Information has come out about the Steins;Gate and Monogatari crossover that the Steins;Gate X (formerly known as Twitter) teased on September 12, 2024. There will be three parts to the collaboration: a Tokyo Tower event, an Animax Cafe, and a pop-up shop.

You can watch the trailer for the Steins;Gate and Monogatari collaboration here:

This is part of the 15th anniversary for both series. The promotional art shows the characters of Steins;Gate wearing the same outfits as the Monogatari characters, and vice versa. Some of them are even posing like their counterparts.

As of the time of writing, there aren’t a lot of details about each part of the collaboration. The Animax Cafe and Tokyo Tower events will be in mid-October 2024. Meanwhile, the pop-up shop will be in mid-November 2024. More details on them will appear closer to the dates. It’s more than plausible that you’ll be able to buy merchandise of the characters wearing each other’s clothes.

Steins;Gate is a visual novel that’s part of the Science Adventure series. It focuses on the concept of time travel and parallel universes. The main character is Okabe “Okarin” Rintaro, an eccentric “mad scientist” who is capable of detecting changes between different timelines. As for the Monogatari series, it is a series of light novels that follow Koyomi Araragi, a former vampire and current high schooler. Thanks to his past experiences with the supernatural, he can help girls in his school and neighborhood with their own oddity-related (and personal) problems.

The Steins;Gate and Monogatari collaboration will start in mid-October 2024.

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A pop-up shop featuring a Sanrio collaboration with the Monogatari series will appear in Japan from September 27, 2024. You’ll be able to get merchandise of Mayoi, Shinobu, and Yotsugi. [Thanks, 4Gamer!]

The pop-up shop will appear in Osaka from September 27 to October 16, 2024. You can check it out at Umeda Loft. Then, from October 19 to October 27, 2024, it’ll appear in Tokyo’s Ueno Marui. As for the character-mascot pairings, Mayoi is with Keroppi, Shinobu is with Pompompurin, and Yotsugi is with Cinnamoroll.

Here are the merchandise and prices available for the Monogatari and Sanrio collaboration:

• Acrylic clock: 6050 JPY
• Acrylic stands: 1760 JPY each
• B2 tapestry: 3850 JPY
• Clear bromides: 440 JPY
• Keyholders: 500 JPY
• Postcards: 880 JPY
• T-shirts: 3850 JPY
• Tote bag: 3520 JPY
• Trading can badges: 660 JPY

For every 3000 JPY you purchase in one transaction, you can get either a sticker or a photo card. There are six variations for each type, and you won’t be able to choose which one you get.

The Monogatari series consists of multiple light novels by Nisio Isin, centering around high schooler and former vampire Koyomi Araragi. Due to his experience with supernatural incidents and oddities, as well as the connections he formed when dealing with his own issues, he often helps the girls around him with their oddity-related problems. The most recent anime adaptations covered the Off Season and Monster Season, and you can watch the latest season on Crunchyroll.

The Monogatari and Sanrio pop-up store will appear in Japan from September 27, 2024.

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The official Steins;Gate seems to be teasing an crossover with the Monogatari series. More information on it will come out in the near future.

The Tweet in question reads like Okabe is saying it, saying that the operation is going well. Then, the speaker reacts with shock at some emojis. After they recover, they say that this is yet another choice of Steins Gate and then end the message with El Psy Kongroo, which is the customary way Okabe ends his phone calls. 

The emojis in the Tweet are a crab, a snail, a monkey, a snake, a cat, a flower, and then two vampires. These emojis in this order seem to be a reference to the Monogatari series of light novels. In Monogatari, main character Koyomi Araragi helps the girls he encounters in school or around town with problems that have to do with supernatural oddities. In Hitagi Crab, he helps his classmate and future girlfriend Hitagi Senjogahara with a crab that stole her weight. Then, in Mayoi Mai Mai (Snail), he helps a lost girl named Mayoi Hachikuji return home. And so on and so forth.

More information on what Steins;Gate has in store with Monogatari will appear in the future. Steins;Gate is readily available on the PS4, Windows PC, and mobile devices. You can watch the anime adaptation on Crunchyroll.

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Ayase of Yoasobi posted a short story that Nisio Isin, the author of the Bakemonogatari series, wrote for him. The short story is “Yotsugi Song,” and the story features Yotsugi asking Koyomi to form a band with her.

Yotsugi Song is only in Japanese and you'll have to zoom into the picture to read it. It starts with Yotsugi busting into Koyomi's room with various instruments, asking him if he wants to form a band with her. In a meta joke, they discuss the fact that Yotsugi's on the cover of the Yoasobi single "Undead." To make up for it, Yotsugi lets Koyomi be the guitar while she's in charge of both drums and vocals. It ends with Koyomi asking her for a left handed guitar and she tells him to quit with his hero worship of left handed people.

In Ayase’s Tweet, he states that the gift from Nisio Isin is an unbelievable treasure, as he’s a huge fan of Bakemonogatari and the other entries in the series. He then goes on to state that “Music is undead,” or that music will never die. This is a reference to “Undead,” which is the theme for the Off & Monster Season of the Monogatari anime. Yotsugi is the character on the cover of the single as well.

In the press release for “Undead,” Ayase stated that he always says Bakemonogatari is his favorite anime because of his strong attachment to the Monogatari series. In his late teens, he even wrote a song about Hitagi Senjougahara, the heroine of Monogatari. Monogatari is a series of light novels and anime that follow Koyomi Araragi, a high school student who briefly became a vampire during spring break. Due to his experience and connections with the supernatural, he helps various girls around town and school who have been afflicted with oddities.

You can watch Monogatari Series Off & Monster Season on Crunchyroll.

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