I just finished Steins;Gate last night. I have a few questions though. Could anybody who has seen the series help me out?
Mayushii (Click to show)
Why the hell is mayushii so important? She doesn't really seem to serve much purpose in the anime other than to be a moe character and figure out who suzuha's dad is...
I don't really feel like they do a good job explaining why Okarin has to go through all the work to save her.
The Ending (Click to show)
Okay, so from episode 12 to ~18, Okarin spends time reverting all the changes he made with the cell phone microwave back to the way they were because he wants to save mayushii. In order to do so he must go back to the Alpha line, because in the Beta line, Mayushii is predetermined to die at a certain point.
But, once he gets back to the Alpha line, he travels back in time to save Kurisu from being stabbed by her father. He fails the first time and stabs her. This implies predetermination in this instance as well.
So how in the hell does he magically get away with tazing her and making it look like she's dead, and then meet her again in Akiba? Isn't she predetermined to die on that day at that time? There wasn't anything that happened before her stabbing to imply that they crossed into steins gate... I could see a few hours later after the paper gets destroyed that they move into steins gate, but... that still doesn't explain why Kurisu is able to be saved....
Yes, I copied my post directly from the Animanga thread, but it seems like it flew under the radar there, I figured I might get a response here because this thread isn't flying at the speed of light...