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Steins;Gate

Steins;Gate

Changing the past only makes the future worse.

20118.41 Season24 EpisodesEnded

Overview

A group of friends have customized their microwave so that it can send text messages to the past. As they perform different experiments, an organization named SERN who has been doing their own research on time travel tracks them down and now the characters have to find a way to avoid being captured by them.

Created by Jukki Hanada
Written by Jukki Hanada, Chiyomaru Shikura
Produced by Shinsaku Tanaka, Takayuki Matsunaga, Yoshito Danno
NetworksTeletamaSun TV

Top Cast

Mamoru Miyano

Mamoru Miyano

Rintaro Okabe (voice)

Asami Imai

Asami Imai

Kurisu Makise (voice)

Kana Hanazawa

Kana Hanazawa

Mayuri Shiina (voice)

Tomokazu Seki

Tomokazu Seki

Itaru Hashida (voice)

Yukari Tamura

Yukari Tamura

Suzuha Amane (voice)

Haruko Momoi

Haruko Momoi

Faris Nyan-Nyan (voice)

Yu Kobayashi

Yu Kobayashi

Luka Urushibara (voice)

Themes & Keywords

technologysecret organizationtime traveltime machineromancemad scientistconspiracytragedytime looptokyo, japanangstseinenanimebased on visual novelbutterfly effectakihabarapsychologicalurban fantasy

About Steins;Gate

Steins;Gate is a animation, sci-fi & fantasy, mystery, comedy series that first aired in 2011 exploring themes of technology, secret organization, time travel, time machine, romance, mad scientist. Created by Jukki Hanada, it stars Mamoru Miyano, Asami Imai, Kana Hanazawa. A group of friends have customized their microwave so that it can send text messages to the past. As they perform different experiments, an organization named SERN who has been doing their own research on time travel tracks them down and now the characters have to find a way to avoid being captured by them.

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