generic shounen trashAnd SteinsGate was a mature and thoughtful show ? Wrong . Just as much a generic shounen title . horribly pacedAt least RN doesn ' t spend the first half of its run whiteknighting into a fauxharem just to shift gears completely at the halfway mark . cut out lots of actual explanations from the VN . Okay . That one I ' ll give you . the most generic cookie cutter charactersSorry , but . Which one was that supposed to be complaining about again ? Was it the one with generic tsundere in Kurisu generic rich girl in Faris generic trap in Luka generic shy girl in Moeka generic fat pervert in Daru generic airhead in Mayuri generic delusional chuunibyou in Okabe Generic SOL high school kids who form their generic insert x club . As opposed to generic SOL randoms forming their generic insert x club for no logical reason whatsoever ? Spend their time building a crappy machine that doesn ' t work well because mechs don ' t work IRL . Dismissing a title because mechs won ' t work in reality while standing in support of a title involving time travel , mucking about with causality , and turning bananas into primeval goop . You know . a bunch of other concepts that will also not work in reality ? So very logically consistent of you . loli siriRN released first . Siri is just a disembodied lobotomized Airi . Meanwhile , the Kimijima Reports plotline was some of the best writing in the Science Adventure games and the IruO app itself was the best concept out of the series . The cast is more likeable , approachable , and human . The mystery is built up properly in RN rather than relying on a bunch of seemingly random events happening at a convenient time to advance the plot . Nope . SteinsGate was decent fun , but RoboticsNotes was far better .