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Cutey Honey - Essential Anime Collection (Vols. 1 & 2) Cutey Honey is a cute, fun and sexy series. I have always enjoyed this series and had to include it in my anime collection. If you love good anime give Cutey Honey a Holla. Definitely not time wasted.
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In a city plagued by crime. Honey Kisaragi works as a secretary for the mayor who is fighting against the criminals. A man by the name of Dolmek seeks to control the city. During a scuffle with Dolmek's men, Honey awakens her dormant power as Cutey Honey to fight off Dolmeks minions. She then vows to protect the city and fight evil.
I will admit right this instant that I'm not a fan of Go Nagai. And I will never consider him to be a genuis or an anime icon. But I did enjoy Cutey Honey and I feel this is the best of his titles. Despite the name "Cutey" Honey. This title isn't completely cute. There is lots of violence and foul language. Fan service is by the barrel loads.
The main character Cutey is very interesting. She has the ability to morph her appearance and take on the attributes of the form she becomes. For example, a robot fighter for close combat, a military soldier for arms battle, or even a nurse to fight with syringes. The possibilities are endless. The supporting characters are ok and the villians are interesting and pretty dark.
The first half is by far the best. The first volume has the best action, stories, development, and ending. There really isn't a bad thing I can say about the first half. The second on the other hand loses all momentum by the middle. It becomes formulaic and most of the new villians are forgettable. It completely overplays its comedy and fan service. Plus the action scenes aren't as imaginative anymore.
The artwork is ok at best and the animation doesn't seem dated to me. The pop music soundtrack is very good and fits with the personality of the show. Throughout the episodes, the soundtrack continues to get better.
Cutey Honey is not a series that will appeal to everyone. If you love superheroine style anime. With lots of fan service but mindless fun. Then Cutey Honey will definitly be for you. There is nothing deep about this. If you enjoy this, then I also recommend Fight! Iczer One and Iczer Reborn. Those are OVAs with a female lead as well but darker than this. The DVD is also loaded with many extras that can keep you entertained.
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Sure, the plots are simplistic and the boobie-flashes are sophomoric. But... really now... just what DID you expect?!? It's damn good, mindless anime. Throw it on at a party. Your guest'll love it!
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Boredom with endlessly repeating "Crisis of infinite crossover twists" and plots aimed at juveniles, I quickly grew disinterested with the "Superhero" genre. I loved the 'deconstructionist' things, like "Marshall Law" and "Watchmen"...
But this anime is just so good. Cutey Honey is a true superhero, an endless, selfless crusader for justice who willingly fights to defend those around her but also needs them to believe in her. My favorite scenes are the "Burning up" song intro from chapter 3, and then the fight on the bridge scene from ep 5.
Thanks to YouTube, I found out this was animated in the 70's, but not shown in the USA... Thanks Disney...and public stereotyping of comics and cartoons as kids stuff only.
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Back in the early 1970s, Go Nagai and the animators at Toei thought up Cutey Honey. Busty, bouncy, very pretty, violent, and often naked, Cutey Honey was one of the first world-famous magical girl superheroines. And American critics have had a field day ever since proclaiming that they of course are not fans of naked girl androids, and reassuring us - and anxious parents - that the plot is pretty silly, the animation hopelessly old-fashioned, the characterizations paper-thin, and the whole thing is really only a marginal show at the very best. And certainly NOT FOR KIDS! Well, I won't argue with people about it, but -- and there *is* a but.
If "Cutey Honey" is so bad, why does it get all those 5-star reviews? Because "Cutey Honey" is thoroughly enjoyable. If you're old enough, you'll remember when movie theatres showed cartoons - Daffy Duck, for example - and they were simply entertaining. The episodes on these two DVDs are precisely that kind of cartoon. Heroic good guys! Evil bad guys! Funny grandpas! Gorgeous naked android girls! Lots and lots of them, in an unabashed celebration of a kind of animation that has become very rare today. Yet I have read reviews of "Cutey Honey" that solemnly tell us that the video transfer is really excellent. If you're watching "Cutey Honey" for its excellence of video transfer, maybe you should watch the test patterns instead, because "Cutey Honey" is not about excellence of video transfer. It's about Heroic Good Guys, Evil Villains, Funny Grandpas, and Naked Android Girls, all running around loose in a cartoon world without a shred of reality to it. The violence is about as serious as Coyote falling off a cliff, and if you're going to tell me that Mayor Light is "unrealistic," maybe next you'll tell me that Bugs Bunny isn't a biological rabbit either.
"Spirited Away," "Innosenzu," "Ergo Proxy," and "Akira" this is not. "Cutey Honey" is a high-speed romp, a comedy done in the grand manner without any pretensions at all. If you like cackling villains with tattoos and blue eyebrows or if you like naked android girls who are the heroine, you will LOVE "Cutey Honey." And, if not, well, maybe you're missing something, or, if you're old enough, maybe you've forgotten something. Once, cartoons were fun. Nothing serious, no great messages, no philosophy, just fun. And "Cutey Honey" is pure entertainment. So sit back and enjoy it, and forget about the excellence of the video transfer. Very highly recommended.
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