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What's the Anime Series 'The Big O' About?
The Big O is anime (Japanese animation), written for a more sophisticated audience than most such. I like to describe it as (very roughly) a "Batman with giant robot" concept where Robin is replaced by a sarcastic android named Dorothy Wayneright. The main character is Roger Smith, a rich bachelor whose secret is that he is the pilot of Big O, a robot the size of a modest skyscraper.
The show is set in Paradigm City, which is recognizably Manhattan. The fashions and technology seem to be the early Sixties, but in Paradigm, nothing is what it seems. To make things even more unclear, forty years ago, everyone woke up without their memories, and all records of the past had also mysteriously vanished. No one knows why.
The Big O is beautifully animated in a film noir style. It is less like generic anime than most series. It takes bits and pieces out of many genres and weaves them into something original. The mystery unfolds very slowly. Also unfolding very slowly is the romance between Dorothy and Roger. Roger starts out by not believing that Dorothy has feelings, but he could hardly be more wrong. Their relationship is threatened almost before it begins by a beautiful blonde spy who likes to be called Angel. She starts out by manipulating Roger, then falls in love with him. No one knows Angel's real name; she probably doesn't know it herself.
