"Taking one of science fiction's favorite paradoxes and turning it into a must-see TV series, Steins;Gate is one of the cleverest shows of its year, quite possibly of its decade. It cloaks its true nature under layers of geek-friendly psychobabble and fluff for long enough to draw you in to the world of this infuriating yet endearing pair of man-children and their acquaintances […] Piling up the genre references into an Aladdin's cave of dreams and wishes and setting the whole thing in otaku dreamland Akihabara are master strokes, but they only set the scene for the twists and turns to come. In a way, it's a good thing for the rest of anime that the style doesn't match the plotting. That would have made it unbeatable."