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CUTEY HONEY F

ANIME

STATUS
COMPLETE
EPISODES
39
RELEASE
January 31, 1998
LENGTH
23 min

DESCRIPTION

On her sixteenth birthday, Honey Kisaragi goes to meet her father. However, he shows up injured and on the run. Out of nowhere, a group of thugs and a monster show up. A detective, Seiji Hayama, rescues Honey and her father. Unfortunately, the monster captures Honey`s father. A grieving Honey goes home to find it in ruins, but a handsome man gives her hope and a device to use against the monsters who took her father. With them, Honey can transform into multiple forms and destroy Panther Zora, the evil behind this.

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CAST

Honey Kisaragi
Ai Nagano
Seiji Hayami
Susumu Chiba
Natsuko Aki
Makiko Oomoto
Sister Jill
Peggy Sander
Seira Hazuki
Akiko Hiramatsu
Tarantula Panther
Emi Uwagawa
Miharu Tsuneni
Shizuka Okohira
Daemon Abashiri
Ginzou Matsuo
Prince Zera
Shou Hayami
Panther Zora
Rita Engelmann
Takeshi Kisaragi
Akira Kamiya

Episodes (39)

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REVIEWS

CitronPizza
68/100
Just shy of being great, but a worthy detour
I'm very mixed on Cutie Honey Flash. At first, it seemed to me like a strange thing to even approach with the intent to adapt it to a younger audience, considering the original's, y'know, everything (especially considering Flash was partly made by the Sailor Moon team, and replacing that show in its time slot, as more knowledgeable friends told me). But, in a sense, this has kinda supported something I also found in its original iterations, that being the series' genuine interest in telling - if not competent - at least interesting and indulgently fun and corny stories with its characters and setting. In the end, I got a lot out of this show: it's generally pretty, its writing is decently fun (I've also enjoyed each character's newly assigned role) and its action is nothing to scoff at either. I like the take of Panther Claw as a more magical, fantasy group of genuine monster girls "born from darkness and humanity's greed". I love Jill's second form, it's probably the only time so far I've actively enjoyed her monster-like sm-queen design, but I'm particularly fond of the second half's trio of panther generals, Freddy Claw, Scud Panther and Gorgon Panther, although their inclusion could've been approached differently, those latter two, especially Scud, go too quickly to have the impact they frankly deserved. The episode's ordering, in terms of tone, definitely was one of my gripes in the show's later episodes, and I can't quite say the ending felt as satisfying as it could, not that it's my biggest gripe with the show.

Something I'll give in favor to the large amount of episodes is its fluctuating status quo. While nothing phenomenal, it was pretty interesting to see the story develop, be it the developments Honey herself goes through (accentuated by the delay some key events from the original story were given without affecting the stakes), or Panther Claw's changes in hierarchy and inner conflicts. It didn't quite end up building to a satisfying ending, but that didn't taint my experience as a whole.

I think the bulk of the problems I had with this show come up to Prince Zera, and almost entirely because of the Misty Honey arc. The fact that he's redeemed so easily despite basically causing irreparable damage to Honey, and that his characterization is inconsistent both before and after the arc, really feels more like a contrivance to keep him as a viable romantic rival and overall supportive pretty-boy to Honey throughout the show (it's infuriating how many times he seemingly dies only to come back to spout some fuckass power of love speech or half-baked metaphor).

I have my other little bugs of course, the toy integrations (namely the Rouge Arrow, if that's how that stupid thing's called) always just kinda piss me off in just how blatant the toy is with how obviously they clash with other visual elements. Similarly, the special attacks and the transformation sequence of Honey's second form in the latter half always had me rolling my eyes, but what can you do, I get that they're useful and that this show was intended to be watched with longer breaks between episodes. What I did find genuinely underwhelming was Honey's voice: it's overall good in most regular and action scenes, but she really loses on charisma when it comes to chanting her famous "Honey Flash!!" and other special attacks. Some audio flourishes, like echo or other effects, I think could've helped.

In the end, do I recommend this? Frankly, I would say so far it is the best and most well-rounded Cutie Honey I've watched so far, but perhaps it's not entirely true to the average experience of this show. Still, a fun time, and not a bad introduction or sole experience of the franchise.

Total Screenshots: 155, almost entirely Panther Claw, a surprisingly high amount of which are Freddy Claw
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