History Manga / HoneyHoneyNoSutekiNaBouken

Note that unlike most early shojo series, Honey Honey refuses to take itself seriously ([[spoiler: except once or twice, towards the end, and that doesn't stick too much]]).

* DoorstopBaby: Honey herself. Actually a variation on this trope, as Honey is left not at someone's door but in a field in the springtime, surrounded by honeybees - which is where she got her name from - and subsequently brought up in a (presumably Catholic) convent. Her cat Lily was also abandoned, and as Honey explains in the first episode, that's why she and her cat are so close.

* FallenPrincess: [[spoiler: What Honey turns out to be.]]

* HiddenPurposeTest: The Vikings capture Honey and force her to walk on red-hot coals. She thinks it's just to torture her. [[spoiler: Actually, she has to remove her shoes because they are looking for a rose-shaped birthmark that represents royalty on a young girl's foot. Guess what, she has it!]]

* HornyVikings: Kidnapped by Vikings. Yes. [[spoiler: They turn out to be former retainers of Honey's parents (hence why they knew about the rose-shaped mark), and their leader Erik is also Phoenix's father.]]

* MoodWhiplash: [[spoiler: The death of Phoenix's father/Honey's protector Erik]] is one of the few dark spots in an otherwise very light and fun series.
* MuggedForDisguise: At one point Phoenix poses as Princess Flora after stealing her gown, leaving the real Flora BoundAndGagged in a closet.

* OnlyInItForTheMoney: Repeatedly claimed by Phoenix, but as the series continues it becomes clear that he doesn't mean it.

** Spot the reference [[http://s238.photobucket.com/albums/ff228/letsanime/?action=view¤t=honeyhollywood.jpg when she goes to Hollywood]]

Literally "Honey Honey's Wonderful Adventures", first a 1966 manga series by Hideko Mizuno, OsamuTezuka's assistant and one of the first successful female mangaka. Later it was made into a 29-episode anime series by Creator/ToeiAnimation for the Kokusai Eiga (Movie International) company in 1981.

[[caption-width-right:289:Not pictured: [[AnachronismStew King Kong, Geronimo, Vikings, and Robin Hood at the Grand Prix]]]]

* DubNameChange: Honey's name is almost always changed, but most of the rest of the other characters' remain unchanged.

* ShoutOut: Flora is kidnapped by a giant ape and carried to the top of 70's skyscrapers in a ''Film/KingKong'' reference, and the show [[AnachronismStew makes no apologies for that.]]

Not at all to be mistaken with Anime/CuteyHoney or Manga/CandyCandy[[note]] although both Candy and Honey Honey share [[MinoriMatsushima the same Japanese voice actress]][[/note]], the latter being a {{melodrama}}.

* HeyItsThatVoice: A girl with [[MazingerZ Sayaka Yumi's]] [[MinoriMatsushima voice]] travels the world with a gentleman jewel thief with [[Creator/MakioInoue the voice]] of CaptainHarlock.

* MinoriMatsushima: As Honey!

* MysteriousProtector: Phoenix seems to serve as this, being the well-dressed fellow with an eyemask far before [[Manga/SailorMoon Tuxedo Mask]], although his role is taken ''far'' less seriously than in BSSM.

* HeyItsThatVoice: A girl with [[MazingerZ Sayaka Yumi's]] [[MinoriMatsushima voice]] travels the world with a gentleman jewel thief with [[MakioInoue the voice]] of CaptainHarlock.

Not at all to be mistaken with CuteyHoney or CandyCandy[[hottip:*: although both Candy and Honey Honey share [[MinoriMatsushima the same Japanese voice actress]]]], the latter being a {{melodrama}}.

* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: A popular and fondly remembered series in Europe and Latin America despite its relative failure in Japan.

* MinoriMatsushima

It has been distributed as: Honey e il gatto birbone (Italian); Honey Honey (Portuguese, Latin-American Spanish and English); Favo de Mel (Brazilian Portuguese); I fantastici viaggi di Fiorellino (Italian); Las Aventuras de Silvia (Spanish); Les Aventures de Pollen (French); Miodulinka (Polish); Pollen (French); and هني هني (Arabic). Unfortunately the story was cut short because of how poor the ratings were back in Japan, but most of the manga's plot had been adapted, besides a few better subplots. And the series did become rather popular in Europe - two different dubs exist in Italy. An English dub produced by a company called Modern Programs International was shown in the United States on [[ABCFamily CBN cable]] and a handful of episodes were also released on VHS, making it one of the earliest shojo anime series to reach the States.

Literally "Honey Honey's Wonderful Adventures", first a 1966 manga series by Hideko Mizuno, OsamuTezuka's assistant and one of the first successful female mangaka. Later it was made into a 29-episode anime series by ToeiAnimation for the Kokusai Eiga (Movie International) company in 1981.

* ExcitedEpisodeTitle: the English dub played with it. The hammy announcer would often exclaim! every title, the first episode's being "The CAT ate the RING?!?!"

It has been distributed as: Honey e il gatto birbone (Italian); Honey Honey (Portuguese, Latin-American Spanish and English); I fantastici viaggi di Fiorellino (Italian); Las Aventuras de Silvia (Spanish); Les Aventures de Pollen (French); Miodulinka (Polish); Pollen (French); and هني هني (Arabic). Unfortunately the story was cut short because of how poor the ratings were back in Japan, but most of the manga's plot had been adapted, besides a few better subplots. And the series did become rather popular in Europe - two different dubs exist in Italy. An English dub produced by a company called Modern Programs International was shown in the United States on [[ABCFamily CBN cable]] and a handful of episodes were also released on VHS, making it one of the earliest shojo anime series to reach the States.

Literally "Honey Honey's Wonderful Adventures", first a 1966 manga series by Hideko Mizuno, OsamuTezuka's assistant and one of the first successful female mangaka. Later it was made into a 29-episode anime series by ToeiAnimation for the Kokusai Eiga (Movie International) company in 1981.

The story begins in Vienna, 1907 (sort of) with vain Princess Flora's nineteenth birthday celebration, where suitors from all over the world are gathered to try to get their hands on her vast fortune and her hand in marriage. The classy masked bandit named Phoenix crashes the party and declares brashly that Flora wouldn't be nearly as beautiful as she is without her ring. Shocked at Phoenix's brashness and fed up with her suitors' motivations, in a fit of rage, she tucks her priceless diamond ring, the "Smile/Star of the Amazon[[hottip:*:depending on the dub]]", into a cooked fish and chucks it out the window. A little white cat named Lilly eats the fish whole, swallowing the ring along with it. Flora then declares that she will marry whomever can retrieve the Smile of the Amazon and return it to her.

Lilly belongs to Honey, a young orphaned waitress. Phoenix catches up to her and asks her for her cat, her closest companion, and Honey demands 100 million for her while running off in a hot air balloon along with Lilly. From then on, it's all about the wacky chase over all of Europe, in a race to retrieve a missing ring, with even more surprises in store for the princess, suitors and Honey & company. These surprises range from encounters with more racial stereotypes, KingKong, the evil Slag, Vikings, and more...

Note that unlike most early shojo series, Honey Honey refuses to take itself seriously ([[spoiler: except once or twice, towards the end, and that doesn't stick too much]]).

* ExcitedEpisodeTitle: the English dub played with it. The hammy announcer would often exclaim! every title, the first episode's being "The CAT ate the RING?!?!"

* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: A popular and fondly remembered series in Europe and Latin America despite its relative failure in Japan.
* HeyItsThatVoice: A girl with [[MazingerZ Sayaka Yumi]]'s [[MinoriMatsushima voice]] travels the world with a gentleman jewel thief with [[MakioInoue the voice]] of CaptainHarlock.

* MinoriMatsushima
* MysteriousProtector: Phoenix seems to serve as this, being the well-dressed fellow with an eyemask far before [[SailorMoon Tuxedo Mask]], although his role is taken ''far'' less seriously than in BSSM.

* ShoutOut: Flora is kidnapped by a giant ape and carried to the top of 70's skyscrapers in a ''KingKong'' reference, and the show [[AnachronismStew makes no apologies for that.]]

* {{Tsundere}}: Combined with PluckyGirl in Honey. She may be an orphan, but she's not particularly the heartwarming/helpless type, and she does what she can to keep Lilly safe and doesn't hesitate to tell Phoenix off.

** One episode is an entire reference to ''IDreamOfJeannie''.

* EveryGirlIsCuterWithHairDecs: Honey's enormous bow.

* EveryGirlIsCuterWithHairDecs: Honey's enormous bow.

* DoorstopBaby: Honey herself. Actually a variation on this trope, as Honey is left not at someone's door but in a field in the springtime, surrounded by honeybees - which is where she got her name from - and subsequently brought up by Catholic nuns. Her cat Lily was also abandoned, and as Honey explains in the first episode, that's why she and her cat are so close.

* DoorstopBaby: Honey herself. Actually a variation on this trope, as Honey is left not at someone's door but in a field in the springtime, surrounded by honeybees... which is where she got her name from. Her cat Lily was also abandoned, and as Honey explains in the first episode, that's why she and her cat are so close.

* DoorstepBaby: Honey herself. Actually a variation on this trope, as Honey is left not at someone's door but in a field in the springtime, surrounded by honeybees... which is where she got her name from. Her cat Lily was also abandoned, and as Honey explains in the first episode, that's why she and her cat are so close.

The story begins in Vienna, 1907 (sort of) with vain Princess Flora's nineteenth birthday celebration, where suitors from all over the world are gathered to try to get their hands on her vast fortune and her hand in marriage. Flora is frustrated at their motivations, and in a fit of rage tucks her priceless diamond ring, the "Smile/Star of the Amazon[[hottip:*:depending on the dub]]", into a cooked fish and chucks it out the window. A little white cat named Lilly eats the fish whole, swallowing the ring along with it. The party is infiltrated by the classy masked bandit named Phoenix, and when Flora realizes his intentions, she declares that whoever can retrieve the Smile of the Amazon will be her husband.

* HeyItsThatVoice: Honey Honey shares [[MinoriMatsushima a Japanese voice actress]] with Sayaka Yumi of MazingerZ. Princess Flora's [[FuyumiShiraishi seiyuu]] is probably best known as MobileSuitGundam's Mirai Yashima-Noa.

It has been distributed as: Honey e il gatto birbone (Italian); Honey Honey (Portuguese, Latin-American Spanish and English); I fantastici viaggi di Fiorellino (Italian); Las Aventuras de Silvia (Spanish); Les Aventures de Pollen (French); Miodulinka (Polish); Pollen (French); and هني هني (Arabic). Unfortunately the story was cut short because of how poor the ratings were back in Japan, but most of the manga's plot had been adapted, besides a few better subplots. And the series did become rather popular in Europe - two different dubs exist in Italy. An English dub produced by a company called Modern Programs International was shown in the United States on [[ABCFamily CBN cable]], making it one of the earliest shojo anime series to reach the States.

It has been distributed as: Honey e il gatto birbone (Italian); Honey Honey (Portuguese, Latin-American Spanish and English); I fantastici viaggi di Fiorellino (Italian); Las Aventuras de Silvia (Spanish); Les Aventures de Pollen (French); Miodulinka (Polish); Pollen (French); and هني هني (Arabic). Unfortunately the story was cut short because of how poor the ratings were back in Japan, but most of the manga's plot had been adapted, besides a few better subplots. And the series did become rather popular in Europe - two different dubs exist in Italy.

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[[caption-width-right:289:Not pictured: [[AnachronismStew King Kong, Geronimo, Vikings, and Robin Hood at the Grand Prix]]]]

Literally "Honey Honey's Wonderful Adventures", first a 1966 manga series by Hideko Mizuno, OsamuTezuka's assistant and one of the first successful female mangaka. Later it was made into a 29-episode anime series by ToeiAnimation for the Kokusai Eiga (Movie International) company in 1981.

It has been distributed as: Honey e il gatto birbone (Italian); Honey Honey (Portuguese, Latin-American Spanish and English); I fantastici viaggi di Fiorellino (Italian); Las Aventuras de Silvia (Spanish); Les Aventures de Pollen (French); Miodulinka (Polish); Pollen (French); and هني هني (Arabic). Unfortunately the story was cut short because of how poor the ratings were back in Japan, but most of the manga's plot had been adapted, besides a few better subplots. And the series did become rather popular in Europe - two different dubs exist in Italy.

The story begins in Vienna, 1907 (sort of) with vain Princess Flora's nineteenth birthday celebration, where suitors from all over the world are gathered to try to get their hands on her vast fortune and her hand in marriage. Flora is frustrated at their motivations, and in a fit of rage tucks her priceless diamond ring, the "Smile/Star of the Amazon[[hottip:*:depending on the dub]]", into a cooked fish and chucks it out the window. A little white cat named Lilly eats the fish whole, swallowing the ring along with it. The party is infiltrated by the classy masked bandit named Phoenix, and when Flora realizes his intentions, she declares that whoever can retrieve the Smile of the Amazon will be her husband.

Lilly belongs to Honey, a young orphaned waitress. Phoenix catches up to her and asks her for her cat, her closest companion, and Honey demands 100 million for her while running off in a hot air balloon along with Lilly. From then on, it's all about the wacky chase over all of Europe, in a race to retrieve a missing ring, with even more surprises in store for the princess, suitors and Honey & company. These surprises range from encounters with more racial stereotypes, KingKong, the evil Slag, Vikings, and more...

Note that unlike most early shojo series, Honey Honey refuses to take itself seriously ([[spoiler: except once or twice, towards the end, and that doesn't stick too much]]).

Not at all to be mistaken with CuteyHoney or CandyCandy[[hottip:*: although both Candy and Honey Honey share [[MinoriMatsushima the same Japanese voice actress]]]], the latter being a {{melodrama}}.

The rights to the series are currently held by Enoki Films USA.
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!!Tropes related to the series:

* AnachronismStew: PlayedForLaughs
* ArabOilSheikh: One of Flora's many suitors, all of them encompassing one offensive racial stereotype and playing it for laughs.
* BelligerentSexualTension: Between Honey and Phoenix.
* BreakingTheFourthWall
* DominoMask: Phoenix wears an uncharacteristically frilly red one.
* DubNameChange: Honey's name is almost always changed, but most of the rest of the other characters' remain unchanged.
* EngagementChallenge: As per usual with the trope, sets off the plot entirely.
* EveryGirlIsCuterWithHairDecs: Honey's enormous bow.
* ExcitedEpisodeTitle: the English dub played with it. The hammy announcer would often exclaim! every title, the first episode's being "The CAT ate the RING?!?!"
* FallenPrincess: [[spoiler: What Honey turns out to be.]]
* FieryRedhead: Princess Flora.
* GagDub: Particularly the Portugeuse dub, but the original Japanese is equally silly.
* GagSeries
* GentlemanThief: Phoenix
* HiddenPurposeTest: The Vikings capture Honey and force her to walk on red-hot coals. She thinks it's just to torture her. [[spoiler: Actually, she has to remove her shoes because they are looking for a rose-shaped birthmark that represents royalty on a young girl's foot. Guess what, she has it!]]
* HistoricalFiction: PlayedForLaughs.
* HornyVikings: Kidnapped by Vikings. Yes. [[spoiler: They turn out to be former retainers of Honey's parents (hence why they knew about the rose-shaped mark), and their leader Erik is also Phoenix's father.]]
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Phoenix, perfectly complimenting Honey's {{tsundere}}.
* MealTicket: Princess Flora, and she disapproves.
* MediumAwareness: Depending on the dub, but most characters make references to the writers or the commercial break.
* MysteriousProtector: Phoenix seems to serve as this, being the well-dressed fellow with an eyemask far before [[SailorMoon Tuxedo Mask]], although his role is taken ''far'' less seriously than in BSSM.
* OnlyInItForTheMoney: Repeatedly claimed by Phoenix, but as the series continues it becomes clear that he doesn't mean it.
* ShoutOut: Flora is kidnapped by a giant ape and carried to the top of 70's skyscrapers in a ''KingKong'' reference, and the show [[AnachronismStew makes no apologies for that.]]
** Spot the reference [[http://s238.photobucket.com/albums/ff228/letsanime/?action=view¤t=honeyhollywood.jpg when she goes to Hollywood]]
** One episode is an entire reference to ''IDreamOfJeannie''.
* {{Tsundere}}: Combined with PluckyGirl in Honey. She may be an orphan, but she's not particularly the heartwarming/helpless type, and she does what she can to keep Lilly safe and doesn't hesitate to tell Phoenix off.
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