is a widely known anime and manga series created by Go Nagai in 1973. Although an android, the main character Honey is considered a prototype for the transforming magical girl character, with a few key differences.

• Being an android, Cutey Honey's powers are mechanical rather than magical (a device known as the Fixed System of Air Elements).
  • However, in the 1997-98 shōjo anime adaptation, Cutey Honey Flash, Honey Kisaragi is not an android and does transform by magical means.
  • In the live-action Cutie Honey movie and its animated adaptation, Honey's transformation powers come from the Imaginary Induction System, called the I-system for short. The English letter "I" also sounds like the Japanese for "love" (愛; ai).
• Despite its elements of nudity and sexuality, the original 1973-74 Cutey Honey was intended for all audiences in Japan.
• Cutey Honey is considered the original template for the group of magical girls who are active fighters, particularly in the "darker" magical girl series aimed at male audiences rather than female. Honey herself is referred to and parodied overtly in many manga and anime series over the years, perhaps most famously in Sailor Moon. Like Cutey Honey, Sailor Moon has a tendency to speechify before a fight in an amusing way, as well as fighting sometimes almost attractive, yet bizarre, exclusively female monsters.
• In 1994, the first OVA sequel (Shin Cutey Honey, known as New Cutey Honey in English) was released. To date, this is the only version of Cutey Honey to have been licensed and released in the US. Jessica Calvello, the voice actress who plays Honey in the English-language dub was hand-picked by Go Nagai.
• In 1997, a new shōjo version of Cutey Honey assumed the timeslot that the long-running magical girl anime Sailormoon had recently vacated. Cutey Honey Flash was a cuter, gentler version aimed at the young female audience that Sailormoon had kept entertained for five years.
• In 2004, Studio Gainax released a live-action tokusatsu film version starring Eriko Sato in the title role along with a new OVA series ( Cutie Honey) animated by Gainax.

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