Hikari family

The Hikari family is a family seen in the Mega Man Battle Network video game series and MegaMan NT Warrior anime series. They are the family of the main character, Lan Hikari, and their actions and lives are the focal point of the Battle Network franchise and its related media. The males of the family are known to become brilliant and highly respected scientists, often changing the scientific world as its known each generation, and have a strong sense of justice and will to do what is right, the exception being Kazuma, who, 200 years in the future, is an outlaw hacker with a sizable bounty on his head.

Members

 * Lan Hikari (anime appearance)
 * Hub Hikari (Video game series only) (MegaMan.EXE in the anime)
 * Mayl Sakurai (Marries Lan, mother of Patch, video game series only) (anime appearance)
 * Roll.EXE (anime appearance)
 * Patch Hikari (Games only, son of Lan and Mayl; unseen)
 * MegaMan Junior (Unseen; “born” from bits of data from MegaMan and Roll)
 * Yuichiro Hikari (anime appearance)
 * Haruka Hikari (anime appearance)
 * NormalNavi
 * Tadashi Hikari
 * Kazuma (Direct descendant 200 years in the future, only in the games)

In the games
In the video game series, the Hikari family is the most represented family with the most members shown, with 7 (including Mayl and the unseen Patch) members appearing in the series. MegaMan.EXE is revealed to be Hub Hikari, Lan’s twin brother who died of HBD in birth reincarnated, and the end of the series, Mayl marries Lan and they have a son, Patch, who is unseen. In the Mega Man Star Force series, Kazuma, a direct descendant of Lan, Mayl, and Patch 200 years in the future, has become a outlaw hacker with a 8,000,000 Zenny bounty, a far cry from what a member of the Hikari family would aspire to do, though due to the cancellation of Mega Man Star Force 4, his motivation behind this is unknown.

In the anime
In the anime series, MegaMan.EXE is not Lan’s brother, and Lan and Maylu are not explicitly shown to enter into a relationship or marry or have children during the course of the series. They are also not the family with the most members shown, this honor instead going to the Zap family, with 5 members shown. Despite Haruka being present in all games at all times inside Lan’s house and can be interacted with and plays a part in the games when Lan is home, she is rarely seen in the anime, appearing in only a few episodes in the entire series and only for brief moments.

Trivia

 * Despite fans theorizing and generally accepting Geo Stelar and his family to be descended from the Hikari family, this is proven to most likely be false, due to the discovery of Kazuma, who is a direct descendant. However it is still possible that Geo is a distant relative.