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Is **Steins;Gate 0** a sequel to **Steins;Gate**? If not, what is common
between the two and where do they deviate?

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What is the relation between Steins;Gate and Steins;Gate 0?
  
  
As mentioned by [one of the official translators](https://ask.fm/SciADV) that
has worked on most of the Sci-fi Adventure
series:[Source](https://www.reddit.com/r/steinsgate/comments/37kkqi/a_question_about_steinsgate_0/crqger3)

> Steins;Gate Zero will not be a direct sequel, no. Remember when Okabe
> stabbed Kurisu and lost his resolve? Only to be revitalized once he received
> the Operation Skuld D-Mail from his future self? The Okabe in Epigraph and
> Zero is the Okabe that did not try again after killing Kurisu, the Okabe
> that gave up and resigned himself to misery.

  * _Steins;Gate 0_ , in spite of being marketed as the "true sequel" to _Steins;Gate_ , does not take place after the ending of _Steins;Gate_. Even though it is canonical, it "takes place" just before the ending of Steins;Gate. Although, because it is about time travelling, all events in the narrative are relative, making the concepts of "before" and "after" somewhat meaningless. The events fit in a _logical sequence_ before the "ending" of _Steins;Gate_ , but in a casual sense rather than temporal.

  * The story between the two is exactly the same upto (and including) Episode 22. It diverges in Episode 23 with the original story being covered in [Episode 23: Open the Steins Gate](http://steins-gate.wikia.com/wiki/Episode_23:_Open_the_Steins_Gate), and the alternate version, a _Steins;Gate 0_ OVA, being covered in [Episode 23(β) Open the Missing Link](http://steins-gate.wikia.com/wiki/SG0_OVA:_Episode_23\(%CE%B2\)_Open_the_Missing_Link). As mentioned [on the Wikia](http://steins-gate.wikia.com/wiki/SG0_OVA:_Episode_23\(%CE%B2\)_Open_the_Missing_Link):

> In this story, after killing Makise Kurisu, Okabe Rintarou gives up and
> accepts her funeral fate.  
>  
> The main difference between this and the original episode 23 is that this
> Okabe does not receive the Video-Mail from himself. **He** will go on to
> eventually create Operation Skuld and the Video-Mail, helping S;G Okabe
> thwart world line convergence and successfully avert both Kurisu's death and
> WWIII in order to enter the Steins;Gate world line of 1.048596% divergence.

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**TL;DR:** In concise, as put on
[Reddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/steinsgate/comments/37kkqi/a_question_about_steinsgate_0/):

> It follows the world where Okabe tried to save Kurisu, but stabbed her
> instead. It is the worldline in which Okabe doesn't get the "deceive
> yourself" message from himself, but it is most likely the one that sends
> that message.


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