Steins;Gate Ep 9
Added 2024-08-21 17:42:19 +0000 UTCI love this anime. Already looking forward to the rewatch.
Comments
I think that's an oversimplification of his feelings about Feyris considering some of the alternate timelines in the game. Better to say the reality is she makes him uncomfortable and flustered.
Erika
2024-09-16 00:41:11 +0000 UTCAmazing episode!
Baka
2024-08-22 10:50:50 +0000 UTCI snort laughed lmaoo
DrumRollTony
2024-08-22 07:19:13 +0000 UTCPlease do 3 episodes just for next week! Things really start to kick in if you do.
Hoji
2024-08-22 06:52:31 +0000 UTCThe year is 2030. Tony still has not turned off auto play. Also Tony have you seen Dark on netflix?
Nick K
2024-08-22 04:30:57 +0000 UTCMan ur lucky u got all these people explaining the references and cultural stuff. My first time watching i was so confused at some of the references 😭
Parampreet Singh
2024-08-22 02:31:54 +0000 UTCIn real life, Akihabara (shortened to Akiba) is well known for tons of anime culture stores and the like. It was once well known for being the center of electronics in Tokyo. The fans are representative of the electronics, and Tora no Ana is a very well known anime/manga-related store with many locations across Japan
Ryo
2024-08-22 02:21:41 +0000 UTCOooooh, well, that makes more sense. Well if you're super nitpicky with the logic, the banana would still appear in a random location and not attached to the bunch, but eh. It's a show.
Lixien
2024-08-22 00:57:17 +0000 UTCNot really, they were setting it to really short time periods at the beginning, just sending it back a few seconds
JoeyGuy7
2024-08-22 00:52:16 +0000 UTCYeah, if he physically traveled, there would be two Okabes, the one from the past and the one that traveled. He's not doing that. He's staying in the same place and time, but because of the D-mails, everything around him changes. The problem is not that they can't send bodies (or bananas) to the past, it's that they would become gel and die. Also, about the banana, they showed the banana going back to the stock in the lab to make the characters realize that time traveling is happening but it's actually a ''plot-hole''. It doesn't make sense, if the banana went back in time then it would go back to the store and not to their lab. The store owner would freak out and be confused and wonder why there's a ''gel banana'' in their store and obviously wouldn't sell it, so it's just impossible that it would reappear in their lab because they wouldn't be able to buy them in the first place. It doesn't really matter, but yeah.
Lixien
2024-08-22 00:38:54 +0000 UTCTo add on a bit to that. Akiba was a very like anime culture focused area before that last dmail, now it's completely rid of that. Also, not sure if you caught it but they quickly showed that in this timeline Mayuri doesn't have the metal Upa she got in ep 1 which is interesting.
Bautista
2024-08-21 22:46:35 +0000 UTCAlso funny you mention Spanish, my rule of thumb with japanese pronunciation is to just pretend it's a Spanish word since their vowels are basically the same
JoeyGuy7
2024-08-21 22:35:12 +0000 UTCThere is no spoiler. This aspect of the relationship is not in the anime. And this is litteraly what Okabe says the first time she appears.
Logan H
2024-08-21 22:25:08 +0000 UTCI think context from the game should be kept out. It's kind of spoilery and also not the same canon
JoeyGuy7
2024-08-21 22:20:48 +0000 UTCAbout Feyris and Okabe, in the game, we learn a lot more about okabe's feeling. And we learn that Okabe doesn't like Feyris. He find Feyris really weird by saying imaginary stuff, just like he does
Logan H
2024-08-21 21:37:45 +0000 UTCAll the info in the comments is great. This anime is so cool. I am glad you all explained the store differences because there is no way I would have known. That makes this EP even better. Damn. We are def keeping a science fiction slot from now on.
DrumRollTony
2024-08-21 20:42:16 +0000 UTC(Not a spoiler) In regards to the fan at the end - Remember the anime culture district from before in the show? Okabe is freaking out because he realized that all the moe/anime shops we saw earlier in the show are gone and the area is now entirely different. Thats why its focusing in on the fans, because rather than Moe/anime/manga shops its now a normal fan shop. An entire section of their home is now completely different than before, so its basically him realizing the full weight of how drastic things can change based on their actions So when Mayuri is saying she wants to buy some manga and wishes there was a place to buy it near by, Okabe's like what are you talking about, this is THE place to go for that. Until he looks around and realizes whats happened One of my favorite scenes in the show tbh, gives me chills every time. Imagine your home just changing like that, and you're the only one that knows its wrong
Flare
2024-08-21 20:16:26 +0000 UTCIt might be misleading to say that he is switching timelines as parallel universes (assuming they exist) have their own timelines, and what Okabe is doing is not switching universes, but rather, switching between "worlds" within his universe (one universe has many different "worlds").
James
2024-08-21 20:09:12 +0000 UTCAs others have already said, when switching to a different worldline, the current (active or observable) worldline gets reconstructed along with everyone's memories, but for whatever reason, Okabe's memories doesn't get reconstructed and is able to retain his memories from the previous worldline (he's not physically moving). As I have mentioned from before, the concept of worldlines is based on the Many-Worlds Interpretation (MWI) from quantum mechanics, and there is more to say on this, but it will probably need to wait until later episodes.
James
2024-08-21 19:55:56 +0000 UTCthat's gotta be the funniest american equivalent i've heard
Marthan
2024-08-21 19:06:13 +0000 UTCAs you continue asking about stuff related to D-mail, I'll try to explain it here (sorry if not concise): What Okabe doing right now is not time travel it's switching timelines because past was changed somehow (and he can feel with his Reading Steiner that past was changed and timeline switched). They are doing it by sending D-mail into the past in CURRENT timeline. If D-mail was important and it gonna affect the past - so timeline should be changed. But Okabe the only one who can track it. So during the timeline switch, Okabe's memories form current timeline (call it timeline A) are taken and put into Okabe from new timeline (call it - B). But time is the same in both A and B! These are parallel timelines with no shift in time. Okabe may find himleslf in different environment because Okabe in B was there at that moment when timeline switched. But when memories of Okabe in B are rewritten with those from A, Okabe doesnt remember anything from the moment D-mail altered the past till now. They are gone because Okabe always has memories of his original version from A. And that's what makes situation crazy - how many things that are changed he doesnt know, he never experienced. But as I said - it's definitely not a time leap. It's a timeline switch due to some chagnes in past and Okabe can track the fact of those switches.
d_swordfish
2024-08-21 18:31:34 +0000 UTCThis is also why everyone is saying 2008 Era meme like fail etc, to try to translate how an internet nerd of that Era would talk lol
JoeyGuy7
2024-08-21 18:31:33 +0000 UTCFun japanese tidbit. In the maid cafe Feyris basically speaks in cat puns, replacing "na" in words with "nya", which is japanese for meow. Basically like that scene in super troopers but much cornier lmao
JoeyGuy7
2024-08-21 18:20:03 +0000 UTCakihabara is the hub for anime, nerd, geek culture in japan, but before it was that, it was just an electronics district. The d-mail altered the past in a way where what was supposed to now be that anime and nerd hub instead continued to be an electronics district.
AsbestosDust
2024-08-21 18:17:47 +0000 UTCBasically all the nerd culture stores are gone. No Hot Topics or Spencers in sight
Avalon
2024-08-21 18:11:03 +0000 UTC2chan is what spawned 4chan, though AFAIK it doesn't have the same "reputation" as 4chan, it's simply the most popular japanese forum (and japanese LOVE their forums) for (then) younger people, so when Makise made a reference to a meme that was popular on 2chan at the time, it outed her as a nerd basically.
LegionaresCZ
2024-08-21 18:10:45 +0000 UTCOoooo that'd cool
DrumRollTony
2024-08-21 18:05:45 +0000 UTCSo the explanation for the end is spoiler free. It's just missing cultural context. The stores are now all different than what he and other Japanese people would assume would be there.
Tuny kun
2024-08-21 18:01:18 +0000 UTCHe has indeed told them that he's able to retain memories whenever a D-Mail successfully happens to travel thru time and successfully changes the past. The issue comes when trying to send something that's worth more than 36 bytes of data. Since the data gets compressed through a black hole to go back thru time. Anything larger than this gets changed on a molecular level and jelly-fied. One thing to remember as a refresher, everytime Okabe's "reading steiner" activates. He doesn't jump back or forward in time. He remains at the exact time of jumping. But rather jumps to a parallel time period with the memories of the entire world altered.
GardeninTool
2024-08-21 17:57:51 +0000 UTC
