Steins;Gate Ep02

This episode we are taken again into the wild and delusional world of the main character as he tries to find out what happened in the short span of time that he had in the conference, and to the time that Makise got stabbed. And then we discover that she is alive and well, and that she isn’t a phantom in their midst.

Aptly named.

An explanation trying to rule out the existence of time travel is shown in the episode by none other than Makise herself. Of course our mad scientist objects ala Phoenix Wright, and gets shot down by the genius of Makise.

Couple that with a self-proclaimed time-traveller disappearing from reality within seconds of being brought up in the internet, upon which books about him disappear from Okarin’s shelf.

We can see that the effects of this Time Travel altering the state of the world in real time, as these phenomena happens in the span of a few seconds and with Okarin thinking about them. It’s like the rumors of the CIA tapping everyone’s phone calls and emails in the past few years.

And finally, we see the inherent effects of Okarin’s invention. How this happens is still a mystery, but the effects are evident that this may have to deal with Time Travel itself. However the multi-universe theory presented halfway into the series could not explain why the effects of the time travel are felt in this timeline, though, as we have yet to still see in the next or future episodes.