Steins Gate the Movie: Load Region of Déjà vu (2013)

After the events of the anime, Rintarou begins to feel the repercussions of extensive time travel, and eventually completely fades from reality. Kurisu, being the only companion to remember him, now must find a way to bring him back.

Directors:

Kanji Wakabayashi, Hiroshi Hamazaki

Writers:

Chiyomaru Shikura (original story), Jukki Hanada (screenplay)

Stars:

Mamoru Miyano, Asami Imai, Kana Hanazawa

1 nomination.

Cast

Credited cast:
Mamoru Miyano	...	Rintarou Okabe (voice)
Asami Imai	...	Kurisu Makise (voice)
Kana Hanazawa	...	Mayuri Shiina (voice)
Tomokazu Seki	...	Itaru Hashida (voice)
Saori Gotô	...	Moeka Kiryuu (voice)
Yû Kobayashi	...	Ruka Urushibara (voice)
Haruko Momoi	...	Faris (voice) (as Halko Momoi)
Yukari Tamura	...	Suzuha Amane (voice)
Masaki Terasoma	...	Yuugo Tennouji (voice)
Ayano Yamamoto	...	Nae Tennouji (voice)
Noriaki Morita	...	Customs Officer (voice)
Hiroko Ushida	...	Shop Assistant (voice)
Rieko Kamenaka	...	Woman (voice)
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Ashly Burch	...	Mayuri Shiina (voice) (as Jackie Ross)
Jessica Cavanagh	...	Moeka Kiryu (voice)

Storyline

The film starts a year after the events of the anime series. After moving through different 'World Lines', Rintarou finally has reached the ideal one, the Steins Gate world line. However, the constant time traveling he has gone through in search of Steins Gate build some side effects to him, which will eventually cause him to...

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Plot Keywords:

anime | time travel | mad scientist | 

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Taglines:

The enthralling conclusion to the mind-bending hit series.

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Genres:

Animation | Drama | Mystery | Romance | Sci-Fi | Thriller

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Certificate:

TV-14

Details

Official Sites:

Official site [Japan]

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese

Release Date:

20 April 2013 (Japan)

Also Known As:

Steins Gate the Movie: Load Region of Déjà vu

Box Office

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$4,843,719

Company Credits

Production Co:

AT-X, Cinema Sunshine, Frontier Works

Technical Specs

Runtime:

90 min

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Did You Know?

Quotes

Rintarou Okabe: Time-leap machines and time machines should never be built! Even if you can figure out how to do it, you should never ever build one!
Kurisu Makise: If I don't do something, you'll vanish. You will never have existed... I have no choice but to change the past!
Rintarou Okabe: And what if you fail? What if it doesn't go well? The answer is simple. You do it again. You keep going back to the past until you succeed. As long as they have the means to go back in time, that's what people will do.
Rintarou Okabe: But it'll only increase the ...
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Connections

Followed by Steins;Gate 0 (2018)

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Soundtracks

Itsumo Kono Basho de
(Always in This Place)
Written by Chiyomaru Shikura
Performed by Ayane

User Reviews

Not a complete success, in my opinion

Version I saw: UK DVD release (projected)

Actors: 6/10

Plot/script: 4/10

Photography/visual style: 7/10

Music/score: 6/10

Overall: 5/10

In many ways, the Steins;Gate movie bears a lot of comparison to the Haruhi movie, The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya. Both have the feel of a TV episode extended, or possibly several episodes tacked together. Both revolve around the disappearance of the charismatic, fun-filled main character early in the story, leaving the long-suffering, sardonic love interest as the main character. In both cases, nobody else realizes anything has changed, so the proxy main character is forced to follow the clues - a succession of plot tokens - that integrate each of the supporting cast into events, one by one. In both cases, the plot is complicated by twisty, confusing developments involving time travel and parallel universes.

It's a bold move, taking out the heart of the series like that, but I don't think they really carry it off. The remaining story must be carried by Makise Kurisu, driven by her love for the missing Hououin Kyouma, but... I just wasn't feeling that connection between them. Maybe it has been too long since I saw the series, and the particular dynamic between them had slipped from my memory, but it no longer caught me and carried me through the way it needed to. My affection for the other supporting characters, whom I continue to genuinely like, wasn't enough either, as it turned out.

The panoply of odd camera angles is still there, and added to the title - I mean, "Steins;Gate the Movie: Loading Area of deja vu"? Come on! - successfully evokes Steins;Gate's distinctive brand of studied eccentricity, but one of the things I really liked about the original series was how neatly the time travel plot line was looped into a satisfying conclusion. Not any more. This time, I was simply confused, and although I may be wrong on this, I don't think it was my fault.