Steins;Gate / Steins;Gate 0
Episodes: 47 ( Season 1: 24, Season 2: 23)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller, Suspense
Theme: Time Travel, Psychological
Rating: ★★★★★★★★★★
Steins; Gate is a pretty slow-paced but well-written time-travel anime with a lot of twists and turns. As you know, time travel is a complicated concept, many shows and movies have tried but to me, nothing has conceptualized it beautifully as Steins; Gate.
We follow our main character, a self-proclaimed mad scientist who's crazy about inventions and time travel. We were introduced to his funny characteristics and his relationship with his friends.
They tackled the complicated laws, the intertwined process with the timeline, and the paradoxes. There are lots of key terms that will help us understand as we proceed with the show.
Aside from the sci-fi part of the anime, they amazingly crafted characters and their arcs. Many reviews indicate that the first 12 episodes were really slow and it will be peaking from that. But to me, it establishes the characters, their thought process, and the dynamics with each other.
It may be hard to follow the story at times but every moment becomes really interesting when they started to reveal things one by one.
Each character has enough airtime base on different things, they have specific roles that magnify the whole story.
The first season provides us with the horror of the concept of time travel, this show made me realize how destructive time travel is, and how the government will definitely try chasing the machine or its concept. How a time-traveler will impact the world massively by altering the past.
The second season is interestingly crafted as well, it tackles the alternative timeline away from the first season. It exalts key moments from the first season and shows us what happens if our character proceeds with a different timeline. We will totally understand the decisions made, specifically the impact. It changes the character on how he views things and his priorities have changed.
My takeaway:
As cool as it sounds, time travel is a crazy idea that can be really dangerous. It affects tons of people. the world and even your sanity. There are lots of paradoxes that can blow our minds. But above that, this show somehow stands on being satisfied with what we have now.
The story's goal is to go back in time when time travel has not been invented yet. It undoes the consequences of messing with time.
Life is intended to move forward, what we encounter, the good and the bad, the people and relationships, is part of the experience. It's the law of nature. We can only advance.
It subtly discusses that we should live by our decisions and not take for granted the time that we have now. To live with every moment knowing that we can never go back.
//Steins;Gate
//sebajisoka
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