Is steins gate 0 worth watching?

don't mind him , I am not even sure he watched all the steins gate contents xd I have experienced this watch order and saw in on the forum from many people who says they have enjoyed it . If you do a research about watch order on the internet , at least %70 of the answers will be the same as mine.

The movie is canon. This "not canon" thing about the movie came from people who didn't have enough context to understand what is going on in it, and they believed it contradicts the lore (for many years, I also believed that). But this isn't true.

@SciADV_Maniac
It is not canon. It actually does contradict the lore and it is not written by the same people as the source material. Please give me the spurce that states it is canon if it actually is.....

@unnamedhuman
It does not contradict the lore at all. Read the entire Science Adventure series please and listen the Posteriori Existence Drama CD.

It's a common misconception to believe it's not canon, because



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Also, this stuff is not even the first instance when it appears in the franchise (Variant Space Octet was the first) and it also appears in later entries in the series besides A;C, for example, in Occultic;Nine.

Not written by the same authors? The scenario was supervised by Hayashi Naotaka, the scenario writer of the VN, the base story was drafted by Chiyomaru Shikura, the creator of the Science Adventure franchise.

Not to mention that SciADV always had multiple writers besides Hayashi, so that doesn't mean anything. Chaos;Child's main scenario writer was Umehara Eiji for example.

@SciADV_Maniac
I am sorry but I personally do not care for the overarching sciADV series lore. I never like those types of explanations because if you start looking at multiple stories it becomes really easy to make everything canon in some way, just look at fate for example. I am sure you are correct in some sense of the word. But in that sense the entirety of steins gate is somewhat ruined by the robotic notes elite, and can be fixed in the next game. It's a cop out and a lame one at that which makes all the actions and experiences of characters in the stories meaningless. In essence the steins gate movie is a decent movie, heavily inspired by the disappearance of haruhi suzumiya, and a product made to capitalize on the succes of the original series. I apparently do not know the sciADV lore like you do but I hope I have made myself clear as to why this is. Sure being selective with what should and shouldn't be considered canon is pretty arbitrary but when the creators do the same thing it's not something you can just ignore. To each their own but I do not consider the movie canon and to anyone who is looking at just the steins gate story it should not be considered as such.

@unnamedhuman

I can't really follow your logic here honestly.

You claim you do not know SciADV lore, but on the other hand, you also claim Robotics;Notes ruined Steins;Gate? And that "it's a cop out and a lame one at that which makes all the actions and experiences of characters in the stories meaningless." Literally how? Elaborate please, I've seen nothing in Robotics;Notes which ruined Steins;Gate.



Each SciADV entries are using the exact same lore, just projected onto the "science" they are aiming at



Again, I can't follow you. The creators were never being selective on what is being canon or not. There was never any single official statement from Mages regarding the canonity of any title. Which means they are treating all of them canon.

Regarding the movie specifically, the creator of the franchise literally said not long ago that it was a story, he really wanted to make.



Why? Even if you consume only the Steins;Gate part of SciADV, including everything, the movie makes perfect sense and does not contradict the lore.

@SciADV_Maniac
I say I do not know sciADV lore as well as you not that I do not know it at all. I meant robotic notes dash not elite bit of confusion there, sorry about that. What I mean by the creators being selective in what is canon and what is not is that they are able to just 'write away' any plot issues by revealing some major part of the lore later on or just saying it was all a simulation. In that sense while everything may be canon you are still being selective about it. The stories initially weren't meant to be part of something bigger, this only came about later. I do not understand visual novel companies's obsession with connecting everything, but here we are. And I do not understand how the movie would be considered canon without your added context of sciADV lore. It directly contradicts the concept of worldlines and timetravel that is established in SG.