Compared to our average visual novel, however, Steins Gate adds more interactivity with Okabe's cell phone, which becomes is a kind of time-texting device in the story. Tatsuya Matsubara created the Okabe with the idea of how he grows to care for others in the narrative and goes on a journey to save them. She is shown to not like him very much, calling him a weirdo due to his tendency to give people nicknames, and especially dislikes him calling her father "Mister Braun", She is good friends with Mayuri Shiina and Suzuha Amanethough and thinks of them as her older sisters, often exchanging a friendly "Tutturu" with Mayuri, and hanging around with Suzuha when she is working in the CRT TV store… Similarly to Okabe his persona makes him appear delusional but the difference is 4℃ is actually delusional. He aimed to connect Okabe's traits with the player's feelings not only by gameplay but also by the content of the narrative, most notably in the form the relationship he forms. [2], Geraint Evans stated that while Okabe is well explored in the anime, the visual novel gave fans the chance to understand the relationship between Mayuri and Okabe much better than in the anime. Steins;Gate is a cleverly written anime revolving around Okabe Rintarou aka the self proclaimed mad scientist Hououin Kyouma and his meddling with time. Read reviews on the anime Steins;Gate 0 on MyAnimeList, the internet's largest anime database. Meanwhile, Rintaro starts having intense side effects from his time travels, seeing visions of alternate Worldlines. After 7 years of waiting, Steins Gate 0 TV is finally coming to our screens. A very timid and reserved girl, Nae prefers to keep out of Okabe's way, as his Hououin Kyouma persona frightens her. is the daughter of Shouichi Makise, a genius girl who graduated from university at the age of seventeen, and a member of the Brain Science Institute at Viktor Chondria University and the Future Gadget Lab. Find out more with MyAnimeList, the world's most active online anime and manga community and database. Maho, who has Kurisu's hard drive, wants to access her theories, hoping to be able to save Kurisu; Russia, other countries, and groups including SERN are also after the theories, and the world line shifts as they monitor activities surrounding Kurisu's theories and memories. Shop with confidence. By using our Services or clicking I agree, you agree to our use of cookies. Speaking with them, Okabe becomes a tester for Amadeus, allowing him to communicate with Amadeus Kurisu through his phone. Please flair and spoiler tag your posts accordingly. Birthday: May 19. Okabe is an eccentric individual, a self-proclaimed mad scientist who often goes by the pseudonym Kyouma Hououin (鳳凰院 凶真, Hououin Kyōma). The game begins during Steins;Gate's ending, where Suzuha traveled to August 21, 2010 using her time machine to get Okabe to prevent a time-travel arms race leading to World War III; to do this, he needs to stop Kurisu's father, Doctor Nakabachi, from killing Kurisu and bringing her time travel theories to Russia. Steins;Gate takes the age-old question of 'What if..?' Lab Member 001, LabMem No.001, Okarin, オカリン, ラボメンNo.001, by accident, while time travelling within the beta timeline. 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In Steins;Gate 0, he time leaped over three thousand times from 2036 to get back to 2011) Classification:Human Powers and Abilities: Genius Intelligence, Time Travel/Timeline Ho… The story revolves around an alternative ending which will cover Okabe’s new attempt at saving Kurisu. Weight: 98kg. He is the founder of what he calls the "Future Gadget Laboratory" (未来ガジェット研究所, Mirai Gajetto Kenkyūjo) in Akihabara, where he spends most of his time and ha… If we assume he leaped a total of 24 times for 2 days each, that'd only add 48 days to his age, which isn't a big amount. 001 (as he is the first person to join). [13] Seaside Tapes owner referred Mr Ocean referred to Okabe as a major inspiration to the MTX alias. Cookies help us deliver our Services. [16] Pete Davison of USGamer acclaimed Okabe as "one of the most fascinating lead characters I've enjoyed the company of in quite some time" based on the handling of his character and the voice provided by Mamoru Miyano. Much older mentally (Time leaped hundreds of times in the original Steins;Gate, repeating the same two weeks over and over again. [12], In the 2013 "Newtype anime awards", Okabe won the best male anime character category. [22] Destructoid referred to him as the most changed character due to his lack of crazy demeanor and that did not care about the future of his life in a possible World War III. J. Michael Tatum plays the character in English dubs and had to change different parts of Miyano's take when doing commentaries so that Western audiences would understand Okabe's explanations.[5]. Suzuha brings Okabe to the moment of the murder, July 28, 2010, but he accidentally kills Kurisu himself due to world-line convergence. Despite the dark narrative, Carden still found Okabe and Maho had segment that could produce a laughter. Okabe est un savant fou sans vrai laboratoire qui se rend avec mayushi à une conférence sur les machines temporelles, à la fin de la conférence, okabe vois kurisu qu'il a rencontré quelques minutes plus tôt qui gise dans une marre de sang . After a tremendous Steins;Gate season 1 with a perfect ending and not-so-perfect movie, Steins;Gate 0 had a lot on its shoulders. Okabe come to conclusion how delusional he is even in the age of thirties. [17] In another review, GamesTm stated that Okabe deconstructs the ideas for a scientist in a positive fashion due to how he avoids steretotypical traits seen in fiction comparing him "Rick And Morty’s titular professor more than any other genre rival". Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. The performances of Mamoru Miyano (left) and J. Michael Tatum (right) were the subject of praise. While trying to change Okabe's mind, Suzuha looks for Kagari, who got separated when traveling to 1998. Nearly five months later, Okabe attends Kurisu's coworkers Maho and Leskinen's presentation of their Amadeus system, which uses digitized memories as artificial intelligence avatars; one avatar has been made based on Kurisu. After going through a painstaking journey across multiple 'World Lines' due to the invention of 'D-Mail', text messages that can be sent to the past, Rintaro Okabe has assumedly landed in the "Steins Gate" World Line, in which he was able to prevent the deaths of both Mayuri Shiina and Kurisu Makise, as well as prevent a future ruled by SERN due to the invention of a time machine that no longer exists. Lab Member 003 ///// Next up is Lab Member 004... My Assistant, Christinaaaaaaaa! You can also find me on my Instagram @AnimeMonsterX25 :) Steins;Gate takes place in Akihabara in 2010. The game has multiple routes, each focusing on Okabe building a romantic relationship with one of the characters from Steins;Gate. If I did, I felt like that would thin out the main text. Future Okabe says that Okabe experiencing Kurisu's death is necessary, because it links him with the Future Okabe that creates this video, and thus with the link established, Okabe able to see this video. Besides Steins;Gate, Okabe has been present in other games from the Science Adventure franchise. But that chance is predetermined by the will of the world. Although being biologically male, Luka has an extremely feminine appearance, causing him much trouble (and attention) from men (even Daru was at one point attracted to Luka's appearance). Steins;Gate is a 2011 anime television series created by the animation studio White Fox based on 5pb. If you were to include the time he repeated due to time leaps and add that on to his actual age how many years old would he be? (Also known as "The Zombie," "The Perverted Genius Girl" and "Celeb Seventeen!") She also wears leggings underneath her clothing.When she attends to her work at May Queen Nyan-nyan, she wears a blonde wig tied into a long ponytail. Players control Okabe Rintaro, a young man with constant suspicions of being pursued by the Organization, a shady group hell-bent on stopping his scientific research into time travel. Depressed and traumatized after failing to rescue his friend Makise Kurisu, he has decided to forsake his mad scientist alter ego and live as an ordinary college student. I can't tell more without giving the best part of the story away. [24], In regards to the anime adaptation of the visual novels, DVD Talk enjoyed Okabe's character arc as he becomes a more realistic person across the story. Furthermore, 4℃ is extremely selfish and always seems to react in an unfeeling and uncaring way t… Talking just about Okabe from the main Steins;Gate line (excluding 0 because those memories were ultimately effectively erased from existence upon reaching the Steins Gate) He almost certainly experienced the same few days for easily weeks, possibly months worth of subjective time, those were the longest 2 weeks of his life. With J. Michael Tatum, Monica Rial, Tyson Rinehart, Cherami Leigh. As he experiments with time travel, he learns that he is the only one who possesses the ability to determine changes between different timelines, which he dubs "Reading Steiner". A more serious answer, Okabe leaped a couple dozen times, but he doesn't live the entire 48 hours every time he leaped. This is obviously just an approximation since most of the time leaps are done off-screen. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. Steins;Gate anime episode 23 (βeta version) short summary. He is very slim, with thin arms and a lanky body. Okabe leads the Future Gadget Laboratory, a small group consisting of himself and his (only) two friends. Looks like you're using new Reddit on an old browser. Unless you want to think about the Suzuha ending where it is suggested he leaped thousands of times. The next day on August 4, a mysterious visitor shows up at Kurisu's hotel, telling her to remember three things: a cell phone, a microwave oven, and SERN. [23] Hardcore Gamer found that players might be affected by how Okabe passes his free time interacting with an AI based on Kurisu, something that might instead hurt him rather than recover from his trauma. 5pb., the developer and publisher of the Steins;Gate Visual Novel, has announced a new light novel based on the series is being published on September 25th.Steins;Gate -The Committee of Antimatter- is set 6 years after the game and will be written by Choshirou Miwa and illustrated by Tadasu Yoshida.Steins;Gate -The Committee of Antimatter-follows the main character of the series Rintarou Okabe … Age: 19. They spend their time inventing useless gadgets and giving them "cool" names. Later that day, as Kurisu is talking to Rintaro about how her own instances of déjà vu may be similar to Rintaro's 'Reading Steiner' ability to remember things from other World Lines, Rintaro suddenly disappears before Kurisu's eyes. Unless you want to think about the Suzuha ending where it is suggested he leaped thousands of times. For the most part, people do not seem to care and instead address him by his actual name or by 'Okarin' (his nickname), much to his chagrin. This is where you make your choices, with the way you use your cell phone affecting how the story unfolds, whether it's deciding whether to answer calls or read text messages, or how you choose to respond to calls and messages. Steins; Gate is a recent new Sci-fi anime that involves Okabe Rintarou, who claims himself to be a MAADD SCIENTISTTO, fighting against this imaginary organization that he created. [19] Nate Ming of Crunchyroll criticized the character, stating Okabe "is by far one of the most genuinely unlikable protagonists". Crunchyroll stated that while his appearance has not changed with the exception of his black coat, Okabe shows signs of suffering post-traumatic stress disorder and depression as a result of Kurisu's death. [18] IGN felt the bonds Okabe has with his friends were also appealing when talking about multiple subjects based on different types of ideas to help his dialogue be easier to understand. Height: 164 cm. We can take a couple of guesses using what is stated in the Visual novel but I need to know what Okabe we are talking about first. He was concerned the players might not be able to clear the game, relying on that collective intelligence. Steins;Gate is the second game in the Science Adventure series, and was initially released in 2009. Rintarou Okabe is the main protagonist of the visual novel and anime series Steins;Gate and Steins;Gate 0, and thecentral protagonist ofSteins;Gate: The Movie − Load Region of Déjà Vu.He is a self-proclaimed mad scientist who calls himself Hououin Kyouma which he claims is his true name. Critical response to Okabe has been positive due to his traits as a scientist and his darker characterization in Steins;Gate 0. It follows the story of the self-proclaimed mad scientist Rintaro Okabe, who, alongside his friends Mayuri Shiina and Itaru Hashida, discovers that they have accidentally created a machine capable of sending messages to the past. Okabe is a melodramatic, eccentric and rarely tsundere individual. He is the founder of the Future Gadget Lab where he and his lab members invents various gadgets. In this subreddit, you may submit posts about the Science Adventure series. [21] Jenni Lada from Siliconera stated that while at first she did not like Okabe's character, finding him "obnoxious and unrealistic at the outset of the adventure", she instead found the depressed Okabe more interesting. Steins;Gate also features hard science fiction elements. Rintaro "Okarin" Okabe (Japanese: 岡部 倫太郎, Hepburn: Okabe Rintarō) is a fictional character in the Science Adventure series, first appearing as the player character of 5pb. [14], Critical reception to the character in the visual novel has been positive. [5] THEM Anime Reviews said that while time traveling stories are common in anime, the studio instead made the anime as "about Okabe Rintarou"; the reviewer described Okabe as a "childish, nonsense spouting but occasionally brilliant" who despite having a weak characterization, he still develops as a character similar to what DVD Talk claimed. He tends to act smug around others as well as treat them as inferior to himself unless it benefits him. Steins Gate zero is one part of a big project called Steins Gate World Line, a 2017-2018 anime project discussed at … I started watching the show after seeing that it had favorable reviews and I must admit that the beginning is kind of slow. Honestly I feel like he would have time leaped at least a few hundred times, this is coming from someone who's only seen the anime, because of the way the anime handled showing the amount of leaps he's done I would low-ball estimate that he has time leaped at least >75 and high ball it as >200, because of that personally I think that he would be anywhere between almost 19 and almost 21 years old in terms of just the Mayuri time leaps, although the amount of time leaps suggested by the anime could have been presented as really high in order to highlight Okabe's mental condition at this point in the story. Rintaro "Okarin" Okabe (Japanese: 岡部 倫太郎, Hepburn: Okabe Rintarō) is a fictional character in the Science Adventure series, first appearing as the player character of 5pb. I need a Thurday night lady line dance instructor and a Friday and Saturday night Male instructor 7:30 - 9 A great regular gig for someone. Avoid operating the scale in direct sunlight or drafts of any kind. Destructoid praised Okabe's character and his relationship with the rest of the cast based on how appealing they were,[15] with Siliconera preferring the one he starts with Kurisu based on the comical interactions. The story centers around Rintaro Okabe and his friends at the Future Gadget Lab, as they accidentally discover a way to change the past using their microwave. Depends on what Okabe we are talking about. [20], Critics also commented on Okabe's darker characterization from Steins;Gate 0. He is voiced by Mamoru Miyano in Japanese and J. Michael Tatum in English. Mayuri's eyebrows are noticeably thick.Mayuri's outfit is simple and comfortable, consisting of a light blue one-piece dress and a hat of the same color. There's no way to figure out exactly how much older his mental age becomes from all the stress, however, so we can't say what his mental age is exactly. Looking for information on the anime Steins;Gate? If we do the maths the entire period of zerokabe time leaping is as a low ball estimate 260 days that added on to his age at the time and the amount of previous time leaping would equal to around >20 lowballing and >22 highballing. While Steins;Gate was made for the Xbox 360 and c Kurisu is one of the main characters of Steins;Gate, a major posthumous character in Steins;Gate 0 via Amadeus. On August 3, Kurisu arrives in Japan for a press conference and reunites with all the members of the Future Gadget Laboratory. Her hair forms fringes that sweep from either side. [6] As Rintaro sends a text message about the incident to his friend, Itaru "Daru" Hashida, he experiences a strange phenomenon and the people around him disappear, with no one else noticing anything had changed. and Nitroplus's 2009 visual novel of the same name, and is part of the Science Adventure franchise along with Chaos;Head and Robotics;Notes. Characters Rintaro Okabe (岡部 倫太郎, Okabe Rintarō) The player assumes the role of Rintaro Okabe, the protagonist of Steins;Gate. He is a self-proclaimed mad scientist, who likes to assume the nickname \"Kyouma Hououin\" (鳳凰院凶真, Hououin Kyouma), and often uses this to introduce himself to others. Kurisu Makise(牧瀬 紅莉栖,Makise Kurisu?) Blood Type: B. Tier: 10-B Name:Rintarou Okabe, Hououin Kyouma, Okarin, "The Third Einstein" (Referred to by Professor Alexis Leskinen) Origin: Steins;Gate Gender:Male Age:18, 19 in Steins;Gate 0 physically. His Sacred Treasure is the Holy Rod Courechouse. and Nitroplus's visual novel game Steins;Gate (2009). en Rintaro Okabe: Official Name: ja 岡部倫太郎: Date of Birth: 14.12.1991: Age: 18: Gender Identity: male: Bloodtype: A: Height (in cm) 177: Weight (in kg) 59: abilities and places it in the hands of a group of teenage scientists, giving them the power to change the world around them. [25] Pierce Drew at The Fandom Post regarded Okabe as having "massive, spotlighting personality" due his "mad scientist" actions like delivering laughs in a chaotic manner regardless of voice actor. Premise Happening one year after the end of the original anime series in 2011, Okabe Rintarou is now suffering from memory overload from his past journeys in time leaping that caused his existence to disappear from the Steins Gate line.