Cutie Honey
Toei Animation produced an anime television series, also titled Cutie Honey, simultaneously as the manga was being drawn. It was broadcast on NET (now TV Asahi) on October 13, 1973 and ran until March 30, 1974. The TV series is much tamer than the manga version, removing much of the violence, gross out humor and lesbian undertones, but retaining Miss Alphonne's attraction to Honey. While the manga was marketed as "SFコミックス" ("science fiction comics"),[26] the Toei anime is considered, at least in retrospect, a magical girl series.[27]
Outside Japan, the only country in which the original Cutie Honey TV series was released was France, whe...read more