The Big O

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.

Episodes

Roger the Negotiator

S01E01 Roger the Negotiator

October 13, 1999 5.0 25 min
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...
Dorothy, Dorothy

S01E02 Dorothy, Dorothy

October 20, 1999 5.0 25 min
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...
Electric City

S01E03 Electric City

October 27, 1999 5.0 25 min
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....
Underground Terror

S01E04 Underground Terror

November 3, 1999 5.0 25 min
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...
Bring Back My Ghost

S01E05 Bring Back My Ghost

November 10, 1999 5.0 25 min
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...
A Legacy of Amadeus

S01E06 A Legacy of Amadeus

November 17, 1999 5.0 25 min
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,...
The Call from the Past

S01E07 The Call from the Past

November 24, 1999 5.0 25 min
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...
Missing Cat

S01E08 Missing Cat

December 1, 1999 5.0 25 min
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.
Beck Comes Back

S01E09 Beck Comes Back

December 8, 1999 5.0 25 min
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...
Winter Night Phantom

S01E10 Winter Night Phantom

December 15, 1999 5.0 25 min
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 êtes si gentil."" The language has been long forgotten in...
Daemonseed

S01E11 Daemonseed

January 5, 2000 5.0 25 min
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...
Enemy Is Another Big

S01E12 Enemy Is Another Big

January 12, 2000 5.0 25 min
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...
RD

S01E13 RD

January 19, 2000 5.0 25 min
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...
Roger the Wanderer

S01E14 Roger the Wanderer

January 2, 2003 5.0 25 min
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.
Negotiations with the Dead

S01E15 Negotiations with the Dead

January 9, 2003 5.0 25 min
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"...
Day of the Advent

S01E16 Day of the Advent

January 16, 2003 5.0 25 min
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...
Leviathan

S01E17 Leviathan

January 23, 2003 5.0 25 min
Schwartzvald rears his bandaged head again, and a new MegaDeus threatens Paradigm City. Business as usual? Roger Smith sure doesn't think so.
The Greatest Villian

S01E18 The Greatest Villian

January 30, 2003 5.0 25 min
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.
Eyewitness

S01E19 Eyewitness

February 6, 2003 5.0 25 min
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...
Stripes

S01E20 Stripes

February 13, 2003 5.0 25 min
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....
The Third Big

S01E21 The Third Big

February 20, 2003 5.0 25 min
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?
Hydra

S01E22 Hydra

February 27, 2003 5.0 25 min
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...
Twisted Memories

S01E23 Twisted Memories

March 6, 2003 5.0 25 min
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'...
The Big Fight

S01E24 The Big Fight

March 13, 2003 5.0 25 min
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...
The War of Paradigm City

S01E25 The War of Paradigm City

March 20, 2003 5.0 25 min
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.
The Show Must Go On

S01E26 The Show Must Go On

March 27, 2003 5.0 25 min
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.

Cast

Mitsuru Miyamoto
Mitsuru Miyamoto
Roger Smith (voice)
Akiko Yajima
Akiko Yajima
R. Dorothy Wayneright (voice)
Emi Shinohara
Emi Shinohara
Angel (voice)
Gorō Naya
Gorō Naya
Gordon Rosewater (voice)
Katsunosuke Hori
Katsunosuke Hori
Michael Seebach (voice)
Motomu Kiyokawa
Motomu Kiyokawa
Norman Burg (voice)
Shinpachi Tsuji
Shinpachi Tsuji
Big Ear (voice)
Unsho Ishizuka
Unsho Ishizuka
Alex Rosewater (voice)
Sayuri
Sayuri
Vera Ronstadt (voice)
Tessyo Genda
Tessyo Genda
Dan Dastun (voice)

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