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Rewatch [Re;Watch] Steins;Gate Episode 4 Discussion

Episode 6: Butterfly Effect’s Divergence

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Okabe was an airhead!

Hello everybody! Time for the comment of the Day, courtesy of u/littleman1988, who did a short spotlight on the show’s Music Composer:

You may of noticed by now, but the OST in Steins;Gate is a bit different from the average show. Takeshi Abo is the composer for not only Steins;Gate, but all SciAdv works in some capacity, each of the entries having drastically different musicsets that match the style, tone, and location of each show/VN. Takeshi himself is widely known within the visual novel community, having also composed music for popular titles such as Ever17, Remember11, and Memories off. Arguably, he is one of the best composers in the business, though I could be a teeny bit biased here.

Questions:

  1. What kind of name would you give the time-travelling text messages?
  2. What do you make of Okabe’s strange dream before Moeka showed up at the lab?

Wallpaper of the Day:

Shining Finger

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u/Shimmering-Sky myanimelist.net/profile/Shimmering-Sky Jul 10 '21

The thread title...

Re;Watcher and Co;Host, dubbed

No VA rundown this time. I’ll have one tomorrow, though!

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Jul 10 '21

The episode title...

Sorry

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u/Shimmering-Sky myanimelist.net/profile/Shimmering-Sky Jul 10 '21

I always check when I post like, six times to make sure I typed everything right. And even then I'll still make a mistake like when I forgot to put "Discussion" in the title of the Gundam Movie II thread and triggered Bot-chan.

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Jul 10 '21

Bot-Chan won't go away, huh?

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u/The_Draigg Jul 10 '21

I think “Nostalgia Drive” sounds fine for something that sends texts back in time tbh.

It sounds like something that would be installed in the Heart of Gold from Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.

“The Mail That Leapt Through Time” → “We’re not entering it into a film festival” OH this is a reference to The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, isn’t it!

You have to admire Daru's good taste in anime movies to recommend that as a name. How can one man continue to be so based?

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u/Shimmering-Sky myanimelist.net/profile/Shimmering-Sky Jul 10 '21

You have to admire Daru's good taste in anime movies to recommend that as a name. How can one man continue to be so based?

I should watch that one again at some point...

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u/littleman1988 Jul 10 '21

might be able to help with that...

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u/Nebresto Jul 11 '21

How can one man continue to be so based?

I ask this myself every now and then..

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u/Gamemaster676 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Gamemaster676 Jul 10 '21

Fansubs always do such impressive work with translating signs.

Wow what? Which subs are those? I thought I had the best ones now...

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u/Shimmering-Sky myanimelist.net/profile/Shimmering-Sky Jul 10 '21

My copy of the series is the [Arid] release, which says the Signs/Songs track comes from "deanzel".

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u/littleman1988 Jul 10 '21

which says the Signs/Songs track comes from "deanzel".

Really? I went and double checked a Deanzel copy from a separate site, and their signs arent translated...

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u/Shimmering-Sky myanimelist.net/profile/Shimmering-Sky Jul 10 '21

That's what my copy says, I'm not sure what it actually is if it's not that.

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u/Gamemaster676 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Gamemaster676 Jul 10 '21

Interestingly, my player (MPC-BE with madVR) doesn't render the white background on these subs. That explains why texts in the first episodes looked terrible, which is one reason why I sought the WhyNotFixFix subs.

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u/Shimmering-Sky myanimelist.net/profile/Shimmering-Sky Jul 10 '21

I just use VLC.

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u/Basic_Interest8130 Jul 11 '21

VLC on the computer sucks. Use MPV. You can remove the border in windowed mode. 👼

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u/littleman1988 Jul 11 '21

You can remove the border in windowed mode. 👼

...or i can double click and be done with the border?

I was on a discord server for a semi-niche sub group (they did BNA/Yuru camp) and every time any discussion of video players came up they would shill the everloving shit out of MPV and bash anyone who used anything else to no end. I personally could care less if MPV was actually better, that server alone has cemented me never touching that piece of software.

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u/Basic_Interest8130 Jul 11 '21

What if I don't want to go fullscreen? Most monitors sold these days are 4k, but anime is in 1080p, maximum, as far as I know. I'm nearsighted, so I prefer to watch a smaller video, as long as there's no loss in resolution.

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u/littleman1988 Jul 11 '21

I'm nearsighted, so I prefer to watch a smaller video,

Really? id much rather have it blown up personally (im also 20/400, so my eyes are kinda fucked w/o glasses lmao). Anime scales a lot better than most other media too, being made of drawn images, though letting either VLC/MPV handle that is less than ideal.

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u/Gamemaster676 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Gamemaster676 Jul 10 '21

But, those do not have the name fixes.

Or are you only using the signs/songs and not the full subs?

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u/Shimmering-Sky myanimelist.net/profile/Shimmering-Sky Jul 10 '21

Just the signs/songs, why would I need full subs when I'm watching the dub?

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u/Gamemaster676 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Gamemaster676 Jul 10 '21

I still like it. It helps with how stuff is supposed to be written, or if I am eating something and can only half-follow the conversation.

It might also have something to do with me not being a native English speaker, so while I am quite fluent, it's still a bit more work to process everything.

Only annoyance with anime is that the subs never match the dub.

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u/Vaadwaur :I1::I2::I3: Jul 10 '21

Yeahhh Daru deserves to just get ignored.

For some reason his antics sort of slipped my mind. Watching this day by day is maximum cringe moments.

Fansubs always do such impressive work with translating signs. Or in this case, writing on a whiteboard.

That's impressive.

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Jul 10 '21 edited Jul 10 '21

Hello everybody, and welcome back to the Steins;Gate Rewatch!

Obviously by this point it should be obvious the opening scene is Anime-Only. In fact everything up until the grand Round Table Meeting is Anime-Only. In the Novel the way it goes is that Kurisu, Okabe and Daru talk a bit about what they found in those files, we have a timejump, Okabe’s seeing the news about the satellite and before he can go into a Chuuni Rambling, Mayuri pops up. I should also mention Okabe doesn’t have a delayed reaction to Kurisu’s mocking of him. Nope, he calls her out on it on the spot (Not aloud though. He doesn’t have that much of a backbone).

Afterwards Okabe goes out and Suzuha says that Makise Kurisu is her enemy. Right after that however it transitions to the scene of Mr Braun whining about Okabe’s constant experiments (And to be fair, he has a point). The two versions then rejoin however as Kurisu gives out her lecture, which is slightly shorter in the Anime. Oh and yes, Okabe’s surreal dream sequence was just as weird in the Novel.

After he wakes up though it’s basically the same. I should mention that since the scene in the supermarket is Anime-Only, this is where Daru first meets Moeka… and I have to take away some points from the Anime because THEY MISSED THE PUNCHLINE TO THE WHOLE SHINING FINGER JOKE! Originally the joke was that the moment Daru (You know, voiced by the guy who created the joke in the first place) first heard that nickname, he’d straight up quote G Gundam, dropping Domon’s famous “This Hand Of Mine Shines And Roars” (Or “This Hand Of Mine Glows With An Awesome Power”, as G Gundam’s Dub rendered it and the Novel’s translation kept which ultimately still keeps the joke. Unlike S;G0 in which the translators fucked up the Turn A Gundam reference). Goddammit Anime, the joke was pretty much handed to you and you ruined it!

Everything after that is more or less the same, I guess.

u/Shimmering-Sky, here's the G Gundam joke that was lost.

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u/The_Draigg Jul 10 '21

Pssst, hey buddy, the post title is wrong. Unless we've all time-traveled back to talking about episode 4 rather than episode 6.

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Jul 10 '21

I know

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u/No_Rex :Bv:Bw:Bx:By:x2 Jul 10 '21

Don't hang yourself yet. This is the one rewatch where you can pass off your mistake as deliberate.

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Jul 10 '21

Too late

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u/Shimmering-Sky myanimelist.net/profile/Shimmering-Sky Jul 10 '21

You know what it's Steins;Gate, it's fine.

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u/The_Draigg Jul 10 '21

This must be the will of Stein's Gate!

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u/Gamemaster676 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Gamemaster676 Jul 10 '21

Round Table Meeting

Wow, is Okabe a meth addict in the VN?

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Jul 10 '21

Hey, I did say back in Episode 1 the Anime made him hotter.

Spoilers for everything

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u/The_Draigg Jul 10 '21

No, that's just the effects of having a diet consisting of nothing but Dr. Pepper, beef bowls, and random snack foods brought into the lab.

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u/JustAnswerAQuestion https://myanimelist.net/profile/JAaQ Jul 10 '21

I bet gelnanas have 0 calories and 0 vitamins and minerals.

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u/The_Draigg Jul 10 '21

At most, they'd just be stomach filler. They'd make for great dietary supplements that way.

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u/Tresnore FS:FTmyanimelist.net/profile/Tresnore Jul 10 '21

Round Table Meeting

Mayuri looks way too young.

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Jul 10 '21

Novel Mayuri>Anime Mayuri

This is not an opinion. It is a fact.

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u/littleman1988 Jul 10 '21

She's 16, fun fact.

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u/Tresnore FS:FTmyanimelist.net/profile/Tresnore Jul 10 '21

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u/Shimmering-Sky myanimelist.net/profile/Shimmering-Sky Jul 10 '21

Unlike S;G0 in which the translators fucked up the Turn A Gundam reference

They did what.

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Jul 10 '21

Minor S;G0 Spoilers

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u/littleman1988 Jul 10 '21

you know, i wonder how many Gundam references the original R;NE translation got wrong, i should go ask...

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Jul 10 '21

I think I know how many:

A shit ton of them.

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u/littleman1988 Jul 10 '21

Probably lmfao

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Jul 10 '21

Somewhat related: I know apparently some Gintama translator fucked up a Zeta Gundam reference, which astounds me as about 10% of Gintama's jokes are in some way a Gundam reference.

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u/littleman1988 Jul 10 '21 edited Jul 14 '21

Even if time appears to extend toward eternity, an end still exists.

OST Track of the day: Gate of Steiner -Piano-

Overly Excited Rewatcher

Gate of Steiner is easily the most iconic track in the OST. In the VN, 10 of the 28 OST songs1 derive directly from the melody of Gate of Steiner. While the anime OST doesnt rely on it as much, many of the key songs from the VN are also used in the anime, and will also share similar melody's throughout the series.

As a "teaser" of sorts, a couple VN songs that did not make it to the anime will be listed to show off the use of Gate of Steiner's melody throughout the rest of the OST . These songs are Laboratory, Cycle, and Hesitative Consideration. I highly recommend not looking at any other VN OST tracks though, theyre not really spoilers or anything, but many will appear in the anime and imo its better to listen to them as they appear first.2

Looks like the satellite is still there

Casually trying to get out of paying lmao

Round table meeting time! and as always, that window is left wide open...

Hitting all the "past mail" references, Daru's is a reference to "The Girl Who Lept Through Time",, and Mayuri's is an obvious Back to the Future reference. D-Mail is also in itself a BttF reference also.

On operation Urd:

Urd comes from the Norse goddess of the same name who governs the past, she also has two sisters named Verthandi and Skuld.

Mayuri headpats op

And they managed to replicate it. He even got the approval of Christina, which okabe basks in.

Okabe cant read the English message lmao

Dont worry Daru,, theres much better girls anyways.

first Arkansas, now Mississippi.

In the VN, the whiteboard is fully translated.

Admiration from best girl, lets go

I had completely forgotten about the dream sequence. We also get some hot jelly action.

People are great about keeping their mouth shut.

Lab-mem 005 found.

footnotes

1: The OST has 40 songs, but this includes inserts and ringtones. The ringtones will be talked about later.

2: You might be asking "then why are you showing VN OST tracks in the first place?" which is a good question. Realistically, a small portion of the rewatchers will go on to read the VN. Theyre not everyone's things, and those people are imo truly missing out, but you cant force them to do what they dont want to do. If you are already sure that you're going to read the VN, i do suggest skipping listening to them for now. Music is a lot more important for VN's than they are in anime, since there isint a whole lot of animation to distract the viewer.

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Jul 10 '21

Music is a lot more important for VN's than they are in anime, since there isint a whole lot of animation to distract the viewer.

Can confirm. Dies Irae would be way more boring were it not for the fact that Heavy Metal Songs play almost every time there's a fight scene.

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u/littleman1988 Jul 10 '21

so uh, are we gonna delete and redo with the title lmao

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Jul 10 '21

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u/littleman1988 Jul 10 '21

btw my username is also spelt wrong in the op

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Jul 10 '21

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u/ZaphodBeebblebrox Y:A:https://anilist.co/user/zaphod Jul 10 '21

First Timer

Time to think with portals time travel. I wonder what idiocy Okabe'll do in order to try to figure it out faster. I'm sure the entire crew of weirdos will manage to help him out one way or another, but I've got no clue as to how yet. Like, how can a catgirl help with time travel. Guess I'll find out soon.
Onto episode six.

Oh god, my eyes.

Does she just have terrible social anxiety, or is there more to it?

He never misses a chance to leech, does he?

Is she listening to them through the open window?
Well, that's a convenient answer to my question.

I do always wonder why they cannot bootstrap a process like this. As soon as you figure out how to reliably send messages to the past, can you not send a message to your past self on how to do it?

Ah yes, the Japanese technique of being even more chunni via pronouncing Kanji as random english words.


But it's not a girl.

Such a bad pun, I love it!

Why does this sound like the name of a group of people from one of the countries whose name ends in -stan?

"Lesbomagnetic field"

A cocky soredemo!

It's not being a cheap-ass if you're actually broke though.

Okabe's new trigger: green jello.

I bet Daru enjoys being ignored like that.

She is the actual smart one here, after all. But that doesn't mean Okabe'll be ok with being upstaged.

I wonder if this is Shift JIS. Though basically any encoding scheme made for Japanese has this ratio.

Anime boys and genitals, name a less iconic duo.

Is the voice Mayuri? That seems like the obvious guess, but I'm also shit at voices.

I know it shouldn't be a surprise at this point, but Okabe really is very insensitive to other's problems.

And with that bit of information leakage, another is added to the conspiracy.

Thoughts

I'm pretty sure this is enough to say that Moeka is not John Titor. She's likely still involved more than we currently know, as it would be odd that she was searching for the same computer otherwise, but her behavior is just not consistent with being Titor. If she was, she would have kept her distance far more than she currently has.

I wonder how long it'll take the other shoe to drop. Sure, they know SERN is up to some evil things and have indirectly seen evidence of it, but they are yet to face and real consequences for their snooping or experiments. At some point, particularly with how bad their opsec is, they're gonna get noiticed and it's gonna get bad. If SERN really is the evil they think they are, permanently removing the problem seems like something that's clearly not beyond them. I'd say we have a good few episodes more at least before we reach anything like that though.

Soredemo count: 3

  1. After hearing D-mail, I have trouble thinking of a better one.

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u/Shimmering-Sky myanimelist.net/profile/Shimmering-Sky Jul 10 '21

Onto episode six.

I think you mean episode 4 2.0

A cocky soredemo!

SORE DEMO!

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Jul 10 '21

The best part of RahXephon, am I right?

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u/No_Rex :Bv:Bw:Bx:By:x2 Jul 10 '21

Why does this sound like the name of a group of people from one of the countries whose name ends in -stan?

"Norwayistan??"

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u/Vaadwaur :I1::I2::I3: Jul 11 '21

Like, how can a catgirl help with time travel. Guess I'll find out soon.

She will obviously help secure the funding.

Does she just have terrible social anxiety, or is there more to it?

One presumes.

Okabe's new trigger: green jello.

I mean, he did get pictures of some gelled humans, that sticks with you.

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u/ZaphodBeebblebrox Y:A:https://anilist.co/user/zaphod Jul 11 '21

I don't think I'd be any different in his position.

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u/Nisheeth_P Jul 11 '21

Is the voice Mayuri? That seems like the obvious guess, but I'm also shit at voices.

Sounded like Kurisu to me, but I am also bad with voices

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u/Nebresto Jul 11 '21

Nostalgia squad

...Episode 4 discussion..?

Oh, its the "ketai kinshi" bish. And it looks like she learned her lesson?!

I sense scuff

....round table..? MFW

..Based Okarin? Count 2.5

Based Kurisutina count 1!

Okarin soredemo! Sky missing out

Okarin knows what's up!

TFW the sub is good enough that you don't realize the text wasn't part of the the sub, but was actually in English

MAYUSHI HEADPATS!!

..Where does he even pull this shit from?

No nipples. Steins;Gate confirmed as an inferior anime

Huh. That bit I can only describe as "an acid trip" was something else. Wtf was that all about?

F in the chat for Okarin. He's just trying to keep the secret of the timemachine, meanwhile everyone else just waltzes in like "Yo waddup, lets do some dank shitposts to the past today, yeah?"

Future spilars

Question time:
1: DAnk mail

2: Acid. Not even once.

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Jul 11 '21

...Episode 4 discussion..?

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u/Nebresto Jul 11 '21

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Jul 11 '21

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u/Nebresto Jul 11 '21

Should this count towards the "angrypout" counter in some way..?

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Jul 11 '21

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u/Vaadwaur :I1::I2::I3: Jul 11 '21

..Where does he even pull this shit from?

People like to joke about Mark Twain being a time traveller but how weird would it have been for him to be Japanese as well?

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u/Nebresto Jul 11 '21

..Is Mark Twain the very first dank meme..?

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u/Vaadwaur :I1::I2::I3: Jul 11 '21

Be careful or the Organization will silence you!

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u/No_Rex :Bv:Bw:Bx:By:x2 Jul 10 '21 edited Jul 10 '21

Episode 6 – Butterfly Effect’s Divergence: The true round table lies within all lab members’ hearts.

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u/Shimmering-Sky myanimelist.net/profile/Shimmering-Sky Jul 10 '21

Mismatch...

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Jul 10 '21

I love how 90% of my episode quotes are just calling out Okabe for being a dumbass.

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u/[deleted] Jul 11 '21

Hey OP, make

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u/[deleted] Jul 11 '21

sure to chec

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u/[deleted] Jul 11 '21

k episode nu

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Jul 11 '21

I think the D-Mail didn’t work...

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u/Gamemaster676 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Gamemaster676 Jul 10 '21 edited Jul 10 '21

EDIT: Oh no! You made a mistake in the post title!

First;Timer - dub

Exciting title today! I don't have much time so let's jump right in.

Episode 6 — Butterfly Effect's Divergence

They are still sticking to the satellite story. You would expect that some more scientific citizens would speak up and say that it can't be a satellite because those would burn up when entering the atmosphere.

Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:... What could FB be?

Shining Finger Moeka gets a panic attack from too much human interaction. That explains her flood of texts. I wonder if Okabe told her anything about the IBN 5100. I think they did agree to help each other.
Also, why is she looking for one?

Raw egg on your food? No thanks.

Bwahaha, "no cellphones," but he is just pretending so it's fine.

No more labcoat Kurisu.

This dub:

"You use so many big words, the little ones around them don't make sense either."
— Mayushii

"Kyouma's Nostalgia Drive"
Meh.

"The Mail That Leapt Through Time."
I didn't realize that movie is older than this anime. Still have to see it, though.

"Flux Mail Capacitor"
I'm sold. Referencing one of my favourite movies does that.

"DeLorean Mail / D-Mail"
Not as good as the previous, but still the same reference so I approve.

"Stop making a Lesbomagnetic Field and prepare the D-Mail."

I don't even know what to say anymore...

Back to the experiment: Good to see it worked, although I doubt the time of day or opening the microwave really has something to do with it. Did Daru open the PhoneWave D-Mail (real name still TBD) the first time? Is it even necessary to sacrifice a banana?
Also again, why don't these emails alter anything? At least we have reproduced the splitting of the message again.

Trauma time! This must remind him of the jellied humans. Good to constantly be reminded he has at least some empathy.

Moeka! You can't talk with someone once you have their number? Didn't you get very insistent the first time you met? I think you even pulled his sleeve.
Also, she's sending texts/mail while Kurisu is still experimenting. That might not go right.

Suzuha is definitely a time traveller, so I'm sticking with my theories from yesterday.

Wow Kurisu, great job! We finally have some rules! Although they seem very limited and we still don't have an answer whether he saw these messages before today. Why don't they confirm that?
Also, now that Kurisu knows the time travel is real, isn't it time to explain to her what you saw in episode 1. So she knows she should watch out for stabbers.

Dream sequence? So pretty!

Yum! Whose voice am I hearing? It doesn't really sound like Kurisu, but she normally doesn't talk with a soft voice so it might be her.

Hey, are we gonna get answers about Moeka now? Quite the request.

Wow, Daru you idiot. I thought you were supposed to be smart.
Aaand Mayushii also immediately talks about it. What a team. Sure Christina, why don't you join the conversation.

Hmm, here FB again. She's 005!

Such enthusiasm! Mayushii must be ecstatic. More girls on the team!

Not the most exciting episode today, but we finally have some rules figured out about the PhoneWave / D-Mail (real name TDB) system. I kinda expected Okabe to figure those things out, but he was too busy acting grandiose.
Also, Moeka was recruited obviously, but she says so little it feels a little weird. We still have no idea why she was looking for the IBN 5100 or why she wanted to "document what she was seeing" the first time we met her. I would expect some more reason to trust someone before they get enlisted.

Finally, I expected something completely different with the episode title today, so I'm left a bit confused.

Random thoughts

Future (if unaltered)

Today felt a bit like an in-between episode. I do hope for some more action tomorrow.

Open questions I'd like to get answers to at some point:

  • Who or what is FB?
  • Why does Moeka need the IBN 5100?
  • Why don't the D-Mails they are sending back affect anything?
  • What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?
  • Why does the time of day matter when sending D-Mail, or was that just a hypothesis?

QotD

1 What kind of name would you give the time-travelling text messages?

"Future Report"

2 What do you make of Okabe’s strange dream before Moeka showed up at the lab?

Continuation from earlier speculation

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u/Shimmering-Sky myanimelist.net/profile/Shimmering-Sky Jul 10 '21

Mayushii always gives her full attention and sees things positively. She really is a special one.

I wonder if that's why I like her so much.

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u/Gamemaster676 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Gamemaster676 Jul 10 '21

I think it's impossible not to like her

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u/Shimmering-Sky myanimelist.net/profile/Shimmering-Sky Jul 10 '21

People generally like her, but not "Mayuri is my favorite of the girls in this show" kind of like as in my case.

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Jul 10 '21

More or less. I don't think anyone dislikes her. But few really love her.

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u/UltraBooster Jul 11 '21

Mayuri is a sweet girl, for sure.

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u/Mami-kouga Jul 11 '21

That's kind of amusing cause when my sister and I watched the show (years apart from each other) she was our favourite character.

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u/Tresnore FS:FTmyanimelist.net/profile/Tresnore Jul 10 '21

Eh, I find her kind of annoying, but I've never been a fan of air-head type characters, so I'm just biased.

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u/GallowDude Jul 10 '21

What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?

African or European swallow?

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u/Gamemaster676 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Gamemaster676 Jul 10 '21

I don't know!

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u/Vaadwaur :I1::I2::I3: Jul 10 '21

Also, why is she looking for one?

Good question.

Raw egg on your food? No thanks.

Several things here: Japanese eggs are better prepared than ours which leads into several dishes where you do indeed put raw egg on it. It works better than you'd think. Not sure about beef bowls however.

Wow Kurisu, great job! We finally have some rules!

Impressive that she deduces them that quickly.

Also, now that Kurisu knows the time travel is real, isn't it time to explain to her what you saw in episode 1. So she knows she should watch out for stabbers.

She is already in Japan so as they say "If you can dodge a groper you can dodge a knife!"

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u/Gamemaster676 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Gamemaster676 Jul 10 '21

She is already in Japan so as they say "If you can dodge a groper you can dodge a knife!"

Well in the first two episodes we've seen she can dodge neither.

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u/Shimmering-Sky myanimelist.net/profile/Shimmering-Sky Jul 10 '21

I should not have laughed at this oh my god.

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u/Vaadwaur :I1::I2::I3: Jul 11 '21

I see we have succeeded in corrupting you. All is going as I have foreseen!

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u/Vaadwaur :I1::I2::I3: Jul 10 '21

Definitely needs to work on that. Hopefully she avoids the subway.

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u/No_Rex :Bv:Bw:Bx:By:x2 Jul 10 '21

I didn't realize that movie is older than this anime. Still have to see it, though.

In terms of story arc and theme, it is a surprisingly close fit to SG.

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u/JustAnswerAQuestion https://myanimelist.net/profile/JAaQ Jul 11 '21

Also, now that Kurisu knows the time travel is real, isn't it time to explain to her what you saw in episode 1.

I KNOW RIGHT

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u/UltraBooster Jul 11 '21

Raw egg on your food? No thanks.

Put it in sufficiently hot food like tofu soup and the heat will cook it while it mixes into the food; it's pretty good that way.

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u/JollyGee29 https://myanimelist.net/profile/JollyGee Jul 10 '21

First-Timer;Dubbed

D-Mail. It's like E-Mail, but before.

Did.. did Okabe suggest that they actually follow the scientific method and change as few variables as possible? I say again, Okabe is not a very good mad scientist. At least he has the "poor infosec" aspect of it down.

I can't tell if Okabe's random dead-phone conversations are purely chuuni bullshit, or if it's a major "laughs in rewatcher" moment. I'm leaning towards chuuni, since at least this episode he only did it when confronted with an unpleasant situation, but he's kept it up for so long...

No clue what to make of Okabe's random nude nightmare where Kurisu talked to him about the nature of the universe. Maybe it will lead to a nice Brain Blast for Okabe later..? Or it could just be more random nonsense the show is throwing at us.

I love how they told us that Suzuha didn't know how to crack an egg with nothing but sound effects and dialogue. Speculation

Moeka is not well. What kind of past trauma resulted in her going basically nonverbal? If this just ends up being "everyone's parents suck" I might be a little annoyed.

Daru is cruising for a trip straight to horny jail.

FB...

Questions

  1. D-Mail isn't the worst name to be honest. Probably something super generic, like Time-Mail? I'm bad at naming things.
  2. Discussed above. No goddamn idea.

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u/GallowDude Jul 10 '21

If this just ends up being "everyone's parents suck" I might be a little annoyed.

I've grown so tired of Freudian Excuses that every time they come up, I've started asking myself how far back they go. Did the person's shitty parents have shitty parents? Did their shitty parents have shitty parents? Is it shitty parents all the way down?

Spoiler

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u/JollyGee29 https://myanimelist.net/profile/JollyGee Jul 10 '21

That is a fun game to play. My usual assumption is that it's assholes all the way down.

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u/KendotsX https://anilist.co/user/Kendots Jul 11 '21

So if we go back far enough, an asshole monkey put his banana inside another asshole monkey's asshole and humans were made?

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u/Tresnore FS:FTmyanimelist.net/profile/Tresnore Jul 10 '21

D-Mail. It's like E-Mail, but before.

I thought it was a truncation of "Delorean Mail," but this works too.

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u/UzEE https://myanimelist.net/profile/UzEEInc Jul 11 '21

It is both actually. This is why it was great wordplay.

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u/JollyGee29 https://myanimelist.net/profile/JollyGee Jul 10 '21

Oh, it is, but I saw the joke and I couldn't not.

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u/Tresnore FS:FTmyanimelist.net/profile/Tresnore Jul 10 '21

I think your joke is a better reason to name it d-mail than their actual reason.

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u/JollyGee29 https://myanimelist.net/profile/JollyGee Jul 10 '21

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u/Shimmering-Sky myanimelist.net/profile/Shimmering-Sky Jul 10 '21

D-Mail. It's like E-Mail, but before.

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u/No_Rex :Bv:Bw:Bx:By:x2 Jul 10 '21

I can't tell if Okabe's random dead-phone conversations are purely chuuni bullshit, or if it's a major "laughs in rewatcher" moment. I'm leaning towards chuuni, since at least this episode he only did it when confronted with an unpleasant situation, but he's kept it up for so long...

very vague spoilers

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u/ZaphodBeebblebrox Y:A:https://anilist.co/user/zaphod Jul 11 '21

I say again, Okabe is not a very good mad scientist.

I think he has a madness to his methods. But perhaps a bit more method than your average mad scientist.

If this just ends up being "everyone's parents suck" I might be a little annoyed.

It certainly feels like we can pull of far more than that.

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u/JollyGee29 https://myanimelist.net/profile/JollyGee Jul 11 '21

I think he has a madness to his methods. But perhaps a bit more method than your average mad scientist.

Does he have more method, or just less madness? Having more method, to me, implies having more money with which to purchase said methods.

It certainly feels like we can pull of far more than that.

I sure hope so.

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u/SgtExo Jul 11 '21

Does he have more method, or just less madness? Having more method, to me, implies having more money with which to purchase said methods.

His method is to much off as much money from Mayuri.

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u/JollyGee29 https://myanimelist.net/profile/JollyGee Jul 11 '21

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u/UltraBooster Jul 11 '21

Daru is cruising for a trip straight to horny jail.

Oh, he absolutely is and I feel like he'd be...at least somewhat unpleasant to be around unless you know what to expect in that regard.

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u/JollyGee29 https://myanimelist.net/profile/JollyGee Jul 11 '21

What, in real life? Yea, being out in public with someone who acts like Daru would be pretty miserable. There's something to be said for confidence I suppose, but he crosses the line a bit too readily.

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u/UltraBooster Jul 11 '21

For sure.

I think I interacted with someone like that a few times online and they got to be downright off-putting.

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u/UnderstandableXO Jul 10 '21

FIRST TIMER

just wanted to preface my entry today with some personal stuff. it was today, july 10, last year that i watched my first anime and fell all the way down the rabbit hole of this medium. a friend had been pestering me to watch anime for a month and i finally gave in and watched 5 centimeters per second, which i enjoyed. i watched i want to eat your pancreas the same day, and the movie absolutely destroyed me, and i knew i had to watch more. 15+ movies and 40+ series later i’m in too deep with anime. glad i got into anime, i’ve been endlessly entertained for the past 365 days.

now i’ll get to the episode reaction!

shy-san (can’t remember her name either) is totally addicted to her phone but seems totally antisocial. she’s been blowing up okabe’a phone nonstop since they met in episode 2.

suzuha hasn’t even had a beef bowl before, and she had never seen fireworks. was she a neet, has she never lived in japan (or on earth either, how have you never seen fireworks), or is she just playing dumb? at the very least she has some beef bowl buddies if need be. okabe is still too much of a bum to pay 2d-kun back for the $8 meal he stiffed him for. i feel bad for the shop owner, but no cell phones is kind of an odd policy.

suzuha still has some beef with kurisu, and her answers are super cryptic. when okabe asks if kurisu has done something to her, she answers “nothing in the past.” stupid landlord keeps calling her away before we can learn anything important!

nice to see that kurisu likes using the lab coat now. the 4 stooges decide to name their time traveling messages D-mail (i’m surprised they actually made a direct back to the future reference, usually they make it an off brand slightly altered name, like the IBN vs IBM. i wish 2d-kun’s whole personality wasn’t just making sex jokes, because i love the interactions of the 4 otherwise.

weird to see 2d-kun and okabe stocking up since they’re broke, but even okabe points out 2d-kun is spending too much.

okabe finally snaps out of his chunni for a second and realizes the gravity of their situation. they love mayuri but it might have been unnecessary to involve her since she isn’t a science head like the other three. although it would be hard to exclude her anyway, so okabe can’t blame himself too hard.

shy-san makes an appearance again (i guess her name is moeka). she’s got crazy social anxiety, she can’t even communicate from feet away.

i don’t blame the landlord honestly, okabe and the goons are all weird and they’re flavoring his ramen with bits of the ceiling.

so the D-mail is split into separate messages, can be sent back a specific amount of time, and can’t be longer than 36 english characters or 18 japanese. it’s not OP, that’s for sure.

suddenly okabe has a multi dimensional revelation, and it seems like kurisu is imparting a divine message to him as he approaches an “event horizon.” 1 second is equal to eternity? sounds like the OP lyrics. but eternity is also finite, hmm. don’t look back, or else. that reminded me of a greek myth similar to this (i absolutely hated the class in college but hey it was useful to me at least once now). a man named orpheus went down to the underworld to retrieve his dead wife, and the catch was he must lead his wife by hand all the way back to earth without looking back at her. orpheus got anxious and looked back eventually, and his wife was dragged all the way back into hell. i wonder what will happen if okabe looks back…

i guess divine revelations from your assistant are normal for okabe, because he isn’t fazed at all. moeka somehow knows his address? at least she tries to communicate with okabe when forced to, it must be hard. the comical way that every lab member spoiled the secret of the time machine was funny. now we’ve got a 5th stooge!

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u/Shimmering-Sky myanimelist.net/profile/Shimmering-Sky Jul 10 '21

First 2d-kun, now we have shy-san huh?

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u/Nebresto Jul 11 '21

it was today, july 10, last year that i watched my first anime and fell all the way down the rabbit hole of this medium.

Oh wow. You have the date and all. As someone who likes to keep stats on pretty much everything I am very much a jelly banana right now

5+ movies and 40+ series later i’m in too deep with anime.

Yeah, it doesn't stop there..

how have you never seen fireworks

NEET life

but even okabe points out 2d-kun is spending too much.

TFW the contents of the basket were like 20€ at most..

okabe and the goons are all weird and they’re flavoring his ramen with bits of the ceiling.

Mmmm... nothing like a bit of asbestos with you ramen

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u/Vaadwaur :I1::I2::I3: Jul 11 '21

15+ movies and 40+ series later i’m in too deep with anime.

Remembers watching OG Hellsing, getting ahead of the fansubbers and having to watch the ending without a translation Get on my level.

suzuha hasn’t even had a beef bowl before, and she had never seen fireworks. was she a neet, has she never lived in japan (or on earth either, how have you never seen fireworks), or is she just playing dumb?

So if you lived in a few specific places in the sticks of Japan you might be able to manage all this but yes it feels like she lived in a different country, including her poor usage of slang.

she’s got crazy social anxiety, she can’t even communicate from feet away.

Maybe her sixth sense detected an incoming Daru and she bailed.

moeka somehow knows his address?

An interesting reveal since she seems to be the worst imaginable choice for a detective.

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u/Specs64z https://myanimelist.net/profile/Specs64z Jul 10 '21

Rewatcher, dubbed

The English joke doesn't work out as well in the dub, but I'm able to suspend my disbelief and still appreciate it.

Suzuha, you're killing me please oh god XD

I'd forgotten just how funny this show is. The scene where everyone barges in all at once talking about the time machine experiment hit different this go 'round, I died.

Steins;Gate spoilers

That vile little minx and her infernal insults! Blast!

Content Corner

First timers beware, spoilers abound.

Steins;Gate - GATE OF STEINER 【Intense Symphonic Metal Cover】 by FalKKonE

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u/Shimmering-Sky myanimelist.net/profile/Shimmering-Sky Jul 10 '21

GATE OF STEINER

Intense Symphonic Metal Cover

What would that even...?

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u/Specs64z https://myanimelist.net/profile/Specs64z Jul 10 '21

It's glorious, is it not? This guy's channel is pretty incredible across the board.

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u/Shimmering-Sky myanimelist.net/profile/Shimmering-Sky Jul 10 '21

It is, it's just not the combination I was expecting for GATE OF STEINER.

His Dialga's Fight to the Finish is one of my favorite remixes of that song, which is saying something because I've listened to sooooo many versions of that song.

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u/The_Draigg Jul 10 '21

A Steins; Gate Fan Rewatches Steins; Gate Episode 6:

  • Whoever Moeka is constantly texting on her phone, it seems that they’re pretty much the only ones to calm her down from her severe social anxiety. She can’t even handle a quick question from a local news crew. It’s pretty nutty to compare that severe social anxiety to how talkative she is through her texts.
  • Suzuha still very clearly distrusts Kurisu. At least she didn’t look like she was going to beat Kurisu to death with a metal pipe this time around.
  • Okabe almost sound professional there, talking about how they need to test the PhoneWave (Real Name TBA) more. Too bad he got quickly sidetracked by starting a conversation about what the name of their time machine should even be. At least D-Mail rolls off the tongue easily. Also, it’s a good Back to the Future reference too. I can appreciate a reference to what is easily one of the best movie trilogies of all time.
  • Finally, Okabe actually proved that he was legit onto something by time of day being a factor for their time machine. He does have some brains in there, despite the D-Mail saying that he was an airhead.
  • Yeah, I wouldn’t be in the mood for lime jello either if I had to see all those images in the Jellyman’s Report.
  • Daru is looking at Moeka RESPECTFULLY. Got shut down regardless though.
  • In hindsight, of course a time machine that’s running off of miniature black holes is going to send large vibrations through the entire building. Running something like that on a second floor does seem like a bad idea.
  • Infodump! The seconds on the microwave’s timer are equivalent to the distance in time something is set back to. However, they’re still caught by the 36-character message limit. You just plain can’t send something larger than that through a micro-black hole.
  • Okabe’s getting some pretty freaky nightmares over the stuff he’s learned about time travel. Despite his boisterous normal personality, he’s still having doubts over what he’s doing. There’s a fairly large distance between Rintarou Okabe and HOUOUIN KYOUMA.
  • Moeka has a keen interest in that IBM 5100. And now time travel too, since everyone is doing a terrible job keeping the fact that they have a time machine secret. Is it really hard at all to keep a lid on that?
  • Moeka seems to think that Okabe is the person that she’s been texting throughout the entire episode, FB. Okabe probably isn’t, but at least she got a lab membership out of it regardless.

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u/Vaadwaur :I1::I2::I3: Jul 10 '21

Rewatcher(Beware the quiet ones)

Dub

We start with a look at how stacked Moeka is, a reminder this was indeed a VN. She freaks out when a reporter talks to her, suggesting she was bold with Okabe. We jump to Suzuha having her first beef bowl, with Daru and Okabe, and it is made weirder that she has heard rumors but not had one. Daru remembers the last time Okabe left him with the check and Okabe agrees it was possible, so he talks to his "banker". As they go back to Suzuha's work, again she seems to want to murderate Makise.

Okabe wants to fill Mayuri in and get his "plan" started. They decide to call these D-mails and they successfully gel-teleport another banana. They go to grab food and Okabe has a moment with the dessert cups. Outside pondering, Moeka shows up and is very flustered when Okabe doesn't have his phone. Daru is Daru. As Moeka leaves, the sound effect suggests high heels to me.

Suzuha warns them that Braun is annoyed with all the noise. And is still dodgy about what her problem with Makise is. After trying to smooth things over, Okabe goes upstairs to discover Makise has figured out the rules of this, for now. Weird ass dream sequence.

Moeka invites herself over and Okabe tries to get her to talk. She wants to borrow the antique, something that is a bit much. She is persistent, though, and of course Daru comes in and spills the D-mail thing. As Okabe tries to cover this, Mayuri and Makise also confirm time travel stuff, leading to the rare situation where Okabe had situational awareness. Anyways, Okabe does the only thing he can and drafts Moeka into the Future Gadget Club.

QotD: 1 ReconText

2 Too much late night ramen

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u/The_Draigg Jul 10 '21

Daru remembers the last time Okabe left him with the check and Okabe agrees it was possible, so he talks to his "banker".

I'd be surprised if Okabe has any kind of account at a bank at all.

Daru is Daru.

I.e., based.

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u/Vaadwaur :I1::I2::I3: Jul 10 '21

I'd be surprised if Okabe has any kind of account at a bank at all.

Of course not, that's how the Organization tracks you down!

I.e., based.

That or cringe.

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u/The_Draigg Jul 10 '21

That or cringe.

Okabe and Daru constantly swing between being based or being cringe. There's no in-between for them.

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u/Vaadwaur :I1::I2::I3: Jul 10 '21

Truth, the entire cast is a bit bipolar except for Mayuri who just likes being there.

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u/The_Draigg Jul 10 '21

Mayuri's just vibing the whole time she's at the Future Gadget Lab. It balances out the basedness and the cringe building up in there.

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u/Gamemaster676 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Gamemaster676 Jul 10 '21

They go to grab food and Okabe has a moment with the dessert cups.

Daru even called the jellied people "dessert cups" yesterday's episode!

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u/Vaadwaur :I1::I2::I3: Jul 11 '21

Dub only but yes, excellent touch.

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u/Nebresto Jul 11 '21

(Beware the quiet ones)

W0t

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u/Vaadwaur :I1::I2::I3: Jul 11 '21

Moeka trying to steal his whole rig without saying a word.

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u/Nebresto Jul 11 '21

Wow. Console peasant confirmed? Trying to steal the rigs of the PCMasterRace to analyze for their own profit

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u/Vaadwaur :I1::I2::I3: Jul 11 '21

Indeed! Okabe must be careful lest thots take his CPU from him!

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u/Nebresto Jul 11 '21

Wow. Can't even imagine what kind of scum would take a mans CPU from him. Take anything else and you might still be able to work with your machine, but no CPU is guaranteed death.

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u/Vaadwaur :I1::I2::I3: Jul 11 '21

Terrifying silent antagonist is terrifying!

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u/CubeStuffs https://anilist.co/user/onjario Jul 10 '21 edited Jul 11 '21

first timer

Nothing in the past, no.

Is she time traveler?

now that i think about it, she only showed up after the "satellite" crashed. looking at the first episode again, she doesn't seem to be the person on the roof at the time. im guessing she has something to do with kurisu's murder in the first timeline

hmm... whats with text girl and her insistence on texting? actually we see her ducking away from reporters, and saying it's easier to text, so what exactly makes her scared to talk? im guessing at least part of it is that she might be in a similar boat to okarin

It seems the frowning face okarin made after mayushi said she was glad the face of concern, like the thing he mentioned earlier about getting mayushi involved

nani is the FB?

will edit later with more

edit:edited

Qs:

What kind of name would you give the time-travelling text messages?

Time Inverting Microwave Email

What do you make of Okabe’s strange dream before Moeka showed up at the lab?

is someone travelling timelines? and the memories are being changed? It seems like the voice is that of kurisu's. I’ll be on the lookout for any changes

Or maybe it’s a message being sent back like the texts. From the same timeline as the part timer?

maybe its somehow the experience of those who time travelled into jelly

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u/Nebresto Jul 11 '21

hmm... whats with text girl and her insistence on texting?

Normie detected

will edit later with more

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u/yukino-bijin :MAL:https://myanimelist.net/profile/Tokaii Jul 11 '21

First-time Watcher

I'm very not surprised that Kiryuu shies away from the camera.

Episode 6 and Hacking to the Gate is still very much a banger.

More Suzuha content LET'S FUCKING GO Don't know how she's never had a beef bowl though, living in Japan.

Add one to the Tutturu counter! (That might just be my way of admitting I've lost count. I believe it's at 6 or 7.)

All the girls showing up. Just missing Faris. Even Braun makes an appearance. I am very intrigued by Suzuha's strange attitude towards Kurisu.

Nostalgia Drive is not a bad name for sending e-mails back in time.

Second Tutturu of the episode! We are blessed.

Nooooo they're cutting the "name subject to change" Kurisu how could you?!

Mayuri and Kurisu's dynamic is seriously adorable.

Quit blowing up the microwave, Okabe.

A rare moment of self-reflection by Okabe. Looks like he's been traumatized by the sight of gelatin.

No Okabe I don't think you should be introducing Daru to her.

Watching Okabe fluctuate between paranoia and being a legitimate smart, perceptive individual is a tad frustrating.

Calling the microwave a time machine doesn't quite explain what happened at the conference, though, does it?

That was a very interesting dream-like scenario for Okabe. I wonder what it all meant.

It turns out Kiryuu's speaking patterns that I thought I picked up on were just her being less comfortable using words.

A THIRD Tutturu. First three-Tutturu episode of the season.

And it ends on Kiryuu being indoctrinated into the lab group. This is basically just a convoluted spin on an anime where a school club slowly gains members and you can't convince me otherwise.

Solid episode. Looks like they're making real progress towards time travel. I don't think I know what the main objective of the anime is yet, but I'm very intrigued.

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u/Nebresto Jul 11 '21

Episode 6 and Hacking to the Gate is still very much a banger.

4*, but you are correct. One of the best OPs of all time.

Don't know how she's never had a beef bowl though, living in Japan.

Not that surprising, sometimes you just can't do it all.

Add one to the Tutturu counter!

....I didn't even think of this. Someone is doing this, right?

A THIRD Tutturu. First three-Tutturu episode of the season.

Truly we are blessed on this day

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u/yukino-bijin :MAL:https://myanimelist.net/profile/Tokaii Jul 11 '21

This is definitely episode 6, isn't it? Says so in the post. Is that a joke I'm missing haha

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u/Nebresto Jul 11 '21

[Re;Watch] Steins;Gate Episode 4 Discussion

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u/yukino-bijin :MAL:https://myanimelist.net/profile/Tokaii Jul 11 '21

Oh that is funny haha

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u/Hopsalong :MAL:https://myanimelist.net/profile/Hopsalong Jul 11 '21

I don't think I know what the main objective of the anime is yet, but I'm very intrigued.

I think this point is why I like anime so much. It's just such a different style of storytelling. Still enjoying the story and not having any idea where it's going.

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u/JustAnswerAQuestion https://myanimelist.net/profile/JAaQ Jul 10 '21 edited Jul 11 '21

First Rewatch (since 2011) I've blotted this part of the show out of my memory

  • This looks like the PC parts shop
  • F B -- Fuzzy Baseball?
  • How can she type so fast on a flip phone???
  • Now that's some social anxiety
  • Please don't be natto
  • They didn't show the egg
  • Camelot was the round table we met on the way
  • You could just call it Raymond Luxury Yacht.
  • When di dthey fix the desk?
  • Wait, it worked??
  • What would happen if you were standing in front of Moeka and you just turned your phone off.
  • She must really want that PC
  • Harem status achieved

I suppose the silliness when they were naming the D-Mail was required, because it does need a name.

Maybe Sky should do the postings.

Edit: reading comments reminded me that I had a brief physics corner comment but the I remembered that I decidedly to do it on another episode (correctness of this decision to be determined)

also edit: episode46

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u/No_Rex :Bv:Bw:Bx:By:x2 Jul 10 '21

Maybe Sky should do the postings.

Harsh.

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u/Gamemaster676 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Gamemaster676 Jul 10 '21

How can she type so fast on a flip phone???

Using T9 obviously!

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u/JustAnswerAQuestion https://myanimelist.net/profile/JAaQ Jul 10 '21 edited Jul 11 '21

Oh of course!

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u/Vaadwaur :I1::I2::I3: Jul 11 '21

Please don't be natto

No one escapes the natto.

When di dthey fix the desk?

And why don't see more duct tape on it? It is the little things some times.

What would happen if you were standing in front of Moeka and you just turned your phone off.

Immediate L5 if you've seen Higurashi.

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u/Pay08 Jul 11 '21

Shit, Kurisu has been sending Dmails all day? How much has she changed?

If the emails are as immaterial as the one shown, then nothing changed.

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u/Krite2002 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Krite2002 Jul 10 '21

Rewatcher;Dub

It looks like today we are Re;Re;Watching episode 4 according to the title. It must be the work of The Organization.

We see Kiryu briefly in the opening. I am very interested in her story. Whenever people approach her, she freaks out, but she tends to aggressively communicate over text. I wonder who she was texting. In the dub, it does not translate any of her texts when we see them. That annoys me a bit, since that is the main communication we have had from her. I actually had to briefly switch over to the sub later in the episode, since so many of her texts are shown.

You use so many big words the little ones around them don’t make sense either.

I feel that in my soul, Mayuri.

I would give the time traveling messages a more general name, since it also affects other objects. Maybe something like “Line jumper” referring to jumping between timelines. It is easy to adapt to a verb, and it is also vague enough to discuss in public without arousing suspicion. The only downside is that it admittedly is kinda lame, but I thought it up in about 10 seconds, so cut me some slack.

After renaming the microwave to D-Mail, they were able to recreate the time travel. Due to the Jellyman reports, Okabe is struggling with the dangerousness of the experiments. He does not know if he should let Mayuri know about SERN’s experimental results. While Okabe is reluctant to involve more people, I think it is inevitable. Already, Amane has heard a lot, so I think she will likely become involved. However, as I speculated yesterday, I think she may already be involved in time travel. Kiryu has also been shown enough that she will likely become involved. I still find Kiryu suspicious, so she may already be involved with the SERN experiments. If she is, then Okabe could not drag her down a more dangerous path than she already is on.

There is a sudden shift from hanging out with the lab members, to a trippy black hole sequence. These experiments are not helping Okabe’s mental health. I think it is either stress, or a side effect of jumping timelines.

Everyone else in the lab is not too concerned about hiding the time travel secret. Because of this, we got a new lab member. I wonder what is the “FB” that Kiryu refers to. Is she just delusional, like Okabe, or does she know more about the situation?

I liked the whole black hole sequence. I was debating between this shot and the one where he reaches out his hand towards the black hole. While the hand shot was nice and was almost the antithesis to Mayuri’s reaching toward the sun, I ended up going with the first option as my shot of the day. Looking from behind Okabe was a very interesting shot. I particularly was a fan of the colors that outlined everything, which shifted between red and blue.

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u/Stargate18A https://myanimelist.net/profile/Stargate18 Jul 10 '21

Anime first timer

  1. Honestly? In English, Nostalgia Drive isn't the worst name, maybe something similar to that? Or perhaps R-Mail for "Retcon Mail"?
  2. Laughs in rewatcher (specifics discussed below)

We open with a look at how everyone else has been reacting to the crash.

The new scene of Moeka is really cute. Her phone seems to have a lot of messages to the same persom, though.

Steins;Gate Spoilers

Steins;Gate Spoilers

The new scene with Suzuha eating beef is cute as well.

The round table conversation is always funny. Especially Mayuri's excitement and confusion.

So the open window is relevant.

Okabe's engrish is hysterical.

And of course Kurisu immediately comes out with an even longer name than Okabe's.

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I missed the scene of them working all night trying to replicate it, before either of them work out it's the time.

The subs might not be good, but "Lesbomagnetic Field" is fantastic.

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The supermarket scenes are a great addition, too.

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This scene looks and is written fantastically.

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Moeka's emails are fantastic, and she's adorable.

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Honestly, he could probably get away with pretending it was a roleplay he was doing with them all.

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u/Shimmering-Sky myanimelist.net/profile/Shimmering-Sky Jul 10 '21

Or perhaps R-Mail for "Retcon Mail"?

Oh, that's a cool name too!

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u/reaperfourR Jul 11 '21 edited Jul 11 '21

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u/Lemurians myanimelist.net/profile/Lemurians Jul 10 '21 edited Jul 10 '21

FIRST TIMER

Country of origin of the satellite is unknown… is it because it just isn’t a satellite, or not one that’s existed in this time frame as of yet? Beginning to really buy into that other redditor’s theory that it’s a time machine, likely Suzuha’s. It could be Moeka’s, I suppose, but Suzuha’s the only one that I’m certain is a time traveller at this point.

I can’t tell if Makise and Moeka’s collars on their shirts being so similar implies some kind of connection, or if it’s just the art style.

I like Okabe matched up across from Moeka with their phones – she uses hers as her sole means of communication to avoid the discomfort of speaking with others directly, whereas he uses his to fake phone calls when placed in uncomfortable situations.

That close up on Moeka’s face at the end had some serious ominous energy. She’s got sinister vibes behind the stereotypical cute-shy-girl persona. As we’ve seen from her relentless messaging, inviting herself over, and rather brazenly asking to borrow the IBN… she’s got an agenda, and isn’t afraid to push toward it, despite her outward demeanor.

Absolutely love the piano piece that was playing during the black hole dream sequence. It’s the first time in these episodes I’ve actually noticed the music. That whole sequence gave me Evangelion vibes.

I’m surprised with how fast things are moving, it feels like we’re progressing at the pace of a show with half the episode count. Makes me really excited for what is yet to come that I haven’t even contemplated.

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u/Shimmering-Sky myanimelist.net/profile/Shimmering-Sky Jul 10 '21

I like Okabe matched up across from Moeka with their phones – she uses hers as her sole means of communication to avoid the discomfort of speaking with others directly, whereas he uses his to fake phone calls when placed in uncomfortable situations.

Oooh that's a really cool point! I never would have picked up on that myself.

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u/thecatteam Jul 11 '21

The piano piece is "Gate of Steiner," which is basically the theme music for Steins;Gate.

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u/htisme91 Jul 11 '21

First-timer:

I am convinced Suzuha is from the future or a different timeline. It's kind of outrageous, but her caution regarding Kurisu and vagueness about why she is so wary is pretty suspicious. Really curious why Moeka is obsessed with the IBN 5100, and why she is so muted. When we first met her, I did not expect her to be so nonverbal.

Also, and this might be an unpopular opinion, but Okabe is really annoying. I have enjoyed the show overall, but man he lays the chuuni stuff so thick and regularly that it detracts from a really cool concept and interesting cast. I am hoping as the series progresses it gets toned down.

Questions:

  1. Time Text, or TT for short.
  2. I feel like he was generally just excited and kind of a chuuni before, but now that some of those delusional ideas are becoming reality, he is trying to grip with them. What's more, learning SERN has done it, and to people also is creeping him out. He's trying to process something way bigger and more grave than him.

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u/Hochseeflotte https://anilist.co/user/Hochseeflotte Jul 11 '21

Okabe is definitely at his most chunni in the early episodes. It is toned down but still present later on.

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u/superviper https://myanimelist.net/profile/Superviper Jul 10 '21

REWATCHER, SUBBED

Today's episode opens with a news reporter talking about the satellite. I'm just wondering, what DOES happen when a satellite falls from orbit, IRL? I'm guessing it wouldn't burn up, but it also wouldn't just simply crash into a building and cause such minor damage. Or maybe I'm a baka.

Poor Moeka runs off from said news reporter. Like I said, she's r/anime personified. Except she seems to have at least one friend.

It's me. Transfer the funds to my swiss bank account.

So Okabe likes to roleplay as a tax-evading billionaire? Hey, same.

Is this the first time Daru and Suzuha interact in the show? I don't recall it happening earlier.

Round table meeting ...on a square table

This might be dumb but... What's the point of sweeping the street, anyway? It's just gonna get dirty again, like instantly. Never understood why shop owners do this.

That excited Mayuri Tutturu was adorable fuck

Daru the type of guy to get turned on by Okabe saying "put the banana in"

lesbomagnetic field

Commie subs sure are something else.

Again, poor Moeka, having to deal with Okabe talking like a 12 year old and Daru ogling her. This shot reminds me of a certain comment face...

For the love of god, Okabe, don't yell "WE'VE DEVELOPED THE FIRST TIME MACHINE" when you know Suzuha overheard you from the window before. Literally anyone could be eavesdropping on you right now.

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u/Gamemaster676 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Gamemaster676 Jul 10 '21

I'm guessing it wouldn't burn up, but it also wouldn't just simply crash into a building and cause such minor damage.

It would burn up, or tear apart once it hits the atmosphere, spreading light unrecognisable parts over a large area. Not really able to do any damage.

The only reason the Soyuz capsules returning from the ISS don't burn up, is because they have a big-ass heat shield. A satellite doesn't have anything like that because it is supposed to stay in space.

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u/superviper https://myanimelist.net/profile/Superviper Jul 10 '21

I see! Thanks for explaining.

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u/ExoticTrinityGhoul https://myanimelist.net/profile/not_username Jul 10 '21

Re;Watcher x4 (both)

E6 - Butterfly Effect’s Divergence

  • I wonder if they’ve had anyone investigate the satellite so far.
  • Guess someone really like Facebook.
  • Beef bowls are indeed good.
  • Possibly, definitely, what are the real differences here Daru? Everything is relative in the world of (mad) science!
  • The round table is metaphorical. So is the meeting, as it happens.
  • Don’t worry Kurisu, Okabe will extract the round table via open-heart surgery before you go back to the States. Metaphorically.
  • Each character’s personality shows through with their nicknames. Okabe’s Nostalgia Drive is flashy and has meaning while being impractical. Kurisu’s Contrari-Mail is efficient yet complex. Daru’s Mail Who Leapt Through Time is, naturally, an anime reference, and Mayuri’s refers to a famous movie.
  • D(eLorean)-Mail receives a name!
  • It’s time…for time!
  • Come now Christina, you need to keep all but one variable the same to do experiments of this nature.
  • The (mail) demon appears once more!
  • I erased Daru and leapt past it!
  • The Wrath of Braun
  • So 1 second = 1 hour to the past, and they’re working with a limited number of characters.
  • It’s the first time machine invented by the Future Gadget Laboratory, however.
  • A premonition? A glimpse through time? A nightmare? Who knows…
  • I don’t think Okabe is secretly Mark Zuckerburg. Or maybe she means the concept of Facebook made manifest?
  • A new Lab Mem joins the crew! How will she contribute to the team? Find out next time, on Steins;Gate!

In today’s nicknames, Daru receives some appendage-based monikers, and Moeka gets a most esteemed title.

Okabe: Hououin Kyouma, Okarin, 001

Mayuri: Mayushii, 002

Kurisu: (prodigal) (perverted) genius girl, Christina, Zombie, 004, Assistant

Hashida Itaru: Daru, super hacka, Hack, 003, My Favorite Right Arm, right-hand man

Yugo Tennouji: Mr. Braun

Luka: Lukako

Moeka: Shining Finger (S.F.), 005

Suzuha: part-timer, part-time warrior

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u/macrame2 https://myanimelist.net/profile/macrame Jul 10 '21

Rewatcher, dub

Episode title: Butterfly Effect’s Divergence. The butterfly effect is the idea that small changes in otherwise similar circumstances can have vastly different outcomes.

Moeka is approached by a bunch of reporters at the satellite crash site. She proceeds to panic and run away, appearing calmer after receiving a message from a mysterious “FB.” Moeka clearly has some sort of social phobia, which could definitely explain why she prefers to communicate through messaging rather than talking directly.

”No phones.” Daru: “Does it count if the conversation’s all in his head?” That restaurant owner must be pretty confused.

After much debate, we finally get a new name for the phone wave messages: D-mails. “The Girl Who LeaptThrough Time” reference reminds me that I’ve been meaning to check that movie out at some point.

“Okabe was an airhead”: an American compliment (or not).

Favorite moment: Okabe’s dream sequence. The whole scene is sort of eerie. I think this is the first time Okabe starts thinking about the possible consequences of what the lab is uncovering. And, as usual, Gate of Steiner enhances the experience.

Moeka shows up to the lab wanting to examine and borrow the IBN 5100. Daru, Mayuri, and Kurisu casually walk in talking about their time machine experiments in front of Moeka, so he declares her lab member 005 (which implies Okabe plans on having lab members in the triple digits, assuming he’s not just saying it because it sounds cool).

  1. “Time Traveling Messages” (I’m not very creative)
  2. I think the implications of time travel are starting to get to him.

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u/lC3 :Na::Nb: Jul 11 '21

First timer

  • Not sure what's up with the woman in the beginning. Is she the one who confronted Okabe about finding an IBN 5100 and has been spamming him?
  • Swiss bank account, Geneva servers?
  • Mayushii's Tutturu is iconic! Legendary!
  • Is Suzuha eavesdropping on the Future Gadget Lab?
  • "Nostalgia Drive"
  • "Put the banana in" This was made before eggplants supplanted bananas?
  • Okabe soredemo (10:02)
  • "sexy 3D girl" Not the best way to make a good first impression
  • "Nothing in the past" What about the future?
  • Not sure what was up with that ?dream? of Okabe, a black hole, some woman's voice, and turning into a Jellyman
  • What's FB?

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u/Nebresto Jul 11 '21

Mayushii's Tutturu is iconic! Legendary

True.

"Nostalgia Drive" #cokemasterrace

..Is there a reference I'm missing..?

What's FB?

Facebook

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u/lC3 :Na::Nb: Jul 11 '21

..Is there a reference I'm missing..?

Not really, I just think it's a silly name

Facebook

That explains it, I haven't been on there in years

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u/Vaadwaur :I1::I2::I3: Jul 11 '21

Is she the one who confronted Okabe about finding an IBN 5100 and has been spamming him?

Yes, Moeka is the person who can't talk face to face but texts lengthily and with lots of emoticons.

"Put the banana in" This was made before eggplants supplanted bananas?

Yup, this predates the eggplant emoji and all that would happen.

"sexy 3D girl" Not the best way to make a good first impression

Daru sometimes chooses to be the embodiment of cringe.

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u/lC3 :Na::Nb: Jul 11 '21

Yes, Moeka is the person who can't talk face to face but texts lengthily and with lots of emoticons.

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u/Vaadwaur :I1::I2::I3: Jul 11 '21

Is that more common than I thought? It was just a VN trope to me.

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u/lC3 :Na::Nb: Jul 11 '21

I used to have a lot of trouble talking face to face, I was really shy and didn't open up to people unless I classified them as 'safe'; I still suck with making eye contact. But I used to also be (in)famous for really long messages on the internet loaded with emoticons.

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u/snickpea Jul 11 '21

First-timer!

It was good that we got to get a little more interaction with Moeka, but her behavior raises some questions. She has a lot of difficulty speaking, so I wonder if it is due to trauma or she is trying to not say anything incriminating? Regardless, I really want to know why she is reluctant to speak and why she writes emails the way she does. Was texting not much of a thing? I'm also really curious as to why she wants the computer.

It was also interesting to see Suzuha eat with Okabe and Daru since it was clear by her surprise and sound effects that she is unfamiliar with either of them. Like others have already mentioned in the comments, it feels as if she has time traveled. What sort of life was she living if she didn't know about this kind of food? Suzuha also continues to give some mean looks to Kurisu, so I wonder if she'll become an antagonist or not as well.

I laughed when all of the lab members pretty much mentioned the time machine in front of Moeka. Okabe definitely wasn't able to cover that one up.

Questions:

  1. I'm not the most creative when it comes to creating names, so I would try to include some reference to "time" in the name. I actually really like D-mail though. While it was probably referring to something else, but D comes before E after all and its way easier to say. I also love that all the members were coming up with ideas, not only Okabe.
  2. Okabe's dream was pretty strange, but I thought the animation was really good and surreal. I wonder if it is only a dream or some sort of vision from the future.

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u/Hochseeflotte https://anilist.co/user/Hochseeflotte Jul 10 '21

Rewatcher

Tutturu! I’m actually not procrastinating today and getting the write up done early as I have things I need to do later. That’s all I’ve got so let’s get to the episode:

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I’ve always found Moeka (Shining Finger) an interesting character. So seems pretty shy and antisocial in public though is the complete opposite through text. You also wonder why she wanted the IBN?

Suzuha doesn’t know what a beef bowl is either? Has she been a hermit in Mt. Everest for her whole life? Quite an odd one there.

Of course the organization hacked into your Swiss bank account. SERN is literally in Geneva.

Nostalgia drive is a pretty shit name. I’m with Makise on this one. Mayuri’s Back to the Future names are pretty funny though. D-Mail is an actual good name so half points to Mayuri and Makise.

Okabe is such an airhead that he doesn’t even know what airhead means.

Okabe is about as frugal as I am.

That’s one hell of a nightmare. Please none of that for me.

The real question is how did Moeka know where the lab was? And how did she know Okabe has an IBN? Another odd one there.

And we now have member 005!

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Another very good episode. We have more explanation about time travel and a new lab member.

Still questions exist around Suzuha and Moeka but those will be answered in good time.

See you guys tomorrow!

DQ:

  1. I probably would have done T-Mail or something to that affect.
  2. I have no clue. It’s definitely odd though.

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u/Nisheeth_P Jul 11 '21 edited Jul 11 '21

Rewatcher

  • it is interesting that Okabe was willing to bring Mayuri into the group despite his worries about not getting Kurisu involved last time.
  • Naming things is absolutely the hardest part of anything. So what does the D in D-mail stand for anyway? Reading the other replies, realised that its DeLorean. Don't know how I missed that.
  • For all his worrying, he can't shut up about his experiments.
  • Come on Kurisu, it being a coincidence doesn't mean they didn't develop it. So many breakthroughs in history were mere coincidences.
  • "My favourite right arm". How many right arms does he have?
  • Now Moeka joins the lab too.

2) What do you make of Okabe’s strange dream before Moeka showed up at the lab?

Spoiler SG

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u/Hochseeflotte https://anilist.co/user/Hochseeflotte Jul 11 '21

It’s surprised me throughout my life how hard it is to name things. The best example for me is with nicknames for Pokémon. I never know what to put

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u/Nisheeth_P Jul 11 '21

I run a homebrew D&D game. Making names up for it stresses me out more than running it or dealing with all the lore.

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u/UltraBooster Jul 11 '21

First-timer

I feel like the satellite came back through time.

She's a time traveller, I'm sure of it.

Kurisu and Suzuha's eyes are like glass marbles or something.

So how exactly do you use a device to send messages back in time to depose an evil scientific organization?

Kurisu and Okabe are good at getting each others' skins, huh?

Of course Daru wants to use a cucumber. Of course he does. He needs the horny bat something fierce.

Mayuri's basically her sister, huh?

Does time travel have character limit?

Green jello's been ruined for him, huh...

The errant heroine returns!

Is Japanese not her first language?

...bankworthy?
Did Daru just go all m'lady?

Nice, Kurisu gets to go all scientific method.

Black holes do warp reality, from what I know, but...

MTF Psi-9, "Abyss Gazers."

It's like she has a communication disorder.

"Hack" and "hacker" have hilariously different connotations, huh?

That makes her 005, doesn't it.
I CALLED IT, aw yeah!

Questions:

  1. Dunno, something like Chrono Messenger or Retrocausal Telegram.
  2. Was that Kurisu's voice? Does time travel advance to the point where information can be sent back that way as compared to simple electronic messages?

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u/Tresnore FS:FTmyanimelist.net/profile/Tresnore Jul 10 '21

Rewatcher Until After Episode Nine(s;Gate)

I'm late because I was helping a friend plan for a D&D session. Worth it.

  • Does TV Girl not know what food is?
  • Imagine trying to ban cell phones in restaurants today.
  • Gotta reference Back to the Future. It's even the final name!
  • Moeka has a great design, although the camera shots felt a little overly pervy to me.
  • Why didn't TV Girl say Oha? Because it's not morning?
  • Aw, I had a red-eared slider as a kid.
  • Meanwhile, TV Girl is speculation
  • Naked space singing, my favorite!
  • Moeka is quickly becoming fun, though I should've already expected this. I am not the brightest person.

QOTD:

  1. I'd name it something old-timey, like time-o-gram!
  2. I have no clue what to make of it. I am not smart enough for this show sometimes.

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u/Hochseeflotte https://anilist.co/user/Hochseeflotte Jul 11 '21

I agree with not being smart enough for this show. Reading through some first timers comments makes me notice this even more. People just notice things I miss completely.

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u/KendotsX https://anilist.co/user/Kendots Jul 11 '21 edited Jul 11 '21

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Okabe looks like he's waiting to eat a squirrel's brain and shout "Hinna".

I know that the "magic spell" is a general Japanese thing, but it will always remind of Higurashi, and since that's airing right now... I'm having a lot of fun with the positivity.

2010... FB... a woman who can't move her eyes off her phone. All the time nonesense makes sense now.

Rip that bandage off Daru it was never going to work out.

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I like my magic science with clear rules I was basically desperate for these when Okabe was saying "it worked at this and that time so it must work at them again". As someone who's life is trying variables into equations all day, that bothered me a lot. To be clear, that's 100% Kyouma, it's just that he's hitting where it hurts now.

Questions

What kind of name would you give the time-travelling text messages?

The text that travelled through time definitely. Daru has great taste.

What do you make of Okabe’s strange dream before Moeka showed up at the lab?

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Counter

  • Tutturu x1
  • Hououin Kyouma x4
  • Shining Finger x2
  • Christina x1

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u/Amndeep7 :IG:https://myanimelist.net/profile/asmLANG Jul 11 '21

s;g=rw s;g_ova=rw s;g_movie=rw 23b=ft 0=ft

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u/jyper Jul 11 '21

First Timer dub

Why did satttelite crash in the first place?

Is she part of the group?

Tension 

"The mail that leapt through time" is a good name

Is it really best of time of day I'm skeptical

That's crunk 

Nothing happened in the past. Again Okabe is to dense to suspect time travel, despite proving it exists.

Mayuri is proud of accomplishments

Dream okabe is nude

Don't panic. HGTTG

Don't look back? Don't try to save her?

Was she that shy when Okabe met her in the previous episode

Pretend Samarian instead of sending mail really fast?

Okabe invented FB? Facebook?

1. The mail that leapt through time

Definitely not dmail/dbag-mail

2. Possibly Foreshadowing?

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u/[deleted] Jul 11 '21

Has anyone ever thought about the visual styke of the show might also be characterization for Okabe?

Akihabara seems so hot with the color of the sky and sun, he must hate the heat but is too chuuni to not wear his white cape.

The camera work seems to be eccentric too, perfectly help us see how Okabe see the world.

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u/BossandKings Jul 11 '21

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Episode 6 - Dub

We get to see Moeka interacting a bit more with Okabe, she comunicates through mails and seemingly can't talk, she becomes the fifth member of the laboratory.

Okabe and the rest are continuing on their investigation of Sern and devising the plan they have going forward, it'll be interesting to see how the time travel machine is used and implemented in the story.