[The Whole Plate] I am having a remarkably fun time watching old things. Help.

Animated series
Cutie Honey [1973] {E01-11}

Comics and manga
Iron Virgin Jun [1983] ✓

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Is the humor dated, and the sound awful? Yep.

It is incredibly episodic and predictable?

Am I having a blast watching it anyway? YEP!

Unlike her manga counterpart, Honey is a sassy little thang, and I am all here for it.

Not only is she always getting into trouble at her school, but she even sasses the villains. There's been more than one time that she's broken out with an evil laugh while fighting them, and it never fails to put a smile on my face.

Let me give a casual example of Honey being a little shit.

So, there's this instructor named Miharu Tsuneni… though she was localized as "Histler" because its a cross between 'hysteria' (her 'nickname' in the manga) and Hitler (because she's a strict and uppity glitch).

Histler asked what that banging was because the organ was making some strange noise. Look out the window; turns out it's just fireworks. She says that's okay then.

Suddenly, fireworks start going off indoors. Histler is like, "wtf‽ ಠ_ಠ"

Yep, it's Honey.
Her response?
"But you said it was okay!"

Also, Honey often tends to be a mondo badass. Just have a look see:

Both of those examples are from the first episode, by the way. She keeps up the badassery in later episodes, with some exceptions here and there.

There was a recent one where she straight up decapitated mooks with an axe.

Honey don't fucking play.

i had no idea cutie honey was the 70's oh my god

cutie honey hit television airwaves before a charlie brown thanksgiving, holy cow

Wait what did she do in the first sequence :|a This show was influential, wasn't it.