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Steins;Gate, a Japanese light novel and anime, includes John Titor in the story in an awesome way. It also includes some bit of hacker culture that I think is m
by echohack5 7y ago
Steins;Gate, a Japanese light novel and anime, includes John Titor in the story in an awesome way. It also includes some bit of hacker culture that I think is more real than the typical American movie "hacker". I recommend it!
Edit: As pointed out in the comments, this was originally a visual novel! There are many ways to enjoy this story.
- dilippkumar 7y agoStrong agree. Stiens;Gate is the only time traveller story that I know that establishes rules for time travel early on and actually sticks to these rules till the end.
- jbay808 7y agoWas it the end, or... just the beginning?!
- time0ut 7y agoYou might enjoy the movie Primer [0]. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_HHnXeMWT0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_HHnXeMWT0
- gamegoblin 7y agoAlso, the German netflix show 'Dark' does time travel in a much more satisfying way than the vast majority. Watch it in German with subtitles, the dub is weird.
- tetris11 7y agoDark suffers from the same ambiguity as Lost though, where you given the writers the benefit of the doubt that there's an overarching rational sequence of events, but it's also equally likely that the writers are just making it up as they go along.
- as1mov 7y agoJust a heads up, the video is blocked everywhere except USA/Canada. Here's a link to the trailer if anyone is interested[0]. It's a fantastic movie by the way, a definite watch if you're interested in hard sci-fi. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vD-yj9o664& https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vD-yj9o664&
- laumars 7y agoI remember being impressed with how rigidly the 90s show 'Crime Traveller' stuck to the rules it outlined of time travel. Aside from that, it wasn't a great show (only 1 series made) and watching the first episode[1] back I can safely say it's not aged well either. But it's one show that has always stuck in my memory for when the writers actually took the theory of time travel seriously. [0] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118292/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118292/ [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHpuzsJMaUg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHpuzsJMaUg
- dragontamer 7y ago> Stiens;Gate is the only time traveller story that I know that establishes rules for time travel early on and actually sticks to these rules till the end. There's also Primer, but Stein's gate is better than that movie.
- as1mov 7y agoI wouldn't really call it better, they operate on different scales. Primer is much less bombastic and doggedly grounded to reality, which is really an anomaly in sci-fi media. Failure of the protagonists in Primer does not mean a World War 3 will happen or the planet will be destroyed, the biggest stake in the movie is one of the characters getting shot at their birthday party by an ex. Personally I find this much more refreshing than the usual the-world-will-collapse scenarios. It's easily one of my favorite films, just because of how different it is than it's ilk, I've yet to find something like it again.
- zitterbewegung 7y agoPrimer is a movie that while it has a time machine it really explores the personal and social implications and complications of time travel. Using time travel as a plot device versus using time travel to explore part of our humanity is a mark of great science fiction.
- tetris11 7y agoI just wish the plot was more linear, and not needlessly patched together memento style so that you dont have to watch it more than once.
- mirimir 7y agoI've probably watched it over ten times, and sections of it far more. And I still don't quite understand the storyline. In particular, what's up with that hangar full of troops and equipment at the "end"?
- hyperpallium 7y agoTed Chiang's The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate (short story)
- EthanHeilman 7y ago"The Man Who Folded Himself"[0] is one of the best time travel books. It won both the Nebula and the Hugo. While it has consistent rules about time travel, figuring out what exactly those rules are is half the fun of the book. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Folded_Himself https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Folded_Himself
- The_suffocated 7y agoOf all time travel stories I know, the one with the most consistent and logical view on time travel isn't Steins;Gate, but Murai Nikki (Future Diary). IMHO, Steins;Gate hasn't clarified what time travel really represents. When one travels from one world line to another, does the previous world line still exist? Is time travel a travel between parallel universes, a complete rewrite of history in the _same_ world, or something else? In the first Steins;Gate anime, it seems that time travel means a rewrite of history (i.e. the conventional type of time travel in science fictions), but in Steins;Gate 0, time travel seems more like jumping between parallel universes.
- minimaxir 7y agoThe full anime (all episodes subbed, a few dubbed) is available for free on YouTube by Funimation: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=EL3n57TtnN3tY https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=EL3n57TtnN3tY
- haunter 7y agoOnly in Canada, UK, Ireland, and US https://polsy.org.uk/stuff/ytrestrict.cgi?ytid=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Dtz-L_sgaLUY https://polsy.org.uk/stuff/ytrestrict.cgi?ytid=https%3A%2F%2...
- jamesgeck0 7y agoTwo things I usually note when recommending Steins;Gate. Either the sub or the dub is well worth watching, but the dub is one of my favorites. In particular, it shines with Okarin's mile-a-minute pseudo-scientific conspiracy rants. If you like the premise and the characters, but are frustrated at the slow pace, hang in there. The plot does eventually kick into gear, and it doesn't waste any of the character development or world building.
- lihaciudaniel 7y agoVideo unavailable This video is not available.
- Seirdy 7y agoThe anime is good, but the original visual novel is much more detailed and offers several endings. 11/10 would recommend; it's the only time I can say a video game brought me close to tears. The Steins;Gate visual novel was the perfect gateway drug into otaku culture for me the first time I played it, especially since it included a glossary of terms related to anime/manga that grew as the story continued.
- ukyrgf 7y agoIsn't it... a game? What came first?
- minimaxir 7y agoIt was a visual novel (the game on the PS3 [EDIT: +Xbox 360]), then it was an anime, and very recently, there is now a game, Steins;Gate Elite (PS4/Xbox One/Switch) based on the anime.
- ThaRemo 7y agoYes, it branched out into many different forms of media. I made a website a few years back listing all types of spin-off material: https://allaboutsteinsgate.info/ https://allaboutsteinsgate.info/
- stordoff 7y agoAs someone who has frequently used this site, thank you. It's a great resource.
- q3 7y agoActually it was originally a visual novel, not a light novel.
- Hamuko 7y ago>There are many ways to enjoy this story. I'd suggest going with the visual novel anyways, since it has a bit more meat (like multiple endings) even if the anime is a pretty faithful telling. It's also on so many different platforms (including iOS), so it's pretty accessible. I'd avoid Steins;Gate Elite like a plague though.
- andredz 7y agoWhat's wrong with Steins;Gate Elite?
- stordoff 7y agoIt makes the art _far_ more generic and a fair number of the internal monologue lines that make the main character more interesting have been cut. There are some explanatory lines (for things that originally aren't visually portrayed) cut that I don't think come across as well in the animation. It's not _bad_, but I don't see any reason to go with it over the original.
- geoelectric 7y agoI hadn't actually realized Titor was a "real" person, and I'm playing/reading through Steins;Gate Elite now. This was a little surreal to see pop up.
- Bombthecat 7y agoIt's amazing! My wife doesn't like anime. But for some reason she really liked steins gate.
- 0x8BADF00D 7y agoThe VN is darker. When stuck in a time loop, the protagonist contemplates raping a female friend over and over again because it will just reset.