Oh wow! Cutie Honey The Live!
No, it’s not a typo. It’s the live action television show of Go Nagai’s Cutie Honey! Now, Cutie Honey The Movie was easily one of my favorite superhero films of the past few years. It was tongue in cheek, but sweet, action packed, and a whole lot of fun. While the show stars Mikie Hara instead Eriko Sato (Carved: The Slit Mouthed Woman), it still looks to maintain the same feel, albeit with a little less freaky set of Tiger Claw minions. The show officially started in Japan just last month, so it should be a while before any version of the show hits stateside. FanSubbers, I’m counting on you.
If you’re not at all familiar with Cutie Honey, check out my review of the film, or this rather wonky Google translation from the show’s official site:
973 comic serial start the same time as the birth of the TV cartoon “Cutie Honey”, Go Nagai writer living 40 th anniversary of work as the October 2007 from the effects of live action TV series is a new guise appeared!
Fans from the old as well as the general audience is familiar, “Androids of Japanese destroyer Kisaragi Honey,” “air elemental unit fixed by the seventh change,” “Mysterious junto PANSAKURO” and the original setting with Attractive activity? while, “a new creature view of the world” and “behind the suspense comedy”, “the latest computer-generated visual technology” and “well-honed live action” a positive. Of course, the fresh spicy is a kind of “fetish”, replacing the works彩RIMASU. The story also many伏線throughout the charade in the shadow of “Sad fate” is a story to finish ahead of the bars.
The spearhead a series of the general manager Makoto Yokoyama. Hollywood sword action and visual theory at the core, playwright Toshiki Inoue, designer出渕Yutaka with the world view of the building and with all the stops out.
On countless occasions visualization, and the generation beyond unloved continue “Cutie Honey” ultimate decision version. It is “Cutie Honey THE LIVE.”
You can also learn more about the show on the Wikipedia page.
Check out the opening for Cutie Honey The Live below:
UPDATE
I’ve now seen three episodes of Cutie Honey The Live, and I’ve got to admit, it’s pretty fun. Sure, I have my share of complaints: Mikie Hara’s no Eriko Sato — something about the pink wig in conjunction with her face makes her look quite a bit older than she is (Kris said she looks like a housewife with it on). Furthermore, her Honey’s quite a bit more naive and shrill than previous incarnations of the cybernetic Cutie. And, at least so far, the episodes tend to be a bit formulaic, with the final fights in each featuring Honey getting her butt kicked in the same plaza locale (notice the checkered steps). But, on the whole, I think the show’s onto something good. Unlike many of the current American superhero films and shows Cutie Honey The Live is refreshingly tongue in cheek. It’s bite sized (23-minute) episodes feature a nice mix of both stupid and ribald humor, as well as decent hand to hand combat (Mikie Hara seems to be doing a fair amount of stunt-work…though it could be a double). It’s not exactly original, but it’s certainly entertaining.
If you’re at all interested in checking it out for yourself, you can head on over to SailorSpork.org. Just make sure , if you do take a gander, to pick up an officially licensed copy once one’s available in the United States.
