Episode 8 Retrospective
Cutie Honey Universe
Dylan Richardson
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Xavier Stewart
I've said before that I'd make this thread, so here it is.
May 27th. First anniversary of the episode today! And damn is it a good one. Just finished rewatching it, once more.
Of course, for me it's mainly about Tarantula, and it's a great opportunity for me to celebrate her. Eat things she'd eat, drink things she'd drink (she has a sweet tooth, likes fruity flavours, but also some bitter earthy stuff), made some okonomiyaki with red cabbage and a fruity sauce, worked surprisingly well. And apple juice. She loves apple juice. Pic related.
Also thought about her a lot. I love her so much.
But, hey, I also always notice new things about the episode itself: This time some more parallels it drew between Tarantula and Honey. Great stuff. Might post about that later. And maybe a bit about the Seiji/Natsuko relationship that the manga never had but that really adds to Universe.
And maybe post a few Tarantula things.
As usual, feel free to discuss anything else Cutie Honey.
Alexander Garcia
Oh, also, thread theme:
>youtube.com
As direct download:
>mega.nz
Enjoy!
Levi Anderson
I'll start with a quick comment on the Seiji/Nat-chan thing I alluded to:
It's pretty much the same big-brother relationship he has with Honey, offering advice and a shoulder to lean on. But where Honey tried to be independent, Nat-chan actively seeks his advice.
Many people, including reviewers, seem to see Seiji as a mere side-character, as incompetent and ineffective. Yet I don't see any of that. In moments like these, he really shines, is highly dependable and supportive. And Universe gives him way more authority and character than any other Cutie Honey before. Episodes 7, 8 and 11 are pivotal to this.
On a meta-narrative level, he provides an outside perspective, which is kinda funny when you think about it. Follow the ethical/moral interpretation where Honey, Jill, Tarantula and Zora symbolize different aspects of the human nature, Seiji is very non-ethical symbol. Not saying that he's a-moral as a character. That's not the case, he does have a "moral compass". But he's not a character through which morality is ever explored. Nor is he a comedic relief like so many others. He simply is relatable, himself ofteb being a third party, a viewer of the events that unfold.
Luke Davis
do you know the theme that plays during that red and white scene after the school girls were getting massacred?
Brandon Brooks
That should be "Requiem of Gold", also in the OST. Part of a trilogy of somewhat similar melodic pieces (the other two being "Burning Roses" and "Missing").
Here:
>files.catbox.moe
That whole soundtrack CD is definitely worth it.
Jaxson Allen
guess I'll torrent
Ethan Garcia
Well ... understandable, considering the astronomic import costs from Japan. But if you ever receive a shipment from there, adding in the CD is a great way of supporting the composer. Just saying.
Hunter Lewis
will definitely consider since I am able to buy things now
Matthew Carter
I wonder what the next iteration of Cutey Honey will be like, and when said iteration will be released.
1973 Cutie Honey
1994 New Cutie Honey
1997 Cutie Hooney Flash
2004 Re Cutie Honey
2017 Cutie Honey Universe
Sebastian Green
>when said iteration will be released.
There is a good chance that there will be something in 2023. Fiftieth anniversary. Not necessarily an anime, but it is certainly possible.
Carson Lopez
>a pachinko machine
Austin Nelson
>a pachinko machine
It just got one. Not a bad one either from what I've seen. I really want them to make a PC version of that one. Because there's no way I can ever import a 50-kilogram-pachinko-machine.
Owen Kelly
While I'm at it, posting the thing I cleaned that pic up for.
Liam Reyes
And some of the cleaned up manga pics. Just because.
David Murphy
>spider
instantly beheaded or crushed.
Ryder Cooper
Not in this anime.
(And if you treat spiders that way, you deserve all the insects you get in summer.)
Jace Robinson
what about daddy long legs?
Ryder Jenkins
Not my preferred type of arachnids, but I'd still side with them against bugs and flies.
Gavin Carter
Lincoln Howard
Justin Reyes
Posting these stitches now. Most of which I made recently for the thread on /m/ when someone asked for it.
William Peterson
That's because they're not arachnids. They are bugs, though. Just like spiders.
Gavin Rogers
>That's because they're not arachnids.
Of course they are. What else would they be?
>They are bugs, though. Just like spiders.
Unless you uaw a very wide and colloquial definition of "bug", bugs are a sub-type of insects. Spiders are never insects. Hence, spiders are not bugs.
Jaxson Smith
Arachnids have two distinct body parts.
Dominic Cook
So do "Daddy Long Legs" (Pholcidae). They are arachnids. You can look that up practically everywhere.
Jayden Cooper
Luke Bailey
>2017
Has it really been that long? I thought CHU came out last year
Dominic Davis
>I thought CHU came out last year
It did. Not the same guy, but it probably was a typo. I personally tend to always do that for 1973. I don't know how often I've accidently claimed that the manga came out in 1972 or 1974.
Carter Murphy
Jack Turner
Jaxson Foster
Ayyo famalamadingsongs. How goes the uncensored Universe BDs, any news?
Noah Hernandez
Does this qt survive in any of the series? She died at the end of Universe iirc
Ryder Johnson
>How goes the uncensored Universe BDs, any news?
Yes. There's going to be an uncensored international release (including an English dub, as if anyone cared for that).
Way more affordable than the Japanese release. And there's even a "Premium Edition" with (nearly) all the extras:
>rightstufanime.com
>rightstufanime.com
I assume that torrents will appear once it's out. But the purchase is definitely worth it anyway!
(And the Flash subs also seem to be coming along, albeit slowly.)
Leo Taylor
>Does this qt survive in any of the series?
She arguably survives in the original manga (1973). Nagai's "Gekiman Cutie Honey" supports that interpretation.
She also survives in "Cutie Honey a GoGo" (2004), which was never properly finished. And she's also way more "White Tarantula" there, more ruthless.
She also survives the manga she first appeared in, "Animal Kedaman" (1972). As well as the semi-official "Ooedo Honey" manga one-shot (2012).
See pic related.
Jack Nguyen
Thanks, great chart
Nicholas Green
No problem. We do tend to help each other out in Cutie Honey threads, and it's not as if questions like that don't come up every now and then anyway.
Benjamin Gomez
Levi Fisher
>I also always notice new things about the episode itself: This time some more parallels it drew between Tarantula and Honey.
Oh, yeah, just remembered that I wanted to write something about this as well. Not some big reveal or anything, but I hadn't noticed before that both Honey and Tarantula talk about Jill in their conversations with Nat-chan (Tarantula very indirectly, of course). And that in those moments, both of them trust in her and believe in Jill's capacity to be a good person that cares about them, respectively. Honey, of course, more naively.
All of that plays nicely in the parallels drawn between them in episode 9 (and the whole series, honestly), where Jill plays them both.
And Jill's rather misinformed "just as pure as Honey" comment.
Liam Perez
Liam Wright
Easton Bailey
Jace Hall
Do you have the ED if you're still here, user? I can only find the tv size.
Benjamin Morales
This is the one I used for those stitches:
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Not perfect either, but relatively good quality and creditless.
I don't have the OP in comparable quality though.
Sebastian Jackson
Thanks.
Jackson Bell
As I am posting stitches, have this "old" one as well.
Maybe I should remake the Universe ones, now that I have BluRay quality available ...
Julian Gomez
>And the Flash subs also seem to be coming along, albeit slowly
Nice. I still haven't started Flash. I've fallen off the boat recently with anime, theres a few seasonal shows I'm barely keeping up with but since the winter fucked off it's been gogogo.
How've you been? What have you been watching.
Luis Kelly
Blake Mitchell
What have you been watching.
Well, I'm also not watching that much right now. Mainly adaptatitions of manga I've read and liked, like One Punch Man or Kimetsu no Yaiba. But neither anime is too inovative or taking any rsiks, so I'm not really watching live or following the threads for them.
>I still haven't started Flash.
Well, if you want to and find the time, the guy subbing them is called "ImperialSympathizer" and releases Flash as "Cutey Honey Flash" (with "ey"). Still missing episodes 10-19 and the last four episodes.
I guess I'll start making these threads about Flash once he's done, so people can (re)watch it together.
Juan Stewart
>called "ImperialSympathizer" and releases Flash as "Cutey Honey Flash"
... on nyaa, I should add.
Ryder Lewis
>One Punch Man or Kimetsu no Yaiba
We talked about OPM last time we chatted in a 3x3. What do you think of KnY? The first episode didn't really grab my attention, but it's apparently very popular and well received right now.
Aaron Bailey
>What do you think of KnY?
Well, I do vastly prefer the manga, but that's just how I usually roll, being able to go at my own pace and such things. It is a reasonably good adaptation though, it just doesn't seem to add anything.
I do agree that the early chapters/episodes don't really grab one's attention; I found that it gets more entertaining later on, especially when it starts giving the villains backstories. Still, it's far from perfect, far from being a personal favourite as well. I do like it enough though to, more or less, follow it, albeit not as religiously as some other manga.
Matthew Nelson
This one I should definitely redo, considering the BluRay "added detail".
Isaiah Robinson
Posting these pixel-art sprite-sheets I made again.
full version:
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(Working on the 90s' manga version right now ... which is a bit tricky. I have no experience with six-legged-spider-hyprid anatomy and it fucks up the perspective.)
Connor Harris
Carson Taylor
Isaac Peterson
Tyler Allen
Christopher Peterson
>honey vs abashiri ikka
now that's something I wasn't expecting
Lucas Evans
And here's the current WIP. Like I said, I'm not quite satisfied with it yet.
I'm also really quite into this version (which not even really the same character). But, hey, for completeness' sake.
Matthew Nelson
One of the many Nagai crossovers of that era (about 10 years ago). You can find raws here:
Jaxson Davis
By the way: Pic related is the full extent of the Panther Claw cameo in that manga.
(You can find the higher-quality scans in the same MEGA archive, in the "Shin Mazinger Shogeki! Super H Hen" book.)
Michael Evans
Okay, last bump from me.
Thanks everyone for your company on that special day. Really enjoyed our exchanges.
I love you all! Tarantula loves you all!
(As this thread was a bit irregular, not really one of the monthly ones, I guess I'll make a regular "Legacy" thread next Sunday, albeit a shorter one than usual. See you there, maybe.)