Talk:Steins;Gate 0 (Visual Novel)/@comment-191.177.23.139-20150329054330/@comment-7888499-20150329132517

Yes, it is not a chronological sequel to the true end of the original VN and anime. They are calling it a "true sequel" because it is not another fandisc visual novel release like Darling of Loving Vows. As a "true sequel" I think it can be regarded as part of the "main canon", though if you want to bend your brain, I think that it is technically what happens in the loop of time before the main story starts as well as simultaneously branches off from the main story shortly before its end.

It also kind of gets sticky what to call everything because the existance of mutiple worldlines make a lot of SG stories "canonical possibilties" even though they have nothing to do with the main story line, such as Darling of Loving Vows and several of the Linear Bounded Phenogram stories. Whereas, in a single timeline linear story such stories would more simply be "What if" scenarios, at least that's my take on it.

As far as I understand, the main story line goes:

Steins;Gate Audio Series ☆ Labmem Number... drama CDs

Steins;Gate original VN/Anime Series

Steins;Gate OVA Egoistic Poriomania

Steins;Gate Official After Story Holy Day of Scourge short story

Special drama CD Inkaikyokusetsu no Symphonia

Steins;Gate Fuka Ryōiki no Déjà vu film

Comptiq special drama CD Sekimen Hisshi no Gossip

Special drama CD A Posteriori Existence

The cancelled Steins;Gate The Committee of Antimatter light novel

However, from the materials released so far I believe Steins;Gate 0 should take place in the Beta world lines chronologically after the events of anime episode 23/VN chapter "Paradox Meltdown", when Okabe in despair over not saving Kurisu but becoming her murderer instead refuses to time travel with Suzuha to try again, but branches off from the original VN/anime before Mayuri slaps him to get a hold of himself. So, Steins;Gate 0 will depict the sequel of the Okabe who failed to save Kurisu and went on to build a time machine to try again and send the video D-mail to himself at the start of the original VN/anime, I think.

What I wonder is, the events of the failed Okabe in the original VN/anime in the world lines 1.129848% and 1.130205% have already been depicted in the drama CD Arc Light of the Point of Infinity and the light novels of the Epigraph Trilogy. So, I'm curious, Zero will supposedly draw from those stories, but will it take place in a different set of world line divergences or will Arc Light and the Epigraph Trilogy be rendered "non-canonical" -like Octet of Variant Space- by Zero? It will be interesting to find out. :)

And, I'm very curious about that background picture of a machine crashed into a building. I wonder if that is supposed to be all the way into the future from the Tokyo Air Raid that takes place sometime between 2026 and 2032 in the Epigraph Trilogy, or since Zero will have its own new scenario, is that supposed to be some sort of crashed time machine, or perhaps something to do with the Committee of 300's use of brainwashing...?