The Big O is an Anime series placed in the future. An event 40 years before the story starts made all records of history and the memories of people to be erased or forgotten. This story centers around Paradigm City, a city-state.

The rich people live inside domes, protected from weather and can make artificial environments. Outside of the domes, the poor people are forced to fend for themselves.

Machines and inventions from the past operate and work. Things like cars, guns, electricity, boats and even robots and androids work and exist.

The key to Paradigm City's past, present and future lies in the hands of Roger Smith, R. Dorothy Wayneright and a giant robot named the Big O (a.k.a. Megadeus).

Recomendations

If you like James Bond, Batman, or the Gundam series, you should enjoy this series.

Notes about the DVD:

The audio quality of that was on TV (Cartoon Network) was great and nothing that I could complain about. I already gave this Dub version an 'A'. However, I was shocked when I started to listen to the DVD tracks (both English and Japanese) I was shocked. The audio quality was even better than the TV broadcast. It was beyond my expectations of DVD audio quality.

Another interesting fact. In the Japanese dialog in some of the episodes, Big O and other Megadeus's are refered to as Gods, while they are called Titans in the the English version. I personally prefer the term "Titan" because these giant robots or mechs were created by humans. Even the people in Paradigm City believed they used to have the technology to produce these machines.