Steins;Gate

2011 · Anime Series · TV-14Adaptation

Audience evidenceThe verdict — who this is for, by the receipts

Made first for older women 1

Steins;Gate's audience scores lean most toward older women at 56 of 100, with comparable appeal to older men and young women 1. Its overall reach is rated mass-market — mass-market reach across most demographics 2. Relative to the expected cast make-up for its production origin, on-screen representation registers above the baseline for Asian 3. On content balance it reads entertainment-first at 2 of 100, weighting storytelling over explicit messaging 4.

The receipts — every claim above is sourced

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Audience scoreolder women 56 of 100 is the top quadrant, with older men 51 and young women 49 close behind.WhatSphere audience model, score_version 1
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ReachAudience breadth rated mass_market.WhatSphere audience model, score_version 1
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RepresentationRepresentation vs production-origin baseline: Asian 77.WhatSphere representation model, score_version 1
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Content balanceContent balance entertainment-first at 2 of 100.WhatSphere content-balance model, score_version 1

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Synopsis

A group of friends have customized their microwave so that it can send text messages to the past. As they perform different experiments, an organization named SERN who has been doing their own research on time travel tracks them down and now the characters have to find a way to avoid being captured by them.