In what is known only as The Event, everyone in the city lost their memories 40 years prior to the start of the show. Art deco is everywhere - from protagonist Roger Smith’s Batmobile-like car to even the titular Big O itself.īig O all takes place in and around Paradigm City, the remains of New York surrounded by a post-apocalyptic wasteland. That Gotham City style seeps into everything about the art direction of Big O. It was styled after Batman: The Animated Series instead of traditional Japanese anime the characters look like they could walk into Gotham City and be right at home. Sandwiched between Dragonball Z and Cowboy Bebop, Big O took a different tack with both its storytelling and its aesthetics. The above description came from Who Wants to Know?, and was edited by yours truly.The Big O is an anime that wears its inspiration on its sleeve: it’s a film noir series drenched in art deco stylings that manages to simultaneously question the nature of human existence while also answering that age-old question: What if Batman had a giant robot?īig O hit American airwaves during the early 2000s, the heyday of Cartoon Network’s Toonami. The fact that the android looked like Dorothy casts some interesting questions on the role of androids prior to the Amnesia and the exact source of the Memory Timothy Wayneright had that allowed him to create Dorothy. Later in the series, a mysterious android assassin who looked like Dorothy went on a rampage against key Paradigm figures. She decides to stay with Roger and become part of the household, a move which Roger understands but still resents at times.ĭorothy may possess incredible physical capability, but her capacity for emotion appears limited, but she is an android whose secrets have yet to be totally revealed, and Roger learns of new surprises at every turn. In the process, both Soldano and Wayneright were killed, so Dorothy no longer had a place to call home. Wayneright also built a Megadeus.a Megadeus that was eventually stolen by a small-time crook named Jason Beck and was eventually destroyed by Roger.twice. Soldano had provided the funding so long as Dr. Timothy Wayneright in the image of his daughter, who apparently was killed in the chaos of the Amnesia. For another, he learns that neither party is playing a clean game, and he finds himself having to untangle the mess.especially once Dorothy comes to him and asks him to protect her.Īfter some searching and fighting, he figures out the truth.
For one thing, he learns that Dorothy is an android.
Roger Smith was first introduced to Dorothy when asked by a leading scientist to negotiate the release of his kidnapped daughter.a negotiation that went awry in too many ways to count. NOTE: In the world of The Big-O, the "R." is a title applicable to androids that interact with other people.
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