I've been watching this and 5 eps in the story feels really slow so far, to the point I'm thinking of dropping it. What episode does it start getting good?

>>281283001 (OP)
It becomes amazing from episode 12 on.

>>281283001 (OP)
SG is an anime for people who were here in 2011, not for you newfag.

>>281283001 (OP)
>What episode does it start getting good
Never.

>>281283001 (OP)
It's good from episode 1. Now read the VN already.

I don't know when Stens;Gate gets good because I also dropped it.
I guess that means the answer is it doesn't.

Mayuri best girl.

>>281283243
>your story, but longer
I will not read.

>>281283037
The story gets better halfway through but not good enough to be worth watching. Transitioning from bad slice of life slop into mildly interesting drama doesn't save the show from being just mid.

>>281283001 (OP)
What the fuck is the purpose of this thread? You've clearly already started watching the show and begun to form an opinion, can't you decide for yourself whether to keep watching it without needing handholding from 4chan?

>>281283615
I just want to know if the next several hours is going to be a waste of my time or not

>>281283692
No matter how bad it is, finding out by watching it would be less of a waste of time than making this thread and watching it for replies.

>>281283243
How long is the visual novel?

>>281283001 (OP)
S;G is a solid 6/10 story. Not anything I would say is memorable. It's still watchable though.

>>281283001 (OP)
Just keep watching.

>>281283403
Based

>>281283615
https://desuarchive.org/a/search/image/WqA3B9DctiuzzJi_saXc1A/

>>281284257
It's the first image result on Google retard.

>>281283001 (OP)
I'll tell you to watch it because it's a highly popular a loved anime. Personally though I didn't like it and I never cared about a single character.

>in the year 2025 war erupts between the Americans, Russians and Chinese
>6.7 billion die
How did Titor know?

>>281283001 (OP)
i somehow made it to episode 9 before dropping it. its the dumbest, most overhyped show. completely retarded premise and characters. theres also no explanation for why any of the characters give the mc the time of day. its fucking garbage.

>>281283001 (OP)
You don't have the attention span for it anyways. Just drop it now if you don't think you can handle 24 episodes.

>>281283838
The VN is maybe 40 or 50 hours if you read everything

>>281283156
This. I watched the whole damn show waiting for it to redeem itself and it never did.

>>281283001 (OP)
Skip it and read the VN. The anime is seriously bad.

>>281283001 (OP)
I made this exact thread 2 years ago. Keep watching, I think on episode 6 or 7 you get a glimpse of a plot.
It absolutely gets going at 11 or so.


And the real anime with all the stuff you probably expected out of this one, is Steins Gate 0.>>281283606
SG0 is the one with the crazy plot and powerful drama but you gotta eat 22 episodes of the original Steins Gate to watch it.
Seriously follow this order
>22 episodes of normal Steins Gate
>Episode 23b (ova)
>Steins Gate 0
>Finish episodes 23 and 24 of the normal Steins gate

There's basically a gigantic empty space after ep 22 that you gotta fill with 0, it adds so much more to finishing the original anime I can't imagine people watching it any other way, and 0 has the real plot you've been waiting for pretty much.

>>281283001 (OP)
>Reddit;Gate
>getting good

I can enjoy the small hairy gremlin Salieri, but her game was an entirely unnecessary sequel that was written because they saw how surprisingly popular S;G turned out and they figured they could make a few more bucks off it.

>>281283001 (OP)
When you get to ep 12, you'll find that slow start was intentional and it was always good

>>281283132
spbp.
normalfags explode

>>281285811
>entirely unnecessary sequel
the game would have been pretty good if some parts of it weren't clearly incomplete because they rushed it out to cash in
in that respect, the anime adaptation did better

>>281283001 (OP)
Imagine having such brainlet shit fucking pathetic taste that you're not hooked by episode 1, it had such good directing it unironically needs to be studied.
And no, I'm not being ironic. You can only see your favorite show being insulted so much before you start thinking less of the ""people "" that constantly shit talk it 24/7.

>>281285437
>I think on episode 6 or 7 you get a glimpse of a plot. It absolutely gets going at 11 or so.
The plot starts in episode 1, there's a murder and blatant supernatural shit occurring, you're all just too brainrotted to enjoy good things, luckily you were also stubborn enough to keep going.

>Seriously follow this order
Never do this on your first watch. Watch ONLY the original series all the way through, don't ruin it with this meta order which cuts into the pace of the masterpiece. Then after you take a nice long break you go back and do this order for the full experience.

>>281286016
Other anon here. Ep 1 was good but the rest are anime Big Bang theory, there's legit nothing to hook you until Suzuha sees Kurisu and randomly does the unsheathe stance, that's the first time my heart skipped a beat and I went "oh shit!". But outside of that moment, it's slow and mostly boring. Even after the microwave thing I remember the episodes being lackluster.


It picks up like a big bang explosion on 12 of course and then 0, but I don't like excusing the middling start. Imagine how much worse it must have been in Visual Novel form, probably 15 hours of nothingness

>>281283001 (OP)
Christina best girl
2000000 thousand years later and there is still no VN/Anime that can compete with the feel of S;G. I want back, I'm tired of this worldline.

>>281286050
>Suzuha sees Kurisu and randomly does the unsheathe stance
I found this scene to be pretty overdramatic and stupid.

>>281286016
I find solace knowing that they are clearly miserable people, just imagine how terrible things must be for them to be wasting their time seething about something from over a decade ago.

>>281283001 (OP)
Spoiler: Ruka is actually Luka

>>281286078
How exactly is it overdramatic for Suzuha to react that way given what she understands at that point about Kurisu?

>>281286016
KEK, imagine caring about such things
First 10 or so episodes were comfy af which is big reason why the anime is so good, the other parts make the world feel dangerous but lab is still comfy and you can forget about the conspiracy with some lighthearted moments.
VN was peak and one hit wonder, they won't repeat its success no matter how hard they try.

>>281283001 (OP)
Overrated slop

>>281286050
Steins;Gate has a very quickly paced introduction that throws all sorts of characters at the audience episode after episode while the phone microwave investigation progresses step by step. Various scenes throughout the early episodes show the audience evidence of time travel like Suzuha's oddities or the ibn5100 having been stored with the condition that someone would ask for it later. Then all of the stuff about SERN and the reports. Even with all of the slice of life moments it never stops moving forward.

i wonder how much people enjoyed it if they liked physics and knew about stuff like john titor and y2k before watching

>>281286237
Getting into some exaggerated Draw My Katana pose in front of her and Okabe in the middle of the street was cringe as fuck.

>>281286403
did you forget whose daughter she is?

>>281286403
That did not even remotely address the question. There is nothing exaggerated or cringe about it if you understand the characters in the story, which you clearly do not.

>>281286562
Do you think a tourist who calls things cringe is going to do anything other than troll you?

>>281286337
The people who think it's slow are simply mindbroken. It's one thing to simply not like something, everyone is entitled to their own taste and opinions, but having no conception that there's a plot happening is just insane.

>>281286647
No, but if even one clueless lurker decides to watch it, then it will have been worth it for me.

>>281286078
Meh, it instantly tells you there's some sort of action in the show. Is she an assassin? Samurai? Super soldier? Who knows, but now I want to keep watching and see why she went full schizo for a second

>>281286701
Obviously a plot is happening but so does in most other anime and they're not as boring..
Maybe disliking = boring, but this is a very common criticism of Steins Gate so it can't be too far off the mark.
Obviously we see mentions of conspiracy stuff and that's cool, but I remember the meat of the episodes being boring talk and attempts at comedy at Okabe's lab and the other gimmick friends doing stuff.
I don't remember concrete episodes, just that I didn't enjoy the Slice of Life ones for the first eps (maybe right up until 12). Granted it got A LOT better once I switched to dubbed, the banter became much more friendly to follow.

>>281286977
>dubfag pontificates about something he admits he can't remember and appeals to the masses while using boring as an argument
Exhibit A:

>>281287210
anon he is trolling you

BTW how did no one post Suzuha on bike images in fucking S;G thread with 50 replies?

>>281286701
S;G even sets up several big moments to end episodes on like the revived Kurisu in 1, gelbanna teleport and Kurisu in 2, and the first glimpse of "human is dead" in 3. 4 ending with the capture of the ibn5100 is the first time it even starts to let off the tension. Episode 3 is probably the perfect example of how good the early episodes are considering it focuses on the relationship between Okabe and Mayuri to demonstrate his emotional center while foreshadowing the entire dramatic tension where his involvement with the conspiracy draws him away from her and eventually cuts her out of frame entirely. The visual storytelling in the episode already sketches the themes of the entire story. Okabe gives the slightest hesitation thinking there might be consequences and the anime decisively signals that it's already over.

>>281284620
You're kidding me, episode 9 was when shit started to get good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_RgOfaPPD4
This shit was peak

>>281285437
Stein's Gate 0 was shit. Bunch of characters I didn't give a fuck about

>>281283001 (OP)
It's definitely a slow start. You kinda have to hope that all the little mysteries hook you enough for you to continue watching. I probably would have dropped it if I was watching it on a bad day or got distracted. Ended up finishing it and then going on to buying the vn, the animated remake vn, the spinoff, S:G 0, a kurisu figure, etc.

>>281288092
Fucking kino

>>281288092
Based.
For me, it's the scene where he gets that text message from sern and runs to the lab.

>mfw no anon to hold my hand while watching the john titor anime

All my 9 lifes are scared at the same time.

Why is there someone falseflagging as a troon now?

>>281283001 (OP)
S;G never goes above a 7/10 at any point. And it's only that good sometimes, not all the time.

>>281283001 (OP)
S;G never goes below a 10/10, sometimes I am moved to tears just thinking about how objectively perfect and beautiful it is(I'm being serious)

>>281288092
Kino, this would simple not be the same without the first 8 EPs
God damn it, I feel nostalgic for anime from 2010

>>281283838
I wouldn't say too long

>>281286977
>dubbed
I enjoy dubbed anime when the dub is either better-than-decent (Hellsing Ultimate) or is iconic (Pokémon) or both (Dragon Ball/Z/Super), but there are some that are sacriligious to watch as anything but subbed. This is one of them.

>>281289662
Agreed, Miyanos performance is too legendary to even entertain watching one scene dubbed.

>>281283403
She has the sweetest, cutest most top tier personality AND a really lewd outrageous chest.

>>281283001 (OP)
It's overrated

>>281283001 (OP)
It's properly rated.

>>281290497
Says who? Oh right, literally just you and a few other terminally obsessed and seething losers on an extremely dead image board.

>>281283001 (OP)
It's an oldfag millennial anime, you wouldn't understand appreciate it.

>>281290497
Nobody with an opinion worth listening to thinks this btw