CUTEY HONEY : i manga (incl Yuu Okazaki - Ken Ishikawa)

Actually. I have bad news, most of my collection was stolen.

All I have left is my Cutie Honey Roman Album, the original series on DVD, and t hese few magazine issues. ):

No. Near everything was stolen. All my Cutie Honey DVDs, aside from the original TV series. All my manga, aside from these magazines.

Dororon Enma-kun, Devilman, Ransie la Strega, Sailor Moon, and the others all gone. Life is cruel. I'm thankfully I still have the original Cutie Honey...

Thanks, nothing can be done about it now. He possibly stole my boxes of DVDs because he thought he could sell them. Oh well.. the story of my life!!!

This is the Nakayoshi version by Yuu Okazaki. This is the chapter second. As you can see this is more comedic.

Yeah... we figured who it is. And he has an "addiction". Blah.

I will try to upload images from the last chapter tomorrow. I also have other rare scans from Terebi Rando and Terebi Magazine you can see here: www.flickr.com/photos/43726721@N06/page3/

Honey is not the original magical girl. The first magical manga was Himitsu no Akko-chan (Stily lo specchio magico), and the first magical girl anime was Mahotsukai Sally.

Cutie Honey was the first magical who fought evil, and started the trend of "nude transformation". Honey was also the first magical girl series aimed to boys. The series was originally suppose to be a shojo series, airing in the same timeslot as the previous magical girl series. But NET TV (now TV Asahi) decided to air Miracle Shojo Limit-chan (Cybernella) in that timeslot. A bad decision, since Limit-chan got bad ratings and was cancelled.

The original plans for Honey as a shojo was to make it more of a romance (more like CHF). Seiji was known as "Kazama Shun", and had little sister named Zuuko (her design was used for Queen Dirty Marie in episode 6)

Alot of people argue that Honey does not count as a magical girl because she is a shonen series. However, Toei has also labeled Honey as a magical girl... even back in the 70's:



Honey has certainly changed the genre of "magical girls". We began to see more villians, ecchi elements, and transformations in magical girl series. Especially in Majokko Megu-chan (Bia e la sfida della magia), where Megu was usually shown in her underwear, and even fought an evil villian.

Then of course there is Sailor Moon. While that series is inspried by sentai, some of the staff originally wanted to make the series like Cutie Honey. The director Sato Junichi opposed this.

After Sailor Moon, almost all magical girls now come in teams, fight evil, and have transformation scenes...

ere is the final chapter of Yuu Okazaki's Nakayoshi manga. Based on episode 9, but with more comedy thrown in.











And here is a better scan of the DVD booklet listing the different manga series from 1973...



Edited by Salvatore! - 5/11/2010, 19:13

A new discovery! Here is another picture from the rare manga published in "Otomodachi".

1973, it was one of the different manga adaptions published when the TV series aired. I can't translate the artist's name.