It can easily be seen at the rate, I loved Steins;Gate. To understand why, I'll quickly introduce myself so you will be able to think if you might as well like this anime. I am studying Astrophysics and enjoy the idea of science-based animes (when they're not bad nor messing with science). The most important to me for an anime is its story and its characters, and I tend to be pretty fond of an anime when it succeeds making me cry.
I will divide this review in two parts, as the whole series is "timey-wimey" and can be considered as a single opus :
I -
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Steins;Gate Season One
II - Steins;Gate anime franchise
I - Steins;Gate
This anime is, as you read, a science-based anime, but has the particularity of showing a quite average main character and a genius side character (first good point) manipulating things they don't really understand, as time travel was fortuitously discovered, thus leading to problems the characters will have to correct.
Story - 9/10
Steins;Gate Has a pretty basic plot : some guy figures out how to manipulate the past and has to face its consequences. But the side stories bring fresh air throughout the anime and the subplots are always brilliant. The major problem of the story is the narrative (I thought for 3~4 episodes there was a huge plothole because of a misunderstanding due to low explanations) (even if the translation might just have been bad) and a quite slow beginning. Apart from that, the story is near perfect, with right timing and great climaxes, and the end makes sense, which is rare in a series about time-travelling !
Art - 9/10
By "Art", I mean both visual pleasure and correspondance between the character's personnalities and theirs looks or place and their meanings, and thus separate this part in two smaller ones, Esthetics and Design.
Esthetics - 4/5
The anime has a pretty low budget (without being insignificant either), so it could have been screwed on the visual aspect, but the animation remains fluid and does not have quality drops. No bad CG. The animation is not perfect and has no particular style (as 3-gatsu no lion or Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso, in example), but remains good and stable all over the series, thus deserving a solid 4/5.
Design - 5/5
All characters are really easy to recognize, as each one has a particularity, and match very well with the idea one would get of them just by reading the script. Okabe and Houôin are distinguishable just by their looks and posture due to the expressive style. The lab is just the exact representation of what it should be.
Sound - 10/10
This part will be separated in Voice acting/sound effects and Music.
Voice acting - 5/5
You were probably told the voice acting was outstanding. Well, I have nothing to add. The sound effects are (of course) not as memorable, but remain good, and amazing in some moments.
Music - 5/5
I studied piano for 10 years, so the auditive aspect, and particularly the music, is really important to me. All I can say about it is "perfect". No overstatement here, the openings (especially "Hacking to the Gate") are great and correspond perfectly to the anime and the OST is sometimes beautiful as rarely for an OST and remains in the Steins;Gate spirit.
Characters - 10/10
A real pillar of Steins;Gate ability to carry the viewer emotions is the character panel. The main character, Okabe Rintarô, is the self-proclaimed mad scientist Houôin Kyôma who develops a real depht as the anime goes on, surrounded by the "pervert gentleman" hacker Hashida Itaru, who discovers himself responsible sides, and Shiina Mayuri, the child-like girl saved by Okabe, who would do anything for her. Then comes Makise Kurisu, the tsundere genius, which, fortunately, has one of the best designs of all, and a group of different characters who all have their own story. No character break or stupid acts are to deplore.
Enjoyment - 10/10
The most subjective part of the review, where I can say I just loved the anime. It caught me so much I felt empty for one or two days when I ended it. I loved both the behaviour of the characters and the story, carried by the amazing OST and feeling totally linked to the characters' fate.
II - Steins;Gate Anime Franchise
By considering the whole series as a huge one, I got an even better result than by just taking the separate parts, and coherent at a single -and minor- exception about someone mother.
The story is better and has more meaning, uniting both timelines (the original series' end and Zero) and linking elements from the whole timeline,
The art remains equal to itself, discreet but efficient
The sound has a small quality drop in the Music part, in my opinion.
The Characters are just magnified, as it is hard to get them better, and get even more depht (as Mayuri)
The whole thing becomes more enjoyable.
Steins;Gate whole franchise is worth a 10/10, even if some episodes might deserve less, but not enough to lower the general level.
Thank you for reading this long, LONG review, and enjoy your show !
May 6, 2019
Steins;Gate
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It can easily be seen at the rate, I loved Steins;Gate. To understand why, I'll quickly introduce myself so you will be able to think if you might as well like this anime. I am studying Astrophysics and enjoy the idea of science-based animes (when they're not bad nor messing with science). The most important to me for an anime is its story and its characters, and I tend to be pretty fond of an anime when it succeeds making me cry.
I will divide this review in two parts, as the whole series is "timey-wimey" and can be considered as a single opus : I - ... 
Apr 9, 2019
Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso
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A friend of mine kept harrassing me so I would watch Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso. I have never been so grateful for being annoyed. This anime is the best i have ever seen and probably the best I'll ever see. Though it is neither perfect, nor an indisputable masterpiece, it is the one that moved me the most (I am part of those who don't feel very attached to characters, but still cried for the whole last episode). Nevertheless, some points could be improved, and here's the most objective possible review from someone who loved it.
Story - 9/10 The plot is simple : A former ... |
