Steins;Gate, Chaos;Head, Robotics;Notes, and Occultic;Nine naming convention with semicolon? The following anime share the use of the semicolon as part of their names:


Steins;Gate
Chaos;Head
Robotics;Notes
Occultic;Nine


What is the reason for using the semicolon within the titles of these anime?
The best answer that I could make out myself for the use of the semi-colon in the names:

The semicolon in the names are used as a form of &quot;pertaining to,&quot; however &quot;not in possession of.&quot; Meaning--for example--&quot;Steins&quot; is related to &quot;Gate&quot; however, &quot;Steins&quot; is not in possession of &quot;Gate.&quot; (This applies to the other two names as well.) We can see this because &quot;Steins&quot; does not make use of an apostrophe, which denotes possession.

We can see this by also rewording the titles of the anime:

Gate of Steins
Head of Chaos
Notes of Robotics

In this case, we see that &quot;Steins,&quot; &quot;Chaos,&quot; and &quot;Robotics&quot; all are related to the the preceding words in the reworded titles, just the same as if we made use of the semi-colon instead of, &quot;of,&quot; in the original titles.