
Steins;Gate
a review by DGInsomnia

a review by DGInsomnia
Friend's 10/10 review
main character and his character progression as he mentally goes crazy and struggles with trying to cope and still succeed
and with the good comedy moments in the show
and interesting characters that keep the premise interesting
and the kyouma x christina interactions were great
and the way the plot developed and all connected and how they did everything was just very good
only common complaint is the first few episodes being slow
but it picks up and its just intense all the way
My 2/10 Review
Main character dumb af, takes nothing serious even when situations are serious. He is not a scientist, he's just there while other people do the work.
They have no reason to have a time machine, but okay fine its a key plot point. We can ignore how they built it.
He does not mentally go crazy he just has no idea what to do. Doesn't in ANY any way succeed. Watches his friend die dozens of times before asking for help. Doesn't even try to save Mayuri except lets run around the city in the same places.
Dont get how there is comedy, its just the guy talking to himself and acting like an asshole and everyone in the room putting up with his sht
He has friends because of Mayuri
Characters are not interesting, they are just there and created there for the plot and nothing else
Each character put there for a specific reason for 1 plot point
Mayuri put there so he can make friends
Kurisu put there cause she's the time travel knowledge person so now w/e dumb sht they do suddenly works cause "shes an expert"
Itaru put there to fulfil any tech or skill required task
Feris, Rukako, Moeka put there for the plot points
Moeka who has never killed anyone and can barely function socially becomes the person to lead a team to kill Mayuri and capture the characters
There was barely a plot in the story. All that happened was they randomly messed with time then there was consequences so he tries to revert the random sht they did.
Which is a baseless hypothesis. It's one thing to revert to go back to original world if that's their goal, but it was not. They were reluctant because it would undo what they've "wanted"
The reason for doing so was to save Mayuri. Ideally, there are so many other options to protect Mayuri or change the timeline to do so. I get that "Mayuri's death" is considered to be the 99% scenario, but they showed so little to protect her. All MC did was run around in the same areas like it was going to make a difference each time getting Mayuri killed. After dozens of incredibly dumb attempts, he finally asks the others for help and came up with the reverting hypothesis.
It's slow and does not pick up. These episode explanation below are not accurate, just estimates
The first like 15 episodes were just fillers, not much happening except with the 3-4 key plot scenarios
15-18 was just Mayuri dying and this idiot doing nothing about it before finally telling the others
18-20 reverting the stuff they did
20-24 the time travel plot that was incredibly dumb - also doesnt make sense and they are not on the main timeline
25 is just filler where he's dumb af till the end.
At a diner > Phone dies, no money > MC decides to walk through the desert > talks to himself blaming the organization like he always does for anything that goes wrong. Until the end, he does not progress or learn.
Also the flashback of Mayuri and Okabe from like 2000 years ago led to nothing. What was that even for. Yea she'd always be there for him, but what was the point of showing that timeline event
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