Itou performed theme songs for Steins;Gate anime

The official website for 5pb. Games' Steins;Gate 0 project announced on Thursday that Kanako Itou is performing the opening theme song and Zwei is performing the ending theme song.

Kanoko Itou previously performed theme songs for the Steins;Gate television anime and film. Zwei performed the first opening for the Robotics;Notes anime.

The Steins;Gate 0 visual novel for PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, and PlayStation Vita is slated to ship on November 19 in Japan. An anime adaptation of Steins;Gate 0 has also been green-lit.

Chiyomaru Shikura is in charge of planning, and provided the original concept for the game. Tatsuya Matsubara will produce the game, huke will once again provide the character designs, and Takeshi Abe will compose the music. Naotaka Hayashi, Toru Yasumoto, Masashi Takimoto, and Tsukasa Tsuchiya are writing the scenario.

The game will include stories from three of the Steins;Gate novels, as well as from some drama CDs.

[Warning: This summary contains spoilers for the Steins;Gate game and anime. Please highlight the white space to read.]

[ The story of the game and the anime take place in the beta world line, where Okabe could not save his precious person, Kurisu, on July 28, and ended up returning alone. However, the trailer for the game notes that Okabe does not know that Kurisu is in fact still there. ]

The original Steins;Gate game released on Xbox 360 in 2009, and the game was later ported to the PC, PlayStation Portable, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Vita. The game was also released on smartphones. The game inspired a fan disc spin-off titled Steins;Gate Hiyoku Renri no Darling in 2011, which was released on the Xbox 360, PlayStation Portable, PlayStation 3, and PlayStation Vita, as well as on smartphones. JAST USA published the original game in North America for the PC last year, while PQube published the game in Europe for the PlayStation 3 and PS Vita and plans to release the game in North America on August 25.

The original game inspired a television anime in 2011, as well as an original film serving as an epilogue to the TV series in 2013. Funimation Entertainment has licensed both the television series and film.

[Via Otakomu]