Steins; Gate (2011)

Animation · Comedy · Drama

A group of friends have customized their microwave so that it can send text messages to the past. As they perform different experiments, an organization named SERN who has been doing their own research on time travel tracks them down and now the characters have to find a way to avoid being captured by them.

IMDb rating: 8.8 (97,269 votes)
Episode average: 8.5 -0.3 vs IMDb
Seasons: 1
Streaming (US): Crunchyroll
Language: JA
Type: TV series

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Seasons

Season 1 (2011)

8.49 avg 24 episodes 7.5 → 9.6 25 min avg

Season 1 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Turning Point	7.5	3,632
2	Time Travel Paranoia	7.5	3,167
3	Parallel World Paranoia	7.6	3,030
4	Interpreter Rendezvous	7.2	2,948
5	Starmine Rendezvous	8.0	2,923
6	Butterfly Effect's Divergence	7.6	2,847
7	Divergence Singularity	8.3	2,905
8	Chaos Theory Homeostasis I	8.1	2,782
9	Chaos Theory Homeostasis II	8.3	2,845
10	Chaos Theory Homeostasis III	7.9	2,770
11	Dogma in Event Horizon	8.3	2,821
12	Dogma in Ergosphere	9.3	3,984
13	Metaphysics Necrosis	9.2	3,565
14	Physically Necrosis	9.2	3,424
15	Missing Link Necrosis	8.4	2,819
16	Sacrificial Necrosis	9.4	3,733
17	Made in Complex	8.4	2,829
18	Fractal Androgynous	8.0	2,822
19	Endless Apoptosis	8.7	2,983
20	Finalize Apoptosis	9.2	3,413
21	Paradox Meltdown	8.9	3,147
22	Being Meltdown	9.7	5,575
23	Open the Steins Gate	9.5	4,210
24	Achievement Point	9.6	5,415