Steins;Gate: Part 1 Release Details
The first part of Manga Entertainment’s release of Steins;Gate on Blu-ray and DVD is less than a month on July 15th and Anime UK News has been handed a press release giving us details including running-time and what not. Steins;Gate was one of the hottest anime titles released in 2011 with its mix of thrilling sci-fi time travelling and conspiracies. It was co-directed by Hiroshi Hamasaki (Texhnolyze) and Takuya Sato (Armitage III) and it featured series composition by Jukki Hanada (Red Garden, Level E). Sit through its quiet slow-burn opening episodes and you’ll soon be wrapped up in its twisting and turning plot and sucked into the drama as you root for characters as mad scientist Rintaro Okabe tris to set their time-lines in the right direction! Enough from me, here’s the PR:
Synopsis:
Wannabe mad scientist Rintaro ‘Okarin’ Okabe and his friends, ditzy teen Mayuri and otaku hacker Daru, run the Future Gadgets Lab – in reality an apartment above an Akihabara electronics store. But one day while tinkering with the microwave, Okarin and Co. hit the big time – they accidentally invent an honest-to-goodness time machine.
Now Okarin can send text messages to the past: that’s good. Those messages may be messing with the fabric of time: that’s not so good. He’s attracted the attention of a sinister scientific organisation that will stop at nothing to hunt him down: that’s really, really bad. Plunged into a whirlpool of conspiracies, murder and ever-changing realities, it’s down to Okarin to undo all the chaos he has caused – and time may not be on his side!
We like it because:
One of the best sci-fi anime we’ve seen on a long while, Steins;Gate is a gripping, stunningly imaginative psychological thriller packed with plot twists and great comedy moments. As well as being a tense sci-fi adventure in its own right, Steins;Gate is also an affectionate, tongue-in-cheek homage to the time travel genre as a whole. Easily animation studio White Fox’s best work to date.
Special Features:
*Episode 1 Commentary
*Episode 12 Commentary
*Akihabara Map
*Textless Opening Song – “Hacking To The Gate” (Version 1)
*Textless Closing Song – “Toki Tsukasadoru Juuni No Meiyaku”
Right, the Steins;Gate Blu-ray and DVD release date is chalked in as being July 15th and it has a 12 certificate. The set covers episodes 1-12 and it has a run time of 325 minutes and English dubbing/subs. It also has Makise looking cute on the cover!
