Cutie Honey F

Best Shoujo base Honey content ever , Cutie Honey Flash or Cutie Honey F is a fantastic 90'S anime with its Sailor Moon art style , and writing, Toei did another pretty good job at keeping the Magical genre alive , ✨ this show is slow , and is also have flashing lights so watch out for that , the Honey character is great here , her Honey Flash really is a Flash , if you know what I mean ,
The show main weakness is the Try and turn Monster of the Week formula, the show is ... slow but its gets better at the end , do not watch this if your eyes get hurt by Flashing lights

I'll start this review by pointing out that I sincerely don't understand why there is a claim circulating that this is some sort of Sailor Moon spin-off. The production team might have been the same talented one behind the absolute masterpiece of animation Sailor Stars, but there is nothing Sailor Moon specific here except some really tenous visual homages to that one like a one-and-done lips animation during a Cutie Henshin pose, or some barebone concepts similar to those present in that one. For the rest, this beast (in a good way) of an anime is a thing of its own, with the main character ... having a different modus operandi, che supporting cast being completely different, the ending being completely different, etc. etc. etc. With that out of the way, the Sailor Stars production team apparently was EXTREMELY TALENTED beyond belief because this, together with the equally shoujo-tinted tokusatsu penned by the Eddie Van Halen of Tokusatsus Toshiki Inoue, manages to elevate what was the absolute worst animated product I've ever experienced in my whole life since starting to watch animes back in the early 90's - the original Hideous with a capital H Tokusatsu/Exploitation 70's Cutie Honey "anime" series by master of overrated hacks and wanna-be exploitation/porn director Go Nagai - to a really enjoyable, fun, engaging, heartfelt and cute series that you'll watch from start to end with no hickups, no will to drop it, amazed by the top-notch animation (incredible compared to the unwatchable and extremely dated by the time animation of the 70's crap), well choreographed and diverse fights, shoujo inserts that are friggin' loveable ecc. ecc. ecc. The only thing that might a bit bother you is the usual japanese sexism for which a woman's only dream in life is to marry and have kids which is not true in any way, but between treating a characters literally ONLY and not ALSO as a stimulant for sexual libido (there are indeed several shots in this series with Honey completely naked during the Cutie henshin sequence, but they don't feel like forcibly trying to elicit a wanking from you) in the most hamfisted, unpleasant and in-your-face way ever put on animated form and this kind of sexism I think I'll go safely with the latter if the result is an enjoyment over 9000. This series and the linked short OAV (an elongated episode) are literally the definitive version of the character, completely trumping everything with the direct intervention of sucky Go Nagai in all regards. Watch this and forget the godfriggin' awful nightmarish monster - I can't legitimately stress how bad it is, the spectator being a man or a woman it doesn't matter. I am a man, I HATE that thing with all myself - from the 70's ever existed in the first place.

I totally love Cutey Honey. She's tough and not afraid to be sexy. And even though she was one of the first magical girls, she stands out just as much as a unique character as she did in the 80s. Most versions of her story are pretty similar only to each other. There's one major outlier, though: Cutey Honey Flash.

As the series that took over Sailor Moon's timeslot when it first aired, Cutey Honey Flash is not the ecchi/action sort of magical girl series you'd expect from the franchise, instead following a more typical formula. It takes place in high school, it's totally family-friendly, and ... It's very episodic. In every episode, Honey and her friends start out doing something typical of teen girls (or at least what little girls wish that their teenage years would be like). Then (rather underdeveloped) evil strikes, and Honey has to transform and fight evil. There's an underlying plot, of course -- in this one, Honey is trying to rescue her missing father -- and a mysterious yet helpful man (sound familiar?). It's far from unpleasant, but it's very much your typical magical girl plot and atmosphere. Rather underwhelming, really, and while I understand that the intention was to give Sailor Moon a spiritual successor, Cutey Honey Flash doesn't bring anything new to the table to make it stand out from Sailor Moon and other similar series.

Still, Cutey Honey Flash retains a decent amount of the charm in other versions. While Honey is meeker in this version, she's still a strong character, both in the sense of being well-characterized and the sense of kicking a lot of butt. A version of the classic theme song is used as the opening, along with Honey's costume being a variation of the original. Honey still has her transforming abilities, too; she solves problems brought by the villains by transforming into different types of people. It can indeed fun to watch the traditional components of the original Cutey Honey mixed with your standard magical girl tropes, and I'm glad that even in a different genre, Cutey Honey Flash still has some of what makes other versions great.

Full disclosure: I only understand English, and this review is for those who are in the same boat as me and wondering if they should try out this series anyway. Cutey Honey Flash has only been fansubbed up to the ninth episode, with little sign of more coming up. It may become a very different show in the next thirty episodes, but for now they aren't available. For now, it's a solid but not fabulous watch for magical girl fans who don't mind seeing every 90s trope in the book, and Cutey Honey fans who also enjoy more traditional shoujo.