but it could still hold a candle to SG. Unfortunately, Occultic;Nine cannot. Occultic;Nine is something that wants to bank off the success of a series like SG by introducing new ideas. I must admit, the ideas in ON are good ones. I see all the time people defending ON like "It isn't as bad as people say!" Yet, it's much, much worse. See, the reason people seem to be defending this (at least from what I've seen) isn't because it's a good show. It's because they enjoy the ; universe and will blindly defend anything from it. Now, I'm not saying I dislike the ; universe- I expressed my opinions on SG and CH. By the way, Robotic;Notes was ok, nothing special. So, let's see why ON is a misrable, mislabeled, shitty shadow of the original Steins;Gate and it's spinoffs.The story for ON deserves a 3 at best. ON's most glaring problem is it's pacing. This pacing is pretty much why it flops the most. The show has absolutely no rhyme or reason to it. The first episode was very, very rushed. From what I read it adapted more than 400 pages worth of material in the first episode. I barely knew each character until at least episode 5, and half of them weren't too interesting (but more on that later).A lot of the scenes in ON seem pointless and come in with more importance towards the later events of the show. The foreshadowing, I feel, was not done well. For example, (spoilers, if you care to watch this trainwreck) The owner of the cafe the main protagonists go to is a huge antagonist- this happens in episode 11, and from what I can tell, it wasn't hinted at more than maybe once. Yeah, they do show a creepy man with a mask chasing around our MC, but in no way could we tell it was the gay bartender. It just threw the series off point, with things that just fade away.I felt as if I couldn't take the show seriously at points. For example, one of the most important characters (spoiler again) is quite main, but is shown mainly as a comic relief character until around episodes 10-12. She's Tesla's daughter- and, once again, is given no hint towards. Not to mention her character design can barely be taken seriously. Another point, is there's a very important weapon in the show that most of the latter half revolves around. It looks like something from Toy Story. Quite laughable for a 'serious' series.When I mentioned sometimes things in this show 'fade away' I meant that some parts of the series ARE pointless. In the third episode there's an incest subplot which I couldn't care less about, since that's why I didn't watch this show. Anyway, turned out the girl's brother was the grim reaper, or devil, or shinigami, or whatever. And... there's really no point to it. It's just- there. I don't feel it advanced the plot at all. There's also an albino kid who kills someone and in the last episode of the series he is forgotten about. As you might be able to tell by now, this show is very, VERY edgy. Just for the sake of it. I almost cut myself watching this show. Rather, this show made me want to slit my wrists.Speaking of the last episode, that and the first episode were the worst of all. The last episode was so anticlimactic it made me regret going through 12 weeks of pain watching this show. In the end (spoilers) the girl with basketball tits helps our pathetic MC out, and he destroys the main antagonist's base with the power of imagination. Yes, you heard me, the power of imagination. I believe Spongebob Squarepants has done an episode like this before.The art in this show was nothing horrible, not really much to touch on. I felt a lot of the character designs were bland at best. (Except for that one ridiculous looking girl, I don't even know what was up with that) The settings were also ok, I guess? Not much to put down but not much to praise.The sound was also fairly weak. The intro grated against my ears and I skipped it every single time. The sound effects during the show were dull. When ever they did that retarded "WOO WEE OOOO" sound effect you knew something 'spooky' was going to happen. The ending was alright, but forgettable.The characters are also ON's weakest point. Most are forgettable or boring. In fact, I don't remember any of the names, and I had to look them up for this review. I confused Gamon and Shun for about 6 episodes. They introduced so many characters at once that I didn't even remember the names until they started killing them. Not like I care to remember them. The characters are all connected though the "256 incident" which was a mass suicide. By the time episode 12 was over, I wanted to be the 257th person to kill themselves.As you might be able to tell, I did not enjoy Occultic;Nine. It was too fast paced for its own good. Every time someone said a sentence someone else said something, and it gave me a headache. Like, these people, talked at lightning speed, and talked over each other at times. Oh, I am not stupid by any means, but I think this is too much for the average person. Not that thinking is bad, but it takes a while to process what happens after episode. And not in a good way, like SG did. SG made me WANT to watch the next episode, not kill somebody out of frustration.Don't watch Occultic;Nine if you value life.0.5 of fucking 10.