The rooftop confrontation between military guys and Suzuha was terrible in how they animated it, for example. She just stood in the centre of the roof shooting at them and they proceeded to mimic Stormtrooper in accuracy firing back. Least in the VN she hid behind the time machine for most of the fight, and was solidly on the defensive till.. well, you'll see next episode.
The fight in the Lab between Suzuha and Kagari wasn't the best animated either. Also differed in how clothed Suzuha was - she got ambushed just hopping out of the shower in the VN - as well as being ambushed vs setting one herself, but that can be excused for ratings purposes. The animation quality, not so much.
Yes, it seems that the fighting animations were rendered by an IBN 5100.
Anyway, Mizu... there's a question I've been meaning to ask. Who's your favorite character? Mayuri? Suzuha? Itaru? Rintaro? Maho? Kurisu?
Personally, I must say that Makise Kurisu resonates with me the most, just because of a whole lot of reasons. I don't know... honestly, I'd love a version of Steins; Gate that has her as the primary POV. I've heard that for some she seems like a wish-fulfillment character, but she strikes me more as a
real person, if that makes sense. As a prodigy with familial issues, raised in an environment where she thrives academically yet finds few peers, her new friends at the Future Gadgets Lab are a welcome relief from that isolation. The experiences of Kurisu are relatable personally, not because I've followed the same path, of-course, but because I can see enough of her struggles and desires as parallel to my own. I mean, not entirely (especially because the life experiences and backgrounds are so different), but she's a character that I empathize with, and one that inspires me. To tell the truth, I can't exactly say what I like about her character most at any given time, but it's all of the above.
That resonance is also a contributing factor to my dislike of anime character tropes, truthfully, which I see just as reductionist framings to the complexity of real people. Explanations that relate to the environment of one's upbringing (like Kurisu's high achieving academic background) do the actual justice of revealing a character's perspectives and life experience. She's a high-achieving young woman who works in an environment of older people (the majority of them men as well), and her attitudes in the future gadgets lab are reflective of that. Beyond the artificiality of the tsundere archetype and whichever anime classification, Kurisu is just genuine.
At least, that's what I see. Though in truth, I find all the main cast as appealing in one way or another.
