old VHS daze
Nov. 29th, 2016 12:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
davemerrillBeen digging thru old VHS looking for images for an upcoming Let's Anime and I did some screencaps from an episode of Honey Honey.
Honey Honey is a 1981 MIC anime series based on the 60s shoujo manga by Hideko Mizuno. It aired in America on CBN cable, and I videotaped it because I was also videotaping "Leo The Lion", the English dub of the sequel to Osamu Tezuka's Jungle Emperor.
The show is not particularly well-animated (after all, it's a MIC show) apart from one episode, but it's goofy and absolutely refuses to take itself seriously
I wrote a big article about the show here, assisted by picking up the manga in Shibuya Mandarake. I also managed to find a few cels, children's books, etc., on both our Japan trips.
It's definitely a creature of the 60s, some of the characters are broad stereotypes that were amusing at the time but nowadays would need to be re-grooved for modern sensibilities. There are a few sequences in the manga that definitely are of their time and place, let me just say. The cartoon, however, keeps it goofy throughout. I mean, the series ends with a giant ape capturing Princess Flora, and that's hard to take seriously no matter when you watch it.
The show has never been released on DVD, the first 5 got a domestic Sony VHS release, I don't think it ever got a DVD or VHS release in Japan. If it ever does I'm first in line, I don't care what the exchange rate is.
Honey Honey is a 1981 MIC anime series based on the 60s shoujo manga by Hideko Mizuno. It aired in America on CBN cable, and I videotaped it because I was also videotaping "Leo The Lion", the English dub of the sequel to Osamu Tezuka's Jungle Emperor.
The show is not particularly well-animated (after all, it's a MIC show) apart from one episode, but it's goofy and absolutely refuses to take itself seriously
I wrote a big article about the show here, assisted by picking up the manga in Shibuya Mandarake. I also managed to find a few cels, children's books, etc., on both our Japan trips.
It's definitely a creature of the 60s, some of the characters are broad stereotypes that were amusing at the time but nowadays would need to be re-grooved for modern sensibilities. There are a few sequences in the manga that definitely are of their time and place, let me just say. The cartoon, however, keeps it goofy throughout. I mean, the series ends with a giant ape capturing Princess Flora, and that's hard to take seriously no matter when you watch it.
The show has never been released on DVD, the first 5 got a domestic Sony VHS release, I don't think it ever got a DVD or VHS release in Japan. If it ever does I'm first in line, I don't care what the exchange rate is.
