Hyper Doll Review

When it comes to obscure titles I can certainly find them, today we look at 90s OVA series Hyper Doll.

Using a mixture of humor from Dirty Pair, Slayers & Sentai shows, Hyper Doll is about the misadventures of Mew & Mica, a pair of alien android superheroes sent to Earth to protect it. Your typical villains include a giant worm and giant jellyfish as per the style of many Sentai shows but seems to have more in common with American cartoon Powerpuff Girls. The core part of the humor within this OVA is that Mew & Mica are lazy and uncaring of the situations that go on and would rather be normal school girls in their civilian identities.
Hyper Doll suffers a lot from over ambitious marketing as they attempted to break into the already clogged anime market of the mid 90s using live action sections for a number of their songs, it is even heavily implied that the show was meant to be a stage show production with the amount of times the characters are shown singing as idols during the cheesy opening sequence, if the gaudy superhero outfits and overly sparkly earrings didn't already give it away.

Aaarrrrggghhhh! Too much retro cheese!
There's even an English version of the theme song included with the dub release which should be fairly easy to find on your local Youtube network.
The DVD should be an easy find in a discount store; for this review I worked from the VHS copy which I purchased a very long time ago and has been gathering dust in my Endless Wardrobe ever since.
Final Verdict: It's pretty crap to be honest, but fits quite well in an Anime Society gig or a con panel on obscure anime. Otherwise I'd give this show a miss.

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