Steins;Gate

Time travel may be a common enough sci-fi staple, but when was the last time you saw a scientist use a microwave to send a banana into the past? That’s just one of the weird and wonderful things you’ll find in Steins;Gate, one of the most entertaining anime series I’ve seen in years.Steins;Gate Season 1 Download.

Based on a popular Xbox 360 visual novel that originally appeared in 2008, Steins;Gate introduces Okabe, a self-styled mad scientist with plans of world domination. Pompous, arrogant and constantly babbling grandiose monologues to anyone in earshot, Okabe may think he’s some sort of billionaire despot in the making, but in reality, he’s just as much of an outsider as his sidekick, Daru – a computer geek and otaku culture obsessive.In fact, all the main characters are misfits in one way or another – Okabe’s friend Mayuri, for example, is forgetful and curiously childlike, and she also has an odd habit of announcing her arrival by singing a little fanfare. Then there’s Kurisu, a grumpy yet supremely intelligent young scientist from America, and Moeka, a tall and largely silent character who communicates almost exclusively by text message – even to people standing directly in front of her.Steins;Gate Season 1 Download.

While conducting experiments in his lab above a TV repair shop, Okabe and Daru accidentally make a time machine out of a microwave. Although his initial attempts to send a banana back through time have mixed results – the banana ends up back in its fruit bowl, but horribly gooey and putrefied – Okabe makes another discovery: he can send text messages to the past.As Okabe’s texts begin to subtly alter the course of history, he learns two more things. One, that he has the ability to discern the differences between timelines after events have been altered, and two, a shadowy organisation called SERN has also discovered time travel, and is now determined to hunt him down.Steins;Gate Season 1 Download.