15th Animation Division Jury Selections
STEINS;GATE
Animated TV series [Japan]
SATO Takuya / HAMASAKI Hiroshi
Outline
Rintaro Okabe is a university student who refuses to grow up, and the leader of the “Future Gadget Lab,” a circle of young inventors based in Tokyo’s Akihabara district. He devises unidentifiable gadget every day to battle against the “organization” he imagines is out to get him, but one day he creates, a device allowing him to send emails into the past. He gets carried away with the invention of the century, but…. This is full-fledged science fiction whose many scrupulously woven plot lines have earned it a large fan base.