Hyper Speed GranDoll

Hyper Speed GranDoll (超光速グランドール, Chō Kōsoku Gurandōru) is an anime OVA about a high school girl who discovers that she is really part of a royal lineage of aliens from a distant planet. The anime was released in the United States by Central Park Media.

Hyper Speed GranDoll
超光速グランドール
(Chō Kōsoku Gurandōru)
GenreScience fiction
Original video animation
Directed byHideki Tonokatsu
Produced byMotoki Ueda
Atsushi Sugita
Hiroaki Takaoka
Jinichiro Koyama
Written byYuko Nakada
Music byToshiro Yabuki
StudioZero-G Room
Licensed by
Released August 25, 1997 – December 18, 1997
Runtime30 minutes (each)
Episodes3
Game
DeveloperKid
PublisherEmotion Digital Software
GenreSide-scrolling platform game
PlatformPlayStation
ReleasedJuly 24, 1997

This anime is part Sci-Fi and part Magical Girl similar to Sailor Moon and Galaxy Fraulein Yuna.

Plot

While Koichi Amagi is making a marriage proposal to his beloved Miki, a space ship fell right in front of them. Inside the space ship there was a little girl who they adopted and named Hikaru. Years are passing by normally while Hikaru is living her life as a normal girl, with a mad scientist as her father. Someday aliens are appearing to retrieve Hikaru back from Earth as she is an Alien and is the last member of a royal familyline of a planet far away.

Video game

A game based on this OVA was released for the PlayStation in Japan which is an action sidescrolling platformer similar to Metroid and Megaman.

The game's plot closely follows the OVA's storyline, except for a few minor differences. Unlike the anime where Hikaru only fights in her standard armor, in the game she gets multiple different styles of armor upgrades after defeating a boss, similar to Megaman ZX's Bio Metal System.

Episodes

There are 3 episodes:

  1. An Eventful Double Date (愛と爆発のグループ交際、Ai to bakuhatsu no gurūpu kōsai)
  2. A Heroic Transfer Student (転校生は素敵なヒロイン、Tenkōsei wa sutekina hiroin)
  3. Give Me Courage (告白…勇気をください…、Kokuhaku… yūki o kudasai…)

Music
Ending theme
"The Moment When You Softly Swear" (そっと誓う瞬間-とき-、Sotto Chikau Chunkan Toki) by Junko Iwao

Reception

Bamboo Dong of Anime News Network described Hyper Speed GranDoll as being very predictable, comparing it to a "color by numbers" book. However, said that it was still entertaining enough to warrant a rental.[1] Chris Beveridge of Mania.com expressed similar sentiments, calling the anime "fun" but also "by the numbers".[2]

References
  1. "Shelf Life - Beyond the grave and into the anime ocean". Anime News Network. 25 July 2004. Retrieved 5 February 2013.
  2. "Hyper Speed Grandoll". Mania.com. 9 July 2004. Archived from the original on 26 June 2012. Retrieved 5 February 2013.


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