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The Big O (TV)

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Alternative title:
The Big O II
THEビッグオー (Japanese)
Themes: Mecha, Noir
Age rating: Teenagers (May contain bloody violence, bad language, nudity)
Plot Summary: Paradigm City is a place without a past. 40 years ago, something happened that wiped the memories of everyone in it. Unfortunately, the people of Paradigm City were very busy before then, making Megadueses(giant robots) and monsters. People who were born after the memory wipe are gaining/recovering memories of the past and using them to build newer threats. Roger Smith keeps Paradigm City safe with the help of The Big O (a faithful giant robot), his butler Norman and the android Dorothy, Roger keeps Paradigm City safe. As problems mount and more memories surface, Roger's past and Paradigm's future begin to become suspect...
Video:
User Ratings: 1501 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 98 votes (dub:75, sub:20, edit.dub:3)
 Excellent: 206 votes (dub:154, sub:39, edit.dub:9, raw:2, ?:2)
 Very good: 360 votes (dub:286, sub:59, edit.dub:12, raw:1, Rus.sub:1, ?:1)
 Good: 377 votes (dub:251, sub:89, edit.dub:27, Spa.sub:3, ?:2, Por.dub:1, raw:1, Dut.sub:1, Spa.dub:1, Por.sub:1)
 Decent: 204 votes (dub:136, sub:55, edit.dub:9, Spa.sub:2, ?:1, raw:1)
 So-so: 104 votes (dub:68, sub:30, edit.dub:4, raw:1, ?:1)
 Not really good: 48 votes (dub:28, sub:17, edit.dub:3)
 Weak: 55 votes (dub:39, sub:12, edit.dub:4)
 Bad: 28 votes (dub:19, sub:6, edit.dub:2, ?:1)
 Awful: 11 votes (dub:8, ?:2, edit.dub:1)
 Worst ever: 10 votes (dub:8, edit.dub:1, sub:1)
Seen in part or in whole by 3601 users, rank: #112
Median rating: Good
Arithmetic mean: 7.0194 (Good+.01), std. dev.: 1.9482, rank: #1632
Weighted mean: 6.9254 (Good-.07), rank: #1673
Bayesian estimate: 6.92938 (Good-.07), rank: #1448
Running time: 25 minutes per episode
Number of episodes: 26
Episode titles: We have 26
Vintage:
1999-10-13 to 2000-01-19 (Japan - Season 1)
2001-04-02 to 2001-04-18 (Season 1- USA)
2003-01-02 to 2003-03-27 (Japan - Season 2)
2003-08-03 to 2003-11-02 (Season 2- USA)
Seasons:
1. Season 1, 13 eps (1999-10-13 to 2000-01-19)
2. Season 2, 13 eps (2003-01-02 to 2003-03-27)
Chronology:
(1999-10-13) The Big O Begins Broadcast in Japan
(2000-01-19) Initial Run of Thirteen-Episode Series Completed
(2003-01-02) Episode 14 Premieres in Japan
Opening Theme:
#1: "Stoning" by Toshihiko Sahashi (Eps 1-2,14)
#2: "Big-O!" by Rui Nagai (Eps 3-13)
#3: "Big-O!" by Rui Nagai [USA DVD Release] (eps 15-25)
#3: "Respect" by Toshihiko Sahashi (Eps 15-20,22-25)
#4: "Big-O! Show Must Go On" by Rui Nagai [2007 ANIMAX Broadcast]
Ending Theme:
"And Forever..." by Robbie Danzie with Naoki Takao
"Stand a Chance" by Toshihiko Sahashi [Cartoon Network Toonami Broadcast] (eps 1-13)
Links: We have 6
Trivia: We have 5
Comment:
Originally a thirteen-episode series, postive fan response internationally resulted in a second season co-produced by Cartoon Network, Sunrise, and Bandai Visual. The full 26-episode series re-aired from the beginning starting October 1, 2002 in Japan.
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Related releases:
    The Big O - Complete Collection (Anime Legends) (DVD) 2007-06-05 (from $29.19)
    The Big O (DVD 1) 2001-06-19
    The Big O (DVD 2) 2001-08-21
    The Big O (DVD 3) 2001-10-16
    The Big O (DVD 4) 2001-12-18
    The Big O II - Complete Collection (DVD) 2004-11-23
    The Big O II - Complete Collection (Anime Legends) (DVD) 2007-08-21 (from $20.63)
    The Big O II - Paradigm Lost (DVD 1) 2004-01-20 (from $13.74)
    The Big O II - Missing Pieces (DVD 2) 2004-03-16 (from $17.49)
    The Big O II - Enemy Attacks (DVD 3) 2004-05-11 (from $13.74)
    The Big O II - Aggressive Negotiations (DVD 4) 2004-07-27
    The Big O – Complete Collection (DVD 1-4) 2003-09-16

Japanese staff 
Japanese cast 

Director: Kazuyoshi Katayama

Script:
Keiichi Hasegawa (ep 5,8,10,13)
Masanao Akahoshi (ep 6,12)
Shin Yoshida (ep 9,11)

Screenplay:
Chiaki J. Konaka
Kazuyoshi Katayama

Storyboard:
Akihiko Yamashita (ep 7,9,12)
Akira Matsuzono (ep 3)
Hideki Okamoto (ep 5)
Kazuyoshi Katayama (ep 1-3,6,10,13)
Tetsuya Watanabe (ep 8)
Umanosuke Iida (ep 4,11)

Music: Toshihiko Sahashi

Original creator: Hajime Yatate

Character Design: Keiichi Satou

Art director: Masaru Ohta

Animation director:
Kenji Hayama (ep 4,9,11,13)
Kumi Horii (ep 2,7,13)
Madoka Hirayama (ep 2,6,11-12)
Masahiro Yamane (ep 11-12)
Masami Ozone (ep 1)
Takuro Shinbo (ep 3,5,8,10,13)

Mechanical design: Keiichi Satou

Art design: Hajime Satou

Sound director: Yota Tsuruoka

Director of Photography: Kazuhiro Okeda

Producer:
Chieo Ohashi
Eiji Sashita
Tsutomu Sugita

Assistant Art Director: Hiroshi Kato

Assistant director:
Masakazu Ohara
Toru Kitahata

Assistant producer: Hisanori Kunisaki

Color design:
Tomoe Nakazato
Yumiko Katayama

Cultural Setting: Kazuhiko Aida

Editing: Tomoaki Tsurubuchi

Key Animation:
Eiji Nakata (ep 3, 5, 8, 10)
Hisashi Nakayama (ep 15)

Mechanical animation director:
Hirofumi Masuda (ep 4,9)
Hisashi Nakayama (ep 21)
Kohei Yoneyama (ep 3,5,8,10)
Morifumi Naka (ep 11-12)
Tsutomu Miyazawa (ep 2,6)
Tsutomu Suzuki (ep 7)

Music producer: Keiichi Nozaki

Production Cooperation: Tatsuya Hoshino

Project Development: Gaku Nakamura

Series supervisor:
Chiaki J. Konaka
Kazuyoshi Katayama

Special Effects: Yutaka Hoshiba (Marix)

Supervising Animation Director: Keiichi Satou

Theme Song Composition: Rui Nagai (OP)

Theme Song Performance:
Naoki Takao (ED)
Robbie Danzie (ED)
Rui Nagai (OP 2 & 4)

Unit Director:
Hideki Okamoto (ep 5)
Ikuro Sato (ep 1-2,6,9,13)
Masakazu Obara (ep 7)
Sumio Watanabe (ep 10)
Tetsuya Watanabe (ep 4,8,12)
Toru Kitahata (ep 3,11)

 

Akiko Yajima as R. Dorothy Wayneright

Mitsuru Miyamoto as Roger Smith

Emi Shinohara as Angel

Goro Naya as Gordon Rosewater

Houchu Ohtsuka as Beck Gold

Issei Futamata as Alan Gabriel (Ep 14+)

Katsunosuke Hori as Michael Seebach / Schwarzwald

Motomu Kiyokawa as Norman Burg

Sayuri as Vera Ronstadt

Shinpachi Tsuji as Big Ear

Tesshô Genda as Dan Dastun

Unshou Ishizuka as Alex Rosewater

Chafurin as Rene Rigeth

Akio Nojima as R. Instro

Chie Tsuruno as Perot

Chikao Ohtsuka as Rosco Fitzgerald (Ep 15)

Daisuke Sakaguchi as Jeff Meyers

Eiji Yanagisawa as Policeman

Fumihiko Tachiki as Paul Reserman

Fuuko Shinomiya as Forensics

Haruna Ikezawa as Laura

Hiroshi Naka as Forensics

Kaori Mizuhashi as Tami (ep 16)

Katsuhiko Sasaki as Jim McGowan (ep 16)

Katsuhisa Houki as Committee Member

Kenichi Ogata as Miguel Soldano

Kyoko Tsuruno as Louise Ferry

Masaki Aizawa as Committee Member

Miki Tsuchiya as Citizen (ep 16)

Mikio Terashima as Gisang

Motoko Nagai as Bartender

Nobuo Tanaka as R. Frederick O'Reilly (ep 19)

Osamu Saka as Sven Marisky

Ryouichi Tanaka as Robert Ferry

Sachi Matsumoto as Forensics

Sakiko Tamagawa as Sybil Rowen

Shinichiro Miki as Oliver

Takeshi Aono as Mr. Wise

Tohru Furuya as Bonnie Frazier

Tomomichi Nishimura as Morgan Schuyler

Toshiko Sawada as Kelly Fitzgerald (ep 15)

Toshio Furukawa as Eugene Grant

Yoshiko Okamoto as Forensics

Yukari Tamura as Forensics

Yuzuru Fujimoto as Santa Claus

Eri Miyajima

Japanese companies 

Backgrounds: Design office MECHAMAN

Broadcaster:
Animax (2007)
Bandai Channel
Sun TV (Eps 14-26)
WOWOW (Eps 1-13)

Key Animation: Nakamura Production

Music Production: Victor Entertainment

Planning: Sunrise

Production:
Bandai Visual
Sunrise

English cast 
English staff 

ADR Director:
Lia Sargent (Eps 14-26)
Quint Lancaster

Translation: David Fleming

ADR Script:
Lia Sargent
Mary C. Mason

Executive producer:
Jason DeMarco (Season 2, for Williams Street)
Ken Iyadomi
Kenji Uchida
Sean Akins (Season 2, for Williams Street)

Producer:
Charles McCarter
Haruyo Kanesaku
Nobuo Masuda
Yutaka Maseba

ADR Engineer:
"Big Phil" Brewster
Collin McQueen
Michael McCarty

Co-Producer:
Osamu Maseba
Satoshi Kanuma
Sawako Furuya

DVD Menu Design:
Charles McCarter
Erika Offutt

DVD Producer:
Charles McCarter
Richard Noboru Kekahuna

Mixing: Michael McCarty

Online Editor: C.P. Booth

Production Coordination: Keisuke Onishi

Production manager:
Mayumi Yuba
Ryota Wakanabe

Recording Facility Engineer: Les Claypool III

Subtitle Timing: David Fleming

Lia Sargent as R. Dorothy Wayneright

Steven Jay Blum as Roger Smith

Alan Oppenheimer as Norman Burg (ep 14+)

Alfred Thor as Alex Rosewater

Carolyn Hennesy as Vera Ronstadt

Chuck Farley as Major Dan Dastun

Crispin Freeman as Alan Gabriel (ep 14+)

James Lyon as Big Ear

Michael Forest as Alex Rosewater

Michael McConnohie as Michael Seebach / Schwarzwald

Peter Lurie as Colonel Dan Dastun (Ep. 14+)

Richard Barnes as Norman Burg (eps 1-13)

Robert Buchholz as Jason Beck (Season 2)

Robert Wicks as Beck Gold

Wendee Lee as Angel

William Frederick as Gordon Rosewater

Alyss Henderson as Florist (Ep. 22)

Anthony Mozdy as Gisang

Axel Roberts as Colonel Gaust

Bob Pappenbrook as Rosco Fitzgerald (Ep 15)

Carol Stanzione as Kelly Fitzgerald (ep 15)

Cheryl Montelle as Citizen (Ep. 16)

Dave Florek as Chief Engineer (Ep. 22)

Dorothy Melendrez as Louise Ferry

Eddie Jones as Sam (Ep. 19)

Ethan Murray as Preview Narrator

Ezra Weisz as Phil (Ep. 19)

Fred Sanders as Citizen (Ep. 16)

G. Gordon Baer as Rick Frazier

Georgette Rose as Laura

Gil Starberry as Riderman

Gregory White as Storekeeper (Ep. 19)

Ivan Buckley as Party Host

Jad Mager as Policeman (Ep. 16)

Jane Alan as Announcement

Jeremiah Freedman as Cop

John Rubinstein as Vice President (Ep. 17)

Jonathan C. Osborne as Party Guest

Karen Strassman as
Citizen (Ep. 16)
Receptionist (Ep. 19)

Kim Strauss as R. Frederick O'Reilly (ep 19)

Mari Devon as Vice President (Ep. 17)

Michael Lindsay as Policeman (Ep. 22)

Michael McCarty as
Guard A (Ep. 14)
Vice President (Ep. 17)

Mona Marshall as Winter Night Phantom

Nicholas Guest as Military Police (Ep. 25)

Peter Doyle as
Police Officer (Ep. 19)
Senior Officer (Ep. 26)

Ray Michaels as Sven Marisky

Ron Rogge as Citizen (Ep. 16)

Sherry Lynn as Tami (ep 16)

Simon Isaacson as Miguel Soldano

Sparky Thornton as Instro

Stephen Davies as Jim McGowan (ep 16)

Stephen Gilborn as Old Man (Ep. 19)

Steve Areno as Oliver

Steve Kramer as Bonnie

Susan Hull as Citizen (Ep. 16)

Tom Charles as Eugene Grant

Tony Oliver as Dove/T-Bone (Ep. 18)

Dean Michaels

Debbie Pappenbrook

Devon Michaels

Elliot Reynolds

Ethan Thornton

Frank Buck

Garry Michaels

Gully Jimson

Guy Pinkham

Jessica Gee

Jim Slade

Jim Taggert

Joe Romersa

Matt 'Masamune' Miller

Matthew Austin

Meson LaPayote

Penny Sweet

Phil Swell

Richard Plantagenet

Sam Strong

Tony Oliver

W.T. Hatch

English companies 

Adaptation:
Williams Street (Season 2)
ZRO Limit Productions

ADR Production: Animaze

Broadcaster:
Adult Swim
Cartoon Network (Toonami & Adult Swim)
Toonami (UK)

Co-Production:
Cartoon Network (Season 2)
ZRO Limit Productions

DVD Production Services: Cinram/POP DVD Center

Licensed by:
Bandai Entertainment
Madman Entertainment Pty. Ltd. (Australia)

Online Editing Facility: VDI Multimedia West

Production: Bandai Entertainment

Recording Facility: Magnitude 8 Post

Subtitles: Captions, Inc.

Translation: ZRO Limit Productions

French staff 
French cast 

ADR Director: Thierry Kazazian

Executive producer: Carlo Levy

 

Pascal Germain as Roger Smith

Sabrina Leurquin as R. Dorothy Wayneright

Bruno Magne as Beck

Eric Peter as Major Dan Dastun

Frédéric Cerdal as Norman Burg

Susan Sindberg as Angel

Alain Floret

Bérangère Jean

Bernard Demory

Constantin Papas

Constantin Pappas

Danièle Hazan

Marjolaine Poulain

Mathieu Rivolier

Patrick Pellegrin

Philippe Roullier

Thierry Kazazian

Yann Pichon

French companies 

Broadcaster: Cartoon Network France (Apr 2001, 2005)

Distributor: Beez

Dubbing: Studio Chinkel

Dutch staff 
Dutch cast 

Producteur Executif: Carlo Levy

 (none)
Dutch companies 

Distributor: Dybex

 
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