"Hyper Speed GranDoll"

Anime Review:

"Hyper Speed GranDoll"

I really remember this anime cause of its unique story, also because of its designs the way they create the armor.

Alternative title:

Chou Kousoku Gran Doll (Japanese)

超光速グランド－ル (Japanese)

Plot Summary: Hikaru has always believed herself to be just a normal high school girl...well, as normal as a teenager with a genius mad scientist for a father. She spends her time with her best friend, day dreaming about the boy she loves and watching her favoite super hero show. One day, the past that she has knows nothing about comes back to haunt her. She is shocked to learn that she is the last surviving member of royal line from a far away planet. Even more, she finds out that she has been protecting the ultimate armour and that it can decide the fate of the entire galaxy.

Video:

User Ratings: 33 ratings have been given [details]

Masterpiece: -

Excellent: 2 votes (sub:1, dub:1)

Very good: 4 votes (dub:2, sub:2)

Good: 8 votes (dub:7, sub:1)

Decent: 5 votes (dub:3, sub:2)

So-so: 4 votes (dub:2, raw:1, sub:1)

Not really good: 4 votes (sub:3, dub:1)

Weak: 2 votes (dub:1, sub:1)

Bad: 4 votes (dub:3, sub:1)

Awful: -

Worst ever: -

Seen in part or in whole by 78 users, rank: #2539
Median rating: Decent
Arithmetic mean: 5.636 (Decent-.36), std. dev.: 2.057, rank: #3548
Weighted mean: 5.550 (Decent-.45), rank: #3573 (seen all: 5.61 / seen some: 4.44)
Bayesian estimate: 6.006 (Decent+.00), rank: #2743

Genre: Sci-Fi
Running time: half hour per episode

Number of episodes: 3

Episode titles: We have 3

Vintage: 1997

Ending Theme:

"Sotto Chikau Shunkan -toki-" by Junko Iwao


DVD Hyper Speed GranDoll (DVD) 2004-07-06


Japanese Staff

Director: Hideki Tonokatsu

Script: Yuko Nakada

Music: Toshiro Yabuki (Parome)

Original story: Katsumi Hasegawa (Akahori Satoru Office)

Art director:
Eiji Iwase (ep 3)
Hitoshi Nagao (eps 1-2)

Animation director: Toshinari Yamashita

Co-director: Yorifusa Yamaguchi

Producer:
Hiroaki Takaoka (Akahori Satoru Office)
Jinichiro Koyama (Bandai)
Motoki Ueda (Zero-G-Room)
Tsutomu Sugita (Bandai)

Chief animator:
Masaki Tanaka (ep 2)
Noritomo Hattori (ep 1)
Ryo Tanaka (ep 3)

Editing: Toshio Henmi

Planning: Shigeru Watanabe (Bandai)

Theme Song Performance: Junko Iwao (ED)


Japanese Cast

Junko Iwao as Hikaru Amagi

Akio Ohtsuka as Grand Knight

Haruna Ikezawa as Haruna Saotome

Hikaru Midorikawa as Freedsharlf

Kunihiko Yasui as Kouichi Amagi

Toshiyuki Morikawa as Narazaki

Yuko Miyamura as Sigil

Yuko Mizutani as Miki Amagi

Japanese Companies

Animation Production: Zero-G Room

Producer: Bandai Visual