Overview[]
The Manga adaption for the Big O Franchise was written by Hitoshi Ariga using Keichii Sato's designs and concepts, and was released in July of 1999 just 3 months before the premier of the anime. The manga is not the same storyline as the anime, usually consisting of revamped versions of major plot points and mainly being composed of new original stories that further expanded upon the lore of Paradigm City. It consisted of 20 chapters that were later collected into 6 volumes, being concluded on October 2001. Prior to the release of the second season of the anime, a spin-off titled Lost Memories was published in November 2002 that consisted of a series of side stories that took place between volumes 5 and 6. Unlike the original run of 6 manga volumes, the Lost Memories manga never saw release or translation outside of Japan.
Volume[]
Manga 1[]
- Chapter 00: “Prologue”
- Chapter 01: “Memory Thieves”
- Chapter 02: “Electric Butterfly”
- Chapter 03: “Thy Name is Dorothy”
Manga 2[]
- Chapter 04: “Dorothy Part 2”
- Chapter 05: “Ghost Ships And Fallen Angels”
- Chapter 06: “No Name No Memory No Future”
- Chapter 07: “Deep Into The Black Forest”
Manga 3[]
- Chapter 08: “Big O Vs. Big O”
- Chapter 09: “My Sweetheart Dorothy”
- Chapter 10: “Unto Us A Beast Is Born”
- Chapter 11: “Alcohol, Tobacco and Memories”
Manga 4[]
- Chapter 12: “To The One I Can't Forget”
- Chapter 13: “The Chosen Ones”
- Chapter 14: “The Sun Will Rise Again”
Manga 5[]
- Chapter 15: “Another side Of You”
- Chapter 16: “In Darkness”
- Chapter 17: “Past Lives”
Manga 6[]
- Chapter 18: “Little Robot Lost”
- Chapter 19: “Angel”
- Chapter 20: “The Memory Disk”
- Chapter 21: “Roger...”
Lost Memory[]
Lost Memory 1[]
- Chapter 01: “Long Vacation”
- Chapter 02: “Old Wives’ Tale”
- Chapter 03: “Show up”
- Chapter 04: “Trick or Treat”
- Chapter 05: “Meet by Chance”
Lost Memory 2[]
- Chapter 06: “Electric Sheep in the Cradle”
- Chapter 07: “Message”
- Chapter 08: “Old Movie Star”
- Chapter 09: “Revival”
- Chapter 10: “Yesterday Once More”