Hyper Speed GranDoll(Siêu vận tốc ánh sáng グランドール,Chō Kōsoku Gurandōru)is ananimeOVAabout 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 byCentral Park Media.

Hyper Speed GranDoll
Siêu vận tốc ánh sáng 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
Released25 August 199718 December 1997
Runtime30 minutes (each)
Episodes3
Video game
DeveloperKid
PublisherEmotion Digital Software
GenreSide-scrollingplatform game
PlatformPlayStation
Released24 July 1997

This anime is part Sci-Fi and partMagical Girlsimilar toSailor MoonandGalaxy Fraulein Yuna.

Plot

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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

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A game based on this OVA was released for thePlayStationin Japan which is an action sidescrolling platformer similar toMetroidand 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 toMegaman ZX's Bio Metal System.

Episodes

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There are 3 episodes:

  1. An Eventful Double Date ( ái と bạo phát の グループ giao tế,Ai to bakuhatsu no gurūpu kōsai)
  2. A Heroic Transfer Student (転 giáo sinh は tố địch なヒロイン,Tenkōsei wa sutekina hiroin)
  3. Give Me Courage ( thông báo... Dũng khí をください...,Kokuhaku… yūki o kudasai…)

Music

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Ending theme
"The Moment When You Softly Swear" (そっと thề う nháy mắt -とき-,Sotto Chikau Chunkan Toki) byJunko Iwao

Reception

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Bamboo Dong ofAnime News Networkdescribed 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 expressed similar sentiments, calling the anime "fun" but also "by the numbers".[2]

References

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  1. ^"Shelf Life – Beyond the grave and into the anime ocean".Anime News Network.25 July 2004.Retrieved5 February2013.
  2. ^"Hyper Speed Grandoll".Mania. 9 July 2004. Archived fromthe originalon 26 June 2012.Retrieved5 February2013.
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