They throw some dialog to the rears occasionally (when someone is walking out of a room or behind what's being shown on screen) and that's very effective. It's also more engulfing than the original language track. The English actors did a good job and brought their characters to life. People who prefer dubs will be happy with this one the voices aren't artificially high for the women or filled with fake accents. While I really wish the Japanese track had a Dolby True HD 5.1 option too, both tracks sound very good. This set presents the show with the original Japanese Dolby True HD 2.0 soundtrack or an English dub in Dolby True HD 5.1. Suffice to say that just stick with it, but the second installment everything starts to move in a more linear fashion. The opening credits don't even show up until nearly 10 minutes into the program which lead me to believe I had accidently hit the chapter forward button on my remote unintentionally since it felt like we were dropped off in the middle of an episode. the show starts off in one of those "what's going on here?" episodes that can be a bit confusing. The fact that only information, electromagnetic waves, can be sent through time successfully is a nice concept that works well in the context of the show. It's not often that you run across a show that has something new to say on the classic time travel story, but this one takes the old idea and shakes it up quite a bit. The idea of a 20-something mad scientist who builds a time machine out of his microwave sounds like the stuff of comedy, but this is a serious show with some engaging premises. This anime is built on an interesting premise that works very well. The paranoid Okabe wants to find out more about what SERN is up to while at the same time resetting the world to the way it once was. The only problem is that every time they do that they change the past, which in turns alters the 'present.' No one can tell that these changes occur except Okabe, an ability he labels as a "Reading Steiner."Īs they explore the possibilities of their time machine, they run into a conspiracy theory that claims that SERN (the European group in charge of the Large Hadron Collider) has actually created black holes in secret and that they're attempting to use them to make their own time machine. Fiddling around with Okabe's cell phone and the lab's hacked microwave oven, the trio discovers that they've invented a time machine that allows them to send information in the form of short text messages back in time. No one aside from Okabe realizes that the world has changed, but it turns out that Daru did get the text message about Kurisu being murdered, but he received it five days before it was sent. Kurisu is still alive, and no one has heard of John Titor. The science lecture never took place because the professor had to cancel, which was a good thing because a satellite fell from space and landed in the building where it was going to be held. Shocked by this occurrence, he goes outside, sends Daru a text about what happened, and. Minutes later he hears a scream and finds the girl dead in a pool of blood. He thinks she's either crazy or part of the conspiracy that's after him and escapes from her. He runs into Kurisu Makise, who questions him on what he meant when he talked to her 15 minutes ago, even though Okabe has never met the girl. Okabe recognizes it all as a copy of the work of a mysterious person who was active on the Internet a decade previous, John Titor, and storms out after calling the professor a thief. Things start to get strange when Okabe and Rintarou go to a lecture by a noted scientist who is going to be giving the results of his research into time travel.
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