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Steins;Gate
TV Show (2011)
A group of friends have customized their microwave so that it can send text messages to the past. As they perform different experiments, an organization named SERN who has been doing their own research on time travel tracks them down and now the characters have to find a way to avoid being captured by them.
TV Show (2011)
A group of friends have customized their microwave so that it can send text messages to the past. As they perform different experiments, an organization named SERN who has been doing their own research on time travel tracks them down and now the characters have to find a way to avoid being captured by them.
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Sex & Nudity
Brief nudity and sexual references. The end credits show a nude girl from the waist up with breasts covered by hair, and women in a bath are briefly shown nude from behind. Characters joke about virginity and going all the way.
Violence & Gore
Fantasy violence including physical altercations, weapons, explosions and dead bodies. A woman's body is found face down in a pool of blood, and a character repeatedly dies by shooting or being hit by a car and a train, with some blood shown but deaths offscreen.
Profanity
Language includes "hell," "goddamn," "bitch," and "s--t."
Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking
The editorial review marks alcohol, drugs and smoking as absent.
Frightening Scenes
Threatening content includes a character receiving a threatening text message showing a picture of a bloodied doll head, and a character repeatedly dying in various ways, which can be frightening.
Positives & learning
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Positive messages
Themes include time, friendship, teamwork, determination and sacrifice, including a protagonist determined to save a friend and a character willing to sacrifice herself for a best friend.
Role models
Kurisu is a genius girl who loves science, stays calm under tense situations, and is kind and compassionate.
Representation
Mixed portrayal: some women are given agency and depth, a strong female role model is presented, but some women are shown as sexual objects. The cast is presented as entirely Japanese.
Learning
Families can discuss the ways in which science has impacted our daily lives and what is fun and interesting about science. This is a discussion opportunity, not evidence of an educational purpose.
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