Just saw the Steins;Gate movie, exactly 11:55 pm on 27/10/2024. I am greatly fascinated by this Steins;Gate world, entire in itself, such a drama inter-woven, with suspense, and existence has wrapped you within it by making each curve its own turning point. This is only the second anime movie tied to a series I have seen without skipping a single moment of it. I allowed myself to get fully immersed and savor each scene all with its intricate details woven in between.

For me, a particularly powerful moment was how a line from Steins;Gate itself came full circle within the film. He would often mock Kurisu, saying "this wasn't my first kiss" in the series during the intimate exchange between them. It was satisfyingly satisfying to see that line play out to reveal Okabe's actual first kiss in the film. The film felt like it had completed a beautifully intricate knot that connected all the strands of their relationship, deepening its significance and making the entire sequence feel like an inevitable fate.

The concept of the infinite loop or cycle by time is hauntingly beautiful to the narrative. Every timeline, despite the diverging paths, seems to reconnect to the Steins Gate worldline that casts an almost tragic shadow on the story. It is also very interesting to see how another character attempts to time leap and, besides Okabe himself, try to venture in time travel. That one scene of a young Okabe who dies as the Kurisu gets back to Steins Gate timeline really drives home the constant torture that Okabe had to undergo. Even for one instance of seeing Okabe die, was shattering for Kurisu, who is rational and cool-headed. Meanwhile we have our resilient yet broken Hououin Kyouma who endured this torture hundreds of times where Mayuri died over and over with each failed attempt. This sequence showed much mental strength and resilience from him, though he was already deeply scarred by Mayuri's first death. Hououin Kyouma isn't resilient; he is GOAT, the unsung hero who fought against time itself.

Eerie and yet somehow realistic was how the movie was able to portray déjà vu as a symptom of time travel: memories from other timelines subtly overlapping and bleeding into the memories of others in the Steins Gate timeline. How those memories resonate and bleed through other parallel worlds creates an extremely vivid, interconnected experience. It allows characters' relationships to transcend individual timelines as if those emotional ties were truly time transcending. The Steins;Gate author certainly has wrought something groundbreaking, unforgettable-this is a tale that fluidly marries scientific curiosity with the virtually limitless endurance of the human heart.

El....Psy....Congroo.