Ferris saying “nyan” in a post apocalyptic war stops me from taking that entire section seriously

I’m pretty sure a world where Digi prefers SAO and Eromanga Sensei to SG:0 is already the worst timeline.

14:54 Not even drinking Dr Pepper, what a hack

A little misconception you had: SERN is not a dystopic overlord in the world lines beyond the 1% attractor field, in those world lines the story changes to World War 3 occurring due to an Arms Race for Time Travel. So it does make *some* sense that things would be blasted to shit. (Funny thing though, I just remembered in the 4 years between Kaguri being 6 and turning 10 apparently Akihabra gets blasted. Remember the whole episode around the song? Those train tracks were fine. Now in a modern day World War that's not too insane to think, but still.) For the Otaku Journey's angle? I'm not as convinced as with NGNL, and I'd have to think about it, but there is certainly a powerful amount of that sort of theme in the show. I'm just not sure quite if it's the largest point in the show.

5:05 No deSERNable reason.

That jump from the 2D space of the video essay into the 3D space of the Otaku Hero's Journey presentation blew my sleep deprived mind.

0:23 - Because Steins;Gate 0 expands upon character developments made in the anime that weren't made in the visual novel. 0:50 - Nope, it shouldn't. Attractor Fields are a thing. In fact, Suzuha coming back is part of convergence in the Beta Attractor Field. 1:08 - That's not it. Yes, Daru is loyal to Okabe, but he isn't that loyal. It's more that they have no clue how to actually finish the damn thing. 1:18 - Because Okabe is the only one that is capable of observing worldline change. She assumes fixing the world on July 28th is the only way to open a path to the Steins Gate because Beta Suzuha knows jack shit about how time travel actually works. 1:37 - These prophecies will be fulfilled no matter if Daru wants it to happen or not. This is convergence at play. It's the same thing that caused Mayuri to die every time in the original as well. If Yuki isn't gunned down, she'll die in some other way. 1:50 - See my comment regarding 0:50. 2:20 - Because it isn't really relevant. Generally, and this isn't anything confirmed, but just a bit of speculation: Convergence tries to place people in the positions they were before the shift if possible. There are occations where it isn't possible, but in most it is. 2:38 - Yeah. You're highlighting the one plot hole with the true end that no one has managed to explain properly so far. This plot hole has been known since before 0. This theory by /u/Woute on r/SteinsGate is the best explanation we've got so far. www.reddit.com/r/steinsgate/comments/8nioce/an_attempt_at_a_complete_theory_of_steinsgate/ 3:10 - Yeah, this is just mediocre, if not bad writing. I guess we can establish this as a case of 'Faint Memories' from the original (see the theory) if we were to explain this at all. If we were to explain this, I'd say Mayuri isn't shocked because of the "memory-leak" from Alpha, essentially. 4:35 - An after-story for Alpha does exist, though. There's Rebellion of the Missing Ring (Manga) and The Distant Valhalla (LN and fanmade VN). 4:40 - Linear Bounded Phenogram, Darling of Loving Vows, the Hyde of Dark Dimension Drama CD, Robotics;Notes DaSH, and the rest of SciADV exists though. Steins;Gate wasn't even the first within the universe. 5:07 - This isn't SERN though. These are either raiders/pillagers or legit military people. From which nation? That isn't relevant. 5:14 - This isn't a dystopia either. This is post-WW3. A destroyed world, essentially. The Dystopia took place in the Alpha Attractor Field, you just misunderstood the story. 5:22 - Not quite. Your confusion here is caused by a misunderstanding of something that was made clear in the original anime. 5:31 - Because this future isn't the same future. You're basing this point off your own misconception, that should have been clear from the anime alone. 5:47 - This isn't 2036 to my understanding, but before everything goes to complete shit. 5:52 - That Kagari is a left-over Kagari from the Vega & Altair storyline. She looks younger due to her hair being shorter, I guess. 6:03 - Time-leap failed. Time proceeded normally, data is still on the computer. Okabe falls brain-dead in 2025. Data gets restored. 6:12 - Not quite random. This is his former university. 7:21 - Why is this the single worst thing? I've never really understood the complaints myself. 7:57 - I really can't see your arguments about Luka and Faris. It makes sense to me. 8:01 - No. Because that's not the same future. 8:08 - Because that's not the same future. 9:25 - This is because Chiyomaru is great at making their characters know just enough about the mechanics to get us invested, yet just enough to make us unable to figure anything out about them. Kurisu didn't know anything about the limit, she was just taking an educated guess. 11:15 - I haven't really got anything to refute you with here. Tech looks the same because of the budget, I guess. Those time leaps cenes were anime original in the first place, so again, can't really use anything but the "muh budget" argument here. 14:30 - These character analyses are actually alright. 16:43 - And this is where you'll need to understand that SERN is only the first boss of the raid. There are many more raid bosses yet to beat, 17:18 - Steins;Gate is literally not a dating sim. Visual Novels != Dating Sims. Yes, Steins;Gate does have routes for each girl. Does Okabe end up with any of them? Yes, but when he does, it's this bittersweet ending. rot13.com - Use this to decode this part. It spoils literally all the alternate endings. Yhxn'f raqvat vf yvgrenyyl "Raqyrff Thvyg-gevc bire yrggvat Znlhev qvr, ohg yrg'f qb thvyg gbtrgure, bu naq yrg'f unir n onol." Fhmhun'f vf "Bfuvg v arneyl encrq fhmh. Yrg'f geniry onpx bhg bs guvf tebhaqubt qnl ybbc." - Vg'f fgngrq va vagreivrjf gung vg raqf hc orvat n unccl raqvat, ohg jr nera'g fubja nal bs guvf. Vg nyfb pneevrf gur ovggrefjrrgarff bs orvat hanoyr gb pbagnpg nal bs uvf byq sevraqf. Snevf' raqvat vf yvgrenyyl "V trg gb cebonoyl sht pngthey ohg V ybfg gur yno naq nal bs zl sevraqf sebz gurer." Xhevfh'f raqvat vf yvgrenyyl "Gehr raq phg fubeg." Znlhev'f raqvat vf yvgrenyyl "Gehr raq phg fubeg ohg jvgu Znlhev" 17:48 - I'll actually agree here. Most of SciADV's science is bullshit. That's not what's entertaining about them. It's exactly as you say. It's the closest we've got, and they manage to make that entertaining. 18:24 - I guess. Steins;Gate 0 was entertaining to me because I managed to get invested in the world, in the characters and in the further universe. 18:36 - I wouldn't say it's Steins;Gate fanfiction. And I'm gonna add this point once again, most of 0 was canon side material before becoming compiled into the VN, which got compiled into the anime. Some of this side material even predates the original anime. I would call this a part of said Otaku Hero's Journey. All in all, I can't say I think Steins;Gate 0 was perfect, but I can say that I don't think it sucks, your opinion may differ, nor did I ever hope to change your opinion, I was simply thinking that I'd help other people who are equally confused about the story understand it.

It really bothers me how he keeps confusing alpha (SERN dystopia) and beta (WWIII) world lines.

Looks like they mistook "Dystopia" for "Post Apocalyptic."

I love how his "assistant" took the time to actually cosplay the tiny details of Kurisu, (like the folded boots) even though we can barely spot them through the reflection on Digi's glasses. xD

10:04 That's because the first time, he knocked over the terminal when he woke up

The biggest mystery to me is that there are people who actually liked sg0 and some claimed it was even better than season 1. It terrifies me to think that i probably walk past such people on the street from time to time, not realizing how unhinged they are.

5:05 Uhh, Suzuha never said the Beta Timeline was a dystopia. You are confusing it with the Alpha Timeline.

I like to think government services are so out of touch that they kept on going even with the end of the world and never noticed.

you mixed up the Alpha and Beta world lines a lot

I know you don't care about the VN, but in the original Steins;Gate VN there's a scene when Okabe finds out that Nae (mr. Brown's doughter) used the time leap machine to come to the past for like 10 years (in a lot of 24h leaps) in order to avange her father, and she has a teenage brain inside a little girl's body. It seams to me that it means that what Makise meant was that the differance between the brains is relevant for just a single leap.

Your series on this was spot on. I felt betrayed while watching this, episode by episode. I introduced my gf to Steins;Gate about 3 or 4 years ago, not quite sure anymore. And she loved the series. I was so excited to jump into a sequel with her but this time both of us not knowing what is going to unfold. I wish I knew, so I wouldnt have started.

Stein Gate 0 has legal loli Stain Gate Original has no legal loli Hence Zero > Original Checkmate Digi!

You could have made an ENTIRE SERIES about Okabe jumping back from the dystopic future to present day 2 weeks at a time, and it could have been really interesting...

Artso Fartso must be Hentai Samurai's relative!

Lol, "dystopian groceries" got me

Lemme explain some of the stuff here. I am no critic myself but if you want your critiques to be taken seriously you should tend to do some more research about the topic to be honest, Digibro. You overlooked and misinterpreted lots of things in the first half of the video even though the second half wiith the otaku guy rant was pretty damn impressive (I'll give you that) 0:04 - You are right about Okabe starting to feel sympathetic towards Moeka closer to the end of the series. But you should have noticed that, at this wordline, Okabe is suffering from severe case of anxiety due to his PTSD. He's on meds and having therapy sessions time to time. A mention of any small bit from last summer is enough to make him go nuts. Now what would seeing his childhood friend's murderer again make him feel like? 0:28 - Yes, he changed this much. It is not an oversight. Anxiety DOES this you. 0:37 - Daru had already started working on the time leap machine waaaay before Okabe realized what he was doing, so I don't get why you're assuming Daru could only finish it with Okabe's permission. 1:36 - He cant change the course of things. That's how convergence works. It is going to happen: the law of god. Daru too knows this - he heard from Okabe about what happened to Mayuri in the alpha wordlines. 1:50 - Honestly? Don't expect to get an explanation to this. If there is a reason to why Okabe decided to visit the lab, we cant learn that anyway. Because that Okabe is gone, overwritten by the Okabe who reading steinered into that wordline. 2:10 - I'm pretty sure no one thought about this as hard as you did, Digibro. It seems more nitpicky than any of your statements before. 2:21 - They dont cease to exist because the worldine they are in is STILL active. It does not shift to the Steins;Gate worldline until Suzuha from 2036 (the smol Suzuha you see in Episode 23, not the one who got lost in time) time travels back to 2010 and shows okabe the video mail. 2:47 - I'll agree with you in this one. Those rooftop scenes are horrible and badly directed in every single episode they appear. I think those are the only part of the anime anyone cant find an excuse or explanation to. They are simply bad. 4:25 - SERN never establish their dystopia in the beta worldlines. 5:05 - Those are not SERN soldiers. SERN isnt even active after World War 3. And what you see is not supposed to be a "dystopia" either. You're mixing alpha and beta wordlines. In Alpha, SERN achieves their dystopia - In Beta, it's World War 3 where big guys are on the frontlines. Literal countries, like Russia and US, not independent shadow organizations like SERN. 5:29 - Again, you are mixing things. That shot of the city is from SERN's dystopian timeline where World War 3 NEVER occurs. So everything is intact. 5:34 - This feels like another nitpick. Is this huge enough of a plothole for you to mention it? 6:19 - This slight bit of info comes from the visual novel: Where Okabe wakes up is not a random hospital. It's Stratfor's base located under Tokyo Denki University (the one where Okabe attends). Anime apparently never tells you this info. I guess they didn't feel like adding that bit since it connects to the second half of Promised Rinascimento route which the anime did not adapt. 8:10 - Honestly you can pull this argument in literally every death in Steins;Gate. "X character dies but they will come back in the Steins Gate worldline, so who the fuck cares?" Not to mention this death scene was necessary for Okabe to pull his shit together. He finally realized that war IS real and his friends will all die, he finally realized that he has to do something. So I guess Okabe cares? 9:25 - On paper it sounds shit, yes but the fact that he'd go further as to do 3000 time leaps back to the past to fix the future is still badass. And to know that that this may have taken months in Okabe's perspective makes him seem way more determined than before. Gives you a feeling that old Okarin is back and he's going to pull it off. Also one of my favorite changes from VN to anime was Okabe deciding to time leap back to the past himself. In the VN it was more like Maho saying "Oh yeah, you can time leap like, 3000 times if you wanna go back" and Okabe was like "guess I'll do it then" which added no weight to his decision to be honest. 10:02 - That's because Okabe literally broke the machine first time he woke up/arrived in 2036. Daru (or [Kurisu] herself, I don't remember who exactly) mentions this exact same thing later in the same episode. 10:31 - I wouldn't say nothing changed. Okabe couldn't time leap 2 weeks after he arrived in 2025 because the time leap machine's capabilities were extended to 2 weeks after his "death". After that point he has to go back through time by 2 days instead of 2 weeks. 11:00 - Of course the show didn't show 25 years of Okabe time leaping back to the future and there are two reasons to that: 1) By that point 0 had only 2 episodes left so, not much runtime to cover everything. 2) It's the same thing over and over, I fail to see how showing Okabe's time leaps would be any interesting. Also let me remind you that the whole sequence where Okabe arrived in 2025 and ran to the time leap machine with the help of Amadeus and his friends wasnt even in the visual novel. The VN didnt even show anything after Okabe's first time leap. Just a small text that states Okabe time leaped 3000 times back to the past. To some people, what anime added is a nice bonus. To me, honestly, it was a needed fix and White Fox delivered it perfectly. t 18:15 - I'll keep it simple. 0 is no longer the story of the otaku hero. It's about the story of a man who is trying to escape from those delusions because he is too afraid to face the consequences of his possible wrongdoings. This is why I know 0 wouldnt appeal to everyone who watched the original series, the shift from lighthearted to depressing tone is heavy and might irk some of those people off from watching/reading it to the end. This is why you shouldn't compare the tone of 0 to OG, they are supposed to be vastly different. as because in no way 0 is trying to be like the original Steins;Gate.

This is my favourite episode of cinema sins!

You reference the dystopia from the original steins;gate but in steins;gate 0's worldline there is never a dystopia, instead there is world war 3. I don't know how you got that mixed up but saying there is a lack of bombing in the dystopia in the original steins;gate is common sense as that's the SERN dystopia world line not the WW3 world line.

As for your first question. Okabe fully forgives Moeka in the Steins Gate timeline a thing that never happens ins Steins Gate 0 which occurs in the Beta worldline after Okabe canceled every single dmail thus every single interaction he has with Moeka, thus when Okabe gives 0 involvement to Moeka he can't know for sure whether or not she's with CERN that's why he got scared of her. Anyways, I dropped the video the moment you thought it was an issue, I really love Steins Gate 0 almost at the same level of the original, if you do too don't waste your time watching videos like this.

*D I G I O O F*

Susuha in the 0 timeline doesn't come from a distopia but from a world ravaged by war

10/10 , fantastic analysis. Loving the setup you've made especially the Dr. pepper shorts ;)

You mixed Alpha timeline's apocalypse with Beta's and that was annoying.

I’ve read so much of the other crappy Steins;Gate spin off visual novels that steins;gate 0 actually seems like a masterpiece

#2 . This iteration of Suzuha is not the one we meet in episode 23 of the original. That one will be the Suzuha that we see as a child in the final episode of the series. Even the time machine models are different. The important point in this is that this Suzuha doesn't know the key to fool the world yet. Neither does Daru . So he actually accepts Okabe's hypothesis that doing things the same way would not work specially when there is just 1 shot

Maiyushi and Suhuza would not disappear under parralel timeline theory, as the future would not be able to affect the past, which would be required to make that scene work. But this brings up the completely different problem that if parralel timelines is how steins gate works, then literally all of the plot is pointless, as they are not saving or changing anyone, but only just abandoning their own timelines, and the scientists don't think about this one. This would not be an issue without that damn scene...

Dude, you complain about the writers making oversights while constantly getting basic obvious shit about both Steins;Gate and Steins;Gate 0 wrong. If you tried paying attention for a second you'd have a lot less questions.

I want a whole new analysis series hosted by mad scientist Artso Fartso This was very entertaining and is the video that finally made me change my opinion of Steins;Gate 0 that it isn't as good a show as I thought it was

I'm sure if Digi got himself a PhoneWave, he will delete S;G 0.

Okabe is kept hidden in an old building for 11 years. The moment he runs out, there just happens to be two enemy soldiers quite literally a few meters away from where he had been kept hidden this whole time. ... I have several questions.

6:37 Luka and Faris actually serve as the ones who change Okabe's diapers.

Daru was trying to change the future before Okabe Got involved, that's the reason daru was building the time leap machine in secret from him with Maho's help, because he didn't want to further distress his obviously psychologically damaged friend.

Wait, he wants a world where nobody has to die and everyone can live the way they want to.... And in so doing he re-murders Faris's father and forces Luka to live the life he had, up until that point, kind of hated? Fucking with the actual progress they had made in order to save an individual who doesn't really do anything but provide an incentive to fuck with the actual progress they made.

I don't want to play Devil's Advocate for this show here nor for the S,G0 VN which wasn't much better, but: In the original/old S;G VN there WAS a case when a person jumped thousands of times to get back from the dystopian future... It was Nae, Mr. Braun's daughter, turning into a psycho loli and killing Moeka because her future self made her responsible for her father's death.

Um excuse me Digibro, but you messed up dystopia and post apocalyptic, and that CLEARLY ruins your whole argument.

When you click the notification so fast the video is still private

The irl part at the end gave me three types of cancer, but apart from that this breakdown was very thorough and well thought-through. Good job Digibro!

2:45 Mayuri didn't react too much when Okabe told her that someone died in the first season, either. It was the very first episode. Also Mayuri was generally pretty composed in the original Steins;gate, even when she saw Okabe almost completely covered in blood near the end of the season. Dunno, maybe it isn't the same scenario as that scene from S;G0, but i think it kinda makes sense that she acts like this.

I don't know, while S;G Zero was really bad I don't think Digi did a particulier good job of explaining why. Yes, I read some comments saying "You made me dislike S;G Zero too" but overall I don't think you converted many people to your cause. This wasn't a repeat of "SAO - A analytical diatribe", this felt more like a list of complaints than a structured breakdown of the show. For instance that you started out with the new character designs: it makes sense if the creators of Zero fucked up the basic characters designes and showed us that they don't really understand the characters then of course everything else will be bad too. While I understand that to many people this seemed like a minor gripe and you not only opened on it, you spend a lot of time on it. Lots of other times you said that you couldn't be bothered to pay attention to what was going on. That is a valid point in so far that the show does not present its exposition appealingly, but as a critik you have to sit through and soak everything in, to get the perspective of the people that are invested. So while I agree with most things said in these videos I don't think that these videos were great review of S;G Zero. Though I am gratefull that finally a big youtuber called S;G Zero out for what it is. Digi boasted that he has his formular so down to a "t" that for all 4 video he only needed two days. (One to watch the show and one to write the script), well maybe he should have spend some more time on it. Just my opinion.

About Moeka and Okabe. That's how PTSD works, you know. A normal situation or stimulus becames a trigger for you if that stimulus was linked to the initial stresful situation (and Moeka was the person who started all the time lop nightmare).

I saw the missus sitting on the couch in the reflections of Digibro's glasses. I have to imagine that she's giggling up a storm at his performance. There's something about that I find really endearing, honestly.

Mozart happened to write the fanfiction that most aggravates me on the planet in The Marriage Of Figaro, where one of the most fun Rossini heroes becomes a chauvinistic asshole, so really it's fitting he finds himself in one.

It makes me think that the scriptor didn't rewatched the orginal series and he just tried to write everything by his memory

14:45 your assistant would have said "I'm not your damn assistant"

0:25 It is absolutely impossible to have an emotion of rejection or fear towards someone. the steins;gate wordline is a "safe" universe in okabe's mind, the beta (as much as he tries to pretend) is not. simply okabe as a human is still, responsibly, afraid of the woman who pointed a gun in his face... you know how it is. I don't understand why you should expect logical reasoning from something that makes emotional sense, literally the next second you say "don't think about it, there's no Sern dystopia here". ps: that in any case acting like fleas makes less sense the moment they meet in the steins;gate wordline, brown and moeka still work for the rounders and are still looking for the ibn but in the anime okabe doesn't give a damn. (in the visual novel he says he wants to have as little to do with it as possible, he gives him the pin out of duty) 0:45 only okabe and daru know about ww3 (mayuri maybe yes but... it practically doesn't count...), the only one who can do something is okabe. suzhua knows that the war will start in 2014 and at that moment there are no conditions to do anything. the war starts on the Russian side for Nakabachi who, being in Russia, cannot be reached, while on the American side thanks to Amadeus, however, neither Suzhua nor Okabe suspect involvement. what exactly is she supposed to do other than point a gun at okabe and tell him to follow her? She can't do it alone, she only has one trip and has no idea how to reach the steins;gate wordline safely (the only one who knows is okabe). me three okabe refuses the time machine, he wants to prove that he doesn't need it and that the future is not determined. another thing, the reason okabe doesn't want to intervene here is because he knows that kurisu must die. with mayuri the problem was the first D-mail but now I'm in the "original world". no d-ever sent, no turning back to do, just trying again and again to save kurisu even though he knows he must die. in practice it has the same usefulness as timeleap, nothing.

Do most people remember that Rukako is a guy in most timelines.

okabe only gives moeka the labmem badge after he actually reaches steinsgate, so in this case it makes sense why he wouldn't be totally ok with moeka's presence

bruh, you know that the alpha and beta timelines have different endings so comparing them is pretty dumb right?

i could smell the last part of this video

That Left Brain/Right Brain stuff was really insightful and thought provoking, but now all I can think about is "This Body's Not Big Enough For Both Of Us" by Edgar Cantero. Wonderful novel, I think you'd like it, Digi.

I watched these videos after playing the VN, and holy cow. I can't believe how they massacred it. It's like there are 6 completely incompatible worldlines in the VN, so they crammed them all into one. Then instead of taking the extra time for it to make sense, they filled the remaining space with fanservice and action. A far-from-complete list of differences: The Yuki "tease" is not a tease in the VN. Mayuri's love for Okabe is a plot twist only touched on in the true ending. You see barely anything happening in the WW3 future, just dialogue and Daru's face (and he's still a little fat). Nae doesn't dress in a skimpy santa outfit. Boobs weren't inflated to the same ridiculous proportions. Moeka is always on the edge of the plot, not one of the main crew. People rarely ever meet up in huge groups together (and things tend to go badly when they do). Maho doesn't give Okabe a bunch of warnings not to get attached to Amadeus, instead claiming that she's basically just a different version of the real Kurisu - It's Okabe that has all these problems and resists becoming attached, right up to the end. He and Kurisu don't kiss in the alpha worldline, and instead she begs him to forget about her and move on. Okabe's friends/family take care of him in the coma, not Amadeus. And most importantly, the coma worldline is totally distinct from the one in which he sends the d-video back to OG Okabe. As far as I can tell, the 2 best moments from the VN are totally absent in the anime: Mayuri's monologue when she decides to leave with Suzuha, and the "gehenna" moment in the soviet worldline.

the problem with these reviews is they are 100% right, but get kinda pedantic to be entertaining, so dorks in the comments who were stupid enough to actually like this *very obvious attempt at cashing in on a popular brand* think that by being EVEN MORE pedantic it will somehow prove you wrong.

This review series was gooooooood. You've manage to fix the mess that SG0 made. SG0 is no more and Steins gate has been reached, in my mind anyway. Truly, this brought justice to the original in spirit. Thank you.

For your first point he was scared because he couldn't fathom as to why she was there in the time line after he leaped

i don't wanna defend s;g 0 but just a few corrections 1. amadeus wasn't the only one taking care of okarin, ruka and faris did too, at least that's how it was... in the visual nover (js) 2. 10:00 i'm pretty sure they explained this. i think okabe kicked amadeus or something while he was waking up or something like that.

6:11 Rukako and Feiris take care of him there. That place is also protected from outside attacks, it's safe. It's not in the homebase, because it was kept secret form Suzuha. You missed a lot of details here. I hope you did not missed or misunderstood a lot more than that, because that is important and can make these videos pointless.

I actually really agree with #3. It's probably my biggest gripe with Steins; Gate 0. I find that Suzuha's statement about needing to prevent a time paradox very contradictory since her long term presence in that time period already seems to be a huge factor to trigger a paradox. Plus, we never really see true consequences of a time paradox anyway so it ends up sounding like pure nonsense. 😁

Fritz Leiber already wrote a book about a war between two factions of rival time travelers. It was called The Big Time, and it won a Hugo Award in 1958. I haven't read it yet, and since it comes from the golden age of pulp sci-fi I doubt it'll feel anything like Steins;Gate, but it's there if anyone's curious.

Were you playing video games while you watched this series? First of all, the Dystopia is a pure Alpha world line thing. Second, they explained why Okarin was in a bombed out hospital and who took care of him. Luka and Faris are the ones who took care of him while he was in the hospital. The reason they kept him there was because not even the members of Valkyrie were supposed to know that he was still alive. They "deceived the world" by ensuring that he was effectively dead to everyone except 3 people and Amadeus Kurisu. Not saying the show was flawless but at the very least you shouldn't make such glaring omissions in your analysis.

digi go the gym and stop drinking

I didn't think this was a great sequel at all (with the Yuki false clues, the flat direction, and the bad episode pacing) but these videos are making me reconsider. Zero truly was awful ! Also, I adore these series where you completely dissect a show in several episodes. And Daru's voice change actually had me laughing histerically.

On the point where you mentioned that the consecutive time travels wouldn't work because his evolved brain wouldn't be compatability with his old one, keep in mind that he was in a coma the entire time not having any new experiences to evolve from, meaning that for all intents and purposes, his brain never changed from the moment he fell asleep to when he woke up

The whole "Otaku's Journey" thing that he keeps going on about is just one lense throught which you can analysis the show. And while this fine and good (interesting), I don't think saying: "This is the point!" and implying that all other interpretations (lenses) are wrong or less valid is the right way to go about it...

Again, everybody has a vague since of reading Steiner, so everybody has vague recollections of their experiences through past world lines via deja vu and/or dreams. So Mayuri wouldn't be as shocked in seeing bloodshed do to the alpha world line.

I was having a really bad morning but "this ain't that" & the special appearance of Artso Fartso made me so incredibly happy thank you digi

That whole Artso Fartso segment almost brought me to tears. The only reason it didn't was because of the reflection of the cam looking up from the tripod in his shades. I almost laughed myself into tears from that, so the two canceled each other out. Exactly like converging timeline shit. Nifty.

Got any hentai recommendations?

If this guy is serious then I'm convinced that he watched only the first and last few episodes of the series.

Suzuha and Mayury did not disappear because they traveled back to the past, before Mayury slaps Okabe, they were still in Beta timeline, the timeline hadn't changed.

It's shown when Okabe wakes up the second time in the future that he turns on Amadeus manually. This supposed to be happening every time. The only reason it didn't happen the first time was because Okabe knocked Amadeus over.

12:50 i forgot how hot he actually is lmao

im gay for me

Just some speculations, but I believe that using a time machine to travel and transport matter happens across timelines (multiverse theory) while D-mails, D-Line, and time leaping happens in the same timeline/world line. So when a time machine from the future comes to 2010, it's transporting matter from a parallel timeline from a different point in time to that specific moment in time and space on 2010 timeline. D-mail and the other ones use a different method of transporting information. That is why when Okabe in Beta sends a video to past him on the rooftop, his timeline still stays the same, because Suzuha will basically carry that message through cross timeline transport to rooftop Okabe. That is why when Beta Okabe sends that video to Rooftop Okabe, Reading Steiner doesn't kick in, he still goes to like 18 000 BC to find Mayuri and Suzuha. That means that two Okabes had to not get to Steins;Gate timeline in order for Kurisu to get not-killed and create a timeline similar to the original Alpha timeline, where they decide to move to Beta to save Mayuri, except undoing that letter doesn't cause Kurisu to get stabbed, it gets her tasered. Reading Steiner works by giving Okabe all the possible memories of all Okabes in all different world-lines up to that point in time, so that Okabe at 7/8/2010 9:00 pm can't know using Reading Steiner what happens at 7/8/2010 9:01 pm unless he has experienced it before via time leap. There's a happy end though because Okabe basically has a shared consciousness over all world-lines so all world lines get to experience Steins;Gate. Honestly, I'm probably just rambling and there are most likely some things that I got wrong in my rant but I watched the Steins;Gate series in chronological order. SG 1-22, SG 23b, SG0 1-23, SG 23-24. It was great and I really enjoyed it. Steins;Gate is my 3rd favourite anime but not just Steins;Gate, but the whole series in that order. When watched in that order, everything fits perfectly. It's really enjoyable and I recommend you watch it in that sequence. Anyways, if you're going to rant about something, go rant about that Deja Vu movie or something.

Sern has nothing to do with the beta world line events, it's all American and Russian soldiers

Of course Zero isn't as good as the original. The original was nearly perfect (at least the Visual Novel). Still Zero is a nice addition to the story. It's not nearly as good as the original but it is still kinda good I think. And for me Zero is far above fan fiction level. It actually brings new and interesting story ideas and characters on the table. Maho and Dr. Leskinen are great additions to the cast. Yuki is also great. Only Mayuris two other friends are kinda bad because they do literally nothing. But I guess that's the point? They most likely are here to show us that Mayuri has other things going for her besides Okarin and the Lab. Makes her feel a little bit more real if you ask me. Though I have to say Samurai Ruka and Soldier Faris are really cringy. You'd think she changes her attitude after her town gets destroyed by WW3. Still a great show I enjoyed. In some ways the anime is even better than the Visual Novel.

Questioning why Okabe was cautious about person who killed Mayuri countless times, criticising awesome future Rukako and awesome death of that character, missing everything about Okabe's coma and how and why he was kept there, rambling about what you think S;G was about for half of the video and why it was great? Really? You missed or twisted so many things in just this one video. This one is the weakest tbh. It's like you run out of material and got nothing better to say about it. Though you did great job with previous 3 videos and captured perfectly why that show is nothing like S;G 0

I’m so glad this series of videos exist. I knew something was wrong with Steins; gate 0 when I watched it. It didn’t feel like Steins; gate and this perfectly explains why.

The thing that confuses me the most is this. Mayuri adopts Kagare in the future, is there to teach her that song and then there when she sends her back in time with Suzuha. But in 2011 she goes back in time to 2010 and then gets stuck in the prehistoric age. There is no way she could have been there to adopt and look after Kagare making her an impossibility in the story. This is all supposed to be on the same world line as well. Most of Steins;Gate 0 takes place on the world line that will lead to World War Three and is barely changed. Some might say we see Okabe come and save her in the past but what exactly does he do? He would have to take her back to 2011 and let her live out the distopia he has just avoided and then she would have to just hide in every scene that we see set in the future. Kagare is there as an adult in the future too. How? I get that is the version from the past but does that just mean there is a young one and an old one chilling there. It hurts my brain to think about and is the biggest paradox in the series. I thought they were going to do something clever here. We see the time machine blown up which confused me because that had the whole Kagare problem I mentioned. This could be fixed if somehow the time machine just appeared to be destroyed by everyone when in reality it somehow wasnt. This would mirror how Okabe saves Kurisu "dont change any detail witnessed by you" was what future Okabe said to him self. If he thought Mayuri had been blown up but then saved her while making it still appear like she was dead would give him the idea of how to save kurisu. I was dead sure this was where the plit was going to go but instead it just doesnt make sense.

Okabe didn't forgive Moeka and finally give her a lab member badge until after he saved Kurisu, so he was probably shitting himself after seeing her because he hadn't gotten over everything yet. Episode 24 never happened in SG0. But yeah, still a shit series though

Ngl I stopped watching these videos after the first one because I loved S;G0, and I didn't want it ruined. Totally agreed with just about everything you said in the first one, so I guess you've constructed a pretty darn good argument.

I am bingewatching all of the stains;gate 0 sucks video and have to add something to this specific part: the reason amadeus springs back to life in every single time except the first one is because on the first one he wakes up and trips breaking the screen while in the other ones he approaches the screen and presses a key (as with a computer in standby or sleep mode)

My interpretation on Mayushi calling herself is that she is acting as a form of D mail. Once she calls herself and puts them on the Steins Gate timeline she is basically the D Mail relic left behind. D Mails as I understand them are received, must make a change (shift world lines) and then effectively have no sender in that world line. It's an unusual case though because the world line only appears to shift to people who sent the D Mail and have a reading steiner. Dmail are not typically sentient. There seems to be a debate on whether changing world lines rewrites reality or is an alternate reality. Most people seem to subscribe to the idea that they are alternate realities. For the most part Steins Gate treats it as such. In that case the Mayushi who makes the call will always come from the SG0 timeline because that timeline will continue regardless of the Steins Gate timeline. If you believe in history being rewritten then Mayushi should indeed have disappeared the moment she convinced herself to encourage Okabe. The problem is the shows kind of waffle between both explanations. For example Suzuka has no need to worry if Daru will marry her mom because she comes from a timeline (alternate reality) where she unambiguously exists. Even if Daru never marries whatserface the Suzuka we know would go on. This would imply that Suzuha/the writer believes there is only one reality. As well memory/history(one reality) being rewritten is implied when characters show signs of continuity of memory. The problem is the existence of D mails basically proves that alternate realities go on after the world line changes. Otherwise all D Mails should instantly disappear the moment they are read since in a single reality theory they should no longer exist. But then perhaps the reality the D mails come from disappears/gets rewritten but since the Dmail now occupies the new world line it stays? Ultimately it's kind of a crap shoot but again like you said Steins Gate was never a super hard science. It'll start to unravel under intense scrutiny. Of course I could also be totally wrong and I'm sure someone will kindly inform me.

The visual novel of 0 is just as good as the original... The anime couldn't keep up

That subtle plug at 00:18

I found the show somewhat entertaining, but it left no impression on me by the end. I enjoyed seeing the same characters in a new scenario, but the story itself was just nothing.

I think one of the things I ended up hating the most about the series was that ending with Mayuri. They made this big song and dance about how they *had* to get Mayuri back to the past, when in teend it doesn't change anything on its own, given that it shows Okabe and the others, still in the bad future, where they have to send the dmails with the videos back in time. Kind of takes away from the original moment with Mayuri too. I'm also really confused at where Okabe was planning to go with Mayuri and Suzuha after he rescued them....as the future they return to will cease to exist after they send the Dmails.

That live action section was a god damn masterpiece

"They can only leap back a certain time because the state of the mind chances too much" Okabe was in a coma so the state of the mind didn't change. That is why he could do the time leaps. Agree with most of your points but when you don't like a show you shit all over it even when not applicable. I didn't even finish the show since it was so boring and slow, but I did enjoy the VN (even though it is ~30 longer) and hearing your criticisms I strongly believe that the show is much worse than the VN. Though you wouldn't VN like it either based on your criticisms.

#1. I'd say its justified for Okabe to freak seeing Moeka, like he just had to sacrifice Kurisu for Mayuri and now theres the chance she'll still be taken too. In the OG s;g ending where he gives her the lab member badge, he doesn't have to worry about losing Kurisu or Mayuri anymore. Also I think anyone would be in high spirits after preventing world war 3 and saving their girl #2. Well that's literally why Daru rebuilds the phonewave hoping for Okabe not to find out, and get in a fight with him when he does. #3. Don't forget that Suzuha came from a worldline where her future self also arrived in the past, and it's converged that 2036 will end up almost exactly the same as the worldline previous. #4. The alpha worldline isnt active until it's created. When it's created, it's loosely reconstructed off the worldline previously active, which meant having Okabe in the lab since that's where he was when the shift happened. #5. People can't just vanish on the spot, even if their mission was successful they shouldn't just disappear like you think. Besides, their mission was a failure anyways and is not enough alone to change the future. 5:00 to 5:50 Is just you confusing around Sern and WW3 which are 2 separate futures, missing the point to why s;g 0 even exists. They really weren't that vague about this when they explained it in both s;g and s;g 0. 5:56 he doesnt time leap into the future. what actually happened was explained in that episode. 6:27 there were people that regularly checked up on him and did all that, just not 24/7 (was also said in that episode) 10:00 he broke a bunch of shit after waking up as suddenly as he did that first time. Also was said in that episode.

Your conception of the 'otaku hero' as an ideal from within the hearts and minds of otaku is ... extremely charitable.

This is just pure rant. Nothing more than that lmao. I guess you should get your facts straight first before making the video since you have no idea about how okabe travelled to the future and you also have absolutely no idea about the difference between alpha and beta worldlines. I watched 12 minutes of the video and NOTHING until now is even worthy of calling inconsistency let alone plothole. So, all I can say is that it is just a rant and nothing more :)

I still disagree and believe 0 to be pretty good (mostly), but we can agree to disagree. It’s cool :3

@6:34 "...how is she changing his bedpans?" /Amedeus reacts in embarrassed shock This is God level editing.

Probably is desensetized to violence thanks to those residual memories of dying in multiple ways herself