Cutey Honey
キューティーハニー (Kyūtī Hanī)
Genre	Magical girl
Manga: Cutey Honey
Authored by	Go Nagai
Publisher	Akita SHoten
Serialized in	Shounen Champion
Original run	1973-10-01 – 1974-04-01
No. of volumes	2
Manga: Cutey Honey
Authored by	Ken Ishikawa
Publisher	Akita Shoten
Serialized in	Bouken Oh
Original run	November 1973 – May 1974
No. of volumes	1
TV anime : Cutey Honey
Directed by	Tomoharu Katsumata
Studio	Toei Animation
Network	TV Asahi
Original run	13 October 1973 – 30 March 1974
No. of episodes	25
Movie: Cutey Honey
Directed by
Studio	Toei Animation
Released	1974
Runtime
Manga: Cutey Honey
Authored by	Go Nagai
Publisher	Fusousha
Serialized in	SPA!
Original run	1992-07-08 – 1993-04-07
No. of volumes	2
OVA: New Cutey Honey
Directed by	Yasuchika Nagaoka
Studio	Toei Video
No. of episodes	8
Released	1994-04-21 – 1995-11-21
Runtime
TV anime : Cutey Honey F
Directed by	Noriyo Sasaki
Studio	Toei Animation
Network	TV Asahi
Original run	1997-02-15 – 1998-01-31
No. of episodes	39
Manga: Cutey Honey F
Authored by	Ken Ishikawa (art) Kazuyuki Sasaki (story)
Publisher	Shogakukan
Serialized in	Bessatsu Koro Koro Comics
Original run	April 1997 – February 1998
No. of volumes	4
Manga: Cutey Honey F
Authored by	Yukako Īsaka
Publisher	Shogakukan
Serialized in	Flower Comics (Chao Magazine)
Original run	March 1997 – April 1998
No. of volumes	4
Movie: Cutey Honey F
キューティーハニーＦ (Kyūtī Hanī F)
Directed by
Studio	Toei Animation
Released	1997-07-12
Runtime
Manga: Cutey Honey: Tennyo Densetsu
Authored by	Go Nagai
Publisher	Futabasha
Serialized in	Weekly Manga Action
Original run	2001 – 2003
No. of volumes	9
Movie: Cutey Honey
キューティーハニー (Kyūtī Hanī)
Directed by	Hideaki Anno
Studio	GAINAX
Released	2004-05-26
Runtime	94
OVA: Re:CUTIE HONEY
Directed by	Hideaki Anno
Studio	GAINAX
No. of episodes	3
Released	2004-07-24 – 2004-09-25
Runtime
Manga: Cutey Honey SEED
Authored by	Komugi Hoshino
Publisher	Akita Shoten
Serialized in	Young Champion
Original run	2004 – 2006
No. of volumes	4+
Manga: Cutie Honey aGoGo!
Authored by	Shinpei Ito, Hideaki Anno
Publisher	Kadokawa Shoten
Serialized in	"Tokusatsu Ace"
Original run	"No.001" – "No.010"
No. of volumes	1

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• Being an android, Cutey Honey's powers are mechanical rather than magical (a device known as the Fixed System of Air Elements).
  • However, in the 1997-98 shōjo anime adaptation, Cutey Honey Flash, Honey Kisaragi is not an android and does transform by magical means.
  • In the live-action Cutie Honey movie and its animated adaptation, Honey's transformation powers come from the Imaginary Induction System, called the I-system for short. The English letter "I" also sounds like the Japanese for "love" (愛; ai).
• Despite its elements of nudity and sexuality, the original 1973-74 Cutey Honey was intended for all audiences in Japan.
• Cutey Honey is considered to be the original template for the group of magical girls who are active fighters, particularly in the "darker" magical girl series aimed at male audiences rather than female. Honey herself is referred to and parodied overtly in many manga and anime series over the years, perhaps most famously in Sailor Moon. Like Cutey Honey, Sailor Moon has a tendency to "speechify" before a fight in an amusing way. This would occur as a three stage speech, recapping whatever alternate forms she had taken earlier in the episode, and culminate into her transformation into Cutey Honey and announcing herself as Ai no Senshi! Cutey Honey! or "Lovely Warrior, Cutey Honey. She was also known for fighting attractive, yet bizarre, exclusively female monsters as well.
• In 1994, the first OVA sequel (Shin Cutey Honey, known as New Cutey Honey in English) was released. To date, this is the only version of Cutey Honey to have been licensed and released in the US. Jessica Calvello, the voice actress who plays Honey in the English-language dub was hand-picked by Go Nagai ^{[citation needed]}.
• In 1997, a new shōjo version of Cutey Honey assumed the timeslot that the long-running magical girl anime Sailor Moon had recently vacated. Cutey Honey Flash was a cuter, gentler version aimed at the young female audience that Sailor Moon had kept entertained for five years. This is the most popular version of "Cutey Honey."
• In 2004, Studio Gainax released a live-action tokusatsu film version starring Eriko Sato in the title role along with a new OVA series (Re: Cutie Honey) animated by Gainax. At Anime Expo 2006, Bandai Entertainment announced they will be releasing the live-action Cutey Honey in the US in 2007.

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History

Cutie Honey first appeared to the public on volume 41 of the 1973 edition of the manga "Shōnen Champion". Volume 41 was the October edition of the manga and was released 13 days prior to the start of the TV series.

The Cutie Honey TV series began on the 13th October 1973 and ran until 30th March 1974. The series was aired in France in the late 1980s under the title Cherry Miel (Cherry Honey).

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Plot details

Honey is an android girl created by an elderly scientist to be his "daughter". She had no idea she was an artificial being, and she also attended a Catholic school. She found the truth about herself on the day her "father" was killed by members of a villanous organization called the "Panther Claw". She discovered that by saying "Honey Flash!" she could transform into a red-haired female superhero, with great strength and agility, as well as a sword. In fact, she had several other forms, all beautiful women with different abilities. (Her "real" form has long blonde hair.) She was able to transform with the device in her body, Fixed System of Air Elements. Honey continued to get revenge against the Panther Claw (and its woman-android agents) while attending school, until defeating them. Aiding Honey in her quest for revenge is the Hayami family. Hayami Danbei, his two sons Seiji, Junpei, and later on his nephew Naojiro. The organization "Panther Claw" is ruled by Panther Zora, and her younger sibling Sister Jill. Their main goal is unlimited wealth, and obtaining the Fixed System of Air Elements Device. The original series ending leaves the story open-ended, with Honey defeating Sister Jill and discovering Panther Zora is the true leader of Panther Claw. Catholic students of the Cathedral Church of St. ...

The OVA continued the story several years later, with Honey not having aged, but having forgotten her true identity. Once she recovers her memory, she continues to battle evil. In this stage, her shapeshifting powers have increased to the point of being able to imitate any person's form (but not to change gender, curiously, even when mimicking a man). The notion of a shape-shifting android can, of course, be traced back as far as Hirai and Kuwata's science fiction manga series, 8 Man. In some respects, Cutie Honey was an overtly sexualized version of the earlier character; significantly, Honey's deceased father is a dead ringer for 8-Man's creator, Doctor Tani. 8 Man (8マン) or Eightman (エイトマン) is a fictional manga and anime superhero created in 1963 by writer Kazumasa Hirai and artist Jiro Kuwata. ...

The manga contains even more violence, gross out humor, and nudity than in the original TV series. In the manga the whole Saint Chapel School was lesbian, including Honey's best friend Aki Natsuko. While the Panther Claw were andriods in the anime (excluding Sister Jill and Panther Zora), they are referred as cyborgs in the manga. Honey does not join Paradise School, nor does Danbei have a nephew named Naojiro in the manga. The idea of Paradise School, and the characters Naojiro and Goeman (a teacher at Paradise School) were borrowed from another Go Nagai manga, Abashiri Family. However there is a female character in the manga that looks like Naojiro, named Naoko. She was the "boss" of Saint Chapel, while Naojiro was the "boss" of Paradise School. The manga ends in a similar (although a bit more comical) way. However, the story completely ended in Cutie Honey 90's.

The Ken Ishikawa manga follows a more episodic formula like the TV series. The art work is quite crude, and inconsistent. Unlike the TV series or original manga, Honey always knew Panther Zora was the leader of Panther Claw. Sister Jill does not even show up until the last chapter of Ishikawa's version. Like the original manga, and TV series the manga ends with Honey defeating Sister Jill, and continuning her battle with Zora.

Also notable is that creator Go Nagai based Cutey Honey off of two classic tokusatsu superhero shows, 7-Color Mask (1959) and Rainbowman (1972), which both featured superheroes with 7 different forms (7-Color Mask had 7 disugises and Rainbowman had 7 different superhero forms). Both shows were created by Yasunori Kawauchi (who also created Japan's first superhero TV show, Moonlight Mask ["Gekko Kamen"], which Nagai spoofed as Kekko Kamen). To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... 7-Color Mask (七色仮面 - Nana-Iro Kamen) is the title superhero of the tokusatsu TV series, 7-Color Mask (七色仮面 - Nana-Iro Kamen), later called New 7-Color Mask (新七色仮面 - Shin Nana-Iro Kamen). ... Rainbowman (レインボーマン - Reinbôman) is the title superhero of the tokusatsu TV series, Rainbowman (レインボーマン - Reinbôman) sometimes known as Warrior of Love, Rainbowman (愛の戦士レインボーマン - Ai no Senshi Reinbôman). ... Gekkō Kamen (月光仮面), known in English as Moonlight Mask, is a fictional superhero that has appeared in Japanese tokusatsu and anime TV shows and movies since his TV debut in 1958. ... Kekko Kamen is an adult rated animated series from creator Go Nagai. ...

Honey is notable for being mischievous for a Japanese female hero, often teasing her male friends and mocking her enemies in combat.

New Cutey Honey (1994-95)

Many years after the events of the first series, the citizens of Cosplay City are struggling with the criminals attacking it. Into this chaos, a new mayor, Light, has vowed to reign in the criminal element and bring back peace. However, the dark lord Dolmeck, along with his sidekicks Black Maiden (actually Panther Zora) and Peeping Spider seek to derail his efforts. However, when it is learned that his secretary Honey Kisaragi is the legendary Cutey Honey, she resumes her campaign to save the city with the power of love. Cosplayers Cosplay ), a contraction (or portmanteau) of the English words costume and play, is a Japanese subculture centered on dressing as characters from manga, anime, tokusatsu, and video games, and, less commonly, Japanese live action television shows, fantasy movies, or Japanese pop music bands. ...

After her return, Honey moves into the home of Danbei Hayami, a cyborg guardian and "dirty old man," as well as Danbei's grandson Chokkei, and his parents Daiko and Akakabu.

The series, originally intended to be a 12-part series ended at episode 8. While the first 4 episodes which contain a complete story was considered a success, the second set of 4 episodes, intended to set up the final 4 episodes failed to generate new interest in 1995. Toei did not fund the production of the last 4 episodes and the series concluded without a true ending. In 2004, when this OAV series was released in DVD in Japan, the scripted but not filmed episode 9, a Christmas story, was turned into a CD drama. The remaining three episodes were never scripted. Toei Animation Co. ...

The series is full of nods to Go Nagai's other work.

• Many of Danbei's weapons are based on those used by Mazinger Z, Great Mazinger and Grendizer, who were created by the scientist Dr. Kabuto. In fact, his appearance in Shin Cutey Honey matches how he looks in the Mazinkaiser OAV, and Mazinger Z manga.

• The villains stand behind a Devilman gargoyle at the end of the first episode.

• One of the villains' captives in the second episode looks like Sayaka from Mazinger Z

• In a prison episode, Honey turns herself into an inmate who looks exactly like Koji Kabuto. She also teams up with Akira from Devilman in the same episode.

• The designs for Chokkei's parents, Daiko and Akakabu are based off the parents from Go Nagai's Deliquent in Drag.

• In episode 2, a picture of Prof. Kisaragi is seen in Honey's room (as well as a bust of Mazinger Z on her nightstand).

• During her battle with Dolmeck (in New Cutey Honey), Honey has flashbacks to various Panther Claw minions, as well as Sister Jill. She also makes reference to her friend, Aki Natsuko from the original series and manga, who was burned to death by Sister Jill. (Dragon Panther in the manga)

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Cutey Honey Flash (1997-98)

The title is often shortened to Cutey Honey F.

In this series, considered by some to be more "toned down" and "family-friendly" than the previous versions, Honey can also be anyone she wishes, but prefers 7 forms in particular:

• Scoop Honey - Paparazzi. A woman who is ready with her film and camera acting as a reporter.
• Stage Honey - Singer. A woman who has her microphone and her formal dress ready for an audience.
• Nurse Honey - Nurse. A woman who knows all medical needs necessary.
• Elegance Honey - Bride. A woman who wears a beautiful white wedding dress. The bouquet is used when she's in danger.
• Hurricane Honey - Rider. A woman who is "cool" with her motorcycle. Anytime she needs to escape.
• Escort Honey - Tour guide. A woman who is always there when needed. A disguise as a flight attendant.
• Cutey Honey - Heroine. A woman who has a perfect body and saves the day.

This series introduces Cutey Honey's sister and rival: Misty Honey. Misty Honey, unlike Cutey Honey, cannot turn into anyone she wants; she can only change to Misty Honey. She has a band around her leg that resembles Honey's choker, which she uses to transform with the words "Honey Flash" (Like her sister) She can even be seen as a "reverse" version of Cutey Honey, since Misty Honey has long blue hair and a less revealing outfit, while Cutey Honey has short pink hair and a more revealing outfit. Her alter ego is Seira Hazuki. Paparazzi is a plural term (paparazzo being the singular form) for photographers who take candid photographs of celebrities, usually by relentlessly shadowing them in their public and private activities. ... A camera is a device used to take pictures (usually photographs), either singly or in sequence, with or without sound recording, such as with video cameras. ... A reporter is a type of journalist who researches and presents information in certain types of mass media. ... Ercole de Roberti: Concert, c. ... A microphone, sometimes referred to as a mike or mic (both IPA pronunciation: ), is an acoustic to electric transducer that converts sound into an electrical signal. ... An audience is a group of people who participate in and experience or encounter a work of art, literature, theatre, music or academics in any medium. ... It has been suggested that Nursing be merged into this article or section. ... Bride Bride in formal dress North America. ... White is a color, (more accurately it contains all the colors of the visible spectrum and is sometimes described as an achromatic color—black is the absence of color) that has high brightness but zero hue. ... A wedding dress seen at Thornbury Castle, England A wedding dress or wedding gown is clothing worn by a bride during a wedding ceremony. ... Bouquet can refer to: An arrangement of cut flowers - see nosegay. ... The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view. ... Flight attendants, formerly called sky girls, air hostesses, stewardesses and stewards are responsible for the wellbeing of airline passengers. ... This article is about the type of character. ...

There are quite a lot of Go Nagai references in CHF much like Shin Cutey Honey. One of the villains, Freddy Claw is a female mix of Dr. Hell and Count Brocken from Mazinger Z. Another villain, Gorgon Claw is a female version of Duke Gorgon from Mazinger Z, and Great Mazinger. Various villains of the day are inspired from monsters of the original Cutie Honey, and the Devilman series. Two boys from Honey Kisaragi's school are based off pliots from Getter Robo. Mazinger Z The Movie DVD cover Mazinger Z (マジンガーZ or マジンガー・ゼット), also known as Tranzor Z, is the name of a manga by artist Go Nagai, first published in Japan in 1972, and turned into a long-running anime television series later in the same year. ... Mazinger Z The Movie DVD cover Mazinger Z (マジンガーZ or マジンガー・ゼット), also known as Tranzor Z, is the name of a manga by artist Go Nagai, first published in Japan in 1972, and turned into a long-running anime television series later in the same year. ... Great Mazinger(グレートマジンガー) is the name of a manga comic book and anime television series by manga artist Go Nagai, made as a direct continuation of the successful Mazinger Z series. ... Devilman (デビルマン Debiruman) is a manga and anime character. ... Getter Robo (ゲッターロボ - Gettâ Robo) is a Super Robot anime series created by Go Nagai and Ken Ishikawa and produced by Toei Animation. ...

Cutey Honey in the 21st century

In 2004, Gainax produced a live-action Cutey Honey film, starring popular Japanese model Eriko Sato as Honey Kisaragi/Cutey Honey. Directed by Hideaki Anno, the film loosely retells the classic story of Cutey Honey's battle to defend humanity and avenge her father against Panther Claw. Due to budget constraints, and a desire to exploit the popularity of Eriko Sato, the film places more emphasis on Honey's many changes of costume, and contains only a few action sequences. Villains Honey faces include Sister Jill, Gold Claw, Cobalt Claw, Scarlet Claw and Black Claw. Hideaki Anno (庵野秀明 Anno Hideaki, born 22 May 1960 in Ube, Japan) is a Japanese animation and video director. ...

Simultaneous to the release of the Cutey Honey live action film, Gainax also produced a new three-part OAV (Original Animated Video) series entitled Re: Cutey Honey. The OAV tells the same story as the film, although with significantly more detail and plot elements added. A radical departure from the style of previous Cutey Honey incarnations, Re: Cutie Honey uses simplistic animation and bold lines that are heavily influenced by the original Cutie Honey TV series. The simplicity of many of the backgrounds and characters creates a distinct visual style that has its supporters and detractors, like the original.

Nudity

In the original Cutey Honey TV series, whenever Honey changes into one of her many forms, she is seen nude briefly while the transformation takes place. The series also contains a number of panty shots when Honey is in her normal human form.

The degree of nudity in the different Cutey Honey series has varied over the years. While the all-ages Cutey Honey Flash featured the least nudity (and what little there was featured no detail), New Cutey Honey contained the most openly graphic sexual content, and was probably the closest to border on hentai of any of the series (it is even listed on The Right Stuf International's website as being an "adult" title). Because New Cutey Honey is the only Cutey Honey series to have been released in the United States (or indeed, in the English language), Cutey Honey often has an undeserved reputation in the English-speaking world as a hentai title (even though it technically isn't). Hentai magazines on display in Japan Hentai ) is a Japanese word that means strange appearance. However, in colloquial situations it often means perverted and is subsequently used in many other countries to refer to anime, manga, and computer games with explicit sexual or pornographic content (see Japanese pornography). ... The Right Stuf International is an American retailer based in Grimes, Iowa that markets and distributes anime and manga-related products throughout the United States and internationally. ...

Despite the presence of nudity in Cutey Honey, most of it is done in a tongue-in-cheek manner, and there are no explicit scenes of sexual intercourse. Honey deals with lecherous old men, hormone-driven teenagers, and even beautiful, lesbian women in a humorous context. However, the franchise was parodied in hentai fashion in Angel Blade, part of the Vanilla Series. Homosexuality refers to sexual and romantic attraction between two individuals of the same sex. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... The Vanilla Series is Digital Works brand for its hentai (pornographic) anime, most of which are based on hentai video games. ...

The Staff

Director: Tomoharu Katsumata, Kozo Morishita

Script: Masaki Tsuji, Susumu Takaku, Keisuke Fujikawa

Character Design: Shingo Araki

Animation Director: Shingo Araki, Masamune Ochiai, Joji Kikuchi, Eiji Uemura, Kenzo Koizumi, Kazuhiko Udagawa, Takeshi Shirado, Satoshi Jingu, Kazuo Komatsubara, Shinya Takahashi

Producer: Toshio Katsuta

Production: Toei Animation Co., Ltd. / Dynamic Pro / NET TV (now TV Asahi)

The Theme Song

The Cutie Honey theme song, titled simply "Cutie Honey," is considered by many fans to be one of the classic anime theme songs of all time. In the original 1973 television series, it was sung by Yoko Maekawa, who also performed the ending theme, Yogiri no Honey (Foggy Night of Honey). Other vocalists to have sung the Cutie Honey theme include les-5-4-3-2-1, mayukiss, Salia, Koda Kumi, and Ahyoomee of Sugar. The Mayukiss version (the second opening theme to the Shin Cutey Honey OAV) was sung in English, although its lyrics were not a direct translation of the Japanese lyrics. On the cover of the October 2005 issue of Popteen Kumi Koda (倖田 來未 Kōda Kumi, born November 13, 1982), is a Japanese solo rhythm and blues singer. ... Sugar (슈가) is Korean female band. ...

The original Japanese lyrics (in Romaji) and a closer (though still loose) English translation can be viewed at this site. Japanese writing Kanji 漢字 Kana 仮名 Hiragana 平仮名 Katakana 片仮名 Uses Furigana 振り仮名 Okurigana 送り仮名 Romaji ローマ字 The title given to this article lacks diacritics because of certain technical limitations. ...

One thing that many of the versions of the theme song (including the original TV series version and Shin Cutie Honey) is Honey's playful declaration, "Kawaru wa yo!" ("I'm going to Change!") at the end of the song. In the English dubbed version of Shin Cutie Honey, the line was spoken by voice actress Jessica Calvello as, "All right, it's time to change!"

The theme song showed up again in the 1974 Toei mahou shoujo TV series Majokko Megu-chan, in a scene in which the heroine, Megu, watches Misty Honey (the pop idol form of Cutie Honey, not to be confused with "Misty Honey" from Cutey Honey F) on TV performing the song. Interestingly, Yoko Maekawa also sang the opening and ending theme songs to Majokko Megu-chan, a series which itself made heavy use of "panchira" and "fan service" humor. 1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Panchira means upskirt in Japan. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

External links

• (Japanese) Cutey Honey anime (original) at Toei Animation
• (Japanese) Cutey Honey F (anime) at Toei Animation
• (Japanese) Re:CUTIE HONEY at Toei Video
• Cutie Honey (manga) at Anime News Network's Encyclopedia
• Cutie Honey (anime) at Anime News Network's Encyclopedia
• Anime Web Turnpike Cutie Honey Links -a list of links to various Cutie Honey themed sites