Cutie Honey

Cutie Honey
Volume 1 of a 2-volume version of Nagai's 1973 Cutie Honey manga, published by Akita Shoten
キューティーハニー (Kyūtī Hanī)
Genre	Magical girl,[1] science fiction[2]
Manga
Written by	Go Nagai
Published by	Akita Shoten
English publisher	NA: Seven Seas Entertainment[3]
Magazine	Weekly Shōnen Champion
Demographic	Shōnen
Original run	October 1, 1973 – April 1, 1974
Volumes	2
Anime television series
Directed by	Tomoharu Katsumata
Written by	Masaki Tsuji
Music by	Takeo Watanabe
Studio	Toei Animation
Licensed by	EU: RZD NA: Discotek Media
Original network	ANN (NET)
Original run	October 13, 1973 – March 30, 1974
Episodes	25 (List of episodes)
Further information Manga Written by Go Nagai Illustrated by Yuu Okazaki Published by Kodansha Magazine Nakayoshi Demographic Shōjo Original run October 1973 – February 1974 Volumes 1 Manga Written by Go Nagai Illustrated by Ken Ishikawa Published by Akita Shoten Magazine Boken Oh Demographic Shōnen Original run November 1973 – May 1974 Volumes 1 Manga Written by Go Nagai Illustrated by Masatoshi Nakajima Published by Tokuma Shoten Magazine TV Land Demographic Kodomo Original run November 1973 – March 1974 Volumes 1 Manga Cutie Honey 90s Written by Go Nagai Published by Fusosha English publisher NA: Studio Ironcat Magazine Shukan SPA! Demographic Seinen Original run July 8, 1992 – April 7, 1993 Volumes 2 Manga Cutie Honey Tennyo Densetsu Written by Go Nagai Published by Futabasha Magazine Manga Action Demographic Seinen Original run August 21, 2001 – July 29, 2003 Volumes 9 Manga Cutie Honey a Go Go! Written by Hideaki Anno Illustrated by Shimpei Itoh Published by Kadokawa Shoten English publisher NA: Seven Seas Entertainment Magazine Tokusatsu Ace Demographic Seinen Original run November 28, 2003 – July 1, 2005 Volumes 2 Manga Cutie Honey SEED Written by Go Nagai Illustrated by Komugi Hoshino Published by Akita Shoten Magazine Young Champion Demographic Seinen Original run June 22, 2004 – February 14, 2006 Volumes 4

Cutie Honey (Japanese: キューティーハニー, Hepburn: Kyūtī Hanī, formerly spelled in English as Cutey Honey) is a Japanese shōnen manga series written and illustrated by Go Nagai. First appearing in Weekly Shōnen Champion's 41st issue of 1973, the series ran until April 1974. It follows an android girl named Honey Kisaragi, who transforms into the busty, red or pink-haired heroine Cutie Honey to fight against the assorted villains that threaten her or her world. One of the trademarks of the character is that the transformation involves the temporary loss of all her clothing in the brief interim from changing from one form to the other. According to Nagai, she is the first female to be the protagonist of a shōnen manga series.^[4]

The Cutie Honey franchise spans many works, including numerous manga series, three anime television series, two OVA series, two drama CDs, three live action adaptations, and four stage plays. The first anime aired in 1973 and is considered a magical girl series in retrospect. In addition, the theme song of the series has become one of the most famous theme songs in the history of anime, and is widely known in Japan, even to those unfamiliar with the series.^[5] Despite the many different Cutie Honey works made, this theme song continues to be sung in all live-action and animated works except Cutie Honey Universe and Cutie Honey: Tears, with different arrangers and singers. According to a Bandai survey, Cutie Honey ranked first in the "Favorite Characters" surveyed in April 1997 in two categories: girls aged 3 to 5 and girls aged 6 to 8.^[6]