Steins;Gate

Spoilers ahead. But I’m assuming you guys already watched the episode, since it was quite epic. The penultimate episode of Steins;Gate, I’ve been hearing.

I was going to do a shallow blurb on how great I found the recent episode to be, while praising Mamoru Miyano for his excellent voice acting at the end. I don’t think anyone else can do it justice.

Then I read E Minor’s post on how the story has already established an ending since episode 22, and commenting on it made me think quite a bit, which established the foundations of this post.

The anime did do quite a spectacular job tying up all the loose ends together near the end and made sure most, if not all characters, had a part in the plot. Heck, even the whereabouts of Mayushii’s metal Upa was revealed in this episode. Such a close connection between each character deserves praise in my books. Usually, the minor characters are just comic relief and forgotten easily after a couple of episodes in your typical generic anime, so to see a everyone all tied up in the story, like Mr. Braun, Suzuha, Feyris, Daru and the others having a role to play leaves this an anime to remember for me. Close to topping my top 10 charts.

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