Summary: >

The citizens of Cosplay City (no I'm not making that up) are struggling with a huge crime wave. A battle between the mayor on the side of good, and the dark lord Dolmec ensues. But when the assistant of the mayor learns that she is the legendary warrior Cutey Honey, the tables may finally take a turn for the better. But not only is Honey a warrior, she can do pretty much any occupation you can think of - after she transforms herself into their clothing. And with the vast array of criminals overrunning the city, Honey will need all the skills she can get.

Thoughts: >

One thing to understand is that this is an old old-school series. The first iteration of Cutey Honey ran in the mid 70s - yes the seventies! New Cutey Honey is an attempt to put a more modern rendition out. So the first thing to note is that Honey assumes different skills, and has outfits to match. But it doesn't stop there because there's also lots of nekkid transformation sequences. Now you can see how that could either be really cute, or really tacky - I'd say this series manages to teeter on the line and not being much of either.

But lets get down to business. Cutey Honey is sort of one a big fan service orgy, but it doesn't really do it on purpose. The story which was cooked up a long time ago actually has a point to it, it just lends itself so well to serving up cosplay fetishes, and nude shots. As far as the story goes... It was okay. It's easy to say it's much like a magical girl anime where the girl fights someone that has turned into a demon or something. Uh, well that IS what happened, but it was actually Cutey Honey that inspired the whole magical girl genre to do that in the first place in the 70s. There's also the problem that this series is slightly incomplete - only running 8 episodes of the intended 12.

I wouldn't say this anime is very broad in it's approach despite the fact that it's not supposed to be targeted at any particular audience. Cutey Honey certainly has a following but it's hard to really say what type of person would want to watch it. It's an action/comedy thing with fan-service galore, that never takes itself too seriously. In any event, I would not recommend this title to new anime fans until you have a good grasp of different classes of anime and how New Cutey Honey fits into those classes. It's an okay title but to find it's audience you need to know exactly what you want in an anime and if you think Cutey Honey delivers that. It's easy to like or be turned off on this title. It's also sort of misunderstood so I guess I'm not really recommending much of anything am I? Wow I just realized this review isn't saying much other than blah blah blah. And with the fact that I type so slow why am I wasting even more time typing this. Okay I'm done...

No I'm not, the chick in the live action version is HOT!