STEINS;GATE EPISODE 13 FULL REACTION!
Added 2022-05-04 19:08:25 +0000 UTC
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Thank you so much for the explanation! I think I get it now. :D
Marko Dmitrovic
2022-05-05 10:34:27 +0000 UTCTo answer your question: time travel in this show is consistent; timeleap and d-mail both alter the worldline. Some dmails/timeleaps change the world more than others, but the worldline always changes. The very fact of sending a dmail/timeleap to the past changes the worldline, even if you don't 'change' anything. Suppose you start from worldline 'A', and send your memories back in time one day. Even if you decide to do the 'exact same things'; the mere fact that you now have memories from before you leapt is a change in itself, and thus you're on a new worldline 'B'. In this case, the only change in worldline 'B', is that you have memories of worldline 'A'. This is a bit of a simplification, but the main difference between dmail and timeleap is that with a timeleap you experience the portion of time that was 'changed', whereas with the d-mail, the timeline 'instantly' switches (leading to the reading steiner effect if the worldlines are different enough). This gets explained in-depth in the visual novel, but the anime skims over it a bit.
Nines
2022-05-05 03:33:47 +0000 UTCThat makes sense, thanks. I forgot that he actually needs to use that new built time leap machine so he can't go too far into the past... Mayuri dying again and again is just too freaking sad.
Marko Dmitrovic
2022-05-04 21:29:03 +0000 UTCThis episode is rough man, I'll never forget playing/watching it for the first time. Regarding the time leaps: I believe you do go back to a previous time in the same worldline (or rather, a wordline with such little difference that Okabe's reading steiner does not activate). You can go back a maximum of 48 hours per time leap. However, the machine has just been created so Okabe cannot go back that far in time because there will be no machine for him to leap again.
MrLine
2022-05-04 20:57:37 +0000 UTC
