AoD Advance Review: Big O II Vol. #4

[Chris Beveridge]

Review (http://www.animeondvd.com/reviews2/disc_reviews/3113.php)

[Fencedude]

Ah yes.

The ending.

So, does this now mean we can get this on the AoD Recommendations list?? /images/graemlins/wink.gif

Edit: Well I guess it's already there, but it's only for the first season and I think it should move up to Primary. /images/graemlins/sdsmiley.gif

[Shale]

IT's gonna be a long wait for July 27...

[Shale]

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jarhead said:
So, does this now mean we can get this on the AoD Recommendations list?? /images/graemlins/wink.gif

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It means the current entry needs a rewrite, anyway.

[Fencedude]

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Shale said:
IT's gonna be a long wait for July 27...

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*points and laughs*

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Shale said:
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jarhead said:
So, does this now mean we can get this on the AoD Recommendations list?? /images/graemlins/wink.gif

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It means the current entry needs a rewrite, anyway.

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Yeah, I just edited my post. I also think that since now it's complete, it should get a Primary vote. /images/graemlins/happy.gif

[notanumber]

I'm glad to see the ending(?) to the series didn't put you off. Like my all time favorite television show, "The Prisoner", the ending really makes you think and can be interpreted many different ways. Not too many endeavors made for the great idiot box can do that. I love it!

[ic14]

Ah the ending, one of the nest, yet at the same time worst things about series 2 of the big o...
Heres hoping for a 3rd series /images/graemlins/catgirl0.gif

[Consignia]

Overall it was a brilliant series. I didn't know what I was getting into when I started, but I'm damn glad I did. This will probably be the second anime I ever marathon, and few shows even qualifiy for such an event, which shows how much I liked the series.

I hope they don't make anymore, as I feel the ending was almost perfect as it is. Although, I'm glad the Big O II was made. The end of the first series was a bit too much of a cliffhanger to just leave.

[kuzap]

This particular analysis (http://www.sixfortyfive.com/bigo/wtf/) should really just be printed and packed in with the DVD.

That being said, of every single "massive plot twist yet ambiguous ending" I've ever seen in anime, this one has to count as the easiest to digest. I'd like to know more, but if it ends here, well, that's fine in my books.

[ic14]

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KuZap said:
I'd like to know more, but if it ends here, well, that's fine in my books.

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Cartoon network have the option to fund 2 more series though (When i find the source ill post it) so hopefully they will be more...
(And slightly off topic, Consignia did you watch it on Toonami too?)

[DeadlyMessiah]

I can't wait for July 27th to get this volume. /images/graemlins/cry00000.gif

Anyway, I found the ending to be perfect and made a lot of sense if you look over every detail that went on in each episode. Hell, one of my friend's wasn't sure about the ending when he first saw it, but the next night CN started the series over again, and all of a sudden, he thought it made perfect sense.

I have my long ass theories, some I've forgotten since it ended, but here is my interpretation on what I can remember:

Paradigm City is both a real and false city. It existed long ago, but ended up being a city where time just stopped moving (hence the name Paradigm), and everyone just kept repeating history over and over. My theory on those millions of Megadueces you see in the flashbacks are not there all at the same time. Each one represents how many times the world has repeated its events without anyone realizing it. If you look at when Big O is sinking in the water, you can see Roger passing by his own corpse in the water. He never survived this, so everything kept repeating over. Since he was alive this time though, he was there to stop Angel from destroying everything, thus changing the same events from happening the same way again.

For example, when Dan saw his younger self, time was overlapping with each other, so he saw his past. Same thing with the movie, tiem overlapped, so that scene was how that movie they saw ended.

[AbeChinchilla]

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DeadlyMessiah said:
Paradigm City is both a real and false city. It existed long ago, but ended up being a city where time just stopped moving (hence the name Paradigm), and everyone just kept repeating history over and over. My theory on those millions of Megadueces you see in the flashbacks are not there all at the same time. Each one represents how many times the world has repeated its events without anyone realizing it. If you look at when Big O is sinking in the water, you can see Roger passing by his own corpse in the water. He never survived this, so everything kept repeating over. Since he was alive this time though, he was there to stop Angel from destroying everything, thus changing the same events from happening the same way again.

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OOOOOOOOOoooooooooooh.... I've never looked at it that way. O_O

[Rando]

I have to say I really want to punch Bandai for the job they did on Big O II's extras. -.-

They made such a big fuss about it, but we didn't get good extras or an artbox..

And I am so pissed at the last cover they used. Why didn't they use the volume 7 (R2) cover?!! That was the best and perfect cover for the last volume!!!

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Rando said:
And I am so pissed at the last cover they used. Why didn't they use the volume 7 (R2) cover?!! That was the best and perfect cover for the last volume!!!

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Wasn't that the one with a spoiler on it?

[Rando]

Spoiler?

<span style='color:#dddddd;background:#dddddd'>The closeup of Big Venus's eyes?</span> --

Yes, it was such a large, and evil spoiler.

Plus, couldn't they do reverisble (sp) covers then? The ones for Sailor Moon, Gundam 0080, and Azu Manga Daioh are great.

[DeadlyMessiah]

I agree, after all the damn stuff they went through, you would think they could get voice actor interviews, creator interviews, production material, a soundtrack, and art box, a nice booklet, etc. This was partially their creation, and they just screwed us all over. They could at least have Rightstuf sell an artbox for all 8 volumes.

[Rando]

I'm still wondering if I should buy Paul C.'s custom artbox.

[CuriouslySane]

Except for the obligatory screaming at the TV when the credits rolled, I feel pretty good about how Big O ended. All the characters seemed to get their due, and the premise reminded me of Dark City (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118929/).

Easily the best disc of the show. It's refreshing to see a mind-fsck that doesn't end with a whimper.

[MalrocK]

huh? /images/graemlins/stunned1.gif

[DeadlyMessiah]

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Malrock said:
huh? /images/graemlins/stunned1.gif

[/ QUOTE ]If you are talking about the ending, read my post on the ending. It all makes perfect sense when you don't try to think too much because you realize what went on.

[tuffy]

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Malrock said:
huh? /images/graemlins/stunned1.gif

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It makes more sense the second time through, though I get the sense the ending was adapted to the show rather than something envisioned from the beginning. But in any case, everything's stated explicitly at the end.

<span style='color:#dddddd;background:#dddddd'>All the world's a stage, in this case quite literally.</span>