The Big O (1999)★ 7.5/10
- Action
- Adventure
- Animation
- Mystery
- Sci-Fi
Directed by: Kazuyoshi Katayama, Ikurô Satô, Tetsuya Watanabe, Tôru Kitahata, Akira Yoshimura
Written by: Kazuyoshi Katayama, Chiaki Konaka, Keiichi Satô, Keiichi Hasegawa, Masanao Akahoshi
In a futuristic city with lost memories, an expert negotiator fights threats to the city with the help of an android and his own giant robot.
- Original title
- The Big O
- Storyline
- Paradigm City, a city of amnesia and a place of belonging. It remains populated by forgotten pasts and the ruins of their labors due to a calamity 40 years ago. Shrouded in a fog-like mystery, it is up to people like Roger Smith to shine a light through the mist. Acting as a professional negotiator and suave agent, Roger is a self-tailored ladies man whose only love is for funeral black. However, as he gets deeply involved with his clients, what often starts as a simple negotiation evolves into Roger saving Paradigm from crime and peril. In the process, Roger stumbles even deeper into the untold folds of the city. As a rule, things are hardly ever as they appear. Serving as gray knight in a gray world, Roger is not without allies. By his side are Norman, a loyal and widely skilled butler, and Dorothy, a human-like android with deadpan snark. Together with the relic Big O, a jet-black mecha of gargantuan size and weight, they help Roger serve iron justice to Paradigm's lurking villains as he discovers the truth about 40 years ago.
- Rating
- 7.5 / 10 · 2,646
- Companies
- Animaze, Bandai Visual Company, CTV Television Network, Kanal 5, Sunrise, Teletoon, Animax, Bandai Entertainment, Cartoon Network, Madman Entertainment, Sentai Filmworks, Sun TV, WOWOW
- Release dates
- JP October 13, 1999
- US April 2, 2001