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The Big O

1999–2003 · 1 season

A moody, jazz-scored noir where giant robots and amnesia drift through a domed city like a half-remembered dream.

Genres
Animation, Drama, Action & adventure
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.

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Animation, Drama, Action & adventure
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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 3 of 3
  • eeriestrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • cynicalstrength 2 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • memory
  • identity
  • isolation
  • conspiracy
  • power
Places
  • big city
  • home
Era
far-future
Audience
teen
Form
  • serialised
  • ensemble
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action6
Horror3
Humour3
Realism3
Romance3
Tension6
Darkness7
Complexity8
Emotional weight7

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Genres
animation, drama, action & adventure
Created by
Akira Yoshimura, Hideki Okamoto, Ikuro Sato, Kazuyoshi Katayama, Masakazu Obara, Sumio Watanabe
Written by
Chiaki J. Konaka, Keiichi Hasegawa, Shin Yoshida
Starring
Mitsuru Miyamoto, Akiko Yajima, Emi Shinohara, Gorō Naya, Katsunosuke Hori, Motomu Kiyokawa, Shinpachi Tsuji, Unsho Ishizuka
Music
Toshihiko Sahashi
Length
1 seasons, 26 episodes, 25 min each
Network
WOWOW Prime, TOKYO MX, Chiba TV
Country
Japan
Languages
English, Japanese

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