STEINS;GATE RE:BOOT Itaru Hashida (Daru)

Itaru Hashida—nicknamed Daru—is the Future Gadget Laboratory’s technical powerhouse and Okabe’s self-declared “right arm.” RE:BOOT refreshes his look and voice while keeping the otaku humor that defines early lab banter. This primer helps newcomers parse his slang and understand his function before heavy plot layers arrive.

Skills and function

Daru programs, hacks, and keeps dubious experiments technically alive. When the story needs someone who can make machines obey, cameras yield, or data open, the camera often finds Daru. He is not pure comic relief; his competence enables the science fiction.

Personality

Expect internet slang, moe enthusiasm, and jokes that other characters police. Kurisu in particular draws boundaries. If humor feels dated or sharp, remember it is character writing inside a specific 2010s Akihabara vibe rebuilt for a 2026 release—not a command to agree with every line.

Relationships

• Rintaro Okabe — chaotic leader / loyal engineer duo
• Mayuri Shiina — lab warmth he shares space with
• Kurisu Makise — intellect and friction
• Group frame: Future Gadget Laboratory

Gameplay relevance

Daru’s scenes often accompany exposition dumps about how gadgets function. Slow reading helps (How to Play). Phone moments that involve lab logistics still deserve Phone Trigger attention even when Daru is the one explaining ports and packets.

Reboot notes

Design updates may tweak proportions, wardrobe, and expression sheets. What’s New explains the broader art initiative. Veterans should still re-learn UI pacing rather than assuming ELITE muscle memory.

Adjacent wiki links

Getting Started, Characters Hub, Save Strategy, Platforms, and Official Resources for publisher materials.

Daru makes the lab’s impossible toys feel plausibly soldered together. When RE:BOOT’s microwave mythology starts rewriting fate, his fingerprints are already on the hardware.

Exposition filter

When Daru explains tech, slow text speed. Those dumps often hide the logic that makes later Phone Trigger consequences feel fair instead of arbitrary.

Enablement without spoilers

Daru’s jokes hide competence. When hardware or network talk appears, slow down—those beats often foreshadow tools the plot will need. Pair with PC requirement realism if you are the household’s IT person.

Super hacka texture in RE:BOOT

Daru’s nicknames, snack talk, and monitor glow are how the lab feels inhabited. When RE:BOOT shows cramped desks, he is usually why those props feel used. Slow down whenever ports, packets, or remote access enter the dialogue—those beats teach the fiction’s tool logic.

If you buy on Steam, skim System Requirements the same evening you finish this primer. Household IT people often become the default buyer; matching Daru’s competence fantasy to a machine that actually launches avoids launch-night shame.

Gamma marketing contrasts lonely hostility against the noisy lab. Daru’s laughter is part of the brightness that darker routes remove. Keep Gamma Worldline closed until you want that warning, and keep Daru’s pages open when you need to remember why the room mattered.

Unique closing for Daru: solder the jokes to the soldered boards—without his enabling hands, Okabe’s speeches stay theater.

Observer notebook — players/itaru-hashida

• Prefer official ladders over averaged rumors when headlines conflict.
• Name saves with date and chapter so future-you can decode fatigue.
• Name saves with date and chapter so future-you can decode fatigue.
• Keep a paper checklist beside the monitor so Phone Trigger instincts stay physical.
• Prefer official ladders over averaged rumors when headlines conflict.
• Mute ending names on social apps during your first route week.
• Mute ending names on social apps during your first route week.
• Mute ending names on social apps during your first route week.

Closing line for players/itaru-hashida: revisit this notebook the morning your platform unlocks, then put the phone UI ahead of any rumor tab.