>>1824damn, i really wanted this to be my own original hack review. admittedly steins;gate is a fairly interesting mystery anime on first watch. i even bought the latest vn edition years ago, but playing it made me realize the story itself is nothing special. it desperately wants to look smart and make you to forget it's chuuni at core (hence the bbt comparison). even though some call it a charage, the characters themselves didn't prove interesting enough for me to keep me playing, they resemble sitcom-tier archetypes more than anything.
>>1825no, i'm mad at the author for playing the otokonoko trope completely straight aside from the added timeline confusion. there is a shared commonality between ruka, chihiro and "traps" following the sense of the word. they act as visual stimulation for the viewer, while as characters all of them are in some sense "punished" for being feminine. i'd like to think someone having the capicity to conceive of a human male looking like a woman would have some grasp on the nature of gender, yet apperently there is a disconnect between fetishization and understanding.