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Originally Posted by dreamcastegirl

I thought it was good. I mean I am clearly biased, being a huge fan of Anno's work, but I think at the time it came out there was no real understanding of Cutie Honey in English speaking territories, and no nostalgia for it, so regardless of how they pushed it here, it made little difference.

I can't speak for how it was received in Japan, or other places in Europe that did obviously have that connexion, but I feel that here, and in America, people expected it to do well but they didn't take into consideration that audiences just didn't know what it was.

I think it's pretty funny, Cutie Honey and Casshern getting live-action treatments around the same time, since they both (probably) were in the same mix of bootleg DVDs at cons where people would be perplexed by them. Like you said, no real knowledge or nostalgia of these properties in America. I imagine they'd do a lot better in a world with more resources to learn about foreign properties? Like, there are a ton of people who loved Shin Godzilla that are about to do some deep goddamn dives on Ultraman, just to make sure they get all the references in the new movie.