Episode 4: THE DEATH OF HONEY? BATTLE FOR THE SACRED SKYSHIP!
Premise: A female guardian fights for justice by transforming from one bad-ass fighter into another to better fit whatever scenario she is facing.
ThePete's Review: Wow, well, I'm getting kind of addicted at this point. And, no, it's not just because of the fan serving nudity every time that Honey transforms. Although that does play a part in my enjoyment. In this episode we get to experience a bit of a climax as it's the final episode of the first remake series. This one has a LOT of explosions and more characters getting involved with the action. It also wraps up a story arch opened in episode 3. I know that's not that big a story arch, but considering I didn't expect a story arch at all, I think it resolved fairly well. I have a feeling that it referenced the original CUTEY HONEY series which I haven't seen. 
Another nice thing about this episode is that it sets up the second remake series which comes in the same DVD set as these first four episodes. Aside from the above, this episode featured some good action, including a fight scene that actually made me wonder how Honey would survive. Of course, without that scene, the title of this episode would be a bit of false advertising. Anyway, fun ep and I look forward to the next episode.Read on for spoilers.
SPOILERS: This episode opens with a quick sequence of action from later in the episode. After that we follow Honey, Grandpa, and Chokkei's parents inside Honey's single-occupant fighter jet on it's way to Dolmeck's skyship. After the skyship begins firing at them, Honey decides to auger her jet into the surface of the skyship in order to smash through her defenses. "Miraculously" they survive and begin to sneak around the ship. Meanwhile, Dolmeck is randomly threatening Chokkei who is convinced Honey with save him. 
Deep inside the ship now, Honey, Grandpa and Chokkei's parents fall into an air duct where security lasers begin firing at them. Yes, security lasers inside air ducts. I guess the designers of the skyship have seen DIE HARD. Anyway, this laser attack brings on Honey's first transformation of the episode. This time she morphs into a female commando. She blasts away at the laser guns and saves the day. Just then, they get trapped in webbing left for them by the Spider, one of Dolmeck's henchmen. Spider gets fresh with Chokkei's mom, unzipping her jumpsuit, he feels her up. Grandpa reminds her that he is the one that kidnapped Chokkei. She freaks out, busts out of the webbing and goes all Mike Tyson (only HOT) on Spider's ass. At some point around then, the creepiest of Dolmeck's henchpeople shows up--she's a little naked girl under a glass dome mounted to the top of a giant female robot.
Honey transforms into her standard fighting body and begins to duel with this creepy chick (who's name escapes me thanks to her being so creepy--what? She's a flatchested naked girl under glass!!). Creepy chick says she's unbeatable but Honey transforms again, this time into her armored mode--or so we think. In reality she just created her armor, but was not inside. She was hiding nude outside the armor and when the creepy chick destroys the armor, Honey, nude, attacks, damaging the female robot enough to nearly kill the flatchested girl inside. (He glass even gets shattered.)
At this point, they've worked their way into Dolmeck's big chamber where he then is kind enough to pass on the point to his whole escapade which was to cause enough evil in the world to resurect an evil female goddess, named Zora. Apparently Honey and Zora go way back and I think Honey actually vanquished Zora at one point. The evil is almost high enough in the world to cause her resurection, but Honey decides destroying Dolmeck can stop it. She attacks and manages to run Dolmeck through. Of course, that creates enough evil to pull Zora through from the hell-dimmension. Honey then sacrifices herself to save humanity by attacking Zora as all of the energy is flowing to her. Grandpa, Chokkei, and his parents escape, thanks to Grandpa's pop-out, robot wings, but the skyship explodes with Honey still inside.The credits roll.
The show's not over yet. Chokkei is convinced that somehow Honey survived. They look up as a giant rock falls from the smoke and fire ball that is still the exploding skyship. The rock explodes to reveal Honey as she transforms into an angel. Chokkei then leaps away from Granpa and Honey swoops down and just before she grabs him they go into slo-mo and touch hands, a la the Sistine Chapel.THE END... for now.
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