I think she shows up around episode five, as best I can recall off the top of my head.

Oh not long at all then! Sounds good to me then.

Mark Musashi is in it, too.

I watched the first three episodes a few years ago and meant to see more, but then that whole filesharing meltdown happened and the moment passed.

Can't wait to see him turn up!

Honey 02.

Man for all this shows effort, Hara is so insufferable in this it's more of a boner killer than a boner maker. Admittedly though, I do kind of love it when she 'Honey Flashes' or whatever the proper term for it is.

After watching so much sentai I feel a little burnt out on so many laser beams, so it's nice watching a show which has no energy beams and is entirely centred around exaggerated martial arts. The fight scenes are fantastic.

Also Escape was in this episode for like two seconds, excitement grows!

Honey 03. Mark Musashi! I'm also pretty sure I know Seta Sensei from somewhere but I cannot place him for the life of me.

Honey actually training and not just pulling new powers out of her ass was refreshing, even if it was played as a gag. And even then, as far as gags in this show go, seeing her block with her boobs and seeing the actor who played Dan basically play the polar opposite of that character was pretty fun. It was also nice that Honey actually, finally, had some drama this episode. Plus, as ever, the action sequences are gorgeous.

Still the shows clash of tones is still very alienating. In the same scene where Honey is obnoxiously cheerleading in the background a man LITERALLY THROWS HIS OWN ARM OFF as we find ourself at the grizzly head of a story of a doctor who gives people dangerous drugs which kill them, but give them a superpowered high first. DAFUQ, did I fall into a different show?

I can't speak about the anime since I've never seen it, but the show was written by Toshiki Inoue of Faiz and Shougeki Gouraigan fame.

Oh suddenly so much makes sense. Inoue may well be the worst mainstream toku writer in existence right now, yet he also seems to always pick shows with some of the best action.

I think Inoue probably knows how to work his work relationships pretty well and can be influential in that he actually picks the shows he wants to do rather than have them handed to him as is the case with most writers. It sorta comes with his lineage, his father was the head writer for the original Kamen Rider series. (and it looks like his daughter is joining in, she wrote the Decade novel)

Well it isn't on the quality of his writing! :lol

So what's this show you're watching Locke? I was reading some of the posts it sounds interesting.

It's called Cutie Honey, I'm only four episodes in and the plot hasn't even started yet, so I'm probably not the best person to explain it to you. But it's sorta like if you took the live action Gantz film, added all the sex from that manga back into the film where it took it out and also add a chain of unfunny recurring gags and you get the first four episodes of Cutie Honey.

Cutie Honey Four.

Are they really going to do that "SHIT?!" Scene scene every episode? Echo in GARO was cool as hell, but I find his character in this show really annoying. Hey look I'm gonna talk about profits, and make all of my complaints, entirely in English TOPICAL. Especially when they do this EVERY EPISODE.

Worse than the recurring gags? I'm gonna say it again, as it's still an issue - the clash of tones. Everything about this series is GRIMDARK so to have Hara right in the centre trying her hardest to be cute, shouting "honey flash!" and having naked transformations as everyone she loves dies or is turned evil, as she is thrown into a battle with some evil corporation is so distracting, and drains so much potential out of the show.

Was pretty fun to see Dan fight again though, in an obvious nod to his GARO character.