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We could not stop - the very definition of a binge watch. My eldest son and I devoured it - the first half is admittedly slow, but by the end of episode 12 it transmogrifies from a kooky slice-of-life story to a bleak, dark thriller that twists the knife in brutal and unexpected ways. I knew almost nothing about it other than it was a complicated time travel show.

I first watched it back around 2012–2013 when Netflix finally started their UK operation and didn’t care as much about anime weebs like me utilising a VPN to watch the US version’s superior catalogue.

#Steins gate episode 1 english dub anime freak movie

Steins Gate is a 24-episode 2011 TV anime series (with an additional OVA and movie sequel) adapted from the 2009 Visual Novel of the same name, second in the Science Adventure series - you know, the series where every title must have an ectopic semicolon rammed in-between two seemingly unrelated words, against all grammatical logic and sense? Starting with Chaos Head in 2008, and continuing with Robotics Notes (2012) and three further subsequent main titles with multiple additional spin-offs, the Science Adventure series has become one of Japan’s biggest-selling multimedia franchises - of which Steins Gate is unarguably the most beloved part.Īn example of a VN anime adaptation done masterfully well, Steins Gate frequently pops up on lists of “the best anime of all time”, and for good reason. Huke’s art from the visual novel is quite different to the anime’s style This was why I knew Steins Gate would be a tough sell, and a challenge to keep her invested in it. My wife often fiddles with her phone or tablet during action scenes, or talks during dialogue scenes. Steins Gate is not an anime for casual fans who want to do something else while vaguely absorbing a simple story via osmosis. I put off asking her to watch this with me for a long time, as it never seemed to be the “right” time to start. Of my all-time top 3 anime, the only one she hadn’t yet seen was Steins Gate. Although she classes herself as an anime fan, compared to her poor obsessed husband, she’s incredibly casual. Her interest in anime and manga has waxed and waned over the years - I doubt she’s read a single volume of manga in over a decade - but she’ll still consent to watch the occasional anime movie or TV show with me. She also particularly enjoyed Dark Horse’s release of Katsuhiro Otomo’s and Takumi Nagayasu’s The Legend of Mother Sarah manga, tragically untranslated past volume 3 in the west. I collected the monthly floppy issues published by Viz Comics at the time, and was delighted to lend them to her. I was surprised to learn she loved the anime Battle Angel Alita, adapted from one of my all-time-favourite manga. My wife and I started dating in the late 1990s, and she’d already been exposed to late-night showings of some of the more violent OVAs and movies licensed by Manga Entertainment, shown late at night on the UK’s Channel 4. Anime isn’t quite what you’d call mainstream yet, but it’s much more pervasive in Western culture than it was before, and beloved by a wider diversity of fans. Now things are different, with female anime fans comprising a huge consumer demographic. When I first discovered anime fandom back in the mid 1990s, it was an offshoot of the sci-fi scene in that it was a heavily male-dominated space, and generally anime was looked down on as “weird”, even by geeks.

How do you cope when they’re just not that into the stuff you like?

Common interests are essential to maintaining a healthy relationship over the years. Sometimes sharing a cherished pastime with your significant other can be a fraught experience.