It was all a simulation, because there's only a few humans left after a great war (perhaps just Angel & Roger), where Mechadeuses fought each other & destroyed almost everything, but not enough humans left over to restart humanity, so they resort to keeping humanity alive through simulations. They play characters in these simulations endlessly, there's no other way to live as the rest of the world had been destroyed. So it's kind of like that one underground room that looks like a Star Trek holodeck is the only place in the world that isn't a smoking pile of debris. Angel was one of the last remaining humans, she was chosen to be the director of the simulation, but if she was found out to be the director by the other players the simulation gets reset. Each reset, the memories of everybody in the simulation are wiped, and they start anew playing their roles once again without even knowing why. She falls in love with Roger, has the simulation put them together whenever Roger faces a tough challenge or mystery. Her plan fails when she gets jealous of Dorothy, was going to use Big Venus to destroy the simulation and let everything DIE, let it all be destroyed as the rest of the world. Roger Smith, in one last negotiation, tells Angel not to deny herself and LIVE. Let go of the past, and focus on the present and future. So Angel resets the simulation again, this time with more love and hope, and that's why she's smiling in this new iteration of the simulation. It's an anime where it's more about the journey, rather than the destination. It doesn't matter what the past really was, or who you once were before today, let go of your past and move towards the future. EDIT: Gordon Rosewater hired the original Roger Smith to negotiate with the director Angel to have players remember their memories after a wipe, but Angel makes a wipe without any mechadeuses (Roger has no watch), where she is Roger's assistant with Dorothy (now human). There's also a great allusion to Metropolis, the 1926 film & its book. The Great War is essentially what would've happened in the 1926 Metropolis movie after they had their revolution, if they had giant robots. It's not a stretch to say that the world of Metropolis is the backstory of Big O, just slightly different. The upper class live in domes not high sky scrapers, while the lower class who are exploited so the upper class lives without worry. This is why the book is named Metropolis, and why the anime shares many of its themes. Another allusion is that the world was a long simulation that cancelled and brought back, which is a meta way of the authors thanking Cartoon Network for funding a second season, because originally they were cancelled after 1 season in Japan but western money (Cartoon Network) brought them back from the dead. The anime was initially intended for several seasons, but was cut down to just one 13 episode season. Cartoon Network helped fund (half?) of the second season, as the first season found success on Cartoon Network, but they requested the writers complete all story lines and plot by the end of the second season. This is why it kind of feels rushed, and the ending not properly explained, it was intended to last several seasons. The animators worked at Sunrise who usually do Gundam anime, so of course they added giant robots. Besides the Metropolis influence, I heard that some of the animators worked on Batman The Animated Series, and had shared visual influence with that. Authors also wanted it to be pay homage to the tokusatsu productions of the 50's & 60's they grew up with. I think I also heard that Sunrise wanted to sell toys and didn't care about the scenario, and the "just insert actors into a play so we can sell toys of giant robots" was a little meta play on that.
TH-cam takes time to encode its videos even after they're posted, and it works from the lowest quality up to the highest. If you're early enough to a new video (within like a minute) sometimes the higher quality options won't be available.
@@Ferrari03 Obviously. Dorothy is still wearing her black wardrobe and they're watching him from a distance going to work. Angel had to have kept all his and all his friend's memories intact.
and then another ~2k views since? that doesn't seem right... well i just saw this video after searching 'big o ending' so maybe this video might blow up in the future
Honestly the second season as a whole was a huge disappointment. I feel like you could tell they planned ending it after season 1 but adult swim wanted more so they had to some up with SOME kind of answer.
How can I watch this there’s no zellig
what
It was all a simulation, because there's only a few humans left after a great war (perhaps just Angel & Roger), where Mechadeuses fought each other & destroyed almost everything, but not enough humans left over to restart humanity, so they resort to keeping humanity alive through simulations. They play characters in these simulations endlessly, there's no other way to live as the rest of the world had been destroyed. So it's kind of like that one underground room that looks like a Star Trek holodeck is the only place in the world that isn't a smoking pile of debris.
Angel was one of the last remaining humans, she was chosen to be the director of the simulation, but if she was found out to be the director by the other players the simulation gets reset. Each reset, the memories of everybody in the simulation are wiped, and they start anew playing their roles once again without even knowing why. She falls in love with Roger, has the simulation put them together whenever Roger faces a tough challenge or mystery. Her plan fails when she gets jealous of Dorothy, was going to use Big Venus to destroy the simulation and let everything DIE, let it all be destroyed as the rest of the world. Roger Smith, in one last negotiation, tells Angel not to deny herself and LIVE. Let go of the past, and focus on the present and future. So Angel resets the simulation again, this time with more love and hope, and that's why she's smiling in this new iteration of the simulation. It's an anime where it's more about the journey, rather than the destination. It doesn't matter what the past really was, or who you once were before today, let go of your past and move towards the future. EDIT: Gordon Rosewater hired the original Roger Smith to negotiate with the director Angel to have players remember their memories after a wipe, but Angel makes a wipe without any mechadeuses (Roger has no watch), where she is Roger's assistant with Dorothy (now human).
There's also a great allusion to Metropolis, the 1926 film & its book. The Great War is essentially what would've happened in the 1926 Metropolis movie after they had their revolution, if they had giant robots. It's not a stretch to say that the world of Metropolis is the backstory of Big O, just slightly different. The upper class live in domes not high sky scrapers, while the lower class who are exploited so the upper class lives without worry. This is why the book is named Metropolis, and why the anime shares many of its themes. Another allusion is that the world was a long simulation that cancelled and brought back, which is a meta way of the authors thanking Cartoon Network for funding a second season, because originally they were cancelled after 1 season in Japan but western money (Cartoon Network) brought them back from the dead.
The anime was initially intended for several seasons, but was cut down to just one 13 episode season. Cartoon Network helped fund (half?) of the second season, as the first season found success on Cartoon Network, but they requested the writers complete all story lines and plot by the end of the second season. This is why it kind of feels rushed, and the ending not properly explained, it was intended to last several seasons. The animators worked at Sunrise who usually do Gundam anime, so of course they added giant robots. Besides the Metropolis influence, I heard that some of the animators worked on Batman The Animated Series, and had shared visual influence with that. Authors also wanted it to be pay homage to the tokusatsu productions of the 50's & 60's they grew up with. I think I also heard that Sunrise wanted to sell toys and didn't care about the scenario, and the "just insert actors into a play so we can sell toys of giant robots" was a little meta play on that.
How the hell did the quality deteriorate right after I published it? I swear this looked acceptable fifteen minutes ago.
Nah it looks good
@@gabagool3502 Yeah, I posted it at 2 in the morning so I wasn't thinking straight, it's actually a fairly good edit.
TH-cam takes time to encode its videos even after they're posted, and it works from the lowest quality up to the highest. If you're early enough to a new video (within like a minute) sometimes the higher quality options won't be available.
Roger the Giga Chad got two girlfriends at the end of the series.
But does he still remember them after the reset?
@@Ferrari03 Obviously. Dorothy is still wearing her black wardrobe and they're watching him from a distance going to work. Angel had to have kept all his and all his friend's memories intact.
So uh, thanks for the 1,000 views in a day. That was actually quite a surprise.
and then another ~2k views since? that doesn't seem right... well i just saw this video after searching 'big o ending' so maybe this video might blow up in the future
Dorothy Wayneright though
We getting metaphysical with this one
Yo if you make an Ōban video I'm here for it, love that show.
Why does the red haired girl sound like she'd be in the ghost stories dub
because she's an android based on a real girl who died
Honestly the second season as a whole was a huge disappointment. I feel like you could tell they planned ending it after season 1 but adult swim wanted more so they had to some up with SOME kind of answer.
Open ended = Kino and BASED
Conclusive = soi and ZOG
Genuine question, whys the soyjak and 4chan crowd so interested in onzellig and stuff like that??
@@OldDumbTeenCommentAccount i was looking for an actual answer bro 😭😭
@@OldDumbTeenCommentAccount OHH thanks for explaining
@@OldDumbTeenCommentAccount fr? Thats dumb
Mlp was insanely popular on 4chan yet they still made the show
@@OldDumbTeenCommentAccount its over sociable bros 😔😔
Lijkt me een ongezellige serie
You watch Big O too? Based
I liked the ending actually
Love The Big O, You should read Umineko :)
And people say Evangelion is confusing
Animatie duurt zo lang
not zelig disliked
Whats the name of that anime?
The Big O….pretty good plot…
Getter Robo
@@dutch_asocialite Nuh uh. It's Shin Getter Robo.
Giant-a ROBOOOOOO
Still makes zero sense.
it makes sense on some level.
u should delete this