Tadashi Hikari

Tadashi Hikari (光正) is a character in the Mega Man Battle Network series. He is the late father of Yuichiro Hikari, father-in-law of Haruka Hikari, grandfather of Lan Hikari and Hub Hikari, grandfather-in-law of Mayl Sakurai, and the great great grandfather of Patch.

Personality
Tadashi was an elderly man who was truly kind and a brilliant scientist. Although he sadly never got to live long enough to see the birth of his grandsons, he would have been very proud of them. Lan still loves his grandfather and wished that he would have just lived a bit little longer to be with him.

Mega Man Battle Network 3
Tadashi first appears after Alpha is defeated. There is a strange door left over which MegaMan and Lan go into. Inside is the saved memories and persona of Tadashi. He talks to Lan about Alpha's origins and also about personal things such as the family. Lan wants him to escape with them, but he can't because he only exists in Alpha. The hologram disappears eventually because Alpha was destroyed. He gives Lan GramNote as a parting gift and the last legacy before Alpha start falling apart and eventually his son manage to decipher the code and use it to resurrect MegaMan.EXE.

Mega Man Battle Network 5
He appears in flashbacks which show him working with Wily on SoulNet with the intention of bringing peace to the world. It is shown that while they did extensive research, they decided to leave it up to their descendants to finish. During the final battle with Nebula Grey, Tadashi's voice seems to reach Lan through SoulNet and encourages him to win. This gives Lan the strength to fight SoulNet and Nebula Grey.

Anime
Tadashi only has a bit role within the anime, appearing in flashbacks throughout. Like in the video games, he is responsible for many great creations, such as PharaohMan, Spectrum and the Net Wrecker.

In Rockman.EXE Beast, a Beyondard version of him appears.

Etymology

 * Hikari (光) means Light and Tadashi (正) can mean Right, both similar to the name of his original counterpart, who is referred to as Dr. Light and Dr. Right.
 * It is unknown if the original Dr. Light has biological descendants.
 * Coincidentally, Dr. Hikari's seiyuu provided the voice of the mainline Dr. Wily until his passing in 2012.