

To make it short: I watched all three anime adaptations, but after browsing
the questions here for 5 minutes I feel like I don't know anything about
them...

~~Where is all this extra information hidden?~~

(More specific question:) I am searching for information about 2 things.

  1. "Hidden" information which is only for one story.
  2. "Hidden" information which is cross-story (at least two stories "combined")

Now I'll specify what I mean with that.

  1. (This example is not related to the stories in the title.) For example, something like the real name of L (from Death Note).
  2. Something like "What is DaSH?"

I do NOT want you to list all the secrets and easter-eggs! I only want to know
where, and (maybe) how to find them. If there are manga with extra
information, please give me the title. Or if there are articles on the
internet about it, please give me a link.

(I know that there are visual novels for all the stories listed in the title.
I'm going to watch/read/play them soon.)


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Chaos;Head, Steins;Gate, Robotics;Notes: where is all the extra information?


As said by senshin in
[his](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/22737/chaoshead-steinsgate-
roboticsnotes-where-is-all-the-extra-information#comment32482_22737)
[comments](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/22737/chaoshead-
steinsgate-roboticsnotes-where-is-all-the-extra-
information#comment32484_22737) the Chaos;Head, Steins;Gate and Robotic;Notes
anime series are adaptions of Visual Novels. bellow is a list of the
corresponding games on VNDB (Visual Novel Database)

  * [Chaos;Head](https://vndb.org/v382)
  * [Steins;Gate](https://vndb.org/v2002)
  * [Robotic;Notes](https://vndb.org/v5883)

From each of those links you can also find links to the anime and other games
based off each of these. however not all of these one would consider canon and
most times these would have [Unofficial] in their title or have Fan-Fiction as
a tag, ie. [Steins;gate Divergence](https://vndb.org/v15695). As senshin has
said

> The visual novels are significantly longer and contain a lot more
> information than was shown in the corresponding anime

This obviously because of time constraints on Anime being set to go on for a
set number of episodes of certain length (normally between ~12 and ~24
episodes ~20 minutes long Excluding OP and ED). multiple seasons of a series
are normally either done based on popularity of the previous season or planned
because it is foretasted that the previous season will sell well (as with
Fate/Zero and Fate/Stay Night: Unlimited Blade Works).

Another source of information is also Art/Material Books such as the
[Steins;Gate Official Material Collection
Book](http://www.animebooks.com/stofmacobo.html). these tend to have a bit
more information that may not have originally been in the Visual Novels. in my
experience large series tend to have these to fill in some plot holes, for
instance in the Nasuverse (Fate/Stay Night, Tsukihime etc.) the Material Books
go into depth about the 27 Dead Apostle Ancestors, the on-goings between the
Church and the Mage's Association and the Aylesbury Valesti which is theorized
to have been the cause of the Prana drying up in the world in Fate/Extra.

Also on occasion at conventions some writers/developers hold Q&A Sessions
where fans can ask them a number of questions. these can sometimes also been
included in Material Books.

However most of the time this extra information is in Japanese, for English
fans who don't know Japanese this can be a barrier when the work isn't
translated. for instance while Chaos;Head and Steins;Gate have English
translations, both fan made and official, Robotic;Notes does not and the
likely hood of a fan translation of it is very unlikely due to the game being
on Console.

in these situations a Wiki (normally a Wikia site) tends to be a good source
of information. however one need to be careful as sometimes there are
[two](http://chaoshead2.wikia.com/wiki/Rimi_Sakihata) [Wikias](http://chaos-
head.wikia.com/wiki/Rimi_Sakihata) for one game however one can normally tell
which is of inferior quality. also despite the 3 titles mentioned being apart
of the **_The Science Adventure series_** (科学ＡＤＶ, _Kagaku Adobenchaa_ ) there
is [three](http://chaoshead2.wikia.com/wiki/Science_Adventure_Series)
[separate](http://steins-gate.wikia.com/wiki/Science_Adventure_Series)
[wikias](http://robotics-notes.wikia.com/wiki/Science_Adventure_Series).
sometimes however you may get lucky with a series which has a single wiki (eg.
[Type-Moon](http://typemoon.wikia.com/)1, [Final
Fantasy](http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/)2)

Ofcause one should take heed with Wikia's as these tend to not normally be
maintained by the developers. a good sign that a Wikia is reliable is what
kind of References it has, on the Type-Moon Wikia information gained from Q&A
sessions will be included most of the time in both Japanese and in English

* * *

1: Titles include Fate/Stay Night, Tsukihime, Kagetsu Tohya, Melty Blood, Kara
no Kyoukai, Notes, etc.

2: Titles include the Final Fantasy games (I - XV, Tactics, Crystal
Chronicles), Vagrant Story, Bravery Default, The Four Heroes of Light, etc.


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