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stephanie_yuzuki 's review for:
Cutie Honey: The Classic Collection
by Go Nagai
adventurous
dark
emotional
funny
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
The brilliant scientist Dr. Kisaragi builds an android with the likeness of his deceased daughter, Honey. Honey's equipped with fantastic powers and abilities, courtesy of the Airborne Element Fixing Unit, an invention that harnesses and solidifies airborne particles into any matter you desire. Kisaragi enrolls Honey into St. Chapel Academy, a remote all-girls school. However, the ruthless criminal organization Panther Claw murders Kisaragi in an attempt to acquire the Airborne Element Fixing Unit but in the process Honey learns the true potential of the device to become Cutie Honey, a warrior to defeat Panther Claw. With the power to create or be anything, Honey is the only one in a position to fight Panther Claw but will it be enough to defeat the fearsome Sister Jill, leader of Panther Claw's Japanese division?
Here it is, Nagai Go's original, outrageous take on a transforming heroine from 1973. It's campy, trashy and filled to the brim with lewd, crude humor. It's Masked Rider with nudity and bondage, packaged for young boys and released with a companion cartoon series. It's the sort of comic that only could've come out during the seventies. It feels wrong on so many levels to read, filled with action scenes where a nude teenaged girl decapitates masked crooks as blood sprays everywhere and ostensibly humorous scenes where grotesque school staff whip crying nude students or the heroine's molested by the wizened father of her love interest. Yet even at this stage it's easy to see how something like Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon descended from Cutie Honey. The bizarre, all-female monsters of Panther Claw are lewder ancestors of the Sailor Moon animaton's usually female monsters, dispatched in gorier fashion. Honey remains one of the most iconic transforming heroines with good reason, and as wrong as it often is, Cutie Honey remains a fun time.
Here it is, Nagai Go's original, outrageous take on a transforming heroine from 1973. It's campy, trashy and filled to the brim with lewd, crude humor. It's Masked Rider with nudity and bondage, packaged for young boys and released with a companion cartoon series. It's the sort of comic that only could've come out during the seventies. It feels wrong on so many levels to read, filled with action scenes where a nude teenaged girl decapitates masked crooks as blood sprays everywhere and ostensibly humorous scenes where grotesque school staff whip crying nude students or the heroine's molested by the wizened father of her love interest. Yet even at this stage it's easy to see how something like Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon descended from Cutie Honey. The bizarre, all-female monsters of Panther Claw are lewder ancestors of the Sailor Moon animaton's usually female monsters, dispatched in gorier fashion. Honey remains one of the most iconic transforming heroines with good reason, and as wrong as it often is, Cutie Honey remains a fun time.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Body shaming, Sexual assault
Moderate: Violence