
>>286644820Luka is the only half decent character, if you aren't enjoying it just drop.
>>286692296It's the redditor's choice of favorite anime
>>286692558>trap whose only personality is being a trap>good character
>>286693154Fine, so S;G has no good characters then.
>>286686822More like you need some kind of character development for the cast, which is almost completely absent from Steins;Gate as a whole.
>>286644820It gets a bit better partway through, and then it gets worse again.
>>286693692Okabe develops. Why do you need more? The cast is great already.
When the side characters are better than the main characters : the anime.
>>286644949Yeah, the slow beginning was the good part. Everything after Mayuri died was actually kinda boring.
play the vn and forget the anime
>>286689282EYY SEXY LADY
>>286695428>Okabe developsNo he doesn't. He gets serious, and then he reverts back at the end.>The cast is great already.No they're not.
>>286701815Yeah I don't get the praise for the cast when practically everyone is a cardboard cutout with maybe 1 or 2 personality traits
>>286644820It gets better, but the issue is it just doesn't get better enough fast enough.
>>286645065Kurisu is so damn boring as a character
>>286644820>Shits;Gay
>>286689282Congroo
>>286699940Huke peaked here
>>286644820S;G is never better than just average at any point imo. It's overhyped as a time travel story if you've watched anything like Primer before.
>>286703273the ending is also embarrassingly convenient and bordering on deus ex machina.
>>286645453>great animeOP didn't post one.
>>286644820Literally the best episode is the suzuha one everything else is boring, contrived, or just bad.
>>286644820The original S;G is good but the series has been completely ruined with everything from S;G 0 onwards. In that sense you shouldn't bother with it.
>>286688155If you want a good time travel show you should watch Dark, not this.
>>286644820Yes, it's kino.
>>286644820S;G is only impressive if you're a teenager. I strongly suspect anime watchers were mostly younger back then and that's the reason why they wrongly think S;G and Code Geass were masterpieces.
>>286710204Between the two Code Geass is actually good and still holds up.
>>286645123This, why would you make a slow burn story but then not do anything useful characterwise with the slow burn?
>>286710204It took me several attempts to even be able to stomach the cringe when I watched it as a teenager like 12 years ago
>>286645382Even if you don't have adhd it's still boring.
>>286711564I watched it all in one go but this was back when I would always finish an anime and never drop anything. These days I would've dropped it for sure.
>>286710204Code Geass has a great character in Lelouch and one of the best anime endings of all time. Steins;Gate wishes it could be Geass.
>>286644820I didn't like it but fact of the matter is SG is very highly rated and well liked in general. You should probably just try and finish it. And if you don't like it you get to complain about it like I do.
>>286644820Only shitholes like Reddit and MAL still cling on to this show at this point, just drop it.
>>286708875Any of the good wester time travel shows do a better job at the actual time travel aspect than SG.
>>286644820It becomes decent by the end but I don't think you're missing anything that great if you drop it.
>>286713797Basically this. S;G was a 7/10 anime, decent but not memorable.
Daru and Okabe are such annoying retards in this show
>>286644820Re:Zero is better
>>286644949>Lying to OP
>>286665801>It's a show that is good from the first episodeActually insane that SGfags seriously believe this
>>286714276This is one of those anime where every single part of it gets overrated by its fanbase, even nonsense parts like claiming the first episode is a masterpiece
>>286644820>Reddit;Gate
>>286645382I don't have ADHD and it sucks anyways
>>286644820I fell for everyone circlejerking this anime so much years ago. It's not that good.
>>286714137lol no it's not.
The second half of this anime is the definition of forced plot.
>>286714329Yeah the show overall is okay but gets dragged down massively by the first half being shit.
>>286714620It is. Subaru > Okabe.
>>286644820It doesn't get better OP
>>286714669The whole reason why Mayuri is forced to die is just complete writing hackery. It's so stupid. Why does she get hit by a train for no reason?
>>286714513SG fags can't handle that trvke
Why didn't Okabe just not give the time machine to everyone around him?
>>286707015As far as time travel stories go Primer is amazing but too complicated for 90% of people to understand.Steins;Gate is right at that level where it's complex, but everyone can understand it if they pay attention. And the amount of logical inconsistencies isn't too bad if we're just talking about the original series.
>>286715185Okabe is fucking retarded.
>>286715228It still feels like there's too much handwaving in the way some of the time travel aspects are justified, or rather not justified.
>>286715185Dumb things had to happen for the plot, please understand
>>286714548For me it was a solid 6/10. Pretty mediocre sadly.
>>286713981>Character's entire personality is being an annoying chuuni>Other character's personality is being a gross otaku pervIt's shit.
>>286714620Re:Zero has like 1-2 good characters while I struggled to find anyone in S;G worth caring about
>>286690544Not the original S;G is good. It's just that from 0 onwards was so bad to the point of being series ruining.
Okay but have you considered that Mayuri is cute and huggable? And that you probably have shit taste?
>>286644820It never stops feeling sluggish if that's what you're wondering.
>>286645065Literally nobody in this anime is an interesting character, not even Kurisu.
>>286715185This show is the definition of an idiot plot. It doesn't work unless everyone is retarded.I would even be able to forgive this if half of the cast wasn't supposed to be intelligent.
>>286715727Shit taste is the people who think this show is a masterpiece. Liking it is still fine though.
>>286644820It's shit, don't bother
>>286644820It doesn't get much better. The story has maybe one interesting part in the second half and the rest is slop.
I like Kurisu a lot but honestly the show itself isn't that remarkable.
>>286715727thats like every anime girl ever though its kind of a low bar
>>286644820Almost as overrated as Frieren
>>286715185>>286716000>>286715396Mayuri/Kurisu would still die.
>>286644820I can't speak to the objective quality of SG but personally I didn't care for it. It's very highly rated though for whatever that's worth.
>>286644820It's a cool thriller but it's weird that it's highly rated if you think about it. Who is that keeps rating anime too high to bait contrarians?
>>286725443I don't think anyone is trying to bait anything using ratings, the anime is just overrated in general.
>>286726084>is just overrated in generalSo just like the visual novel then.
>>286644820>does it get betterNot really
>>286726243Muamasa is the better VN and it's not close.
Steins;Gate would've been good if it had decent characters. As it is now it's just a glorified harem with some waifus who have surface level appeal at most.
>>286726664This
>reading through this whole threadOh no no Steinskeks...
>>286726698I'm surprised at how many fans the S;G girls have because all of them are quite shallow personality wise.
>>286726664Holy based
>>286726698That's why I still like Re:Zero much more. Better characters and better emotional moments.
Kurisu is so sexy
>>286726698I dunno even if they have better characters the plot would still be kinda lame>Oh no its a John titor call for the fifth time>Oh it's beta okabe vs alpha okabe>Oh this character keeps dying because of some alpha point established before it's born.
>>286644820everyone sucks this shit off to no end so i genuinely tried to give it a chance, but even after 9 episodes it was just unbearable slop. >hurr durr, its gets better after 12i sincerely doubt that, and having 12 straight garbage episodes with a garbage foundation is an irredeemable mar on anything. anyone that praises this show instantly flag themselves as having shit taste and isnt to be trusted.
>>286728259People completely forget about how bad the beginning parts are because of the big halfway twist and ending. But I always thought S;G was overrated because of that, the beginning parts are important too and making the story a slog makes it a lot worse overall.
To be honest it almost feels like the anime /vn biggest strength ironically makes it it's bigger problem for many.Like the setting for example they are going for the otaku akiba thing but ironically that limits the scope of the plot and characters,possible interactions, and what they do with the time machine significantly.
>>286728903That’s a problem for a loud minority of shitposters. Most people don’t set weird expectations on media and understand easily that the story is making a choice in focusing on these characters, in that place, with those dynamics that informs the tone and themes. Rabid contrarians are just incredibly dumb but since they are addicted to shitposting they come back every day to whine about popular things.
>>286728903I was expecting them to do something a lot more interesting with time travel, it was a pretty big letdown that they just did the most generic thing possible which is the timeloop dilemma thing plus going back to the beginning of the story cliche.
>>286729457>I was expectingYou can immediately dismiss anyone who says this as a worthless retard
>>286729457The most interesting thing with the time travel happened in zero, when okabe goes to future in Promised Rinascimento and it wasn't even that long.Most of the old anime / game is just Okabe just going like 5 minutes to the past and it all happens in the same street in akiba.
>>286729501Not my fault your anime ended up being a letdown.
>>286729527It’s entirely your fault for being a retard and making the same shitposts every day. When you finally kill yourself we will notice the end of this endless contrarian idiocy immediately since the only consistent thing you do in life is spam this board.
>>286644820It gets better but it's really not that good of a show for the most part except maybe one or two standout scenes.
>>286729522Time travel stories were better when they actually time traveled to different eras and did imaginative things like back to the future. S;G time travel feels like it has no soul or creativity.
>>286729711Exactly why that part of zero where okabe goes to ww3 was kino.Unironically the best part of zero and it was like 2 episodes.
>>286729600You're here complaining about shitposts while Steins;Gate is an over 10 year old show and its fans are still here and being insufferable as ever
>>286729501There's nothing wrong with expecting certain things out of a show like expecting it to be good or expecting it to be interesting.
>>286729857You’re too dumb to have expectations>>286729771Almost like /a/ has always loved Steins;Gate and only newfag tourists are behind the endless contrarian shitposting
>>286729857Or at least I'm expecting it to not be the same plot that I've already seen before except with bonus annoying MC.
>>286644820This series would probably be better if you replaced okabe with someone that's not a pussy.Seriously for all the Kyoma and tough guy talk he gets scared with messing with time for the most little things just see the lottery scene.They literally have a time machine nobody knows and they use it to change a cosplay cafe or give veggies to Ruka's mother because muh rukako feels sad about being a shrine boy.
>>286730040>why isn’t this character drama a power fantasy instead!?
>>286730212Why doesn't okabe just say no?Does he really need to grant Ruka wishes or the cat girl one?What a waste of talent.
>>286730040Unironically I even respect Subaru more than Okabe, and Subaru whines a whole lot.
>>286730293Oh wait, is it just impossible for you to understand characters with friends because you have no experience with that sort of thing?Suddenly I have a bit more perspective on the sort of contrarian retards who spam this board
Only okabe who was not pussy was the deus ex machina one
>>286684550All of these? Better than Shitsu;Gayte~
>>286646796>Keep going, by the end it will likely be a top 5 anime of all time for youlol not even close.
>>286730393It's amazing how pretentious Steins;Gate fans get over this mediocre garbage.
>>286734166The fanbase has always been like that since 2011
>>286734166Are you going to respond to his question?
>>286644820The ending of episode 9 is one of the best moments in anime. But now that I've told you that, you can never experience it properly.That aside, the constant bickering between Okabe and Kurisu is peak. Best anime relationship ever.
>>286734166Is this the new response whenever a stupid criticism gets shut down? >y-you're one of the evil glazers
>>286734605None of us has yet experienced that scene properly because it becomes more significant every year.
>>286734495Nope
Steins gate is just a comfy time traveling show with a classic payoff.It's kinda crazy no single other anime has done it properly
Kuristina...!
>>286736318>no single other anime >>286718103Mirai Nikki surpasses S;G
>>286736318I like how Re:Zero does it more.
>>286644820It gets a bit better later on, when the plot stuff starts kicking in.
>>286736557Based and true
>>286644820It gets better but it's still 6/10 as a whole, you can do a lot better than watching this
This show has zero good characters.
>>286646678>hamasaki is probably the greatest anime directorHe's not because S;G and Texhnolyze are both shit
>>286645453The absolute state of /a/
>>286734605>The ending of episode 9 is one of the best moments in animeIt's a stupid moment because none of the characters should've allowed Faris to use the time machine without telling anyone what she was doing in the first place. It's just such a contrived plot that requires everyone to do the stupidest things possible for this moment to even happen.
>>286644820S;G is overrated shit just like Monster.
>>286736318S;G isn't even the best time travel anime.
>>286644820this shit was so assokabe can't even do anything with the time machine because its all predetermined and the solution just falls into his lap with a deus ex machina
>>286744816Correct, that would be Link Click
>>286726084>the anime is just overrated in general.Who overrated it? Are they in the room?
>>286744856>Link ClickFinally there's at least one good anime in this thread.
>>286744856>>286738034>>286736557All shit, try again
>>286644820It's pretty boring
>>286746373All of those are better than S;G easily.
>>286750643They literally aren't. In what way are they better?
Baby's first time travel story
>>286750889At least Mirai Nikki was fun unlike this shit.
I don’t get the hype. It was regular good, a textbook 7/10.
>>286645165>The characters have a lot of depth to themWhere is this depth exactly? I didn't see any sign of it.
