Rintaro Okabe

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Rintaro Okabe is a male anime and manga character who features in Steins;Gate.

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Biography

Rintaro Okabe (Japanese: 岡部 倫太郎, Hepburn: Okabe Rintarō)

Whilst at the university, he came to form a friendship with fellow student Itaru where Okabe claimed that they had known each other for roughly 3 years. However, Itaru would state that they actually known one another for a year.

He came to look to gather further units for his college course leading to Rintaro attending a seminar taught by Shouichi Makise about the fundamental theory behind creating a time machine. Arriving early, he came to enter the room of the lecture when the building was seemingly shaken by an earthquake. He ran upstairs to find a satellite on the roof of the Akihabara Radio Tower.

In order to gather additional units for his college course, Rintaro attends a seminar being taught by Dr. Nakabachi about the fundamental theory behind creating a time machine held at Akihabara Radio Kaikan. He arrives early with Mayuri, and upon entering the room of the lecture, the building is seemingly shaken by an earthquake. He runs upstairs and finds a satellite on the roof of the building, but is quickly told not to worry by the person standing beside it. He then gets a text message from Mayuri and goes down to a lower floor where she is trying to buy an Upa toy from the coin machine. He ends up buying one just to show off, but is suprised when its revealed to be made of metal. Mayuri tells him that it is rare and he ends up giving it to her. As Shouichi begins his seminar, Rintaro, a staunch believer of time machines, recognizes the core material on which the professor speaks and makes a commotion, accusing the professor of having plagiarized the idea from John Titor, who spoke of this theory 10 years prior. He is pulled out of the seminar and meets Makise Kurisu for the first time, though she insists on having seen him just 15 minutes ago. Okabe has no idea what she is talking about and tries to escape the conversation by talking into his phone, but Kurisu snatches the phone away, revealing that it is off. After lying about the phone turning itself off when she grabbed it, Okabe takes his phone back and runs away. He then receives a message, but it comes through as all static, so he ignored it. Afterward, Rintaro talks to Mayuri about her Metal Upa which she lost, before they hear a scream come from upstairs. Rintaro rushes to the source of the sound to investigate and finds the body of Kurisu Makise in a pool of blood. Rintaro is so shaken by the incident that he is unable to even call the police and simply leaves along with Mayuri. He contacts his friend Itaru about it through a text message. Immediately after sending the text, the people in the street all disappear, and the satellite he saw earlier appears to have crashed into the roof of the Radio Tower. He questions Mayuri about the apparent disappearance of the pedestrians, who seems to not have noticed. Later, when he returns to the lab, he bumps into Suzuha Amane, who is quickly hired by Mr. Braun, Okabe's landlord, at the CRT store beneath the lab. Okabe later discovers that Itaru received the message, though 5 days earlier and broken into 3 messages, and that Shouichi Makise's lecture was canceled. While attending a lecture for credits that afternoon, he meets a perfectly unharmed Kurisu Makise. After that, he is in a state of shock, frequently touching Kurisu to verify that she is real, leading her to accuse him of sexual harassment. It was then that he realized that this was the real Kurisu. The girl ends up giving an lecture on time travel where she starts off by claiming its impossibility. This angers Okabe who goes on to challenge her claims. She welcomes the challenge and the two debate on the plausibiity of time travel, but Okabe is unable to counter her points.

Overview

Personality and attributes

In appearance, Rintaro Okabe was a lanky young man with a square jaw and bony cheeks. He had his short black hair swept back and brown irises with a small amount of stubble on his chin and cheeks. He often went under the pseudonym of Kyouma Hououin (鳳凰院 凶真, Hououin Kyōma) and went by the designation of Lab Member No. 001.

He was a self-proclaimed mad scientist where he often introduced himself to others as one.

Rintaro Okabe is initially portrayed to have a severe case of Chuunibyou with eccentric and sometimes Tsundere tendencies. As a self-proclaimed insane mad scientist, he often makes grand and long-winded declarations instead of getting to the point. He usually gives off the impression of being delusional and paranoid and would talk to himself on the phone especially when he cannot get his way and engages in fits of maniacal laughter.

Okabe liked to claim that he was an agent working against a certain 'Organization' which he suggested was always after him as he believed this kind of image gave him a cool and mysterious aura.

He was known to drink Dr. Pepper which he claimed was an intellectual drink for the chosen ones.

Powers and abilities

He was the founder of what he called the Future Gadget Laboratory (未来ガジェット研究所, Mirai Gajetto Kenkyūjo) in Akihabara.

Notes

  • Rintaro Okabe was created by Tatsuya Matsubara where she featured in the setting of Steins;Gate (2009).

In other media

Television

Video games

Appearances

  • Steins;Gate (2009)

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