The Big O

1999 - 2003 TV-PG 7.5

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.

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.

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Episodes:

Episode 1 Roger the Negotiator

1. Roger the Negotiator

Aired: Oct 13, 1999

When a routine negotiation goes wrong, Rodger Smith quickly realizes that the...

Episode 2 Dorothy, Dorothy

2. Dorothy, Dorothy

Aired: Oct 20, 1999

Dorothy is distraught after seeing the destruction of Dorothy-1 and flees the...

Episode 3 Electric City

3. Electric City

Aired: Oct 27, 1999

Mysterious power outages have been happening all over the city. Roger is hire...

Episode 4 Underground Terror

4. Underground Terror

Aired: Nov 3, 1999

Journalist Michael Seebach has been missing for three months and his secretar...

Episode 5 Bring Back My Ghost

5. Bring Back My Ghost

Aired: Nov 10, 1999

In East Town, Roger is hired by an elderly and blind woman to find her son be...

Episode 6 A Legacy of Amadeus

6. A Legacy of Amadeus

Aired: Nov 17, 1999

Dorothy has taken up the piano and keeps Roger awake with her terrible playin...

Episode 8 Missing Cat

8. Missing Cat

Aired: Dec 1, 1999

A dog suddenly turns into a monster and kills its owners before dying itself....

Episode 9 Beck Comes Back

9. Beck Comes Back

Aired: Dec 8, 1999

Beck escapes from prison and manages to get wrapped up in a case that Roger a...

Episode 10 Winter Night Phantom

10. Winter Night Phantom

Aired: Dec 15, 1999

A bomber is planting explosive toys all over town that cause destruction. The...

Episode 11 Daemonseed

11. Daemonseed

Aired: Jan 5, 2000

Heaven's Day, the day that the city was founded as well as Dorothy's birthday...

Episode 13 R.D.

13. R.D.

Aired: Jan 19, 2000

An assassin stalks the city streets, leaving only a vague riddle as a calling...

Info about The Big O

Current Status: Ended

Network: WOWOW Prime

Production Country: Japan

Genres: Adventure, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Animation, Action