Big O Synopsis

Well for those who don't know already Big O has come to the cartoon network and has replaced Outlaw Star. At first I thought that Big O was going to be a real bad rip off of the late Giagantor series but I was wrong. Big O may look at first like a real bad series but looks can be deceiving and in this case it is. Big O is not a rip off of any big robot show in fact I think it sets a new standard for how they should be. Big O delivers a dramatic plot with good action and suspense in every episode and should become a major hit on the cartoon network if it is not already one.

So let me begin my review by giving you the basic plot up until now. About 40 years before the present time Paradime city had an incident happen in which all peoples memories have been erased. The rich now live in these dome type things will the poor live outside of these structures. Roger Smith is referred to as a negotiator in this show his job is basically like the real life job of a negotiator. For those who don't know what a negotiator is well it's a person who handles hostage situation or any other type of hostile situation that police can't handle on there own.

Basically what happens in the first episode is Roger goes out on another one of his negotiating missions and encounters a guy named Beck. The guy is total slime and roger meets Dorothy who is an android based on the features of a real person. Eventually Roger and Beck tangle in mechs that are referred to as the Mega Dueces. Rogers Mega Duce is called Big O. Even though the design looks pretty shoddy to mechs of the standard of Gundams this mech can fight as good as them. So Roger beats beck who is sent to jail. As a major plot twist Dorothy hires Roger as sort of a body guard. Roger agrees to be Dorothy's "body guard" and thus we have the two main characters.

From here on in the episodes are based on rogers negotiation jobs. So a couple of episodes come along and new characters are introduce who only appear in that episode. This is the basic format for the show until about the last half when Zebac is introduced and he finds another Mega Duece a red one and engages Roger in Batlle from here in the series has about one episode left in which the episode takes everything you know and turns it into a very complex plot in the end of the show Roger is about to do battle against three Mega Dueces with Dorothy at his side and then when you think you are going to see a great fight the credits role and we all end up screaming what the hell happens. Unfortunately yes it is the end of the show with nothing at all resolved and us wondering to ourselves what happened.

Overall I give Big O and 8 out of a possible ten because most of the episodes were good and kept me entertain. The downfall of the show is that it is indeed very short and to date one of the shortest anime series I have ever seen. Another issue is that after watching the whole series you feel like you have wasted time on this show since you know less about the story then you did when you saw the first episode which is not a good thing anime fans like to have happen to them. Only Neon Genesis Evangelion can pull this off and Big O is far from that in many asspects. Overall I think many will like this show for its action and drama but as for me it started out a great show with a lot of potential but ended up as another OVA that has yet to be finished