"Panty & Stocking w/ Garterbelt"
First things first..... this is
NOT an anime for kids or people who can't handle swearing.
Having gotten that out of the way, as has been mentioned in a previous post, this anime is like "Power Puff Girls"...... on acid, with the 'naughty knob' turned almost all the way up.
Each half hour episode has two or more 'mini' episodes in it.
Let's meet our Heroine's, Panty & Stocking, their dog, Chuck and their Boss, Garterbelt.
Panty is the original hot mama in a red dress. She's got long blonde curly hair, she's sexy, has a bad attitude and REALLY loves sex in any form. Her weapon of choice is her gun, Black Lace.
Stocking is a Goth girl with a seriously sweet tooth. She's got long dark straight hair and her attitude is just as bad Panty's is. Sweet food of any sort is her thing. Her weapon of choice is what looks like a Katana or if she is really annoyed a matched pair of them.
Chuck is their dog and he is green, capable of eating anything and generally annoying. He is also the 'mail box' for mail from heaven, usually sent by way of lightening bolt.
Garterbelt is the girls 'boss'. He's a black priest, with an epic Afro. The girls refer to him as 'Afro Priest'. Has a secret identity as 'Master G'. (dang gave that away huh). May possibly be gay and is definitely into bondage. This makes him one of the most politically incorrect cartoon characters ever.
Almost forgot, they have a car. It's looks like it might be a Hummer. It's PINK, extremely fast and is called 'See Through'. Like the Lone Rangers horse, it comes when the girls whistle for it.
With the main characters out of the way, the basic storyline goes something like this.
Panty and Stocking are 'fallen' angels.
In order to get back to heaven, they need to collect a certain amount of 'heavens'. How do they get 'heavens'?
I'm glad you asked.
They get 'heavens' when they defeat 'ghosts', ghosts in this case being earthly manifestations of things that have died in a bad way, unspoken feelings and all manner of other things.
The anime essentially has no real storyline.....until the last 3 or 4 episodes.
Panty & Stocking get given a 'mission' by Garterbelt, which they go and complete and we get to watch, while listening to awesome music.
Final 'death' scenes are done in an interesting way.
The death blow is given and then we cut to.... a paper mache model of the monster, which then explodes in real time for our viewing pleasure. It's pretty cool.
Pretty much every episode follows that basic pattern, but each one is different in it's own special way.
Around the middle of the series it was almost like the writers had 'lost their way', the episodes were fairly ordinary, but keep watching it does get better.
The OP comes at you and blasts you out of your chair with some seriously rockin' music, while the ED helps you to relax after the occasionally very wild ride.
The final episode indicates that there is another season on the way and does the thing I hate most...... leaves us with a cliffhanger.
Having watched that, the plan is to watch "Bakemonogatari". I may NOT do a review of this one, as some has already done a rather good review of it on the
BakaBT Blog Page.
