Thread 283188903

why did it flop so bad?

>>283188903 (OP)
It was a late 90s Sunrise anime with no nudity, so Outlaw Star and Brain Powerd beat it in that aspect and managed to finish the shows without being cancelled for years and need the help of Cartoon Network to finish the show on a much worse and cheaper looking animation thanks to the switch to digital in 2003
also Brain Powerd did the retarded tomato shit before it, no idea why people at Sunrise were pushing for that so hard

classic japanese shit taste

I wouldn't say it flopped. It's an anime original with 2 seasons when they didn't even intend on getting a 2nd season. It's not some mega popular phenomenon in Japan (or outside for that matter) but as far as I can tell it's pretty fondly remembered.

>>283188903 (OP)
>what if bruce wayne had a robot and batgirl was an android
>flops
thats when i knew humanity was cooked

>>283188903 (OP)
You're a louse, OP

>>283188903 (OP)
I have tried to watch this on 3 separate occasions and every time I end up dropping it by episode 6 out of boredom. I dig the characters and the designs and the premise with everyone forgetting everything but the individual episodic stories just don't hold my interest.

>>283189706
it flopped so hard they canned half of the first season, japan wasn't having it at all

>>283188903 (OP)
It still gets new merch occasionally, so I'd say it's not the biggest flop

>>283190049
I suspect that Wowwow's expectations for a new IP on a premium satellite channel were a bit too high, or they were just doing the bare minimum to fulfill their agreement with Sunrise.

From what data I can find, they never re-aired the first season and didn't air the second season either. Plus, a lot of the channels that did rebroadcast the first season only did so about two years after it had ended.

>>283188903 (OP)
Because it's good

>>283190049
Source?

>>283188903 (OP)
Batman fatigue.

The show is basically Batman TAS mixed with Evangelion.

>>283190853
Honestly I think the only thing that might have been inspired by Evangelion is Dorothy. Any other kind of similarities are likely because they both took inspiration from the same shows and movies.

>>283188903 (OP)
>flop
The anime is the most popular it's been in years currently celebrating it's 25th anniversary.

>>283191032
Mecha show
Transcending reality
Religion

It has a Cowboy Bebop vibe too.

>>283190853
>muh eva influence
You evafags realize most of those tropes in nge appeared in anime way before right? Anno just grabbed a whole bunch of shit and crammed it into one anime.

>>283191073
I don't know how to explain that all these baby boomer directors watched stuff like Ultraman, UFO, Giant Robo, etc. and incorporated aspects of them into their own work.

>>283190171
every mecha gets new merch regardless

>>283190210
>didn't air the second season either
Damn, they really just dropped it altogether.

>>283188982
Fpbp
also weird that Brain Powerd did better than Big O in terms of ratings in Japan, but nowadays no one seems to remember it for the most part, and yeah...season 2 of the Big O was shit compared to the first season

>>283194290
Brainn powered was strictly aimed at the japanese audience. Big O was intended for both the japanese and western audience giving it a broader appeal which is why you still have people talking about it.

>>283190210
Doesn't banrise prioritize gundam over everything else?

>>283189827
Season 2 tries to tell a story but it's a mess because lol konaka.

It was a wild time, the late 90's. TV shows were pulling off movie quality animation more often, and then every body switched to cel animation and the technical expertise revereted back to zero.

>>283196133
people only talk about it because of toonami it's the same as what happened to Voltron

The OP was so shit everyone except the deaf and blind immediately tuned out

>>283197609
Not really, go back and watch any long running anime from that era, you'll have one or two decently animated scenes with the rest of the episode being low quality and off model. OVAs were more consistent because they only ran for 5-10 episodes at most and didn't have to worry about running out of budget.

>>283197764
No

>>283188903 (OP)
A shame, but I still liked it.

>>283197743
Fuck you, I liked it.

>>283197743
First OP was good, second OP was kind of not that great.

>>283199969
Second is boring but beats the grating first one

>>283188903 (OP)
Story not fleshed out enough. Dorothy wasn't enough of a character. So all it has is unanswered questions and giant robot action fight toy commercial.

>>283199969
I gained an appreciation for OP once I figured out the visuals were in homage to Ultraseven's theme song. The clear goal in mind for pretty much all of Big O's openings is nostalgia for science fiction shows and television.

Also, fuck the song that they were forced to replace the original opening with after 2007. That song simply fucking sucks and doesn't even fit.

>>283188903 (OP)
It didn't flop. It just didn't stay that much in your mind because you don't like it lmao

>>283188903 (OP)

At least it became a cult classic

>>283201486
I need to have sex with dorothy so bad.

>>283201746

Get in line

>>283201761
No.

>>283201308
>giant robot action fight toy commercial.
I'll never understand you guys that watch a giant robot show and bitch about the giant robots as if that's a negative when Big O's robot fights look as good as they do.

Big O has my favorite fictional romance of all time. When everybody asks me what a good fictional romance is, not a shitty one, I always point to Roger and Dorothy.

>>283201834
Non mecha fags will never understand the genre and always try to write it off as a toy commercial because they lack the critical thinking skills to understand basic storytelling. Something which most shonen and isekai is terrible at doing.

>>283188903 (OP)
obligatory:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_7ecaTHa28
This show as well as Gunslinger Girl made me Toshihiko Sahashi fan

>>283201844
It feels like less of a romance and more of a friendship or father/daughter relationship. Like nothing really happens past season 2 that advances it aside from like the last few episodes where dorothy basically resurrects herself to save roger and roger is basically like "y-you too!" like he has been for most of the series.

Which Big would you O?

>>283202151
Big duo

>>283202151
I wish the asking price for the few Big Duo figures that exist wasn't so damn high. Punishment for not getting them when they came out, I guess.

>>283202663
>25th anniversary is this year
>all we get is acrylics and a figure that still hasn't been revealed yet
>still no moderoid big duo
It's like bandai doesn't want money.

>>283202772
Well, at least the artbook that was released earlier this year got scanned.

>>283203059
I'm hoping someone posts better scans, the saturation is all fucked up and quality doesn't seem that great.

I wish there had been more world building into Paradigm city's workings and past

>>283203204
Paradigm is supposed to be a mystery within itself, reveal too much and all of that goes away.

>>283188903 (OP)
It's not targeting anime audience.

It got a second season, that's fine.
The only bad part is the end. Fucking retarded.

>>283203101
Fair enough. I'm just glad to be able to see it at all.

>>283203231

True

Just now dawned on me that Beck basically became this show's equivalent of Doronjo after his first appearance.

>>283192091
Just showing clips to some old tokusatsu goes a long way.
Ultraseven, which Big O's OP is clearly imitating:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCuz2D7br78
And some MADs of Red Baron and its sequel Mach Baron, which are design influences. Mach Baron especially, with the heavy forearms.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0bHSvARr34
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0CoctI8XAo

>>283203393

All Beck episodes are highlights, especially the afro episode

>>283203393
>>283203567
One fun thing about Beck is that every time he shows up, the nature of Roger and Dorothy's relationship changes. He's of course there in the first episode when they meet. In his second appearance, Roger and Dorothy change from being a purely transactional relationship to more of a father/daughter relationship. In his THIRD appearance, this shifts again, and the romance between them starts to grow.

I didn't dislike season 2 that much aside from Alan and everything else related to Union. Angel was fine and I enjoyed her receiving more screentime than in s1

>>283203393
He's directly based off doronjo and lupin.

>>283203602
Angel should have stayed as a fujiko clone, her becoming the focal point of the finale was poorly done and felt like a way to rush towards the ending.

>>283188903 (OP)
There wasn't a protracted, detailed, rough sex scene between Roger and Dorothy. That would have sold merch and DVD's.

>>283201988
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HQdmRZhnrQ
All I need is Robert Stack monologuing to this Unsolved Mysteries-style.

FLASH
uh I mean
BIG O

>>283203879
AHHH AHHH

no wait

>>283203879
>the op had to be changed because it sounded too much like the flesh gordon OP
>brian may and rui nagai came to an agreement that they could still use it as long as he got writing credits
>sunrise still chose to change it anyway because shamefur dispray
Why are nips like this?

>>283204374
The funniest thing is that the replacement song just sounds like The Kinks instead lmao.

>>283203204
it's just new york city
it's bureaucratic scum

>>283202151
OG recipe Big Duo. Alex fucked up the redesign.

>>283191245
>>283192091
Stop trying to be contrarians quoting your old as fucks stuff that had a different vibe. The trend was Eva when this show came and lot of show were inspired by Eva's vibe.

Don't quote your weird Gekigangar to feel smart.

>>283204846
You are objectively wrong.

>>283204846
>MUH EVA MUH EVA MUH EVA

>>283204791
I do like how they fixed the upper torso on inferno so that it's facing forward during flight enabling the pilot to use the missile pods and arc line. Big duo was always flying with the upper torso facing down either though SRW tried to fix it and just had duo holding it's torso up right for the combo attack during flight.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuihDX64UdI

For some reason the main catbox site saved this a as 0 byte file and won't accept reuploads. You have a day. https://litter.catbox.moe/njyhb1.jpg

>>283205310
At least post something new.
https://files.catbox.moe/lv5daa.jpg

>>283204905
>>283205140
Go Nagai was not involved at all in Big O you goddamn pseuds. You probably not even know about his mecha series who are basically old shounen mixed with monsters of the week.

You hate Eva for being contrarians, when the influence is obvious. Stop being gay and lame.

>>283205310
Yeah I'm having the same issue too.
https://litter.catbox.moe/jv2jr10i6sa6xeud.jpg

>>283205495
I only just now realized that it's AI. I feel like a retard now.

>>283203777
>Robert Stack monologuing to this Unsolved Mysteries-style.
i see you are also 40 or nearly 40 years old
loved that show so much

>>283205296
The drill propellers are pretty rad too. My main pet peeves with the design are the gaping holes in the chest and the paint job. I think it would look much better with the original version color palette.

>>283206341
Yeah I don't know why they removed the gatling missiles.

>>283188903 (OP)

By the end it was incredibly kino. The final few minutes are fucking incredible and very ambitious.

>>283207623
No it wasn't, it's the same trope we've seen over the years in anime.
>a whole bunch of shit happens at the end that makes no sense
>followed by some massive twist
>nothing is explained because writers are too lazy to write a proper conclusion
>bravo nolan.jpg
I'd argue to say konaka is an even bigger hack fraud than anno.

>>283204550
Not a bad choice.

Did Big-O manga (two of them) ever get translated?

>>283211043
The longer 6 volume one did: https://nyaa.si/view/1184150

The shorter 2-volume Lost Memories manga has English Summaries here:
https://old.reddit.com/r/big_o/comments/1ho0gjz/im_releasing_summaries_of_every_chapter_of_big_o/

And there was a canon LN, Paradigm Noise, that serves as the bridge between S1 & S2 which was translated here:
https://archiveofourown.org/works/49981297?view_full_work=true

Also there was a Drama CD "Stage Play" which served as a supplement between the 2 seasons:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1YKJDXfu4w&list=PLJstbQ4FjSerwOD-mTRpVkFuveafvCoV9
Script translation you can follow along with: http://www.konaka.com/alice6/big-o/pdf/The_Big-O_Theater. p d f

>>283188903 (OP)
It got two season, in an industry famous for one-season flameouts
That's at least a middling success, not a flop.

>>283205310
It has been like four years since I commissioned that, I think I have a few more Dorothys I never uploaded to the sites.

>>283211043
The manga just got an e-book release but not translation yet.

>>283211683
Oh shit someone translated paradigm sound? Very good post anon, we need more people like you. I'm trying to find some of the issues of newtype and animage that had articles featuring the big o. So far I haven't had any luck.

>>283208449
Hey, he might be a jack but Konaka is a genuine schizo.

>>283188903 (OP)
Colors too dark

I wish the anime had an episode where Angel looked like this

>>283188903 (OP)
Colors not dark enough

>>283216389
That's more or less how she looked in season 1.

>>283216389
Completely different eyes.

>>283217913
Poor girl just wants to be called cute :(

>>283217913
I admire her ambition but she's still cute,

>>283217515
Ariga based the designs of the early drafts he was shown, the rest is based off the anime after it started airing when he was still doing the manga.

>>283210378
perfect end of day music

>>283218577
>Ariga
I was wondering why the art style looked familiar but that explains it

>>283202199
Schwarzwald is cringe

>>283218625
He still does art, and is currently promoting the e book version of the manga that just came out.

Total Dorothy love.

>>283218758
Neat. I'm mostly familiar with him through his work on Mega Man and Pokemon.

>>283218974
Why is such an emotionless automaton so cute? Unlike other works she doesn't really become more human or develop social skills later in the series either.

>>283219289
>she doesn't really become more human or develop social skills later in the series
She does. It's subtle, but it's there.

>>283219289
You're both half right and wrong. She is from the very beginning emotional even though she acts like she doesn't, and it is the gap moe because she never "acts more human" but IS emotionally a human that makes her perfect.

>>283218974
There is never enough.

>26
Is angel a hag?

>>283219533

I want Angel as my sex slave and secretary

>>283219533
>>26
busted beyond all recognition; her ovaries are empty, her womb is dry and dusty. her breasts are like a riverbed that has not seen rain in years.

>>283220201
Still would.

>>283218665
You are a blind paradigm mutt.

>>283216193
She makes it look so casually dramatic.

Big O season 3 is a never-ever I feel might genuinely happen at some point in the next decade. Just a feeling I get when I think about it

>>283211043
That's a very cute Dorothy

>>283222435
It's got a 50/50 chance of happening, everything is getting brought back these days. If we get a new series just don't expect it to be good.

>>283222774
I don't need it to be 'good' so long as Konaka's at the helm and able to do what he likes

>>283188982
Based

>>283222836
Even if konaka is involved again it won't be as good, directors/writers tend to lose the ability to make good content as they get older.

>>283223063
Is there a way to download the E book version?

I can mostly take or leave Alan Gabriel throughout Season 2.

That said, he has an absolutely 10/10 death scene. One of my favorite villain demises ever.

Big O is in an awkward realm of the mecha genre where it's distinctly vintage. Like true Gigantor/Giant Robo style vintage but with absolutely zero appeal to kids. Mecha was big in the 90s and 2000s but what was popular was the complete opposite of that style.
Aesthetically Big O is a top 10 anime. I'm sure the plot filtered a lot people to no surprise because it's more original and avant garde. Not uncommon for that era but still it will always hurt popularity.
99 was also a big year. One Piece and HxH debuted at the same time and nothing was going to even come close to competing with those. Maybe if it had released at a slightly different time things would have been different...

>>283223915
Go away

>>283223167

At least 2 of them can be found on Book Walker and I imagine all other big online storefronts

https://bookwalker.jp/series/528937/list/
https://bookwalker.jp/de4470f7b4-02fd-4b84-affb-f2f4064d29ad/

Someone storytimed the Japanese raw scans in the past but I couldn't find multiple volumes for the not-Lost Memory one.

>>283224073
The first six were dumped her and the lost memory raws were part of that dump. You need to look through the archives.

>>283188903 (OP)
Because you're a fucking tomato!
T O M A T O

>>283224147

I did, but I couldn't find some of the volumes (I think it was around volumes 3-5)

>>283224203
I'm pretty sure there are still some sites up that have it.

>>283224248

If there's an English translation now it'd be worth storytiming some day

>>283224291
Lost memory 1 and 2 are the only volumes left that need translating. If we're lucky the E-book will get a translation for all volumes at some point.

>>283225737

Who or what was the Red Hood? I forgot

>>283226330
Evil dorothy doppleganger used to kill anyone who awakens memories of 40 years ago.

>>283188903 (OP)
Im still halfway S1 but i have to say its the lack of any buildup so far. I mean its cool that he fights one weird giant mechs per episode but does it hurt to drop a little hint to the main plot?

>>283227331
That would require the existence of a main plot.

>>283227331
Episode 13 is where the "plot" begins.

>>283227331
s1 has a mostly episodic format so just chill out and enjoy the ride.

>>283227331
There is a plot that has some interesting concepts but is overall hit or miss. Just enjoy it while you can like the other anon said. Buckle up for the artstyle change in the second season.

you're pretty confused huh?

>>283229323
> should of

>>283227986
It really does take a while.

>>283188903 (OP)
Because you did not buy it.

>>283204735
Three words.

>>283231326
I did buy it though.

>>283232196
Fair enough.

>>283205310
why would she sweat as a robot

I enjoy Big O's eye lasers.

>>283218758
I still can't think of an artist more perfectly suited for a property

>>283231326
I would buy big O merch if it was actually readily available stateside. Seriously what is wrong with bandai? We finally get new products and they only sell it in nipland? I really don't feel like getting raped by shipping and drumpf tax.

>>283235543
To be fair, they're probably not too keen on getting raped by drumpf tax either.

>>283235733
I know but I NEED that dorothy shirt.

>>283235543
Should've ordered it all before the tax circus

>>283233411
For me it's the delayed explosion on O Thunder

>>283236489
It's a pop up shop, you can only buy it from the locations in person. The only other option would be mercari or yahoo auctions.

>>283235543
Old art (and literal fucking screencaps of megadeus) pasted onto a shirt, is not really worth paying import fees for. You can get the exact same thing yourself from a good quality printing service.

>>283236845
>and literal fucking screencaps of megadeus
The bigs and dorothy are both key art from way back which never really saw the light of day outside of magazines.

>>283202151
Holy, it looks THIS good?
How big of a quality drop for the later eps?

>>283236962
Even so, if it looks like a screencap from the nightmare scene of them destroying the dome, then why would you pay $300 for it? In fact, why not just stick this very scan of yours, onto a shirt from some meme shirt/mug printing company with a good rep?

>Big O...
>...little prices!
>it's sale time!

I understand buying a high quality figure, but this stuff that will wear with use, I can't justify importing.

>>283237859
substantial

>>283237859
Not my scan, someone elses from a thread way back and they're not very good. I just cropped some of the art. Importing anything in general right now isn't a good idea which sucks because you can still find some great stuff on webstores. The only problem is most of the older products have gotten really expensive.
https://order.mandarake.co.jp/order/detailPage/item?itemCode=1304239806&ref=list&keyword=THE%20%E3%83%93%E3%83%83%E3%82%B0%E3%82%AA%E3%83%BC&lang=en

>>283237859

I think it's from the final episode of season 1, it's a standout scene

>>283237859
Animation is still fine but it's brought down by the terrible color palette that comes with digipaint.

>>283238569
I think the second OP looks better because it's actually animated and isn't ripped straight from ultraman. It just sucks they used such an underwhelming song.

>>283238698
The second op is just stock footage from the show, they didn't even try

Didn't Big O show up in a couple SRWs?

>>283238804
>It's just stock footage
It's spliced in with sequences animated for the OP. Gif related is at the very end and there's another sequence where roger is driving the griffon next to the prairie dog.

>>283239506
Yes big O is returning in the upcoming DLC for Y.

>>283188903 (OP)
Its a cult classic now. It flopped because its just a really niche thing the studio had too high of expectations for. Same with stuff like the original Blade Runner.

>>283239683
Kawaii!

>>283189756
I'm an anime and mecha fan who also loves Batman - The Animated Series but I found Big 0 quite boring. Just like many other wasted potential anime with promising setting but mediocre writing/characters/story development.

Also with the oversaturation of mecha anime and the existence of many other better mecha anime and its zero marketing, of course it would flop.

>>283190821
Batman always sells though. Which is why they never stopped making one Batman show/movie after another.

>>283191039
Celebrating the anniversary and being praised by a few people at social media doesn't equals with being popular.

>>283225737
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCpm2JL9OgI

Does YOUR Dorothy wake you up every morning?

>>283241516
>that name
based

>>283241516
I don't bother changing my alarm tone because regardless of what I use I get sick of it and the fact that it marks the beginning of another miserable day in my life.

>>283237859
Season 1 looks awesome 95% of the time.

>>283188903 (OP)
>why did it flop so bad?
The trash ending that explains almost zero plot points/twists. Roger goes on a tangent that I can't be asked to remember a decade later, the screen flashes as Big God wipes the slate clean, and then everything went to normal, did you rike it?". Complete ass. A prequal with competent writers could be the only redemption the series gets, but thats not happening.

>>283241354
I loved Batman and loved Big O, but I also loved reading Lovecraft and other things even as a kid. I think the fact that people can go in expecting Batman and either be happy or feel like their time was wasted means it's not something that needs a hundred seasons and spinoffs and tons of merchandise to cater to the masses who like it because it's not unique.

This is good. Anime should be like this. How many Gundams and Evas with the same or pop culture recycled plots and one dimensional characters do we need?

>>283227331
S2 is the plot seaon, it'll make you miss S1.

>>283233411
Piledriver Punch is such a boss-ass finishing move.

>>283241516
Yes.

This show is full of really cool moments, but the one that has lived rent-free in my head all these years was the time Norman just casually walks out onto the terrace and whips out this fuck-huge machine gun and starts blasting away with it.

What a fucking badass, and classy too.

>>283243639
Dapper fellow

Anon finish your Big O model with the paint and stuff so I can get motivated looking at it

>>283244555
Trips compel (You)!

>>283243639
That was a great moment.

>>283241516
Yes and she has been for a few years

>>283218665
You shut your whore mouth!

>>283239506
It was in every game in the Z series and the only one besides CCA to have been from Z1 and be plot relevant in Z3

>>283244555
My backlog is huge plus I still don't know how to mimic cast iron finish.

>>283247892
cant tell if this is yours but dang that finish is nice

>>283248651
Some nip on twitter.
https://x.com/MAXWATANABE/status/1918529726869839927

>>283247892
Nice

>>283247892
Very nice.

>>283250057
why is she so autistic (cute)

>>283253323
All autists are basically just robots in flesh form.

I want to have SEX with Dorothy.

>>283241516
Yes

>>283201844
Do you know how foolish you sound when they barely interact?

>>283188903 (OP)
You cannot fist robot girls

the big o and the x files largely contributed to making me like redheads

>>283241354
I liked Big O a lot because it was slow paced and episodic. It made getting into Ultra Q and Ultraman easy when I got older since they've got a similar feeling.

>>283255487
Scully never did anything for me but dorothy gave me my bobcut girl fetish.

>>283257002
i do have to say that i like her the most
she also makes me wonder how it'd be like to have some cute autistic quiet gf

>>283255579
>episodic
Episodic content is more of a western thing, in Japan it's pretty much only done in tokusatsu content like Ultraman and Super Sentai (and even then they still have overarching plots).
Big O wasn't really episode, it just filtered a lot of people and the true plot didn't really start getting revealed until season 2.

Jamming it inside Dorothy's forehead disc reader

>>283188903 (OP)
Its bad

Dorothy gave me my emotionless tag fetish

>>283241354
>I found Big 0 quite boring.
I was pretty young when Big O was airing on Toonami but I distinctly remember becoming very bored any time this came on tv and I'd change the channel. I get the feeling I'd like it more now, though, but there's just so much other anime out there I'm more interested in watching that idk if I'll ever really get around to watching it.

>>283258533

300kg of robot pussy and ass

Winter Night Phantom will always be my favorite episode.

>>283259962
>300 kg
Damn.

>>283260263

Dan deserved more episodes

>>283260263
It's more or less one of the first episodes where we get hints of what's really going on in paradigm.

>>283261385
LT Dan aint got no legs

>>283188982
Fuck yeah Brain Powerd. My favorite non-Gundam Tomino anime after Ideon.

>>283261385
100%, and it's one of the few that left me in tears.

Big O was one of those shows i kept running into at random public places, always continuously on reruns at 11pm. My strangest and fondest memory is waiting for my turn at a late night bowling alley, watching it on the one CRT with TV and the rest are displaying bowling scores

>>283262651
Strangely enough, it felt the most like a detective focused episode when there are already a few that are. Maybe it also gets to flesh out side characters and we got to learn more about the lore.

>>283261385
I always liked him

>>283264219
>My strangest and fondest memory is waiting for my turn at a late night bowling alley, watching it on the one CRT with TV and the rest are displaying bowling scores
That sounds really comfy.

>>283260263
it was very good
the buildup to dan's "false" memory eventually becoming real was executed really well

>>283264219
When did they stop airing reruns? I could have sworn I was still catching them late at night around 2009.

>>283268445
The absolute mind fuckery of him as a young man watching himself shoot Sybil as their older selves in a foreign movie was kino.

>>283269990
actually true
the atmosphere was really good too

>>283270080
The atmosphere's thick with noir and depression kino I tell ya. To be a pretentious prick for a moment, it fits into the theme of how helpless he and the military police are, but also how everyone else in Paradigm City is too. They're all stuck in their roles to the bitter end. So on and on the movie plays, and everyone's left wondering what could have been. Also, the military police uniforms are awesome.

>>283188903 (OP)
It actually fucking sucks. I've watched like 10,000 "animes".

>>283270497
nothing pretentious about that, i think you described it perfectly
they couldn't have did it better
i also think the uniforms are sick btw

>>283258533
nobody asked, zoom

>>283270677
The episode is pretty much a decent example on how to do meta shit without it being obnoxious. Stack cool character stuff on top of that with seeing more of the inner workings of the military police, tragedy kino, and of course, Dastun. Bery gud.

>>283188903 (OP)
Too western, which is odd considering bebop was very western too and is wanked into oblivion these days. Guess mecha really is a big filter.

>>283269134
that sounds about right then i think cowboy bebop reruns stopped too. that played just as much as Big O

>>283271197
What's funny is toonami just tried doing a throwback block but it didn't do too hot and got cancelled.

>>283271519
think they did something similar with regular cartoons of the late 90s/00s semi recently

>>283271848
That ended up becoming boomerang which I think is still airing.

It sounds cool as fucking hell, but I still don't really get what CAST IN THE NAME OF GOD, YE NOT GUILTY means in the overall mythos of the series.

Something about Tomato Farmers I guess.

>>283217913
Was surprised to find out that this little short series of comics was made by the Isekai Ojisan mangaka. Based Ojisan always has great taste.

>>283272880
It literally just means whether you're worthy or not.

>>283272571
I found the name, it was called Checkered Past
>Checkered Past was a programming block on Adult Swim featuring classic Cartoon Network shows weekdays from the full hour of 6pm. It launched on August 28th, 2023 and ended on June 27, 2025.

>>283273050
Worthy of what? Being a Tomato?
What separates the good tomatoes from the bad ones?
World's a fucking play. What's more important? Being entertaining, or being a good little actor tomato?
Who is the fucking audience for this stage anyway.

>>283273053
I wonder how much longer adult swim and toonami are going to last.

Was everyone a Tomato?
Or just the "main actors"?

>>283273121
Piloting the megadeus you tard, it's giant walking weapon of mass destruction with sentience. If anyone could hop in and pilot one paradigm would be fucked.

>>283273148
Everyone is an "actor" the actors are the tomatoes.

>>283273196
Look at how much fun he's having. He must be the happiest guy in the whole world.

>>283273384
Wielding the power of god would be enough to make any man happy or just insane.

>>283273050

Being tentacle raped by a Big erotic!!

>>283273626
It's vore technically but I guess that works too.

>>283273148
>>283273252
Why were they tomatoes in the first place? I vaguely remember something about how they were being grown unnaturally or something. What I can manage to remember of discussing the whole thing a while ago is that every citizen in Paradigm is an artificial being trapped in a loop by the real Angel, a heart broken woman/angel/god/whatever that can't move on an copes by trying to replay events until she gets her happy ending. The Bigs are just tools to wipe the "stage" clean for a reset and after so many of them cracks have started to appear.
Have the ending too cuz is comy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeJx8Zksff4

>>283273871
Red herring for the grand stage that is paradigm city, everyone in it is an actor filling a specific role. Paradigm has been in a repetitive cycle of destroying and being reset by angel/venus, so much so that it's become a natural habit of its inhabitants or "actors". Much like how gordon rosewater stated that synthetic tomatoes have been manufactured so long and so many times that they begin to taste like the real thing. The actors are essentially those tomatoes, memories are implanted in the actors so they can use that as a basis for their "script" to fulfill their role. The problem is that this cycle has been going on so long that certain actors maintain memories from the previous cycle or "take" making them go off script and disrupt the entire play or show which eventually leads to the destruction of the stage and its reset.

>>283273871
the tomato is a meta narrative metaphor for how a toy commercial can potentially become a "real" narrative

>>283205310
Anyone around that grabbed this that's kind of heart enough to reupload it?

>>283273431
>happy
>insane
There's less of a distinction between those two than you'd think.

>>283255389
Men shouldn't have spiky fingers. Men should have rounded, or better, squared fingers.
Women have spiky fingers.

>>283273050
I’ll admit that I marked out when I saw “Ye Not” in the first fight with Big Fau

Gantz >>Brain Powered >>Big O imo

>>283280592
The gantz movie was directed by the series supervisor of the big O.

>>283280592
Rare Brain Powered mention.

Dorothy cute.