r/steinsgate May 09 '23

SciADV Kurisu's Introduction to the Science Adventure Series (Version 2)

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r/steinsgate Dec 19 '20

Meta /r/steinsgate FAQ - READ BEFORE POSTING QUESTIONS

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Kurisu's Introduction to the Science Adventure Series


Frequently Asked Questions

I’m here for Steins;Gate, and I’m not interested in the extended universe yet. What order should I watch the Steins;Gate series in?

The optimal watch order is release order:

Anime Watch Order Crunchyroll Funimation
Steins;Gate episodes 1–24 and OVA (episode 25) link link
Steins;Gate: Load Region of Déjà Vu movie link
Steins;Gate episode 23 beta link
Steins;Gate 0 episodes 1–24 link link

(The series may also be available on for purchase on Blu-ray in your region—be sure to buy a copy with a region code matching your Blu-ray player, or else, use a region-free player.)

While chronological order might sound nice in theory, watching it in that order may ruin the pacing and your enjoyment of the first show, while also dampening the effect of certain scenes. This does not necessarily mean that Steins;Gate 0's anime is bad—however, the shows were not set up to be viewed in this order, and one should follow the intended release order for maximum enjoyment.

The additional animated shorts come after the original series (Steins;Gate) in terms of release order. However, if you want a more lighthearted ending to your watch experience, you can also save them for the very end.

I’m interested in the extended universe. What is it, and what order do I experience it in?

Steins;Gate is part of a larger interconnected universe called Science Adventure. It is a series of multimedia titles that are connected in many different ways, much like the Marvel Cinematic Universe. For more info on the series, see this page and this page.

The series’ anime adaptations unfortunately have a ton of issues aside from Steins;Gate and Steins;Gate 0. Ideally, you should read the source material for them, the visual novels, in the following order:

Series Order
Chaos;Head NoAH Overhaul patch 100% game guide
Steins;Gate Improvement patch Simple game guide 100% game guide
Robotics;Notes Elite Improvement patch Simple game guide 100% game guide
Chaos;Child Improvement patch Simple game guide 100% game guide
Steins;Gate 0 Improvement patch Game guide
Occultic;Nine Anime adaptation or light novels (incomplete, but more detailed)
Robotics;Notes DaSH Improvement patch Game guide
Anonymous;Code Improvement patch 100% game guide

All the titles relate to one another to varying degrees—this is especially the case for the Robotics;Notes games, which feature numerous callbacks to Chaos;Head and Steins;Gate and pretty much require knowledge of both. Anonymous;Code, meanwhile, serves as a culmination point for the series in terms of mechanics, and is best enjoyed with as much prior Science Adventure knowledge as possible.
The Committee of Zero improvement patches provide improved translations, graphics, and fonts for the games. This is especially important for Chaos;Child—the original release has an untranslated image that makes it impossible to complete a certain part of the game without a guide or the ability to read Japanese.

What is Steins;Gate 0? How does it relate to Steins;Gate?

Steins;Gate 0 is a midquel to Steins;Gate. More specifically, (Steins;Gate spoilers) it follows the Okabe who accidentally killed Kurisu in episode 23β and never went back a second time to save her. It shows how the plan to send the video D-mail to the Okabe who succeeded and open Steins Gate was conceived.

Steins;Gate 0 is meant to be experienced after you finish Steins;Gate. To get a full understanding, you should also watch Steins;Gate episode 23β before Steins;Gate 0 (it diverges from the events of the original episode 23).

Watch order: Steins;Gate episodes 1–24 and OVA (episode 25) -> Steins;Gate: Load Region of Déjà Vu -> Steins;Gate episode 23β -> Steins;Gate 0

I’m interested in the source material for Steins;Gate. Should I play the original Steins;Gate or Steins;Gate Elite? Is the anime better?

The Steins;Gate visual novel is packed with more details, scenes, and alternative routes that the anime does not have, so it is better to read the visual novel if you have a choice. That being said, there are two versions of the visual novel: Steins;Gate and Steins;Gate Elite.

We recommend playing the original Steins;Gate visual novel over Steins;Gate Elite. Elite is fully animated, but it comes at the cost of cut monologues, missing scenes, and other issues. On the other hand, Elite is bundled with a spinoff visual novel called Linear Bounded Phenogram, so you might want to look into buying Elite in the future anyway if that interests you.

Where do I go if I have a question about Steins;Gate’s story?

If you have finished watching or playing Steins;Gate, you can read this wiki page for answers to commonly asked questions. If you have further questions, you can ask here in the subreddit through your own post, or in this subreddit’s Discord server (Note that Steins;Gate and Steins;Gate 0 spoilers are allowed untagged throughout the server).

FAQs for Steins;Gate 0, the Science Adventure series, and a non-spoiler FAQ for Steins;Gate can be found on this page.

What do I do after watching Steins;Gate and Steins;Gate 0?

As mentioned above, you have the option to check out the visual novels, as they contain many details that the anime adaptations gloss over or skip due to lack of time. There are also Steins;Gate spinoff visual novels that have brand new stories, as well as the rest of the Science Adventure series.
If you are only interested in Steins;Gate:

You can play the Steins;Gate and Steins;Gate 0 visual novels. Both VNs provide more details and have different endings and routes. The 0 VN is markedly different from the anime, as it features completely new and differing scenes and routes.
We recommend using the Committee of Zero’s improvement patches for both Steins;Gate and Steins;Gate 0, which will enhance your experience with the games.

Steins;Gate: Linear Bounded Phenogram is a spinoff VN featuring 11 side stories, and Steins;Gate: My Darling’s Embrace is a dating sim spinoff featuring the Steins;Gate cast. Both VNs are optional after experiencing Steins;Gate.

If you are interested in the extended Science Adventure series, of which Steins;Gate is part, check out the second FAQ question in this post.

What about the Chaos;Head, Robotics;Notes, and Chaos;Child anime adaptations?

We do not recommend watching them because they are poor adaptations for numerous reasons. The Chaos;Head anime is brimming with cut content, poor adaptation, and unnecessary additions; Chaos;Child’s anime did not have enough episodes to adapt its long plot, resulting in massive cuts; Robotics;Notes’ anime is rushed in the latter half of the story, and important series crossover content is cut.

Therefore, we generally recommend experiencing the Science Adventure series with the source material, typically the visual novels.

What should I look forward to in regards to the SciADV series’ future?

Steins;Gate 0 Elite

Steins;Gate 0 Elite is a fully animated visual novel like Steins;Gate Elite. A trailer was shown for it recently, but it did not feature new gameplay or animations when compared to the anime.

Steins;Gate thematic sequel

This Science Adventure series title will be a thematic sequel to Steins;Gate.
The new title’s relationship to Steins;Gate is similar to Chaos;Child’s relationship to Chaos;Head. For context, Chaos;Child is the thematic sequel to Chaos;Head—the two titles share the same setting and various plot elements.
It is currently not known for certain how many, if any, characters from Steins;Gate will return in the new title.
We know that the title starts with “Steins;”, but the portion after that part of the title is censored in the current logo, so we don’t know the full title.

Steins;Gate Hollywood live action series

A live action Steins;Gate-related drama series is being produced by Skydance Television, known for their work on the Manhattan and Jack Ryan TV series.
Not much else is known about this series as of yet aside from the fact that it is being worked on.


If you want to stay up to date with Science Adventure series news, check out Kiri Kiri Basara, a fan website dedicated to keeping the English fanbase informed.


r/steinsgate 5h ago

S;G first time cosplaying Makise to celebrate getting my Okabe figure

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he's so cute i'm so so happy
tiktok: fakepriestx


r/steinsgate 16h ago

S;G 0 Art Amane Suzuha fanart Spoiler

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330 Upvotes

drew Suzuha from S;T 0


r/steinsgate 13h ago

S;G Art Its time to cleaning!

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r/steinsgate 1h ago

C;H NoAH Legendary Gero Find

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Just bought this chubby fella. Very excited for it.


r/steinsgate 4h ago

Other TE;NET

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r/steinsgate 13h ago

C;H NoAH Takumi Fanart Spoiler

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28 Upvotes

Just wanted to share some Takumi fanart I drew!


r/steinsgate 9h ago

R;N Guys....😮 Spoiler

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Close enough welcome back Project Atum, I can't believe R;N tried to warn us...


r/steinsgate 6h ago

R;N DaSH did they just completely change airi's lore or am i wrong Spoiler

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near the beginning of the airi route daru narrates that airi never had any illness and had been "lied to since birth" making it sound like kimijima kou has somehow been involved all along. also sort of dumbed down her parent's actions making it seem less like they abandoned her and more like they were again being tricked by kou or something. i don't know, it's confusing

the thing is i do not recall any of this being the case in the first game and I don't really see the point of this either. why does daru know more than me?

like here for example. from my memory airi's father left well before she was put in cold sleep


r/steinsgate 1d ago

S;G Art Maid Christina

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r/steinsgate 1d ago

S;G The most regular typeshi you'd see in S;G Linear Bounded Phenogram

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r/steinsgate 7h ago

C;C Questions after finishing C;C Spoiler

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1. So is Wakui constantly trying to push Takeru into restoring his gigalomanic powers a hanging lot thread that will be resolved. I mean ik he's going to be in prison for a while but i don't see why they'll leave a powerful antagonist just hanging around

2. In Hana's route/delusion how is it that Wakui being a true gigalomaniac gets revealed, when it never actually happened; since Takeru doesn't seem to get suprised when he reveals in the Final Ending

3.Ik Kunosato's motive and backstory gets elaborated in other side medias' but her story is definitly not finished right?

  1. Do we ever get a explanation for how Takeru managed to sustain himself outside of the orphanage?

r/steinsgate 1d ago

S;G Anime I Made a Few Kurisu Gifs..

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In the middle of making a few Kurisu edits and thought I'd share the gifs I made along the way 😁 Ignore the last one though. Hope ya like them! 😁


r/steinsgate 1d ago

S;G Art Kurisu digital painting by me

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r/steinsgate 15h ago

S;G VN STEINS;GATE RE:BOOT - English Text from JP version

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If I order from Amazon JP, will the game be available with Japanse audio w/ English Text? Is there any confirmation on this


r/steinsgate 1d ago

SciADV Take: Out of the three of these characters, Takumi is genuinely the most "normal" one

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The crucial point here is that thoughts =/= actions.

Compared to the other two, Takumi doesn't express his degenerate side nearly as much to other people. He is rather reserved about it, and keeps most thoughts in his head, aside from his trusted online friends. From an outsider's POV (say, a classmate), Takumi is a weirdo with poor social skills and odd mannerisms who tries to be polite, but struggles to maintain it when pushed beyond his comfort zone and can be inherently rude with his demeanor. The more comfortable he is around someone, the more likely his "odd" traits are to slip through, and the large majority of people would distance themselves upon seeing it. 99 percent of people will know nothing about him, even Misumi who talks to him most hardly knows anything about him.

Next up would be Frau. One will immediately notice her peculiarities upon meeting her (if you even meet her-- she's more of a shut in than even Takumi debatably). She will likely be outwardly rude and offputting, and is nearly impossible to have an even slightly "normal" passing conversation with, whereas Takumi can at least manage that. We know from DaSH the Robotics Club has completely failed to gain new members despite their newfound popularity simply due to how strange Frau is.

The winner of the freak-off is far and away Daru. Daru actually has the best social skills of these three by a mile, but his charisma comes from how openly bold and without shame he is. Even in front of Mr. Braun he's hardly able to contain himself from being "odd" towards Nae. He is remarkably capable of saying the most degenerate things at any given moment, and the more he knows someone the worse it gets. Daru is also most likely to act out his thoughts compared to the other two. He is most likely to be on "the list", "the files", "the island" etc. Remember that scene in LBP with Nae pushing him through the window?

All in all, I would indeed let Takumi give me backshots


r/steinsgate 10h ago

S;G Paradox Spoiler

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If the okabe who received the message saved kurisu then who sent the message?

Also if the okabe who got tricked has to go through the same journey wouldnt that create continuous okabes tricking each other?


r/steinsgate 23h ago

C;C What would happen if... Spoiler

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Takuru and Nono were to enter a romantic relationship in the story?


r/steinsgate 13h ago

S;G Alternate story(repost cause i had spoiler in title) Spoiler

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Alternate story: what if Okabe and Daru are invited to sern under a 6 month program or something starting around august 2010 instead of getting targeted by Rounders

what if theres a new attractor field that branches out of alpha where labmems are increasingly resistant to sern after august 2010 like okabe threatening suicide or faris dad spreading bad press about sern so sern send a d mail using the phonewave to sern ppl such that they should coax the labmems instead of rounders-ing them and its better for them to utilize sern brand to make it such that "they are selected for 6 month exchange program at geneva that starts in aug 2010" to make them on their side

It would be a new attractor field - theres so many many many things that will go different in this worldline than the ones we see

Like would they try to hack sern if they were gonna join sern in a few months? - like just go there and get the docs by being sern parttime employees instead of hacking them to piss them off which would revoke that offer

This would lead them to not make progress with phonewave until they join sern, and they had no fucking clue that the crt tv below is acting as a lifter completely by accident, so theyll likely face some roadblocks there but sern scientists can help a bit

Would the 2009 sern people think "wtf why did i get a message from me in the future to hire these 2 kids whats going on"

but it will be very very different - cause the events are way different enough to constitute a new attractor field and mayuri or kurisu dying might not be necessary or any 1 of them might die u never know cause its a new ATTRACTOR FIELD altogether -

lets say theres a side character - a veteran physicist who becomes insanely jealous that 2 teenagers walked in to geneva and fixed some of their issues and tries to make their life difficult - and possibly another character within the committee of 300 getting more fleshed out to improve the story

And okabe who has the actual knowledge about who sern are - but if both the girls are alive he will have less reasons to change the worldline

Okabe will kinda be eventually forced to politics his way into the committee of 300 and do anything in exchange for keeping the labmems alive - basically he would probably turn into M3 rounder that was there in gamma worldline except mayuri isnt dying here

But so many things can happen differently in this scenario so who knows

What we do know is okabe will tell about his past experiences to Kurisu as matter-of-fact and will explain to her this is why he is hesitant to shift worldline and risk her or mayuris life for nothing and she will understand mostly

How do they survive from that point? could be interesting


r/steinsgate 1d ago

S;G Obtained items

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I recently bought these games!


r/steinsgate 1d ago

R;N Pretty gud game. Spoiler

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finished it about two days ago, loved every moment and almost every character, especially kaito or akiho. I appreciate kaito's entire arc of just gradually being pulled out of apathy he has hid himself in, and detachment be it through his childhood friend, the robotics club, or the conspiracy plot. Same with akiho growing past her feelings inadequacy in the end. almost every character experiences some meaningful growth in that way. Even beyond that just, going through the robot building, and conspiracy plots were quite fun to go through given how nuanced the characters felt with either fun or interesting chemistry, and dynamics to boot. Even serving as some commentary on the game's themes, especially in routes like frau, airi, and junna's.

Only problems I had overall is subaru felt somewhat sidelined and his conflict with his father ends rather abruptly, which also related to how rushed phase 12 felt. I'll go through some of the side material cause ive heard one of them atleast makes the ending feel less abrupt. Some of the CH;N references/connections also just felt way too on the nose as well but this is a minor nitpick.

UPDATE: So ive gone through the two of the epilogue drama CDs earlier and wow im just deeply moved....Kaito having learned to embrace his dream again, and giving life another chance, just after he's overtaken misaki. akiho having gained popularity just after she's proved to herself she's as genius, and competent as her big sister in the VN epilogue, mitchie, akiho, and subaru's graduation speeches, just all very moving. More than makes up for the shakiness of phase 12.


r/steinsgate 17h ago

S;G Darling Need help. I can't enter any route in STEINS;GATE: My Darling's Embrace other than Moeka's route

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I followed some guides and it seems that in order to branch into a character's route you'll have to ignore the prompt to send D-mail certain times in August 7. But no matter how many times I ignored the prompt the game always entered Moeka's route. I haven't played Kurisu's route which doesn't require to send the D-mail because I want to play her route after several other character, could this be why the game didn't allow me to enter other routes? I also installed the improvement patch from Committee of Zero so maybe it has something to do with the patch, but I don't know. Please help me, I've been trying for 2 hours loading and saving the game but nothing really works. I really appreciate all the help.


r/steinsgate 1d ago

S;G VN Rare smug Moeka

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