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Region：Japan
Type：TV
English name：The Big O
Official name：THE ビッグオー
Chinese name：THE BIG-O
Other names：魅影巨神 / ザビッグオー
Premiered：October 13, 1999
Status：Finished Airing
Tags：Science fiction / Robot war / Story / Source original
Original author：矢立肇 / 片山一良
Director：片山一良
Scenario：小中千昭 / 吉田伸 / 長谷川圭一 / 赤星政尚
Storyboard：喜多幡徹 / 米たにヨシトモ / 片山一良 / 山下明彦 / 佐藤順一
Co-director：岡本英樹 / 喜多幡徹 / 渡辺純央 / 佐藤育郎 / 小原正和
Studios：サンライズ Cartoon Network Studios(第二季)バンダイビジュアル(第二季)
Producers：バンダイビジュアル
Family：The Big O
Official website：http://www.the-big-o.net/
Rating：12+

The Big O

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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Oct 13, 1999

EP1 - 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.
Oct 20, 1999

EP2 - Dorothy, Dorothy

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.
Oct 27, 1999

EP3 - Electric City

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.
Nov 3, 1999

EP4 - Underground Terror

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.
Nov 10, 1999

EP5 - Bring Back My Ghost

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
Nov 17, 1999

EP6 - A Legacy of Amadeus

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.
Nov 24, 1999

EP7 - The Call from the Past

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.
Dec 1, 1999

EP8 - Missing Cat

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.
Dec 8, 1999

EP9 - Beck Comes Back

Episode begins with Beck being broken out of prison by a Megadeus. Then, Roger is hired by Mr. Wise, a rich industrialist, to negotiate for the return of his kidnapped son, Francis. After hanging up on the kidnappers, Roger is fired by Wise, only to be rehired when the ransom is paid and his son is not returned. The kidnappers call back, recognize Roger's voice and agree to return the son if Roger brings the ransom. Roger finds Francis at the cabin he was directed to, but the police arrive believing that Roger was the kidnapper. This was a setup by the real kidnapper, Beck, to get revenge on Roger (see Roger The Negotiator and Dorothy Dorothy).
Dec 15, 1999

EP10 - Winter Night Phantom

Major Dastun has been having a recurring dream about a woman in white who is shot on a pier with her final words being Vous Ãªtes si gentil. The language has been long forgotten in Paradigm City, but it still seems familiar. At the same time, a toy robot crawls into a packed church and explodes. It is the latest in attacks by terrorists who are targeting retired city officials.
Jan 5, 2000

EP11 - Daemonseed

Dorothy is buying a tie for Roger at the department store in preparation for Heaven's Day. Roger snaps at her when he sees her and when he apologizes, he sees a saxophone player on the sidewalk whom he gives to generously. Later, at Roger's house, Norman explains Heaven's Day to Dorothy, one of the traditions being to give presents to those you love. When Dorothy asks Roger if he would be giving gifts to anyone, he becomes nervous and declares that he doesn't like the gift-giving. This causes Dorothy to storm out of the room. The saxophone player, Oliver, brings home some ham with the money Roger gave him and tells his blind girlfriend Laura that he would like to give her a good Heaven's Day gift. Roger consults Norman on Dorothy's reactions and Norman tells him that Dorothy's birthday is apparently on Heaven's Day. Roger asks about Dorothy's dress size and then rushes off to buy her a nice coat, which Oliver is also admiring but can't possibly afford. Oliver gets his pay from
Jan 12, 2000

EP12 - Enemy Is Another Big

Roger is hired by Alex Rosewater to deliver a very large severance check to Michael Seebach aka Schwartzvald. After accepting the assignment, Roger intercepts the police radio about a new Megadeus which has appeared at JFK Mark. He goes there as Big O and is confronted by a Megadeus swaddled in bandages and controlled by Schwartzvald. The Megadei begin to battle with Schwartzvald's Megadeus wrapping Big O in his bandages. Roger fights back, burning away the bandages to reveal another Big O unharmed. The robot then vanishes, leaving only a bandage to fall from the sky. Back at his house, Angel calls Roger to give him Schwartzvald's whereabouts. Roger follows the directions to find that Schwartzvald is throwing a masquerade party. Roger talks to Schwartzvald, who is dressed as a clown, and who uses the partygoers as an example of the corruption of the city. When Roger hands over the check, Schwartzvald burns it and the masks of the partygoers burst into flame. Schwartzvald cal
Jan 19, 2000

EP13 - RD

The episode begins with a mysterious woman in a red cloak and hood murdering several people, leaving behind only the phrase, Cast In The Name Of Good Ye Not Guilty. This is the phrase shown on Big O when activated. One of the dead is a dancer named Ellen Weight, a client of Roger's who had memories from before the Event, despite being far too young.
Jan 2, 2003

EP14 - Roger the Wanderer

Roger Smith takes on the three foreign MegaDeuses, as well as the demons in his own mind. The battles he fights, both internal and external, will change Paradigm City forever.
Jan 9, 2003

EP15 - Negotiations with the Dead

Roger is hired by a woman to protect her husband, a retired Senator, from an assassin. Apparently, the assassin is working for the same people who controlled the mad bomber from Act:10 Winter Night Phantom and the murderous android in Act:13 R-D .
Jan 16, 2003

EP16 - Day of the Advent

An unknown object crashes to Earth inside Paradigm City. While the general populace takes it as a good sign, Roger Smith isn't so sure, especially when he is hired to perform a very unusual Negotiation--one that will bring him into direct conflict with Paradigm CEO Alex Rosewater.
Jan 23, 2003

EP17 - Leviathan

Schwartzvald rears his bandaged head again, and a new MegaDeus threatens Paradigm City. Business as usual? Roger Smith sure doesn't think so.
Jan 30, 2003

EP18 - The Greatest Villian

When Beck kidnaps Roger Smith, R. Dorothy must take the case. Prepare yourself for R. Dorothy Waynewright...the Negotiator. Paradigm City will never be the same.
Feb 6, 2003

EP19 - Eyewitness

Someone is killing androids in Paradigm City. After several attacks, Paradigm HQ dispatches a special agent to assist in the case: Freddy O'Reilly. But Freddy is an android himself. He and Dastun have an uneasy working relationship. When Dorothy is targeted, she manages to avoid being destroyed and is taken in for police questioning.
Feb 13, 2003

EP20 - Stripes

Roger is still having strange flashbacks. He can only assume that they are memories, but he's not quite sure. Frustrated, he returns to visit Gordon Rosewater, the man who built Paradigm City, on his farm. Gordon only offers vague platitudes and cryptic responses, until he gives Roger one very important clue.
Feb 20, 2003

EP21 - The Third Big

Roger Smith & Dan Dastun race to R. Dorothy's aid, while Alex Rosewater finally unveils Big Fau . But can he control the power of a MegaDeus once it is unleashed?
Feb 27, 2003

EP22 - Hydra

Roger is unsympathetic to Alex's problems. Alex pushes his science group to reactivate the Big Fau. Underground tremors and a power outage draw attention to these tests, and the union spy Vera unleashes a three-headed giant electric eel. Once again, Roger and the Big O find themselves facing a giant monster to protect all of Paradigm City.
Mar 6, 2003

EP23 - Twisted Memories

Beck's back, with an army of annoying android assassins. Alex Rosewater deals with his Daddy Issues in a very negative way, while at the same using Beck to kidnap R. Dorothy. And we're just gettin' warmed up...
Mar 13, 2003

EP24 - The Big Fight

Roger Smith and Big O slug it out with Alan Gabriel and Big Duo Infern , while Alex Rosewater uses R. Dorothy's Memories to complete Big Fau. And the Union is still out there...
Mar 20, 2003

EP25 - The War of Paradigm City

When high-altitude bombing levels Paradigm City, Alex Rosewater proclaims his New Order . Meanwhile, Roger Smith and Angel uncover the soul-shattering secrets behind the Event, and the founding of Paradigm City.
Mar 27, 2003

EP26 - The Show Must Go On

R. Dorothy rises from her deathbed, thanks (in part) to Beck. Roger Smith and Alex Rosewater stage the Showdown of the Century, while Gordon Rosewater shows Angel her true destiny.