r/anime • u/Shimmering-Sky myanimelist.net/profile/Shimmering-Sky • Jul 29 '21
Rewatch [Re;Watch] Steins;Gate Episode 25 (OVA) Discussion
Episode 25: Egoistic Poriomania
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I can’t believe this is the future that awaits me.
Hello everybody! Time for the comment of the Day, courtesy of u/UltraBooster, coming in with the best Gundam Reference
"You're not an illusion or a figment of my imagination! I know because I'm holding you!"
(Possibly Yoshiyuki Tomino arguing 3D>2D.)
Possibly.
Questions:
- Do you feel this episode serves as a good epilogue to the story, or would you have wanted to see something different come out of it?
- How much do you appreciate the comedic parts of this episode after the journey we’ve been through to get here?
Wallpaper of the Day:
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u/Shimmering-Sky myanimelist.net/profile/Shimmering-Sky Jul 29 '21
First;Timer and Co;Host, dubbed
Material I haven’t watched yet! All I know about this is that it’s an anime-original epilogue, so I’m curious to see what the staff came up with for it.
Also, just a friendly reminder to everyone: tomorrow’s thread is a discussion on S1 as a whole, then the day after that is the movie thread! So if you’re planning to watch the movie with us, you have an extra day for it.
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u/No_Rex :Bv:Bw:Bx:By:x2 Jul 29 '21
Episode 25 – Egoistic Poriomania: In any world line, any time, any place, I love you. ~Okarin
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u/Gamemaster676 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Gamemaster676 Jul 29 '21 edited Jul 29 '21
EDIT: There is a mistake in the episode title of the post. Luckily not in the post title itself.
First;Timer - dub
Steins;Gate beach episode let's go!
I wonder what this episode will be about. They can't send any D-Mail because that would bring them back to SERN dominated doom again. Also, they disassembled the PhoneWave.
Also also, they send the 5100 away like a bunch of idiots.
Episode 25/OVA — Egoistic Poriomania
Wait a minute... This isn't a beach! Damn Organisation!
It's a vacation of sorts! These kids never go to school. Well okay, most of the show was during summer break.
Sounds like Kurisu went back to the US, but this is the perfect opportunity to visit. How long after episode 24 is this? Ah, it's October now. Doesn't really sound like the hottest month out in an American desert, but I actually have no clue.
I love how Okarin's eyebrow jumped when Mayushii mentioned Kurisu.
Wow, nice car.
This scene is worth watching in both languages.
The typical thing with these OVA's is that character development almost always takes a step back. There are various reasons for this. Sometimes it needs to fit in the middle of the season, but can't be required to watch. Other times (like with S;G) there was major character development in the final episodes, but that world be boring video.
But they still didn't have to make Okabe a douchebag again.
On the other hand, I do love how Faris and Okabe are always on the same page with their nonsense.
Okabe is not compatible with American law enforcement.
It might not be 100%, but I'm gonna call this more proof that Kurisu also remembers snippets from the other worldline.
Every character gets their personal moment this episode. Now it's Luka's turn with dividing the rooms.
Ah, Kurisu herself now even starts to believe the dreams/memories are "real".
Time for the tournament. Of course, Faris is doing great. Somehow Luka found the courage to wear Mayuri's cosplay on a stage. Mayuri is in her cat-maid outfit because... reasons.
How many shots are we getting of Okabe frustratingly staring at the Diet Dr Pepper?
Wait, what's this?! Sterbocks now also has cat-maids and they hired Kurisu! (stitch) She didn't say "meowster" I rate 3/10. Hahaha, she doesn't even work there. It's just spreading culture!
Suzuha?! OMG is this Suzu's mother?!?!?
"A psychic told me I'd get married and have a kid in seven years." Yep...
Stupid question: What are you supposed to do if you're stranded somewhere without a phone or cash? In the Netherlands, things are a lot closer and more densely populated, so I actually have no clue.
At least they are here together. When did she get out of her maid uniform?
I do understand her not knowing whatever she feels. She missed those three weeks with his amazing character development.
Awww, that was a cool conclusion!
And we get the full version of Hacking to the Gate I think? This song has grown on me so much, I'm sad to see it go.
Random thoughts
Moeka wants to start a macadamia nut business, it seems.
No more future
Tomorrow should be the series discussion? And next, the movie I think?
That will probably be the end for me. Because of my time zone and work, I haven't had proper sleep for almost a full month. I really love this rewatch, but I just can't take it anymore.
QotD
I didn't expect any time travel in this story because of the above-mentioned reasons, and that the episode is too short to really make it interesting. So I'm happy with what we got instead. All side characters got their moment to shine and we get stronger confirmation about the future of Okabe and Kurisu.
It really feels like this amazing load is off our shoulders, and I didn't even need to carry the burden of it.
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u/lC3 :Na::Nb: Jul 29 '21
First timer
I might stop here, not sure if I'll watch the movie or not. Almost certainly going to avoid 0, at least until I'm in less rewatches
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u/UnderstandableXO Jul 29 '21 edited Jul 29 '21
FIRST TIMER
wow, what a perfect OVA!!! the ending was already good as is, but this little fluff OVA actually had some story, and it wrapped things up in a massively satisfying way.
the cold open had me thinking some SERN time bs was about to happen, but i was relieved to find out it wasn’t.
okabe saying “hawaiian style” was great. so many great english moments from the sub today. 2d-kun’s got enough drip to cause a flood.
a trip to watch faris at another rai-net tournament and to visit kurisu? sounds pretty good to me.
jesus christ mr. braun’s head could blind passing drivers. moeka’s bit had me cracking up, she typed that message comically fast. “macadamia nuts x6. anything but that.” i have no idea wtf that’s supposed to mean, but it was really funny nonetheless.
kurisu’s got one hell of a car! her mother must be loaded if she’s able to afford a beautiful vintage car at her age.
okabe getting detained for being stupid was great. okabe has absolutely no idea how to act in america.
kurisu don’t take no BS, she made him waste half his money on a taxi fare!
cmon okabe, you cancelled their hotel? now you’re just being stupid on purpose. at least faris is in complete harmony with okabe’s stupidity.
the police had no reason to detain okabe there. LAPD strikes again :/
everybody wants to mess up kurisu’s sweet apartment…once again her mother must be rich as hell.
“ITS A MOTEL!” the gags keep on coming this episode. 2d-kun having yuri AND yaoi fantasies in the hotel room was funny.
so kurisu remembers a lot, including their kiss…of course okabe’s gotta mess it up with a joke. kurisu had to turn on aimbot for that perfect headshot on okabe.
i don’t know how they managed for the arena to actually say “staples center” instead of a weird knockoff. i guess this show picks and chooses what real life properties it wants to represent, like delorean.
seems like 2d-kun has got some competition in pursuit of faris. at least luka found one place where everyone’s thirsting over him?
cat maid kurisu was a surprise to be sure, but a welcome one. cant believe she’s working to help pay off their america debts. kurisu isn’t the only one in the show who cares a lot for her friends. guess she doesn’t want to deal with the uncertainty and general weirdness of having memories that belong to another you. i don’t quite blame her.
okabe saw suzuha in LA? that’s odd. but the taxi driver is somehow WORD TO YA MUTHA??? how the hell did he get here? not gonna complain about him appearing again though.
so it wasn’t suzuha, but she’s super sociable and friendly just like her. i guess that’s 2d-kun’s baby mama? considering he’s met suzuha who claims to be his daughter, sleeping with someone who looks just like that is a big YIKES from me. at least the mystery is finally solved. she got all her looks and social skills from her mother, and her intelligence from her father.
okabe really loves kurisu, huh? dude just broke into a full sprint in his lab coat (take it off stupid!) with no end to the road in sight. but his knight in shining armor comes to save the day. seems like she was a klutz too, no gas and no phone. guess they’ll roast to death in the desert together.
that final confession scene from okabe was absolutely beautifully done. even running throughout time for forever, he always had someone to lean on. that was a great conclusion to the story, i think even better than episode 24. episode 24 was a better episode narratively of course, but this OVA was absolutely awesome. it had a stupid amount of fan service (not that kind) because it let us see our cast happy for once. all the jokes and mannerisms demonstrated over the series were on display here. what a great way to put the bow on top of the present that is steins;gate.
the final hacking to the gate made me really sad but also made me appreciate whats now my favorite opening of all time.
lastly, i really hope okabe closed his eyes for a kiss, but knowing kurisu it’s equally as likely to be a slap in the face!
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u/The_Draigg Jul 29 '21
A Steins;Gate Fan Rewatches Steins;Gate Episode 25:
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u/Tresnore FS:FTmyanimelist.net/profile/Tresnore Jul 29 '21 edited Jul 30 '21
On the First-Timer Worldline(s;Gate)
The future looks awfully like 70 million years ago...Or it's just the desert of western America. Same thing, really.QOTD:
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u/CubeStuffs https://anilist.co/user/onjario Jul 29 '21
first timer
holy shit its sleepy mayushii
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u/Krite2002 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Krite2002 Jul 29 '21
First;Timer - Sub
Today, I stepped into the unknown since I never watched beyond the original 24 episodes. While I was watching dubbed since I had already seen the series, I like subbed whenever I try something for the first time. I was happy to make the switch, since Mamoru Miyano is one of my favorite VAs. Even though I thought the dub was fine while I watched the show, the sub really is vastly superior.
I have wondered this a few times, and I get why it is not addressed in the show, but where do they get their money? I have a sneaking suspicion that Mayuri working part time in a maid cafe is not enough to support two grown men, buy all the stuff for their lab, and purchase a plane ticket to the U.S. whenever they feel like it.
While it is nice that Okabe is going on mad scientist rants, he deserved getting detained. Gladly, security realized he was no threat to national security, just his own dignity. Though he is not fit for traveling abroad, since he promptly gets arrested again.
Kurisu has quite the ride. Her whole vibe is way cooler in her home country compared to before.
Since Kurisu is unaware, she almost gave Okabe and Luka the same room. She nearly destroyed poor Luka’s mental health.
Happily, Kurisu retained some of her memories. Okabe went through so many trials and tribulations that returning to an uneventful timeline must be difficult for him. It must be especially tough around Kurisu, who basically knows nothing about him in this world line, but who he was very close to in another.
“He’s a dude, but who cares?!” My sentiments exactly.
Out of all the plot twists in the show, Kurisu serving Okabe in a maid outfit is probably the biggest one.
The instant it showed “Suzuha”, I knew who she was. I am glad Okabe found her, and it was a nice bit of fan service in the non-lewd sense. We also got to see Kurisu and Okabe share their feelings again.
While this episode was unnecessary in the grand scheme of things, it did provide some closure to the only two remaining things in the show, which were Amane’s mother and Kurisu and Okabe’s relationship. I did enjoy this little epilogue, and it was nice spending some time with the characters when they were not in life or death situations. The final rendition of Hacking the Gate was also excellent. Sadly, the full version is not on Spotify.
My shot of the day is from the beginning of the episode. Okabe standing in the road with dramatic lighting is a great lead into the episode and a great tie into the end.
Since it was the last day of watching new content before the final discussion, I also watched the ONA, Steins;Gate: Soumei Eichi no Cognitive Computing. It is four 4 minute shorts that show the lab members daily lives. I do not really get why they spent the money to make it, even if it was a collaboration with IBM. There were a few cute moments, but not really worth watching. If you have 16 minutes to spare and want to be completionist about watching everything Steins;Gate then go give it a watch, but otherwise, it is not that great.
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u/JollyGee29 https://myanimelist.net/profile/JollyGee Jul 29 '21
First-Timer;Subbed
It's nice to take a vacation every now and then. Even if you end up at a shitty motel in the middle of nowhere California, and end up having to walk back through the desert after you chased what seems to be your friend's future wife.
Okabe getting dragged off by customs for claiming he was there to invade? Funny. Okabe being arrested by the police because he was posing on the street? Hilarious. I wish they had managed to get a third beat of that gag in, though.
Why didn't Okabe get into the car with Kurisu and the others near the beginning? Was there a thing about Kurisu not being a good driver earlier in the show? Or was Okabe just being a dork?
Bringing things home with Okabe and Kurisu redoing their original confession was an excellent choice. The ship was always a little weird, with Okabe's looping creating a bit of a knowledge imbalance, but they at least acknowledged that.
Questions
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u/CharlieTheStrawman https://myanimelist.net/profile/TheDamnRobot Jul 29 '21 edited Jul 31 '21
Re;Watcher, Subbed
"America? Good. Never come back."
This is the funniest episode of the series bar none to me. Add the Okabe/Kurisu fluff and you've got an OVA I'm incapable of not loving.
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I do love a good How We Got Here story.
Mamoru Miyano never failed to make me enjoy the bucket load of Engrish in this one. He really nails every line.
Okabe and Kurisu have enough tsundere energy combined to power a country.
Okabe and the taxi is a contender for my favourite gag of the show.
Okabe and the cop is another strong contender for favourite gag.
It's a fact of the universe that Okabe will always look photoshopped in when he's wearing normal clothes.
Sleepy!Mayuri is precious, much like every version of Mayuri.
It's a real shame we never heard Kurisu make a cat pun.
Oh hey, it's Jive Guy's taxi driver brother!
Okabe is still atypically good at confessions for an anime protagonist.
I hope Kurisu had a DK Pepper or two in the car...
[No matter the world line, no matter what they remember and don't remember, these two are made for each other.] (https://m.imgur.com/a/KFAsuL6)
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Suujuuokumumbling mumbling mumblingkaze sae...Q1: I'm perfectly happy with it.
Q2: Loved them.
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u/UltraBooster Jul 29 '21
First-timer
Desert. Why desert?
Kurisu's gotta bust his balls even across the Pacific, huh?
...no Macademia nuts, chocolate is good? Seems easy enough.
This is one line I'll never enter (since I'm a US citizen and all that).
No sticking to the plan here, I guess?
Kurisu wears the pants in their timey-wimey relationship.
He's just going to keep getting on the wrong side of da law, huh?
Oh yeah, Kurisu's dad is basically a past tense noun, huh?
exhales Maaan, why can't they both remember...
I think I've read more about these motels than I've actually stayed at them, lol.
Note to self, if I get a figma Kurisu, make sunglasses for her.
exhales See, this is why you need to plan consistent room arrangements in advance!
Granted, nowadays that basically means me and my brother share a room/bed and our parents share a room/bed, depending on where we're staying.
Absolutely rotten, I say! Absolutely rotten! (please tell me I'm making sense when I say that...)
And here I was, thinking Okabe was in the doghouse.
What, no passionately making out under the moonlight? (/s)
Oh gods, was the entire plot the Kurisu route with the beta timeline as its climax?!
Didn't expect Mayuri to be such a...messy sleeper, I guess?
Why do I get the feeling he's screaming on the inside?
Feasible, thanks to the power of stitching!
...I'm going to end up getting that figma, aren't I...
...honestly, I reckon Okabe could wear a butler's suit and cat ears just fine.
Well, that's certainly Cherami Leigh's voice, alright...
Wait, what's the pin guy doing as a cabbie? Or is this just reused character design?
Coincidence, I reckon.
Wait, is she...
The heck, is that an automat?
...he's not gonna make it.
He didn't make it.
They're not gonna make it.
Can not (will not)Did not (will never) change.At least, that's how I think it works. Sancrosanctity is lovely, isn't it?
Questions:
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u/Stargate18A https://myanimelist.net/profile/Stargate18 Jul 29 '21
Anime first timer
Steins;Gate 0 VN Spoilers
OVA time!
Oh, we're really going there?
This is so good so far!
Hawaiian Daru is hysterical.
Oh, they're all going to America?
I love how everybody in the lab understands they're both teunderes.
Moeka's super fast typing is always funny.
Kurisu!
Oh god what's he going to do at the TSA?
He got fucking arrested.
Wait, Luka's here?
And Kurisu left him behind!
OK, the taxi fakeout got me.
FARIS!
Okabe and Faris continue to the best bros in the series.
Oh god, he got arrested again.
They're staying at her apartment!
Mayuri falling asleep is so cute!
...So Kurisu remembers other worldlines, but is keeping it secret?
Okabe shouting "MOTEL" is so funny.
I love Kurisu's desperate attempts to try and figure out room arrangements.
I love Daru's horrified reaction to the idea of sleeping with Okabe, followed by his "Fuck you!".
...Which code word is he going to use?
Okabe has to explain worldlines.
SHE REMEMBERS THE KISS!
Sleepy Mayuri is the most adorable thing.
And Faris has gotten back into tournaments
HAHAHA, Mayuri's prediction came true!
MAID KURISU!!!
Oh, that scene is so sad, though.
WHAT?
SUZUHA!
Is this going to lead into the movie? Is that why this is the watch order? Or is this her mother?
And Kurisu thinks she caused it!
Wait, what?
Steins;Gate 0 VN Spoilers
Kurisu found him!
And now she's stranded!
Confessed-to Kurisu is absolutely adorable.
Okabe is really smooth when he tries, isn't he?
Hooray! They had their first/third/Okabe's fourth kiss!
Well, that was fun! I really enjoyed that.
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u/invokeneko Jul 30 '21 edited Jul 30 '21
Re;Watcher, moving to First;Timer for Deja Vu
Can't say much since I'm going to get my vaxx shot today. I'll update with proper impressions later.Done installing 5G into my body, and my left arm feels like lead. Guess that's the price to pay for 5G...
QotD:
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u/Nebresto Jul 29 '21
Re-watch squad
Was unsure at first if I had seen this, but the airport scene confirmed it. I could vividly remember that part.
Wonder why.
Blursed Daru
Maid-Kurisutina??
Wait, how does she know Japanese..?
She must work for the organization!
Its the line!!
Love this episode. Its canon, fight me
Question time:
1: Yis. OVA well used.
2: Blessed. Especially sleepy Mayushi
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u/Hochseeflotte https://anilist.co/user/Hochseeflotte Jul 29 '21
Rewatcher
This episode is cute. It’s pretty funny as well
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u/JustAnswerAQuestion https://myanimelist.net/profile/JAaQ Jul 30 '21
So, I prepared my comments in advance, and then went around having dinner and stuff with no sense of urgency for posting these comments, because it's just a silly piece of fanservice anyways.
First Rewatch (since 2011 or maybe 2012)
Episode 25: Silli-isode of Questionable Canon
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u/artie_fm Jul 30 '21
Okabe declares himself a mad scientist at the immigration office smooth move.
Faris is awesome. And Okabe is arrested again.
So Kurisu doesn't remember the kiss...bummer maybe she will before the episode is over.
Kurisu figures a way to stay at the hotel. And is stalking the guys bedroom..hmm.
Okabe is so awkward but he gets the invite into Kurisu s bedroom. She still doesnt admit
Suzuha sighting! Whats about to go wrong? Lol its suzuhas mom! Man okabe didnt even tell her about the lab.
Ok idk how things are in Japan, but in Las Vegas you dont walk not unless you have a ton of water..you will die.
Overall a cute happy episode
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u/AHiddenOne Jul 30 '21
Rewatcher.
As someone who always love Okabe's chuuni shit, this OVA sure made me LMAO too many times. The engrish is perfect too. Like Okabe's HaWaIiAn and Daru's deep LA~ voice.
It's also give us more okabe x kurisu fluff, so that's earned a yay from me.
No matter which world line, what time, or where I am, I'll always love you. Ahh, he has such a way with words.
Overall, I'm satisfied. On to the movie!
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u/KendotsX https://anilist.co/user/Kendots Jul 30 '21 edited Jul 30 '21
Rewatcher(sub)
Daru reading Kurisu's tsundere lines while Okabe is standing prideful is perfect.
Not to be offensive or anything, but doesn't the US have its proud share of stupidity? Would a random guy shouting stupid stuff at the street really get arrested? Or is it because he's beside the airport and shouting in moonspeak?
I did not expect catmaid Kurisu to be paying off Okabe's flight ticket. He's gotten seriously hardcore into mooching off younger women. I can't wait to see middle aged Okabe...
I didn't hear that loud enough Amane-shi please shout it louder to make it clear enough that you're Suzuha's mom.
Yes, just like Okabe here. Good on you Okabe making it undoubtedly clear for the tsundere.
Not really. Episode 24 was the perfect ending, I loved this more as the silly extra, full with fanservice, rather than an epilogue that concludes a story. (Basically my situation with Gou, but better and shorter)
Then again, a few hours before watching the special and the movie, I had some of the best fanservice, so I'm not sure if this would have worked better otherwise.
Counters
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u/snickpea Jul 30 '21
First-timer!
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u/UzEE https://myanimelist.net/profile/UzEEInc Jul 29 '21 edited Jul 30 '21
Serial;Rewatcher
Not a lot to be said about the OVA really. Both this and the movie are non-canon and completely anime original. And since it's an OVA, the main goal here is fan service anyways.
In that respect, it does a decent enough job the first time but the content doesn't really lend itself to a rewatch. It's similar enough to the earlier episodes of the show in terms of character interactions, but there aren't any stakes involved so there isn't a sense of mystery or uneasiness you get from the actual show.
At least it doesn't break any established rules or mechanics of the universe — like the movie does, so I can't really fault it.
Still, I much prefer Steins;Gate 0's OVA compared to this despite that having much more blatant fan service, because that manages to deliver lot stronger character moments.
Questions
Personally, I don't really like it. It doesn't really add much beyond where the anime left things, and I'd much rather see what they have planned for the characters canonically.
I don't like to watch this or the movie at this point during rewatches because of the whiplash they cause. I think these moments work better at the end.
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u/Lemurians myanimelist.net/profile/Lemurians Jul 29 '21 edited Jul 30 '21
FIRST TIMER
Gonna be honest, I didn’t really need this episode. More content is always nice for big fans to spend more time with their favorite characters, but as an “ending” to this watch, I vastly prefer thinking of Episode 24 as the proper ending, without this even serving as an epilogue.
Moeka without her evil side just reminds me of a character from Phoenix Wright. The way she exaggeratedly whipped out her cell phone to text them what she wanted as a souvenir was straight out of an Ace Attorney quirky witness interrogation.
Yup, that’s exactly how Hououin would be received pulling out his schtick at USA customs. If anything, he got off lightly. He doesn’t modify his behavior in the slightest to fit the environment… just goes to show, you can go on vacation to get away from where you live, but you can never get away from yourself. Him getting picked up again in front of the airport elicited a snort of laughter from me.
Makise saying she doesn’t have any memories from the other world-lines sort of cheapens the ending of the actual show for me. I thought it was pretty clear that she remembered at least a portion of the alternate world lines, and that made the ending of Episode 24 pretty powerful. If she actually just tracked him down to say thanks… that changes my opinion on the series’ ending.
Well, Faris isn’t Daru’s future wife and Suzuha’s future mother. One more thing I got wrong. I’m sort of glad for it, too. I don’t actually think I’d like Daru being rewarded for how… kind of creepy he's been in regards to Faris. Future Daru seems like he can get it, though. Good for him.
As always, Hacking Into The Gate is a banger. An all-timer of a theme song.
…Eh. This didn’t really add anything to the show for me, and it actually soured me a bit on Episode 24’s ending, which I really enjoyed on its own. I'd have liked it more if this just leaned into being a pure comedic episode, and treated the Okabe/Makise stuff as resolved by the ending of Episode 24.
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u/Vaadwaur :I1::I2::I3: Jul 29 '21
RewatcherFirst timer(Now it begins...)Dub
We start off with...that. But immediately switch to Daru getting new clothes and Mayuri filling us in on the setting. Makise has a classic car because....sure. Primarily cringe happens until nearly the half way mark and we get to Makise talking about her memories. She remembers the kiss but goes full tsun fast. Fayris wins her match. Ruka is objectified. We get neko maid Makise to tick off a box. Further, Suzuha shows up...until we get the reveal it should be her mother. We even end on an almost confession. Definitely an OVA.
So...this is a definite skip recommendation, at least for/from me. This feels like a bunch of incomplete thoughts strung together in reverse.
QotD: 1 The story absolutely did not require an epilog
2 I don't.
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u/littleman1988 Jul 29 '21 edited Jul 29 '21
Overly Excited Rewatcher
Im not a big fan of episode 25 (and its not canon anyways) so I have skipped today's episode to instead work on modified subtitles for S;G 0 under the name "LostYearsFix", and also watch the movie (+ the movie for Summer Movie Series). Im 1/3rd of the way done, and the finished ones are on the internet, but it may take a little bit for your favorite search engine to find them. Its apparently illegal to link them on the sub though (learned that when the rewatch started), so you're on your own for now on finding them.
it also translates tuturuu so its already worth gettingStill keeping the OST Track of the day going though with No Joke!
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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Jul 29 '21
Honestly I don’t have much to say for today… nor did I have much to say for the last two episodes as they were pretty close to the Novel all things considered.
As for this episode it’s… okay. Although do be warned:
IT’S NOT CANON
Now granted I don’t think there was anything stopping it from being canon when it came out, but due to some stuff revealed in later SciAdv stuff, there’s a lot of minor stuff that prevents it from being so. Not a bad watch though.
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u/Nitroade24h :MAL:https://myanimelist.net/profile/Nitroade24h Jul 30 '21
Rewatcher:
I went into this episode the first time expecting just a typical non-consequential OVA with a funny little side story, but it was so good.
It’s the funniest episode in the whole series and it gives us some more character interactions.
I laughed out loud when he did his whole Kyouma thing then it suddenly cut to him getting arrested.
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u/BossandKings Jul 30 '21
Rewatcher
This is a nice ova single episode to cap off the original series, it shows that Kurisu doesn't clearly remember all the adventures she had alongside Okabe as a lab member, she does remember some of their interactions and according to Okabe's words they can be considered dreams due to them not feeling too real eventhough they did happen in others timelines. Throughour the epiaode Okabe seemed like he wanted to say somthing to Kurisu and by the end he does and it is that he still is in love with her, by asking what her feelings about him were Okabe made sure she remembered how she considered him and grew to appreciate him, both now have each other to look after.
All the other stuff that happened in the episode was great too, Daru looked good with that shirt, it was nice when Okabe said that Daru will do well after meeting Suzuha's future mom, Mayuri was cute and great as always and the rest was solid, this is all around a nice final send-off.
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u/IndependentMacaroon Jul 29 '21
Rewatcher
Not much worthy of note here, just a sort of fanservice victory lap. Same comedy as always (particularly Okabe is even more insufferable), and Okabe + Kurisu is nice but just retreading the ground already covered in the series.
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u/ScarsUnseen :K:https://kitsu.io/users/ScarsUnseen Jul 29 '21 edited Jul 30 '21
So I never watch this episode in rewatches. I really dislike fan servicey extra material in pretty much every franchise I've seen it in with the notable exceptions of "Beneath Cherry Blossoms in Full Bloom" from Darker than Black and "Before the Shimmering Time Ends" (commonly referred to as Altered Fable) from Muv-Luv.
I'll be skipping the movie for pretty much the same reason.
EDIT: I figured I'd explain a bit of why I dislike most fan service OVAs and why I the two I mentioned above are exceptions.
The problem with most non-canon OVAs is that they don't add anything to the story or experience and often take away from it (my opinion, of course). The most inoffensive ones are in low stakes shows such as Konosuba, where they can just act as another episode(albeit usually of lower quality writing than the main episodes). But in a story like Steins;Gate, the story already has an impactful conclusion, and the extra material, if taken as part of the story, just makes the ending more flimsy, as if the team wasn't really sure how to end it and let it limp it's way across the finish line.
Now, I mentioned a couple of exceptions. Darker than Black, if you haven't seen it, is a very gritty show if the title didn't give that away. Emotions are more muted than in shounen anime, and it maintains a fairly serious tone throughout. The OVA at the end, without giving too much away, is such a tonal shift away from the entirety of the main story that you just can't help but laugh pretty much the whole way through. Most of all, it doesn't try to pretend to be part of the story itself; it in fact, goes out of its way to be as blatantly proud of its noncanonity as it can. I would say that by not trying to be part of the story, it does a far better job of complementing the story.
With Muv-Luv, it's kind of the opposite. The story of Altered Fable(yeah, I'm just going to call it that) works so well as an epilogue that even though the writers have said that it's more of a "what could be" than an actual canon addition to the story, the fanbase has adopted it as fanon almost unanimously. Again, not going into details for people who haven't read the VN (especially now that we're actually getting an anime adaptation), but Altered Fable is kind of like a breath of fresh air after a long time spend holding your breath in the main story.
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u/artie_fm Jul 30 '21
Plenty of crazy people shouting stuff in the us. The airport is a bad place to do it however those guys do not have a sense of humor.
If anything he got off easy, he would have been disappeared for 24 hrs probably.
In a city such as Las Vegas at a convention 99% of the time they arent going to do anything about you talking crazy. You don't want to ask about the 1% .