AniWorthCampus Special Investigator Hikaruon
Introduction
Hikaru is at first sight a student like others but actually it is a super hero defending the Earth of the demons. He has a powerful super bike and a combat suit. Inspired by the classic Space Sheriff (Uchuu Keiji) trilogy of the Metal Heroes Tokusatsu franchise, namely Space Sheriff's Gavan and Sharivan.
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Audience ratings
MyAnimeList / Tenrai : 5.71/10 · 1975
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Audience reviews
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mooncheesepizza
Campus Investigator Hikaruon or 学園特捜ヒカルオン, as it's known in the native language of Japanese. Is a fun romp through Super Sentai in anime form. Hikaru, the eponymous protagonist of the OVA, is a superhero who was posing as a student, investigating why people were killing themselves in a city overrun by demons. Since this is an anime OVA from the 1980s, the story and content might be a little jarring to newer anime fans. Given the amount of fanservice and suggestive material that gets thrown in there. Still, the main plot, animation, and fight scenes are all worth checking out if you're a fan of retro anime like Gunbuster & Dangaioh. Both are completely unrelated, but I couldn't recommend them enough to other anime fans.
Read at the sourceGsarthotegga
This is a short one-episode Tokusatsu with one of those corny superheroes made of metal and with the glowing buttons no one presses. There's no backstory or character development at all (probably a good thing, actually) and very little characterization for our cardboard cutouts; the villain's motivations are also unclear. Granted, plotting and character nonsense is not usually the main factor drawing people to series like this, but it does help to have some kind of hook to keep the viewer interested—the appeal is the shortness and fast-pace, fun imagery, and a few bits of interesting animation. There is a mishmash of effective elements, but not one thing that is done enough or consistently well to make this anything more than a forgettable time waster.
The storyboarding is often pretty go…
Read at the sourcezombihead1
What a gem this is to stumble upon! As a fan of the metal hero genre of tokusatsu, I was delighted to run into this anime, which captures the spirit of it very well indeed.
The story isn't anything terribly complicated. The jist of it is, boy transfers to school, angers the local rowdies, saves girl from rowdies, evil monsters from another dimension attack, transfer student transform into super powered hero of justice, kicks ass, saves day, rides off into the sunset like the badass he is. Cool. Like I said. Nothing complicated but for what seems to be an animated tribute to the Uchuu Keiji series, no problem there at al.
The art is a bit dated by todays standards. But then this is fairly old. Whatever I dig it. The transformed hero, Gakuen Tokusou Hikaruon reminds me alot of Jikuu Senshi…
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