“Android schoolgirl Honey Kisaragi uses shapeshifting powers to battle Panther Claw and avenge her scientist father.”
Cutie Honey
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Synopsis
Android schoolgirl Honey Kisaragi uses shapeshifting powers to battle Panther Claw and avenge her scientist father.
Innocent 16-year-old Honey Kisaragi has just transferred to a Catholic school for girls, where she is enamored by everyone around her—including the teachers and her new best friend, Natsuko Aki. Later that night, Honey hears her father, the famous scientist Dr. Kisaragi, calling for help, and on her way over, she discovers that she can magically transform her clothes into various costumes. But at home, Honey finds her father dying in the arms of a reporter named Seiji Hayami, who had been interviewing him earlier. From her father's robot, Honey learns that she is, in fact, not human; she is a special android called "Cutie Honey," built with an innovative piece of technology which allows her to shapeshift into seven different forms. As the technology inside Honey can convert airborne particles into any and all types of matter, Dr. Kisaragi has been targeted by the organization called Panther Claw—a group of underground female cyborgs who greedily wish to use this technology for their own agenda. Now, Honey must protect her secret identity and avenge her late father by confronting any obstacle that Panther Claw sends her way!
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Community consensus
Derived from 8 sampled reviews
What 8 readers settled on.
Polarized
σ 2.45 · split reception
6.7 pts
Recommenders 9.0 · others 2.3
↑ 0.50
Running avg · Sep 2013 → Feb 2026
- 9 “It's like an insanely horny itchy and scratchy cartoon with a superpowered lesbian android instead of itchy and scratchy. Obscenely offensive and shockingly violent, featuring maybe the most...”
- 5 “Turn to the '73 anime if you can find it - The '73 manga has stuff to offer - jokes that land, an iconic drawing style, incredible character expressions and designs, sexy curves, some cool...”
- 2 “This manga has a largely female cast. Almost all of which are Lesbian. This work has horrible representation of lesbians. They are either depicted as horny creeps or as very ugly, ogre like women....”
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A Manga Publication
- Format 24 × 2 ch × vol
- Total read 3h 12m approx
- Published Aug 1973 – Mar 1974
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M5457 catalog