This system works thanks to a fundamental rule wherein each party must wager something they deem to be of equal value to the other party's wager. The mysterious god welcomes Sora and Shiro to Disboard, a world where all forms of conflict-from petty squabbles to the fate of whole countries-are settled not through war, but by way of high-stake games. No Game No Life is a surreal comedy that follows Sora and Shiro, shut-in NEET siblings and the online gamer duo behind the legendary username "Blank." They view the real world as just another lousy game however, a strange e-mail challenging them to a chess match changes everything-the brother and sister are plunged into an otherworldly realm where they meet Tet, the God of Games. Forced across the diverging threads of past and present, Okabe must shoulder the burdens that come with holding the key to the realm of time. and Nitroplus, Steins Gate takes Okabe through the depths of scientific theory and practicality. Though miraculous in itself, the phenomenon doesn't provide anything concrete in Okabe's search for a scientific breakthrough that is, until the lab members are spurred into action by a string of mysterious happenings before stumbling upon an unexpected success-the Phone Microwave can send emails to the past, altering the flow of history.Īdapted from the critically acclaimed visual novel by 5pb. The self-proclaimed mad scientist Rintarou Okabe rents out a room in a rickety old building in Akihabara, where he indulges himself in his hobby of inventing prospective "future gadgets" with fellow lab members: Mayuri Shiina, his air-headed childhood friend, and Hashida Itaru, a perverted hacker nicknamed "Daru." The three pass the time by tinkering with their most promising contraption yet, a machine dubbed the "Phone Microwave," which performs the strange function of morphing bananas into piles of green gel.