Talk:Reading Steiner/@comment-27183706-20190613014304

One more problem I see with Reading Steiner.

When the Time Leap Machine is used, it sends a copy of memories to the past. So Okabe can do things differently and change what happens. But ultimately, that means for the Okabe that's being "sent", the worldline changes so Reading Steiner should active and overwrite the Okabe who "leapt" into the past if he stays long enough. This of course is easy to fix by him leaving notes for himself, or "time leaping" into the future but that wasn't mentioned in the anime but instead it appears as if the ability was moving his consciousness back in time which it does not do by definition.

I can't help thinking the ability works when and how it's convenient for the plot and it's not an "absolute" thing. Still, it's by far the best time travel related work I've ever seen.