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The Big O

THE ビッグオー

AnimationDramaAction & Adventure
1999
1 Season
26 Episodes
JA
Ended
TV-14

About

Forty years ago, the minds of Paradigm City's inhabitants were wiped clean of all recollections of the past. Now, ruled by a powerful corporation and cut off from the rest of the world by desolate wastelands, Paradigm has become a virtual police state where Negotiators like Roger Smith keep the wheels of progress, commerce, and society turning.

#detective#android#amnesia#mecha#conspiracy#memory loss#angst#anime#super robot#psychological

Cast

Mitsuru Miyamoto

Mitsuru Miyamoto

as Roger Smith (voice)

Akiko Yajima

Akiko Yajima

as R. Dorothy Wayneright (voice)

Emi Shinohara

Emi Shinohara

as Angel (voice)

Gorō Naya

Gorō Naya

as Gordon Rosewater (voice)

Katsunosuke Hori

Katsunosuke Hori

as Michael Seebach (voice)

Motomu Kiyokawa

Motomu Kiyokawa

as Norman Burg (voice)

Shinpachi Tsuji

Shinpachi Tsuji

as Big Ear (voice)

Unsho Ishizuka

Unsho Ishizuka

as Alex Rosewater (voice)

Sayuri

Sayuri

as Vera Ronstadt (voice)

Tessyo Genda

Tessyo Genda

as Dan Dastun (voice)

Episodes

Season 1

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Roger the Negotiator
E1

Roger the Negotiator

Oct 13, 199925m7.5

In the pilot episode, Roger Smith is introduced as Paradigm City's top negotiator. As the episode begins, he is delivering the ransom for a girl named Dorothy, who had been kidnapped from her father, a rich industrialist named Saldano. After the exchange, Saldano arrives and reveals that the Dorothy Roger they had obtained was actually an android fake. When Roger realizes Beck isn't playing fair, he activates the briefcase carrying the ransom and it flies out of Beck's car.

Dorothy, Dorothy
E2

Dorothy, Dorothy

Oct 20, 199925m7.5

In the previous episode, Major Dastun and Dorothy looked like they were going to be crushed by Dorothy One as it fell. However, when the dust cleared, Dastun was fine and Dorothy had disappeared. Roger took Big O back into the subway to escape Dastun's rage over the destruction of the fight. Then, he began to search for Dorothy. He received a tip about a nightingale in the city, which led him to a club called Nightingale. There Roger found Dorothy along with a man named Waynewright who said he was her grandfather. Dorothy sang in the club after which Beck arrived, shot Waynewright, knocked out Roger and kidnapped Dorothy.

Electric City
E3

Electric City

Oct 27, 199925m7.5

Recently, there's been a number of power outages in Paradigm. Roger is hired by Paradigm Power Management to go to the Electric City and negotiate with the locals the reactivation of the hydroelectric power plant. They say a god lives in the water.

Underground Terror
E4

Underground Terror

Nov 3, 199925m7.5

A woman named Patricia Lovejoy (the same woman called Angel in Electric City) approaches Roger Smith about a job with Paradigm. He is supposed to convince a reporter named Michael Seebach to hand over his manuscript, but as it turns out, Seebach had disappeared months earlier. Using his connections with Major Dastun, Roger tracks down an apartment Seebach is renting. There he discovers a typewriter and a large stack of papers, which he begins to read when gasoline pours in under the door and lights. Roger jumps out the window to escape and is confronted by Seebach, now calling himself Schwartzvald and wrapped in bandages. Seebach tells Roger to report to Paradigm that they will never see him in the city again, then disappears.

Bring Back My Ghost
E5

Bring Back My Ghost

Nov 10, 199925m7.5

A military police vehicle crashes after seeing an apparition while crossing a certain bridge and it is apparently only the latest in a string of such accidents involving high ups in the military police. Roger is retained to work for a billionaire named Melissa Frazier who wants Roger to find her son Bonny. Bonny worked for the military police and was killed during a riot on the haunted bridge a year earlier, after which time the ghost sightings began. His body fell into the water and disappeared. Roger is tipped that Bonny may have been killed because he was going to reveal corruption in the MPs. He goes to track down one of the few remaining conspirators, a Colonel Gaust, but he has been taken to the bridge by Bonny Frazier and pushed into the water. Both Big O and Dastun attempt to attack the apparition, but their attacks appear to go through it, while it's missiles assault Big O from all directions. In a last ditch attempt, Roger tracks the origin of the missiles and shoots

A Legacy of Amadeus
E6

A Legacy of Amadeus

Nov 17, 199925m7.5

After waking Roger up with her piano playing, Roger decides to take Dorothy to see a friend who can help her learn to add feeling to her playing. His friend is a robot named Instro, who was built by a scientist named Amadeus and thought of Instro as a son. Instro remembers how happy Amadeus was when Instro would play the piano for him. While Instro is giving Dorothy a lesson, a mysterious stranger arrives and reminds Instro that he needs to fulfill his creator's legacy.

The Call from the Past
E7

The Call from the Past

Nov 24, 199925m7.5

Episode begins, Roger and Angel are trapped in a building buried under the sea, one of a string apparently created by the Event. Three days earlier, Roger is trying to negotiate to bring down the price of fish for the people outside the domes. He learns that the reason fish is so expensive is because the fishermen won't go out to fish because they are scared of a sea titan in the water.

Missing Cat
E8

Missing Cat

Dec 1, 199925m7.5

Dorothy befriends a stray cat and takes it in. Roger thinks it's cute until the owners of the cat show up. But what's more, the cat is more than what he seems to be.

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