Steins;Gate: Kyoukaimenjou no Missing Link

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Synonyms: Steins Gate: Episode 23 (β), Open the Missing Link

Japanese: シュタインズ・ゲート境界面上のミッシングリンク-Divide By Zero-

English: Steins;Gate: Open the Missing Link - Divide By Zero

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Type: TV Special

Episodes: 1

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Dec 3, 2015

Producers: Frontier Works, Media Factory, Movic, AT-X, Kadokawa Pictures Japan, Nitroplus

Licensors: Funimation

Studios: White Fox

Source: Visual novel

Genres: Sci-Fi, Suspense

Theme: Time Travel

Duration: 24 min.

Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

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Score: 8.26¹ (scored by 150,432 users)

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Ranked: #317²

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Popularity: #936

Members: 269,566

Favorites: 445

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Synopsis

Having reached his emotional breaking point, Rintarou Okabe refuses to continue aiding time traveler Suzuha Amane in her mission to prevent World War III, believing any further efforts to save Makise Kurisu will be in vain. Shortly after, Okabe abandons his mad scientist persona and becomes a seemingly regular university student.

Okabe's close friend Mayuri Shiina perceives him to be recovering from his trauma and is visibly happy. However, something still seems to be bothering Okabe. Steins;Gate: Kyoukaimenjou no Missing Link - Divide By Zero marks the beginning of a critical divergence—a timeline in which the burden of fate escalates beyond one's limits.

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Background

Steins;Gate: Kyoukaimenjou no Missing Link - Divide By Zero aired on December 3, 2015 during the rebroadcast of Steins;Gate to promote the Steins;Gate 0 visual novel, which was subsequently released on December 10, 2015. It was bundled with the Steins;Gate complete Blu-ray box set, released in Japan on February 5, 2016 and in North America on February 5, 2019 by Funimation Entertainment.

The special incorporates a majority of the Steins;Gate anime's 23rd episode, "Open the Steins Gate," but features an entirely new alternative ending in its latter half.

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Sequel (TV)

Steins;Gate 0

Alternative Version:

Steins;Gate (TV)

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Characters & Voice Actors

Okabe, Rintarou

Main

Miyano, Mamoru
Japanese

Makise, Kurisu

Main

Imai, Asami
Japanese

Amane, Suzuha

Main

Tamura, Yukari
Japanese

Shiina, Mayuri

Supporting

Hanazawa, Kana
Japanese

Hashida, Itaru

Supporting

Seki, Tomokazu
Japanese

Nakabachi

Supporting

Ogata, Mitsuru
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Yoshikawa, Tsunaki

Producer

Ozawa, Kazuhiro

Episode Director, Storyboard

Hanada, Jukki

Script

Hayashi, Naotaka

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"Hacking to the Gate" by Kanako Itou

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Ending Theme

"Toki Tsukasadoru Juuni no Meiyaku (刻司ル十二ノ盟約)" by Yui Sakakibara

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16 Recommended

2 Mixed Feelings

1 Not Recommended

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Jun 20, 2024

CyberXane

Recommended

To sum it up, I have a hate love for it.

I have loved Steins;Gate as a series ever since I started watching it about six days ago, and now I'm finally getting to this episode. To start, the majority of the episode plays out exactly like episode 23, but then it diverges from the original episode 23. From what I've read online, this is an alternate route where he gets the bad ending and decides not to go back in time again to save the future. I like that it's a different take, and I can see how it leads to the alternate story in ...

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Aug 4, 2018

VeiledEdge

Mixed Feelings

This Steins;Gate alternate episode cuts into the main series and changes the story completely to make it possible to have Steins;Gate 0. It's hard to rate or review something that is simply another episode of a series. It's not like the sequel special (Steins;Gate: Oukoubakko no Poriomania) where that has a beginning, middle and end. It's just a convenient replacement for episode 23. I don't know if to rate it the same as the main series or try to dissect it as a stand-alone. It fits perfectly, picks up just fine, and feels very natural to the main series; but, it doesn't do anything in ...

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Oct 4, 2018

GiancarloLS

Not Recommended

In 2011, when Steins;Gate was uber-cool, and I was just taken away how intricate, search-able terms, and mind-boggling Steins;Gate is. To this date, in 2018, no time-travelling anime can top it. Erased is a different breed, but others like it sounded childish compared to this.

So what happened, then, in 2015, we're given this "alternate version", and this is an appalling, offensive OVA. I'm all for emphasizing story points, arc, plot, and character development, however, 2011 was such a long time that by 2015, we'll have to be convinced that "no, no, there's an alternate version ending and here it is!".

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Characters & Voice Actors

Okabe, Rintarou

Makise, Kurisu

Amane, Suzuha

Shiina, Mayuri

Hashida, Itaru

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