Monogatari And Steins;Gate Collaboration Will Feature Pop Up Shop And More

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.