Crop RotationCrop Rotationtypecard . jpg GCrop Rotation MC ! Crop Rotation MW ! Crop Rotation CD Bojuka BogBojuka Bogtypecard . jpg GBojuka Bog MC ! Bojuka Bog MW ! Bojuka Bog CD or cardnameSET to call <| sep |> I could get one as well . that is if I gave obama $ 25 , 000 <| sep |> I will be answering as I ' m progressing to read your post After showing us time and time again that the past is not meant to be altered , and that there will always be a price to pay , and that we can ' t always get what we want . Okabe gets a phone call from Suzuha . Suddenly , our dejected MC has to prevent WWIII , and the only way to do that is by saving Kurisu , which seems to contradict everything the show has been trying to say to this point . Not exactly . It ' s not coming from nowhere because her call was established event from the first episode . She called Okabe , went with him back in time , he tryend save Kurisu and failed same events in episode 1 but from other perspective and they going back to the future and we see broken Okabe . This is now full closed circle . If you want to complain about After showing us time and time again that the past is not meant to be altered you have to do this here and not after episode 22 . All that I wrote above is sg 122 and episode 23 B , not original episode , because chronologically episode 23 B comes before original 23 . Basically , I ' m convinced that he tried outrunning SERN so many times that he learned how to avoid being noticed in large crowds . The kind of practice this would take for someone with his personality indicates how many times he had to do it , all in his determination to keep Mayuri alive . Of course , I could be reading way too much into it , but like I said I love time loops . If anyone has anything to contribute to this train of thought , I would love to see it fleshed out more fully . Of course , we ' re also outright told by Okabe himself that he did it over and over , but that ' s neither here nor there . You are kinda right , in VN he did a lot more time leaps then in the anime . Cue Okabe , Mayuri , and Daru in the lab as usual . Okabe has done it , he ' s beaten fate ! He ' s saved Mayuri ' s life ! This should be a victory for him and yet , it just feels so wrong . The anime transitions to the ending credits , and we think , this can ' t be the end ! He ' s sacrificed so much , and this is what it gets him ? Back to where he began , with no progress into the future ? And then , he gets a phone call . This scene legitimately gave me goosebumps the second time around . This is his moment of hope , after everything he ' s been through . When he ' s just about to give in after sacrificing so much , he ' s finally offered a way out . And in my opinion , this highlights one of the key themes of SteinsGate not everything is about Okabe . He is allowed to burden others with his problems , and he is allowed to be helped without having to do everything on his own . I think it ' s interesting that after he ' s come to accept everything , Suzuha who happens to be my favorite character not including Okabe reaches out to him and forces him to keep fighting for what he wants . Suzuha ' s call was not the place when you should complain Show just showed us that you can ' t have everything . Because we still didn ' t experience events from first episode yet . After she call she tells Okabe everything about ww 3 , goes back in time with him , he is failing to save Kurisu which already happened in episode 1 but we didn ' t saw it from perspective of future Okabe and he goes back in time and now he is broken and ww 3 still happens . Now this is a full loop . If you want to complain about happy endings you can do this here . All above is SG ep 122 and episode 23 b , because chronologically 23 b happens before original 23 , there was no happy ending first time . there will be no spoilers of SG 0 , just everything that we know already . Keep in mind , she does almost nothing to actually save Kurisu she just gets Okabe there and lets him do things for himself . And yet , this simple action is so powerful , because someone else forcing him to keep going , to keep trying to overturn the world ' s ruling structure . And you know what ? He does . Throughout the series , his path has been uncertain sometimes he gets stuck in his ways , sometimes he loses sight of the end , and sometimes he even stops moving forward , instead getting trapped in a loop . But every time Okabe tries to give up , someone else is there to support him and show him that he has to keep trying . Heh , not so fast . After not happy ending episode 23 B Okabe later got some push to try fix things again watch 23 b after credits so he spends his whole life to create plan and set us everything to be able so save kurisu and all of that eventsthis is what SG 0 will be about was not shown in original show because it was basically erased from existanse and all that we got from it was Videomail from original episode 23 . So it ' s actually Okabe did long and painful path again like in original show to save Mayuri , but this time it was all to set up saving of Kurisu and all that events that he spend all his life will not even exist , so yea , SG 0 will be quite sad . and only after all that we are getting what you said And in the end , the great Mad Scientist , Hououin Kyouma , is able to guide the world to the ideal outcome . It ' s only thanks to his countless repeats and suffering that he ' s able to truly appreciate the significance of the Steins Gate worldline . There ' s no time machine anymore , no big discovery but everyone is alive . A little correctiontldr Okabe gets stuck in his ways as seen in the time loop to save Mayuri , and it ' s only through Kurisu ' s help that he can break free and move forward so , having Suzuha help him break out of his bad ending scenario in the alpha timeline and reach Steins Gate doesn ' t invalidate the sacrifices made up to this point . You get name of attractor fields wrong , Mayuri dies in Alpha , Kurusi dies in Beta .