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Original title	シ ュ タ イ ン ズ ・ ゲ ー ​​ト
transcription	Shutainzu Gēto
Computer / video game
Studio	5pb. and Nitroplus
Publisher	5pb. (Xbox 360 & Android), Nitroplus (Win), Kadokawa Shoten (PSP)
Erstveröffent- lichung	October 15, 2009 (Xbox 360) August 26, 2010 (Win) June 23, 2011 (PSP) May 24, 2012 (PS3) March 14, 2013 (Vita) June 5, 2015 (PS3 / Vita) August 25, 2015 ( PS3 / Vita) December 10, 2015 (PS4) November 25, 2016 (PS4) November 29, 2016 (PS4)
platform	Xbox 360 , Windows , PSP , Android , iOS , PlayStation 3 , PlayStation Vita , PlayStation 4
genre	Adventure
Game mode	Single player
medium	DVD-ROM (Xbox 360 and Win), UMD (PSP)
language	Japanese
Computer / video game
title	Steins; Gate: Hiyoku Renri no Darling
Original title	Steins; Gate 比翼 恋 理 の だ ー り ん
transcription	Steins; Gate: Hiyoku Renri no Dārin
Studio	5pb.
Publisher	5pb.
Erstveröffent- lichung	June 16, 2011
platform	Xbox 360
genre	Adventure
Game mode	Single player
medium	DVD-ROM
language	Japanese
Anime television series
Country of production	Japan
original language	Japanese
year	2011
Studio	White Fox
length	23 minutes
Episodes	24
Director	Takuya Satō , Hiroshi Hamasaki
music	Takeshi Abo , Jun Murakami
First broadcast	April 6 - September 14, 2011 on TV Saitama , Sun TV
German-language first broadcast	October 25 - December 13, 2015 on Animax
Anime movie
title	Steins; Gate: Fuka Ryōiki no Déjà vu
Original title	STEINS; GATE 負荷 領域 の デ ジ ャ ヴ
transcription	Steins; Gate: Fuka Ryōiki no Deja vu
Country of production	Japan
original language	Japanese
Publishing year	2013
Studio	White Fox
length	89 minutes
Director	Takuya Satō, Hiroshi Hamasaki
script	Jukki Hanada
music	Takeshi Abo, Jun Murakami
synchronization

Steins; Gate (OT: jap. シ ュ タ イ ン ズ ・ ゲ ー ​​ト , Shutainzu Gēto ) is a Japanese adventure game , which is a cooperation between the two Japanese game developers 5pb. and Nitroplus was born. It was the companies' second collaboration after Chaos; Head and was released for Xbox 360 in October 2009 . This was followed by ports for Windows - PCs , Sony's PlayStation Portable in 2010 and 2011, Android in 2013 as well as adaptations in the form of manganese -Reihen, an anime television series and an anime movie.

action

Scenario and conception

The plot is based on the assumption that time travel is possible to a limited extent. Accordingly, both certain points in time and the principles of causality play an essential role. It is possible for scientists to send information and later even the mind of a person back into the past. With every journey through time, the present and the future change according to the principles. This discovery harbors a high potential for abuse, which is the starting point for the further development of the story. The protagonists are threatened by the state organization SERN , which does not shrink from murder.

Akihabara , a district of Tokyo, was chosen as the main location . Different real existing buildings appear repeatedly in the game. One of them is the Radio Kaikan building, on the roof of which the action begins. According to Chiyomaru Shikura , who led the game's development, Akihabara was chosen as the location because historically it is a place where it is easy to get hold of failed hardware. This makes it the ideal place for people like the game's protagonists who play around with things and look for innovations.

The SERN organization is an allusion to the European Organization for Nuclear Research ( CERN ). In addition to the experiments using a particle accelerator , the role of the antagonist is considered in the plot. The fictional organization SERN is said to have experimented with time travel and black holes , which cost numerous people their lives. The journey back in time succeeded, but the victims did not survive the journey.

Plot summary

The action takes place in Akihabara and is about an experiment by the very strange, sometimes described as crazy scientist Rintarō Okabe. He succeeds in converting a microwave oven so that he can use it to send text messages into the past. What he only becomes aware of later, however, is the fact that he is influencing his own presence and that is exactly what makes him seem crazy. However, he is not the only researcher in the field. Soon he is confronted with an organization called SERN , which is stalking both him and the other initiates of the experiment. After these messages have changed the future several times, Okabe gets caught in a world line in which his childhood friend Mayuri dies. To avoid her death, he travels back in time and tries everything possible, but to no avail. Only when he consults with Kurisu does he receive the decisive tip from her. He has to undo all text messages he has sent so far. But before Okabe wants to send the last message, he realizes that his love Kurisu is dying in the original world line. With this thought, Okabe falls into a reluctant and desperate state, because he doesn't want Kurisu to die. After someone from the future tells him that Kurisu can be saved, Okabe's last operation begins. In his first attempt, he fails and Makise Kurisu dies, but through this he gets a message from himself from the future, which gives him instructions for the plan. Ultimately, Okabe manages to save Kurisu and he moves from the original world lines to the new Steins Gate line , in which Mayuri and Kurisu survive.

Game mechanics

From the developers themselves the game is described as Sōtei Kagaku ADV ( 想 定 科学 ADV , dt. "Hypothetical Science Adventure"). It follows a linear action with predetermined events and possibilities for interaction. Most of the time, the player is busy following the dialogues between the characters and the inner monologues of the protagonist. As in many other Japanese adventure games, there are decision points at irregular intervals where he can use his actions to steer the action in a certain direction. The game branches out into different routes that lead to different events and ends.

The decisions are made by the player in Steins; Gate using a phone trigger ( フ ォ ー ン ト リ ガ ー ). The decisions represent the protagonist's answers to incoming calls and text messages. In the event of a call, he can decide to answer or refuse to accept the call. In the case of text messages, individual terms are highlighted in color, which then represent the corresponding answer to the topic. This type of control is comparable to that of the predecessor Chaos; Head , whereby the player does not have to react to every call or message. In some places this is necessary to steer the action in a certain direction.

Origin and publications

Steins; Gate was created in 2009 as the second result of the collaboration between the game developers 5pb. and Nitroplus . From the previous collaboration, the conceptually partly comparable game Chaos; Head emerged, which was released in the second quarter of 2008. In contrast to the predecessor, the plot should be more rooted in reality. Accordingly, the developers announced that they had planned to create a concept that would consist of "99% scientific facts (reality) and 1% fantasy". Chiyomaru Shikura from 5pb was in charge of the planning . Based on the idea, Ryohei Fuke (also known as "Huke") designed the character design , while the items that appear in the game were designed by Sh @ rp . The scenario was created by Naotaka Hayashi from 5pb. Written together with Vio Shimokura as assistant to Nitroplus. Tatsuya Matsuhara (5pb.) Was named as the producer of the game, while Tosō Pehara took over the artistic direction . The music was created in collaboration with Zizz Studio. Both Takeshi Abo (5pb.) And Toshimichi Isoe (Zizz) were involved. Essentially the same team works together as with the predecessor.

Adaptations

Anime

The computer game was animated in 2011 by the White Fox studio , which had previously made the computer game Tears to Tiara an anime. Directed by Takuya Satō and Hiroshi Hamasaki as chief directors, and Kanji Wakabayashi. The character design as well as the animation management were done by Kyūta Sakai and the script is by Jukki Hanada . The series was broadcast from April 6, 2011 after midnight (and thus on the previous television day ) on TV Saitama and Sun TV . Chiba TV , TV Aichi , Tokyo MX , TV Kanagawa and nationwide via satellite on AT-X or via stream on Nico Nico Channel followed within a week . An English subtitled version was streamed on Crunchyroll on the day of its first release or on Anime on Demand in the UK . in Germany, the anime with German synchronization was released in autumn 2015 by Peppermint Anime on DVD and Bluray. The German-language first broadcast on television took place on October 25, 2015 by the German pay-TV broadcaster Animax .

On April 20, 2013, the movie Steins; Gate: Fuka Ryōiki no Déjà vu ( STEINS; GATE 負荷 領域 の デ ジ ャ ヴ ) in Japanese cinemas with the same production staff as the anime series.

synchronization

The German dubbing took place in the Oxygen Sound Studios in Berlin under the dialogue direction of René Dawn-Claude .

role	Japanese speaker ( seiyū )	German speaker
Rintarou Okabe	Mamoru Miyano	Marios Gavrilis
Kurisu Makise	Asami Imai	Manuela Baker
Mayuri Shiina	Kana Hanazawa	Marie Christin Morgenstern
Itaru Hashida	Tomokazu Seki	Jesco Wirthgen
Suzuha Amane	Yukari Tamura	Charlotte Uhlig
Feyris Nyan-Nyan	Haruko Momoi	Julia Foelster
Ruka Urushibara	Yû Kobayashi	Peggy Pollow
Moeka Kiryuu	Saori Gotou	Birte Baumgardt
John Titor	Hiroshi Tsuchida	Jacob Weigert
Yuugo Tennouji	Masaki Terasoma	Leon Boden
Nae Tennouji	Ayano Yamamoto	Chiara Tanfal

reception

Building of Radio Kaikan with replica of the crashed satellite

For this unusual approach, which is based on the delusions of the protagonist from Chaos; Head , the game was highly praised and the speakers are said to have been created for these roles.

Web links

Commons : Steins; Gate  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of Steins; Gate (Japanese)
• Anime Adaptation Official Website (Japanese)
• Entry of the anime in the encyclopedia of Anime News Network (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 4PB.jp: Stein's Gate ( Memento from November 14, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ RADIO CHAOS; HEAD 特設 ペ ー ジ . Nitroplus, accessed April 22, 2011 (Japanese). 
3. ↑ Crunchyroll to Simulcast Steins; Gate TV Anime. In: Anime News Network . April 4, 2011, accessed April 16, 2011 . 
4. ↑ Anime on Demand Announces Next Three Simulcasts. In: Anime News Network. April 8, 2011, accessed April 16, 2011 . 
5. ↑ Steins; Gate | News | Steins; Gate as a German TV premiere exclusively on Animax | Animax - The Anime Channel. In: www.animaxtv.de. Retrieved May 2, 2016 . 
6. ↑ German synchronous index: German synchronous index | Series | Steintor. Retrieved April 29, 2018 .