Steins Gate was originally a video game for the Xbox 360, developed by Nitroplus and 5pb. that got turned into a manga, and eventually the anime series premiered this year.
The quality of the animation is consistent and top-notch, and the story is, according to its creators, a hypothetical science ADV.
The story revolves around mad scientist Okabe Rintarou, a paranoic obsessed with time travelling experiments with a cellphone and a microwave, and calling himself Hyouin Kyouma. He is supported by a hacker named Daru and a girl named Mayuri.
Okabe and Daru live in a small rented room in Akihabara district in Tokyo.
Everything begins when he meets Makise Kurisu, a genius 17 year old girl scientist at a seminar, and a satellite that crashed with a building the moment she got murdered.
The main problem that this anime had was that the first two episodes, the key to introduce the story, were incoherent and didn't depict exactly what happened that Okabe Rintarou was able to save Makise Kurisu and Mayuri at the same time.
The antagonist is an organization named SERN, a fictionalized version of CERN, which are the developers of the particle accelerator that would recreate a black hole through one microparticle. Of course, in this story they are an evil behind the scenes organization that have been able to discover time travel and use it for their best interests, and Hyouin Kyouma gets in their way.
The story and the pacing of the episodes picks up after episodes 3 and 4, that finally give light to what the series is about.
The characters are unique and funny in their own way. Okabe Rintarou (Hyouin Kyouma) has this tick of talking to an imaginary voice over his cellphone, Makise Kurisu has her unique style of clothing, Mayuri is a sweet and moe girl that makes this 'tururu' sound everytime she enters. Daru the hacker has this inferiority complex about being fat.
There is an important presence of female characters, such as Shining Finger, a beautiful 30 year old woman that only speaks through text messages, rather than her own voice.
The opening and ending are memorable with the songs Hacking to the Gate by Itou Kanako and Tokitsukasadoru Jūni no Meiyaku by Yui Sakakibara.
I really hope that this anime is given a chance for more than 26 episodes!
I'm organizing a contest in my deviantart group #KyoumaSecretProject dedicated to Makise Kurisu, the Character of the Month!
