Review of Steins;Gate 0

The original steins;gate is my favourite show of all time so to for me a follow up to that series would have an incredibly difficult task ahead of it. Personally i believe that steins;gate 0 did an incredible job of, in my opinion, matching up with the original. All the characters of this show are so lovingly developed and well written that i think there is not a single character I dislike or think is even remotely poorly written. From the main characters to the considerably smaller ones, (such as Ruka and Feyris) every one feels real and has real depth to them to thepoint that minor characters in SG are far better than most main characters in a lot of other popular anime and manga. Where in many other shows, episodes which focus on just chara can seem dull to me, in Steins;gate I always welcome the chance to watch these characters I love interact with one another and develop further, something which 0 does regularly, and brilliantly.

The writing in terms of story is also, in my opinion, absolutely fantastic. Despite sometimes being able to predict what will happened next, the writing still frequently manages to suprise me and make me want to see more. In a world where time travel stories are not by any means rare and very often cliché and poorly put together, steins;gate is a brilliant example of the type of story you can tell with time travel which is emotional and exciting.

Never have I watched anything that had caused me to have to wipe tears from my eyes one minute and later in the episode make me grin with joy. I truly love both steins;gate and steins;gate 0 and that is not something I say lightly. It is my favourite anime and probably science fiction story I have seen and if you haven't watched it please, please do you will not regret it. Its absence will be very noticeable and I will miss it a great deal.
El Psy Congroo