goes through a complex emotional journey that includes many self-conscious emotions like pride, shame, guilt, and embarrassment. A particularly powerful instance of his experience involves guilt, which serves as a compelling example to examine the psychological factors and appraisals that trigger this emotion in Okabe. One of the most significant moments of guilt for Okabe occurs as a result of Mayuri Shiina's repeated deaths. Throughout multiple timelines, Okabe seeing Mayuri die over and over again. Despite his desperate attempts to save her by using the D-Mail and later the time leap machine, every timeline he creates still seems to lead to her inevitable death. Okabe feels personally responsible because it was his own pursuit of discovery and meddling with time that set off the chain of events leading to Mayuri's suffering. This situation can be characterized as uncontrollable repetition which Okabe is forced to relive Mayuri's death repeatedly, which compounds his sen...