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Steins;Gate

“Okabe's microwave accidentally enables time-travel texts, endangering friends and sanity as SERN pursues them.”

Steins;Gate

9.07
6 rank · 2,790,885 viewers · 201,413 favorites
Drama Sci-Fi Suspense Psychological Time Travel
24 episodes · 24 min per ep min · Spring 2011 · White Fox · PG-13 - Teens 13 or older
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Synopsis

Okabe's microwave accidentally enables time-travel texts, endangering friends and sanity as SERN pursues them.

Eccentric scientist Rintarou Okabe has a never-ending thirst for scientific exploration. Together with his ditzy but well-meaning friend Mayuri Shiina and his roommate Itaru Hashida, Okabe founds the Future Gadget Laboratory in the hopes of creating technological innovations that baffle the human psyche. Despite claims of grandeur, the only notable "gadget" the trio have created is a microwave that has the mystifying power to turn bananas into green goo. However, when Okabe attends a conference on time travel, he experiences a series of strange events that lead him to believe that there is more to the "Phone Microwave" gadget than meets the eye. Apparently able to send text messages into the past using the microwave, Okabe dabbles further with the "time machine," attracting the ire and attention of the mysterious organization SERN. Due to the novel discovery, Okabe and his friends find themselves in an ever-present danger. As he works to mitigate the damage his invention has caused to the timeline, Okabe fights a battle to not only save his loved ones but also to preserve his degrading sanity.

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8.5 /10

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89% recommend
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6.3 pts

Recommenders 9.5 · others 3.2

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A Tv Production · Spring 2011

White Fox.
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Frontier Works · Media Factory

  • Format 24 × 24′ eps × min
  • Total runtime 9h 36m all episodes
  • Aired Apr 2011 – Sep 2011 Spring 2011
  • Source Tv media type
  • Rated PG 13 - Teens 13 or older
  • Ref. BS-5664 catalog

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