First off, the series is pure Girl Power. Makeup, nail polish, lip gloss? Those transformation do-hickies actually were sold to little girls, and they frequently contained cosmetics so you could look beautiful while kicking ass. Not mutually exclusive ideas.
Next, consider that ass-kicking. Nobody had ever done that before in a magical girl series. Let me repeat that-there had never before been anything where a team of girls use their powers to fight evil. There had been magical girls, ever since Bewitched took off in Japan, and there had been ass kicking, exemplified by the super sentai. There had even been a single girl who kicked ass, but unlike Sailor Moon, Cutey Honey actually WAS meant to titillate men. You know how I know that? Because in the opening of that anime, a man literally grabs her boobs for several seconds. Go on and look it up if you don't believe me. Needless to say, Cutey Honey was a dead-end.
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First off, the series is pure Girl Power. Makeup, nail polish, lip gloss? Those transformation do-hickies actually were sold to little girls, and they frequently contained cosmetics so you could look beautiful while kicking ass. Not mutually exclusive ideas.
Next, consider that ass-kicking. Nobody had ever done that before in a magical girl series. Let me repeat that-there had never before been anything where a team of girls use their powers to fight evil. There had been magical girls, ever since Bewitched took off in Japan, and there had been ass kicking, exemplified by the super sentai. There had even been a single girl who kicked ass, but unlike Sailor Moon, Cutey Honey actually WAS meant to titillate men. You know how I know that? Because in the opening of that anime, a man literally grabs her boobs for several seconds. Go on and look it up if you don't believe me. Needless to say, Cutey Honey was a dead-end.