Steins;Gate (TV series)

Steins;Gate
Cover art for the UK home media release, featuring the main cast
Genre
Anime television series
Directed by
  • Hiroshi Hamasaki
  • Takuya Satō
  • Tomoki Kobayashi (OVA)
Produced by
  • Kenjirō Gomi
  • Takayuki Matsunaga
  • Yoshito Danno
  • Shinsaku Tanaka
  • Kozue Kananiwa
  • Yoshinao Doi
Written by
  • Jukki Hanada
  • Supervised by:[a]
  • Naotaka Hayashi
  • Tatsuya Matsubara
Music by
  • Jun Murakami
  • Takeshi Abo
StudioWhite Fox
Licensed by
Original networkAT-X, CTC, Sun TV, TV Aichi, TV Saitama, tvk, Tokyo MX
English network
Original run April 6, 2011 September 14, 2011
Episodes24[c]
Original net animation
Steins;Gate: Sōmei Eichi no Cognitive Computing
Directed byKenichi Kawamura[d]
Written by
  • Naotaka Hayashi
  • Supervised by:[a]
  • Tatsuya Matsubara
StudioWhite Fox
Released October 14, 2014 November 11, 2014
Episodes4
Other anime
  • Steins;Gate: The Movie
  • Steins;Gate 0

Steins;Gate is a Japanese anime television series produced by White Fox, based on 5pb. and Nitroplus's 2009 visual novel of the same name. The series aired for 24 episodes, from April to September 2011. It is set in 2010 and follows Rintaro Okabe, who together with his friends accidentally discovers a method of time travel through which they can send text messages to the past, thereby changing the present.

It is part of the Science Adventure franchise along with Chaos;Head and Robotics;Notes. The series was directed by Hiroshi Hamasaki and Takuya Satō, and written by Jukki Hanada, with character design and animation direction by Kyuuta Sakai, and music by Takeshi Abo.

Steins;Gate received critical acclaim, praised for its character development and themes of time travel, human nature and its perspective on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). It is considered one of the best anime series of all time by critics and fans alike. The series has spawned four original net animation (ONA) episodes and a spin-off film. A sequel anime adaptation titled Steins;Gate 0, based on the visual novel of the same name, premiered in 2018.

  1. ^ Santos, Carlo (April 3, 2011). "Carlo Santos - The Spring 2011 Anime Preview Guide". Anime News Network. Archived from the original on October 20, 2020. Retrieved May 2, 2020. Anime adaptations of visual novels would probably get a better rap if more of them were like Steins;Gate, a psychological thriller from the same studio that gave us Chaos;HEAd a few years back.
  2. ^ Vincent, Brittany (May 22, 2019). "7 Anime to Watch While You Wait for Neon Genesis Evangelion on Netflix". IGN. Archived from the original on June 5, 2019. Retrieved January 4, 2020.
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  4. ^ Calvert, Jake (June 11, 2016). "Steins;Gate Review - Episodes 1–3". Anime News Network. Archived from the original on June 11, 2016. Retrieved June 11, 2016.


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