Cutie Honey: The Live is a Japanese tokusatsu production of the popular Cutie Honey manga and anime series, chiefly directed by Makoto Yokoyama and written primarily by Toshiki Inoue. It began airing on TV Tokyo on 2 October 2007. Gravure idol Mikie Hara portrays Honey Kisaragi, the title character. The show was released on Blu-ray by Discotek Media in 2021.
Cutie Honey (Hara) and Seiji Hayami (Yamamoto)
Cutie Honey as seen on volume 6 of the DVDs
Sister Miki as seen on volume 7 of the DVDs
Sister Yuki as seen on volume 8 of the DVDs
Cutie 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.
Volume 1 of a 2-volume version of Nagai's 1973 Cutie Honey manga, published by Akita Shoten
Cover of Part 1 of Volume 2 of Cutie Honey '90, showing major villain Sister Jill holding a whip, Illustrated by Hajime Sorayama.