Shin Cutie Honey

This anime is actually amazing, which surprised me. Basically, it takes every great aspect from the original cutie honey (1973), and then greatly improves every weak aspect of the original. There's a lot of attention to details, and you'll get most of it if you watched the original (despite all the silliness of original series). Intro song is a remix of original one. Intro sequence is new, but it uses elements from the original. There are similar elements resembling original series here and there, yet everything is greatly improved. The anime is very similar in structure to the original one - meaning a monster or an enemy,followed by a fight, followed by the trademark "cutie honey reveal" scene ("aru toki watush wa....." (list of costumes) "ai no senshi cutie honey sa!"). However, now things are believable and do not look silly. Monsters look convincing. Characters resemble actual people. Background are no longer abstract and make sense. Monsters can be taken seriously. Yet at the same time time it resembles original go nagai works, preserves style, despite looking realistic. The anime features very high quality 1990s animation, with great animation, properly detailed mechanisms (unlike the original one where vehicles barely had any details on them). Off the top of my head, it was somewhat similar to the first ova series of of "You're under arrest", and sorta resembled "Martian Successor Nadesico". The quality drops a bit in the last episode, but overall it is top notch. There's also a lot of nudity and fanservice involved, however it is handled properly - in humorous manner and does not feel forced. Now... details: Story: It is fairly simple but believable. There are few overarching long-term arcs, but eventually anime switches to episodic structure. The world is interesting, but not really explained - it is just some cyberpunkish city in the future, and that's a bout it. So overarching story element is not a masterpiece material. However, the story within episode works quite well. There are occasional gruesome death or surprisingly dark elements out of nowhere, but that's in line with go nagai works. Baiscally, in one scene you can see light hearted and somewhat silly material, and in another one people die for real. Art: Very high quality 1990s art and animation. Original cutie honey (1973) suffered from that issue where it couldn't properly portray 3d space, kept deforming characters in movement, and monsters had stereotypical "evil villain face". However, in this anime, things are properly hand-drawn, characters and bodies have proper anatomy, at the same time somehow preserving cartoonish faces of certain side characters when necessary. Basically, there were better animes in the art department, but there weren't that many of them. It is on outlaw star/trigun/ martian successor nadesico, pretty much. There's a noticeable drop in quality in some scenes i nthe last episode, but otherwise it is a top notch material. Sound: Very nice remix of original intro song. Very nice remix of the remix of the intro song as well. Music is good, and if you watched the original, you'll be pleasantly surprised to hear that they kept the original tune, but reworked it into something much better. Character: Better than in the original series. Original characters in 1973 were pretty much embodiment of one idea or one role, but here they actually start resembling people. There's a very small bit of character development going on in some of the side characters, but in general, interactions between them are fairly believable/convincing. Enjoyment: It was quite interesting to watch. Definitely not a moment to get bored. Overall: Highly recommended. I may have gone overboard rating it as 9, but it is definitely a 8/10 or 9/10 material. You'll enjoy it more if you watched the original series, but this is not strictly necessary. There's fanservice (and nudity), but I'd say it is handled in proper (humorous) way, and not awkward manner present in some modern anime. So, check it out, if you have the opportunity.

Shin Cutey Honey follows Honey adventure as she has to face a new enemy. I will not be comparing this to the other Honey series as I only watch Re Cutie Honey and choose this since the art has age well. So on to the review. Story:Cutie honey fights bad guy until she fights the last boss with the show having a real ending at the 4th episode and the rest feeling like bonus episode or they were not able to put more episode. There no real depth and is just good vs evil with some fun moments, gag and great one liners. This wouldnot be bad as the lead Honey is basically fun super hero who fights for justice, but one side character really did not belong there and drag the story a bit, and I go more into that later. Is just some fun good vs evil and not much else. Art: The animation has that 80's style art that I love while also moving nicely. The classic Cutie honey have not age well as far as animation, this however did with some of the bad guy looking really great. While the action is nothing spectacular, it still manage to be entertaining. Sound:It has the classic op in Japanese and English, so yay. Otherwise the soundtrack and the ending is nothing special. Character: As I said Honey, the lead character is fun, sexy with great one liners and is a fighter for justice. She is basically flawless and is fun seeing her fight bad guys, exposing her breast, make jokes and change clothes. That being said the side character who is a kid felt pointless. He was only there for other characters to explain about Honey and to be a damsel in distress, but as a boy. Than they add a other useless character in episode 5 that probably was plan to be a love interest for the boy. This really hinder what could have been a much more fun show as any scene with the kid I did not care for or cringe at the force drama. That being said the rest of the side character consist of the mom and dad of the kid who are really fun, since they are criminals. Than there a old perverted cyborg guy who shots lots of explosion, so not much I can complain about that. Overall:Is a fun superhero female who get naked alot fight the forces of evil, but is nothing special aside for the fact that Cutie Honey have influence lots of shows. Is worth watching for Cutie Honey fans, but aside from that there are better shows. I personally prefer Re:cutie Honey.

Despite the fact that, at the time of this review, Shin Cutie Honey only has positive or mixed reviews here, I've mostly seen negative opinions about it everywhere else. I do not understand them, however. Shin Cutie Honey is a soft-sequel of the original, 1973 series, though in a way it makes more sense to refer to it as the "Turn A Gundam" of Cutie Honey, as it is set in a distant, dystopic future with different versions of characters from Nagai Go's star system. It adds a lot to the original by having characters with more fleshed out personalities and episodes with more of a storyto them. We now have a Gotham-esque metropolis of "Cosplay City", a "hardened" Honey with attitude, a lovely side-cast (I absolutely ADORE the visuals and relationship dynamic between Akakabu and Daiko, Chokkei's parents) and a late-80's - 90's aesthetic that almost borders self-parody, from large shoulder-pads to glam-rock. It goes harder in the ecchi direction, to the point that it would be very difficult to post a video about it on you tube without having to censor a lot of it, from Black Maiden's delicious flat chest to a Honey that, despite being made out of metal, really feels like a human made out of meat, bones, fat, muscle and sinew. It knows what aesthetic it wants, from the guitar rendition of the original theme song, from Honey's new forms such as a silver armor. What might be a a letdown for many, however, is that Shin Cutie Honey is an incomplete story... sort of. It was initially supposed to have 12 episodes, but it only ever had 8. This is less of a problem since, due to it's unorthodox structure, the story technically "ends" at episode 4, with the remaining ones being somewhat self-contained episodes. If you found the (Equally incomplete) ending of the original series satisfactory, then this one shouldn't really be an issue for you. I don't think that I need to talk about the artstyle or animation, it's the good quality you expect from a 90's OVA. Give it the three episode try, at the very least, as I personally consider the third one one of the best.

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