#256: Campus Special Investigator Hikaruon (1987)

Studio: AIC

Director: Kazuhiro Ochi

Screenplay: Kazuhiro Ochi

Reveal Forged: Mika Doi as Adzumi
Hadzuki; Toshihiko Seki as Hikaru Shihodo; Kazuyuki Sogabe as Shirou Amakusa; Miina
Tominaga as Yayoi Shiina; Shōzō Iizuka as Demonic Beast; Tesshō Genda as
Kyousuke Gomi

Seen in Eastern with English Subtitles

Persevering with into the catalogue of
vague eighties OVAs, right here is the final of the “Crimson Shock” trilogy which I maintain considered all of. Produced by AIC,
it was a short sequence which came without a exact consitent converse to them barring
some eroticism. One was Maryū Senki
(1987-9), a three portion dismay-motion free up of hobby in that style. The
other Name Me Tonight (1986) is one
some viewers may perhaps perhaps well need learnt of because it has gained hobby in the internet age,
a spell binding short predating the notorious Urotsukidôji anime adaptations by parodying it, via a lead
male personality who turns accurate into a tentacle monster when horny and the female
phone sex employee who can tame his coronary heart, all in a work that is extra
progressive for the time then you free up. Campus
Special Investigator Hikaruon, in fat dissimilarity, feels be pleased a pilot to a
level to that would were, a tribute to the likes of dwell motion tokusatsu
“Metallic Hero” reveals be pleased Scheme
Sheriff Gavan (1982-3) simplest with a darker slant.

At a college an alarming assortment of
suicides are transpiring, and a younger male hero, in a space to flip into an armoured
battler, has snuck in as a mild transfer student along with his feminine colleague there
already as a teacher. There is a female student pulled into the secret power
harming the students, and the sense of this feeling be pleased one episode to a
longer work than never came to be is felt. The extra adult tone is that this
entity, masquerading in the college, drives people to suicide or to be devoured
by a supernatural power. There is a strategy of fashion to this anime too; the
opening, location in a put collectively region almost white with just outlines, the customers
all blank faced, has the one personality in colour and fully drawn leaping in
entrance of a put collectively, an inspired opening for any production which emphasises the
shock of the scene as a location up. There is also my popular trope of the older
period of anime, presumably serene into the fashionable day if I ever bump into it, of
characters being transported to an alien realm, right here a surreal chess motif of
murky and white tiles, and gravity defying steps in opposition to a crimson sky. Add to
this that the villain is at the starting build a harlequin Pied Piper in look,
tempting a mild sufferer with wine of her loss of life. The upper of these sequences
unfriendly into yet any other of my passions as, with the greater of these older anime of
unfamiliar alternative realms, you may perhaps perhaps perchance presumably scream about them because the art showing the
entrance of a steel or prog rock LP.

Hikaruon also has an unhappy of victimising the female
characters sadly. The alternative Crimson Shock titles as talked about had an eroticism,
and right here right here is sadly an implicit menace of sexual violence, be it a crew of
bullies focusing on the female student, or how the female heroine, when the
assortment of goons in a bar are too many to fight, is left with garments shredded
and on the bottom implicitly suggesting a rape scene to transpire. She is
brainwashed to fight the hero fortunately, in yet any other frosty beautiful dedication in a
paper walled pastiche of samurai strive in opposition to, sporting an omi demon conceal, but that
hint is tonally out of space. The hero also sexually harasses her, such as groping
her late, as humour which certainly has no longer used properly at all. Out of the
three Crimson Shock entries, this feels
be pleased a contractual requirement and out of space, as this feels be pleased a tribute
to this style it is recreating, and simplest is darker in the villains’ plans, no longer
the particular abilities or how the episode finishes with struggling with a monster.

Maryū Senki has sexually crossing with the grotesque which may perhaps perhaps be
accused as offensive, and out of space for one thing intended to be erotic, but
felt extra befitting as ero-guro, a dismay memoir where the sexuality is extra for
the dismay edge than intended to be horny, while Name Me Tonight as talked about is horny for what topics it
covered in lower than thirty minutes. Hikaruon, while moving, is a
disappointment in how I conclude must present a location off warning for those watching
this, and how it unquestionably is undercut by this undefendable, and arguably
pointless, skill to serene sell eroticism be pleased the other Crimson Shock titles did. It does no longer even, if the eroticism was no longer
problematic, seem a match, where it would been extra appropriate if this had been
a extra explicitly erotic pastiche or rob on the tokusatsu style. Spicy in regards to the
opening credits is a right animation of the level to it will were, be pleased the
pilot of a longer production, reveals it is an queer production in one of the important
creative picks. It becomes, out of the Crimson
Shock sequence, the weakest of the trio for the motive it feels be pleased a pilot
for a level to we never got your complete of.