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. [Written by MAL Rewrite]

Type: TV
Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older
Season: fall 1999
Status: Finished Airing
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Studios: Sunrise
Genres: Action Sci-Fi Mystery
Tags: action sci-fi science fiction mecha robots police fantasy world male protagonist primarily adult cast real robot dystopian conspiracy foreign noir politics kuudere steampunk philosophy psychological mystery detective post apocalypse piloted robot amnesia cyberpunk angst dystopia