Man, was Big O even good? Has anyone re-watched it as an adult...

Man, was Big O even good? Has anyone re-watched it as an adult? Does it come together in the end or was it ultimately style over substance?

Share your thoughts on this anime.

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It was ok.

I watched it for the first time as an adult, thought it was really boring, dropped after a few episodes.

Did you finish it? What was good/not so good about it?

It was a cool BTAS homage with giant robots

If you tried to analyze it any further you were in for a disappointment

I haven't rewatched it, however there's nothing wrong with style over substance.

Big O represents an weird fusion of American and Japanese elements: the designs have a minimal, Art Deco-influenced elegance that recalls Warner Bros.' animated Batman, but then you have very Japanese stuff like giant mechas and an android waifu.

Unfortunately, the stories lack the depth of plot and characterization needed to support the stylish graphics. The episodes are pretty formulaic. And though it does get more intense in the last few episodes, the stuff that's introduced there was originally intended to be explored in a second season that was never produced, so it just sort of ends.

It's a real shame. I wish it had gotten better writing and directing, because the designs are all incredible. Very fun concept that had a lot more potential than what it got.

let's be honest here, the overarching plot was trash and nobody gave a shit about that, because every single episode was oozing with style and character
it was a story about lost souls, Bruce Wayne, and giant robots, and that's okay

First season: OK
Second season: Less so.

it was always just alright.

S1 was pretty much a perfect animu, imo.

There's nothing wrong with it, it's just not as good as style AND substance.

>Man, was Big O even good?
Yes
>Has anyone re-watched it as an adult?
Yes
>was it ultimately style over substance?
Yes.

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That Batman show was pure cancer, though. Bruce Timm is one of the worst things to happen to western animation.

The only thing Bruce Timm ever had any negative impact on is how DC cartoons that aren't BTAS are received. Other than that, his effect on western animation has been pretty minimal.

You're pure cancer, user.

I don't really get it, so there was never a war that wiped everyone's memories, no cloned tomatos to hold the memories, it's all a loop but Roger managed to change stuff this time that they don't all reset and can live their lives now?
But then was bandage guy defective and that's why he tried to find out the truth? What are the megadueces if they have a will of their own but are just part of a simulation?
Why was angel a giant reality erasing robot?
How could Dorothy work without her headband, I assumed it was leading to her getting the other Dorothy's headband disk into herself to function but somehow she can work without it?
Was bandage man absorbed into his megaduece and still alive on some level?
What the hell was that world Roger went to? Was it real and the past or another illusion made by what Roger thought the past would be?

I really liked it but honestly the ending really confused me and put a lot of what I pieced the story to be into question.

Tremendously style over substance, and that's OK. Not everything needs to be literature.

I want to fuck the android

Part one is fantastic. Part 2 was pure shit. You can tell from the blatant QUALITY and the rehashed plotlines that no one was interested in doing another season and they did it only as an attempt to get a cashgrab from western producers. The whole "it's a stage" bit was retarded, too.
I'm under the impression that it was meant to have an open ending and stop at the first season.

first season was beautiful in animation, soundtrack, and story.

2nd season is a shit

both seasons want to fuck robot girl

Not him but I watched the English dub for the first time about a year ago.

Definitely style over substance since the symbolism and overall plot were retarded, but the dynamic between Roger and Dorothy was very fun at times that it made up for it.

>If you tried to analyze it any further you were in for a disappointment
Wrong.

Schwarzwald was aware of the illusion he was in, he was just trying to make sure people didn't carry on living without questioning the present and truth buried in the past 40 years.

Roger was apparently part of a program by tomato farmer guy, who installed memories into the brains of children so certain things wouldn't be entirely forgotten. This can explain why Roger just knows how to pilot Big O without explanation.

It is alluded that the war was caused by the megaduece Big Venus if not fabricated outright, a megaduece capable of distorting time and space, creating an alternative reality. The character Angel is Big Venus' avatar into the world of Big O, she's in the director seat, controlling the story but Roger negotiates for reality in the end preventing reality from being erased completely by Angel/Big Venus.

Or it can be all bullshit. Take it anyway you like it.

First season was literally a tour de force.
It was a real masterpiece in my opinion.

>the stuff that's introduced there was originally intended to be explored in a second season that was never produced

H-haha yeah, but at least it ended like that and not with a pointless second season that muddied the water and failed to do anything interesting or answer any questions anyone cared about, right?

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same, it was bad

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