The Big O

AnimationActionAdventure

Release

13 Oct 1999

Country

Japan

Language

Japanese

Production

Overview

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.

Plot

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.

Cast

Mitsuru MiyamotoSteve BlumAkiko Yajima

Ratings

Internet Movie Database: 7.5/10

Season 1

Air Date:14 Oct 1999

Available

Roger the Negotiator

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.

Runtime:25m

Air Date:14 Oct 1999Available