Talk:Rintaro Okabe/@comment-247583-20170318183249/@comment-7888499-20170318204007

Before the movie there is a short story that takes place in December 2010, covering Okabe's PTSD and a search for Nae in Akihabara, when she goes missing. It features a letter that Kurisu writes to Okabe for his birthday.

You can read our summary of the movie here, which takes place in the summer of 2011. Before the events of movie there are a couple of fluffy Drama CD's featuring more adorable awkward comedy about Kurisu and Okabe's feelings for each other than the movie itself could fit in.

After the movie, there was a light novel planned called The Committee of Antimatter, which would take place in 2016. However, the light novel was cancelled shortly before it was due for release without much explanation as to why. Because of that, we cannot be sure if the Steins;Gate creators are considering to pull the story in an entirely different direction or if they are planning on eventually using the plot in a different medium, i.e. making a visual novel instead of a light novel out of it.

This wiki's own article on the canceled light novel is still in sore need of filling out, but here is the Anime News Network's article on it, link. In Kurisu's profile it reads, "Kurisu Makise, age 24. After graduating from the Victor Condoria graduate school, and currently is an associate member of the neuroscience research team at the same college. Although she is Okabe's long-distance girlfriend, the two are very clumsy with their feelings, and there has been no progress in their relationship." Once again, we don't know if that lack of development will become cannon or not, since the light novel was scrapped, but some fans feel that a slow developing relationship suits the couple, since they are long distance and both extremely clumsy.

Related series set in the same world as Steins;Gate do not give us insight on Okabe and Kurisu's relationship, but Daru and Kurisu's names appear in both Chaos;Child and Robotics;Notes -Nae also is a character that actually appears in Robotics;Notes as one of the good guys.-. Chaos;Child takes place in 2015, so one year before the Committee of Antimatter light novel would have taken place. In it Kurisu is name-dropped as a senpai of one of the C;C characters, named Kunosato Mio, and Daru agrees to give refuge in Akihabara to some of the C;C character's at said Mio's request. Robotics;Notes takes place in 2019, and in it Kurisu and Daru are online friends who help the story's hero defeat the enemy. And, while Okabe's name is not mentioned, the name "Operation Lævateinn" among other things points to him being involved and still the leader of the Future Gadget Laboratory. From what I've heard Okabe also shows up in cameo in the spin-off ROBOTICS;NOTES REVIVAL LEGACY manga as a member in the resistance against the Committee of 300.

So, I think things point to Kurisu and Okabe continuing to love each other, but how their story ends is still quite up in the air for us with many different directions that could be explored by the story creators.