The story of Steins;Gate begins on July 28, 2010, in Akihabara, with Rintarō Okabe and Mayuri Shiina heading towards the Radio Kaikan building. Inside the building, Rintarō finds the body of Kurisu Makise with a pool of blood in a room. He leaves the building with Mayuri in a panic and sends a text message to Hashida Itaru about the incident when all the people around him suddenly vanish. They reappear moments later but no one around him seems to have experienced the same phenomena that he did.
Rintarō and Hashida Itaru runs into the same Kurisu from the Radio Kaikan building later. Rintarō explains what he has gone through and Hashida then mentions that he received a text message similar to what Rintarō described one week ago. Upon further investigation, they realize that their customized microwave can be used to send text messages to the past and names these messages "D mail" . The characters later discover that SERN, an organization that has been researching time travel for some time, has actually succeeded in sending humans into the past although they seem to have all resulted in the test subjects' deaths. Kurisu later enhances the microwave with the ability to send one's memories back in time, effectively allowing one to travel back in time.
The story of Steins;Gate begins on July 28, 2010, in Akihabara, with Rintarō Okabe and Mayuri Shiina heading towards the Radio Kaikan building. Inside the building, Rintarō finds the body of Kurisu Makise with a pool of blood in a room. He leaves the building with Mayuri in a panic and sends a text message to Hashida Itaru about the incident when all the people around him suddenly vanish. They reappear moments later but no one around him seems to have experienced the same phenomena that he did.
Rintarō and Hashida Itaru runs into the same Kurisu from the Radio Kaikan building later. Rintarō explains what he has gone through and Hashida then mentions that he received a text message similar to what Rintarō described one week ago. Upon further investigation, they realize that their customized microwave can be used to send text messages to the past and names these messages "D mail" . The characters later discover that SERN, an organization that has been researching time travel for some time, has actually succeeded in sending humans into the past although they seem to have all resulted in the test subjects' deaths. Kurisu later enhances the microwave with the ability to send one's memories back in time, effectively allowing one to travel back in time.