11-24-2005, 10:50 PM
...so i guess it's up to me to review cutie honey before the next impending doom showing wipes my slate clean again.
i may hold the title for the most japanese rubber-suit-fighting-monsters viewing in doom. ed has me beat with ultraman, since he was quite the collector back in the day, and i have no idea about hk's knowledge of the field, but going to hawaii a lot as a youth exposed me to a lot more than just ultraman and goldar. i saw the whole ultrafamily series. i followed rainbow seven and was actually a huge fan of kikaida (which i still hold high as the best of the genre). and i've probably had to watch more power rangers than i'd like to admit, mostly for professional purposes because of some of the people invovled (ask me about the power ranger murderer sometime). i lost touch with it, but zebraman and cutie honey brought me right back, rekindled the fire, if you will.
cutie honey reminded me of how brazilian kids shows have bikini models - similtaneuosly empowering and degrading at the same time. i'd be really interested in female reactions to it, an experiment that cranefly is carrying out at this moment, so i hear.
if hello kitty made ultraman, cutie honey would be right there. it's would probably be pg over here, but just because of explosions. there's some implied nudity, but nothing is ever shown for real. garish color schemes, hilarous cartoon villains, stream-of-conscious plot twists, a great heroine, and the hug of death. who can fault a herione who hugs people to death? i'd highly recommend it to someone getting their feet wet in asian cinema because it is so absurd.
the soundtrack sank it. it struck me as the kind of thing someone might dream up at a rave while raging on x, but anyone who's been there konws those visions seldome come back all the way - sort of a kublai khan problem, if you get my meaning. that probably doesn't make sense to any of you since i doubt y'all did that much in the rave scene - you didn't miss much and what you did miss, you probably wouldn't have remembered anyway.
i may hold the title for the most japanese rubber-suit-fighting-monsters viewing in doom. ed has me beat with ultraman, since he was quite the collector back in the day, and i have no idea about hk's knowledge of the field, but going to hawaii a lot as a youth exposed me to a lot more than just ultraman and goldar. i saw the whole ultrafamily series. i followed rainbow seven and was actually a huge fan of kikaida (which i still hold high as the best of the genre). and i've probably had to watch more power rangers than i'd like to admit, mostly for professional purposes because of some of the people invovled (ask me about the power ranger murderer sometime). i lost touch with it, but zebraman and cutie honey brought me right back, rekindled the fire, if you will.
cutie honey reminded me of how brazilian kids shows have bikini models - similtaneuosly empowering and degrading at the same time. i'd be really interested in female reactions to it, an experiment that cranefly is carrying out at this moment, so i hear.
if hello kitty made ultraman, cutie honey would be right there. it's would probably be pg over here, but just because of explosions. there's some implied nudity, but nothing is ever shown for real. garish color schemes, hilarous cartoon villains, stream-of-conscious plot twists, a great heroine, and the hug of death. who can fault a herione who hugs people to death? i'd highly recommend it to someone getting their feet wet in asian cinema because it is so absurd.
the soundtrack sank it. it struck me as the kind of thing someone might dream up at a rave while raging on x, but anyone who's been there konws those visions seldome come back all the way - sort of a kublai khan problem, if you get my meaning. that probably doesn't make sense to any of you since i doubt y'all did that much in the rave scene - you didn't miss much and what you did miss, you probably wouldn't have remembered anyway.
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