First of all I want to let you know if you will enjoy Load Region of Deja Vu. If your favorite part of SteinsGate was the cohesion of the plot and the obedience to the rules the narrative sets for itself you probably wont like this movie. If your favorite part of SteinsGate was the characterdriven drama this is the perfect sendoff for you before you decide to watch 0 or not. My love for the original anime comes from a mixture of these things which leaves me with confused feelings that will probably change depending on how the stars are aligned and whatnot. Before going in I would like to clarify that there will be spoilers for the anime and the movie. Now I just recently started watched and finished SteinsGate for the first time and it really spoke to me like few other anime have. While I dont believe its perfect I know it comes damn close for me. I was very happy to find that there was an entire movie following the events of the OVA but upon thinking back to my experience watching the movie I have a few complaints. My main negative criticism with this movie is the retconning of SteinsGates carefully plotted rules for its time travel system and even its ending in favor of its more dramadriven plot. This is a drama with scifi elements rather than being a perfect marriage of the two like the anime is. At the very ending of SteinsGate Okabe manages to achieve the only world line where Kurisu and Mayuri are allowed to live on. With the accidental destruction of Kurisus research papers on time travel after her father attempts to murder her and steal the credit for himself a new world line begins where time travel is never invented and an arms race to rule over time never happens. Okabe and those he cherishes most are left to live in a timeline where they are free to live their lives not knowing the future and not being able to redo the past. That is the most important arc that Okabe goes through in SteinsGate. In his own hubris he starts interfering with reality and faces extreme consequences for it. But in Load Region to Deja Vu this is ignored almost completely. After Okabe disappears between world lines due to the trauma that his Reading Steiner ability has caused him Kurisu brings time travel into the Steins Gate world line to save him. Its not even that this fact isnt brought up. Around the middle of the movie when Suzuha time travels back from 2036 to explain Okabes disappearances to Kurisu Okabe begs the two not to continue to interfere with time. His character is still intact even if his arc isnt but this ultimately isnt too detrimental to the plot. Though I have many problems with how Okabes arc is made partly meaningless it doesnt ultimately impact the movie itself all that significantly considering the main character is Kurisu. The point of the movie is that it follows another character and how she thinks and feels about everything that happens rather than just following Okabe who has the most information and knowledge of any character in the anime. Though the plot holes are undeniable and hard to defend if you keep in mind that this isnt canon and is rather just a deeper look at Okabe and Kurisus relationship you can really find enjoyment from it. After I finished the episode 25 OVA I felt like the characters couldve been handled better for a kind of epilogue story and Load Region to Deja Vu gives me exactly that. It doesnt give closure to every character but the characters it does focus on are given conclusions that I think are pretty satisfying. The emotional arc of this story is that Okabe and Kurisu realize what they mean to each other which is shown by the lengths the both of them go to save each other in both the anime and the movie. While the lengths Okabe was willing to go for her were shown expertly in the anime the movie gives time for Kurisu to show that kind of care back. Honestly this movie is very much flawed and very much not something that can be canon without ruining parts of the show. Anilist says this movie is a side story to SteinsGate rather than a sequel and Im willing to agree with that. Despite all my criticisms I still strongly identify with the emotions put forward in the 90 minutes of runtime the movie is given. Considering Ive spoiled most of it youve either already watched it or dont plan on watching it but I can say with certainty that I got the most from this experience by not thinking about it as science fiction but more as an emotional character drama. I enjoyed my experience so it earns a good review from me.