Cutey Honey - Collection 1 |  | Director: Yasuchika Nagaoka
Actors: Michiko Neya, Tamara Lo, Rica Matsumoto, Jessica Calvello, Shinobu Adachi
Studio: Adv Films
Category: DVD
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Format: Animated, Color, DVD, NTSC
Languages: English (Subtitled), English (Original Language), Japanese (Original Language)
Region: 1
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Running Time: 240 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
UPC: 702727006227
EAN: 0702727006227
ASIN: B000050IL9
Theatrical Release Date: February 7, 1998
Release Date: February 27, 2001
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This 1994 OAV was the first of several revivals of the 1973 TV series based on Go Nagai's manga stories. The characters are an assortment of familiar types. Diminutive, cartoony Grandfather Denbei appears alternately powerful and lecherous. Chokkei is the blushing teenage boy whose innocent charm earns him the protection of the buxom title character, the "lovely warrior" android who fights evil while losing her clothes with a frequency that would shock Little Annie Fannie. They're pitted against the demonic Dolmek and his hench-creatures who are trying to take over Cosplay City. But Honey proves more than a match for these nasty but ultimately ineffectual villains as she jiggles her way from victory to victory. New Cutey Honey embodies the "big eyes, big guns, big breasts" clichés that cause detractors to dismiss all Japanese animation--and send adolescent boys' pulses racing. Rated 17 Up: Nudity, violence, profanity. --Charles Solomon
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 The Amazing Amazon Android Returns January 27, 1999
14 out of 16 found this review helpful
Vol. 1 starts out with the world slipping into dark times. Crime is out of control, and a master villian, Dolmeck, is up to no good. A generation earlier, the legendary warrior Cutey Honey vanished during her final battle with the evil Panther Zora. Both are persumed to be dead. However, a prophecy predicts that when a geat darkness threatens to consume the world, than a warrior of light will appear. Needless to say, Dolmeck is the great darkness that threatens to consume the world, and Cutey Honey is the warrior of light who must stop him. Cutey Honey is an android who was created in the image of her maker's dead daughter. Before he was killed by Panther Zora's agents, he implanted in Honey a device that allows her to whip up whatever she needs out of thin air. This same machine allows Honey to transform herself into various different bodies that would be best suited to a particular situation. For adventures under the sea, she can transform into a mermaid, for adventures requiring stealth, she can transform into a ninja, well you get the picture. Honey reappears when a homicidal toady tries to kill the mayor. Fortunately for the mayor, an amnesic Honey had been his secretary all along, and this attack restores her memories. Honey soon meets up with a friend from the old days, a dirty old man who is intended to provide comic relief, and his family. Before the video ends, Honey has time for one more battle, this time with the Jewel Princess, a truly twisted individual who likes to freeze beautiful women and put them on display in her own private gallery. All of the villians are unique and memorable. The most vivid are Peeping Spider and Black Maiden, Dolmeck's two lieutenants. Peeping Spider, can spin webs, see things on all light spectrums, and has eight legs. The Black Maiden looks like a strung out nude Vogue model encased in a robot that serves as her life support system and means of transport. The video ends with Dolmeck and company still needing to be stopped, and Honey determined to do so. Will the second installment of our heroine's adventures be as thrilling as the first? Well, you'll just have to wait till I review vol.2 to find out.
Cutey Honey 2 (Dolmeck 0) January 29, 1999
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Vol. 2 starts off with Honey battling a montage of baddies with a rousing rock song playing in the background. The singer of the song is a young women named Selina. Not only is she a popular rock star, but she also hands out a drug that turns people into horrific monsterous versions of themselves. Both the Jewel Princess and the gun-wielding toady from vol. 1 used these drugs. Honey is soon onto to Selina. She is tipped off to Selina when the last villian she dispatches in the opening montage dies uttering her name. When Honey confronts Selina, the Peeping Spider captures her young friend Chokai(I'm not sure on the spelling of his name so please bear with me.) This sets the stage for Honey's final battle with Dolmeck and his minions. During this epic confrontation, Dolmeck's master plan revealed, as is the secret of the Black Maiden. All of this provides great entertainment. However, it is easier to follow if you watch this volume shortly after seeing vol.1. Also neither volume provide detailed information on Honey's past. If you pay close attention, everything you need to know is revealed, however, I suspect it would all make sense quicker if you have seen the 1972 TV series that this is a sequel to. Although it is a cartoon, the story of Cutey Honey is not for children! There are acts of graphic violence. It is not uncommon to see people get eviscerated. Also, each of Honey's metamorphoses leave her temporarily nude while her clothing rearranges itself. Needless to say, her dirty old man sidekick, and most male viewers, greatly enjoy these scenes. Both vol. 1 + 2 are available either dubbed into English, or in the original Japanese with English subtitles. Some of the jokes in the dubbed version are different than in the subtitled version, but the important elements of the story are the same. A major complaint of Japanese animation fans is that when a video is dubbed into English, the voices don't really match the characters. This is true with some of the supporting players in this story, but major characters like Honey and Dolmeck are just fine. Although their lines aren't always delivered in the same style as their Japanese counterparts, I think that in the case of the major characters it is more a different interpretation of the dialog rather than a lack of acting skills that spawns this difference. At this point you must be wondering does Cutey Honey live happily ever after, or is there an even greater evil than Dolmeck lurking in the shadows? You'll just have to wait for my review of vol.3 to find out.
Naked Girl Androids! Critical Reviews! Great Fun! November 7, 2007
Timothy Perper (Philadelphia PA USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
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.
One of the greats! July 13, 2001
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
This series and Project A-Ko were what got me interested in anime years ago, and I was thrilled to see this come out on DVD. A very entertaining yet brief (8 episodes) show, that was great if you are a fan of superheroes. Not an overly serious show, but great character designs, artwork, lots of laughs and fan service type nudity, mixed with great action in a villain of the week style format. The only complaint I had was that it seemed as if the 2nd half of the first DVD seems like the climax finale to the series, and in fact was the best 2 episodes. The 2nd DVD just felt like filler episodes.
Honey Flash! August 5, 2004
Warren King (Jersey City, NJ)
6 out of 9 found this review helpful
This collection is the better alternative to buying the more expensive single discs separately. I love Cutey Honey. I had the original VHS tapes years ago and was glad that a collection of the eight episodes had finally been released. The extras on the DVDs include cosplay performances and interviews with the voice actresses.
Sadly the number of episodes belies an unfinished work. I have a feeling Go Nagai wanted a continuing series, but never got around to making it so. Still, for all fans of Cutey Honey this is a must-buy collection.
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