Below is the article from the magazine - 1991 #4 Summer Issue:
Go Nagai is one of those names that we rarely hear these days. With the exception of God Beast Lyger, he's been fairly quiet of late. Probably the thing that he is most known for these days would be his robot show set: Mazinger - Mazinger Z - God Mazinger and his Devilman series. His manga is quite unique, though usually somewhat grotesque. When the ultra-moral types point fingers at manga, it's usually his stuff that gets dumped on (but it is usually deserved) His fascination with robots is apparent, and Cutey Honey is no exception.
Cutey is yet another android in the long lines of Tetsuwan Atom clones (no pun intended). Her (father/creator) is one of those filling-in-the-void types who tinkers around in the basement lab. From out of the crackling Frankenstein electrodes strolls a nude Kisaragi Honey who at this time is totally unaware of her unique abilities. About all that she is aware of is that daddy is quite thrilled about the fruits of his labor.
Now, this would'nt be much fun if this whole show was just some nude robot girl wandering about through scenery (no jokes, please). Yes, she does own clothes, and she does have an inking as to how society frowns upon public nudity. (particularly when the exhibitioner is somewhat well endowed.) This is also quite important when you consider that Kisaragi spends her time in an all girls quasi-religious school (why are they ALWAYS in all girl schools!). Here, she fends off homosexual teachers (yes they are, Go Nagai in'st exactly known for his wholesome family extertainment) and protects her friend from other types who want somewhat unhealthy things from her. This would be enough to occupy most teenaged girls, but Kisaragi is no ordinary teenaged-android girl.
The Panther Claw Gang! Sounds nasty, doesn't it? These folks spend a great deal of time trying to take over the world (I wonder why they bother) and (surprise, surprise) Kisaragi is about the only thing that stands in their way. She is quite capable of fending off almost any ludicrous number of nasty hostile types due to her unusual traits (snicker snicker). Like Kame Senchen in Prefectural Earth Defense Force, she's unaware of most of her abilities.
When her "father" put her together, he did so with the old I've-got-to-build-something-that-will-save-the-world ideas in mind. To accomplish this end, he build into this girl a chameleon circuit that allows her to change appearance (complete with clothing!) at will. There are atleast six distinct variations contained within her normal range: Kisaragi, Hurricane, Fancy, Flash, Idol, and Cutey. While any of these are perfectly capable of killing large percentages of the populace, Cutey is the vicious one with the sword. She wanders about the countryside in black spandex, dispatching her opponents with the word, an armband (Honey Boomerang) and whatever else that is in arm's reach. As the show progresses, the leader of Panther Claw gang becomes increasingly unhappy and the diminishing amounts of sub-leaders that she can throw at Cutey. Naturally, she resolves to do battle with her herself in the final episode. I'll let you figure out who wins this battle.
A casual reader at this point would probaly suspect I don't really like this series. While it's certainly on the weird side, it still has an odd sort of appeal to it. Some of this appeal is due to it's peculiar use of color, some of it is the design of Cutey herself. Some also find the (ahem) "unwholesome" relation ships worth the price of the hunt as well. Still if nothing else, one can show this show to someone who says they've never thought that the Japanese work was interesting or unusual. It's really alot of fun if you can get past the name.
I must say, reading Animenominous! was an interesting experience. It gave me a pretty good insight on American anime fandom in the 80/90's. Pretty different from how anime fans are nowadays. Despite the fact Cutie Honey was the cover story, the article is quite lackluster. Most, if not all the images were ripped from the Cutey Honey ROMAN ALBUM. There was quite alot of incorrect information (since when did Panther Claw want to rule the world?) Iit seems as if the author just read a some of the manga, and assumed the anime was identical. Not to mention, he excluded lots of information. The Hayami familly was not once mentioned. There wasn't even much information on the main storyline! Even still, this piece of anime history sure is, if anything, interesting.