And Luka is one of the best-treated transsexuals in the history of anime, sweet and tragic simultaneously. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. But to give one character two plots to drive is pretty damned clever. Sure even without Okabe, she would still be cutesy and engulfed in moe culture. Then theirs Kurisu who they clearly have a thing for one another as time goes on but since she’s not in the zero time line....alive anyway then you see Mayuri’s feelijgs really start to show. Steins;Gate is an anime series based off of the visual novel of the same name. Once things start going Okabe's way he is forced to relive Mayuri's death dozens of times. That’s how you build it. The latter is the canon. This is doubly hard because Kurisu is wiling to sacrifice herself for Mayuri, so there is no simple solution. Please flair and spoiler tag your posts accordingly. Steins;Gate has a second problem, and that is that it’s based on a game. He then prepares to limp away, but Mayuri suddenly slaps him, saying that he can't just give up because that is not who he is. Not only does he manage to save the world–setting the timeline on a path that neither ends in a dystopia nor a war-ravaged planet–but also manages to save the lives of the two people most important to him: his childhood best friend Mayuri and the woman he loves, scientific genius Kurisu. It’s the curious, ambitious, and enterprising part of him that Kurisu accepts, encourages, and loves. Okabe must choose between saving Mayuri or Kurisu. Okay, no points for figuring out the two loves are different. It’s got a lot going for it, so long as you’re willing to overlook the fact that Okabe is a complete jackass. Okabe jumps back in time to try and save Mayuri. So you always get this feeling Okabe and Mayuri have a strong love for one another. And I like the movie too, but it's still non-canon. It is to the point where only Mayuri can bring Okabe out of his slump after his disastrous first attempt at saving Kurisu from her murderer. In this subreddit, you may submit posts about the Science Adventure series. In the first, the gang tries to figure out how to do the time travel thang. She gives it to him in return for a date with him…and he’s a dreadful, unpleasant person to go out with. No, Okabe could not have saved Mayuri, as he found out by himself the hard way. I mean look at SGZero, she was no longer as ditzy or childlike (I mean what kind of teen doesn't understand the sexual comments she was told to repeat from Daru), but she was still the same cutesy, kind and inhumanly innocent and pure Mayuri she always was. They make it work by screwing with Okabe’s motivations. Boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl. In the second section of the story they send a dmail for Luka that results in a new universe where Luka is born a woman. Isn’t Mayuri a sweetheart? All he had was a choice of whether to save Mayuri or Kurisu. For that reason, she has already convinced Okabe to save Mayuri instead, which incidentally took a lot of convincing. When Kurisu tells Okabe that he should save Mayuri over her, he cannot accept it and runs back to the lab. In the second they discover the dmail and use it to make changes in the world. Now that is something not even Einstein can solve. The dark themes of the anime make it stand out and provide a change of pace when it is needed. Kurisu is his pair. I mean damn it she's responsible enough to have a successful job and take care of herself. Its not so hard to believe that very close and long time friends would fall in love. ( Log Out /  But not to that extent that she is when in the role as Okabe's hostage. They are stereotypes, and not nice ones; Luka is treated honestly, except for Okabe thinking, “He’s a dude,” whenever he sees her. Maybe Maho had feelings towards Okabe, but Okabe always thinks to Maho as a good freind, nothing more. Okabe must choose between saving Mayuri or Kurisu. She’s treated better than most anime transsexuals in that she’s actually quite feminine and beautiful, unlike the transsexuals in 1) Tokyo Godfathers 2) Carole and Tuesday and 3) Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi, all of whom are tall, have angular, unattractive faces, and low, masculine voices. Major jackasses, and yet all the women love them? The anime is the one thats incomplete and cut out a lot of stuff. ( Log Out /  Happy ending, right? Its just she added that extra ditzyness as a part of her character hostage. This Okabe is simply not the Okabe I knew. Although grieved by his failure to save her the first time, it was only thanks to a message from the future and a slap from Mayuri that reinvigorates him to try again. She is also an avid cosplay maker and friend of Luka Urushibara and Akiha Rumiho. And what you wrote doesn't assumes that there are multiple worldlines at the same time. The farther down into the dumps the boy, and the people around him, go(es) when he loses the girl, the greater the joy when he gets her. Mayuri Shiina (椎名 まゆり, Shīna Mayuri), also known as Mayushii☆, is Rintaro Okabe's childhood friend, a part-time worker at May Queen Nyan-nyan and a member of the Future Gadget Lab. The Okabe that will get the video message from 2036 and actually accomplish the plan isn't the Steins;Gate 0 Okabe. Cause in the VN/Series, Kurisu didn't interfere with the whole thing yet (becoming the observer to save Okabe). ( Log Out /  But Okabe and Kurisu are romantically linked, lovers in the romantic sense, the sort of love the Greeks called Eros. 2 … Good luck repeating it. It’s not nice to misgender people. even she admits that Kurisu probably loves Okabe Rintaro more than her. It’s brilliantly written, and it works perfectly. 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