A flower is proudly beautiful. A single flower that blooms proudly will hold destiny. The miracle girl is about to bloom.
—Opening Narration
Cutie Honey Flash is a Continuity Reboot of the original Cutie Honey series, which leans more heavily into the Magical Girl tropes the original series popularized. It's notable for taking over Sailor Moon's timeslot once Sailor Stars ended.
Honey Kisaragi is an Ordinary High-School Student whose life is turned upside down when the mysterious Panther Claw organization abducts her scientist father, Takeshi. A mysterious stranger, the Twilight Prince, bestows Honey the Airborne Element Fixing Device, the phlebotinium Takeshi was abducted for, and instructs her to use it to fight Panther Claw as the Warrior of Love, Cutie Honey! Partway through the series, Honey's long-lost twin sister, Seira Hazuki, shows up and antagonizes her as Misty Honey.
Honey Flash!
- Adaptational Attractiveness:
- Miharu and Alphonne, though it varies on how much their appearances have changed. Miharu looks much less haggered and haggish than she did in the original, while Alphonne's design is a bit softer and she no longer has a mustache.
- Inverted with Sister Jill. She is more nightmarish than in the original anime and manga. Her skin is chalk white and she more frequently sports a Slasher Smile.
- Adaptation Species Change: Honey is now a human instead of an android. Though she's still an artificial human.
- Artificial Human: Both Honey and Seira are robotic human beings
- Babies Ever After: Honey and Seiji have a toddler-aged daughter named after Seira in the final episode
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Electric Panther.
- Dance Battler: One of Honey's many forms is Ballerina Honey, who is, well...
- Dark Magical Girl: Seira/Misty Honey is a cold-looking and quite reserved young woman with blue hair and a purple outfit, who opposes Honey/Cutey Honey's plans.
- Dead Guy Junior: Honey names her daughter after Seira.
- Decomposite Character: Seiji's father from the original series, Danbei Hayami, becomes Principal Danbei (gets his design and first name) and Hayato Hayami (is Seiji's father).
- Dies Differently in Adaptation: Dr. Kisaragi is kidnapped at the start of the show, rather than getting killed outright by Panther Claw goons, only to be Killed Off for Real by Seira's corporeal dark half, Dirty Honey.
- Driven by Envy: Seira is enraged by Honey having anything she does not, be it affection, popularity or strength.
- Earth-Shattering Kaboom: Honey fears losing control of her powers and has a nightmare ending in this.
- Evil All Along: Twilight Prince or rather Prince Zera is a member of Panther Claw and was using Honey as a means to usurp Sister Jill.
- Evolving Credits: The opening sequence has a couple sections that change according to the story arcs and Honey's power-ups.
- Flower Motifs: Aside from Sister Jill and her infamous roses, the image of a freesia is never far from Honey. In fact, each of her personas is associated with a different colored one. In hanakotoba, a freesia means "innocence", the trait Honey is best known for.
- Friend or Foe?: In the second episode, one of the two Panther Claw generals spots what she thinks is Honey and opens fire on her- but it’s soon revealed that she shot and killed the other general.
- Frilly Upgrade: When Seira, badly wounded from the battle with her clone created by her hatred, dies and gives Honey the power to become Hyper Honey.
- Gratuitous English: How Electric Panther speaks. OH NO! EMERGENCY!
- The Heartless: The second arc's enemies are spawned from Seira's hatred for Honey.
- Killed Off for Real: Seira, Professor Kisaragi (as usual), and the Twilight Prince/Prince Zera. Sister Jill winds up getting it multiple times.
- Lighter and Softer: Unlike its predecessors, this incarnation of the series was aimed at a younger female demographic and less fanservicey (though considering Honey and Misty's outfit, not that hyper much).
- Magic Skirt: Definitely not in any other version.
- Makeup Is Evil: Misty Honey has light blue eyeshadow, contrasting Cutie Honey's natural palette.
- Mama Bear: Honey in episode 39. Do not hurt her daughter if you know what's good for you.
- Mysterious Protector: Twilight Prince, who might as well be an Expy of Tuxedo Mask.
- Official Couple: Flash is the only adaptation where Honey and Seiji become an official couple. It's also implied that they slept together before the final battle.
- Reflectionless Useless Eyes: Honey, when blinded by scales of a butterfly monster.
- Related By The Adaptation: Alphonne is now Danbei's older sister.
- Remake Cameo: Eiko Masuyama (the original voice of Honey) makes a guest appearance as Bera.
- Romantic False Lead: Honey's beloved Twilight Prince is actually Prince Zera of Panther Claw. Fittingly, the episode where Honey's lingering feelings for him die is the same one where Seiji, her actual love interest, learns her secret identity.
- Spared by the Adaptation:
- In most versions of the series, the plot is kicked off by the murder of Dr. Kisaragi, and Honey fights Panther Claw to avenge him. Here the plot is kicked off by the kidnapping of Dr. Kisaragi, and Honey fights Panther Claw to rescue him. This gets subverted, however, since he still dies by the end of the series.
- Panther Claw's attack on St. Chapel Academy in the finale results in no loss of life, rather than it killing off just Natsuko (in the 1973 anime) or everyone except Honey (in the manga).
- Super Form: Unique to this version is a new form for Honey called Hyper Honey. Her outfit goes from red and black to white and red and she becomes stronger with a new finishing move called the "Honey Virginal Invitation".
- Tamer and Chaster: This series downplays the Fanservice and sexual content considerably due to aiming at a younger audience, though they're not completely absent.
- Tareme Eyes / Tsurime Eyes: Honey Kisaragi's eyes are the typical round Shoujo-like style, while most of her transformations (including Cutey Honey) have sharper eyes.
- Unrelated in the Adaptation: The show's version of Danbei isn't Seiji's father.
- Vapor Wear / Going Commando: Seira goes to the beach with an unbuttoned shirt instead of a bikini top. It's also implied in episode 21 that she wears nothing under her street clothes.
- You Don't Look Like You: Seiji loses his usual very 70s look of Hot-Blooded Sideburns, a golf cap and turtleneck to become a more traditional Bishōnen. In the process, he looks like a completely different character.
- Zorro Mark: The Honey Lightning Flare move carves a large script "F" in Honey's target before they explode.
