Talk:Steins;Gate (visual novel)/@comment-6092594-20130513233145/@comment-7888499-20130515224546

I completely agree with you, Riyu-hime. :D It's a wonderful series, and it's so hard to wait for the movie sequel, 'cause this series does leave you wanting to see more! By the way, this page is for the visual novel not the anime version. Did you watch the anime or play the visual novel?

If you didn't and you and Rsaj are twiddling your thumbs impatiently for the movie, then I can highly recommend giving the visual novel a try. The anime is really quite faithful to the "true route" of the vn, so it might be better to not play it back to back with the anime, unless, of course, you just want to play the side routes, which are plenty fun as well. :)

Rsaj, about your question, it's been quite awhile since I watched the anime, and I am not quite done with the main route of the vn. -The side routes are nice and long, and I decided to play them first, so now I am at last up to undoing Ruka's Dmail in the main route.- However, what I have noticed so far is that the anime takes little tid bits from the side routes but mostly follows the main/"true" route. Most importantly, the endings of the side routes aren't depicted in the anime at all, and they are all interesting and differing world line divergences. To name an event that happens in the "Mayuri" route and I am pretty sure in the main one as well, though I haven't gotten there quite yet, is the part of Mr. Braun's death when Okabe is trying to undo Moeka's Dmail. That plays out quite differently with much more insight into Mr. Braun's motivations and feelings than in the anime. Also, in the vn it causes his daughter, Nae, to go insane and get stuck in an eternal time loop, til Okabe succeeds in changing the world line.

Lastly, if I recall right some of the conversations with Kurisu go differently or are in different locations than in the anime, and she sends you some very funny, spirited mails. All in all, I can highly recommend the visual novel along with the anime. The VN has time to go deeper into alot of the more complicated setting stuff, and you can read all of the theories they throw at you at your own pace. The anime has the "right" pace, but the visual novel allows you to slow down if you want to. The vn also has "hints" that explain alot of the cultural lingo and concepts. I noticed that those explanations added alot more to Suzuha and Daru's characters for me as well as Kurisu's slip-ups in speaking @channel lingo.

Oh, and if either of you are interested in giving it a try with an English fan translation, you could follow the instructions here on the ibn5100 wiki. It's easy to acquire it, and I'm glad I did. (^_^)b There is a walkthrough for how to buy it legally -even without being able to read Japanese- from Melonbooks as a download, thus no import taxes either, for only 31 US dollars/24 euros. Then you can visit here for the free English fan translated patch, or if you don't want to have to install the patch yourself you can go to fuwanovel. org to get a copy of the vn that already has the patch install; after supporting the original creators first, of course, especially since it is so easy to get a legal copy.

Anyway, if I didn't answer your question properly, Rsaj, or you wanted a more specific answer about a scene just let me know. I'll try to give you a better answer.