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Not recommending the Steins;Gate anime adaption is pretty wild, it's an incredibly highly rated Anime series. The story telling language of a VN and an Anime are very different so it's no surprise they don't perfectly capture the complexities of the other medium. They don't have to be the same to be worth watching.

fwiw: no idea on the other anime adaptions quality

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Oh yeah, the Steins:Gate animes are perfectly fine to be clear! I was only thinking of the non-SG animes which are... pretty messy!

The Chaos;Head anime barely makes any sense, even having read the VN because it only got 12 episodes. I haven't finished Chaos;Child or Robotics;Notes which seem fine so far for C;C anyway, it doesn't quite feel the same.

There is Occultic;Nine which anime only in that the VN was never localised plus the game itself isn't on Steam so there's nothing to base a patch off of.

Anyway, take my thoughts with a grain of salt and not like some correct stance haha

Do you think the Chaos;Head anime could have been good like SG if it had had more episodes? Or is the fundamental nature of a VN story hard to adapt to a linear anime format?

It's actually the third highest-rated anime TV show of all time by user rating: https://myanimelist.net/topanime.php

And for a long stretch in the 2010s, it was #1.

Well, it's more because of its cult status (especially on imageboards) than actual objective appreciation.

Personally, I saw it again a year or two ago and it was good, but clearly (and not in a good way) a VN adaptation. Still worth watching.

I came into Steins;Gate completely cold. I watched it when it came out and I only just realised there's more to the universe. It's a ridiculously good anime, probably a top 10 for me. It's got a really cool storyline with loads of plot twists, interesting characters and deep mystery.

> Well, it's more because of its cult status (especially on imageboards) than actual objective appreciation.

No way. There are nearly 3M user ratings on that website. How many of those would you say belong to regular imageboard users? A few tens of thousands, tops? And when was the last time you saw a Steins;Gate meme?

Also, absolute meme shows which are imageboard fodder don't tend to rank very highly. See, e.g.: https://myanimelist.net/anime/32615/Youjo_Senki (#808 on the all-time list.)

People really liked the Steins;Gate anime on its merits.

This may well be, but japanese image boards are huge

I get the feeling he was more so referring to the others, because the others besides S;G are pretty meh.

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