2099

I'm sorry if this has already been brought up, but it just came to my attention that "The Big O" takes place in 2099.

I have to go to class now, I'll post more about this when I can!

Umm...Almasy, thanx for the info, but this would be more of a spoiler. You might wanna label your thread with a spoiler, especially that it has an odd name that'll make a lot of attention-getting...

The year that the show is supposed to take place is not a spoiler. It is NOT something that is revealed in later Season II episodes.

I was actually looking at a book in my library at school called "The Anime Encyclopedia" or "The Encyclopedia of Anime"

I decided to check and see if they had information about "The Big O" and sure enough they did:

It began with something like, "They year is 2099: Paradigm City has lost it's memories..." etc.

That's all I read before I posted this thread, so when I get a chance, I'll try to see if it has any other information that we may not have known about.

Yeah. I think that it really has shown up in numerous places but it's just something that is more inferrred than taken factually. They never go right out in the series and say that was the year it has taken place but you will see quite a few magazines or manga guides that say that year is the year that it all took place. While I might not totally agree witht that I know where they are coming from when I think about it when I consider all the things that have happened and the ammount of time it would take to begin constructing giant megadeuces and for the entire world to become a wasteland.

But can we be sure this stems from an official source? I'm browsing through the companion book right now, and the only passage that I can find a full date on is at the bottom of page 33 in the section "Steps to the Big O." It begins with "April 13th, 2018," but I'm not sure what it's about.

EDIT: The word "doomsday" follows in the same sentence. It also happens to be a Friday the 13th.

I wish I had a scanner.

it would make sense 2099

all that technology

how the heck did they figure it was that year?!?!

went all the records of the past burned?
What did paradigm co choose number out of hat?

Or is 2099 just when it takes place... the people dont really KNOW that it is....

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which THAT would be reasonable because of the world reseting agian and agian... and most of us already know...

Hmm... 2099 would make sense, anyway, if...

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the television series takes place at the end of two 40-year "loops." 2018 + 40.5 + 40.5 = 2099

On my Big O model kit, the side of the box and the instruction booklet has a paragraph in English saying the premise of the show. The first line is "One hundred years from now..."

"Now" being 1999 when Big O first aired + 100 yrs = 2099

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Makes you wonder about Archetype at expo '04. That either means that megadeuses didn't change much in almost a century or the expo just happened to be at the same place as where Archetype ended up.

2099 probably has no real meaning. its basically a knock off of the actual year it was made: 1999 kinda like Levithan having 17 on it in episode 17, and the first Gundam saga supposedly happening in UC: 0079 when it was made back in 1979...

That would pretty much explain the picture R.Smith posted in the something....interesting... thread, of the date on the receipt for the oil Dorothy brought in 'Eyewitness'. I think one of the dates mentioned was something/11/02. A couple of years after 2099.

[EDIT] As for the '04 Expo archtype, maybe the '04 Expo setup had been down there abandoned since 2004, and the archetype was a 'recent' addition? Kinda a weak theory I guess - if Big O takes place in 2099, that would make the 'Event' forty years ago 2059. Why would they leave the '04 Expo setup abandoned over forty years ago - 55 years to be precise?

Hmm ...

Expo '04 stuff had a model of the city amid the ruins, nothing to indicate the Megadei were involved in the Expo itself. I tend to think the Expo may have been 2004, to showcase the proposed 'Dome Project' (clip 24 spoiler thread pic) which would have taken several decades to complete. In time for the 2060's estimated time of The Event, then forty years later for the 2099 date. It's just that Archetype had crashed through that section at some point afterward.

And Expos are still going on: the one from 1935 (I believe that's the date) and the one from 1967 are still going strong. Many exposition halls keep their displays indefinitely, evne after they close, so I'm not surprised the displays and banners and such were still around. As I said, the only difference being the addition of Archetype.

This is speculation, I do not know if this is in the continuity or not.

yea it did look like the proto-duece just sorta crashed his way into the ruins. Oh I cant wait till two thousand-somthing till I can get a giant robot hmm lets see if im 17 and the year is 2004 then *crunches numbers*
and the "event" happended in 2059 *crunches more numbers*
then by the time giant robots are mass produced and available to the general public I will be .... an elderly old man in my seventies. Thats not TOO old I think.

2099!!!!!

Wow seems more like these people are living in a early fifties or early ninties( I can't tell anymore) flashback rather than 2099!

I'm gonna party like it's 2099 then!

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Originally posted by GoGoArlo Oh I cant wait till two thousand-somthing till I can get a giant robot hmm lets see if im 17 and the year is 2004 then *crunches numbers* and the "event" happended in 2059 *crunches more numbers* then by the time giant robots are mass produced and available to the general public I will be .... an elderly old man in my seventies. Thats not TOO old I think.

It all depends. You could be like Rosewater's father. Maybe just Rosewater if your lucky. Depends how well you age. If your his father you get free tomatoes forever.

If no one really has any memories, couldn't they just assume what the date is?

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If no one really has any memories, couldn't they just assume what the date is?

that's a good point. as far as they know the year is 2099. It could be 3599 for that matter

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Originally posted by Zola quote: If no one really has any memories, couldn't they just assume what the date is? that's a good point. as far as they know the year is 2099. It could be 3599 for that matter

Ooh, how Matrixey.
I think this question will be one of those that's at least part way resolved when it gets to Episode 26.

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Originally posted by Zola quote: If no one really has any memories, couldn't they just assume what the date is? that's a good point. as far as they know the year is 2099. It could be 3599 for that matter

I think it's more like 2099 is the official date that the creators of the show intended it to take place during, but the characters in the show have less of an understanding of the actual date, rather than the number "2099" being something that the characters in the show came up with themselves.

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Originally posted by Lady Tesser Hmm ... Expo '04 stuff had a model of the city amid the ruins, nothing to indicate the Megadei were involved in the Expo itself. I tend to think the Expo may have been 2004, to showcase the proposed 'Dome Project' (clip 24 spoiler thread pic) which would have taken several decades to complete. In time for the 2060's estimated time of The Event, then forty years later for the 2099 date. It's just that Archetype had crashed through that section at some point afterward. And Expos are still going on: the one from 1935 (I believe that's the date) and the one from 1967 are still going strong. Many exposition halls keep their displays indefinitely, evne after they close, so I'm not surprised the displays and banners and such were still around. As I said, the only difference being the addition of Archetype. This is speculation, I do not know if this is in the continuity or not.

That makes perfect sense. Thanks for the enlightenment, Lady Tesser