Ah. Now that I'm conscious again, I can explain. This will be copied for both invader_tak_1 and shikyrie, don't feel bad, darlings, you simply both seemed to be asking the same question, and I'm feeling thrifty or some such.
The Big O (official site), split into Season One and Season Two, is an anime series that on the surface looks to be simply another silly robot series. The animation is done in the 'flash mouth' style, and has an odd sort of retro feel to it that gives it almost a film noir glimmer.
Beneath the pretty art and stylized characters, there's a very complex plot that deals with memories, what happens to folk when they lose them... and questions on just how real 'reality' is. The first season of thirteen episodes had really just started to explore those concepts, and ended with three or four different plot threads hanging on a cliffhanger ending.
And then word got out that that was all there was. There was silence for a bit, and then outrage from the people who'd had TBO strike a chord within them... which included me. Several 'give us more' sites sprang up, along with fan fiction sites, message boards, letter writing campaigns, and a growing wave of polite but insistent pressure on Cartoon Network, Sunrise, and writer Chiaki Konaka for more. (The same writer is responsible for Hellsing, and left -that- series up in the air as well. Bastard.)
The pressure finally netted a second season of thirteen episodes... episodes that were advertised as 'the answers to your questions'. And I'm here right now to tell you that that advertisement is complete and utter horse shit - they leave things hanging, IMHO, /worse/ than with the first season.
But when I made the original post, I wasn't sure if either of the duo that'd introduced me to so many other lovely anime series had seen it. Silly me... EVERYONE else has cable, so they had. It contains elements that are central to all three of us, and I figured it'd be best to err on the side of caution.
The sheer nuts and bolts of this is that I was frothing at the mouth for a cartoon... one that reeled me in and then shot me through the heart with a meson cannon...
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Date: 2004-12-29 07:52 pm (UTC)The Big O (official site), split into Season One and Season Two, is an anime series that on the surface looks to be simply another silly robot series. The animation is done in the 'flash mouth' style, and has an odd sort of retro feel to it that gives it almost a film noir glimmer.
Beneath the pretty art and stylized characters, there's a very complex plot that deals with memories, what happens to folk when they lose them... and questions on just how real 'reality' is. The first season of thirteen episodes had really just started to explore those concepts, and ended with three or four different plot threads hanging on a cliffhanger ending.
And then word got out that that was all there was. There was silence for a bit, and then outrage from the people who'd had TBO strike a chord within them... which included me. Several 'give us more' sites sprang up, along with fan fiction sites, message boards, letter writing campaigns, and a growing wave of polite but insistent pressure on Cartoon Network, Sunrise, and writer Chiaki Konaka for more. (The same writer is responsible for Hellsing, and left -that- series up in the air as well. Bastard.)
The pressure finally netted a second season of thirteen episodes... episodes that were advertised as 'the answers to your questions'. And I'm here right now to tell you that that advertisement is complete and utter horse shit - they leave things hanging, IMHO, /worse/ than with the first season.
But when I made the original post, I wasn't sure if either of the duo that'd introduced me to so many other lovely anime series had seen it. Silly me... EVERYONE else has cable, so they had. It contains elements that are central to all three of us, and I figured it'd be best to err on the side of caution.
The sheer nuts and bolts of this is that I was frothing at the mouth for a cartoon... one that reeled me in and then shot me through the heart with a meson cannon...