Whether its mysterious corporations gunning for their lives or trying to find a way to beat death through time-jumps, the way the narratives spirals, contorts and ultimately resolves easily earned it the mantle of one of modern anime’s greatest.
As far as sci-fi epics go, few have ever come close to matching this show’s calibre, wit and world-building. Upon the realization that he can send texts back to the past via a microwave, Rintaro and his gaggle of colleagues, misfits and legendary best girl Kurisu think they’ve cracked the greatest scientific discovery of all time. And they have. And now they’re going to pay for it. Whether its mysterious corporations gunning for their lives or trying to find a way to beat death through time-jumps, the way the narratives spirals, contorts and ultimately resolves easily earned it the mantle of one of modern anime’s greatest.