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Cutie Honey
Cutie Honey is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Go Nagai. First appearing in Weekly Shōnen Champion’s 41st issue of 1973, the series ran until April 1974. It follows an android girl named Honey Kisaragi, who transforms into the busty, red or pink-haired heroine Cutie Honey to fight against the assorted villains that threaten her or her world. One of the trademarks of the character is that the transformation involves the temporary loss of all her clothing in the brief interim from changing from one form to the other. According to Nagai, she is the first female to be the protagonist of a shōnen manga series.
The Cutie Honey franchise spans many works, including numerous manga series, two TV anime series, two OVA series, two drama CDs, and two live action adaptations. The first anime aired in 1973 and is considered a magical girl series in retrospect.
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Space Emperor God Sigma
Space Emperor God Σ is an anime series aired from 1980 to 1981. There were 50 episodes. It is also referred to as “God Σ Empire of Space” and “Space Combination God Σ”.
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Vicky the Viking
Vicky the Viking, known as Wickie und die starken Männer in Germany and Austria and Chiisana Viking Bikke in Japan, was an Austrian-German-Japanese cartoon series which tells the adventures of Vicky, a young Viking boy who uses his wits to help his Viking fellows. It premiered on the German TV channel ZDF on January 31, 1974.
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Armored Trooper Votoms
Armored Trooper VOTOMS is a 52-episode anime television series, created by Ryosuke Takahashi, Sunrise and Tatsunoko Production, and produced by Tatsunoko’s Kenji Yoshida, featuring mechanical designs by Kunio Okawara. The series originally aired in Japan from April 1, 1983 to March 23, 1984 on TV Tokyo. Following directly in the footsteps of Takahashi’s previous hit series, Fang of the Sun Dougram, VOTOMS continued the trend towards hard science in the mecha anime sub-genre. The televised series focuses on the story of stoic Armored Trooper pilot Chirico Cuvie and his quest for answers after a sudden betrayal leaves him on the run from his own military. The series was supplemented by numerous original video animation releases, and also inspired a number of spin-off works whose media ranges from serialized light novels to video games.
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Wandering Sun
Wandering Sun is a Japanese manga and anime television series created by Keisuke Fujikawa and Mayumi Suzuki, and which ran for 26 episodes in 1971. Both Yoshiyuki Tomino and Yasuhiko Yoshikazu were involved in the production of Wandering Sun, and would later again collaborate on the ground-breaking and genre defining series Space Battleship Yamato and Mobile Suit Gundam.
Wandering Sun tells the story of two girls switched at birth, who compete to become successful singers after meeting at high-school.
The TV series was also released in Italy under the title Jane e Micci and in France as Nathalie et ses Amis.
This series was itself a ground-breaker in that it was perhaps the first anime series to depict the entertainment industry – specifically popular music, which would be a major plot point in many anime to come from Creamy Mami to Perfect Blue. The voice actress for Nozomi, Junko Fujiyama, was an actual singer who used the series as a launching pad for her own real-life singing career, releasing several singles while the series was still on the air. The anime, however, toned down some of the more intense and mature elements of the manga for a prime-time TV audience.
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Gigantor
Gigantor is an American adaptation of the anime version of Tetsujin 28-go, a manga by Mitsuteru Yokoyama released in 1956. It debuted on U.S. television in 1964. As with Speed Racer, the characters’ original names were altered and the original series’ violence was toned down for American viewers. The series “was resurrected, in color, as The New Adventures of Gigantor, by the Sci Fi Channel in 1993.”
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Sherlock Hound
Loosely based on the “Sherlock Holmes” series by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Hound turns all the classic characters into dogs. The canine Sherlock Holmes, his assistant Watson, and housemaid Mrs. Hudson work together to solve mysteries. The culprit is usually Professor Moriarty and his gang, who use all kinds of wacky contraptions to steal what they want.
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