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"The Big O" (1999): :  -- 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.

Overview

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Director:
Kazuyoshi Katayama
Writers:
Masanao Akahoshi (writer)
Kei'ichi Hasegawa (writer)
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Seasons:
1 full episode list
Release Date:
2 April 2001 (USA) more
Tagline:
Good guys still wear black more
Plot:
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. full summary
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Cast

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Mitsuru Miyamoto ... Roger Smith (13 episodes, 1999-2000)

Steve Blum ... Roger Smith (13 episodes, 1999-2000)
Akiko Yajima ... R. Dorothy Wayneright / ... (13 episodes, 1999-2000)
Lia Sargent ... R. Dorothy Wayneright / ... (13 episodes, 1999-2000)
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
"Big O" (USA) (cable TV title)
"The Big O II" (Japan) (second season title)
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Runtime:
30 min (26 episodes)
Country:
Japan
Language:
English | Japanese
Color:
Color
Certification:
Australia:M (DVD rating) | Singapore:PG
Company:
Animaze more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
When Roger is walking around the streets of the "real" New York. The camera changes onto the top of a building, where one can clearly see several of the Gargoyles from the Disney series "Gargoyles". more
Quotes:
Schwarzwald: Even without the events of 40 years ago, I think man would still be a creature that fears the dark. He doesn't face that fear, he averts his eyes from it and acts as if he doesn't have any memories of his past. But, 40 years is both a short time and yet... more
Soundtrack:
BIG-O! more

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9 out of 10 people found the following comment useful:-
Red Balloons and Red Tomatoes, 28 July 2006
10/10
Author: redcarpetroom from United States

Big O is not like any other show I have ever seen. The writers clearly have extensive knowledge concerning Greek mythology and even Christianity. It is a cartoon sure, but the depth of the show is very subjective. The show itself gives the viewer just enough clues to allow one to believe that all of the other unending parade of questions will somehow be answered, but apparently, they won't. The show walks a profound balance of story and probability and divine vagueness.

I saw a few episodes of this show and became hooked like no other show I have ever seen. The overall themes are far from light. Two of them being memories and ultimately attempting to define life. What is the value of one's life without memories? What separates humans from androids in a futurist world without knowing which actually came first? And that is assuming who and what each character actually is, which is far from a given. My obsession with the show did eventually wane, largely because the show itself is rather slow at times. There are plenty of action scenes with enormous robots, also representing something I'm sure, to balance the pace, but those battles rarely excited me.

The truly strange aspect of this show is that the majority of it for me is window dressing. It's the symbolism that is scattered throughout each episode that elevates this show to atmospheric levels. This show is just smart enough and just open ended enough for each little mysterious detail to have some profound meaning. This show has everything within it to be the basis of a new religion in and of itself, seriously. The fact that all the answers can plausibly be answered, but aren't, makes Big O that much more life-like in nature.

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