Steins;Gate

What is Steins;Gate?

Okabe Rintarou and his lab members discover their Phone Microwave invention can send messages to the past, fundamentally altering history. This critically acclaimed adaptation explores the dangerous consequences of rewriting events, plunging the characters into psychological and existential crises as they navigate the paradoxes of time manipulation.

Self-proclaimed mad scientist Okabe Rintarou lives in a small room in Akihabara, where he invents "future gadgets" with fellow lab members Shiina Mayuri, his air-headed childhood friend, and Hashida Itaru, an otaku hacker. The three pass the time by tinkering with their latest creation, a "Phone Microwave" that can be controlled through text messages. The lab members soon face a string of mysterious incidents that lead to a game-changing discovery: the Phone Microwave can send emails to the past and thus alter history. Adapted from the critically acclaimed visual novel by 5pb. and Nitroplus, Steins;Gate takes Okabe to the depths of scientific theory and human despair as he faces the dire consequences of changing the past.