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Apr 15, 1:38 PM
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I watched this show like 10 years ago, so now I want to rewatch it in the right order. If anyone could share I would appreciate it :D
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Apr 15, 1:46 PM
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After episode 23 you watch SG0 spinoff and then continue.

Apr 15, 1:52 PM
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Piromysl said:
After episode 23 you watch SG0 spinoff and then continue.

After episode 22, actually. Then S;G0, and then Ep. 23-24 of the original. Then the OVA: Egomanic Portomania
Apr 15, 1:52 PM
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release order is the intended order.
Apr 15, 1:56 PM
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Aniwatchr147 said:
Piromysl said:
After episode 23 you watch SG0 spinoff and then continue.

After episode 22, actually. Then S;G0, and then Ep. 23-24 of the original. Then the OVA: Egomanic Portomania

Yeah, I've also just hit 10 years milestone. ๐Ÿ‘

Apr 15, 2:28 PM
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For fucks sake, the intended order has always been the release order, even on a rewatch you should stick to it.

Ignore the dumb Chronological order, it was created by a noob who didn't understand shit about Steins;Gate, that order is not even chronological so ignore that shit and stick to the release order, it's the way the author intended it.
Apr 15, 2:33 PM
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bruh just ask chatgpt for the full order
Apr 15, 2:55 PM
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Piromysl said:
After episode 23 you watch SG0 spinoff and then continue.

After episode 22, actually. Then S;G0, and then Ep. 23-24 of the original. Then the OVA: Egomanic Portomania

@Aniwatchr147 You forgot to add another episode there before starting SG0, the so-called dumb Chronological Order is Steins;Gate (1-22) > (23beta) > Steins;Gate 0 (1-23) > Steins;Gate (23-24).

But I don't recommend that order, it's not even chronological, and anyone who says otherwise apparently doesn't understand shit about Steins;Gate. This Chronological Order bullshit is cancer and I wish this shitty order die already, the only thing that shit is doing is confusing the newcomers.
Apr 15, 2:57 PM
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1)Steins;Gate episodes 1-22
2)Steins;Gate Mishibe no missing link ep
3)Steins;Gate 0
4)then return to Steins;Gate 23-24
5)Steins;Gate Egoistic Poriomania
6) Stein;Gate The Movie - Load Region of Déjà Vu

*honorable mention*:
Steins;Gate 0: Valentine's of Crystal Polymorphism -Bittersweet Intermedio - not chronological but some short and fun episodes as a way to say goodbye to this masterpiece-
Apr 15, 2:58 PM
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don't watch it at all. ppl will be butthurt no matter what order you go by.


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Apr 15, 2:58 PM
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read the visual novel is what you do
Apr 15, 4:25 PM
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don't watch it at all. ppl will be butthurt no matter what order you go by.
@MeVike I dont care what people think, I just want to watch it in the most optimal way.
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Apr 15, 4:42 PM
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Ruskimeister said:
I watched this show like 10 years ago, so now I want to rewatch it in the right order. If anyone could share I would appreciate it :D

1.Steins;Gate (2011) - 1-22

2.Steins;Gate - 23β "Missing Link"

3.Steins;Gate 0 (2018) - 1-23 + ova

4.Steins;Gate (2011) - 23-24 + ova

5.Steins;Gate the Movie: Load Region of Déjà Vu
Apr 15, 4:43 PM

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Release order. Always watch everything in release order.
Apr 15, 8:04 PM

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Don't listen to the goofs who say stop the original in the middle to watch 0 and then come back. Have some faith in your own intelligence and ability to piece together what happened between the two shows.

Steins Gate
Steins Gate 0

Then watch the film and other OVAs if you still want more content. That's it.
Apr 15, 9:05 PM
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I recently watched it for the first time in chronological order and thought it was better for me. SG0 makes the ending hit harder
Apr 15, 9:36 PM
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In my opinion, watching it in chronological order is something you should only do on a rewatch. For a first-time viewer, release order is far and away the best option.
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Ruskimeister said:
I want to rewatch it in the right order.


Steins;Gate
Steins;Gate : Oukoubakko no Poriomania (Epilogue)
Steins;Gate Movie : Fuka Ryouiki no Déjà vu (After-story)
Steins;Gate : Soumei Eichi no Cognitive Computing (Commercial comedy)

Steins;Gate : Kyoukaimenjou no Missing Link - Divide By Zero (Prequel's Prologue)
Steins;Gate 0 (Prequel)
Steins;Gate 0 : Kesshou Takei no Valentine - Bittersweet Intermedio (OVA - Bonus story)

Release order is the right order. For some reasons, new/blank accounts keep spamming about a weird mixup/"chronological" order with 0 shoved before the climax of the original... Just ignore them.

By the way, Steins;Gate is in reality Part 2 of a larger universe, called the SciAdv Series (https://www.kirikiribasara.com/what-is-sciadv/). You could go for the series of Visual Novels if you want the complete story.
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Apr 15, 10:18 PM
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follow release order
but I would suggest, watch deja vu movie at last
Apr 16, 1:10 AM
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just watch in release order
Apr 16, 2:15 AM
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Release order available via Chiaki site.

Please don't go start SG0 after episode 22 or whatever. Steins Gate 0 does not match the quality of Steins Gate and is boring aside from the final 3 episodes, it will ruin the flow of whatever you're watching. Finish Steins Gate and all OVA's if you want, then start Steins Gate 0
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Kurdo said:
release order is the intended order.

Technically both release and chronological are intended watch orders.

Obviously the first time you watch something it’s expected and intended to watch it in release order, but afterwards sometimes the intention is for people to rewatch the series in chronological order.

Jujutsu Kaisen technically has the intended watch order of Season 1, Movie 0, Season 2 episode 1-5, Movie 0, Season 1, Season 2 episode 6-23 because since they release the story out of order they expect you to rewatch it in order.

The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya aired out of order for the first 14 episodes, then when it came back with another 14 episodes the series re-aired in chronological order, with the original 14 episodes being put in the intended slots in the series.

Point is sometimes studios intentionally release something out of order so that fans can choose to watch it in order to get the full experience.

Steins Gate probably isn’t one of those series considering that you have to pause in the middle of episode 23 of both the original and 0 and flip flop back and forth a little just the full Chronological experience. However people definitely have the right to try. I personally enjoyed my Chronological Re-watch.

One series that definitely isn’t meant to be rewatched in chronological order is Horimiya.
Apr 16, 6:21 AM
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Never even heard about different ways to watch this anime, but if it goes with Haruki...
maybe yeah there is some other version of watching it...
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ignore literally anyone saying anything but release order.

just watch it as it was released ffs

steins gate (ALL OF IT)
steins gate 23 beta
steins gate 0 (ALL OF IT)

all the other OVAs and movies you can watch after 0
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@Aniwatchr147 You forgot to add another episode there before starting SG0, the so-called dumb Chronological Order is Steins;Gate (1-22) > (23beta) > Steins;Gate 0 (1-23) > Steins;Gate (23-24).

But I don't recommend that order, it's not even chronological, and anyone who says otherwise apparently doesn't understand shit about Steins;Gate. This Chronological Order bullshit is cancer and I wish this shitty order die already, the only thing that shit is doing is confusing the newcomers.

I also think we should die alr at this point of argument
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EP1C_G4YM3R said:
since they release the story out of order they expect you to rewatch it in order.


Not really, no.

They just expect the viewer to not be an idiot, and understand and connect the events, despite being revealed to him out of order. Some authors makes this their own characteristic, purposely creating confusion and fake mystery by manipulating the timeline again and again (like Kinoko Nasu and his whole Nasuverse, or Nisio Isin and his Monogatari Series). That's not to say that it's never thought of by authors or people in charge of adaptations tho, which is why there may be edited re-broadcast or specials episodes.

I'm not too familiar with the situation of Haruhi Suzumiya, so not sure, but i heard the order is a little bit fucked in the Novel because the publisher pressed the author to write long stories for a full Volume instead of the short ones she was doing at certain points.

EP1C_G4YM3R said:
Jujutsu Kaisen technically has the intended watch order of Season 1, Movie 0, Season 2 episode 1-5, Movie 0, Season 1, Season 2 episode 6-23


Actually, Movie 0 is an afterthought. Originally, it was just a stand-alone story of a few chapters, but with its popularity, it got a complete Sequel publication.
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Alexioos95 said:
EP1C_G4YM3R said:
since they release the story out of order they expect you to rewatch it in order.


Not really, no.

They just expect the viewer to not be an idiot, and understand and connect the events, despite being revealed to him out of order. Some authors makes this their own characteristic, purposely creating confusion and fake mystery by manipulating the timeline again and again (like Kinoko Nasu and his whole Nasuverse, or Nisio Isin and his Monogatari Series). That's not to say that it's never thought of by authors or people in charge of adaptations tho, which is why there may be edited re-broadcast or specials episodes.

I'm not too familiar with the situation of Haruhi Suzumiya, so not sure, but i heard the order is a little bit fucked in the Novel because the publisher pressed the author to write long stories for a full Volume instead of the short ones she was doing at certain points.

EP1C_G4YM3R said:
Jujutsu Kaisen technically has the intended watch order of Season 1, Movie 0, Season 2 episode 1-5, Movie 0, Season 1, Season 2 episode 6-23


Actually, Movie 0 is an afterthought. Originally, it was just a stand-alone story of a few chapters, but with its popularity, it got a complete Sequel publication.

It still got reworked into the main story after its initial one shot days. It’s completely canon to jujutsu kaisen. The only point I was trying to make is that sometimes a series can release out of order with the intention to be watched in order later down the line.

Also the biggest part that I feel like you’re forgetting is that watching tv should be entertaining for people. No creator expects their show to only be watched once. Watching something that originally aired out of order chronologically gives an entirely new outlook on the series. And since the viewers would already be aware of all the twists, watching the series again in chronological order would keep things entertaining.

The viewers level of Intelligence isn’t the main focus when writing a work of art, it’s the enjoyment that the reader or viewer receives upon indulging. It benefits both the writer and the consumer when a story has multiple ways to be consumed.

So you’re wrong the writer doesn’t expect their viewer to “not be an idiot” they expect the viewer to be entertained and enjoy their work of art in however that way is.
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SG and then 0. Splitting it is worse imo
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Apr 16, 7:19 PM
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episode 1-21, 22b, steins;gate 0, 22-25. I've watched sg twice and this is absolutely the best way to go about it, the ending if you watch 1-25 is pretty bad
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episode 1-21, 22b, steins;gate 0, 22-25. I've watched sg twice and this is absolutely the best way to go about it, the ending if you watch 1-25 is pretty bad

@bot3141 This is why these noobs have to stop recommending that shitty order, they don't even know what they are talking about, episode 22b doesn't even exist and stopping this anime at episode 21 to shoehorn another anime in the middle of it doesn't make sense either.
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EP1C_G4YM3R said:
The only point I was trying to make is that sometimes a series can release out of order with the intention to be watched in order later down the line.


Do you have such public example of intention tho ? The only one i can think of is (more or less) George Lucas and Star Wars, knowing that he defended multiple orders for multiple reasons, and was mainly limited by his mean at that time.

EP1C_G4YM3R said:
Also the biggest part that I feel like you’re forgetting is that watching tv should be entertaining for people. No creator expects their show to only be watched once.


Sure, but no author would write his story thinking of what the viewer would see by actually messing the order of everything for a re-watch/read (that's especially true for Novels, and even more for Games). At best, they assure that everything is coherent, to have a better story as a whole.

Manipulating timeline is done to begin with to add a veil of mystery and suspense, while also allowing to retroactively introduce elements and reveals, such as character's backstories. Arranging the timeline back to its "correct" state just remove that, and actually does not entertain people more, but less (which is exactly why it was manipulated to begin with). Such works focusing on timeline manipulation often place foreshadowing elements that are hardly noticeable during a first time experience, but obvious at a second (standard) reading, giving the viewer/reader a new sensation of something he already knows (most well known example probably being Shingeki no Kyojin).

It's just much easier for everyone, including authors, to assure that a story has a good re-watch/read with its default and original order, (while not forgetting to keep coherence for the past/future scenes), than planning an actual re-arrangement... It's worse for Mangas, with most authors not planning their stories from start to end, but greatly improvising with each chapters passing.

On top of that, if we talk about works with a complexe timeline, they are written in that way because the authors expect the viewer/reader to feel a certain way, and, as far as i've witnessed, always are against directly untangling that timeline; they are avant-gardiste stories. Untangling it ruins all its essence. (Boogiepop, Kara no Kyoukai, Shingeki no Kyojin, Monogatari Series, ...) Changing the order for a more chronological one also may, and often does, goes against the intention of some specific stories, too. Steins;Gate and Steins;Gate 0 are a prime example of it, to the point where people trying to mess the order completely missed the fact that 0 is a Prequel, happening before the first episode of the original...

More broadly, what baffles me is that such heated discussions about chronological orders always are about Animes. Did you already saw someone watching some Netflix show's seasons or chapters of a Novel out of order to put back the chronology in its in-universe state ?
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EP1C_G4YM3R said:
Kurdo said:
release order is the intended order.

Technically both release and chronological are intended watch orders.

Obviously the first time you watch something it’s expected and intended to watch it in release order, but afterwards sometimes the intention is for people to rewatch the series in chronological order.

Jujutsu Kaisen technically has the intended watch order of Season 1, Movie 0, Season 2 episode 1-5, Movie 0, Season 1, Season 2 episode 6-23 because since they release the story out of order they expect you to rewatch it in order.

The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya aired out of order for the first 14 episodes, then when it came back with another 14 episodes the series re-aired in chronological order, with the original 14 episodes being put in the intended slots in the series.

Point is sometimes studios intentionally release something out of order so that fans can choose to watch it in order to get the full experience.

Steins Gate probably isn’t one of those series considering that you have to pause in the middle of episode 23 of both the original and 0 and flip flop back and forth a little just the full Chronological experience. However people definitely have the right to try. I personally enjoyed my Chronological Re-watch.

One series that definitely isn’t meant to be rewatched in chronological order is Horimiya.

I enjoyed Chronological too, I watched the release order first and rewatched it chronologically later, and honestly if I'm planning to watch 0, I'll go with the chronological one again.
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ok, so, THE CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER DOESN'T EVEN EXIST! it's a ridiculous thing created by anime onlies who don't know what they're talking about.

steins;gate 0 is a visual novel created and intended to be read after robotics;notes/chaos;child (in the release order of the sciADV series) or AT LEAST after base steins;gate. As for the anime, it's technically a sequel to the steins;gate 0 VN that can be watched standalone, so you can guess the watch order should be AFTER base steins;gate.

If you want to watch 0 as the so called chronological order, it would have to be a prequel, as it has to happen before we get to the worldline shown in the VN and anime, as we need the video that appears in both. Either way, it's just not worth it, as everything points out that it should be watched in the proper release order, as everything in sciADV
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Alright, so there's a couple of things here. Each and every last one of the people here recommending the "chronological" order have absolutely no idea what they're talking about. This is a series with hundreds upon hundreds of hours' worth of content in several different mediums. The only ones who would ever dare suggest such a bafflingly silly order are anime onlies that lack the context of the full series. It's technically not even chronological because the entirety of Steins;Gate 0 happens before the original Steins;Gate even begins.

I'll start off by giving you some context as to what Steins;Gate actually is. In the first place, Steins;Gate is not supposed to be a standalone story. It is the second part of a much larger storyline known as the Science Adventure series or otherwise SciADV for short. The anime adaptations of the series just cut all their connections to make it seem like they have nothing to do with one another — as if they're nothing more than separate standalone stories that just happen to take place in the same universe. But in reality, they're really more like the different parts of Jojo's Bizarre Adventure. They all have their own unique casts, settings, and central sci-fi focuses, but they build upon one another to make a wider overarching series narrative. And you often have pieces of foreshadowing spanning several entries and also recurring sci-fi concepts, plot points, and characters.

In visual novel form, the order to play the series in is as follows: Chaos;Head NoAH -> Steins;Gate -> Chaos;Head LCC -> Robotics;Notes Elite -> Chaos;Child -> Steins;Gate 0 -> Chaos;Child LCC -> Occultic;Nine -> Robotics;Notes DaSH -> Anonymous;Code. These are the six mainline games and the four most relevant side entries for the series. This series does have a tad bit of leeway for moving a few things around. But by and large, the best way to go through the series in visual novel form is in release order.

As I mentioned earlier, the anime adaptations for the series try making their respective stories as standalone as possible. And in the first place, almost all of their adaptations are horrendously rushed, with Steins;Gate being the notable exception, having received a whopping 24 episodes despite being one of the shortest entries in the series. So in anime form, I would just stick with the Steins;Gate sub-series and maybe Occultic;Nine if it interests you. For the Steins;Gate sub-series, the definitive way to consume the series is also in release order: all of Steins;Gate -> Egoistic Poriomania OVA -> Load Region of Déjà Vu -> Steins;Gate episode 23B -> all of Steins;Gate 0. You can potentially move Egoistic Poriomania and Load Region of Déjà Vu for after Steins;Gate 0 if you really want to.

But I do want to mention that there is a bit of a complication with regards to the Steins;Gate 0 anime. The Steins;Gate 0 visual novel is largely an adaptation of three different pieces of pre-existing Steins;Gate side material (Arc-Light of the Point at Infinity, The Epigraph Trilogy, and Annularly Chained Ouroboros). And Steins;Gate 0's anime is not a conventional adaptation of the Steins;Gate 0 visual novel, but rather a sequel to or final route for it. It still presents itself in a way that anime onlies can follow along just fine with the context of episode 23B. But it is nonetheless something that's already very hard to grasp the implications of in the absence of the context of the Steins;Gate 0 visual novel and its source side material. For somebody to go through the entirety of Steins;Gate 0 without even so much as finishing the original Steins;Gate, you're just missing way too much context.

In the first place, Steins;Gate 0 is a side entry in the Science Adventure series, not its own mainline entry. And it's something you are supposed to go through with the full context of the ending of the original story. For you to go through the Steins;Gate 0 anime without the context for how the original series ends, you're not going to be understanding the relevance of what you're watching in Steins;Gate 0 as you're watching it. Even after going back to finish the original Steins;Gate, you still won't fully comprehend the significance of a lot that went down earlier. And I've seen many of the people who go through the story in its so-called "chronological order" drop the series altogether in the middle of Steins;Gate 0 out of confusion, never to finish either one of the two series. Avoid the "chronological" order at all costs. Go through the story in release order.
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