Character profile
Rintarou Okabe
岡部倫太郎Rintaro / Hououin Kyouma (鳳凰院凶真) / Okarin (オカリン) / Mad Scientist / Future Gadget Lab Member #001
Biography
Rintarou Okabe is an 18-year-old first-year student at Tokyo Denki University who styles himself as a “Crazy Mad Scientist.” He establishes the Future Gadget Research Establishment in Akihabara, where he builds gadgets of questionable usefulness and frequently carries on strange one-sided cellphone conversations.
Okabe often ends conversations with the phrase “El Psy Kongroo.”
Story spoilers
He eventually falls in love with Kurisu Makise and confesses his feelings. In one future Alpha-world-line outcome, he leads a resistance against SERN, is labeled an international terrorist, and is captured and killed by a Rounder unit in 2025.
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