Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt (2010– )
"Panti & Sutokkingu with Gâtâberuto" (original title)

Two Angels, Panty and Stocking, are kicked out of Heaven for bad behaviour and sent Ghost hunting by Garterbelt, a Priest of Daten City.

Stars:

Jamie Marchi, Arisa Ogasawara, Mariya Ise

Cast

Series cast summary:
Jamie Marchi	...	Panty (13 episodes, 2010)
Arisa Ogasawara	...	Panty (13 episodes, 2010)
Mariya Ise	...	Stocking (13 episodes, 2010)
Kôji Ishii	...	Garterbelt (13 episodes, 2010)
Takashi Nakamura	...	Chuck (13 episodes, 2010)
Terri Doty	...	Additional Voices (13 episodes, 2010)
Monica Rial	...	Stocking (13 episodes, 2010)
Christopher Sabat	...	Garterbelt (13 episodes, 2010)
Hiroyuki Yoshino	...	Brief (12 episodes, 2010)

Storyline

Daten City is plagued by numerous Ghosts that feed upon its residents, but coming to the rescue are the angel sisters Panty and Stocking! Aided by the priest Garterbelt and their pet Chuck Zipper, these sisters from Heaven are assigned the duty of exorcising these specters. However, all they really want to do is have fun and slack off: Panty's goal is to bed one thousand men, and Stocking is only interested in sweets and desserts. To make matters worse, they were not sent from Heaven but rather thrown out, and the only way they can get back into Heaven is to defeat and destroy these Ghosts. And so this dirty pair is off to bust ghosts, and have a lot of fun on the side.

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Plot Keywords:

panties | priest | sweets | undressing | handcuffs | 

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Genres:

Animation | Action | Comedy

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Certificate:

TV-MA

Details

Official Sites:

Gainax Company [jp] Official site [jp]

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese

Release Date:

1 October 2010 (Japan)

Also Known As:

Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt

Company Credits

Production Co:

Gainax, PSG Production Committee

Technical Specs

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Trivia

The series came about when the animators of Tengen toppa gurren lagann were relaxing after having completed work on that show. They were sitting around having an informal chat and discussing new concepts, and the series germinated from some of their ideas.

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Crazy Credits

About 20 seconds in the opening credits, the letters PSG appear with a set of undergarments: panties, stockings and a garterbelt.

User Reviews

Suggestive Silliness Shadows Serious Social Statements

This anime is a challenge to the senses, containing both disgusting and sublime imagery, and a synth-heavy pop dance soundtrack that will get you grooving despite yourself.

The sensual transformation sequences and suggestive subject matter make it ideally suited for the 13-year old hormonal boy in all of us, and its nearly blasphemous depiction of angels and religious figures makes us feel a bit guilty for taking such pleasure in its racy, uninhibited nature.

But to look at the surface would be to miss the core of what the show is really about. Instead of a solely sexual mind-trip, this anime takes traditional Japanese values and turns them on their head.

The clues to this revelation are in the lyrics of the music the angels sing, and in the rivals they face.

Anarchy seems to be the trait that the heavenly duo seem to endear, with an unabashed indulgence of their sexual and physical desires. Meanwhile, their demonic counterparts are all about rigid order. (Their costumes are often based upon the uniforms of the 3rd Reich).

Traditional Japanese society tells people "the nail that sticks out gets hammered down" while this anime says, "be yourself, and screw the consequences" - it is making an appeal to the youth of Japan to grasp for freedom despite the consequences, reminding me of the kind of things that led to the cultural revolutions of the 60s in the US.

Look deeper and you will see even more.

And even if you don't want to be bothered with deep messages and subplots, you can unplug your brain and enjoy the random sexy adventures of two crazy angels having a good time.