Hello Everybody!

I'm brand new to this forum and finally decided to make a post here after attempting to make sense of some of this stuff myself to no avail. I've been a huge fan of S;G for quite some time, watched both anime series, and just recently finished playing the first VN. Before I really get into any of the other VNs, I wanted to make sense of a few things that I've been unable to figure out myself.

I'm not sure how active this forum is, but if any of you folk would like to chime in here with your thoughts and theories I would greatly appreciate it!

First off, I just wanted to say that my best understanding of the S;G universe is that there is one active worldline at a time, and that time loops can occur, though will always have a traceable origin (ie no bootstrap paradoxes or infinite causal loops) - I found Zeldakasumi's blog post helpful in developing some of my understanding of S;G's time travel mechanics, and will link that below.

-My first question regards the major time loop in the series - okabe seeing a bloodied kurisu, sending the first d-mail, traveling through alpha and back, killing kurisu, repeat. I was wondering how this loop would have started - would the first iteration involve Dr. Nakabachi killing kurisu and okabe still finding her body due to convergence? Is there even a start to this loop?

-The okabe that kills kurisu in chapter 1 isn't the same okabe that we follow throughout the story, is he? This is another okabe from a previous iteration, correct? The divergence numbers would seem to imply that. If so, is the okabe who kills kurisu in ch. 1 also the okabe from S;G 0 (or 0kabe, as I'll call him)? Or is 0kabe and the okabe we follow the same person up until mayuri slaps/doesn't slap him?

-Speaking of 0kabe, how is the video d-mail he sends able to be received by the okabe who makes it to the steins gate? Perhaps a better question would be, why is the message originally all messed up?

-Now I have a few questions regarding suzuha - she mentions that physical time travel causes a fluctuation in the worldline they arrive on - does this fluctuation occur when traveling both forward and backwards through time, or just when traveling forwards?

-My second suzuha question is about alpha suzuha - we see that alpha suzuha comes from the worldline where the divergence meter was originally built - 0.000000. What I don't understand is how this worldline was ever active in the first place. Is it from a previous iteration of the loop that I mentioned in my first question?

-Assuming that all the alpha suzuhas we see are all from 0.000000, then what happens to the suzuhas in the future of every alpha line - do they travel back, too? If so, where do they go?

-suzuha also mentions how her time machine comes equipped with a physical coordinate lock so she doesnt end up floating around in space when she travels back - do we ever figure out how the phonewave/time leap machine are able to avoid this problem when SERN isnt?

If anyone has any answers to these questions, I would greatly appreciate a response. Thanks!

-AFC

Just one question, when was the video where future Okabe gives the idea of steins gate to past Okabe was made. Cause based on my theory and speculation that time cannot occur. By that I mean Okabe should have never got the time to make that video due to Reading Steiner. Can anyone explain.

feel free to add crossovers and OCs. I decided to visit Okabe's lab.

i couldn't care less whether luka is a gay cis boy,a straight trans girl,or evven bisexual. luka is an awesome character regardless.

Say, I have this image on a hoodie I got from ebay. I was wondering if it was Huke art, and if there was a corresponding scene in the VNs behind it, since I don't remember such a scene from the anime. I could only get this image on a hoodie instead of a tee, and unfortunately, since I live in Orlando, there's very few days cold enough to wear it! Wore it to Universal a couple of weeks ago, & the host at Bubba Gump's recognized it. He didn't watch Steins;Gate, but had had many anime friends recommend it to him. We talked for a few minutes, but he was on duty & I didn't want to keep him occupied too long.

Well now, well now, being stuck sick at home and unable to go to work has its bright sides. I finally got a chance to look at Steins;Gate stuff again and was greeted with a nice piece of news. The English release of Steins;Gate Elite has been confirmed for February 19, 2019 and is now available for pre-order!

Even for English, the Nintendo Switch version will include 8-bit ADV Steins;Gate. While the PS4 and Steam versions will include Steins;Gate: Linear Bounded Phenogram. So, hoorah! We'll finally get official English translations for those last two.

Pre-ordering the Switch and PS4 digital version will give you a 10% discount and PS4 also includes a Steins;Gate Elite theme.

The Switch and PS4 versions also have limited edition physical versions available in NA and EU, which include a cloth poster of Kurisu and a 118 page hardcover storyboard collection.

Official Website

Page on SpikeChunsoft's catalog

Looks like some very helpful fellow contributors already began the page for S;G Elite. ^_^)b I don't know if I will have the energy to update it, but I will at least try to update the Wiki's main landing page. Its slideshow needs some love.

Total aside: This new (to me) Discuss post layout is weird and cramped. I miss my source code options, and I can't seem to include the Youtube video trailers. Adding more than one pic is also a no-go. Hmm...

New to S;G wiki--just here to ask a question; am planning to delete my Fandom account soon. I have watched the two anime series & the movie. Found out the VNs were rated MA & looked up why on ESRB's site. (I'm not a gamer; don't even own a platform.) Violence & profanity doesn't bother me so much, but the sexual-in-nature quotes disturbed me, & I was wondering about their context. In the 1st game, it quotes Okabe as saying (or thinking) these rather perverted thoughts: “You can rape her, and then just undo it with the Time Leap Machine,” & “why not taste the same girl's virginity over and over again.” In SG Elite it's even more disturbing (perhaps Daru says this??): “I'm gonna dye that p***y black before the duel even starts". That's downright porno there. But maybe I just don't understand the context, so if someone familiar with the VNs could fill me in--I prefer you reach me at my Message Wall rather than here. --Azalea542

As you read the title, it indicates that the Drama CD released a year ago shows that there might be a movie about how the Kurisu from the first movie failed to save SG Okabe back then.

This will become something similar to SG 0 but the protagonist will become Kurisu herself.

Do you think it might be a good last movie of the Steins Gate series?

I was reading the forums & it just now occurred to me that Suzuha landed in Japan a day before with practically no plan & little knowledge of the world as she is stunned by in. In the section about Suzuha this quote hit me "Suzuha manages to acquire a MTB bike and a phone"

How else would someone with no money (as the story never makes mention of her bringing any) & little knowledge of the country at the time manage to buy a high end bike & phone?

Will the Beta Okabe and Steins Gate Okabe emerged like what happened in Season 1 in Episode 24?

This is my own speculation regarding the time paradox. Maybe in year 2036, where Okabe Rintarou has been known alive will interconnect to Steins Gate Okabe. That would be awesome, don't you think?

I actually finished watching the SG 0 Episode 23. I'm still waiting for Steins Gate 0 : Special.

Why did they come by and help out the main characters pulling up with a van and shooting everyone down? I mean they want Kurisu Makise's laptop too right? Yet they even make sure the laptop was destroyed for good and just zoom off like what?

In the newest episode of S;G 0, Yuki cosplays as Mei from phantom breaker! The game is so obscure and not even american localized, so I figured I was one of the five people in America that got the reference. Did anyone else start freaking out when they saw the cosplay? :)

If I make a jump in time and send my memories a week ago, I'm jumping to another timeline, but what happens with the line from where I come from? The line where my original present would be, from which I left, physically I would still be there. In fact, in a chapter Mayuri poses this question to Okabe, but does not get an exact answer. I would like to know if my memories would be duplicated in a present me and a past me or simply the original line would be deleted.

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Just wanted to get this out for anyone willing to support the Steins;Gate cast. I don't expect anyone to get as far as Best Girl, but any contribution is appreciated.

So... I just finished S;G 0 true ending and it kinda left me confused, and after thinking for a long time here's what i can make up:

1. Okabe from "Promised Rinascimento" sent a D-Rine.

2. Okabe from the past received the D-Rine and goes through "Vega and Altair" route.

3. A while after VA ending, PR Okabe experienced Reading Steiner and replaced VA Okabe.

4. Okabe goes through several more world line jumps sometime before "Milky Way Crossing".

5. WMC Okabe made a recording to help the original Okabe and used the time machine before sending it so Reading Steiner won't activate, thus preventing him from replacing Okabe in the Steins Gate world line.

Let me know i got it wrong.

!!! SPOILER SG0 ep 8 !!!

When okarin returns to the alpha line (episode 8), what happens to the okabe that was already there? and once he returns to the beta line, the okabe who sacrificed mayurii takes his place again?

For the makise kurisu that is on the spot, it takes the form of a change of personality?

In a moment of "madness" of okabe, he calls amadeus without remembering it (this is what I.A kurisu (tina: P) tells him after he has recovered)

can we imagine that then another "instance" of okabe will have taken its place?

So I watched Steins:Gate second time, and I don't understand why after Mayuri's Death in beta world line Okabe didn't text himself in the past that she is dead like he did after Kurisu's death in alpha world line. As we know world line has changed after that D-mail so couldn't it happen again?

I already wrote this as a comment in the Reading Steiner wiki page, but I'll post it here too for more visibility:

When 2025 Okabe sends the video with the final instructions, he successfully manages to change the past, so from his point of view he will shift from his World Line to the Steins Gate one. Due to the activation of the Reading Steiner, Okabe is bound to forget about everything that happened between 2010 and 2025 in the Steins Gate World Line.

This would certainly make the ending sadder, but there's a solution: Steins Gate Okabe, knowing that the video is from 2025, just needs to back up his memories right before the activation of Reading Steiner and then loading them back into his brain.

Is my reasoning correct? If it is, I would love to see this matter addressed in the Steins;Gate 0 anime finale.

Is there really a plot hole in Steins;Gate?

If yes... can you point it out so my frustration disappears.

Hoping for someone to answer me...